Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 222, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1926 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bns. Mgr. Member 0 f the Seripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the United Press and the NBA Service • * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dally except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St- Tndlanapolls • * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week • • • PHONE—MA in 36(H). ,

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.

A Strange Attitude mNCOME tax collectors the country over are coming to bat for the Administration in its effort to kill all the publicity features of the present law. This doesn’t have just the right appearance, for one of the purposes of publicity is to assure that the collectors make proper collections, as well as t;o assure that taxpayers make proper payments. The collectors appear to wish to hide from the public gaze the manner in which they carry out the law. This curious attitude* runs all the way up to the top, where sits Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Mellon’s personal interest, as a taxpayer, in the administration of the income tax law is well known. His vast properties and enormous wealth subject him to the attentions of his own subordinates at many points. I For one instance, a total allowance of $569,934,813 was made by the tax bureau to various industrial concerns up to April 30, 1925, for amortization. of their war facilities. Os this amount, the Senate committee which has been investigating the tax bureau says $210,000,000 was improperly allowed. Among the concerns receiving a large share of this enormous allowance was the Aluminum Company of America, controlled by Mellon and his brother. This newspaper never has suggested that Mr. Mellon has taken advantage of his position to profit financially, but we confess we would find it easier to admire the man if his position on the subject of publicity were different. He would create more confidence, we think, if he were to insist upon publicity than he creates by endeavoring to prevent publicity. There is in Washington a cjass of men who prosper through their inside knowledge of the tax bureau. Many of these are former employes and officials of the bureau. They know all the rulings, regulations and personal prejudices of the men who finally pass on disputed assessments. They get results, it is said, that the best attorneys from outside cities cannot get for their clients. What reason is there for not publishing, in the simplest language the rules, regulations and procedure of the tax bureau and so make it unnecessary to taxpayers to employ these Washington experts—or, as the Senate committee calls them, “fixers?” Mr. Mellon’s life training has been in the secret workings of finance. Private banking, naturally, is not a matter of public print. But the public business is public business; it is not Mr. Mellon’s private business. He would present himself as a better public servant if he revealed some recognition of this fact.

Bullyragging Mexico ST IS estimated that Americans have a $500,000,000 stake in Mexico, mostly in oil holdings, mineral rights and ranch lands. Now comes the news that the Mexican government is passing laws which threaten these and other foreign interests. If this is true then the American Government’s plain dnty is to do everything it can legitimately to protect these interests. In the first place it is the duty of the American Government to protect the honestly acquired rights of American citizens everywhere. That is one of the reasons why we have a government: To look after our interests. In the second place we have a Monroe Doctrine. That doctrine is opposed to foreign intervention anywhere in the Americas. But if British, French, German and other foreign rights are menaced by Mexico, either wo must do something to safeguard them else stand

THE VERY IDEA! By HaJ Cochran ■■■■ 1

Habitual }[ jOURSE I ain’t a kicking, er f. nuthin’ like that, but sometimes the chores round the household fall flat. Folks wonder, ■why men oft get peevish and such. 1 guess that they don't stop ta think, very much. A married man rises at break of the day and gets lots of little tasks out of the way. lie dassant ferget ’em; he dassaut jes shirk. They gotta be done ere he goes down to work. The house is quite chilly; the kids throw a fit. The coffee’s put on, the oven is lit. The cat is let out and the milk is brought in. These have to be done 'fore the day kin begin. The heater's turned up and the furnace is fed. No wonder it’s morning that men often dread. It isn’t what s done with the work-a-day mob, but the work round the house that’s his REGULAR job. * • • And now girls are wearing watches at the knee. Maybe this is to take the place of clockwork at the ankle. • * • YOUNGSTER: Mama, what does daddy mean when lie phones and says he’s got to stay down at the office and work? MOTHER: He means he’s going to play poker.,

aside and allow Britain, France, Germany, or any other injured foreign power, to take the necessary steps itself. But there are ways and ways to protect foreign interests in Mexico. And Secretary of State Kellogg’s way is not one of them. However unconsciously, he is now playing straight into the hands of Mexican revolutionaries who are merely waiting for a chance to start a revolt. Secretary Kellogg has intimated he might break with Mexico any time. Unbiased observers who have lived in Mexico for years, who know the people and speak their language, are of the opinion that such a break would inevitably result in revolution. They also believe if President Calles is bullied by Washington into openly molding Mexico’s domestic laws to suit the powerful neighbor to the north, it will be the signal for a rising against him. It will give the revolutionists the rallying cry they seek. The present generation has seen several revolutions going on at qne time in Mexico, with chaos worse cod founded as the various factions fought for power and when nobody’s rights were worth a nickel. Would a repetition of these scenes help us any? Last summer in a bullying note to Mexico, Secretary Kellogg, among other things, said that Mexico is on trial before the world. Not so much as we are. The world is watching us, particularly Latin America, to see what use we make of our stupendous wealth and power in, our dealing with the weaker nations. Mexico is the last country on earth wc should bully. Real, strong, discreet but honest diplomacy i3 what we need in Mexico City. We should not even suggest force down there save as a last, desperate resort and then not until we were prepared to use it in defense of legitimate, wopth-while rights.

The Spirit of Seventy-Six UPERINT ENDENT M’ANDREW, head of the Chicago school system, would banish “The Spirit of ’76,” “Washington Crossing the Delaware” and such patriotic and warlike pictures from sc'hoolrooms. He says such pictures glorify war and foster the spirit of militarism in the children. Shucks! Piffle! If such pictures engender a war-like spirit in the hearts of school children, here in Indianapolis we must rank, according to the doctrine of pale pacifists, as blood-thirsty, abysmal brutes. We still display pictures and emblems’ that are reminders of war right before the eyes of impressionable children. From our schools and public buildings we flaunt the Stars and Stripes—a flag that has waved on many battlefields. We haven’t scoured the stone cannon, muskets, sabers and other reminders of war off our monument in the Circle—one of the most conspicuous objects in the city, viewed by thousands of school children. No one—patriot or pacifist— wants war or the encouragement of militarism. But a picture of Washington crossing the Delawqre isn’t more likely to turn a school child's thoughts into militaristic channels than a picture of Eliza crossing the ice is likely to influence him to be an arctic explorer. The Nation has been engaged in wars. Those are facts of history. Why try to suppress all reference or reminder of them? We are a long way from the spirit of ’76 if such events aren’t to be mentioned before children —if the' facts of our national history have to be bootlegged to school children.

HOW WILLIE GOT THE NAME OF WILLIE: “Well,” said mom, when the baby was two days old, “1 think we’ll call him Willie.” “Oh, no we won't,” replied dad, “we’ll call him Arthur.” * * • The daily argument mother uses to get the youngsters to eat their breakfast food is the most famous cereal story I know of. * * * He walked right in the phone booth, And he fainted on the spot. For when he ealled Main Seven, that’s Exactly what he got. * * * NOW, HONESTLY Sure, it’s a cinch for you to go spinning along and demand the right of way, regardless. You can almost always trust that the helpless pedestrian is going to duck. But, now and then, an elderly lady, or a bttle youngster, or a mother with a baby In her arms, starts to cross the street. And you come sailing along— Scares the life nearly out of you, doesn’t it? You’re so used to keep on going that you have to stop and think twice before you can make a safe stop. .After this, think once-l-but think right in the first place—play safe with ALL pedestrians,'

Hoosier Briefs

( r-|N El wood farmer received A more 1 than fifty replies LLjtl when he advertised in a newspaper there for a wife. He described himself as being 50, owning 120-acre farm, free of debt, frith no one dependent on him. Adams County grand jury la investigating the shooting of a school boy by a motorist. The boy was one of a group who threw snowballs at the man, it is said. Total of 187 defendants are named in a quiet title suit filed In Kosciusko Circuit Court, by Milton J. Koontz. P r ~~~~ LYMOUTH city council appropriated money for a 1 bushel of corn for thirtyfive campers starving In Centennial Park. The campers are squirrels. Warsaw police have been ordered to “sheik up.” Shoes must, be shined, brass buttons polished and pants pressed; says the new- regulations. H. A. Binkley, juror hearing the murder charges against Lee Kincade could not keep his mind on the case. His pet dog, Patsy, died. D. S. Fish, Tipton grocery* sat down In record time. He slipped on an icy Internrban track while crossing the street. He was not hurt.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

A Sermon for Today ■ By Rev. John R. Gunn

Text: “Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto l;ini, one thing thou lackest: Go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor—And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions.”—Marti 10:21-22. with the story of the rich young man who came to Jesus and wanted to know what he must do to inherit eternal life. In many respects he was a model young man. But one thing stood in his way. He had great possessions and he was the slave of his possessions. Never could he be the man he ought to be until he was freed from that slavery. Hence Jesus said to him, “Go sell whatsoever thou hast and give to the poor,” Not that there was anything wrong in having great possessions. The trouble was that his possessions had so mastered and enslaved him that there was no other remedy but to get rid of them. The story is told of a certain eastern merchant who owned a number of commercial ships. One ship, carrying $40,000 worth of goods, was due on a certain day and did not appear. The merchant became gnxious and nervous, and found him-

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA

By GAYLORD NELSON

FREE PARK THEATERS rector of the free municipal v___J theaters operated during the surhmer season at Garfield and Brookside parks, has resigned. And the free park performances by professional actors will be discontinued, according to the Indianapolis park board. Lack funds to carry on the theatrical activities is given as the reason, t It's too bad. Perhaps from ihe viewpoint of strict municipal economy the money expended in providing these municipal theatrical performances was wasted. It might be argued that the show business Is not a proper function of city government. But last season 750,000 people attended Brookside and Garfield theaters. No other equal expenditure by the city afforded entertainment and recreation for such a large number of the people of Indianapolis. Obviously the park theatricals are popular. Fr-*m the days of the old brokennose Romans, who built coliseums and circuses in which the populace was entertained with free gladiatorial shows providing entertain ment and recreation for ti-e people has been a care of municipal government. There is as much logic In maintaining free park theaters as there Is In operating municipal golf links or the parks themselves. They all serve the same purpose—public recreation. Os course. If the theaters remain dark next season the city administration will still furnish the citigens with some free entertainment. The city council meets regularly and there is no admission charge. Possibly that s enough froe show—but it won’t draw 750,000 people during the season. HORSES BETTER

THAN TRACTORS P r “““jROFEBSOR ROBBINB, of the University of Illinois, told the Indiana Horse Breeders' Association, Thursday, that "bankers, cost accountants and money-making farmers assure us that horses now do most field work cheaper than tractors.” The learned professor better not let Uncle Henry Ford hear him talk that way. The business of tractors and such cast-iron beasts is where Henry Uvea. When Cal Coolldge took to a mechanical horse with electrical brains for his dally exercise, instead of prancing through tho park atop a mettlesome thoroughbred, it was supposed to mark the practical extinction of the horse. But not #O. The horse still serves a purpose besides furnishing the start for tho Prince of Wales falls. It is from city life that hoofs have most completely ceased to echo. The city livery stable of redolent memory is gone. Yet in Traders’ Alley, Indianapolis, the old horse mart, several thousands of equines in various States of dilapidation changed hands last year. While on Indiana farms there are still a half-million horses. They perform many tasks with an efficiency that gasoline hasn’t attained. Eventually the horse may go to the museum. But at present he is still sticking around In a subdued sort of way—either in his natural state or as glue. COMMISSIONERS AND COURTHOUSE mHE Indianapolis Real Estate Board will Investigate the feasibility of the proposal that Marlon Counify sell or lease the south half -oL tl*e present courthouse square and with the proceeds erect a modern office building on the north half of the square for county business. That suggestion was made by, a Chamber of Commerce official, wjio has studied the situation. He believes that a sufficient sum can be realized from disposal of the south half of the square to erect a $3,000,000 multiple-story building on the other half suitable for the needs of county offices and courts for many years. To John J, Citizen the proposal sounds interesting. A plan that will provide anew $3,000,000 courthouse at no cost to the taxpayers is worth investigating. Meanwhile Marion County commissioners proceed placidly with plans to spend $500,000 enlarging

self restlessly pacing the floor of his office, with a cold perspiration on his forehead. Day after day passed, and still the ship did not arrive. His agony Increased, until one* day it dawned upon him: "I am a slave to my money; I am in abject bondage to it.” The revelation shocked him to the depths. With a determination to free himself from this awful bondage, he sat down and wrote out for the noble causes and institutions of his city a check for $40,000 —the equivalent of the goods on the delayed ship. *‘l discover that money is actually my master,” he said, “but from this hour I will master it, by the grace of God.” The bondage of money is the most gripping and galling bondage any man ever experienced. It Is a bondage under which thousands of men are bound In a most abject servitude. Not only men of great possessions but men of small possessions, for a man may be mastered by a few hundred dollars as well as by a million. It would be better for a man to sell all he has and give to the poor than to live a life of such servitude. When a man masters his money he has gone a long way toward the right mastery In everything else. (Copyright, 1926, by John R. Gunn.)

and renovating the present antiquated courthouse that threatens to fall down before the last of the bonds for tts erection are retired. They dismiss the Chamber of Commerce proposal with a negligent wave of the hand. “Let the Chamber of (Commerce produce the goods,” they say. Sure. Let organizations of private business men investigate the possibility of saving the county millions of dollars. That’s the commissioners’ attitude. Why don’t they Investigate themselves to determine the feasibility of the scheme? What are commissioners for?

Harp Trio to Appear in Recital

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The Zimmer Harp Trio of New York will appear In recital at the Masonic Temple on Monday night,

WEEKLY SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON Gilroy Claims That Church Members Are Sincere

The International Uniform Sunday School Lesson for Jan. 17: The New Birth.—John 3:5-17. BY WML E. GILROY, D. D. Editor of The Congregationalist mF there, had been throughout history no questioners and doubters and any to us Inquirers, the world would havi had very much less light upon raai.y things. Mary of the most Interest*.'r pages In the New Testament reiat* to the questions which people ask'd and to the replies that were given by Jesus and by others who taught in his name. Among the most Interesting of all interviews in the life of Christ Is that with Nlcodemus, who came to Jesus by night. Nic- demus Is Identified for us as a Pharisee and a member of the governing body of the Jewish communion, the Sanhedrin. Asa Pharisee he belonged to the strict sect of the Jews. Many among the Pharisees were more strict regarding outward things and ceremonial practices than regarding the realities of religion. Just as many church members today who are the most strict about certain formal things are careless about matters of elemental righteousness and truth.

True Spirituality But the fact that there is hypocrisy among modern church members does not blind us to the great sincerity that is manifested generally by members of Christian churches. So we should remember that many of the Pharisees were earnestly spiritual, and that apparently It was among the Pharisees that there were found some of those who were most earnestly expecting the coming of the Messiah. Asa member of the Sanhedrin, Nicodemus was a man of great prominence. Much has been said concerning his cowardice in comfng t 6 Jesus by night, but there is no indication that his coming In that way implied either cowardice or timidity. There was no reason other than his Interest in truth that he should have come at all, and it is not in any way to his discredit that he wished to know more concerning Jesus before he gave full allegiance to him. It does appear that later on Nicodemus wavered somewhat, but even this may have been the wavering of a man who was not fully convinced. He undoubtedly accepted certain very definite risks when he defended Jesus before the council (John 7:51), and ultimately at a. time of real danger (John 17:39), he played the part of a true friend toward the

Paul Robeson to Sing Spirituals Here Next Week

EAUL ROBESON and Lawrence Brown will present their program of Negro music in Caleb Mills Hall, on next Wednesday night, coming here on their successful coast to coast tour. Seldom have any artists created such a furore as did Paul Robeson and Lawrence Brown when they gave their first concert of Negro Spirituals in New York this spring. Not only did the leading critics give them the h ghest praise, but so instantaneous / did they win their audience that two more recitals or two more capacity houses were necessary , before New York would be temporarily appeased until another season brought more concerts and new opportunities to hear this music. The applause would not stop; the program could have gone on forever so far as the spell-bound listeners were concerned. Negro spirituels have always had a deep appeal. Their melodies, their rhythms, their profound emotion have never failed to move audiences In any part of the world. They are primitive, they are fundamental. They find a response In the heart of every one. Only possibly In the tragic folk music of Russia Is such a note found. But New York was stirred anew because of the great art, this fin 6 dramatic interpretation of the men who have once more brought this truly American music to the public. Paul Robeson has been for some years a prominent figure in American life. Whatever he has done has been of public interest. Born in Princeton, N. J., he Is a graduate of Rutgers College and of Columbia University Law School. During his undergraduate days he was selected by the late Walter Camp as a member of his all-American football team. Those who are interested in sport will remember Mr. Robeson’s remarkable, Indomitable ability on the football field. The Negro Y. M. C. A. lf sponsoring their concert. • • • B" “lOMAR CRAMER, artist piano teacher of the Indiana Colv. , lege of Music and Fine Arts will leave Saturday fpr a two* weeks’ stay In New York City where he will study with Josef Lhewine. Mr. Cramer will hear both Mr. and Madam Lhewine, Sunday evening at Carnegie Hail, and will attend a number of the midwinter concerts while there.

The Zimmer Harp Trio.

Jan. 25, in connection with the Indiana Chapter of Harpists. Their concert Is attracting attention.

Master, coming with spices for his body to bury it according to the manner of the Jews. It may have been that Nlcodemus never until these final scenes came to real faith in Jesus, but these incidents show how in the intervening years he never loet lntereat In the great teacher, and how the words that Jesus spoke ultimately found fruit. Words Significant The words of Jesus abe significant for us. In answer to the questions of Nlcodemus he reveals the nature of the new birth, or rather the fact of the necessity of the new birth, for he says that Its nature cannot be defined. It Is like the wind blowing where it listeth, and the sound of which one hears, but .concerning which one cannot tell whence It cometh or whither it goeth. Experience is the great fact of the Christian religion. Every man must find for himself the consciousness of the new birth. But this experience of the new birth, it should be remembered, is

You can ret an answer to any question ot fact or information by writing to The Indlar.iiDolls Times Washington Bureau. 1328 New York Are., Washington D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in st -mns for reply. Ms Ileal. Jcgal and marital advice cannot be ariven nor can extended research be undertaken. All other Questions will receive a personal reply. nsigned requests cannot be answered. AH letters are confidential. —Editor. What were the measurements of the girl who won the Atlantic City beauty contest? The measurements of Miss Fay Lamphier, the winner of the Atlantic City beauty contest in 1925, are: Weight, 130 pounds; height, 5 feet 8 inches; neck, 1214 inches; bust, 34 Inches; waist, 26 1 4 inches; hips, 3714 inches; arm length, 22 Inches; wrist, 8 Inches; thigh, 2114 inches; calf, 1214 Inches; ankle, 8 inches. What is the duty on aluminum cooking utensils sent from the United States to Canada? Thirty per cent ad valorem. In addition, there is a sales tax of S per cent. How can rust be removed from the inside of an iron water Jacket? Fill the Jacket with a nearly saturated solution of chloride of tin and allbw it to stand for twelve or fourteen hours. Another method Is to fill the jacket with water to which

SHE Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will present the following pupils In a recital Saturday, Jan. 23, 2:30 p. m. in the college auditorium: Gladys Whitfield, Margaret Pfennig, Mary Jacqueline Holliday, Beulah MacDougall, Marvin Beln, Dorothy Donavln, Dorothy Young, Irma Flutro, Martha Johnson, Vona Cox, Joseph Stubbs, John Dennis, Mary Elizabeth Hunt, Edna Zler, Rosalie Swift, Kenneth Galra, William Spell, Carol Wagner, Benlta Menard, Elizabeth Case, Douglass Page, Irma Mae Steels and Mary Pauline Smith. The abova are pupils of Pauline Roes, May Corsuch, Gladys Loucks, Evan Oeorgieff, Lucille Yow, Clarence Weesner, Frances Johnson, Helen Sommers and Eleanor Beauchamp. Miss Gladys Loucks is in charge of the program, and the public Is Invited.

Give the Doctor a Chance By Mrs. Walter Ferguson << f_ ’JS Y doctor told me to stay In |]M| bed another week, but I got 1 1T1 I so bored I simply had to disobey.” How many times have you heard similar remarks from your friends? For one of the most ridiculous of our inconsistencies is the hurry with which we consult our physician and the flagrant manner in which we disregard his Instructions. We tell each other all about our tremendous doctor’s bill and Just how it keeps us strapped in purse to preserve the health of the family, but it never seems to us that a bit more commonsense would save us large sums. Our doctors grow rich (and I know of no other men who so deserve the money they accumulate) mainly because we pay so little attention to their advice. Women are bad enough when it comes to this, but men are the chief culprits, for the reason that they are not used to enduring weeks of weakness and Illness with which so many women are familiar. Most men seem to think that they will’never become 111, and if such disaster does overtake them, they regard it as the brave and manly thing to disregard It. Unless they are almost at death's door you have to tie them in bed, and half of them kill themselves because they will not take the proper precautions to insure the return of their normal health. The minute they are obliged to take to their beds they call in a Boctor. But are they satisfied when he comes and tells them what they must do to recover? No, Indeed. They want instantaneous and miraculous cures. They insist upon being, well Instantly, as soon as their pulse Is felt and their tongues examined, and bless you, If they are not they Immediately start In to belabor with their tongues the whole medical profession. They shout about the gouging doctors and the terrific fakes and the amount of the bill that will be coming in, when no good has been done. It never seems to occur to them that cooperation between physician and patient is necessary If cures are to result. They regard the doctor as a good fellow until they get sick and then he must become a vendor of miracles to hold their esteem.

related to the love of God. It is an expedience of love. It is an experience in which life Is changed through new desires. And though, as Jesus says, It cannot be clearly defined, its results have been manifest all through the history of religion. Our emphasis In the lesson should not be upon the mystery of the new birth In Itself. It should be rather upon the closing verses of the lesson which state God’s loving purpose for the world. The experience of the new birth must not be detached from this loving purpose. It means the bringing to light and effectiveness in the souls of individual men of this purpose that God has concerning their lives. Is It a mystery that Is hard to understand? How simple It becomes when men really trust In God’s loving kindness! The new birth becomes a reality for lowly men and for great men as they yield their lives to the love and power of God In Christ Jesus. This Is the mystery of the new birth, and the new birth In Christ Jesus is possible for every man.

The Beauty Winner

a little sulphuric acid has been added, and place a small piece of zinc inside. Does the Atlantic cable lie on the bottom of the ocean? It lies on the bottom except where there are hollows In the ocean’s bed, and then the cable is spread across the hollow from edge to edge. What Is the passage In the Bible that tells us to give strong drink to others? Perhaps to refer to Proverbs 31:7 "Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish and wine unto 1 those that be of heavy hearts. Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.” How many bank failures take place In a year? - The following statistics on bank failures are the latest available: 1919, 60; 1920, 119! 1921, 404; 1922, 277; 1923, 578. When was the first motion picture machine invented? The kinetoscope, Invented by Edison in 1893. was the first motion picture machine.

A Woman’s Viewpoint

JAN. 16, 1916

announcement of the con I I cert by the Zimmer Harp I * I Trio of New York, Tom Williams, Welsh baritone assisting art Ist, to be presented and assisted by the Indiana Chapter of Harpists on Monday night, Jan. (25, at the Masonic Temple, is creating a keen Interest among music lovers In In dlanapolis. The chapter Is known to put things over “big,” having the credit of giving the biggest convention concert of the National Association of Harpists, Inc., held hero tn May, 1924, when the Murat Theater sold out* to standing room. The chapter takes great pride in presenting this excellent harp trio, the members are Nellie Zimmer, Louise Harris and Gladys Crock ford, who give the harp Its true place as solo, ensemble and accom panying Instrument. Some of the numbers have been especially ar ranged for these young women by eminent’ harp composers. The organization In the past six years of Its existence has presented Its varied and delightful programs to more audiences than any other representatives of the harp. Miss Zimmer, a thorough musician as well as harpist selects her programs with great discrimination and the result la that the audience made up of musicians and laymen are not only satisfied, but charmed. Variety Is a happy feature of the program In which Tom Williams shares honors In his arias and groups of old Welsh folksongs which never fall to please an audience. The ensemble of twenty-five or more harpists will appear In the opening and closing numbers. Louise Schellschmldt-Koehne Is president of the Indiana Chapter. A recital will be given Sunday afternoon at 8 o'clock at the North Side Branch of the Irvington School of Music at Thirty-Eight and College A vo. Those who will take port will be Audry Kassebaum, Ida Prettl, Muriel Helvle, Lucille Trapp. Julian Bowman, Helen Owens, lone Agnew, Elizabeth Achenback. Gertrude Shoe maker, Howard Passel, Flora Lauer, Margaret Delameter, Gertrude Conte and Adelaide Conte. Miss Mildred Myers, teacher of saxophone at the Irvington School of Music will be featured at the school’s monthly recital to be given Thursday night, Jan. 21, at the Irvington Masonic Temple.

The SAFETY VALVE It Blows When the Preasmrs la Too (treat. By The Stoker

The Countess Korzybski la In Washington painting miniatures of the willing rich. She Is one of America's foremost miniature artists. From hor swoopy accent one might think her a Britisher; but our guide to nobility tells us that the “CqunteHs” Is Myra Edgely of Flint, Mich. Or she was when she was a little girl. She is now married to the talented Polish engineer, who wrote that abstruse book on man as a time-binding animal and the two are being tea-cd and reception ed all over Washington. Some of our best people, who would not have cared for “Myra," are Just crazy about the “dear Countess.” • • • Our State Department has been getting its Information in the Karolyl case from the same government ring in Hungary, whlcll has given blrtn to this Prince Lud-wig-Windlsch-Groetz counterfeiting scandal. Not very good clients for 1 Kellogg to work for. • • • Something more for Attorney General Sargent to forget: “Bristol, Va., Jan. 9.—Rsscorn Sleim, former representative of this District In Congress and later secretary to President Coolldge, completed today the merger of fourteen soft coal companies In Virginia. Kentucky and West Virginia, into the Wakenva Coal Corporation, with a capital stock of $10,000,000. Mr. Slemp la chairman of the board of directors. “The companies In the merger are now shipping more than 1,500,000 tons annually, and under unified control It is expected that the output can be doubled In & short time." Or do they mean the price? • * * The U. S. Senate King Vs. Rood Mr. King: Mr. President, the Senator from Missouri reminds me of what Viscount Cave said upon one occasion of a very distinguished Irishman, T. P, O’Connor. He Is always eloquent: he Is always witty; he Is always earnest; and he Is always wrong. Mr. Reed of Missouri: Mr. Presl dent, I should expect my Internationalist friend to quote a foreigner In any event. Mr. King: If the Senator would go to church a little oftener and quote Christ a little oftener, I am sure he would not take the Jm placable attitude which he nowtakes In regard to the World Court Mr. Reed of Missouri: Mr. President, I did hot know the Senator was a speclul envoy extraordinary of Christ. • • • If you call a man “a big tree without a shadow,” have you violated the law? This la the question appealed by Antonio Pagula, of the Philippines legislature after being sentenced to two months' Imprisonment for so designating Governor General I*on ard Wood, In the course of a campaign speech. We" wonder if we could call General Wood's son a little tree with a big shadow without incurring a term In the hooangow. Which is proper to use as an adjective, “special” or “especial?” There Is a difference between the words. “Especial" singles out .4 quality or an object from others of the same kind; as “an especial kind,” “Special" conveys the idea of having some particular or remarkable characteristic, aa “a special announce