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Watson, La Follette, et al. EERE is the roll call of the Republican Senators who voted against cloture of debate on the world court resolution, the first test vote on the court i Borah, Brookhart, Cameron, Dale, Fernald, Frazier, Harreld, Howell, Johnson, LaFollettc, Means, Moses, Norris, Nye, Pine, Robinson of Indiana, Watson, Williams. No, ladies and gentlemen, the names of Watson and Robinson are not included by mistake. They got off the reservation on the world court question and voted with LaFollette, Nye, Norris arid Brookhart. Remember how they made solemn pledges to uphold the President? Incidentally, in view of Albert J. Beveridge’s letter to the Senate opposing the world court, can any one longer doubt that he is a candidate? Tomorrow’s Gasoline mHE other day we read a most amazing article. It said: “American motorists may be as negligent and as wasteful about oil as ever. There’s no worry. We’re assured of a plentiful output for centuries to come.” The facts are these: The American Petroleum’ Institute estimates our remaining supply of gasoline-bearing oil at 5,300,000,000 barrels recoverable by present methods. We took out of the ground nearly 800,000,000 barrels during 1924. Dr. George Otis Smith, director of the United States Geological Survey, says the 1925 output broke all records. The simplest arithmetic will prove to the smallest child that if we are “as negligent and as wasteful about oil as ever,” this supply will be gone in less than seven years. Allowing for as big an error as 50 per cent the supply would be gone in ten years. But that, of course, is not the way our oil supply is going to go. Common sense tolls us that we are not going on wasting oil, as we are now, until one day, six, eight 'or ten years hence, we suddenly hit the bottom with a thud, after which we will have no more oil at all. Os course not! As long as there is one automobile left in the land, there will be an “adequate supply” of gasoline left to run it. But at a price. As the supply diminishes, the price will increase. It is the age-old law of supply and demand. Theoretically this process will go on until at last there will be left only a handful of multimillionaires owning ears, like they own yachts and racing stables. Practically, however, that is not the way the thing will work out. As the supply dwindles and the prices rises, freighters at sea, factories and individuals will go back to burning coal, of which we have plenty, instead of oil which will have become too dear. This will help eke out what is left. Simultaneously, the public will cease to be so “negligent and wasteful” with oil and

WEEKLY BOOK REVIEW Mantle Again Meets a Certain Definite Demand

By Waiter D. Hickman SHOSE who give more attention to the stage than taking hearsay remarks regarding the merits of a performance will feel that Burns Mantle in “The Best Plays of 1924-1925,” published by Small, Maynard & CO., Boston, has met a certain definite demand of a large public. The intelligent theatergoer, I mean the one who takes his visits .to the theater seriously, will be InMfested to know the plays listed as “best plays” of 1924-25 season, “best plays” are listed by M*tle, as follows: Price Glory?” by Lau : and Maxwell Anderso^k Knew What They Wanted,” by Sidney Howard. “Desire Under the Elms,” by Eugene O’Neill. “The Firebrand,” by Edwin Justus Mayer. .< “Dancing Mothers." by Edgar Selwjrn and Edmund Goulding. “Mrs. Partridge Presents," by Mary Kennedy and Ruth Hawthorne.. "The Fall Guy," by James Gleason and George Abbott. “The Youngest,” by Philip Barry. "Minick,” by Edna Ferber and Georgs S. Kaufman. “Wild Birds,” by Dan Tothetoh. In Introducing reader to his subject, Mantle writes: "The mission of a year book is to deal generally with facts and lightly with opinions. But as a preface to this particular issue I feel that I should say this: I hold no brief for either the profane or the ugly drama. The stimulating influence of bold truth-telling in the theater is, to one of my puritanical ancestry, frequently nullified by the offensiveness of Its expression.” Concerning O'Neill Since Eugene O'Neill’s “Desire Under the Elms," recently presented in Indianapolis, caused so much comment here, it la Interesting to note that Mantle lists this play as one of the least of the season. In discuwi&g “JUaoLre.” Mantle

its products. A lot of folks will even give up their gas-devouring, inefficient motors, further decreasing the outgo. Third, automobile manufacturers, to prevent a slump in their sales, will build more efficient cars, cars built along European lines. Gasoline costs anywhere from 50. to 80 cents a ghllon across the water, but the motors consume less than half as mueff as ours. Fourth, higher prices will lead the oil industry to do a number of things (a) Make the “cracking” process universal, thus obtaining twice the amount of gas from petroleum that simple distillation yields, (b) Bring in more oil from foreign fields, (c) Resort to shalemining and distillation, (and) Make more general use of other new, and more expensive, processes for obtaining oil. It is estimated there arc 26,000,000 barrels of oil in this country obtainable “at some price.” But note that: “At SOME price.” So our supply is not just going to peter out, over night. As it wanes the price will automatically rise. And in proportion to its cost, it will be more and more economically used. The point is this: Our petroleum supply is distinctly limited. Our entire social and economic life, not to mention the national defense, having come to depend upon it, we must find a way, not to keep it, but to use it as economically as possible. Whoever tells you to go ahead and be as “negligent and wasteful about oil as ever,” and that there is plenty to waste “for centuries to come,” is doing you and your country a mighty ill service. The facts do not bear him out. Wallace McCamant mT rained furiously in Oregon on election day in 1920. In Portland the streets were rushing rivers. Iq the country conditions were worse. Yet eighty thousand Oregon Republicans waded to the polls that day and expressed a preference for Iliram Johnson for President of the United States. The day after the election, Wallace McCamant, selected as delegate to the Republican nominating convention on a pledge to support the State’s choice, made a remarkable announcement. * He announced that, regardless of the will of the people, and the pledge he had taken, he would never support Iliram Johnson at the Republican convention. And he did not. McCamant has been selected by the President for a seat on the United States Circuit Court bench. The United States Senate has hesitated thus far to confirm the appointment. Some Senators join with. Hiram Johnson in the feeling that the Oath McCamant would take as a Federal judge might prove no more binding than the pledge he violated at the national convention.

writes: “O’Neill’s ’Desire’ has been called his greatest play. Asa piece of writing I am not so sure it is not entitled to that praise. But it is as ugly as sin—and as true. A stark, morbid, human tragedy of the crabbed, grasping lives from which It

The Best Sellers The Books department of the New York Herald Tribune, Sunday. gives the following list of the best sellers: The following books are reported by “Books of the Month” as being most in demand throughout the country during the last month. Fiction THE PERENNIAL BACHELOR. By Anno Parrish. Harper. A study of a petty egoist. WILD GEESE. By Martha Ostenso. Dodd, Mead. Domestic drama of a family revolt against a tyrannical father. ONE INCREASING PURPOSE. By A. S. M. Hutchinson. Little, Brown. The making of an itinerant evangelist THE KEEPER OB’ THE BEES. By Gene Stratton Porter. Doubloday, Page. “Parted at the Altar, or Wedded But No Wife.” THUNDER ON THE LEFT. By Christopher Morley. Doubleday, Page. The child mind exploring the adult world. THE PROFESSOR’S HOUSE. By Willa Cather. Knopf. “Tills is the end'of every man's desire.” Non-Fiction THE LETTERS OF WALTER HINES PAGE. Ed. by Burton J. Hendricks. Doubleday. Page. Third volume of Page's memoirs, containing chiefly letters written from London to President Wilson in Washington. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. By Viscount Grey of Fallodon. Stokte. Reminiscences of the British Foreign Secretary during and before the war. THE MAN NOBODY KNOWS By Bruce Barton. Bobbe-Merrill. An unusually ''modern” life of Christ, told in terms of business efficiency. WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG. B. A. A Milne. Dutton. The book of Christopher Robin. RECOLLECTIONS OF THOMAS R. MARSHALL. Bobbe-Merrill. Subtitled “A Hootder Salad” by the author, one of the most popular and beat known Vic* Presidents who ever held that office. POEMS. By Edgar Guest. Reilly ft Lee. Cheerful and strenuously '‘inspirational” verse.

is difficult; but possible, to believe many present-day New Englanders have evolved. Accept It or pass It by. That choice is youre. As “What Price Glory” is scheduled to be presented at English’s soon, and as this play has been the center of the same controversy surrounding “Desire,” I must seriously recommend the reading of Mantle’s comments and parts of the play as given in “The Best Plays of 19241925.” , A Broad Field This book covers a mighty broad field as It contains discussions upon the .seasons In New York, Chicago, California and Los Angeles. You also will discover a chapter on plays and their authors and much information concerning casts and synopsis of plays produced in New York. As interesting is the space given to “Little Theatre Tournament” and the statistical summary of the New Yok season. As this department is being constantly asked concerning the birthplaces and birth dates of prominent players, I eagerly recommend the Mantle book to fill this need. I received my copy for review from the Book Shop of L. S. Ayres & Cos. The Mantle book Is a most valuable addition to the library of the thinker who goes to the theater to study. Ask the Times You can got an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 132-2 New York Ave., Washington, D. C. inclosing 2 cents in stamrs for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice canr.ot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All Other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot bo answered. All letters are confidential.. —Editor. Can one still obtain free seed from a Congressman or Senator? No, the practice has been discontinued. What is a cameo? It is a relief carving on cJS . .onyx, sardonyx or agate.

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Columbus Found America but Moran and Mack Reveal Facts About White Horses

By Walter D. Hickman UTT QUESTION of the moat Li J future welfare of the nation baa been answered. The time-worn question of why a chicken crosses the road has not been answered. But another question v has. The Important question Is: "Why do white horses on a certain farm eat more than black horses?’’ ' oeor S Moran and Charles Mack have the answer and It S® W3 is Riven In the sixth edition of Wk&lk. the Grenwlch m Village Follies. And the answer is: lijg "There were more Mr white horses than black.” May seem iTV' foolish fun, but ■P> M 11 ,3 tho way that ' i J fa Moran and Mack in blac kfc K,ft dress up this universal hokum and sell it Toto in laughs studded with diamonds. Am sure that everybody at English's last night will agree with me that Moran and Mack more than stopped the show with their complete artistry in dishing up comedy. Their material Is sure-fire. The comedy is there and above all they dress it up with so much artistry and delightful showmanship that their victory is complete. Because this edition of the Follies is Intimate in form instead of being vast is one reason why Moran and Mack register with so much ease. They fit into this revue. When hundreds of people “howl” at and with these two funmakers as they did last night, then I am ready to say that this show certainly spreads real entertainment all over the stage. Under normal Circumstances. Fred Alien, a droll chap with a wicked vocabulary and a more wicked manner of delivery .would head this little story of mine of what is going on In the Greenwich Village Follies. Not that Allen is not a big success in hts own right but rather that he permits himself to "feed” the fun to such a degree that the show stacks up bigger alotg fun lines than any single Individual. In' all fairness I should name Moran and Mack, Fred Allen and Toto, the clown, in the same headline. Each of these entertainers do so much in their Individual fun lines toward making this edition of the Follies a fun line. Moran and Mack as well as Toto are well known on the variety stage. Allon is recognized as an Intellectual funmaker. He spina his own stuff, especially when he has the stage to himself. Toto Is another Individual funmaker but along different lines. The fact remains that Moran and Mack, Allen and Toto. make the Follies the fun cyclone that it really Is. The Greenwich Village Follies Is ndt constructed on the elaborate ’ines of the Music Box Revue, the Scandals or other large revues. This show is individual. It has its beautiful song pictures, its pretty scenes, its women attired in beautiful color, but above all it has a certain brand of comedy which makes it a winner. The singing voices do not stand out but Dorothy Neville and Daniel Higgins sing often and well. The reception accorded them last night proves that they, too, register along melody lines. And yet without an array of big names, the Greenwich Village Follies has that comedy and even melodious something which makes it corking good.. entertainment. On view at English’s all week. It Is a. mighty safe entertainment buy. •I- + -ITWO GREAT ARTISTS ON VIEW AT KEITH’S ' The talk of the town this week In variety circles Is going to be Con Colleano, a wire walker. And there will he time enough left to discuss Miss Frankie Heath, rw artist In dramatic and smart comedy songs. And now about Colleano. Here Is the rarest and finest artist on the

THE VERY IDEA! By Hal Cot lira i

Climbing SHE evening meal is over and the baby starts to shout. She’s yellin’ for her dad, and he knows what It’s all about. The other night he played with her, an’ now she wants some more. So father has to sprawl himself upon the front room flo ir. He says, "Come on thpre, sister, an’ we’ll hav* our little fun.” He flops upon his. back and then the playtime hour’s begun. First, knees are raised, so tiny tot can clamber up on top and then they’re quickly lowered —and the youngster goes kerflop. It seems there never was a tot with so much action blest. She runs across the room and jumps, an’ lands on daddy’s chest. It’s heaps of fun for baby, and she keeps her dad on guard. It Isn’t very long before his treath Is cornin’ hard. At last It’s sister’;! bedtime and she kisses pop goodn’ght. He’s really klnda glad to see her toddle out of sight. The evening hour of climbing. dad will very gladly own, is lots of fun, despite the fact he aches in every bone. • • • If you don’t want to be weatherbeaten, don’t bet on what the official forecaster says. • • • And now little Willie Is kicking ‘because prohibition has robbed father of one of his best tricks. He used to drink like a fish. • • * The absent-minded dentist who Was working, quite alert, iLpon his car applied a wrench Bfcrispjd, "Now this won’t hurt.”

wire I have ever seen. There is no doubt of that. While I was present at Keith’s yesterday afternoon many people were yelling their appreciation of the marvelous things he dues on the wire. This slender little wire is a regular board walk to this man. He dances, he glides, he prances, he jumps and then does a forward somersault. Nobody living does that stunt as far as I know. It is one of the most glorious spectacles on the stage today. , And Colleano doesn’t open the show. He is too great. He has the stuff of which great headliners are made. Here is an event, just one single event upon a lengthy bill, which deserves to have the credit of packing Keith's. Can I say more? And now for Miss Heath. Here is a sincere -and genuine artist in song. Her ‘‘Butter and Egg Man’’ song is a dramatic gem. It is smart and delivered with so much complete artistry that this one number is sufficient to stamp her as a genuine artist. She can put the laugh and the tear as well as many thoughts into one’s appreciation of her work. A splendid triumph. The Twelve Royal English Dancers give added proof that the English are supreme along certain dancing lines. The girls work in perfect harmony. Most of their work is along ensemble lines. Perfect ensemble dancing is given by them. I remember from another season the work o's Jos. B. Stanley & Coin "Waiting. *' It still, remains one of those pleasing comedy and melO'jy contributions which makes vaudeville going a pleasure. Ernest Hiatt announces himself in act being "Nothing Serious.” lent is the truth, but not all. He knows how to develop ordinary material to such a degree that variety audiences will remember him. And that is something. Murray Gordon and Ben Pierce offer "I Don’t Care.” Just an interlude on any bill. The Corelli Sisters both sing and use the piano. Their closing number ,a sort of a musical travelog, is a gem. Chassino is quite a surprise and also a hit. He will interest the children. The movie is Glenn Tryon in “Long Pants.” At Keith's all week. -I- -I* -IREAL MERIT ON VIEW AT PALACE ' Have found something new. The Palace for today and tomorrow is offering an act that will prove as a cool and refreshing drink to the entertainment thirsty seekers after programs of worth while merit. The act causing this effusive burst is "Carnival of Venice.” an act wherem music and the dance predominate in a very excellent pro- < gram. There is not space enough to enumerate all the ' *f; r | worth while feajPH tures. so will Just K. mention a couple *’*■' IS of things of inter- • Hra est. First is a !■ queer little horn H W P ,a J' ert b T one of V the men. It la VL ca N*d the “ShepI herd's horn," and, I ... SgT according to the fjUaSvHlf \ woman who told us about It, It Is -.U '>lh such a difficult llt- —<. ..*—tie Instrument that music is not wrttLucy Bruch ten for it. When played In the “Sextette from Lucia," however, it was apparent that someone had written some very beautiful passages for the odd little horn. Next is the artistry of a woman on a tambourine; artistry is the word, for the woman handled this circular bunch of jinglea with the same care and exactness one would give the most well-known of musical instruments. And the effort was a revelation. I can't leave the act without mentioning the very striking picture presented by the dancer in her different roles. Combined with the beauty of the dancer was the strange appeal of melody made by a harp, two accordions, a violin and the shepherd’s horn that I mentioned. It was a strange and wonderfully pleasant picture. Lucy Bruch proved herself quite

NOW, HONESTLY— Dissatisfied, huh? Lots of ti.lngs you want, that you can’t have and It sort of upsets you. Yet, after all, how foolish. None of us can have everything, and besides, half of the fun in life is wishing for things. If you would have everything, you couldn’t wish for anything, an' lookit the fun you'd be robbed of. Whatever you've got, maybe it’s best—so make the best of what you’ve got. • • Bears in the Chicago zoo are shedding their fur, because they think spring is here. Dumb animals is right. * • • SOMEBODY—WeII, I’m going to be operated on for appendicitis next week. SOMEBODY ELSE—I hope everything comes out all right. • • • HOW WILLIE HAPPENED TO PUT THE MUD TURTLE IN SISTER’S BED: He couldn’t find a frog. • • * FABLES IN FACT YA GOTTA GIVE: A HUSBAND CREDIT WHEN HE FINALLY GIVES IN TO HIS WIFE (PERIOD FOR INSTANCE COMMA THE HUBBY WHO HATED CATS BUT CONSENTED TO HAVE ONE AROUND THE HOUSE PERIOD WHY COMMA HE EVEN OFFERED TO FEED THE POOR THING WHEN WXFBY WAS AWAY COMMA AND CARRIED OUT THE OFFER BY LEAVING A CAN OF CONDENSED MILK ON THE FLOOR COMMA WITH A CAN OPENER BESIDE IT PBX92S. NEA Sardes. Inc.)

capable on the violin and gave a fine exhibition of her technique. It is but to be regretted that she did not consent to play some of the more popular of the classics. They would have sounded so well under her skillful fingers. Leslie and Vandergrift have a smooth running act of harmony and solos. Perfect taste marks their mode of presentation. Angel and Fair offer some sophisticated comedy dealing with a “Follies” girl and an aged admirer. Good fun. Beeman and Grace with the aid of a small harmonica played by the man and an excellent dance by the woman prove themselves first rate entertainers. Bill includes photoplay, “Fifth Avenue” with Marguerite LeMottc and a News Reel. At the Palace today and tomorrow.—(By the Observer.) ' •I- -I- -IOBSERVER FINDS GOOD BILL ON VIEW AT LYRIC A rather unusual treat for Lyric patrons this week is the act, “Mme. Dore’s Operalog.” a l group of opera -■* *— singers under the ' ' | us ticsaid madame. The program is excep | 1 tional in the way of being just what WZu one would want In a variety of opera j/f selections. Lila of 'US the older and most well known operas which have established themselves ‘ Maxello as favorites of the music-loving public are given by the group with a quality and skill which places the act on a high plane of qntertalnment. A few of the selections were: “The Barcarolle” from ‘‘Tales of Hoffman,” “Miserere” from “II Trovatore” and the “War Chorus” from ’Aida.” As an encore to their program the whole company sang an old favorite with just about everyone, “Carry Me Back to Old Virginia.” Grace Doro has a knack of taking a popular eong and disguising the melody In so many different ways that it is almost impossible to recognize it as the original, and yet running through the piece will be that familiar strain which one can always tell. Among other things she did was an imitation of a harp that was almost perfect. The piano under her fast and clever fingers seemed to have changed Its nature and the melody produced sounded exactly as one were playing on that wonderful instrument, the harp. Rives and Arnold*have a song and comedy sketch with a ticket scalper’s office as the background. The fun comes from the “wise cracks” of the man, and the melody, from both. The Five Maxellos. group of five young men, have a fast and snappy series of acrobatic tricks and exhibit some very skillful work in the art of throwing one another through the air. Claudia Alba belies that old saying that woman is the "weaker sex.” She proves It otherwise by lifting such trifles as a cannon and several cannon balls by a small strap clinched in her teeth. Eldridge. Bartow and Eldrldge offer some comedy of the rural variety with the stage ambitions of a couple of newlyweds as the fun producing element. Stodder and Brown are a couple whose talent runs to music on stringed Instruments. They also put out some very good comedy at times. Included in the bill is a Tom Mix photoplay, “The lest Bad Man; ’ At the Lyric all week. (By the Observer.) -I- -I- IOther theaters today offer: “The Only Thing,” at the Apollo; “The Fighting Heart.” at the Colonial; “The Demon” at the Isis; “Just Suppose,” at the Circle; “Sally of the Sawdust,” at the Ohio and “Hey-Ho” burlesque at the Broadway.

MR. FIXIT Autos Parked on Sidewalks, Letter From Merchant Complains.

Let Mr. tHxit solve your trouble* with city offlcilae. He Is The Tlmee’ representative at the city hall. Write him at The Times. Automobile drivers, weary of picking oft the pedestrians singly on the streets and collectively In safety zones, are pursuing their sport on sidewilks, it appears from a letter Mr. Flxlt received today. DEAR MR. HIXIT: Practically all this winter someone in our neighborhood has used the cement sidewalks for driveways and even parking spaces. One night a par was parked half way across the walk and pedestrians had to step aside to get by. The most damage Is done In the 2700 block on Napoleon St. A SOUTH SIDE MERCHANT. Lieut. Fred Drlnkut is “riled.’* He'll send police to investigate. , To C. Montgomery, O. Lang and A. Schaad: Please give more definite location of the alley. Say at the real- of a certain number on a certain street. To taxpayers of Temple Ave.: You must petition the board of works to establish ;,rade before repairs are possible. In rolls a protest against bicycle license fees. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Some time ago I saw a notice about bicycles not having lights or licenses. I believe more riders would buy licenses If they were not so high, $1 for the Mcense and $1 for the issuing of It, which makes $2 for one passenger. When a Ford car will carry five passengers for a $5 license, it seems too high. CITY EMPLOYE. Your logic Is good. But, unfortunately, municipal affairs often fall to possess the logical element.

A Sermon for Today ■ ■"Oy Rev. John R. Gunn

Text: “Take heed that ye desp’.ie not one of these little ones.”— Matt. 18:10. most beautiful things In * I in art and literature have re...ii I celved their Inspiration from the child. The prettiest stories In the Bible are those about children. Some time ago a group of men assembled In a hotel lobby were having a discussion as to what was the most beautiful passage in the Bible. After several passages had been suggested, a big rough "Westerner, who was not suspected of knowing much about the Scriptures, went to his gripsack and drew forth a wellfingered Blbl.e They soon fouhd that his heart was more tender than one would judge from his appearance. Turning to the tenth chapter of Mark, he said, “Boys, let me read you the prettiets pen-picture ever drawn.” He read as follows: “And they brought young children to Him that He should bless them: and His disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jesus iaw It, He was much displeased, and said unto them: Suffer the little children to come unto me. and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of God. Verily, I say unto you, Who-

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

MORE CROWDED THAN EVER mHREE hundred and twentyfour new students entered. Shortridge High School Monday at the start of the new semester. And only fifty of the old pupils didnt’ return. So Shortridge, already so badly overcrowded that conditions are almost intolerable for teachers ana pupils alike, will be still worse congested. What is the school board doing to relieve the situation? The project for the new Shortridge building that the former school board almost launched is again hard and fast aground. Bids for the bond issue and construction of the new building have been rejected. And the project is exactly where it was a year ago—doing nothing. Jlhe school board believes there will be some relief the first of next year when the two new high schools now in progress are completed. Perhaps. But by the time they are ready the growth in school population will probably fill them. Even with utmost diligence and no further delays it will be impossible to complete the new Shortridge and get it ready for occupancy before 1928 or 1929. Meanwhile the old crowded rookery now in use whl continue to be congested and the pupils who attend there will be denied rthe educational facilities they have a right to expect. The Indianapolis school board can’t relieve the situation by merely twiddling its thumbs. What is urgently needed is the new building. SAFETY AND SCHOOL HACKS i IGHT children In two schobl I M hacks in Bartholomew and l±± -ennings Counties were overcome and nearly asphyxiated by carbon monoxide gas recently as they were being transported home from school. Tightly closed busses and gas from the motor exhausts caused the trouble. Only opportune discovery of the situation and prompt aid to the little ones averted fatalities. In the days of the little red schoolhouse of a single room, the pupils usually arrived to their lessons and returned home in a fair state of preservation—even though compelled to trudge several miles and carry huge lunches. Education was hard <m their 'feet, but offered no other physical hazards—except such as might arise in the course of discipline. The consolidated schools and free transportation for pupils are doubtless vastly superior to the' old little red school system. But the new system has disadvantages. During the past year several school Misses loaded with youngsters have been demolished In railroad crossing smashes. There are the ordinary perils of the road; now also the risk of asphyxiation. Many fichool bus drivers flagrantly disregard safety laws, complain the State motor cops. The present system of transportation costs the taxpayers $30.83' per pupil per year. That money is largely wasted if a careless hack driver delivers the children In fragments as the result of a crossing smash or gassed by carbon monoxide from broken exhaiist. The consolidated school systffln won’t prove a benefit to such pupils. DEARTH OF LAWYERS mAMES M. OGDEN, president of the Indianapolis Bar Association and confessed candidate for Congress, told Indiana Law School students the other night that the number of lawyers In the United States Is not keeping pace with the increase in population. In 1900 there were 151 lawyers to each 100,000 population. Now there are approximately only 125 to each 100,000, despite the rapid multiplication of very breakable laws In the lafct quarter century. Maybe the decreasing ratio of lawyers to honest men proves the world is getting better. If so, the Improvement isn’t visible. Court statistics and crime records tell quite a different story. There is no dearth of layers in spite of the shrinkage. At least not in Indianapolis, where one out of every 500 persons is engaged In the legal profession. So If you want to commit a snappy murder.

JAN. 26, 1926

soever shall not receive .the Kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. And He took them up in His arms, put His hands upon them and blessed them.’’ When the Western plainsman had read these verses his companions very readily agreed that he was right. Indeed, nowhere In literature Is there to be found a picture sweeter and more sublime than this. This reminds me of another story I recently read. The President of Brazil, while a candidate, was twitted by his political antagonists with catering to sentiment because he kissed <* baby in,its mother’s arms. Later he said to a newspaper reporter, “I’ll tell' you why 1 kiss babies. I think of a fatherless mu! motherless boy of whom, at. 5 years of age a generous republic took charge. It gave him an education. This boy became a doctor of laws, and today he is President-elect of this country; for I was that boy, and that is why I always kiss babies—they are' the potential men and women. The one whom I kissed in its mother’s arms piay be future Messiah of his country, in some political crisis or humanitarian issue.” (Copyright, 1926, by John R. Gunn.)

go ahead, you can probably obtain counsel to defend you. Law is an honorable profpsslon and lawyers as a class wield an Influence, especially in public affairs, far out of proportion tq their actual numbers. But does society need so many lawyers? Appar ently so or they would seek other vocations. When we speak of this "free country” it is hyperbole, poetic license. It Is'certainly a law-ridden country In which one man out of a hundred can make a living steering the other ninetynine through the Intricacies of the statutes. BE DAD— ~ LIVE LONG (T-niLTON 8. BOTTORFF, of YI Hartaville, ltd., one of the 1....... J oldest Boosters extant, who will celebrate his one hundredth birthday anniversary Thursday, has no rules or prescription for longevity. He sleeps and eats as he pleases, three squares a day, every one topped off with pie. He chews tobacco and smokes. And hate and hearty he reaches the century mark, while the graveyards are full of diet faddists, who died at half his age, who gnawed raw carrots, sipped hot water and wore galoshes to prolong their Jives. A few days ago a Slaryiander, Mr. Trenum, celebrated his on# hundred and tenth birthday anniversary. Had a birthday cuke with candles ’nevorything. He, too, has spent a century defving the rules , on how to live Icing. He smokes the strongest tobacco, drank liquor, eats everything in sight. Then down in Charleston, West Va., a negress has just died at the ripe age of 122. She followed no special health regime to attain that age. Probably she never heard of a calorie and wouldn't have known a vltamine had she met one face to face. She ate what she could get, vorked when she had to, and slept when possible—and lived 122 ytars. Most centenarians have their pet recipes for long life. Peruna, Tanlac, yeast, buttermilk, vegetarian diet, abstinence from nicotine and alcohol are all recommended. All have their devotees, and all frequently fail to produce the deslrod result. “Be bed—and live long," In the advice of Dr. Lorenz the famous Vienna surgeon now in this country. “Indulge in all the vices moderately.’’ In other words, be natural. Probably that is as good a prescription for longevity as any. Concerning a Harp Concert Softly coming toward you, sweeping onward with ever-growing force and at last beside you chanting a song of barbarous splendor. Such was my Impression of Beethoven's "Marche ala Turque" as played last night by the Zimmer Ilarp Trio, composed of Nellie Zlm mer, harp soloist; Louise Harris, harpist, and Gladys Crockford, harpist and pianist, at the Masonic Temple. As the concert opened, one was lmmedately aware of a perfect forest of harps on the small stage of the Masonic Temple. Twenty-eight In number, they made a most Imposing impression of the truly fine to come. The first number was played by the Indiana Chapter Harp Ensemble, “Largo,” by Handel. A group of harps such as this has an elusive quality of melody that very difficult to describe; It Is as If some great virbratlng symphony of nature is being played so the exquisite enjoyment of the hearers. •Mr. Tom Williams, Welsh bar! tone, was an assisting artist and gave en enjoyable number of songs, chief of which were the Welsh sohgs sung in the native tongue. Miss Zimmer, the soloist of the trio after a group which was ex-, ceptlonal for she technique displayed and the wonderful melody heard, consented to play as an enchore. “My old Kentucky Home.” This beautiful old song seemed to gain new life as the familiar strains came from the vibrant strings of that noble instrument, the harp. The concert was given Uurt. night at the Masonic temple by th# Indiana Chapter, National Association of Harpists. (By th* Observer.)