Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 252, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1926 — Page 4

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Saving the Corn Belt rpnOYEENOR JACKSON and members of |(j| the State joint purchasing committee have decided to introduce the use of corn sugai in all State institutions. This is in line with the campaign in all corn-producing States to stimulate the consumption of corn products and save the farmers of the corn belt. The committee will purchase 2,000 pounds of the new sugar for trial. Ultimately it is hoped to extend its use until one-fourth to one-half of all the sugar used in State institutions is of the corn variety. Corn sugar, say the chemists and food experts, is not quite so sweet as cane sugar, hut is more easily digested and of equal food value. It is pronounced superior to other sugars for bread making and such purposes. Doubtless the action of Indiana officials to promote the wider use of com products w ill be heartily approved by Iloosier farmers suffering from a surplus of corn and no market. But the initial order for corn sugar for State institutions wbp’t greatly relieve them. One bushel of corn will produce twentyfive pounds of sugar. The purchase for State institutions will therefore require only 500 bushels of corn, which won’t make much of a dent in the surplus crop. The corn crop in Indiana alone last year amounted to over 200,000,000 bushels. If all the sugar produced in the United States was made from corn only about onehalf of Indiana’s annual corn crop would he .required for the purpose. And the problem of disposing of their surplus crops would still plague lowa, Illinois and other great corn-pro-ducing States. The “eat more corn” campaign may help. But it will take more than propaganda to extend the use of corn sugar, hominy, corncob pipes and corn plasters to save the distressed farmers of the corn belt.

Sale of Weapons “qIROSECUTOR REMY threatens to take i action against Indianapolis pawnshops that have been exhibiting knives, brass knucks, blackjacks, ammunition and pistols—real and imitation —in their show windows. Such displays are contrary to the law of Indiana. Business is business —-especially in pawnshops. They handle the sort of merchandise their customers want. At the present time, judging from our crime record, there must be a heavy demand in Indianapolis for guns, burglary kits and accessories of the bandit trade. So naturally the pawnshops feature that class of merchandise with tasty window displays which facilitate and encourage lawlessness and crimes of violence. Nice business. Prosecutor Remy’s move to curb the open and blatant traffic in murderous weapons and crime accessories certainly will be approved by decent folks. But even if every offending pawnshop is put out of business and the show windows of W. Washington St. display nothing more deadly than ukuleles and glass jewelry, any one who desires to go into the bandit trade or commit a snappy murder cap easily secure the necessary weapons. The United Sta l es mail will deliver any sort of pistol to their door and no questions asked. All one has to do is to send the price to a mail order house outside the State. The

THE VERY IDEA!

February 29 m'VE made up my mind that I’m gonna start out and do all my tasks with a smile unu a shout. Os frettin’ and fumin’ there'll ne’er be a trace. If the world’s lookin' dull —well, I’ll laugh in its face. I’ll work like a trojan and do things up right, through all of the day and perhaps into night. While everyone-else is at rest an’ at ease, I'll still be a pluggin’ away, if you please. I’ll make it so folk will be glad I’m aroun'. I’m plannin' to simply forget how to frown. My friends will be glad to walk more than a mile in order to catch a mere glimpse of my smile. You’ll have to admit that there’s sense to my plan. The man who can do it is more than a man. Yea, this is the month when I’ll swing on my way, and I’m gonna start out on the twenty-ninth day. * * * Men's haircuts have gone, up a dime in Cleveland. Might just as 'well trim people good, while they’re at it. * * * Amd now' they say that eventually the human race won’t have any toes. Wonder if that will have any effect on the corn crop. * • • And, besides, a lot of people will never miss their toes . . . spend most of their time walking on someone else’s. * * * “All nature’s at your beck and call,” He told the maiden fair. She must have called the winds, because She handed him the air.

By Hal Cochran

TRY THIS ON YOUR SAXOPHONE: He met her in a revolving door and they started going around together. (Or, if that’s too old, we might say, “that was the turning point in their lives.) * * • NOW, HONESTLY Think of how often you have told a lady friend: “Oh, I think you look wonderful in that hat.” Or how often you have complimented a gentleman on ilia new suit. When, as a matter of fact, the hat looked terrible, and the suit looked worse. It’s a way with all of us to compliment even if we have to fib abgut it. , Let’s be honest, after this. Tell people what you really think. The result? Oh, you just won’t have any friends. •* * • It takes more than the. spur of the moment to make time travel fast. * * I wonder if the fellow who wrote, “I’m Sorry I Made You Cry,” still feels bad about it. • • • If you see a fellow' in an auto with a girl, and he appears to have but one arm, don’t w r orry about it. The other is likely around somewhere. * * * FABLES IN FACT PETTY THIEVES HAD BEEN BREAKING INTO THE KITCHEN AND STEALING FOOD FROM THE ICiYBOX PERIOD THE LADY OF THifc HOUSE FINALLY WARNED THt\ COOK TO KEEP THE KIT(%IEN DOOR AND WINDOWS

advertising sections of cheap magazines are full of ads of pistols and revolvers guaranteed to perforate a human frame, which will he sold and delivered to any one who remits the price —from a blithering idiot to a wife planning widowhood. So long as the United States Government, through the Postoffice Department, is the complaisant and willing accomplice of guntoters and criminals, any attempt of State authorities to curb the traffic in weapons is a futile gesture.

A Queer Business S CONGRESSMAN is elected early in November. lie begins to draw his salary the following March. He doesn’t take his seat in Congress until the next December, unless the President should happen to call an extra session. In other words, our Congressmen usually start work one year and one month after elected. And they are elected for only two years. So, less than a year after they start actual work-—December to November is eleven months—they are up for election again. If defeated, they nevertheless remain on the job passing laws until the March 4 following. Somewhat ridiculous, isn’t it? The people go to the polls and elect certain men to carry out certain policies. Thirteen months later the men elected are ready to begin functioning. The people decide the men they have in office are not satisfactory representatives. But for four months more these unsatisfactory representatives continue on the job. The only explanation for this queer state of affairs is that it came into existence in the days when Congressmen traveled to Washington by stage coach and it was slow process. The Senate has adopted a resolution providing for a constutitional amendment that would change all this. Only two Senators voted against the resolution. It must now be passed before it can be submitted to the States for ratification. There is a disposition in the House to hold up the resolution. Republican Floor Leader Tilson frankly says it might not be “good politics” to pass it. Here is the politics of it: There is always a short session of Congress between the November election and March 4. In that session those Congressmen who have not been re-elected are commonly called lame ducks. These lame ducks often are useful to the Administration in power. Many of them want to remain in Washington, or, at least, to remain on the Government pay roll. Having been discarded by the people of their districts, they turn their talents over to the service of the President. They are ready to vote for whatever he may want, regardless of whether it pleases their own people back home. Many a President has used the votes of the lame ducks to jam through bills that otherwise would be defeated. The lame ducks usually are rewarded with Federal jobs; they are appointed to boards or commissions or to Federal judgeships. That is the politics of it. The Senate has just voted, 73 to 2, to have Congressmen take office the first Monday in January following their election. Lame ducks would remain in office 6nly long enough to close up their private affairs. Will the House be able to prevent this needed change?

LOCKED PERIOD NOW COMMA THE COOK WAS ANXIOUS TO PROTECT THE INTERESTS OF THE HOUSEHOLD AND SHE SAW A WAY TO COMBINE THEM WITH HER OWN INTERESTS PERIOD STARTING TONIGHT THERE'LL BE A POLICEMAN IN THE KITCHEN EVERY EVENING PERIOD (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The India nanolie Times Washington Bureau. 132/2 New York Ave.. Washington. P, C.,‘ inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal rep'y. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor. When were suffocating gas and liquid fire used for the first time in warfare? The first recorded use of suffering gases in warfare was about 431 B. C. Sulphur fumes were used in the siege of Platea and Belgium in the war betw’een the Athenians and the Spartans. Similar uses of toxic substances are recorded during the Middle Ages and in August, 18&5, the English Admiral Lord Dundonald, having observed the deadly character of the fumes in Sicily, proposed to reduce Sebastopol by sulphur fumes, but the English Government disapproved the proposal on the ground that the effects were so horrible that no honorable combatant could use them. Modern chemical warfare began April 22, 1915, when the Germans sent a cloud of chlorine gas over the English lines at Ypres. What is the per capita wealth of the United States? $2,918.00.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Looking Over Important Musical Events to Be Offered in Indianapolis Soon

OIKE most prima donnas, great concert singers and operatic stars Elisabeth Rethberg, the soprano who will make her first appearance in Indianapolis on Sunday afternoon March 7 in the Murat Theater under the direction of the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Enterprises, has experienced many dramatic moments in her life. First she was discovered to be a singer before she could talk, that is, when she was not yet one year old she was humming tunes and doing it well. Eater when in Dresden she was working as an understudy and had the good fortune to be given the opportunity to sing in the place of her principal who fell ill —from then on her success has been immense. The following is the program which Miss Rethberg has arranged for her Indianapolis recital: I “11 Mio Bel Foco" Marcello "Amarilli” face ini “Alleluia" Mozart "Staendchen" “Die Forelle" “Urtteheu am Spmnrad ’ . ...... Sch abert 111 “Vast-orals" • • Bizet “be Papiilon Fourdram “Au Prmtemps" Gpunod IV ■The Time of Partmr" Hadley To Stay at Home la Deal Mednikoff "By a Lonely Foreet Pathway ..... “We ll to the Woods and Gather Mar Griffea / V •Wenn du Nur ZuWeilen Laechelat "Am Bonntas Monren" ■ • ■ Brahma “Staendehen” “Caecilie" _ Strauaa Andreas Fusrmann at the piano. *l* *l* *** , —“l HE Indianapolis Maennerchor |TM will present Florence Austral. 1 1 1 dramatic soprano, at the Academy of Music on Monday night, Feb. 22. Program follows: "Lirdea Heimat" Pimemers "Wiegrenlied" Brahms Maennerchor. Aria: “Ocean Thou Mighty Monster. from Oberon " eber Florence Austral. “Hell ina Fenater Soheint Die Sonne' . Kremser Mennerehor. " Verborgenheit" Wolff “Zuelgnuner" "Trauin Durch Die Dammerung: "Heimliehe A afford emus" ••• Strauss Florence Austral. “Rose Marie" ..Murihoere "Du. Du Licpst Mir lm Herzen . . .WUdt M aennerclior. Aria: "Kitorna Vincitor" from Aida. . Florence Austral. “Unterm Lindenbaum" • ■ Sturm “Fruhlingszauber" Olbersleben Maennerchor. . "Sea Rapture” Er> e ,Coates "Love's Quarrel" ■ Cunl Sootl “Song of the Open''. .... Swank La gorge Fore nee Austral. Mr. Myron Jacobson at the piano.

m\VO recitals and a radio program will be given by students of the Metropolitan School of Music this week. All are given free to the public. Thursday evening at 8:15 advanced students of high school age will broadcast a program from VVFBM. The program will be given by Tommy Poggiani and Harriet Payne, violinists, students of Hugh McGibeny; Robert Geiss, baritone, and Maxine Moore, soprano, students of Edward Nell; William Polk, cornetist, pupil of Leslie E. Peck: Robert Hodgin. cellist, pupil of Adolph Schellschmidt; Catherine Stafford, pi anist, pupil of Grace Hutchings, and a trio, directed by Mr. Schellschmidt. In the trio are Marguerite Billo, violinist: Robert Hodgin, cellist, and Florence Keepers, pianist. Anita Wandell. Frances Wishard and Mrs. John Koliner will be the accompanists. Next Friday evening, Feb. 2fi, in the Odeon Miss Frances Reik will present students in a four-act play, “Master Skylark.” by John Bennett. The program will begin promptly at 8 o’clock. Taking part will be Gwendolyn Schort, Helen Emert. Marguerite Howard, Ruby Pearce, Jean Allen, Helen Starr, Martha Hoyle. Louise Cox, Genevieve Quinn. Virginia Stout, Kathryn’ Harrod. Helen Morton, Letha Wood, Kathryn Georgieff, Martha Grace Williams, Ross Itissler, Robert Schultz. Next Saturday afternoon. Feb. 27, a miscellaneous recital will be given in the Odeon at 3 o'clock. Taking part will be Mary Frances Tatlock, Mary Lou Over, Julia Newcomb, Betty Bauer, Ruth Jackson, Julia McCracken, Dorothy Aldag, Marie Shaner, Virginia Wilkins, Maxine Singer. Engelina Shaneff. Catherine Olshan, Mary Ellen Shellburn, Dorothy Lucille Haught, Mary Jane Shideler, Rosalind Parr, Everett De Witt, Jr.; Dorothy Bissel, Marian Chaplin, Ada Stafford, Carl Atkinson, Dorothy Chaplin, Eugene Kerr, Kathleen Riggbee, Eugenia Huston and Claude Husted. -I- -!• •!• SHE Indianapolis Matinee Musicale will hold its annual organ day program. Friday atternoon, Feb. 26, at 3 o’clock, at Roberts Park Church. The program which follows, is open to the public: "Art Thou Wcarv'r" Chadwick Quartet, from the Tabernacle Presbyterian: Florence Pa-Uin Welch. Floyd Chaffee Norma France. Frfd Newell Morris. Paul Matthews at the orpan. "Fantasie." for organ and piano Demarest Mt'3. Frank Edenharter. Mrs. J. W Hurt. Five Biblical Songs. Op. 9 Dvorak "C'ouds and Darkness Are Round About Him." “Lord. Thou Art My Refuge. “Hear Mv Prayer.” "Oral Is Mv Shepherd.” “I Will Sing New Songs of Gladness Marv Tranb Buseh. Horace Wliitehouse at the organ. “Cantilena, Pastorale" .■ . .Jorcs “Grand Choeur. No. 2' Hollins Mrs. Amy Cleary Morrison. “Oh 1 Divine Redeemer'' Gounod Mrs James Lowrv. Mrs. Glenn Friermood. assisted bv Mrs. Howard Clipping! r. organ Mrs. Julia Brown Bodner, violin: Miss Yuba Willhite. cello. Mrs. Arthur Webber, harp, and Mr3. S. K. Ruiclt, piano. , “Fantasie in G Mmol- ■ ■ - • • .Bach “Prelude" Clerambault “Gavotte" - esley "Rond“ Francaise Boellmann “Finale from Svmpbony I \ ierne Horace Wliitehouse. “The Nut Tree" Schumann Chorus of the Reapers, from 'Eugene One-in" Tsehaikorsky Matinee Musicale Chorus: violin obligato bv. Mrs Bodnar: Mr White-house-, director: Mrs. Edenharter. aeeompanist. The next artist recital under the auspices of the Matinee Musicale will be given by the Lennox String Quartet at Masonic Temple, March 11, 3 p. nt. * * GLAND HAYES, that admir W able tenor, who came from humble surroundings in the South and who rose to such eminence that music lovers in Europe and in America have acclaimed him, will be heard in a recital of songs in the Murat Theater on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 28, under the direction of the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Enterprises. Few other artists can create quite the same atmosphere of sympathy and understanding between hall and platform as Jloland Hayes. He is a superb singer not only in the spirit-

uals of his race, but also in the song classics. The following is the complete program for his Indianapolis recital: Mozart Aria. "Tall e cotantt sono” Schubert "Die Liebe hat gelogen" Schubert “Dcr Jungllng an der Quelle" Wolf “Bencdeit die eelige Mutter" Wolf "Wer grin holdea I.ieb verloren” Brahms “Lerehenxesanr' Rachmaninoff "As all things fade" Roger Quilter “Over the Mountalne" Griffes "Rose of the Night" Grides "The Dreamy X,ake" —Negro Spirituals— Arr. by H. T. Burleigh.“Stand Still Jordan" Arr. by Roland Hayes “Lit'l David play on yo' Harp" A-r. by Hall Johnson." Way up in Heaven" Arr by Gustav Klemm.“l can't stay away" William Lawrence, accompanist. Fred Newell Morris will present a group of pupils in an intimate re-

Our Vanishing Gasoline

Editor's Note: Menaced by a serious shotinge ot iietroleuni. u„ wall., , ....... million American automobiles billions of dollars' worth of industries and our national defense all depend, the Government called a conference of experts to help find a way out. Among the foremost of these was Henry L. Doherty, big oil man. banker. public utilities director, scientist and enghieer. a nationally recognized authority.’ What he told officials at Washington, he now tells you. at the request of The Times, because this Nation-wide problem touches you where you live. This is the fifth of the series. By Henry L Doherty E" ’ XCEPT after we reach the time when we can no longer meet our needs for petroleum by our own production, I know of no conservation measures which could be adopted and which could bring any relief so long as we must work under our present system of production. We are now using hundreds of millions of barrels of petroleum each year which merely displaces coal; and an increase in production or a saving in utilization would simply mean more petroleum would*displace more coal. If the efficiency of every automotive engine was doubled tomorrow, it would not prove an appreciable factor in conserving our petroleum. In spite of the fact that we are producing now double as much petroleum as we actually need, nevertheless the time will come when we will be unable to provide for our actual needs and will probably be dependent upon foreign petroleum or substitutes. Foreign petroleum cannot be depended upon in case of war nor could we expand our plants producing petroleum substitutes quickly enough to make up for the loss of the foreign petroleum or to furnish the increased needs occasioned by war. But if we were working under the unit operation of pools, we would have large ground reserves of petroleum located and blocked out and all our war needs could be quickly met. If no other benefits would be realized from the unit development of pools other than to create ground reserves that could be drawn upon in case of war, this alone would be an enormous contribution to the welfare of the nation. The predictions made by many that science will find substitutes for petroleum, not now foreseen, are mere drafts upon the imagination of the authors of these statements. They have no bases for such statements. Petroleum is not a mere material, but a highly concentrated form of energy. A gallon of petroleum has an energy value in excess of seventyfive pounds of TNT. The law of the conservation of energy Is as inflexible as the law of gravity. These statements are in effect the prediction that we will be able to amplify energy or create energy out of nothing. From a war standpoint, there is no practical substitute for petroleum. The substitutes should be used in time of peace to enable ground reserves to be built up for times of war. The natural substitutes for petroleum are natural and artificial

A Sermon for Today By Rev. John R. Gunn

Text: “A good name is rather to bo chosen than great riches.”— l*rov. 22:1. A 1 GREAT valuation is put up•AI on trade names in the comV.. i iJ mercial world. The California Fruit Grower’s Association estimates the name “Sunkist” to be worth $10,000,000 to the fruit growers of Southern California. The Regal Shoe Company has estimated that its brand is worth $2,500,000. Cluett, Peabody & Cos., count their “arrow" trade mark worth $54,000,000. Such trade names are recognized and counted as among the solid assets of any business concern. Yet the names of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Moody, Beecher and Phillips Brooks, are worth infinitely more to civilization than any commercial trade mark. If a man has a good name, a name that stands

A Woman’s Viewpoint

Youth Is Mistaken Sometimes By Mrs. Walter Ferguson | _ 1 ERHAPS the greatest blah I I I w bich is now broadcast to a j * 1 long suffering public is that which tells us the time has passed when youth may be ordered to keep quiet, or when maturity can presume to advise the youngster as to what is and what is not good for him. A great many writers profess to believe that the only way to save civilization is to let the children do as their fancy dictates. These are the high apostles of virility and sex, and announce in loud tones that we should stand aside and let the young folks run things. Now this is not to say that -we should refuse to listen to our children, or that we should blindly close our minds to their suggestions, or that we should refuse to believe in the -changes which youth would bring about, but it is folly to, insist that in youth lies all wisdom and in maturity abides only intolerance and mental decrepitude. It may be the chief business of youth to question everything offered to it, but this does not argue that everything offered is wrong. For youth today is just like it has ?ver been —wild, eager, clamorous, impatient, full of romantic dreams, rebellious against restraint and restive under authority. But the young may as easily be

cital in the studio, 1808 N. Delaware St., Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock, to which friends are invited. “La Seranta” Mr. Warren Woodward. “Dane* Song" Handel “Who’ll Buy My Lavender? ’ German Miss Catherine Allen. “Yesterday" T,° , “Southern Croon Son*” Gaul Mr. Joy Foy. “Lungin del caro bene” Handel Mies Ruth Brundrette. “When All the World Is Yountf, Lad" Beale "The Sotifr of the Turnkey" (“Rob Roy") De Koven Mr. C'yde M. Pierce. “Pastoral” Veraccinl Miss Opal Batson. | “Forgotten" Cowles “Ai, Ai. Ai” Creole Sons Mr. Stanley E. Baker.

gas and coal; and these are all immediately available. These fuels can be substituted in almost every instance except where the internal combustion engine is used to propel vehicles or vessels, and. except for navy use, powdered coal can probably be developed for locomotive and ships as a practical substitute for petroleum. Monday:—Doherty suggests a remedy. Corn at $1 To the Editor of The Times: IJR attention has been called to your editorial comment in J your issue of the sixteenth regarding the International Harvester Company’s corn barter proposition. You have been either misinformed on this proposition or have misinterpreted the reading of it, and as a result your statements are erroneous and misleading. We enclose copy of letter from the president of this company, in which you will note that the corn barter proposition provides for acceptance of any merchantable grade of corn, to be delivered to th% farmer’s nearest elevator some time during the months of May, June, or July. He is given thirty days’ notice so as not to interfere with any important work which he might have at hand at the time of receiving notice. Chicago corn quotations are based upon No. 2 grade of corn. This is the base price, and other grades are always governed from this quotation. We attach copy of letter which we sent out to our dealers under date of Jan. 30, so there will be no misunderstanding, and wo think our trade and customers thoroughly understand it. This proposition is intended to help the fanner increase his buying power on his requirements In our lines, and is absolutely bona fide. We trust you will give this correction the same publicity that yon gave the misinterpretation of the proposition, and oblige Yours very truly. International Harvester Company of America. , J. A. BROOKBANK, Branch Manager. The letter referred to above states that the International Harvester Company will accept any merchantable corn in exchange for farm im plements. The price quoted Is $1 a bushel for No. 2 corn at Chicago, and a lower price for lesser grades in proportion to the price of the same grades at Chicago. For example, If No. 2 corn is selling at SO cents in Chicago and No. 3 corn at 75 cents, the company would allow $1 for No. 2 corn and 95 cents for No. 3 corn.—Editor.

for the noblest and best in character and life, it may be worth more to his children and to his community than any trade name is worth in the commercial world. A little while ago a will was tiled In court which attracted unusual attention. After disposing of a few personal effects, the will said. “I regret I have not more to give, but I give my sincere love and rny name, which I have always tried to keep unsullied.” The best legacy any man can leave to his children, better than any estate of stocks and bonds and property, is a good name. “A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.” Through thousands of years this saying of the ancient sage of Israel has stood unchallenged. More and more the world Is coming to recognize its truth.

| wrong as right. Look back along I your years and remember, if you j can. your high and mighty attitude toward the questions which came up I'n your adolescence. You were con- | vinced that you could not be mis'ed in certain fond beliefs, that your deas of life were bound to be right, ind you may, and most probably have, lived to see how exactly wrong you were. Just because a group of young and inexperienced college girls are propounding this question. "Os what use, if any, is the family?” is no reason for believing that they are founts of wisdom. It is not hard to j ask questions, to be critical, to find I fault. But it is very hard, indeed, to build things up. to substitute ! faith for doubts, to look at life lovi ingly instead of so knowingly. And these girls will all, no doubt, live to see themselves the happy mothers of children and as the years go by will learn that there are things in this world too subtle for human understanding. and the family is one of them. Human nature has not changed. We still exist in a world where experience and working and living, and looking in at the facts of birth and death, count as greater lessons than the contents of all the books in college. Let the children rattle on. Our job is to save them from their own tolly in so far as we can.

Famous Composers Felix Mendelssohn OST great musicians have become famous in the face never was a day when he lacked anything that money could supply. His parents were wealthy and cultured Jews, whose home in Berlin was a meeting place for artists and scholars. At the age of four his lessons in music began and at the age of nine he composed pieces for the family orchestra. At 15 he composed and directed a three-act opeTa that took his audience by storm. WlieD soon after in London he pLayed his “Symphony in C” in concert., people from the audience leaped npon the stage to congratulate "him. * *af The account of Mendelssohn’s life is a story of pleasant and profitable work. His wonderful ability to extemporize and his willingness to play the compositions of other musicians made him a popular concert performer. In Germany he was idolized by music lovers and in other countries lie was always received with acclaim. The University of Leipzig, to which city he lmd removed to direct the public concerts, conferred upon him the degree of doctor of philosophy, and there he organized the famous musical conservatory of Leipzig. The list of his compositions is iong. His “Saint Paul” and “Elijah” are sung everywhere. His “Hymn of Praise” is familiar to all, as his music to “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” with its much used wedding march and nocturne; his “Songs Without Words” arc on almost every piano. Mendelssohn was born in Berlin in 1809 and he died in 1847.

RIGHT HERE ININDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON __

CHARLESTON AND PARALYSIS j T~JNITA RENO, 16-yxar-old Cos lumbus (Irid.) girl, suffered L J a stroke of paralysis the other day, the result, physicians say, of excessive dancing of the Charleston. She was an expert performer and much uddicted to the dance. Tho- incident will furnish ammunition to medical gents and higher critics who inveigh against the Charleston as a barbaric diversion deleterious to health and morals. Such critics are always discovering that every’ new fau taken up by young people is daiuuging to soul, liver or Thirty years ago, when bicycling was tho rage, eminent medical sharps warned that the indulgence in that sport would strain the heart and make young people round-shouldered. But it didn’t. The craze ran Its course and when bicycling passed out of fashion the human frame showed no ravages of the sport. Then came the movies. They were condemned. The eyesight of the Nation was about to be ruined, said the fearful medics. But eyes have survived. Naturally, the Charleston, being popular with the young people, now draws the fire. To it will be attributed all human ills. If a girl has paralysis, tho Charleston is to blame. If she has whooping cough, lay It to tho Charleston. If a boy has adenoids or pyorrhea, it is the result of excessive Charlestoning. If the stately minuet should become again popular, it would be blamed for ossified joints and rheumatism. The Charleston may he silly, but it’s no more suicidal than any other energetic fad of youth. Its eccentric steps are more likely to cause a spectator to burst a blood vessel than a dancer.

A USELESS DIRECTORY STTORNEY GENERAL GILLIOM holds that lists of Indiana auto owners, now being prepared by the secretary of State, must not be sold at less than their actual cost. Last year only- twenty copies were sold. This year the secretary of State hoped, by offering them at bargain prices, to stimulate the sale. An act of the last Legislature required the secretary of State to prepare for distribution to police and sheriffs complete lists of auj tomobile owners and license numbers. Some bright legislator j thought such directories would aid l in tracing quickly stolen cars and perform other useful services. An appropriation of SIO,OOO was 1 provided for the work. But the secretary of State found that to print the lists would cost $20,000 —and he had only' SIO,OOO for the purpose. There was an almost fatal gap between the pants and vest of the act. Finally, after much avail, he discovered that by multigrnpiling the lists he could keep the cost within the appropriation. And he prepared them thus. Then, after the lists were prepared. nobody’ wanted them. Twenty copies were sold; the rest just kicked around the Statehouse awaiting their inevitable end as furnace fodder. Nobody wants the llsis he is preparing this year. He can’t sell them or give them away. But still the directories must be compiled at nn expenditure approaching $lO ,000 because the law says so. And so on ad infinitum if the law isn’t repealed by some future Legislature. The whole affair is a fine example of a useless law. passed by a careless Legislature without investigation. SICK IN PRISON rpri JRMLK GOVERNOR MOI r* I CRAY Is reported to he I * I seriously 111 and on the verge of a nervous oollaiwe in the hospital at the Federal l*enitentlary in Atlanta. Meanwhile the application for commutation of his sentence and parole, presented

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to the department of justice, awaits action of the President. Perhaps tho physical condition of tho former Governor should prove a potent argument for his release and Influenco the President to grant the clemency plea. Certainly a sick man in prison arouses sympathy. However, health or tack of health had nothing to do with petting McCray into prison. He was convicted and sentenced for a crime—using the mails to defraud. And confinement may have had nothing to do with his present ill health. He might huvo been similarly afflicted if ho had remained ut liberty—and probably ho would not receive any better medical treatment out of Atlanta than where he is. Possibly he has been sufficiently punished. Further confinement may he needless cruelty und of no service to the cause of Justice. However, the question of his release should be determined by the actual facts and merits of his case—on the b.asis of strict, im partial Justice. The lni|>ortant factors for the President to consider in the case are McCray und the crime for which he was sentenced, not McCray and his health.

MR. FiXIT V -- " Advice Regarding Three Given by Department of Parks.

. -! ,r l .rour swlvocnto nt the city hl Writ.' him lnter to the Tiroes outlining your nt-edi. Mr. Flxit pursued the first request under an arrangement with the parks department whereby advice on lawns and trees is provided without cost. DEAR MR. FIXTT: On our vs cant lot at Thirty-Ninth and New Jersey Sts. we have two maple trees. One is straight, tall and doing fine. The other evidently was damaged at some time and now la more like a shrub thun a tree. M. L, O- ' The two Norwuy maple trees do not neeessnrily need trimming at this time,” Elbert Moore, city forester, reported. "The stunted tree probably was damaged hy bore worms the second and third year# after planting and should now N* treated by a competent and quoitfled licensed tree surgeon, ns the tree is in a healthy condition and may yet overcome the dlMudvun tages It has suffered through some one’s neglect, and become a credit able shade tree, “Planting and care of trees on street lawns other than parkways, boulevards und city-owned ground is the property owner’s res pons! billty.” TO SIX-TEAR READER: The Rural St. elevation will bo cleaned and police will investigate the parking of the car. When l>etter weather m rives, W. P. Hargon, street superintend ent's clerk, promises to pursue e number of complaints, including those from Edward Newel, 4156 Bowman St.: Regular Times Rend er. Oriental St. hotjveen Sturm Ave. and Michigan St.; J. A. Lytle, 2037 Roosevelt Ave.; Fourteen Properly Owners, alley at rear of 800 block La Salle St., and Spruce St. Property Owner. What Is the density of the ex haost gas from an automobile? Its density voiles with the fusl used and the conditions of com hustlon. It |s usually slightly lighter than air and Its temperature increases the difference. Can you name some of the highest salarb-d bnsehiill player* In the major leagues? Rahe Ruth, New York Americans; Frank Frisch. New York Na’lonile; Rogers Hornsby, St. l.ouls Nationals; George Staler, S’. Tskuts Americans; Ty Cobh ,\m*i cans: Tils Speaker, Cleveland Ani -rl cans; Stanley Harris. Washington Americans; !Jazzy V.inw, Crou.clyii Nationals.