Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 255, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1926 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. • . WM - A - MAYBOKN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scrlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the United Press and the NEA Service * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. , Published dallv exrent Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis i. . | u "Jerl P tion Rates ; Indianapolis-Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere-Twelve Cents a Week • * • PHONE—MA in 3500.

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

Freedom Makes a Round Trip ■pri ROM London comes the report that selr 1 dom if ever has British sentiment against America been so bitter as now. Hypocrites, bigots, bullies and mannerless hooi’S are among the nicer names they are calling us. We prate of “law and order,” they observe, yet hold the world's record, by far and away, for all sorts of crime. We bcfiist of prohibition. Yet the country is shockingly drunken. We talk of equality before the law. Yet it is the friendless wretch that sells the pint that goes to jail, while the millionaire bootleggers and their big political and office-hold-ing protectors ride around like the new lords of the land that they are. We sanctimoniously simper of religious liberty, yet persecute people because of their religion. And brag of liberty of conscience while people are under arrest awaiting trial for their beliefs. We say ours is a country for the oppressed. Yet we deny admittance to highly educated men and women whose only offense is an ardent belief in a democracy such as ours is supposed to be. Our men and women today are notoriously cavalier in their observance of the social conventions, and we hold the record for divorces and divorce scandals. Aet we stop a cultured .English woman at Ellis Island, grill her for her part in an admitted elopement with a man. and order her deportation lest she contaminate us. If foreigners are bitter against us, perhaps there’s a reason. And, if we are wise, before we gehmad about it we’ll look into the cause. About the time we were fighting for our independence, Thomas Jefferson used to say that “British freedom had crossed tho Atlantic.” And so it had. It had left Britain to come to America. But, unfortunately for us, it seems to have had a round-trip ticket. . Which, perhaps, is why we are not quite as popular throughout tho rest of the world as wo used to be.

Labor Learns From Capital EABOE, learning from capital* may solve the problem of healthful, comfortable homes for men and women. Two years ago the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company' constructed fifty-four model apartment houses in New York, and proved that it could rent apartments at very low rates and still make a satisfactory profit on its investment. The Labor Home Building Corporation, following this example, started work on more apartments for families of limited income. • Now organization of the American Home Builders Incorporated, to help finance union home builders and home buyers. Families - in ten cities will benefit from this project. The day of the tenement and the slum is passing. With it will pass much of the sickness, the misery, /the discontent of other years.

THE VERY IDEA! By Hal Cochran —

Midnight Munch I —7"1 T night time, e’er retiring, } AI when he’s hungry as the lilN deuce, the kitchen is the place you’ll find a fellow runnin’a loose. There’s nothin’ any better than tb have the happy hunch to nibble on some scrappings in the Well-known midnight munch. A frazzled bit o’ bacon or a chunk of llverwurst- A chilly glass of milk that’s always bound to quench yer thirst. To see the icebox contents, Mister Man is on his knees, areachin’ for the package that contains a hit of cheese. He spies a lot of leavings that the wife has tucked away—just little indications of the meals they’ve had that day. The Missus aimed to save ’em, like a housewife really should, hut, how ya gonna save ’em when they look so doggone good? So father keeps on munching till his tummy’s feeiin’ right, and then he shuts the icebox e’er retiring for the night. And thus the things that mother saved for breakfast and for lunch, are eaten up by father in his gloomin’ midnight munch. * * * The tightest gazebo in the world was the fellow who bought a thermometer in the summer, and then jot peeved when it went lower in the Winter. 4 4 4 In Japan they have a custom of removing their shoes before entering a house. How really Oriental some American men are around 2 bells in the morning. * * * * The Prince of Wales has stopped, they say, His riding on a mare. And now, although he’s heir to throne, He's no more thrown to air.

Troops in the Mine Field rpr. VANSVTLLE is reported to have received 1 I the surprise of its life when State troops, with airplanes and tear bombs, arrived without warning and took up quarters in that city. The citizens Apparently did not realize the grave danger that somebody thought maybe perhaps they might be facing. There has been little violence in the Evansville district, no more than occurs in Indianapolis on an ordinary Saturday night. There have been many stories of groups of enraged miners marching on nonunion minei, but to date nobody has been found who is willing to testify that he has first hand knowledge of any group of enraged miners. There are certain nonunion mines in the Evansville district. Naturally, the union miners want to unionize these mines. The nonunion mine operators are insisting that their properties be operated with nonunion men. Both are within their rights so long as they obey the law. Governor Jackson, with his usual silence, far exceeding the much press-agented and largely fictional quietness of Coolidge, is not making any explanation. Meanwhile, the people of Indiana generally would like to know why an armed force has been sent to peaceful Yanderburg County.

Hard to Understand .y t| lIEN we, the people, donate to private ** power companies the use of our great rivers, we might reasonably expect electricity in return. But do we get it? Chattanooga. Tenn., is served by the Tennessee Electric Power Company. This company has a splendid power dam in the Tennessee River, just a few miles from Chattanooga, with an installed capacity of about 145,000 horse-power. Electricity can undoubtedly be generated at this dam very cheaply. Home consumers in Chattanooga, however, pay 9 cents a kilowatt hour maximum for it, and small factories pay 4 cents a kilowatt hour maximum plus and extra charge of S2O a year per kilowatt of demand or “pressure.” The Tennessee Electric Power Company also distributes electricity to Nashville and Knoxville, Tenn. Home consumers in these two cities are paying 11 cents a kilowatt hour. Anniston, Gadsen, Selma and Tuscaloosa, Ala., are all served by the. Alabama Power Company, which generates electricity at a power dam in the Tallapoosa River, installed capacity about 175,000 horsepower. Home consumers are paying 10 cents a kilowatt hour maximum. These Tennessee and Alabama rates are two to five times higher than the rates being charged by publicly owned and operated power systems in Canada and the United States. Yet it is proposed to turn Muscle Shoals, the Government’s $150,000,000 power project in the Tennessee River, over to some private company to operate.

If you want to find out how many, close friends you've got, try and borrow money. * • • NOW HONESTLY Success is just twice as far as the half way mark. Hence, when you do things only half way, you’ll never get to the top of whatever you’rp aiming at. Folks have a queer idea about saving time by doing things in a hurry—and calling them finished when they're still lacking in actual completeness. Maybe you do save time —but you lose the opportunity to feel secure in the fact that you’ve done the very-Jbest you can. * Some times you save time when you take your time. Try it! • • • When an actor proposed to a girl, her father never kicks him out—he i goes before the' foot-lights. 4*4 FABLES IN FACT - POP GOT HOME TO SUPPER | AND IMMEDIATELY MISSED LITTLE WILLIE PERIOD MOTHER THEN EXPLAINED THAT THE YOUNGSTER WAS UPSTAIRS IN BED PERIOD QUOTATION MARK IS HE SICK QUESTION MARK QUOTATION MARK ASKED DAD COMMA AND MOTHER REPLIED THAT HE HAD BEEN SENT TO BED FOR SWEARING PERIOD QUOTATION 1 MARK I’LL TEACH THAT YOUNG SCAMP TO SWEAR COMMA QUOTATION MARK SAID i POP COMMA AND WHEN HE STUMBLED UP THE STAIRS AND HIT HIS SHIN COMMA WILLIE GOT HIS , FIRST LESSON PERIOD. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)

Ask The Times You can grot an answer to any quetion_ol fact or information by writing to Clio Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Are.. Washington, D. C.. inclosing 3 oents in stamp* for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research bo undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot bo answered. Ail letters ara confidential. —Editor. What was the origin of the "fez” as the headgear of Turkish men? The fez came as one of the sudden Turkish reforms relatively a short time ago. Sultan Mahmoud 11, who ruled during the early years of the nineteenth century, wished, like Peter the Great of Russia, to modernize his people and turn their thoughts from Asia. He decreed that they should abandon the turban and wear the fez, influenced doubtless by the fact that the latter Is at once more modish and convenient. He poupled the fez with the introduction of the frock coat for his courtiers and the well dressed young Turk in general. For this, he was denounced by most of his people as "the Infidel sultan.” The use of the fez continued, however, to such good advantage that within a generation or so it was looked upon by the outside world and no doubt by most Turks as the distinctive ageold Turkish head covering. Why Mahmound settled on the fez is not fluke clear. Most of his reforms looked toward westernization. But something very like- the fez was worn by the ancent Assyrians and Hittites, and ’it is supposed to hav< come down to modern times throug) the Byzantines and the Greeks. One thing in its favor was the lack o brim. So long as the Turks were devout Moslems, pract clng theii prostrations at prayer time, brim were not permissible, since they in terfered with touching the foreheau to the ground,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Trying to Find the Popular Appeal of Massey’s Weird ‘Prisoner’s Song’

Famous Composers Josef Haydn eAYDN, a famous Austrian composer, was born at 6ohrau, lower Austria, March 31, 1732. The sweetness of the boy’s voice and his correct ear for pitch were noted early. From his eighth to his eighteenth birthday Haydn was a pupil in a choir school at Hamburg. Though wretchedly poor and frequently without sufficient food, he studied diligently and at the age of thirteen composed a mass. - Haydn taught music and his circumstances changed for the better. He was appointed musical director to Count Franz Morzin, for whose orchestra he wrote his first symphony. Here and elsewhere he continued his composition, composing and playing for royalty. Haydn’s musical output was enormous. It included over a hundred symphonies and nearly a hundred quartets. He was honored even during his lifetime by a monument erected to him by Count Harrach. He died in May, 1809 at Vienna during the bombardment of that city by the French.

A Sermon for Today By Rev. John R. Gunn

Text: “It is required of stewards that a man bo found faithful.” —1 Cor. 42. OMEONE said to John Wannamaker, "You are a very l__ wealthy man; you own a lot of property.” "No," Mr. Wannamaker replied, "I am a very poor man. I own nothing. All this belongs to GotJ. He Is trusting me to use it for him, and I am trying to do it." He considered himself a steward for God; and what a faithful steward he was, as all who know of his life and work will testify. You talk about "my factory," "my store,” my farm," "my ability," "my education"; but you ought to remenher, and never forget, that those things are yours only os a trust from God. God inay not have intrusted to you so much as he did to Mr. Wannamaker, but whatever he has put in

Concerning a Big Event By John T. Hawkins mT Is with regret that we note the sickness of Louis Graveure, who was to appeor on the Teachers’ Chorus program at Caleb Mills Hall, last night, but wo take genuine pleasure In saying that the concert, through the assistance of Raymund Koch, baritone, and Mario Dawson Morrell, violinist, was a complete success Judged from the angle of entertainment. It is simply a matter of having two artists, instead of one, as we had expected. The Chorus confined Its program .to folk songs that were of the kind that will forever bo liked. Two of their numbers in particular were exceptionally well done. They were "River, River,” Chilean folk song, arranged by N. Clifford Pago, and a number by Stephen C. Foster, "Oh! Susanna." The “River" number we have never heard before and the m-lody was an agreeable revelation. It seems to run true to the name—there Is present as it Is sung a continuous reminder of rushing water, as If one were listening to a river. The other number, by Foster, is one of his songs done in a lighter mood. Foster seems to have gained popularity from his melanchody things, but thlg one number showed perfectly well how happy and carefree the author could be when he so wanted. Would also like to say that the chorus is to be commended on Its enunciation. With such a large group It Is splendid. The very minute Mr. Koch stepped out front we could almost tell that, a treat was in store for us. And it was.

He is an artist that one must watch carefully if it is desired to get all the pleasure from his songs that is there. He takes on the character of his songs and gives to each the benefit of a personality that carries charm. In a group of selections that contained much variety he sang with an ease that was a pleasure to hear. Opening with some heavier numbers by Brahms and Schubert, ho progressed through some of the finest numbers we have heard in concert, such as "Vision," by Krlens; "At Night,” by Rachmalnoff; and "Za Za Plccola Zingalre,” by Leoncavallo. His encores were probably his most popular numbers. A selection from "Falstaff” with the humor he put into it brought out the smiles on the most solemn faces, we believe. In his program also were several Negro Spirituals.

Mane Dawson Morrell was the other artist to whom we are Indebted for an eventful evening. For my own personal enjoyment I could not have heard a more pleasing program Os solos on the violin. When she played the "Slavonic Dance,” by Dvorak, and "La Gitana,” by Kreisler, my happiness was completed, for they are two of my favorites. And. I would rather hear her play than eat (and I do care for food.) I Insist that our city should be proud of Marie Dawson Morrell, she Is ’a violin soloist of uncommon ability. To sum it all up we wish to say that the Fourth Annual Concert by the Teachers’ Chorus of the Indianapolis Public Schools was * of very high rank and added to the musical appreciation of Indianapolis. Ernest Hesser conducted the Chorus.

If You Haven’t Read — “SANDY” % Start Reading It Today Complete Review on Page 10

your charge, much or little, it belongs to him and he expects you to use it for him and the things of his kingdom. In the parable of the talents, the man who received only one talent was under the same obligation to use what he had for his master as the man who received five talents. Whether you .have much or little entrusted to you. it is a great thing to be a steward for God. As his steward God expects you to be faithful. "It is required of stewards that a man be found faith ful.” Would you be found faithful, should God call you to give an account of your stewardship? Some lay you will have to face a reckonng with hhn. Will you face it with oy or confusion? Copyright, 1926, by John R. Gunn)

MR. FIXIT Stopping of Blind Singers , by Policeman Assailed.

Let Mr. Fixit present your problem# to city official# He I# The Tune#' re-pre-•entativi- at tho city hall. Write him at Tho Time*. Two blind- singers, stopped in their music by police on the Circle, find a stanch defender in a correspondent of Mr. Fixit. AeAR MIL FIXIT: I.ast night in front of English's I saw what I term a very low and unprincipled, ungentlemanly act, performed by one-of our policemen. Two blind boys were walking along playing music and people were tossing a few dimes In. The policeman ordered them to stop. Ordinance or no ordinance, he should have had principle enough to keep still. Other things, far worse, happen, such as boys standing around swearing and talking loud. We have lots of officers who need lessons in courtesy. Out-of-town people come here and spend their money and I have seen traffic policemen bawl them out like they did not deserve tho respect of a dog. They possibly do not know opr rules because we change them every few days.

TIMES READER AND TAXPAYER Os course, the policeman was ’ obeying orders, but Mr. Fixit agrees there are too many unnecessary ordinances to enforce. Orders have been issued a\ number of times for traffic officers to be courteous and forbearing to strangers, and it is a sound principle. On some distant, Utopion day when the police department Is taken out of politics, we may witness some of these reforms. Your letter has been referred to Police Chief Claude F. Johnson.

W. P. Ilargon, street superintendent’s clerk, will Investigate complaints, as follows: Mrs. Chapman, 1221 W. Thirtieth St.; W. M.. alley rear of Dexter Ave. (no charge on any Flxlt activity); Citizen, back of 947 Ewing St.; sewers stopped at State Ave. and Raymond St.; L. Strome, 1702 E. Washington St.; W. H. West, Fourteenth St., between Belle Vleu PI. and Mount St.

To the following complaints Mr. Flxlt must advise petitioning the board of works: Why Mothers Get Gray, Thirty-Second St., east of School St.; M. A. Pegg. 1409 Churchman Ave.; C. S.; Carroll. Ave.; Resident and Property Owners. Bellefontaine St., between Twenty-Second and Twenty-Third Sts., lights; South Side Taxpayers- Beecher St. and the alley.

What is a "wash drawing”? It is a representation of an object produced by laying in the shades in flat Colors or "washes,” with merely the outline and chief details drawn In line. The method is much used for architectural drawings, drawings of machines, industrial designs, etc. ly is also largely practiced in drawing on the block for engravers. V""* What kinds of wood are used to make bows and arrows? Hickory and yew for making bows and ash and oak for making arrows.

By Walter 1). Hickman mO many people the success of “Abie’s Irish Rose,’’ upon the stage Is a giant problem. That is no problem to me, hut the wide appeal of Massey’s "The Prisoner’s Song” Is a real problem. Like "Able,” "The Prisoner's Song” was peddled upon Broadway. For a long time nobody could see it. At last one publisher did. The success of this song is one of the outstanding events of the present season. I know from my experience of arranging radio programs that’there are more requests for this song than any other single lilt. A few days ago, Okeh sent me their recorded version of the “song” done as a waltz with a vocal chorus by A'ernon Dalbert. The melody itself is carried by the Yellow Jackets. a good playing popular organization

Probably it is the gigantic orchestration, the loud bases, which helps j to make this such a hit. Os course, I am speaking of the waltz arrangement used by the Yellow Jackets on an Okeh record. There seems to be, according to some publications, a wrong popular idea regarding the origin of “The Prisoner’s Song." It is stated on good authority that Massey was not in prison and never was when he wrote this song in the South. And yet the lyrics tell of "the cold prison bars around me" and "with \ my head on a pillow pf thorns.” Sad as is the lyrics at time?, yet there is a sort of a haunting and compelling melody which reaches the popular heart. It must have a message, because this song is a gigantic seller in many forms. Okeh has a most satisfying arrangement of this weird melody. The vocal chorus puts over the idea, \et I believe it Is the strange and weird melody which has made it such a hit with so many classes of people. It is said by the extremely musically educated that tho “song” Is not melody, tut the popular approval proves that it has great appeal. And appeal in this case has much weight. Personally, I can not quite sets the great appeal of the song, and yet I have been playing it for days since receiving the record for review from Okeh. For those who like new hits on the banjo, I recommend Okeh’s "I’m Sitting on Top of the World," as played by “Banjo Bill” Bowen, with Charles Baumshlag at the piano. On the other side you will find the same combination playing “Nifty Notes.” Asa banjo record, I feel that Bowen has enough tricks and showmanship to make this record of general appeal. Banjo music Is 1 secerning mighty popular these days since the old-time fiddlers are being so royallv received all over the land. •I- -I- -I-Tndianapoli.-i theaters today offer: Ziegfeld Follfes with Johnny Dooley at English’s; Nina and Company, at the Palace: Edith Casper at B. F. Keith's; “Dapce Ballet Russe,” at the Lyric: “His Secretary," at the Apollo: “D-izy Bones” nt the Colonial: “The Enchanted Hill,” at the Ohio: "Irene," at the Circle; "Six Shooting Romance.” at the Isis, and burlesque at the Broadway. How many users of manufactured gas are there in the Fnlted States? There are 52,000,000 persons In the Fnlted States who have manufactured gas service, available. One of each 4.9 of these persons Is a customer of a gas company, according to statistics for 1925 recently made public by the American Gas Association. The sales of manufactured gas in the Fnlted States have doubled in the last ten years. During 1925, 421 billion cubic feet were sold by 954 companies to 10.600,000 customers. This is an increase of sixteen billion cubic feet over 1924, the Increased use of gas m Industry and home-heating accounting for much of the gain. Ho.w much does an elephant weigh? The weight of a large elephant Is about five tons.

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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA

SAVE THE FARMER WITH OUR TEETH

j IENATOU WATSON, nt a i I Republican rally in Ft. I Wayne Monday, said tho tanners must In patience work out their problems. The cause of agricultural depression is—according to him —the failure of tho people of America to consume tho products of tho farm. "The people are spending their increased wages for automobiles and movies,” is the way our elder statesman put it. Perhaps his diagnosis is correct. Maybe it is unpatriotic for us to waste our money in this crisis on new cars, trips to Florida, clothes, pleasures and luxuries. Possibly it would improve the country’s economic condition if we all pitched in and spent more money increasing our waist lines. But even now Americans eat too much, medical gents and dietary 3harps complain. Most of us eat —and many regret—three square meals a day. If we increase the dally meals to five, to eat upu tho surplus farm crops, the result would likely be only a larger consumputlon of dyspepsia tablets and yeast rather than greater consumption of wheat and corn. And what will become of the painfully acquired boyish figures now decreed by fashion If such a plan of fahm relief is tried? Doubtless the predicament of the farmer deserves serious thought and attention. But his problem cannot be solved by adopting an ear of corn rampant on a field of dyspepsia tablets as our national coat of arms. Economics, not appetites, must come to his aid. Honest, Jim, do you think we can save- him with our teeth?

STRAIGHTEST YOU EVER SAW fjTyjjHEN I get out of* this I I trouble I’m going to lay l. J off liquor and be the stralghtest guy you ever saw.” So says Melvin Butler, 17-year-old Indianapolis youth, in jail with a bullet hole in his leg, and charges of robbery, petit larceny and auto theft against him. Quite likely his conversion Is complete and he will he good from now on—at least until he Is free once more to do as he pleases. But It is significant, to say the least, that he, like so many other wrongdoers, didn't feel the overwhelming urge to reform until his latest criminal escapade resulted disastrously and lead and the law laid him by the heels. As long ns he was getting away successfully with his hold ups and auto thefts he had no moral qualms nor did he care to he a "straight guy.” Some sociologists and criminologists believe that one who commits a crime Is a candidate for an operation Instead of imprisonment. They attribute hts criminal proclivities to the Improper functioning of some of his obscure glands. They would reform him, make a pure little Rollo out of him, by using the surgeon's knife. In most cases It doesn't require ’ an operation to turn the trick and make a lawless youth see tho error of his way. The old-fishloned remedies—a chunk of lead and a pair of handcuffs —will generally make his ductless glands get up and hump themselves. FASTER AND FASTER P r " ETER DE PAOLO, winner of the 500-mile Memorial i___ day classic nt the Indianapolis speedway last year, hung up anew world's auto speed record on a Miami, Florida track, Monday. He reeled off 300 nrflfes

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at an average speed of 129.29 miles per hour. Fix other drivers, who trailed the flying Pete in his Indianapolis made Duesonherg. each averaged hotter than 120 miles an hour for tho 300-mlle race. And only thirty years ago the automobile was an exasperating, smelly mechanical toy with a diabolical disposition. It. might fume and fret for a mile or two at a sedato pace. Then It would He down In the middle of the road and refuse to budge. It was subject to general paralysis nt most inconvenient times. In thoso early dnys any rash and Imaginative person who dared predict that the horseless carriage contraption could bo Improved until It could travel two miles a minute, would have been considered a candidate for a padded cell. But the automobile now does that very thing on speedway tracks. And some very earnest fliwer speeders approach that speed on Indianapolis streets. Speed is the distinguishing mark of tho present era. Every year we develop machines that enable us to travel faster and faster. Tho human race plodded afoot or rode horseback from the Garden of Eden until Stephenson built his locomotive a hundred years ago. From fifteen rAles an hour to two miles a minute. That's what man has been able to do in the way of spiled with his mechnnlcnl ly propelled vehicles, In- a single century-. How fast will he travel a century lienee? Will he learn to depart and arrive almost simultaneously—stick spurs In a. beam of light and zlpp along at the rate of 186,000 miles a second?

SCHOOLS AND RELIGION ON. SHERWOOD, Indiana 0 State superintendent of public Instruction, In a speech before the midwinter meeting of the National Education Association In Washington, advocates the cooperation of schools with churches in giving children religious instruction. He would have selections from the Bible read In the schools, and favors tho movement to excuse pupils from school a number of hours a week to receive rellgtf is instruction by outside ugenclcs. No doubt there is convincing argument In favor of the schools taking up in some form the natter of relifeious education. It is obvious that many homes and other agencies nre falling to Inculcate religious principles In the young people. But all problems In child training can’t be Rhunted to the schools. "Teach it in tho schools,” has become the standard suggestion with every problem relntlng to children, whether It Is a question of Instilling patriotism or promoting fire prevention. Religious Instruction has been successfully given In the home. Why can’t It continue to be given there? Already the schools are expected to look after the children’s mental development and bodily health. They busy themselves with the youngsters’ brains, teeth, cars, eyesight, nutrition and whatnot. Teaching religion would be another step toward taking over the child body and soul. Then, If somebody could devise a method for tho schools to benr the babies, parental responsibility coujd be reduced to zero. Have any brilliant men been long sleepers? Dessertes, the famous mithfinv tician, was a long sleeper, and Is frequently mentioned In Illustration of the theory that the most active brains require long periods of sleep.