Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 258, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1926 — Page 4

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Drinking for Evidence mN a booze case before Judge Paul C. Wetter in Indianapolis municipal court Thursday a Federal rum sleuth testified he bought and drank two drinks of whisky in the place of the defendant against whom he was appearing. lie also testified he visited several other places the same day and consumed booze in like manner —for evidence. A private citizen in Indiana thus spending the day in taking aboard an exhilarating cargo would find himself in the hoosegow with the Wright hone dry law wrapped around his neck. But a Federal agent can slake his thirst without limit unmolested. He does it, ostensibly, in the line of duty. What is the moral distinction between a private citizen drinking for pleasure and a prohibition officer swallowing numerous slugs of ‘‘white mule” in the course of the day to procure evidence? The reason for the ban on liquor is the well-known devastating effect, of alcohol on the human system and brain. The alcohol swallowed by the rum sleuth and the private citizen affects the internal economy of each in the same manner. The Federal agent, after a hard day of collecting evidence, is as likely to reach a dangerous state of intoxication as any other man who drinks. Perhaps such “buys” by undercover agents are necessary in prohibition enforcement. But in the employment of such methods the cure is about as bad as the disease. Drinking is morally wrong, declare dry crusaders. How then does pinning a badge on a man and calling him a prohibition agent, make his drinking all right? . Pat Page Resigns B f "iUTLER athletics has suffered a severe loss as a result of the resignation of Pat Page, coach. The coach is becoming more and more important as a part of a university organization. The university with an outstanding football team is the prosperous university. Students go to the colleges with the best teams. It is possible that they incidentally absorb a little knowledge. Page put Butler on the map with its football team a few years ago. Butler was rais- i ing funds for new buildings. Undoubtedly the prestige of a good football team and a good basketball team is helpful in this direction. Troops at Evansville fxT I EARLY a week has passed since State 1 I troops were sent to Evansville. Nothing has happened. So far as the public knows, there was no indication that anything was going to happen. No explanation of why the troops were sent has been made. The Governor has not seen fit to take the people of Indiana into his confidence. The nonunion mines that the troops are supposed to be ready to guard are working—when they have orders to justify it. Even the State representative who owns some of the mines is working in perfect peace. There are only a few National Guardsmen in Evansville, it is true—not enough to do any particular good should there be a disturbance, there won’t. But these few are too many. A war-like gesture was not justified even though a member of the Legislature was interested.

A Woman's Viewpoint

Ourselves and the Indians By Mrs. Walter Ferguson mHERE is more truth than oratory in the complaint recently voiced by Edward Rogers, descendant of the famous Chippewa tribe and now a noted lawyer of Minnesota, when he says that while tho United States opens her opportunities to every nation and welcomes millions from other lands, her own red men she stiU treats as savage children. Whether Mr. Rogers’ criticism of the Indian Bureau at Washington Is deserved is another question, but alt any rate there is a world of pathos about the remnant of the red man. - Not many years ago the Indian looked upon the land and called it his. He roamed in happy freedom from the banks of the Potomac to the mouth of the Golden Gate, from the plains of the Dakotas to the swamps of Florida, and in his native state he was ever a romantic figure. And he has been inestimably hurt by the white man, not alone in the loss of his possessions, but by the grafting into /Ills life of habits foreign to his nature and ideals. In our efforts to civilize him, we have done him much more harm than good, Inasmuch as our interpretation of the word meant that we felt we must make him over in our own image, which is not always a beautiful one. The white man has provided the Indian with houses and automobiles, but he has also taught him to fie and cheat and steal; he has instructed him in the arts of reading of agriculture, but he has also Bought to him bad whisky 4um2 lu*

Don’t Forget Verdun! SHE great French victory at Verdun was wasted and the 400,000 Frenchmen who died there gave their lives in vain, French war veterans were told by Nationalist speakers at their services celebrating the tenth anniversary of the battle. According to a Paris dispatch, the assembled ex-service men heard speeches in which a gloomy picture was painted of the future. One man cried: “The enemy we conquered has accomplished his revenge. He has neither paid nor disarmed. . . . He is getting ready for a complete rehabilitation. Veterans of Verdun, what has become of the victory you won?” And there 1 was more in the same strain. The battle of Verdun was the most terrible struggle ever fought in the world’s history. You remember the account of ft; how the Germans dropped four million shells on the French lines in one day, and then poured regiment after regiment of their finest troops into the breach in a desperate effort to break through; how the French stood their ground doggedly, fighting back every onslaught at terrific cost, holding the line and saving Verdun and the war for France. It is a wonderful, terrible story. It is easy to understand why the men who went through this battle are apt to grow alarmed i they think the fruits of victory are to be lost. The price paid was so enormous that it would be unthinkable to let it be wasted. But it is easy to be deceived as to what the fruits of this victory really were; and it is on this point, we believe, that the French veterans were mistaken. The 400.000 Frenchmen who died at Verdun did not die to make another nation a cripple, to reduce a whole people' to servitude. They died, as did the gray-clad soldiers who attacked them, to bring a little bit nearer to a place where another battle such as the one they fought could never happen again; to knit the nations a little closer with the bonds of peace, so that the tragedy of Verdun could not be repeated. They died in order that their sons and the sons of men still unborn would never have to face shell fire and machine guns and bayonets. And is this consummation nearer or farther away than it was before the battle? It is nearer—nearer despite surface conditions to the contrary. Out of the terrible destruction of the war there has painfully and haltingly, a growing conviction in the hearts of men that it must never happen again; a conviction that we must and will avert wars at almost any cost; a desire to remake the world so that future generations will be spared a repetition of what took place between 1911 and 1913. It looks discouraging, at times. But it is sure. > So long as we do not let‘the lesson of the war go unheeded no single soldier who gave his life over there, whether French or German or British or American, died in vain. If we accept the opportunity, see the vision clearly and act with unselfishness and decision, then Verdun was more than a victory for the French army; it was a victory for the entire world, German and French included. And the fruit will not be lost.

stilled into his nature a lust for gold. He has civilized the Indian, but at the expense of the latter's ideals which were, in the last analysis, intrinsically superior to those of the white man himself. We have taken away from the red man the Great Spirit whom he worshipped In the forest and on the plain, and have built him ugly little churches where he sits in lukewarm or cold immobility. We have taken from him his Red God and made him kneel to our White Messiah. We have told him that our code of morals and the law of our God is built upon love for our neighbor, and yet all of our dealings with him from the days of Jamestown have been one long record of craft over credulity, of cunning over implicit trust. The Indiap has been tricked and browbea ten /more than he has been uplifted and helped. We have taken a race rich in ideals, in honor, in bravery, and snatched from it a home and a heritage. The first Americans were a great people, and it is a pity that instead of trying to teach them so many things we did not sit for a while at their feet and learn. "Why are the first eight amendments to the Constitution sometimes called “The Bill of Rights"? Because they guarantee, among other things the freedom of religion, speech, and the press, the right of assembly, petition, bearing arms, trial by jhry, right to compensation for private property taken for public uses, and protection against tyrannous acts of Congress.

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Roland Hayes, Wanda Landowska and Numerous Recitals on Our Musical Menu

SHE Lenox String Quartet, composed of Wolfe Wolfinsohn, first violin; Edwin Ideler, second violin; Herbert Borodkin, viola, and Emmeran Stoeber, cellist, will appear at the Masonic Temple at 3 o’clock under auspices of the Matinee Musicale on Friday, March 11. The quartet-has made a surprising record In a comparatively short time, due to its extraordinary success at its debut, three years ago, and its very distinguished personnel, which embraces four splendid artists with remarkable records as players of ensemble. During the past season the Lenox String Quartet played a series of recitals in Aeolian Hail, New York City, which were highly successful. They have also had many appearances in and about New York under very important auspices and in the most exclusive circles. Among these have, been Yale, Princeton, Harvard and Columbia Universities; the University Club of New York, Farmington, Conn.; Stamford, Conn., where they were re-engaged for the fourth consecutive season; New Brunswick, N. J.; Dayton, Ohio, and many points farther West. The players finished out their season in the East in May and divided their summer time between I European holiday and their usual j Work at I/enox, Mass. Their tours I will continue under the management of Evelyn Hopper. •I- -I- ISITE Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will present the following pupils in a recital in the college auditorium on Saturday afternono, 2;30, March 6: Judith Preston, Frederick Johnson, NJillicent Coleman, Helen Thomas, Sam Symns, William Wise, Stella Miller, Betty Thomas, J,ean Foley, Barney Christensen, Margaret Louise Wilson, Irma Flutro, John Dennis, Evelyn Barnholdt, Wilhelmina McElroy, Martha D. Lesher. Irma May Steele, Carline Smith, Maxine Wright, Daisy Schulz, La vance Chaplain and Mary Pauline Smith. The above are students of Irene Hoffman, May Gorsuch, Clarence Weesner, Frances Johnson, Ruth Todd, Eleanora Beauchamp, Flora Lyons, Evan Oeorgieff and Pauline Roes. Mr. Weesner Is in charge of the program, which Is open to the public. Mr. Clarence Weesner of the dramatic. art department of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, will give a program of readings and piano at the open meeting of the Ben Hur court on next Monday evening, March 1. •I- -I- + rp'| HE career of Wanda LanJ dowska who will be heard 1n Indianapolis for the first time next Thursday afternoon in the ball room of the Columbia Club presenting the third of the series of Ona B. Talbot Intime concerts Is a chronicle of devotion. Although her repertoire Is practically unlimited and although she has composed much striking piano music, Mme. Landowska has made “musique Ancienne” her lifework, and today she is not only the leading authority but the leading performer of this delightful music. As soloist with the Philharmonic Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston and New York Symphony Orchestras and in recitals In many cites, she drew large audiences—and her audiences were by no means confined to students of old music. It Is the sheer pleasure which Tandowska's playing gives that attracts the crowds when she is announced to appear. Wanda Landowska Is undoubtedly a unique personage in the music of our day. And her unqualifiedly enthusiastic reception by the American public and reviewers Is only another tribute In a career which has been marked with highest honors throughout the musical world. - The following Is the complete program for the Indianapolis recital next Thursday afternoon. —I— Air With Variation* ~G F. Haendel (1685-1750 \ (Harmonious Blacksmith) , Harpsichord. —II— Sonata In A major. ....... .W. A. Mozart (1756-1791) Andante Orazioso con Variation! Mecuetto, Rondo alia Turca. Plano. —in— Caprlocio (On the Departure of His Beloved Brotherl J. 8. Bach „ (1685-1750) (a). Arioso: His irieuds persuade him not to undertake this voyage. (b) Moderato: They picture to aim the various adventures that may befall him abroad. (c) Adafrlasimo; General lamentation of h's friends. (and) Reoitativo: His friends, seeing their pains useless, take leave of him. (e) The Postilions Tune. .(f) Fugue In Imitation of tho Posthorn. Harpsichord. —VI— Dances Allemandes Joseph Haydn (1732-1800) (Transcribed by Wanda Landowska) Invitation to the Dance Carl Marla Von Weber (In the Original) Piano. —V— Larghetto Antonio Vivaldi The Hunt D. Scarlatti Le Coucou Claude Daouin Sonata for Crossed Keyboards. .D. Scarlatti Harpsichord. • Y -i- -I- -- .10 singer who has com© from \ Europe in recent years has * > received the acclaim that has Elisabeth Rethberg, prima donna soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, who will make her first appearance in Indianapolis on Sunday afternoon, March 7, under the direction of the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Enterprises. Elisabeth Rethberg has long been known in central Europe as one of the greatest concert and oratorio artists, and when in the spring of 1925 she gave her first song recital in New York she scored one of the greatest triumphs in musical history. This, of course, was no surprise to those who knew her. It was Indeed the great Arthur Niklsch who was one of the first to acknowledge her as one of Europe's finest singers. A Rethberg recital has come to be an even wherever one is given; she emanates forces which at the same thrill and ennoble her audience. Her perfect voice, her profound musicianship, her magnetic personality, combined with personal beauty and charm, make her one of the greatest concert artists of our time. -I- -I- -I- ’ IYriTI USTCIANS from the MetroJjWj| politan School qf Music will ■ broadcast their regular I monthly musicale from WFBM next I Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock. Taking part in the program will be Mrs. AiAfe DeVoro, mezzo-soprano;

Henry Laut, baritone; Robert Schultz, cornetlst; Adolph Schellsemidt, cellist; Mrs. Lucille Wagner, pianist, and Miss Bernice VanSlckle, reader, who will give solos, and Don \Vatson, violinist; Adolph Schellsemidt, cellist, and’Earl Howe Jones, pianist, who will give trio numbers. -I- -I- -IA students' recital will be given at the Metropolitan School of Music next Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock In the Odeon. The public is invited. There will be piano, cornet and voice numbers and readings on the program. which will be given by the following students: Irene Furgerson, Mary Ella Julian, Helen Eldridge, Louise Dodd, Emsley Johnson Jr., John Francis Taylor, Robert Hoereth, Virginia Birdsong, Mary Elizabeth Neal, Paul Richman, Mary Katherine Lutz. Martha Louise Fulk, Bessie Peitz, William Lampe, Vera Davy, Marie Meyer, Maurice Shadley, Ernestine Bradfield, Marjory Mcßride, Dolores Harden, Margaret Joyce Smith, Helen Palmer, Mildred William son, Virginia Elliott, Floyd Ross, Pauline Schnaiter, Julia Louise Guess, Ethel Finley. These students are pupils of Edward Nell: Leslie E. Peck, Laura Doerflin, Florence Keepers, Faye Heller, Otis Pruitt, Helen Sartor, Lucille Wagner, Leone Kinder, Ber. nice Van Sickle, Frances Wishard and Allie F- Eggleton. I p I UNDAY afternoon at 3 o'clock IO I at the lurat ° ne ° f the most I talked of concerts of The season will be given by Roland Hayes, tenor, under the direction of the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Enterprises. Everywhere this noted singer appears he delights his hearers by Ills artistry, his dramatic expression and fine restraint in tone effects. A voice of golden tones. Seats for the concert are on sale today at the office of Ona B. Talbot and at the Murat Theater at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.

THE VERY IDEA!By Hal Cochran "

E’RE all jes' kinda waitin’ fer the call that's bound ta come. Our spirit’s hesitatin', though It's getlln’ set ta hum. We know it won’t be long, now, till we'll have tho same old fling that creeps all through the system with the coinin' of the spring. The trees ’re gonna waken an' the sap is gonna run, when frost of win ter's shaken ’noath the blazin’ of the sun. The flowers ’er gonna blossom an’ the grass s gonna grow. Fair spring is playin' possum 'cr it springs its yearly show. You'll hear tho birds a slngin' an' you'll see them flyin’ high. You'll know their comin’s brlngin' spring as winter's passtn’ by. The clouds 'er gonna clear up so's ta make all things look bright. The world is gonna cheer up, pretty soon, with all its might. Ol' Mother Nature's smilin', ‘cause she’s lookin' just ahead. She'll wait fer Jest a while 'un then she'll liven

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Wanda Landowska

On next Thursday afternoon Ona B. Talbot will present Wanda Landowska in an Intirne Recital in the ballroom of the Columbia Club.

A Sermon for Today -

Text: "For I am not ashamed of the Gospel; for it Is the power of God unto salvation.” Romans 1:16. c’rp'J HEN Paul says that the |\y gospel is the power of God 1" T unto salvation, he means salvation from sin, salvation to holiness and righteousness and life. The cause of the unhappiness and social injustice under which men groan is due, In the last analysis, not to the form of government under which they live, but to that hard, universal and ugly fact of sin. It is because sin has entered Into the world and brought in its train a host of other evils. Therefore, any scheme of redemption for man which does not go to the root of the trouble and eradicate that old cancer of sin and regenerate the human soul from within, Is Inadequate and superficial. Sometime ago Dr. Alexander Johnson, who has headed several Institutions for feeble-minded people and otherwise rendered great service In their behalf, was traveling through South Carolina In an effort to arouse the people to a sense of their re-

mHE students of Francis H. Topm filer wifi give the second of a series t>f piano rentals Friday, March 5, at 8 p. rn. at First Nazarene Church, at -Washington St. and State Ave. The public Is invited. The following wifi take part: Thelma Swigert, Esther Krug, Geraldine James, Esther Garrltson, Mildred Morris, Margaret Spall, Ruth Stein, Myrtle Wilson, Mary Sluss, Marjorie Holcomb, Kenneth Lime, Evelyn Boyd, Helen Louise Perkins, May White, Frances Meadows, Doris Poe, Mabel Robertson Catherine Blake, Louise Holtman, Esther Webb and Violet Topmiller. -I- -I- -IThe pupils of Olive Kiler, assisted by Helen Phipps, voice pupil of Lois Brown Dorsatt, wifi be given on Tuesday night, March 2, at the Public Library. Program follows: Trio —‘*The Hunter’s Song” , o. rman Folk Song Lucas Calorms. Frederick Miller and Gersham Graber. ‘From Flower to Flower” Tollicr Juanita Bramkamp. '•Andante" Gluck Margaret Fry. “Hungarian Dance. No. 5 ' Brahms Fred Stauher. "Northern Legend" Bohm Binca King. Duct—"At the Brooks" Boiedeffre Lavon Thompson and Margaret Berdel. 'Serenade” Drdla Armadale Carver. "Sarabaude” Bohm Robert MeKittriek. “Berceuse From Jocelyn” Godard Robert Houser. (a) "Love's in My Heart" Woodman (b) "Wake Up” Phillips Helen Phipps. "Madrlgale" Simonettl Margaret Berdel. Quartet —“Menuet” Beethoven Rrbert McKitrick Margaret Frv. Maryland Bay. Wesley Woollen. "Pizzicati” Delibes Esther I.vnch. 'Spanish Dance No. 1 Moskowskl Lavon Thompson. “Ronoino" Beethoren-Hreisler Francis Dearborn (a) "Hindoo Chrnt" Rltncky-KorsawaowKrrisler (b) "Country Dance" Von Weber Mary Hoover "Romance From Second Concerts". . . Weinlamskl In* Carroil. Duet—" Allegro Moderato" Allen Margaret Berdel and Lavon Thompson. Accompanists—Esther Parsons, Faye Plnkstatf, Mae Lynch.

all things dead. It kinda thrills a person ’cause ya know what she will bring, when winter time’s dispersin’ so's to clear the way fer spring. In order to get along with some people, you have to get a long ways away from ’em. • • • Doesn’t sound like good judgment for a kid to run home to get a srwuiking from mother. But it Is—when you consider tliat, if he waits, (lad’ll give it to him, • • • A cyclone is one kind of a twister that causes trouble, and the guy at the radio dials Is another. • • More people were arrested iq Washington for driving autos whfif Intoxicated than In any other place. Perhaps they didn't believe In Capitol punishment. e • • A point on all the other girls The phone girl sure lias scored Although she has to buy her meals, She always gets her board. • • • NOW HONESTLY— Come on now—'fees up— You sneaked in to work this morning ’cause you were a few minutes late, dldn'nya? And, more than likely you got away with it —as far as the boss was concerned. But, after all, you are the loser, anyway—not the boss. You’ve got so much to do in a day’s time—and If you're late in the morning, you’ve only got to plug that much harder to catch up—or else "sluff" through. Get down on time, ’cause you never get any place "slufflng.” •' • WTFE: You never say the right thing at the right time. HUSBAND: Get the clock fixed. • • • TRY THIS ON YOUR GRIND ORGAN: He called his sweetie Easter Egg, ’cause she was hard boiled, painted, and couldn’t be beat. • • • Ya can't cut a messenger boy to the quick. He has none. • • • FABLES IN FACT ONCE THERE WAS A TEACHER WHO BELIEVED IN HEREDITY PERIOD LISREN COMMA MY CHILDREN COMMA AN’ I’LL TELL YOU WHY PERIOD ONE OF HER PUPILS ALWAYS HAD TO TURN AROUND AND GO BACK HOME COMMA AFTER HE ARRIVED AT SCHOOL COMMA BECAUSE HE HAD FORGOTTEN HIS PENCIL COMMA BOOKS COMMA OR SOMETHING ELSE PERIOD AND ONE DAY THE TEACHER DISCOVERED THAT THE KID’S FATHER WAS A PLUMBER PERIOD. (Copyright, 71926, NBA Service, Inc.)

sponsiblllty for this class of unfortunates. At the close of one of his addresses, he looked out over the audience and said: "Perhaps some of you would like to know the real cause of feeble mlndedness. .My friends, it is due to two great ractaJ sins; one is the sin of drunkenness and the other is certain nameless diseases which go with Immorality and impurity. South Carolina may build the most splendid inntltutlons in the world for her feeble-minded citizens, but this wifi not be a remedy for the evil ■ a palliative. There is no remeay unless we can give to men and women a sufficiently compellng and sustaining motive to live a pure life because they love purity for its own sake. Personally, I don’t know vhere we could find such a motive outside of the gospel of Jesus Christ." This Is so obvious it sounds commonplace. But for that very reason It needs to be emphasized, and more especially in these days, when men are looking around for some solution of the, tremendoiis problems which confront us. (Copyright, 1926, by John R. Gunn)

Famous Composers Franz Liszt. EISZT, a famous Hungarian pianist, and composer, was born in 1811 and began his musical education at the age of six. After three years’ instruction, he surprised his friends by playing a difficult concerto in public, lie studied for six years at Vienna under famous teachers, lie later studied in Paris, although he was denied admission to the Paris Conservatory, which excluded foreigners. Asa pianist, critics say. Liszt has never been excelled, lie gave the vorld a method of technique and interpretation by which the piano became almost as eloquent as the orchestra. He wrote chiefly for the piano, although toward the end of his life orchestral and religious compositions were in the majority. He died in the midst of a Wagner festival at Bayreuth, July 31, 1886. (

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

AFTER THE BREAD TRUST Indianapolis Housewives' -I League and other women’s civic organization met Friday to discuss the great merger recently announced of national baking concerns and consider plans for combating what threatens to become a national bread trust. The Indies are quite properly alarmed at the prospect of the control and distribution of the most vital foodstuff by a single huge combine. The merger also agitates Congress, professors, editors and publicists. It seems a distinct menace. Every family in the United States is dependent on bread, and in most part on the product of commercial baking establishments And monopoly Juggling that affects the distribution or increases the price of bread hits every family right between the teeth. But vocal protests of Jndignant women, Congressional investigations. anti-trust oults and all the hullabaloo over the proposed merger aren't likely to keep the great baking companies apart if they are determined to merge. They wifi accomplish one way what they are forbidden to do another. The only weapon that will positively slay a baking combine beyond possibility of resurrection women already possess—their two hands. They can go into the kitchen and beat any bread trust to dough by ’‘rolling their own.” HEAD OVER HEELS IN DEBT SHE city of Indianapolis is In a bad way financially, Corporation Counsel Alvali J. Rucker points out In a report to the city controller. To take care of between $150,000 and $200.000 In unpaid bills inherited by the present administration from its predecessors ho suggests a bond issue. Two months ago—-less than a month after half the city tax poured into the treasury—when the present administration took office, it found the municipal financial 'cupboard hare. One of Its first acts was to borrow money to pay current salaries and running expenses. That was the customary condition. The city treasury suffers chronic, debilitation. Every administration leaves a heritage of debt for its heirs, because city expenditures gallop along six months ahead of receipts. Tho semi annual tax receipts go to pay the city’s expenses for the preceding six months instead of

The SAFETY VALVE It Blows When the Pressure Is Too Great ■■ By the Stoker

President Coolldge appointed Thomas F. Woodlock of New York a recess member of the Interstate Commerce Commission to fill a place which the law says must bo filled by a Democrat. Mr. Woodlock ad mlts that he has voted the Republican ticket since 1916. Funny kind of a Democrat! The Riffs, who have been successfully defending their liberties against the combined forces of Spain and France, are descendants of the Libyans, who once ruled North Africa, and of the Norse Vikings, who visited the Libyan country. Which, no doubt, accounts for their good fighting qualities. We learn from the Science Service that the narrow strip of land along the Nile River which can he tilled is only about the area of the State of Maryland, but that it supports 13,000,000 people. If the State of Maryland could support 13,000,000 people, how many people could the world area support and why Is It necessary to squabble over specific land? Broadcasting heat by radio, now considered as an early achievement, will not solve the problem of keeping warm if the coal and power trusts are permitted to do the broadcasting. They wouldn't let us havo any crystal sets. Lady Cynthia Mosley, granddaughter of the deceased Lord Cureon, vice-regent of India, and now active in the British labor party, was a guest of the Penguin Club in Washington. She made a talk, as did her husband, Oswald Mosley, who Is a member of the labor party. It was a thrilling talk, but the Penguins, being organized mostly by newspaper people, don't report what guest speakers say. THE ALIBI "Mr. President, the multifarious duties of a Senator of the United Btatee sometimes preclude us from

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the succeeding. December taxes pay the debts contracted the pre vlous .Tuae. The pay-as-you-go plan is unheard of in our mu niclpal tlscnl operations. Consequently there is Just a sue cession of temporary loans. And the taxpayers dig up thousands of dollars In interest chargee, paying for an endless succession of dead horses. What would you think of a pri vate individual who thus continually fives six months ahead of his income? He would be rated an unbusinesslike spendthrift- Yet that is precisely what our city ad ministrations do—spend money be fore it is received—and then point with pride to their businesslike management of public affairs MORE COPS WANTED |R. AUSTIN IT. TODD, city councilman, announced last Thursday that ho would introduce an ordinance to add sev-enty-five flew patrolmen and several olficers to the Indianapolis po lice department. Many sections of town lack adequate protection he cause of Insufficient police, ho declares. . Meanwhile. In Superior Court, Emmett McCormick, one of the more than one hundred men appointed to the police foree In (he closing agonies of the Shank administration and promptly di* missed by the incoming Duvall nd ministration, seeks to compel his reinstatement by the board of safety. A test case for those so summarily dismissed. At the same time an officer in one branch of the city governrn -nt proposes more cops, another branch Is reslstiig additions to the force. There seems to be a lack of teamwork. Quite likely the police depart ment Is undermanned, the size of the force has not kept pace with the city's growth In area and pop ulatlon But tho emergency Is no greater now than a month and a half ago. when the crowd of new cops appointed In December was dismissed by the new administration. The budget provided no money to pay the now men, was tho reason given for the wholesale dismissals. There is no more money now to pay additional men. If Todd's proposal Is passed, where is the money for additional police sal arles coming from? Maneuvering "right.” policemen on the force and removing r’io*r who are not "right" seems to he the primary concern of city poll tlcians of opposing factions tod-it ns yesterday. Certainly nothing has occurred In the past month lo Indicate that the police deprrtrneiv and politics will soon he divorced

the preparation which ought to hr made In matter of the consequence of that which Is pending before this body and sometimes make It !m possible for us to engage In those matters In which we may he vep much Interestedlllram John son of California. SOI TITERS’ POSTOmCKs Mr. Lankford (of Georgia): It does happen that someone claiming to act for the administration or for the administration's referee goes around and says to the postmaster, "Your term Is about to expire. Ts you put up a certnln stm\ of money, there will be no more examination, and you will be appointed without an ex aminatlon.” If he does pot put up the money, an examination Is called and then the man who Is appointed Is requested to put up money before his recommendation goes In. Mr. Begg: Haa the gentleman turned ever the Information he had to the Department of Justioe, the prosecuting department of the Gov eminent? That Is a Federal offense and the gentleman has his recourse, If he knows that to he the fact. Mr. lAn k ford: I understand It Is not a Federal offense. Mr. Begg Oh, yes. It Is. And If I the gentleman would make that f charge any place other than on this floor, the gentleman could be hold to an accounting. Mr. Lankford: No; I could not for I am stating the truth. I have called the attention of the Poatofflce Department to this thing, and It has I been called to the attention of the Department of Justice, but upon investigation It Is found that there 1* no law to cover this kind of thing when It Is done outside of a Fede-al building by someone who Is not an official. About how many boxee of oranges are shipped from Florida In & season? During the 1924-IMB season, S.C&O.400 boxes ware shipped.