Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 300, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1926 — Page 4

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where was Watson ? Now that the Department of Justice has definitely ordered an inquiry into the disappearance of 350 cases of whisky from the Federal building in this city, it may be proper to inquire just why the job of forcing such a query was left to a congressman from New York. < The whisky, according to rumors that are not to be overlooked, has been missing for some time. Certain it is that the former director of prohibition for this States charges that a report was made at least two years ago that two hundred or more cases were missing. It might seem that a statesman so dedicated to the dry cause as Senator Watson would have heard some of the rumors and some of the charges or at least have been in a position to know as much about what Is going on in Indiana as a Socialist Congressman from New York City. The voice of Watson has often been heard at church meetings, fervently pleading for prohibition. The whisky missing from the custody of Federal officers was probably the biggest bootlegging operation ever carried on in the State. It might seem that Watson overlooked a real chance when he did not at once spring to the defense of law and order and become at least as active as the New Yorker who forced the exposure. There is still a chance. A Senate committee might very properly investigate this incident for information concerning the handling of confiscated liquors. It might be interested in this particular transaction for other proper reasons, in connection with other Federal laws. Perhaps the dry forces, which are asked to support Watson, will urge him to give evidence of his faith by at least making one speech about this episode. His opinion should be valuable. LAW AND ORDER IN PASSAIC “The right of the people peaceably to assemble” —as the United States Constitution expresses it —is being cheerfully trampled on these days in Passaic, New Jersey. , A woman is knocked down on the street and girl reporter helps pick her up. The girl reporter is arrested for violating the riot act. A citizen, having listened to the reading of the riot act by the sheriff, fails immediately To move away from the spot and is now held in $5,000 bail. The same thing happens to a New' York writer visiting Passaic to see what the trouble is all about. Deputy sheriffs, with sawed-off shotguns, meet two young men carrying brief cases. Asked their business, the young men say they are just walking. “Walk out of town, or you’ll be in the hospital in two minutes,” say the deputies, as they escort the young men to the city line. A minister discusses the riot act with citizens on the street and is arrested for doing it. A reporter asks the chief of police for the name of the city solicitor and is forcibly ejected from police headquarters. Another reporter takes notes of the proceedings before a magistrate and is thrown out of the court room. All this is done in the name of law and order. Yet, unless all the telegraph accounts of the Passaic trouble are untrue, the only assaults on law and order that have occurred thus far have been by the officers of the law. All accounts agree that the men and women now on strike in an effort to obtain something better than starvation wages have been guilty of nothing more serious than peaceable pa* rades. They have paraded and carried banners. That, of course, might easil-y irritate certain citizens who do not like to be reminded, in these days of prosperity, that some thousands of their fellow citizens are living close to the hunger line. “We are going to break this up,” says a local justice. If half the energy spent by the forces of “law and order” fn trying to break up the textile workers’ peaceable strike had been devoted to an effort to obtain a square deal for the workers, the peace so earnestly desired would now prevail in Passaic. A $400,000,000 BARGAIN The so-called rubber gouge perpetrated on us by the British last year, thanks to their control of the East Indies crop of crude, cost us between $300,000,000 and $400,000,000. That’s a lot of money, but if it teaches us a lesson it was money well spent. The lesson is that we are far from being as independent of the rest of the world as we might think. Our daily ride in motor car or omnibus; the coffee wt drink; the quinine we take for our cold; the tanning extract for our shoes; the silk that dolls us up; the pepper that, spices our food; the nitrates for our high explosives and gunpowder; the potash which fertilizes our farm; the iodine that heals our wounds —these are just some of the things we depend upon foreign countries for. For these things alone we pay foreigners $80,000,000 annually, or $35 per average family. In all, we pay foreigners at. least $2,000,000,000 a year for commodities, virtual monopolies, which are, or can be. controlled by their governments. This means these things can be shut off from us any time such governments so desire, or we can be squeezed for any price they choose to charge, us. Rubber isn’t the only thing we need that is controlled by foreigners. The chances are the control of petroleum—oil—will soon pass to foreign countries. Our supply is fast dwindling. How would you like t.o have to depend upon the Rritish, or some other country, for your gasoline, as you now do for your rubber? And what about the national defense? Modern armies and navies are helpless without gas and oil. • it is vital that we learn our lesson. We must lake the steps necessary to insure ourselves against a famine in commodities vital to our national security or well-being. We may not be able to produce all the stuff we need but in one way or another We can and should produce or control sufficient to keep • he world market open to us at fair prices. This thing of one government monopolizing raw materials necessary to others, and dealing out or withholding such commodities at will, is anew and highly dangerous element in international relations.

And if last year’s rubber gouge opens our eyes to the menace, we need not begrudge the cost. YOUTH AND HELL-FIRE It no-w begins to appear that, despite the fondest predictions of certain reformers and various bodies dedicated to the uplift of the human race, our young people are not going to eternal damnation as rapidly as they implied. New' York City is a big town, where you’d think youth would have plenty of chances to stray. Yet for the last ten years a decrease from 11 to 6.8 In juvenile cases of delinquency per 1,000 of population was recorded. And Chicago! Why, we had thought, from all the talk, that, bringing a girl and boy up in Chicago was just like sending them to hell without a chance, put it seems that Chicago recorded a similar de crease in delinquency. The same reports come from other cities— Washington, Boston, Buffalo, New Orleans, Richmond, Providence and other cities, the figures being based on a study by the children’s bureau of the , United States Department of Labor. The so-called flappers and sheiks seem to be j pretty w'ell able to take care of themselves. Now, how about their older sisters and brothers? BE YOUNG, CARRY ON! Would you like to keep young? Then forget your birthdays and just keep working. Chapncey Depew will be 92 years old on April 23. The other day he gave the following as his views on working: *1 consider that my best avid most important work was performed between the ages of 75 and 90. Most of tlie active men I knew whp have died did so after they had quit working, it is much worse to rust away than to drop away.” Depew thinks it unfortunate that Supreme Court justices in New York State have to retire when they are 70. “Often they are at the height of their usefulness at that age,” said Depew. "Take of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the United States Supreme Court. He is 85 and probably more active than any other justice on the Supreme Court bench, with the possible exception of Chief Justice Taft.” Depew is right. It is in (he looking forward, the having something to do on the morrow, the hopes and dreams of the future that we live best. STANDING BY THE PRESIDENT William B. McKinley, a genial, likable litHe mil- j lionaire, had his hopes crushed by Illinois Repub- ; licans Tuesday. He hoped to succeed himself as United States Senator, but one Frank L. Smith, State Republican chairman, has been nominated in his : stead. Concerning Smith the rest of the country knows little and can not judge of the intelligence shown by Illinois. But one phase of the McKinleySmith contest has been perfectly clear. Senator McKinley stood by the President. The President failed to stand by Senator McKinley. When the World Court issue was before the Senate, regular Republicans were urged to be loyal to the White House and McKinley responded to the urging. He voted for the World Court. The Smith forces centered their attaci almost wholly on that vote. Up and down the Sucker State they went, hammering at this one issue. They brought in anti-court Senators to help them, including the redoubtable Borah. McKinley wasn’t worried for a time. He had : only supported t’oolidge when he cast that vote and he had great confidence in'Coolidge’s popularity. In due time, he reasoned, the Coolidge influence would reveal itself and turn back the Smith attack. But Ihe time never came. Appeals to the White House were futile* Coolidge was silent. True, one mem, her of the Cabinet, Hoover, did travel to Illinois to make a friendly speech, but he didn’t mention the World Court. The closing days of the campaign presented a pathetic picture; McKinley, beset on all sides hy his enemies, wistfully waiting for the return of the bread he had cast upon the water at Washington. The effect of this picture on Congress w'ill be in- ' terestlng to observe. Standing by the President hav- , ing been proved a profitless pursuit, It Is likely to become an unpopular one as well.

IT’S EASY TO CHANGE THAT NAME OF YOURS You ran get an answer to any question of tact or In formation by writing to The* Indianapolis 'rimes Washing lon Bureau. 1.122 New 1 ork Am- Washington D C tn- • losing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, ’legal "and martial adyire cannot bo given nor ran extended research be undertaken All other questions will receive a personal reply Unsigned mi nests cannot !>• answered All* letters are confidential—-Kditor \\ hat steps should he taken to change niy name, and is it possible to do so? Is it lawful for a man to take a woman's name when they marry in place of her taking his? ANXIOUS. It le lawful for any one. man or woman, to change their name at any time. However, the proper and host procedure is to file in Circuit Court a petition for change of name. Under such procedure a. change will be granted upon showing of conformity with the statutes, proper advertisement and showing of good reason for the change. A person may change his name without any court action, but it is necessary for him to have a good reason. Why is Latin called a dead language? Because it is not employed as the spoken language of any nation or group of people today. What was the hymn sung to (’resident McKinley on his death bed? “Lead Kindly Light,” written by John Henry Newman. What are the differences in the weight between a cubic foot of anthracite coal, a cubic foot of ice and a cubic foot of pig iron? Arttharcite coal weighs from forty-seven to fiftyeight pounds per cubic foot.; ice about fifty-six pounds, and cast pig iron 450 pounds. At what temperature does iron ore melt? It depends to some exterft on the kind of ore. The approximate melting point is 2800 and 3000 degrees •Fahrenheit. Is theer any chance of a comet colliding with the earth? There is about one chance in 20.000,000 years of a comet striking the earth, according to Science Service.

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Mendelssohn Choir Will Give Annual Spring Concert at the Caleb Mills Hall

ST the annual spring concert of the Mendelssohn Choir, to be given, at Calem Mills iiaii Monday evening, April 26, under the direction of Elmer Andrew Steffen, conductor, Miss Lucy Gates, the American colatura soprano, will be the assisting artist. The program to be presented by Miss Gates on this occasion, which will be iter first appearance in Indianapolis, is an indication of her versatility as an artist and will include songs, classics, florid arias ■with brilliant runs and trills and also the latest Russian and French atmosphere songs. She wi'd also sing the solo part in two of the numbers to be sung by the Mendelssohn organization. Lucy Gates rongs prominently among those who have helped to develop the American spirit in art. Her rich and wondrous voice combined with her natural spontaneity and vivacity of manner combines to make her one of the attractive personalities at present before '.he concert public. The choir, consisting of 125 voices, will sing five choral numbers in addition to which thore will be a number for the women’s chorus, Kremser’s “Hymn to the Madonna.” The male choir will sing “The Phantom legions,” anew four-part song by Ward Stephens. The active membership of the Mendelssohn Choir this spring is as follows: Sopranos—Mm Katherine Anderson Miss Elleanora Atkinson. Mrs Herbert Karnes Miss Opal Batson. Mrs. Esther .lane Bnrroutrh. Mrs. Floyd M. Chateo. Miss Bernice Church. Mrs. Karl Clammtt. Ml* Mild-ed Clark. Mis* Maude Delbridtre. Miss Violet El lark ani|> Mrs. T William Krurle Mrs. Edmund Emry. Mrs S E t ciuster-maker. Miss Margaret Gallagher. Miss Margaret Geialer. Miss Matilda C Houser, Miss One Hinlns. * Mins Avanelle Hoffman. Mi-s Matilda Isonflam. Mi re Kathleen Ji try Miss Frames Kelly. Mrs Robert D Kendrick. Mum Gnu*** Knox. Mrs Ruth G. Kreipke, Mrs Edna Ea*h hr n t>ke. Mihh Mildred J Miss lama E Lyke. Mien Ratfaclu Mont,mi Miss Elizabeth OUr Mis- Hunora O'Neill. Mrs John 1* Owens Mrs. Wilson B. Parker Miss Gnu- K Hodtfers. Miss Dor othy House. Mrs E. W. Short. Mrs. Wal hue It. Smith. Miss Mabel C. Stanley. Miss Glar.ys Stansbery. Miss hurtle Stewart Mis. Asd Spellman Stitt Mrs Marion K Thomas, Mrs o |; Too lev Mis* Cyrilla A. Tuit/*. Mis Helen Von Wilier. ,Yr*. Paul 1. Walters. Mies Vivian Waltz. Mrs Flor el lee Pal-kin Welch. Alto—Miss Cl idys Alwos. Mis- Gertrude Amßnein. Miss Roth T Beals. Mrs. C. J. Berry. Mi-s Clementine Carroll. Miss Ro zora Chanee, Mrs Ikrtram Day. Miss Mil fired Disney Miss Mary Rose K' .isan*. Mrs Clarence Firth. Miss Carolyn Foltz. Miss Ethel Forsee Miss Norma France Mrs Glenn O Friermood. Miss Vi ora Fry Mrs De Wive Goush. Mrs Susan B. Rintze Miss Helen Hvllinjr-worth. Mrs. Byron H Hornbroolt. Mrs. Ruth Law. Mi-s Martha .1 .'la ■Douirall. Miss Lout-e E Martin Mr-. Fred X. Morris. Mis- Helen M. Rikor Mi-s Wi 11a M Si minis Mis Mildred M S, hme lel Miss Louise Stern. Miss Mary Virginia Wallaiv Tenors—Harry E Calland Floyd M. Chaffee, Kraaieis Di laney, .tames Fisher Edward T. Flynn. William Richard Fogarty Raymond Gr-fir Robert H Halter. Janie* If Hatton Felix I. Heselton. Clar eri.v C. Hogue. Fred Hummel, H. S Ristler. Francis T O'Brien, R. I. Roth Brno*. Savage George A. 'mitli Hubert T. Vitz C. H Witt. Herir,rd Q Zimmer. Raritones and Basses—Harold W. Brady. Joseph B. Brand. Thomas Bmadstreet. Vaughn I. Cornish Clarence Firth, Arthur r Franklin. Ernst Thro, Hezerh-iu. William Penn Huff. Fred Jrfrv Edward Karrraan. Ralr ’’ W Leonard. Fred Newell Moms. George, A. Newton. Humber* P I'egant Wilson B. Parker. Waller ttotlierme! F. w Stool-dale. Dewitt Talbert. Everett K Todd. L. TV Van Ansi all Paul I. Walters, Rollert Weller. -I- •!- -1®HE personal response to Mme. GalU-Curoi in Australia and New Zealand during her recent big tour there was immense. Everywhere he went she inspired a genuine affection: people loved her for herself almost as much as they loved her for her marvelous voice. One delightful instance of this real assertion she aroused and only one of a multitude of incidents that might be quoted, happened at Melbourne. where, in quick succession, she gave nine concerts. At each one of them a little old lady was present; she always occupied the same seat on the stage, which was crowded with enthusiastic listeners, as was the auditorium. The little old lady would arrive early, bringing a brown suit case along. The seat she chose was an end one. whlc.i Mme. Galli-Curel had to pass in going on and off the stage. After eoch group of nu*n tiers, while *he singer bowed ac know-lodgements, the little old ladv would delve down into her suit case, bringing forth a present for the diva. These gifts were her own handiwork or flowers she had raised in her own garden. , The present might be a lace handkerchief, a. ribbon-covered coat hang er or a bunch of violets, .and always she gave Mine. GaUl-Curci’s hand a gentle pat as she presented it. Indeed, Melbourne audiences grew to look for the little scene with its smile of thanks and hearty handshake from the famous singer. Then came the final Melbourne appearance of Mine. Oalll-Curol, the ninth concert in a series given only a day apart. That night the little old lady's presents were not sufficient to follow every number. No wonder, for perhaps all musical history has held no scene as wonderful. For two hours after the concert had ended the entire audience remained, demanding another song, and still another; the diva made a little speech: her enthusiastic listeners sang “For She's a Jolly Good Fellow'.” and cheered lustily. Then they called for.and got a song already demanded three times that evening. Even then they would not let Mme. Oa.lU-Curci go. At last twentypolicemen were needed to clear a lane for her to her motor car, the crowd singing, cheering, and calling as her car moved slowly off. VRut this was not the last glimpse the little old lady got of Mme. OalliCurei, who passed through Melbourne several times on her way to sing a.t other points. No one knowhow the little lady discovered which train the great singer would travel by. but always she was on the station platform, hringing with her a big box of home-made cookies an.*, a hunch of old fashioned flowers from her garden. We, in America, having long felt love of that personal kind for Mme. Oalli-Ourc!, who once more will be heard aat Murat Theater, Sunday afternoon, April 25, .under the Onn B. Talbot Fine Arts direction,, will understand it. She makes whole nations love her, not only for her glorious voice, but for her charm of heart. -I- -I- -!- [j UGH M’GIBENY, head of the I violin department of the will present a program of some of his advanced students next Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock, in the Odeon. corner North and Pennsylvania Sts. The program, is open to th’e public free of char-fe. The string orchestra directed by Mr. MeGibeny will oiien the program with a group xf numbers. Taking part

will be: Harriet Payne, Mary Bullock. Irene Byrum, Ruth Briggs, Elizabeth Miller, Carl Grouleff, Edwin Jones, Tommy Poggiani, Alma Miller Lentz, Maud Custer and Martha Rundell. -I- -I- -I* rrr-1 lANO students of Mrs. Allie I IF. Eggleton of the MetroI I politan School of Music will give a recital next Friday evening at 8 o'clock in the Odeon. The pub lie is invited. Pupils of Miss Fay, Heller will , present a play “Mah Jong.” In the musical program will he: Mary Frances Tut'ock. Lurtlle Wright. Delores Harden. Josephine Smith Helm Payne. Virginia Sanders, Carol May her, Rebecca Wood#. Pauline iiehuaiter, Marjorie Mcßride. In the play will be: Jeannette Solotken Carl Hadley. Helen Goodpasture, Virginia Elliott. Stuart Williams. Virginia Pierson. Mac,- Caswell. Beulah Moore. Chares Joe Uiiiinle. Barbara J Williams, Betty Clark and Charlotte Twitty. •I' ‘l* -ISHE Junior Club of the Indiana College of Music and FMne Arts will hold its meeting Saturday, April 24, a* 3 o’clock at the College. The following members will take part in the program: Carolyn Franklyn, Joe Stubbs, Millieent Cole man, Douglas Page. Carol Wagner. ’ Margaret Wagner, Margaret Wilson, Robert Maas, Jean Foley, Robert Larrance and John Dennis. These members are pupils of Mrs. Frances Johnson, Miss Roes. Miss Lyons. Mr. Weesner and Mr. Georgieff. Faye Berry is president and Elinor King is secretary of the Junior Club. •I-!• -IO r N Sunday afternoon, April 18. at 4:15 the Indiana College I l___J of Music and Fine Arts will give a musical program which will lie broadcasted over WFBM. at which time the presentation of a radio by Mrs. Felix M. McWhirter j to the Riley Hospital, hy Section Six I of Ihe Business Womens’ Club. Those taking part in this program j are Mrs. Glenn Friermood. Mrs. Frances E. Johnson, Mrs. Roy J. 1 Pile and Felix McWhirter. Jr. ANNUA L luncheon and business meeting of the Matinee ! Musi calc will he held at the Propylaeum Friday. April 23. at 1 o'clock. Mrs. Hugh McGiheny, president, will preside and reports will be read by officers. Mrs. S. K. Ruick is arranging a musical program. Reservations should be sent to Mrs. Harvey B. Martin. •I- -I- -|- M— | ISS GRACE HUTCHINGS, pi anist. w'ill assist Dr. and Mrs. u__] Sherman Davis of Indiana University in giving a lecture-recital tomorrow afternoon in Bloomington for the Friday musical# in the student building at the university.

Sells-Floto Circus Is Booked Here

Billy Sunday, an ele pliant, with the circus.

Rilly Sunday will be one of the attractions with Sells-Floto when It comes to town Friday, April 30. Billy Is one of fifteen elephants with the circus and he was named for the celebrated evangelist, because he is known as a good elephant—one of the best behaved, in fact of the three herds. His likeness is above. Combined weight of the elephants with the circus is about 100 tons and

A Sermon for Today

Sv Rev. John R. Gunn What Shall I Do With My Life?

Text: “Then cometh Jesus from Galileo to J<cdan unto John, to be baptized of him.”—Matthew 3:13. When Jesus came to Jordan to be baptized of John be was a young man. His baptism marked the dividing line between his private and public life. Frior to this time, he had been working as a carpenter in Nazareth. But during the years of his private life there, the -passion of his mission to mankind had been growing upon him. He came to Jordan full of enthusiasm. Conscious that he was about to enter upon a career that was to influence all time and all ages, I can Imagine that his young heart was beating with an impulsive eagerness for the beginning of that ministry. Bee him standing there upon the banks of the Jordan. He stands there as a young man. I invite you, young man, to take a stand there by his side. He feels the same enthusiasm that thrills you. His heart is stirred by the same impulses that stir yours. He looks

Dancer Makes L,ong Jump

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Hilda Gray Gilda Gray and her company of Follies girls will open at the Circle Theater on Sunday, April 18th, instead of Monday, as previously an nounced. Arrangements for the. change in this schedule were completed yesterday by G. T. Boag, husband and manager of Gilda Gray, and officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad* Company in Toronto and Detroit, who promised to have a special car carrying the dancer and her company hook to a train leaving the latter city and arriving in Indianapolis in time to give performances on Sunday. Miss Gray is appearing in Toronto this week. She completes her work in the Canadian city late Saturday night. No trains making connections with Indianapolis leaves Toronto until the afternoon of the following day. Then a change at either Detroit or Buffalo is neeps sary. Those trains arrive in Indianapolis the following morning. By the arrangements completed, however, the dancer and her staff will leave Toronto late Saturday night and arrive in Indianapolis Sunday, giving her ample time to open at the Circle that evening.

among these ponderous and peaceful pachyderms are such famous animals as “Mo,” named for the State of Missouri, during an exhibition of the show at Kansas City. “Kas” named for Kansas City, at the same time. “Mom” made famous hy Courtney Riley Cooper in his stories of circus life. “Trilby,” and "Fannie.” whose specialty is the hula-hula dance in appropriate costume.

out upon life as you do, with hope and ambition. There he identifies himself with you. Your problem Is his problem. What shall T do with my life? His example answers that question for the young men of every generation. He found in his baptism the solution of his life problem. And here is where you will find the solution of your life problem. I speak not of baptism in a river of water, but of baptism in the river of consecration. Let your life he baptized into the divine stream of consecration, and as you come up from its sacred banks, the heavens will or on unto you, and you will get. a larger vision of life and its glorious possibilities. Through the consecration of yourself, you will discover your relation to Ood. the meaning of your life and the channel through which your life is tq find its fullest expression. Not to consecrate yourself means failure. It means drifting aimlessly -with the current, tide of circumstances. Such drifters never make port. (Copyright, 1925, by John R. Gunn.)

IN INDIANA

RIGHT HERE

BACK TO PRISON Dr. N. B. Ross, temporarily paroled lifer, is again within the walls of State Prison at Michigan City. After a fortnight’s flurry and search he was found peacefully working as a nurse and medical attendant in a St. Louis home, and w'as taken into custody. His two weeks of unauthorized freedom will doubtless kill his chances of any further lenity at the hands of the pardon hoard. And the president of the board says an immediate investigation will l>c made to determine where the fugitive prisoner obtained funds to finance his flight. “It appears certain that somebody has assisted him,” says the president. “Somebody else is very likely to find himself in jail.” Os course the action of the lifer in not returning voluntarily at the expiration of his sixty-day parole was very reprehensible. But why should the pardon board get stiff-necked about it? At their own door must he laid the chief responsibility for the affair. They gave the prisoner a brief touch of freedom, after seventeen years In prison, to come and go as he pleased and expected him to return at the expiration of the period to the hateful cell. They expected him to act contrary to normal human nature. . Quite naturally he attempted to fade from the picture, and quite naturally he found someone to sympathize with him and help him. We don’t criticise him for his action—except that he wrote too many letters during his vacation. ANYWHERE BUT THE POORHOUSE John Hollingsworth, old and penniless and ejected for nonpayment of rent, was found by policemen sitting with his 60-year-old wife in the midst of their meager furniture in Jackson St., the other night. To prevent the couple from suffering from exposure, the woman was taken to the Theodora home and the old man to city prison, though he pleaded to he allowed to sleep in the Open. The next morning in municipal court the old man refused to go to the poorhouse. No money, no shelteT-, no food, hut he would rather starve than ext the bread of charity at the county farm. One must admire his spirit, if not his judgment. Maybe it was pride that made him refuse the poorhouse. Maybe he had read the reports of the numerous investigations and grand juries detailing conditions at the Marion County Infirmary. At any rate his attitude is an Indictment of the way we care for pan pers. , The Marion County poorhouse is no worse than many others in the State and doubtless lietter than some. It is not to be compared w'ith the awful almshouses that Dickens described so vividly. But it is bleak, cheerless, and lacking all comforts for the aged derelicts washed ashore there. It only offers food and shelter sufficient to drag out a miserable existence. Despite all the advances wo have made in humanitarian and charitable work, in relieving the distressed and needy, our poorhouses are places to be dreaded and shunned. In Marion County, “over the hill to the poorhouse.” still means the most poignant human tragedy.

ANNUAL CHILD HEALTH DAY In Indianapolis May day is Child Health day. As usual, it will be ahserved with special programs and special activities by public agencies, schools and organizations interested in child hygiene and welfare work. Healthier and happier children is the idea. May 1 is also to be observed as Egg day. Presumably we are to spend the day in intensive contemplation of hen fruit and in learning to cackle. In America it is a poor day that isn't designated for special observance for the promotion of some cause. We have Egg day. Constitution day, Clean-Up week. Eire Prevention week, Boy Scout week. And so on, ad Infinitum. There aren't enough days or weeks in the canlendar for them all. so we have to double up. Whether our May day activities will result in more healthy children and better eggs remains to be seen. Maybe such special observances accomplish little. But compare such May day activities with May day observance in Europe. There the day is. according to custom, marked by* demonstrations of socialists, anarchists, communists and radicals of every sort. It Is a day of fiery speeches, the fomentation of class hatred, riots, clashes with the police and bomb throwing. Front Gibraltar to the Baltic every government dreads the arrival of May day and its probable violence. Our plan of devoting the day to children and eggs may mean very little in a concrete way. But the difference between our way of ob . serving May day and the European custom shows (hat spiritually Europe and America are separated by something wider than the Atlantic Ocean. GROUPS, CLIQUES AND BLOCS Frederick Van Nuys, Indianapolis lawyer, at a. Democratic rally in Ft.. Wayne recently, said "we are surfeited today by groups and cliques and blocs, which at tempt to regulate everybody's business, coerce candidates and dictate the affairs of State." "The voters are sick and tired of having our platforms written, our candidates bluffed and cowed, and our morals regulated by groups and blocs and paid professional reformers." He was a Democrat speaking to Democrats but nevertheless his words deserve thoughtful atten-

APRIL 17, 1926

By GAYLORD NELSON

tlon from every citizen regardless of political persuasion. Where are we going with all the pushing and hauling of groups and organizations that attempt to shape legislation and control public officials for their own ends? The nation is being hloc-ed and reformed to death. If a high public official has honest doubts of the efficacy of prohibition, Anti-Saloon League Is at his heels. If he smokes a pipe, the No-Tobacco T.league gets after him. If he says a kind word for evolution, the fundamentalists are on his trail. If he rends “Hatrack,” the Watch and Ward Society hounds him. Ts he forgets to feed his goldfish, the S. P. C. A. campaigns against him. Now it isn’t so much a candidate's ability or fitness for the office to which he aspires that gets him elected, as his dexterity in appeasing various reform groups and militant organizations. No wonder we have more rubber stamps than statesmen. The present state of Indianapolis city and school affairs, with the endles fight of factions, reveals the group and clique system of government in all Its glory. And what is the plain, unattached citizen who only wants good government getting out of it?

'the VERY IDEA!

By Hal Cochran "* —* OL’ TIMER Ol’ Timer, they called him, an’ maybe it fit. The name didn’t bother the old man a bit. He’d been like a fixture for year 'round the place. Each sonl In the small country town knew his face. He.’d whittle all day, by the quaint gen’ral store. Then play with the kidlets—and whittle some more. He'd chat with the townsfolk, who passed by his way—jest whittlin', an’ chattin’, and playin’ each day. He’d lived his real life In the days that had gone and now, with the comirfg of every new dawn, his oares ■Hid Ida worries and such things were few, and life gave him nothin’ but loafing to do. If you’d know the histry of any small place, just look up the man with the oldtimer's face. Go down to the store at the crossroads and say, “Well, howdee, Old Timer! What’s doin' today?” He’ll tell you the tale of the town where he lives. And say. just imagine the pleasure that gives. His niem'rv of that (own is always in Jrim. ’Cause why? ’Cause the place is the whole world to him. Many men have a head for figures -—and many more an eye. * • A man who would he successful in business can often take a tip from a fish: start on a small scale, * • • “Your wife is sick—now tell me Is she dangerous?” asked Tat. And Mike just smiled, and then replied, “Site’s too dem kirk for that.” * * * The average youngster thinks I that-the three foods needed to keep him in proper health are his breakfast, lunch and supper. * * * The easiest way to nave one-half of your weekly grocery bills is to throw the other half away. * * • A smart husband puts soap tn the water before fie washes the supper dishes. And a smarter one doesn’t wash them. * * • FABLES IN FACT TF THERE WAS ONE THING THrs PARTICULAR MAN LIKED TO DO COMMA IT WAS BET PERU ID HE'D WAGER MONEY ON ANYTHING UNDER THE SUN COMMA BUT THE TROUBLE WAS THAT NOBODY WOULD EVER TAKE HIS BETS PERIOD FINALLY COMMA ONE DAY COMMA HE GOT TN AN ELEVATOR AND BET THE ELEVATOR MAN THAT THE WASHINGTON SENATORS WOULD WIN THE PENNANT AGAIN THIS YEAR PERIOD THE MAN TOOK HIM UP PERIOD (Copyright, 1926. NEA Service, Inc.)

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To the Editor of The Times: “Greater love hath no man than this—that he lay down his Ufa for his friend." How many mei measure up to this ideal of friendship? And how few dogs fall to! A dog will risk his life to save yours, as gaily, as unoalculn.ting and as modestly as though it were all a part of the day's work. He will risk his life to save your child Ixvtause he has seen that you value it. He will risk his life to bring back a stick that you have thrown into a stream, a hall that you have tossed into the street. He will wait for you hour on hour, with no knowledge whether you will return Ai a few- moments or in a week. And when you come h© will only be glad to see you. Your dog Is always glad to see you. Have you not iced ttjat? There is never a time when he is t.oo tired or too sleepy to welcome you. His greeting i R always the same. He is going to be gl id to see you and he is going to show you that he is glad. It. Is all the same to him whether your clothes are ragged or new, whether you have two cents In your pocket or two city blocks In your name. He looks into your eyes and if he finds kindness there he will not. care about your pocket book. Did you ever know' the time when .vour slog was too lazy to go for a walk with you? When he l s old and stiff, he will get up and limp along You are your dog 1 * happiness. Just your being there fills him wdth contentment and pride. You do not even have to feed him. He will starve and sufler with you and adventure anywhere. He may even die, hut he will die loving you just the same. MRS. JOHN G. ODELL, 2434 N. Illinois St