Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 317, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1926 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. BOYD GURLEY, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Sertpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * * * client of the United Press and the NEA Service * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 211-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis • * * Subscription 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 restricting the right to speak, write, or print freely, on any subject whatever.—Constitution of Indiana. ' .

WILL CONGRESS VIOLATE THIS LAW? “The plant or plants provided for under this act shall be constructed and operated solely by the Government and not in conjunction with any other industry or enterprise carried on by private capital.’’ Act of Congress authorizing Muscle Shoals.

A SACRED DAY Os all the days set aside by noble purpose and lofty thought for special observation, there is none more sacred than Mother’s day. It is more than giateful tribute for life itself. It is a recognition of the one great continuing force of civilization. The man or woman too callous to think kindly of her who gave life and direction to that life on this day casts no reflection upon the sacredness of mother love. They merely brand themselves and bring pity, not contempt, to their sad solitude of bankruptcy of soul. The boy or girl who is thoughtless of the meaning of the day needs pity. Mother love is a thing divine. It is not bestowed because of merit or of service. It la unselfishness, pure and undeflled. It is given alike to the dutiful and the neglectful, to the success and to the failure; perhaps most of all to those who are called failures by the world's harsh standards. It follows a son to the White House and with equal fervor and undiminished force stands at the side of the gallows to receive the broken body of the boy who pays the penalty for highest crime. It Svill rejoice with the daughter who gains fame and will weep with her whose breast is seared with the l ad mark of infamy. Not wealth or fame or honors can increase it by the tiniest fraction, nor does disgrace and failure take away a particle of its force. It is the one factor in every life that is absolute and steadfast, never changing, never faltering, never wavering. If we ask ourselves where we received all the impulses for good that we may have in our hearts or which the world reflects, we will trace it back to the inspiration of the mothers of the world and to our own mother. Men sit in solemn session and pass laws, but all the laws that were ever written by men never aroused one noble impulse or created one strand of character. Men write their ideals into statutes, but back of those statutes has been created a conscience and an impulse for those ideals. The law only terrifies the weak. Prisons only punish the criminal. Neither the law nor the prison has ever taken theft from the heart of the thief or murder from the heart of the killer. L But something has taken cruelty out of human Wiearts and crime out of human impulses and if vve seek the source, we are led back to the mothers of men who have prayed over the cradles of civilization and breathed sweetness and sincerity and kindness into the souls of men and women. Men have developed the material civilization which we have. It is the mother who protects and guards its spiritual significance. From Lincoln, greatest of Americans, to the lowRest of us all, every one must realize that all he has of good came from some sainted mother. ( Tomorrow is her day. It Is a day when those who are unable to go and once more revel in the sweetness of her presence may remember with a letter if she be living. It Is a day when if she passed beyond the stars, memory will turn in remembrance and in grateful tribute to her who braved death that anew life might be. It is a day when much of .selfishness will be washed from hearts that have been covered with the ashes of sordidness. Take this as more than promise because it is a law of life, beyond change or repeal. The man who always remembers his mother never becomes a bad man. The woman who keeps love of her mother in her secret soul never becomes a bad woman.

IS THRONE THREATENED Is Great Britain headed toward bolshevism, fascism, socialism or any other ism menacing to the throne? ( To answer that question you must know the answer to another: Is England about to be plunged into civil war as Premier Baldwin fears is possible. Communism has a chance in Britain only if there is war, chaos, hunger and misery throughout the country. This is only a chance. For what happened in Italy, when it looked as if the reds might seize the power could happen in Eritain. In other words if and when confronted by communism, the British could and probably would produce opposing black shirts and a Mussolini to lead them. Thus fascism, communism’s antidote, rather than communism itself, might well grow out of the sun. Anyway communism in Britain is apt to be greatly overestimated. Last October at the Liverpool conference of the labor party, 1,000 delegates, representing 3,200,000 men, voted on a resolution to permit British communists to affiliate with them. The vote was no by a vote of ten to one. That gives a fair idea how strong they are among the workers of the British Isles. That Britain might become a socialist state, however, is well within the possibilities. If the fact, if the strikers win, that is probably what will happen. But in that case the crown would be pretty safe. Because the group of men headed by Ramsay MacDonald would probably stage a comeback. “A socialist state,” as MacDonald sees it, "is a state based upon democratic institutions, aiming at the cooperative organization of all the classes for the common good and achieved by progressive parliamentary action.” In short, nationalization of mines, railways and what-not, by ballots instead of bullets. Nothing very menacing to the throne in that. Indeed, MacDonald has already tried his hand at running the British empire and through Tory J'dlo-

hards’’ fully expect it, the skies neither collapsed nor the bottom dropped out of the earth. Short of a cataclysm—always possible, of course, as long as the revolutionary strike remains unsettled —King George’s crown seems fairly safe —from the reds at least. EVENTUALLY, WHY NOT NOW? We’re in for a peripd of official obfuscation. The Administration Is on the heels of the big flour and feed men. And it seems to have caught, them playing Blind Man’s* buff with the Sherman anti-trust law. The Federal trade commission has the papers. Interesting papers they are. One big miller writes another how to ( go about fixing prices thatpwill be the same as those of all the other big millers and he gets an answer telling him how. Efforts to catch conspirators against the Sherman act Government investigators are always happy when they get their hands on correspondence like that. That gives them pretty nearly a prima facie case. So it looks like a hot summer in the courts for the millers. Probably several hot summers aud a few hard winters, for these cases have a way of dragging out for years. Somebody may have to pay something into the public treasury. Or somebody may not. It does not make a great deal of difference so far as the public is concerned. The public will continue to pay just about what the big industries agree should be paid for the goods they put on the market. The big industries will continue to offer these goods at prices so nearly the same that it woh’t be worth while from the standpoint of price to snop-around. The big industries —and the same is true of little industries —are not going to compete with one another when they don’t want to compete. The Sherman act cannot change this. The Sherman act served a good purpose for a time, but nobody is really afraid of it any longer and it is about time to remove it from the statute books. Some better metnod of protecting the public in the matter of prims will have to be found.

ADVERTISING INDIANA How does the triumph of Senator Watson look to the rest of the Nation? . Well, we get credit for furnishing burlesque to the national stage. There is an advertisement of a sort, if you like that sort of advertising. One of the great papers of the East, known for its independence and its keen insight into men and matters at Washington has this to say of Watson and his nomination: “Let no tears be shed because of the overwhelming victory of Senator Watson in the Republican primary in Indiana. True, as a statesman, Jim is small potatoes, few in a row—and also very watery. His mental horizon never has and never will reach beyond the ballot box, and his performance never will be above that of the lightning change artist. The one interest in the whole wide world that really engages him is that of retaining his seat in the Senate, and of dreaming absurdly of the presidency. Still, what would you—from Indiana, in these days of the Ku-Klux Klan? “Is it to be supposed that anybody else conceivable as the nominee would have been more of the statesman than Jim? Is not the tone of that State in these days such that the man who can foster an anti-Klan investigation of the election to the Senate of Mayfield of Texas and then, after the Klan sweeps Indiana, turn about and foster Mayfield—is not the tone of Indiana such in these days that this kind of map tips the pinnacle of Hoosier aspiration? What hope was these that a statesman would be nominated sor 1 Senator? Was not the real question whether we should lose a prime entertainer? “For Jim Is that. Where on this earth is there another man who at one and the same time so completely lacks all quality of the statesman and completely possesses all the extravagant make-up of one? If we may laugh ourselves weak while seeing one of the Four Marx Brothers play the burlesque Napoleon, why deny the supreme merit, in his way, of a Jim Watson playing the burlesque of Daniel Webster?”

ABOUT SWALLOWING THINGS By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

An evangelist was preaching the other day in a city of over one hundred thousand inhabitants, at a beautiful church where intelligent and expensively gowned members listened to his oration. This is one of the things he said: “The old tVhale went swimming round the ocean. He had swallowed a lot of things, fishes and tin cans and horseshoes and other junk, but when Jonah went down he knew he had got something he couldn't stand.” We ought, really, to have a censor for evangelists. The misinformation they put out is a menace to religion. Any intelligent child in that man’s audience would have questioned the statement that Jonah’s whale had found tin cans in the sea long before tin cans were ever manufactured, and that horseshoes were floating about in the water. But this is a fair sample of the kind of stuff many evangelists go over the land dispensing. We are supposed to cuR the religious facts from the scientific fancies. Stupid and intelligent, we are expected to swallow such unmitigated rot and along with it absorb a vast amount of religious fervor. If we do not do so as easily as the whale swallowed his tin cants and horseshoes, we are accused of being vicious citizens and unfit to hold communication with God. Women are the greatest worshipers of traveling evangelists. They often will literally sit at the feet of men who are not fit, morally, to tie up their shoe laces and, either because they are blessed or cursed with an intense‘Credulity, they think such men are especially endowed by heaven to guide them in their religious life. The hours good women have spent cooking food for bad evangelists if stretched out would make many centuries. When the Christian churches in America get rid of a lot of their spuj-ious ministers and throttle about a thousand of their ignorant evangelists apd educate all their preachers to a point where they can compete intellectually with the most of their congregations, then we may expect to see Christianity take its rightful place in twentieth century civilization. The longer men go about putting out scientific untruths to the modern boy and girl, the harder it is going to be • to get the younger generation to put on religion.

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More Than 2,000 School Children in City for Annual Music Week Contests

rr _ *rjR. and mrs. indianapo|jv|| LIS awoke this morning to L 1 the far-away tunes of saxaphones, trombones and all the other instruments which high school students play in bands and orchestras. In many sections of the city the tunes were not so far away and in others they were on the back-steps of neighboring houses, where the young Sousas sought quietude and inspiration, for she trying eliminations of the State music contest held here today under auspices of the fine arts committee of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. More than two thousand Indiana high school students were taking part today in the greatest musical contestlndianapolis and Indiana ever have known. The contests were to continue until late thi A afternoon, but the real victors were not to be chosen until after the State music concert at 7:30 o’clock tonight at Cadle Tabernacle. Only the two best organizations among the competing bands, orchestras, mixed choruses, girls’ glee clubs and boys' glee clubs were chosen In today's preliminary trials and these two in each group will play or sing at tonight’s concert and in so doing will determine their rank, first or second, in the great contest. To the winners in the contest will go cash prizes of one hundred dollars to those ranking first and fifty dollars to those ranking second. The first prices have been provided by the fine arts committee of the Chamber of Commerce with the assistance of interested music followers of the city while all second prizes have been furnished by the Indianapolis Music Dealers Association. For the past three years the Chamber of Commerce, through Its fine arts committee headed by J. I. Holcomb, has sponsored the ohservance of National Music week in Indiana and each year these contests have been held for the purpose of encouraging the study of music in public high schools. Interest in the contests has increased from year to year and more entries in nil classifications have been obtained each successive year.

One of the imposing features of today’s events was the massed band concert on the south steps of the Indiana soldiers and sailors' monument at noon, when all bands entered in the contest played In mass formation. Led by an escort of police, composed of mounted men and motorcyclemen, the high school bandmen marched from the Cadle Taternnc]e south on New Jersey St. to Washington, west on Washington to Meridian and thence north to the Circle, arriving at the monument just a few minutes before noon. This Was the last of the noon concerts which have been held there each day this week, with the exception of Tuesday, when the Postoffioe Rand was forced t*> cancel its engagement because of Illness among members of the organization. At the conclusion of the concert, in which the bands played individually .and as a body, announcement was made as to the judges’ selection of the “ranking” organizations which will play in this evening’s concert. Announcement also was made as to the winners in the orchestra, mixed chorus and boys’ glee club groups which had finished their competition at that time. One of the features of the concert at the Taliernacle this evening will he the appearance of the winner in the elementary school* harmonica contest held at Short ridge, this afternoon. The winner also will appear at the Keith theater promptly at S o'clock this evening before the curtain for “White Collars,” the Stuart Walker production which is appearing there this week. Through the courtesy of the Walker management, C. Roltare Eggleston, manager of tiie theater will introduce the youthful harmonica player U> the ■hudience which he will entertain with a few selections. From the Keith theater, he will he taken to the Tal>ernaclo for later appearance there.

Through the courtesy of J. Arthur Mac Lean, director of the r lohn Heron Art Institute, the institute was thrown open to the school children today free of charge In order that they might enjoy Its artistic display. At the conclusion of this evening's program, J. I. Holcomb, chairman of the fine arts committee, will introduce five persons who have been active in the Music Week wora and these will present the awards to the directors of the winning organizations. A charge of 35 cents is being made at the door to cover expenses of the concert, though Indianapolis school children were given gn opportunity this week to purchase tickets for themselves and members of their families at the reduced price of 25 cents. • • * —--J MISCELLANEOUS recital and play will be given In 7- H the Odeon next Saturday afternoon, May 15, at 3 o’clock by. students from the various departments of the Metropolitan School of Music. The program Is open to the public free of charge. The following students will take part: Margaret Mattingly. Marjorie Carr. Kryatat Kefferrie* Ruth Thomas Virginia vt liking- Carl Jovee. Bettv Martimlale. K<lna Hartman Eleanor Ralhert. Rosalie FI i: K k oul & ,? ox - Harriet HarUlnjr. Jane l-lizabeth Walker. Marian Fehrenbaoh Mary Nieoll Maxine Rosehamn, Janet Moditoh. V irslnia Kelly. Marv Ellen Cooper Jeanette Solotken. Ramona Wilson, Elsfnor r unk. Martha Bryan. Gladys Van I.ear. Martha Mealy. Rose Mary Rvan. Louise Cox. Rosa Riasler. Anna Marie Sander. Helen Goodpasture. Mary Martha Wolf Kathryn Harrod. Mar ha Hovle. Vircinia Stout. Geraldine Kuntr. Farietta De Vault Anna Foster and Vera Nicholes. The students are pupils of: Hindi MoGibonv. Mrs. Arthur G. Monnlnaer. Frances Beik. Earle Howe Jones. Leone Kinder. Bernice Vail Sickle. Helen Sartor. Frieda Hetder. Helen Louise Quiff Franklin N. Taylor. Nora M. Beaver. Fav Heller. • * s | . 1 RECITAL will he given Mon/tV I day night at the Academy l- -J of Music under the auspices of the Indianapolis Maennerchor by Ethyl Hayden, soprano. In her short two seasons before the public. Ethyl Hayden has already graduated from the overpopulated field of the "rising young artist” and gained a distinctive place in the ranks of recital and oratorio artists. Analytical comparison of the critical comments on her singing reveals a unanimous appreciation of the

marked personality of her art. The crystalline beauty of the voice has Its share of praise, too. But as every one knows, beauty of voice alone, is not enough to speed the singer toward the shining goal of his ambition. That indefinable quality which differentiates the great from the mediocre—and * which for a better name some call a musical sixth sense—is the determining factor. This quality Miss Hayden possesses, as is instanced in the remarkable success which she has achieved in the short time since her professional debut. Cyril Scott, the English composer, valued highly the individual artistry of Miss Hayden, and she appeared several times in the programs of his compositions which the composer gave during his stay in this country. Her success was all the more noteworthy owing to her limited experience and youth; for to :hose acquainted with the work of the English modernist, it is evident that a musical Intelligence of the highest order is necessary for an understanding of the involved and unusual intervals which characterize Cyril Scott’s compositions, especially those of his later period. Miss Hayden Is an Americantrained singer, and an artist pupil of that great singing artist of our time, Mme. Marcella Sembrich.

WEEKLY SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON Victory By fraith and Courage Explained Here

The Interna tinniJ l’ r i form Vn I iilf! y School 1.r.,,0n for Mm' !. Victory Tlirouxh Faith tuiil Couiago,—Uear,.jj 1-1: 13-C4. By Win. E. Gilroy, D. D. Editor of The Congregationallst There Is much to be said for the contention that Abraham is the greatest figure of history. It is true that we do not know the full details of his life. But In the great commanding aspects of his life and personality as they appear in the narrative in Genesis, he represents the very parting of the ways In the matter <f human progress. He has been called “the first emigrant,” the man of vision, moving out under theimpulse of some great urge toward new environment and adventure. There seems to be little doubt that Abraham moved forth in tills way as many others have done, because of anew spiritual experience and dissatisfaction with his environment. This took the form, apparently, of faith' in a personal God. We do not know Just how high and deep was the religion that Abraham professed, but he had come apparently to feel that an ideal could not express the reality of that life that lay back of the universe, and he had come also, according to the record, to conceptions of morality in human relationships so lofty that multitudes of modern men are still upon a far lower plain.

Gospel of Magnanimity All through the ages men have been warring and fighting both as Individuals and as nations wherever their self-interests conflicted, and yet we look hack tb Abraham as one who, when his herdsmen were contending with Lot's herdsmen, preached and practiced the gospel of a large magnimity. If that spirit had been in other men and Had been persistent, the world would have been spared the tragic anil terrible record of Its agelong wars. Here in our lesson the character that comes out in Abraham is that of faithfulness to his obligation. Abraham, theman of peace, showed that he could light if fighting were necessary. An Interesting feature of this lesson is that modern excavations have thrown considerable light upon it and have made the kings mentioned here more than mere names. It is the opinion of Assyriologists that Amrapliel, king l of Shinar, is to be identified with Hnmmurapl, king of Babylon and author of the famous codo that bears his nomo. Abraham’s Refusal The incident followed the battle of the kings and Abraham’s rescue of Lot and his goods has a symbolic meaning. Meichlzedek, king of Salem, who was also described as a priest of God, is represented as bringing forth bread and wine and blessing Abraham. Asa part of this blessing he offers to Abraham a tenth of all, but Abraham displays his disinterestedness by refusing to take any portion of what was offered him. One may recall in this connection the fact that George Washington declined to take any pay for his services as commander-in-chief of the continental army. It is the disinteredness of Abraham that appears as his highest quality, the purity of his motives and the integrity and unselfishness of his aims and aspirations, a practical man of affairs, the business of life for him was something more than mere business. He is represented ns the founder of a. 1 race and as the channel of blessings to society. “In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.” Society Involves something more than the keeping of flocks and 1 the attending to matters of business. Society exists through, and because of, relationships. Abraham was worthy to be a founder and an originator of blessings, because he had a social conception of ljfe. It is only as men rise to something higher than their own interests that they become in any real sense social beings. Victory of Faith Our lesson -emphasizes that Abraham’s victory came through faith and courage. But we should lay stress on the nature of the . victory that Abraham sought to achieve. All his activities were along the line of duty ahd obligation. He was a man who could be depended upon not only to fulfill his word, but to fulfill the deeper obligations of friendship and loyalty that ought to Influence a man apart altogether from the question whether he has given his word or not. The story of these relationships of

I . | RECITAL will be given /4M Thursday night at the Riley I— 1 library # by Lois Ann Hodgin and Josephine Reynolds, violin pupils of Olive Kiler. Program follows: “Faust Fantasia” Alard Josephine Reynolds. "Gypsy Dance’ Nachez Lois Ann Hedging. Secqnd Prelude” Rachmaninoff Faye Pinkstaff. (a) “Solyeigg Sorier.” (b) lehiieb Dfch. (ci .“Waldwanderunsr.” Gricr-Sauret Josephine Reynolds. sh! 'L, um , or ? w, . uo ' Tschaikowski JJjJ . Pi*rtcato Thome <c) Schoen Rosmarin Kreisler <ll .. Loia Ann Hodfin. “Paplllons” Greis Faye Pinkstaff. “Concerto for Two Violins ’ Bach (Allegro Mjiderato., Andante, Allegro) Lois Ann Hodffin. Josephine Reynolds. The pupils of Mrs. Lillian CanGreen will be presented in a costume recital Monday night at the library. The recital is open to the public. DANA IS STAR AGAIN Viola Dana will star in “Bigger Than Barnum’s,” a circus picture which Film Booking Offices is making at its Hollywood studios for the coming motion picture season. Ralph lr.ee, who is directing the production, will “double In brass” by playing an important role and others in the cast Include George O'Hara and Ralph Lewis,

ancient kings and their doings w*ho3e instincts were wholly for necessarily in its details is of little peace. interest to us. We cannot reproduce Would, also, that our own Ideals atmosphere or see the events were so high that we might underwith any realism, but we can, even stand and find inspiration in the through the very dim picture given example of a man, who was not in the records, sense the spirit and grasping for all that he could not quality of a man who with personal get, but who found life’s highest faith associated the sense of social j pjuoqdno u uj uaeq jo o[};oq n punoj vision and social obligation, and we satisfaction in the consciousness of can catch, also, the spirit of a man a good deed well done!.

Nurse Makes 7-Day Trip By Dog Sled

Mrs. Golden Brady and Nanyk, her favorite husky.

Du \EA Sorrier SEATTLE, Wash., May B.—Rivaling Gunnar Kasson’s dash for Nome, Mrs. Golden Brady, "Angel of the Arctic,” has just written another epic of heroism across the frozen wastes of northern Alaska. She is safely back at Kotzebue after a 400-mile dash, alone with her dogs, to save an influenza-stricken Eskimo settlement at Point Hope. Mrs, Brady has been a nurse with the Alaska division of the U. S. bureau of education for five years. She is serving her third successive term at Kotzebue. When half-starved Eskimo runners staggered into Kotzebue a few weeks ago, pleading for aid for their stricken settlement, Mrs. Brady voluteered. Putting “Nanyk,” her pet malamut© at the head of her sled, she set out, alone, over the snow

A Sermon for Today By Rev. John R. Gunn

Text: "Who hafli woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine, they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingoth like an adder. Thine eyes shall behold Strang women, and thine heart shall utter pervetse tilings. Yea, thou shatt lie as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of the mast. They liavo stricken me, thou shalt say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I fert it not; when shall I awake? I will not seek it again.”—Proverbs 23:29-35. It is all inside the gloss—woe and poverty; sorrow and mourning, contentions and murder, babbling and insanity, wounds and blood, redness of eyes and bloated features, the bite of the serpent and poison, the sting of the adder and death, strange

Returns to City

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Ijestcr Huff. James D. Kennedy, manager of the Apollo, announces that Lester Huff, well-known organist formally of the Ohio, will return to Indianapolis and take up his duties as organist at the Apollo. Mr. Huff is well known to the theatergoers of Indianapolis for his musical ability. Upon his return to this city Mr. Huff will have completed a tour of the largest theaters in the country.

wastes. Between her and Point Hope, a mere dot in the northern wilds, was only a rough trail, half obliterated by snow. More than a week later she sledded into the Eskimo village, unloaded her store of medicine and concentrated food and saved the lives of a score of dying natives. Then, her work done, s.he set out again, back for her hospital post at Kotzebue. The return journey was made hazardous by blizzards and it was ten days after leaving Point Hope that Nanyk and his mistress fought their way to safety. News of the exploit has been received here by J. H. Wagner, head of the Alaska division of tho bureau, in letters from native teachers in the north. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)

women and domestic nfldelity, a stammering tongue and perverse utterances bewildered senses and ludicrous actions, Insensibility and perilous exposures delirium tremens and wild Imaginations, a sleepy drowsiness and stupor unconsciousness and unfelt beatings, a sickish awakening and disgusting soliloquy, bruises becoming painful and selfpity, an enfeebled will and tyrany of desire, a returing to seek yet again another drink as a dog returneth to his vomit. It is all Inside the glass—all these things and more. And yet when we first look upon the glass we do not see these things inside of It. They are hidden behind an alluring effectiveness in colour, effervescence, and taste. That is why .Solomon is not content with saying “touch not,” "taste not.” That is why he goeS the whole length of saying' "look not.” So attractive is the wine cup in its outside appearance, so deceptive is It In its appeal to our senses, the only safe course Is turn from It without even looking upon it. (Copyright, 1926, by John R. Gunn.)

Questions and Answers

You can get an answer to any question of fai t or Information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1323 New York Ave.. Washington, P. C.. inclosing '!( cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal ami marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other quostions will receive a pergonal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What day of the week will it bo on June 21, 1929? Friday. How can glue size be removed from a plastered wall so that it can be painted? Slake lime with water; dilute the resulting paste with sufficient solution of caustic soda or soda ash to make a thin batter, arid apply It, fairly stout, on the wall with a fiber brush. When the glue size has softened remove it with a scraped and sponge the wall with clear water. Then wash over the surface with dilute vinegar (equal parts of ordinary household vinegar and water) and allow the wall to dry thoroughly. You can then go ahead with the new paint as washing with vinegar has neutralized any traces of alkali. How old Is Mary I’ickford? She was born April 8, 1893. How do bills in Congress become laws? Bills are introduced into the House of Representatives by members of that body and in the by tho Senators. They are then referred to the standing committee that deals with the subject matter, and after investigation the committee either votes to report it to the House or Senate, or not to report it. In the latter instance there Is usually no further proceeding with respect to that hill. It is said to have died in committee. If reported, the bill is put on the calendar of the House or Senate, where in due course It comes up for debate and action by the body where it was originally Introduced. If passed it is sent to the other body of Congress, where it goes through the same committee procedure. If passed by both bodies of Congress it becomes an act, when approved by the President, or In case of a veto it can be passed over the veto by twothirds vote of both branches. If passed by both branches of Congress and the President does not either approve or veto It, the bill becomes an act. What Senators compose the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs? Hale, Pepper, Oddie, Norbeck, Shortridge, Miller, Metcalf, Butler, Schall, Swanson, Gerry, Trammell, Broussard, Copeland, Edwards and Dill. Where and when was Irving Berlin born? He was born In Russia May 11, 1888. Who was Sandro Botticelli? One of tho most important and representative painters of the early Renaissance. He lived 1444-1510. Who was called the “Yankee Shelley”? Italph Waldo Emerson.

THE VERY IDEA! By Ilal Cochran —- “WHY?”

As every day passes, most every wee child asks questions galore that near drive mother wild. The what and the where and the -whyfore of things, are words to the singsong that every kid sings. You mustn’t do that Rnd you mustn’t do this, are things a child's told so he won’t go amiss. You’re aiming to help him, and hope to get by, but always are stopped when the youngster asks “Why l” Too often all parents lay rules down offhand that minds of the wee folks can no’er understand. ’Tis well to explain thorn. ’Tis well to 1 be stern. For, knowing the whys, Is the way children learn. When talking things ovep and making rules clear, you're helping the child to go right, without fear. ' You’ll get hia respect 'cause he; knows that you’re grown, and you'll help him build up a mind of his own. • • e Just got to wondering if Bo Peep ever found that sheep she lost. • * * He never hit his golf hall square. His drive was Just a hopper. In fact, he topped his ball so much They called the guy O” Topper.

"Be sure you’re right—then go ahead,” is a good rule, unless you go ahead and And out you’re wrong. * * * When vacation arrives the kids will be out of school and mother will be out of luck. * * * A father is in a flue predicament these days. If lie uses slang his wife says he’s setting a lmd example—and If he doesn’t, the kids think lie’s a back number. * * The busiest man we know of is the fellow who changed all the i’g in his name to e’s, ’cause ho didn't have time to dot the l's. , * * * They were stranded on an island. “I'm hungry,” shouted Myrtle. And Jack replied, “let’s make some soup. Our boat has just turned turtle.” * * * FABLES IN FACT A GENTLEMAN FRIEND OF A CERTAIN FAMILY WAS PAYING A VISIT COMMA AND HAVING A CHAT WITH TOMMY COMMA THE YOUNGSTER OF THE HOUSEHOLD PERIOD QUOTATION MARK YOU’RE GETTING TO BE QUITE A YOUNG MAN COMMA QUOTATION MARK SAID THE GENTLEMAN FRIEND COMMA QUOTATION MARK I SUPPOSE YOU’LL SOON STEP RIGHT INTO YOUR FATHER'S SHOES PERIOD QUOTATION MARK AND TOMMY REPLIED THAT HE SUPPOSED SO COMMA ’CAUSE HE’D BEEN WEARING EVERYTHING ELSE OF HIS DAD'S COMMA AFTER HIS MOTHER MADE IT OVER PERIOD Copyright. 1926 . NEA Service