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

LEST WE FORGET • Now that the Reed senatorial committee has summoned witnesses to Chicago to probe into Indiana election crookedness, It may be well to recall to public attention once again, the circumstances and conditions and official attitudes that have a'bearing upon not only this but the Adams charges. Before the Reed committee decided to probe the Walb charge of wholesale corruption by “international bankers," there was but one vigorous and active body which had showed anything but a policy of obstruction. The grand jury under the direction of Prosecutor Will Remjr, who called to his aid the highly esteemed Ralph Kane, is the only official body which has shown any inclination to do more than interfere and smother and obstruct. It requires unusual courage for Prosecutor Remy, who has shown courage before, to face this task. For months he has not had an investigator whom he could trust, not an officer attached to his cofirt by the police that could be depended upon to unearth evidence. The charges he probes are so grave that they include the high and the mighty and the high and the mighty had shown more real zeal for vindication. It was a task from which any man, especially a candidate for office who depends upon some degree of fairness from his party organization, might w’ell shrink. Aside from this query, handicapped and functioning nnder difficulties, no official has aided in securing any real inquiry. For five days after the first charges were sent from the prison cell of the former political dictator of the State, the maker of officials, the director of destinies, the betrayer of trusting thousands, every effort was directed to keeping any person save his keepers from talking to Stephenson/ Governor Jackson repeatedly refused requests for an appeal to Warden Daly to let newspaper men enter that prison and see this prisoner. The prison trustees hastily met and solemnly passed a resolution endorsing the policy of Daly, a policy which the former warden says never existed before Stephenson became a prisoner. And Daly kept guard upon the man whose letters said he wanted to talk and could produce documentary evidence of grave crimes. Not a man who was tnus placed under suspicion demanded a vindication. Npt a man who might have been in a position to do the things charged made an appeal for exoneration. Then came Colonel Roosevelt to this State and the forced change of attitude on the part of the Governor, who promised he would name a committee of outstanding citizens to conduct an inquiry. 1% has never named a committee. He has taken it for granted, peculiarly, that all the crimes must havo , been committeed in Marion County, a matter which may be significant. Day after day The 1111168 made its demand for an inquiry and appeal, produced witnesses who stated that they had seen documents in the hands of Stephenson which had been photographed in order that he might have some evidence if the originals were missing, documents ivhfth other witnesses say he referred to with threats and boasts that they would free him. And then came_Clyde Walb, political master of file machine which created. He blurted ( ut his charge of wholesale corruption with money every precinct for the purpose of debauching an 1 ction. * Did Walb ask for an inquiry by the Reed com.it tee of his charges? The Times promptly asked iim to join in a demand and he refused. * Did Senator Watson or Senator Robinson ask rotection from this wholesale corruption from the ; egally constituted body vof the Senate created to nrnish just such protection? Neither of them spoke. There came, second hand, a statement that Watson had believed the Senate committee was limited to 192.6 in its explorations, just the sort of statement that might be well calculated to allay any fears on the part of those whose 1924 activities would lead them to a desire for secrecy. . And Robinson has never uttered a word —yet. This is no political battle nor a political fight. It is a crusade to protect the integrity of Indiana and protect its name and fame. The Reed committee and the 'local grand jury are at work. These charges must be either proved or publicity exposed as false. -Ts Walb has proof of his charge, the people are 'entitled to know. And the clews to the Stephenson charges must be followed to the limit. And whatever Is the verdict, be it said to the lasting discredit of official .Indiana, and the present head of the Republican organization, that they have never aided in any way, by word or act, in this effort to redeem Indiana from either its misrule or its ill fame. "SUPPRESSING FREE SPEECH Were it not for the serious sentiment of a few ' leaders of two local patriotic societies which prompted him, nothing could have been more ridiculous than the action of Mayor Duvall in sending police to suppress a speech in a large downtown hotel. It Is rather difficult for a policeman, no matter what his orders, to set himself up as the mental gpardian of ministers, bank presidents, club women &pd leading business men. The club, waved in menace if the listeners were from a different part of the city* is lowered and hidden in shame and confusion under such circumstances. Yet it was on the theory that police are fit to censor utterances of speakers at public gathering's that the mayor sent his uniformed men into a big hotel on Monday, under orders to arrest a speaker if the police thought he was too “radical.” And the argument was that the speaker was too smooth to violate any law and yet was a public menace because he persuaded his listeners to accept the communisticdoctrines of soviet Russia. The absurdity of the charge and of the argument is shown by the fact that among the guests was the president of a very conservative bank with resources running into millions. Beside him sat a business man whose income tax would probably keep a dozen families. Near was a minister who stands for the social order as it Is. ( Yet tift mayor actually believed that this speak-

er would send out these men to hunt up correspondence courses in the making of bombs and plot to dynamite the White House as means of overthrowing their government. The character of the guests reduced the affair to an absurdity. But it would havo been a serious matter had the listeners been men who work for wages. There is every reason to believe that the mayor of the city intended to arrest the speaker and that this would have followed had the social standing of the attendants been different. Asa matter of fapt a gathering of working men would probably have been less likely to accept the doctrines of a communism than would the bank president and the merchant. The working men in this country recognize the difference between riding to work in an automobile and walking the streets in search of a job with feet tied in hay and gunnysacks. Much more serious than any menace of communism in America is the ready acceptance of the theory that it is right to suppress by force utterances .with which you do not agree. Freedom of speech is one of the guaranteed rights under the Constitution, and were it not written there, would still be one of the foundations of American life. This speaker has been dubbed p pacifist Perhaps he is—and who cares? For pacifism is also a meaningless word in this country whenever its liberties are attacked. As ttytheory it fades into oblivion when the call to defense is sounded. But even if it were, the answer to it is not suppression of speech, but truth and argument. The people are likely to become curious about any speaker who has to be suppressed by a policeman’s club. There is only one certain way to create a race of pacifists in this counrty. That sure road lies in a stealthy encroachment upon the inalienable rights of men as outlined in the Declaration of Independence and written into the Bill of Rights". Pacifism can only come when liberties and rights are stolen under the livery of law and no longer mean anything to the men who must fight for the sovereignty of this nation when attacked. Taking away the right of free speech will create more pacifism than all the lectures which theoretical gentlejoen could deliver in a decade. There is but one limitation upon that right. Any one who advocates the overthrow of this Government by force is outside the pale. He has surrendered his light to the protection of the Government he attacks. He becomes rebel and outlaw. , But inside that line any effort to suppress utterances by force, to send men to Jail for advocating orderly changes in society, to imprison them for ideas is itself the greater anarchy. One good way not to spend the winter is in worrying about the prophecies for a freezing Fourth of July. , Men who blush easily make the best lawyers, says a Colgate psychologist. They have to keep a straight face, though, when they hand you their billsHeadlines you never see: “CERTAINLY I DRINK,” SAYS DRY CANDIDATE. __

the Sinning of bill white By N. D. Cochran ■

Evidently William Allen White’s periodical trfp% to Chicago, New York and cither haunts of sin outside of the pure atmosphere* of Kansas has had a degenerating influence upon a young man brought up in the thoroughly good Kansas environment. Anyhow Bill committed a terrible crime the other day. and right in Emporia. Moreover he was brazen about it. It appears that the once perfectly good Kansan got all het up over the world’s series between the Cardinals and the Yanks, and not only had his paper, the Emporia Gazette, publish to Empo’ia fans the play-by-play story of the game on Sunday, but Bill got out in front of his print shop with his wife where they sat on camp chairs and watched the game. . Before the Sunday game Editor White had announced that his enterprising paper would report the game on a magnetic score board in front of the Gazette office. Whereupon the ministerial alliance of Emporia got busy and worked up an indignant and outraged wrath. Where Editor White’s Methodist foot slipped was in announcing in the Gazette that the game would be reported on the magnetic score board “a half hour after church service.” That’s what made the ministers of the alliance sore. They issued a scorching protest against the use. “in the same breath,” of the words “church service” and "ball game.” Whereupon Editor White, who is something of a Kansas Christian on his own account, came back with a biting editorial rejoinder. Now Bill's in bad. In spite of the beloved blue laws of Kansas he and his good wife sat out in front of the Gazette office on camp chairs and attended a red-hot baseball game on Sunday. There is this to be said in Editor White’s behalf as a sinner who has fallen from grace. It was the last and crucial game of the world’s series. The Cardinals and the Yanks each had won three games. Whichever won that Sunday game became champion of the baseball world. And the game was full of thrillers. Babe Ruth h'it a home run into the right field bleachers and Shortstop Thevenow of St. Louis made a marvelous catch of a high hot lines from the New York bat of Catcher Severeid. At * one time, with the score 3 and 2 in favor of St. Louis, the Yanks had the bases full with two out and Tony Lazzeri at bat. At that critical moment Rogers Hornsby called on old man Alexander to come in from the bull pen and save the day. And Alexander the Great struck Tony out. At any minute somebody was apt to break that game up and give victory to the Yanks. It was a tense situation all the way through. So even if Bill White sinned there were extenuating circumstances. But even if it was on Sunday the band played the national before the umpire yelled, “Play ball!” and every man' present was a pure 100 per cent American, for they stood up~unanlmously and took off their hats. If the band could be heard in Emporia it is a safe gamble that Bill White got off his camp stool and stood up, because the crowd was there to see whether he did or not. i \ People who listened to the game over the radio Vt their own homes didn’t stand up of course, for nobbdy could see whether they did or not. And most people stand up because somebody else is looking. Be that as it may, we want to speak a kind for Editor White to the members of the ministers’ alliance of Emporia. Don’t condemn the poor dt dl to hell just because he heard a Sunday baseball game over the radio. If he sinned the provocation was great, church was out and the score board didn't act as a counter attraction. So give Bill White’s fairly clean soul one more Chance for salvation Most *)f us editors expect to go to heaven when we <le and we want to meet Bill White there. NEXT: Managing Other People's Lives.

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Tracy

Norwegian Plebiscite Is, No Victory for Intemperance,

BjNAI. E. Tracy The plebiscite went heavily again stNp rohibition. As Premier Lykke points out, this is not a victory for intemperance, but for the idea that people must look to something besides law for personal purification. Whether in Norway, or anywhere else, sensible folks agree that sobriety is right. What they disagree over is the best means of attaining it. At first glance, law's forbidding the ti -ffic would seem to answer, but so long as grape Juice ferments of its own accord and cider becomes hard, making home brew for every one, how can they? •I' 'I- + Cotton Aflects All What it costs to grow cotton is a matter of dispute. Some say, 30 cents a pound, some 25 and some are willing to go as low as 20. It costs more than IS cents, according to all authorities, which means that the present price represents actual loss for those who did the w'ork. The effect includes more than the immediate hardship of a million farmers and their families. It goes to the very heart of that normal. Nation wide power of consumption on which organized industry has come to depend. There won’t be so many automobiles Sold in the South this year, or Victrolas, or hair nets, or insurance policies. The northern investor, who owns stock in some great manufacturing enterprise that seems to have no connection with cottoa. will eventually feel the result of this slump. The northern housewife, whose first thought is that she can buy clothes or napery a little cheaper, may -find the cash lacking because her husband has been thrown out of work on account of a curtailed southern market. For its own good, if for no better reason, modern industry cannot afford to disregard the economic misfortunes of any great section of the people. •I* -I- -I- ' Consistent America It Is quite in keeping with the smug, narrow, reactionary frame of mind that has taJcen possession of this Government for our officials to bow and scrape before a Balkan queen t while refusing to exchange views with Soviet Russia, The Bolshevists, we are told, have strayed so widely from American ideals as not to be fit for a conference, yet the pedigreed exponents of a regime our fathers hied and died to overthrow are not only considered worthy of such attention, but are brought across the ocean at public expense to be entertained and fussed over. It was wrong for the Countess Carolyi to be admitted for a lecture tour, but it is quite all right for Marie to go before the hankers, after having been socially approved by Washington.

King and Mussolini King Victor Emmanuel and Mussolini have fallen out over the question of restoring capital punishment in Italy for those who kill, or attempt to kill, the rulers. The king says that though his father died by an assassin s hand, though he himself has been the victim of a similar, if unsuccessful, assault, and though he may walk in daily peril of hls> life, he will not sanction death for other men to better his own protection. Mussolini is less of a sport. He will live, though half Italy swings from the gallows, and he will let the king live, too, just to prove that he is not thinking of himself alone. The cards are stacked to a certain point. Mussolini's hand-picked parliament will pass the bill exactly as he has drawn it. After that the king will be asked to sign, which is where the stacked deck ends. Though regarded as a mere formality, because seldom withheld, the royal signature is still essential to the enactment of a law In Italy, and if the king refuses to scribble it on the dotted line,-. Mussolini will either have to try force, or drop the matter. Though of comparatively little consequence, here is a test not only of Mussolini’s power, but of his boldness and ambition. •I* -I- + Cost of Cities There are 247 cities in this country with 30,000 or more inhabitants. It costs $1,500,000,000 to operate them each year, which is nearly as much as it costs to operate the Federal government and almost twice as much as It costs to operate all the forty-eight states. Striking an average, it costs each man, woman and child $37.48 annually to operate these cities, and though the amount is impressive enough, the fact that it has practically doubled within the last eight years is even more impressive. So far as taxation goes, we are getting a bigger and bigger share of it from the city, which means that the city is coming to play a bigger and bigger part in our political and economic life. Time was when the States and the Nation represented about all the American people took seriously by way of government, and the tradition is though the expense should warn us that it is little more than a tradition. The City of New York is now making up its annual budget, and the hoard of estimate has started with a figure of $460,000,000, which most everybody expects to be increased. The State of Texas gets along with a mere fraction of this amount and the State of New York comes nowhere near equalling It. • What is tlie origin of (he name Raeburn? "Rae” is an early English form of roe, a kind of deer. Raeburn means the brook where the deer are found, and might be literally called “deer The family name la baaed on kn name.

Memorial Exhibit of Steele’s Work Announced at Herron Art Institute

The John Herron Art Institutes announces that a Memorial Exhibition of the work of the lamented and beloved artist,Nyheodore C. Steele, will be held during the month of December. As many galleries as necessary will be given ovei y to this exhibition, which the director of the institute says will be the most important of the season. Over 3,000 forms asking for information in regard to the ownership and availability of\Mr. Steele's paintings have been sent out, and it is hoped that everybody who knows about Mr. Steele’s early, intermediate or late work will notify the director of the institue of its whereabouts sp that a complete list of all kndwn works by the artist may be compiled. Mr. Steele's work may be divided Into four groups: First, his preMunich work: second, his Munich work; third, his portrait work, and fourth, his Brown County, or latest, work. Those who have been asked by the director to assist as an advisory committee are Mrs. T. C. Steele, J. W. Pearcey, Brandt Steele, the Rev. F. S. C. Wicks and Carl Lieber. • • • The National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors is represented at the institute during October # by the special exhibition of work by their members in 'Gallery XI. As this is a women's exhibition iit is interesting td" find that they 1 have chosen to paint* this year pic- ; tures that are more especially appropriate for use In the home. There are many flower paintings, that by Dixie Selden of Cincinnati being especially gay and colorful, many of which are treated in a purely decorative way. There are several panels like the quaint map-like view of old New York or of some moon fairies that are appropriate for Insets in paneled walls or over mantel decorations. One of large pink pelicans by the well-known designer, Jessie Botke, did not arrive until a week later than the rest, but is most amusing. There is a batik hanging in salmon pink, cfeam, gray, and brown of good workmanship attractively hung on wrought iron rods, and a ’arge bright folding screen in Chinese style. The sculpture also, is appropriate for the small house. There are book ends, charming child figures, charming and young adhletes. The Young Narcissus, by Brenda Putnam is especially well modeled and full of life. All of these figurines are well done and the group of them is perhaps the most attractive part of the exhibition.

Pioneer in Art Elizabeth Nicholson, who on April 26, died at the age of 90 years, was interested from early childhood in art, and that interest fortunately was and encouraged by an excellent teacher, who from the very beginning showed Miss Nicholson the poetry of art and inculcated in her jplnd. the joy of doing things not for material advantage or satisfaction, but for the pure joy of expressing aesthetic emotion measured in terms of love and appreciation. This love for art which was Innate foun<“P ready guidance at the hands of her teacher, a New Eng land woman, who had had training in France and came to Ohio to teach during the early forties, but the most of her training was gained at Cincinnati under artists, who had been trained in Munich. Her work, however, is not so reminiscent of this German school as it is of an individual characteristic exemplified best by a delicate touch, a native simplicity, modern .use of color, and a feeling for true representation In a poetic way. Miss Nicholson taught art in the Ohio Female College, one of the earliest colleges for women In the State of Ohio. In Indianapolis she had a studio In her own home and not a few still remember her Influence, her love of literature" and poetry, and her activities in club work. She assisted in the founding of The College Corner Club, The Women's Club, and The Parlor Club of Indianapolis. She was a student and lover of nature, and 125 water colors are being shown at the John Herron Art Institute at this time and are perhaps the best work to represent Miss Nicholson in the field of art due to tfre fact that each one was so close to her heart and is so expressive of her love for nature, which found satisfaction in making delicate water color sketches of wild life and garden flowers, which she found at hand.

To Give Talk , On Thursday, Oct. 21, the allied art section of the Indiana State Teachers’ Federation will meet at the Art Institute for both morning and afternoon sessions, as has been the custom for several years. The director will speak at one of the sessions on the excavations which he directed in Sullivan County during the summer. Blackboard drawings of the mound will be presented and it is hoped that some of the artifacts found may be displayed. These artifacts, though not tirely "primitive,” are highly artistic and indicate the skill and sophistication of the “mound builders’* of America. •* * \ Indianapolis theaters today offer: "The Passing Show of 1926,” at English’s: James J. Corbett and Bobby Barry, at the Lyric: Will Mahoney, at Keith’s: “The Wise Cracker,” at the Palace: "Mare Nostrum," at the Circle; “Three Bad Men,” at the Colonial: “The Temptress,” at the Anollo: “The Campus Flirt.” at the Ohio; “Red Hot Leather." at the Tsis: “Marriage License?” at the Uptown, and burlesque at the Mutual. What years constitute the first century? When did the twentieth century begin? In common'usage, first century means the years A. D. 1-100: second century, A. D. 101-200, and the .twentieth century, A. D. 1901-2000. The twentieth century commenced Immediately after midnight of Dee. 31. 1900.

New Events on Stage and Screen

Ralph Cudinan, a promising playwright, will have his finest play on Broadway when the Playshop produces "Black Waters.” Edna James, who recently retired from acting to enjoy a domestic rest in Denver, has returned to Broadway and will act again. Ethel Clifton, who wrote “For Value Received" and “The Doormat,” is the author of another comedy, "Baby,” which has been sent on to Broadway. “Children of the Moon,” an opus by Martin Flavin, which is remembered with pleasure by New York playgoers, opened at the Royalty Theater. London, this week. Charlotte Wynters, the well-known actress, thinks the old songs are Itest. She comes to this conclusion largely because of the fact that they are less frequently sung. Edwin Franko Goldman, the com-

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Dolly Dumplin

On the anniversary bill at the Eyrie this week is Dolly Dumplin, a most promising artist. This is the Lyric’s fourteenth birthday.

Whitt * Wrong

This test has been written especially for chidren. However, many grownups may find the questions difficult. The correct answers appear on page 16: 1. What's wrong with the accompany picture? 2. What was the name of George Washington's home? i 3. How many seconds are there in an hour? 4. How does Detroit rank in size with other cities in the United Statei? 5. What is the largest State in area in the United States? 6. With what country did the United States fight in 1812? 7. What is the difference between a volt and a watt? 8. What is the capital of Florida? 9. here is Catalina Island? 10. Is Vancouver on the east or west coast of Canada?

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poser and conductor of Goldman's Band, has composed two new march es that will be played next season. One is “On the Pier” and the other "Central Park.” "An American Tragedy,” by Theodore Dreiser, adapted for stage purposes by Patrick Kearney, was pre sented on Broadway this week, with Morgan Farley and Miciam Hopkins in the leading roles. Pauline Frederick has terminated her successful engagement in “Madame X” at Louis Macloon’s Playhouse in Los Angeles. She has suffered a nervous breakdown, and after a rest goes to London. Jack Kane, of the most promising of young musical comedy juveniles, has added a creditable performance to his record in "Happy Go Lucky,” a musical comedy presented by A. L. EJilanger on Broadway. Miml Aguglla, the noted Sicilian actress, departs from New York this week for Havana, where she will engae In a six month's season presenting her repertpire in the Spanish language. Next spring she will act in English in New York. Peggy O’Neil, the American actress now in London, has started another season. Completing nearly 500 performances of "Mercenary Mary,” she opened last week at the Savoy Theater in “Love's a Terrible Thing,” and the cable reports say It was another triumph. Mrs. William Faversham, wife of the noted actor, has been engaged for a leading part in “The Pearl of Great Price,” which has been on the eve of production for more than seven years. It is to be produced next week at the Century Theater by A. H. Woods and the Shubert’s. Youth is having its place In the sun. "Youth Betrayed” was produced at Baltimore last week, and “Youth Triumphant” will be proI duced next week. In the latter Sylvia Sidney, the most promising young actress on the stage, will have her first part, that of the leading ingenue. Anew play by Willard Mack, which was first produced as "All the Way From Texas,” but which will bear anew title when it reaches Broadway, has been placed in rehearsal by David Belasco. The author and Curtis Cooksey have the leading male roles, and Beth Merrill is the chief girl cast. One of our exchanges says that the invention of the phonofllm makes the motion picture almost human. “It not only shows itself, but it-talks to you,” it concludes. Dr. Lee De Forest, the inventor of this remarkable instrument, qualifies it by remarking that it least it knows what it is,going to say before it says it. William Faversham, Jr., the son of the noted actor and the late Julie ; Opp, makes his stage deout next 1 week at Boston'with the Henry Jewett company. This will be his first

Rooms for Teachers Needed

Persons having rooms which can be rented to-Indiana school teachers during the meeting of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association Tpirsday, Friday and Saturday are asked by the Convention' Bureau of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce to throw open their homes to help accommodate the large overflow from the hotels. Practically all hotels have Convention Buraeu,

Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Indianapolis: You may list the following rooms for the use of Indiana teach ers on Oct. 21, 22 and 23: Name Phone Address .' Number of Single Rooms Double Rooms Price per night for each person

OCT. 20, 1926

professional engagement. Asa college student he acted many roles in which his father had won success, and as a more or less informal juvenile digression acted also the role of Ophelia in a college production of “Hamlet.” Frank Thomas and Mona Bruns, American players, returned from a summer spent in Europe on the Homeric. As they approached New York bay they went forward to view the Statue of Liberty. With them was an English friend. They gazed at the famous female enlightening the world. “I say," the Englishman commented, “then it is true what your comic papers say about the wives waiting up with cudgels for their recreant husbands?” At the late radios, show there was exhibited the first audiontube, the basic principle in radio reception. It was the Invention of Dr. Leo De Forest, who is also the inventor of the De Forest phonofllm. Dr. De Forest's tube is now twenty-one years of age, placing him foremost among the inventors of radio projection and reception, as he is the first in the ranks of inventors of talking motion pictures. The phonofllm is the foremost of these inventions.

Questions and Answers

You can cet an answer to any question of fact or information by writin* to Tho Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau 1322 New York Ave. Washington D C. inclosing 2 cents in atamns for renly. Medical, lecrai and msn'al advice cannot be given nor nan extend.*d research be undertaken All ot!'r Questions will receive a nersonai ren.y Unsigned requests cannot be anatveitd Ail letters are confidential.—Editor After whom was the city of Baltimore named? What is the meaning of the word? Baltimore is a Celtic word meaning “large town.” The city of Baltimore, in Maryland, was named for Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore, who settled the province of Maryland in 1635. On what changes was Joan of Arc sentenced to death? Wearing men’s clothes and cutting off her hair were two of the main charges against her when she was brought before the inquistion. She was tried in the ecclesiastical court as a sorceress, by the Bishop of Beauvais, assisted by members of the University of Paris, which was under English control and a specially delegate inquisitor. She was condemned to be burned to death, but recanted her alleged errors and expressed penitence. Her punishment was then commuted by the ecclesias. tical authorities to imprisonment for life. Tho events of the next few days are obscure; but it is certain that Joan again put on the male attire which she had abjured. The resumption of these garments and expressions of regret for her recentation were then made the grounds for concluding that she had relapsed. She was condemned and burned at the stake. May 30, 1431, How did the term “O. K.” originate? It Is explained as a humorous or ignorant spelling of the word “Okeh” in the Choctaw (Indian) language, “it is so.”

been booked to and in order to take care of the many teachers who have no reservations, the Convention Bureau will conduct a downtown housing bureau during the meeting, as it has done in previous years. Newspaper coupons properly filled out and signed will be accepted as official listing of rooms, but no telephone calls will be accepted, according to Henry ,T. Davis, manager.