Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 183, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 November 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 Scripps-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., 214-220 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.

KNOW YOUR STATE Indiana by law prohibits the State government from incurring a bonded debt. Asa consequence important State projects have been of necessity financed from current revenues, notably the State highways and the World War Memorial.

WATCH THIS TRANSACTION The necessity for a strict and thorough inquiry into every phase of the proposed merger of the light plants of this city is increased by The Times' revelation of the provisions of the law in regard to mergers. It is most evident that the law makers tried, as best they could, to prevent financiers from coupling two companies together and then place a larger value upon them than the individual units before had. Yet the petition of the men who want to merge these plants provides for a capitalization of many millions of dollars in excess of the present combined valuations of the plants. Those millions of stock and bonds must earn dividends and interest for the men and women who will purchase them. In the end the people of this community will be called upon to pay the cost. These monopolies are given what amounts to a power to tax, and this tax will be levied upon every factory, every business, every home. Electricity is not a luxury. It is a necessity. No modern factory can run without its power and no business can succeed without it. These companies have every shrewd legal talent and unlimited money to hire the best of lawyers. These lawyers may be able to convince the public service commission which has been very kind to corporate interests that this is not. a merger. Os course, when they get through there will be but one company instead of two and to the ordinary person it. would appear that they have merged. What is much more likely is that when they get through unless some strong protest is lodged, there will be but a single ownership with millions of securities floated above those which now represent the values of the two plants. The move of consolidation is logical and should be encouraged. There is no sense in paying two sets of people to do the work which could be done by one. The consolidation would permit the public to deal with one set of men and should result in a lowering of costs of electricity instead of raising it. The public, not the owners, should have the advantage of this more economical method of management. But the public will not. receive the benefit if the new company is loaded down with created values upon which interest must be paid. The Chamber of Commerce seems to be the logical body to represent the public, but every citizen Is interested. Unfortunately the present city administration is not of a character to inspire any great amount of public confidence. A mayor who takes jaunts for unknown purposes to get orders from goblins or wizards is hardly the man to make such a fight as must be made or direct such an inquiry as is needed. The public is entitled to at. least as good legal advice as these financiers who are back of the present move. The public service commission may be responsive to suggestions from the public. They should not, be left, to the whispered words of lawyers for the men who are'asking for a taxing power on fifty-five millions of dollars. It is time to act and undoubtedly the Chamber of Commerce will act. All that, the public wants is fairness, ft must have that. It must, not be loaded down with a debt burden on its electric bills that w-ill hamper and harass every other business, especially the business of living. HORATIUS KELLOGG AT THE BRIDGE "The new Russian minister to Mexico, Mme. Alexandra Kollantai, the only woman diplomatic chief in the world, has been denied permission to cross the United States on her way to her post in Mexico City,” says the United Press. Once more Secretary of State Kellogg has flung his official body athwart the gateway and saved our country from some terrible fate, we know not exactly what! First, he gagged Count Karolyi to keep him from uttering some strange combination of w-ords which, like the bugle blasts of Jericho, might have laid our civilization to waste. Next, like Horatius at the bridge, he barred the way to the oncoming Countess Karolyi, lest her brazenly admitted belief in republican institutions should undermine our 150-year-old democracy in which —as Pennsylvania so beautifully demonstrated the other day—one vote is as good as another, no matter how much it costs. Then that mighty civilization crusher, the skinny little Shapurji Saklatvala, British member of Parliament, was held at bay and prevented from planting his red flag of communism on top of the White ' House. And, now, our sleepless sentinel, worn but ever vigilant, hearing the rustle of a hostile skirt all the way from Berlin, where Mme. Kollantai awaits the American visa which will never come, is saving us again! Was there ever before such devotion? ‘‘Mme. Kollantai,” says an official communique Vsued by the State Department at Washington, “has actively associated with the international communist subversive movement.” And so she can’t cross the United States. Our Government and our society must not be endangered. Os course Mme. Kollantai has been in Norway for the past two or three years, where she represented her country as minister plenipotentiary. And neither Norwegian society nor the Norwegian govefnmpnt appears any the worse for the experience. ■ tut then there are 2,600,000 Norwegians and only 115,000.000 of us. Another explanation of the ban on the madame may be that the State Department has already let in o many Russian communist tradesmen to do busiwith Wall Street and our captains of industry

that only standing room is left. And the secretary can’t bear to keep a lady standing—even a Russian one. Be that as it may and whatever his reasons, Secretary Kellogg’s antics would be laughable were they not making our country ludicrous. Abroad we are pictured as so uncertain of ourselves that we are afraid to allow a lone woman—one whom any of the other great powers would accept without question—even to peek at us through the double-glassed windows of a through Pullman. ONE OF THESE IS IMPORTANT Four criminal trials are engaging national attention at this time. 1. The Hall-Mills case. 2. The Airaee McPherson case. 3. The Dr. J. Frank Norris case. 4. The Canton (Ohio) case. All of these cases are immensely interesting. One of them —and perhaps only one —is greatly important. By this is meant that out of only one of these cases is the country likely to obtain any benefit and that case is the one which, strangely enough, the public is likely to find the least absorbing—the murder of Don R. Mcllett at Canton The other three cases involve purely personal crimes. The Hall-Mills case repeats a story as old as the human race. The Norris and McPherson cases contain a bizarre mixture of religion and alleged wrong-doing, putting them a little out of the ordinary. Many more centuries of civilization will be required to banish from the human breast emotions that lead to cases like these three. The Canton (Ohiot case is different. There is a complete education in’ civic affairs to be found in that, case if the public is willing to look for it. Be fore the story is ail told, essential facts of city. State and national Government will have been placed on record. The one greatest issue before the American people today actually is on trial at Canton, if the evidence already made public offers a real indication. That issue is prohibition. Don Mellett, it appears, was a victim of the chief beneficiaries of prohibition —the booteggers. Ho was fighting neither for no* against prohibition. He was scarcely fighting boot legging itself. He was fighting, attempting to break down, the connection between the bootleggers and the local government. For that he was killed. Before this case concludes those who follow the evidence should have a clearer insight than has been possible heretofore into what prohibition means for America. This evidence should be read and studied. Most especially it should he read hy those sincere, patriotic citizens who helped to bring prohibition to pass in the belief that they were serving the country’s best interests. It will not he as easy reading as some other murder trials. It contains no sex appeal, no tale of human lusts. This murder was a civic event- It was as coolly conceived and carried out as a campaign for county office, a scheme to carry a competitor's business, or a plan to build anew street railway. Given conditions that have followed prohibition in many/communities of the United States, and & murder such as occurred in Canton becomes not only probable, but almost inevitable. If you follow the evidence in this case you will see why this is so.

THE EAGLE, THE ROOSTER AND OTHER BIRDS t By N. D. Cochran 1

Well, election's all over but the shouting and there's darned little of that. As usual several millions off intelligent citizens didn’t vote. Most of those who did vote don't know what they voted fop and don't know what tltey'li get—unless it’s the razzberry. Homebody was elected to office, of course, nnd somebody wasn't. After staging a great sham brittle the Ins are in and the Outs are out. Otherwise the world and the TTnited States of America will go about business as usual, and there won't be much political bunk in the papers for two more years—when the politicians wifi go crazy again. Most people will pursue the even tenor of their way. They will think about what they are going to eat and wear—what dates they have for tonight—what show they will go to —how they are going to pay their debts or dodge the collector—how soon they con afford to get married —whether the coming baby will be a boy or a girl—whether stocks, stockings or wages are going up or down—who'll he the first heavyweight to get a crack at Tunney’s title—whether Jack Dempsey can come back—what other amateurs are going to turn pro—whether Aimee McPherson did or didn’t — who killed Pastor Mills and the choir singer—and a thousand and one other things that have to do with the daily life of the people. But not many, if any at all, really expect anything to happen at the National or State capital that will fatten the pay envelope, pay the rent or buy baby new shoes. The politicians with all their bunk oratory and rosy promises think they are kidding the people. Nobody believes that any political party is going to bring heaven down on earth if they win or drag hell up from down below if they lose. They don't even believe the preachers can work miracles of that kind. Most Democrats and Republicans are one or the other for no better reason than that they think tjity were born that way. That is, they belong to a party because they daddy or grandaddy did. Many women belong because their husbands belong. As women become increasingly influential some men will be Republicans or Democrats because their wives are. But after all it doesn't mean anything. Or if It does mean anything nobody knows what it is. If you want to see how full of bunk the politicians are just go back to the predictions they made just before election day, and compare them with the returns now in. Those who won will say k "I told you so,” and those who lost won’t have much lo say at all. But none of them knew what was going to happen. They were trying to influence votes. It’s part of the game. In trying to influence wavering voters political managers merely tried to out-yell each other They may have fooled some of the people, but darned few of them. Anyhow not over half of the eligible voters were fooled enough to take the trouble to vote for anybody. Years ago the eagle as an emblem stirred up Republican zeal and the Democratic rooster gave his followers a thrill, but evolution has been steadily getting in its work. The eagle looks too much like the rooster and the rooster too much like the eagle. Some people can’t tell ’em apart. Others are apt to mistake either for a buzzard. > If a real man happens to be running for office more and more voters every year don’t care a darn %vhat ticket he's running on, and they vote for the man and not the bird. But after all it doesn’t make ninth difference. This country isn't going to hell no matter which pagty wins. About the only difference between Democrats and Republicans in the United States Senate is that they sit on opposite sides of the center “ aisle and Wayne Wheeler sits in the gallery and tells them how to vote. /• '

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

DEMOCRATS WILL FIGHT COOLIDGE TAX SLASH PUN Instead Will Seek Reduction More Than Twice as Great. Hu J'nitrd 3 rrs* WASHINGTON. Nov. 6.—President Colidge’s proposal for a 10 to 12 per cent retroactive reduction on income taxes encountered today opposition of Democrats who will seek a reduction more than twice as great. Senator Claude Swanson (Dem.), Virginia, declared the steadily accumulating treasury surplus warrants an immediate revision of the tax system so that In the future the Government will collect no, more than it needs, and that the present surplus warrants a 25 per cent reduction from top to bottom. “The reduction suggested by Coolidge is not on half what it should be.” Swanson said. “We know what our debts are, we know what our expenses are. and it Is time that we revise the tax system so that the Government collects only &diat it needs for its obligations.” “The President has apparently been awakened by the election to the fact that the people will not countenance tampering with the Government's revenues for political effect. ’’ Coolidge, through his spokesman, indicated he would recommend tax reduction in a message to Congress when it reconvenes Dec. 6. The plan would affeci only income and corporation taxes —not the miscellaneous and so-called nuisance taxes. 1 WILL AID IN MANAGEMENT OF ‘BIG MEETINGS Committee for Y. M. C. A. Gatherings to Be Organized Sunday. A '‘committee of 100” chosen to help manage the Sunday “Big Meetings" of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Indianapolis has been I announced by Edgar H. Evans, rep I rescnljrig association directors. The 1 annual organization meeting of this committee will lie held Sunday afternoon. A. H. Godard, general secre tary, will lead the discussion. At the opening meeting. Nov. 14, Dr. Simon P. Dong of Chicago will speak on “Rules of a Simple Shoemaker." Anew ruling of the “Big Meetings" this year is that women as well as men are invited. The “committee of 100" includes the following: J. G. Murray. P. C. Morgan Harry MoGmry. Huirli Miles Maine Hiram. C. F. Neiman. B. F. Newman, A. D. Orr. J G. Patten. W. K. Payne. t-\ W. Parrish. W (J. Prontor, It. V. Quinn. S. A. Quear H A Reynolds. J T Roberts. M E. Rare. C. H. Reusch. William Raine, T. C. Sohad. M. O. Smith. A. T. Smith. C. M. Bower. Paui Bratton. C. J. Buchanan H. F. Bond C. H Becker. Claude Bridges. Earl Biddinger. F A. Barnes M M. Clapp. A. H. Connelly. W. C. Clapp. Wawie Cobb. Elmer Cull. J. C. Donner. C K. Eller. H. K English. .1. H. Hamilton. O. S Hadley M S Hoover. William Humphrey. C. A Hllgenberr Ray raraid Hereth D W Jackson. W A. Jenkins. I. F. -lone# F.msley W Johnson, C. R Smith. Earl Sigmon J M South. C. S.' Scores t. Andrew Soudah. O. E. Stmt hen. F 1 Todd. H. C Todd. Edward Tardy J B. Thompson, J. W. Thurston. Joseph Tavlor. F. V. Williams. J. M Whitley. C. L. Woeiz. W. A. Wood. J J Webster. C. H White. T B. Wiokhoff. Pr. W. N. Wisharri O. E Yates 1.. Wolf Fred Fas*wood. S. H Fletcher. W Z. Fleming C M Kinney. J 11. Frye. W S Frye w. K. Korsv'lie. J W Gallo way. Flovd Gaither. TV. W. Graves T P. llessonc. J. F. Huner, I). W. Heaton, B N llimher, W Hartensteip. E. A HanJup C. W. Hensley. C. B. Smith. B JSt Short, A. R. Stanfield. W. O. on'ii *E. I' Sentney. J. E Kennugh. J N. Imnnox. E F. Lentz. C. P Mawer. E F Mendell, C. C. Monday.

MR. FIXIT Civic Friend of Times Readers Back on Job,

Let Mr Flxlt present your ease to city officials. He Is The Times' representative at the ctly hall. Write him at The Times. Back to the mines! Mr. Fixit today resumes his daily column in The Indianapolis Times and will report regularly the progress made in obtaining relief for readers from city officials. "Keep the letters coming; some day I’ll tell you where I have been,” Is the word from Mr. Fixit. Bad case of bridge trouble was a problem today. DEAR MR. FIXIT: We wrote you some time ago regarding the condition of the bridge at Harding St. and White River, but have failed to hear from you or notice anything in The Times. J. F. WHITAKER. That bridge has suffered unusual experiences recently. A few days ago it cast its south pier into the river, but city officials promise they will begin repairs soon. DEAR MR. FIXIT: I call your attention to the fact that the powers that be have spent a great deal of the taxpayers’ money building anew bridge over Fall Creek at Senate Ave. I "For some reason or other the approach from the south has never been improved. At present this stretch of about a block is in very bad condition and no doubt will continue to get worse. ONE WHO TRAVELS THIS WAY. , Right you are, but the streets department officials contend it is better to wait until the approach settled before improving it. They i promise action as soon as that occurs. , Comes now a few cheerful words. DEAR MR. FIXIT: We are at last able to use the alley separating Adams and La Salle Sts. without getting stuck in the mud, due to the arrival of a load of cinders last week. I want to thank you for your efforts in obtaining this relief. * TAXPAYER

Indiana Chapter of Harpists to Give Sunday Concert at the Little Theatre

■' \ JL , Jkv. T r * The Louise Sohellstlunid.-Kocliiie llarp Trio, which will he one of the ensemble groups of a concert to he given Sunday afternoon, Nov. 11, at the Playhouse of the Little Theatre. In tills group, left, to right, arc Helene Harrison (ilosabrenner, Louise Schellschmidt-Koehne and Alberta McCain Gaunt. This concert will he under the direction of the Indiana Chapter of Harpists of the National Association of Harpists, 1 tic.

IRTUOSO choral singing in its I I most interesting forms will I Ihe exemplified at the coming concert of the Mendelssohn Choir, to be given at the National Guard Armory auditorium Monday evening, Nov. 22. At this concert there will also ho heard for the first time in this city one of the world's greatest priina donnas, Madame Rosa Raisa, dra matic soprano of the Chicago Opera Company. The work of this artist has given her a place with the great queens of song of olden days, such as Patti. Nordlca and Lehmann. Madame Raisa will give a program of operatic arias and modern concert songs. Aimer Andrew Steffen, conductor of the Mendelssohn Choir, is nowputting the finishing touches on the 125 or more singers who are to participate in the concert. As this is the tenth anniversary concert of the organization an unusually diversified - and ambitious program is being prepared, much approaching the nature of a music festival rather than a concert. Eight chorals numbers will he presented by the choir, as sisted by two violinists and two pianists. The opening number will be a fantasy on a Russian folk song hy Samuel R. Gaines. This composition won the international first prize in a ccmpetltion offered in 1020 by the Schumann Club of New York. The theme of several Russian folk songs is announced by the two violin obligatos and piano and re-echoed by the full choir. A great diversity of movements and tempo is heard in this number, which is of fifteen minutes' duration. It is arranged with a prologue and an epilogue, in which the simulation of thundering Russian bassos is heard, interspersed at intervals with brilliant Cossack waltzes. Mrs. El trier Miller and Miss Maud Custer, two Indianapolis violinists, will assist in the rendition of this number. Caesar Franck's well-known choral number,'the "150th Psalm," will be rendered with anew accompani•ment for two pianos, especially written for this concert by Samuel R. Gaines. Mrs. Dorothy Knight Greene will assist at the piano, with Paul R. Matthews accompanist for the Mendelssohn Choir. One hundred and twenty five sing ers, who will participate in the con cert, have been selected from the best trained vocal talent of Indianapolis churches of all denominations. Among these singers are soloists and choir directors of known ability. thus assuring a degree of vocal production and musical attainment not found in ordinary choral organizations. The sale of tickets for subscribers to the concert will open Thursday, Nov. tl. at the Mendelssohn Choir office. 27 E Ohio St ’l' I’ + “|7pT| HE Barber of Seville,’’ to he I | I presented here by a special T 1 J grand opera organization formed hy Universal Artists, Inc., to display the operatic prowess of Feodor Chaliapin, ha.s a very simple, hut exceedingly amusing pint, here with presented, and recommended to all who anticipate attending the performance of "The Barber" at the Murat on Monday night. Dec. 6. "The Barber of Seville" ("I| Barhiero di Siviglia), a comic opera in two acts, the book by Sterbini; the music hy Gioachino Antonin Rossini. Original cast of characters in the first performance at the Theatro Argentina, Rome. Feb. 5. 1816: Roslna Signora Oionri-Risrhr'tti gtTta Signorina Rossi Figaro ........ Sign fir Luigi Zambont II Conte Almaviva . . Signor Manuel Garrio II nottore Bartolo Signor Botticelli Don Baslllo Signor Vitarelll The story of the opera is drawn from Beaumarchais’ comedy of like name. The scene is laid in Seville. Dr Bartolo, a erust.v old is guardian of the fawinalinr Rosina. He horns to win her consent to become his wile and to save nor from the attentions of others keep extremely strict watch and ward over her But tile old proposition remains true. "Love laughs at loeksmiths." The Count Almaviva has seen her, and her charm* have bewitched him. Rosina herself feels a strong inclination for the swain who Is known to her only by the name of Lindoro Almaviva. to further his suit, and In the hope of obtaining an Interview follows Proteus' advice in "The Two Gentlemen of Verona." and visits his lady's chamber with a "sweet concert." Ftiter Figaro, the town factotum, who is promptly enlisted in an enterprise which has for its end the intrbduetion of the lover Into the house in which Dr. Bartolo keeps his ward a prisoner. Twice the precautions of the jealous old guardian are rendered futile Almaviva comes in the disguise of a drunken soldier, who claims to have been billeted upon the Doctor: he manages to make himself known to his inamorata, exchanges letters with her. but only escapes arrest at the end by making himself known to a body of soldiery who were about to carry him off. Bv the sudden change in their attitude toward the rude Intruder. Dr Bartolo is astonished and becomes the object of Figaro's pranks. Next the lover dons the hat and gown of a music master and gets into the presence of his mistress on the pretense that her teacher, the famous Don Balilio. is ill and has asked him to take his place Th real Basilto. the leading buffo comic character of the piece, and a role which Feodor Chaliapin has given a treatment which Las glorified It for all other Interpreters, comes, and there Is a moment of confusion. from which Figaro relieves the lovers hy persuading Baailio that he Is really 111 with a raging fever and bundling him out of the room Figaro obtains the key of the balcony and a midnight elopement Is

planned, but is frustrated by the discovery that tin- ladder leading from the balcony In the ground has been carried away M an while 'Bartolo. bavins obtained Rosina s promise to marry him. arranges for the notary's visit That official, however, is persuaded by Figaro to draw up and attend to the attestation of a marriago agreement te l y o Count Almaviva and Rosina. and finding that all his precautions haVa tern useless. Bartolo gives his blessing to the young pi-oplc. Other notable first performances of the “Barber” took place as follows: The Ixipdon premiere was on March 10, 1818, at the King's Theater. The principal singers were .Mme. Fodor, Manuel Garcia, Ambrogettl and Naldi. The Paris perform anee took place on Oct. 26, 1819, in the Sallie Dnuvois, with Ronzi de Begnis, one of tiie most beautiful women of her time, as Rosina. Others In the Paris cast were Manuel fiarcia, Pellegrini and De Begnis. The first complete New York performlnce was on Nov. 29, 1825, with Mali •'an. Garcia, Garcia Jr., and Angrisani. I -|- -IThe first advanced students' recital of the season of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will lie given Monday, Nov. 8. at 8:10 p. nt. in the college auditorium. The following is the program: “Sonata 'First Movement). Op. •'!! No. 2" Beethoven Marv Virginia Wallace (Cramerl. (a) "Hard Trials' Burleigh (hi "Perspicacity" Grattan Es* her Oakes (Johnson). "May Night ' . Palmgrcn Georgianna Brown (Beauchamp) “Concerto No. 7. G Major (Allegro mod raio—Andante cantaoilc. Dcßeriot Thelma Rubush (Schaefer) “Friend o Mine - Sanderson Robert Weiler iFriermoodb “Prelude From First Modern Suite".. MaoDowell Francis Robbins (Beauchamp* "Yewor Dream" Zamoneek "Spinning Wheel" Krans "Polish Dance" Zameuocl. The Dauner Trio— Louise. Dorothy and Helen Dauner "Care Selve" Handel "Tcs Yeux" Habey Mrs, C. F. Cox ( Fricrniood I. "Polk hinelle Rachmaninoff Maxine Vandcrgrifi (Cramer). •'Vision Fugitive ( Heroclladoi . . Massenet L, B Van AFedall (Jefry). "Waltz m E Major" Moszkowski Gertrude Whelan (Cramer). The Studio Club of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will hold its first meeting at the College on Wednesday, Nov. 10. at 7:30 p. m. Mrs. l>*nora Coffin, teacher of history and music appreciation will present the subject "Oriental and Ancient Music.” This club is free to all students, parents and music lovers and all are cordially invited to attend without further notice. ■ These meetings will he held on the second Wednesday night of the month for the season. • * * T' "1 HE Patton Ensemble, of Ms rion, Indiana, assisted by Mary Virginia Wallace, will give a program to the Columbia Club, Sunday afternoon, Nov. 14. be fore the business women’s section of the Department Club. Miss Patton will talk on the violin and chamber music, In addition to giving an appreciation of the numbeiß of the program. Miss Patton is a teacher In the violin department of the Indiana Col-

Religious Quiz

These questions concern .Biblical and historical religious events. The correct answers appear on page 14: 1— What incident of Biblical history is shown in the accompanying picture? 2 Who were the Druids? 3 Did Confucius live before Christ? 4 Who is the villian in the story of Job? 6—What wan Asa’s covenant with God? 6 What prophet separated the waters of the Jordan hy casting his mantle upon them? 7ln what city did Martin Luther burn the pope's “fire-decree”? 8— What is I,ent? 9 Who founded the religious order of Jesuits? 10— How many historically important crusades were there?

lege of Music and Fine Arts and Mary Virginia Wallace Is a student of Bomar Cramer, artist piano teacher of the college. Miss Eleanora Beauchamp, teacher of piano in the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts and Mrs. Tidball of Columbus. Ind., will give a joint recital before the Cohtmbus Matinee Musical on Friday evening, Nov. 12. • • • EAMES HATTON, pupil of Glenn Friermood, voice toafh er in the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts won third prize in the tenor voice contest in Ihe finals of the Philadelphia Kesqul centennial contests In Philadelphia last Mouda.v. Mr. llalton had previously won the Htato and district con tests. These contests were conducted hy the National Federation of Music Clubs. Bonier Cramer, teacher of organ at the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, will broadcast an organ recital, Tuesday night, Nov. 9, as sisted by Ooie Higgins. Miss Higgins has been engaged for soprano soloist at the Central Christian Church. Mildred Schmedei, contralto, has on engaged at the Falrview Presbyterian Church and Tom Broadstreet. baritone, has been engaged at the Second Presbyterian f'hureh. Miss Higgins, Miss Schinedel. and Mr. Broadstreet are pupils of Glenn Friermood. voice teacher of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts. Mrs. Henry Sehurmann, president of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, leaves today lo attend the board meeting of the-National Federation of Music Clubs, nt Memphis, Tennessee. Mrs. Sehurmann is national chairman of Ihe committee on revisions of by-laws for the Biennial Convention. • • • ISS GRACE HUTCHINGS. |]y|| pianist of the Metropolitan ii School of Music, will go to Lyons Tuesday evening with Pr. Sherman Davis of (he faculty of I. lb, and Mrs. Davis, contralto, to give a lecture-recital on "Indian Music and Negro Spirituals.” They will give the same program at Martinsville Friday evening. Kelton Whestine, pianist of (he Metropolitan School of Music, will give a recital at Boor’s Hall, Anderson, Saturday evening. He will also play a return engagement af the home of Mrs. A. C. Llngqulst in Muncle, Nov. 21. Marlon Fehrenbarh, Janet Nogle, and Mary Ellen Cooper, students in dramatic art under Miss Helen Sartor of the Metropolitan School of Music, will assist piano pupils of Mrs. Gladys Fowler in a recital Thursday evening, at the First Nazarine Church. Miss Dorothy Steward, soprano pupil of Miss Frieda Holder of the Metropolitan School of Music, will he soloist Sunday at the Morris Street. Methodist Church. Miss Norma Justice of the dramatic art department, of the Metropolitan School of Music, gave a program in Lyons Saturday evening. Miss Virginia Soltan, pupil of Miss Frieda Holder of the Metropolitan School of Music, has been appointed pianist at School No. 78. * * * The John Herron Art Institute announces a musical program to he givon at 3:30 on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 14. by members of the faculty of the Metropolitan School of Music. The program will bo given hy the following faculty members: Willard MacGregor, Hugh McGlhner, violin sonata; Miss Frieda Hetder, soprano: Miss Frances Beik, reader, and instrumental trio, Donna Watson, violin: Adolph Schell schmidt, collo; Earle Howe Jones, piano. • • • SHE Ensemble Orchestra of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, directed by George Irish, will play Its regular dinner concert Supday night at the I. A. C. from 5 to 9 o'clock. Cyrilla Adelaide Tuite, soprado, will sing. The program follows: “I'm On Mr Wav Home" Berlin "My Pai v Jerry” ttoss "Cherte. I Love You” Gomlmnr "Camille' . Sherman Selection. "George White's Seamlals' • Henderson •At Sunset Rroveer "Huguette's Valsr" Friml Vocal Solo. “Mah I.tnilv Lou". Strickland Miss Tuite. "Traumert” Sehuman "The T.ittle White Mouse" Hanley "Hippie" Masapne't “Sav It With a t7ke" . Myers Vocal Solo. "Moonlight on the Ganges Mvers Selection. "The Student Prince ". Romberg “Had I But Known" Axt Vocal Solo. Th ■ Golden Girl’. Broo: es "Lleberet.'a'iin" Liszt Three Songs From Eliland". .Von Fielltz “Silent Woe," "Secret Greetings," Anathema.” “Naughty Marietta" ............ Herbert "My Heart Wlil Tell Me So’’. Blaufus*

NOV. 6, 1926

Tracy -Boston College Riot Logical Result of Lax Discipline,

By M. E. Tracy You can’t teach young peopl* to be decent, responsible tuid well behaved by merely pumping so much knowledge into them. That is about all the student riot in Boston suggests. Old fogies may denounce it as disgracet'ul and flaming youths may regard it ns a good lark, but It Is only the logical result of herding on the hand and lax discipline on the other. Our colleges cannot grow big and free from restraint at the same time. We not only defy common sense, but ignore What we are doing in other lines to suppose they can. Mass activities whether in the factory. on the battlefield or at the uni verslty, call for increased system and order. Henry Ford permits no such freedom amongst his workmen as does the boss of a small crew and he couldn't produce automobiles so cheaply or efficiently If he did. I- -I- + Unafraid Mussolini Those convicted of or of attempting to assassinate tlvl King, the Queen, the Crown Prince, the regent, the premier, or other high officials will he punished by death, while those conspiring to do the same will he punished hy from fifteen to thirty years Imprisonment, and all such will he tried hy what amounts to no less than drumhead court martial. All newspapers, periodicals and publications opposed to the fascist regime are to he suspended indefinitely. Italians abroad, who say things or do things that reflect on the country, its institutions or Its government, will he severely dealt with when caught. All passports now In force are annulled and the most rigid rules anil provided for the Issuance of new ones. • * Police on the frontier will shoot to kill If they find anyone trying to cross it illegally. These are some of the more Important measures which an unafraid Mussolini proposes for a contented people. I- I- + Millar's Joke, Charles Vaneo Millar, renowned Canadian lawyer and sportsman, who died last Saturday, leaves $25,000 in race track stock to three distinguished opponents of racing provided they will draw dividends on It for throe years; sjoo,ooo In hrewory stock to each of seven Methodist ministers provided they draw dividends and participate In the manßj Mgomont of the company, and slo,oo® in cash to a Catholic priest to masses for the soul of a. man "who will need them wherever ho Is." Millar's friends are disposed to regard the will In which these hequests are made ns a joke and think a later one will he found to supercede it. Ope clause In It, however, which explains that Millar *ft. stock to opponents of racing and ministers “to see whether their avarice for money was greater than their principles, " suggests that he was grimly sincere. The residue of his estate. Including the race track and brewery stock, if those to whom it was left refuse ,to accept It. will l>e given to the parents of the largest family born In tho Province of Ontario between now and 1935. and that, perhaps, Is the greatest Joke of all. I I- -|. Tax Cut Next So far as you, I snd several million other ordinary folks are eon eerned, the most satisfying effeet of the recent election shows up It) the mind of Congressman Madden, chairman of the house committee, who feels quite sure there will be a (ax cut. “T am certain,” he says, "that another reduction can he made, and 1 will recommend it, as I did tlie last f>ne. There will be a surplus in the treasury at the end of this year. It will amount to about $250,000,000. Next year we will undoubtedly be able to arrange a. new tax cut." When votes are translated in such a practical way as that, they meaiL something. jM •I- I- IMills and Mrs. Hall Little Jimmy Mills, husband of th<* slain choir singer in the famous New Jersey murder case now on trial. Is described as "a typically ineffective male,” while Mrs. Frnnees Stevens Hall, wife of tho slain rector, 1s pictured as a stern, and perhaps too effective female. This may explain why tho wife of the former and the husband of the latter found each other’s company so congenial. It is tho mannish woman tlint repels men and the womanish man that repels women. Even those who suffer tho handicap realize this. Mr. Mills, in sptto of his lack of masculinity, wants tho world to know that he did not "clean tho church" since that was woman's work, while Mrs. Hall posed for twenty-two photographs Just before the trial opened In order to show people that she was not old, ugly and ill favored. I- -I- IAnnie Oakley Mrs. Annie Oakley, who died Thursday and who will go down in history as the greatest riflewoman of her time, is said to have taught no less than 20,000 women to shoot. There is little douht that many A these taught other women to and that Mrs. Oakley’s Instruction led to an amazing improvement In female marksmanship throughout the country. You run find evidence of it In , court and coroners' records which prove that the fatalities among hu-j bands confronted by Irate wives slttk guns In their hands have iricra&sk|| beyond all expectation.