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THE MODERN GALLEY SLAVES OF ROME If it is true that history repeats itself then Premier Mussolini of Italy is now engaged in driv-, ing nails into his own coffin. Since the attempt against his life a week ago Sunday the whole Italian people have lived virtually under martial law while a sort of war of reprisals has gone on. The cry of “no quarter” for the enemies of the regime ms gone up and the police are trying to make the country safe for fascism by the simple process of exterminating all opposition, root and branch. Italian prisons, dispatches say, are filling up, while imprisonment or death has been decreed for all who talk, write, act or plot against the regime or its leaders. Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of opinion, the right of citizens to hold meetings and discuss public questions freely—the very liberties which modern peoples have come to prize most —have been suppressed. vAnd every Italian must henceforth embrace—or pretend to embrace—the one, unique idea of fascism, or suffer the consequences. “Two eyes for one,” says Dictator Mussilini, “and for one tooth a whole set of teeth!” The czars of Russia were the last absolute raonarchs who tried to maintain themselves in power like that. But if you inquire where they are today the only answer will be a ghostly echo from the tomb. A river can be dammed so long. Steam can be confined for a spell. But dams are swept away and lids blow off eventually and the higher the dam and the heavier the lid the bigger the damage when the break comes. Now there are some 40,000,000 people in Italy and it is entirely too much to expect that they all hold identical opinions. Mussolini may be sitting on the lid now,'but even he can not alter a law of nature. The human mind is not only the mightiest of all earthly forces, but is the highest explosives of them all. No true friend of Italy and of Mussolini can view what is happening without sadness. The dictator has done much for his country. His dreams of anew and mightier Roman empire is, of itself, to his credit, while there is every reason to believe he is almost fanatically sincere when ho says he is acting for the greater good of the Italian people. The chief trouble lies in his method. Instead of enlisting a voluntary crew and skippering a happy craft, he seems about to convert the Italian ship of state into a business-like trireme, graceful, colorful and splendid to look upon but, inside, filled with straining millions of galley-slaves chained to the oars, and afraid of the lash as over them he sits grimly beating time. And that sort of thing can not long endure.

HONOR TO WALTER CAMP We are in an age which glorifies physical perfection. In line with this demand of the age is the recent honor given the late Walter Camp, football coach, father of the All-America team idea, and author of “The Daily Dozen” exercises, which probably have kept thousands of persons from early graves. Harvard was playing Dartmouth in the Harvard Stadium. The first half was over. A bugler took his stand on the parapet at the horseshoe end of the stadium. ' He blew taps, silhouetted there against the sky. Fifty-three thousand persons stood at attention, silent and grave. When the last clear notes of the bugle had died, the flag which had been at half mast was raised, and the two college bands played “America” while the crowd sang. Thus does America glorify her prophets of health and health-giving sport, and rightly so! WHEN LITTLE WORDS GROW BIG The Earl of Oxford and Asquith has just, released, coincidental with his relinquishing the leadership of the Liberahparty, anew bookThe book is called “Fifty Years of British Parliament.’’ It is not another “now-it-can-be-told” book. It has none of the vitriolic, backbiting savor of that book by his wife, Margot Asquith, which sent all England into panic as the great and the near-great discovered confidences made to Ladj? Asquith laid taie in her diary. The earl, in a scholarly manner, merely tolls what has been going on in Parliament for the last half century. One chapter on “Political Catchwords” is espe- • daily interesting. The earl comments on his own phrase “wait and see,” which he says became political slang, was “caricatured into a maxim of policy,” and was nothing after all but “a common colloquialism.” So America is not the only nation which reads grave meaning into words of little consequence when uttered by big men! A NEWSPAPER’S BIRTHDAY Today the Washington Daily News is celebrating its fifth anniversary and it is a gladsome occasion in the national capital. The newspaper itself is marking the occasion with the largest number of pages its plant can print and the merchants of the city by offering more advertising than this maximum edition is able to hold. Readers are showing their appreciation with messages of good will and wishes for long continued prosperity. The Washington Daily News has a direct connection with this -community. Asa member of the Scrlpps-Howard organization it makes it a duty to reflect the view’s and the desires of Indianapolis whenever an issue affecting this section comes before the national Government. Just as the Times has the largest news gathering organization in Washington, so the Washington Daily News has the most extensive news gathering affiliations in the country at large. Not only because it is a particularly bright and attractive member of the Scripps-Howard concern, but because It serves in Washington the interests of Indianapolis and surrounding territory, the Times joins enthusiastically in the chorus of congratulations ’ pouring in today on this Washington 5-year-old.

SMITH AND VARE There are more ways than one of looking at political corruption. TJie following editorial from the Washington Post reveals one way: “If Senators-elect Frank L. Smith of Illinois and William S. Vare of Pennsylvania should bo denied admission, tho Republicans will be unable to keep control of the Senate. With Smith and Vare they would have forty-eight votes which, with the Vice. President’s vote, would enable them to hold committee chairmanships. They would thus to a great extent shape the policy of Congress and the Government in finance, appropriations, foreign relations, commerce and all other matters. “By voting to prevent Messrs. Smith and Vare from taking the oath of office, Republican chairmen of committees would be voting to deprive themselves of places of great prestige and influence. They would be placing the Democratic party In control of the Senate. The consequences of this act might be the loss of the presidency and Congress by the Republicans in 1928.” MUSSOLINI AND THE BOY Again Mussolini has been avenged. The mad 18-year-old youth who attempted to shoot “II Duce” a few days ago, was stabbed and beaten to death by an avenging mob. An official statement from “II Duce” issued soon after the incident, merely says that "the first gesture of justice has .been accomplished.” A fairly new Italian law makes it a capital crime to attack the premier. It was the multitude that demanded .this law, the multitude which looks to Mussolini as its savior and tells of the shoes on children’s feet and the schooling given those who once were not taught to read and write. It is a hit hard to reconcile this Mussolini, who is enshrined in the heart of the masses with a Mussolini who merely looked on, grim and tight-lipped, as a slip of a boy was pounded to pulp by a mob. Attempts to murder anyone, premiers included, should be severely punished, of course. But there are courts. It is hard to conceive of any country countenancing mob law in these days, no matter how grave the offense. One would imagine Mussolini would want to question that boy, wonder about the mental and emotional processes in his being, gain more insight into tho hearts and minds of his enemies, before vengeance was done. Still, .precedents must be established. It is not likely that any of those teeming thousands who saw the boy killed will fire at the premier or hurl a gleaming stiletto at him! Headlines you never see: MUSSOLINI CREATES SCORE OF JOBS TO HELP HIM GOVERN. . A short walk every day will help your health—if you don’t get run over. Four centenarians died within a montn in Ireland. What we want to know is what kind of armor they wore. England has a man 41 inches in height who can walk under .an omnibus. But who wants to walk under an omnibus?

WHY THEY CANT GET OUT THE VOTE ■ By N. D. Cochran- 1 Little if any headway is being made toward persuading citizens to register and vote by telling them it is their duty or by abusing them as slackers if they don’t vote. There has been plenty of preaching at them, plenty of abuse and calling of names. But still about 50 per cent of eligible voters don’t vote. So that method isn’t effective. Unless there is something to stir them to action many people won’t take the time and bother to register and vote. Punishment for not voting, like depriving voters of the right to vote if they don’t exercise it when they have the right, won’t do the business. Too many feel there Is punishment in exercising the right. That is, they have to go to the voting booth, maybe stand in line and wait their turn, answer the same old questions year after year and then go to the booth again on election day and lose time W’altlng their turn to vote. If some issue is involved that interests them enough, they'll take the time and trouble to register and vote. If they are strong for or against somebody running for office they’ll vote. But if it is merely to choose between two sets of candidates and they don't know any of them, they don’t see any sense in wasting their time to do something they don’t care anything about doing. Members of party organizations vote, of course. They either hold political jobs or hope to hold them. There’s something in it for them. But voting doesn't prove that they love their country any more than those who don’t vote love it. Voting is no proof of patriotism. Neither is holding office. The machinery of the party organizations is made up of job-holders or would-be job-holders. Political conventions are made up mostly of delegates who are job holders. Theoretically they are public servants. Practically they are masters. In the next Republican national convention, for illustration, among the delegates will be found United States Senators and Congressmen, collectors of customs and internal revenue, United States marshals and district attorneys, other officials and employes of the Federal Government, Governors, State Senators and representatives, State, city and county officials and employes of their friends. There won’t be so many Federal officials in the Democratic national convention because they’re not holding many Federal jobs under Coolidge. But State, county and city officials will be there—people who make their living out of politics. And it suits their purpose if voters who don’t hold office and don’t belong to the organization, don’t register and vote; for it is easier for machine politicians to keep control of party organizations if voters the machine can’t control stay away from primaries and conventions. After nominations have been made by the organization bosses then they* want all voters tagged with their party label to vote at the election. They rely on the great majority having the party habit so fixed that they'll vote the party ticket made up by the bosses. Independent voters then have only a choice between the machine-made party tickets. When there is a real fight on more people will register and vote. The longer the sham battle between the two old parties is kept up the larger the number of non-voting citizens will be. In the meantime the system of registration should be changed so that once voters have registered they’ll stay registered until they die or move to some other voting precinct. The duty stuff is bunk. It doesn’t mean anything. Efficiency and convenience suggest that people register and vote by mall.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Eddie Ash, Sport Writer, and Movie Critic Give Their Thoughts on Red Grange and His Photoplay

By Walter D. Hickman There is anew song out called “There Is a New Star in Heaven Tonight,” referring to Valentino. And there seems to be anew movie star on this earth, referring to Red Grange. Football made this man a “star” after the public decided lie was its favorite.

To me, football is drama and at times comedy, but it does have that

quality which makes good theater. It is not surprising that one of the stars in football should become a movie “star.” When Red Grange gave up his ice wagon and the college campus and became a professional football player, he demonstrated that he was “great box office.” And the theater does not sneer at one who can roll up high grosses. And so Red Grange was

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welcomed into the movie fold. And now we have Red Grange in a specially constructed movie vehicle, “One Minute To Play.” The story concerns what is supposed to happen in small time college life. At times and often the story does not ring true, especially when the president of one of the colleges Ifcnvs to the will of a man who had promised a large endowment gift to the college. And this Santa Claus of the college was against football and he would not allow the college to make a football player out of his son. If they did, not a red cent would he give the college. I was anxious to see Red Grange as a movie actor. I saw two private showings of this picture before I was ready to tell you about it. Grange must have a natural “nose” for things theatrical. He is what they call a man’s man, a big, fine specimen of a football fighter. It must be said in Red’s favor that he doesn’t attempt any sheik love making tactics when he pulls the campus moonlight stuff. He gave me the impression that he was just Red Grange all the way through the picture, although the story wasn’t true to college life at times. And it is this natural quality of Red Grange which gives this picture its main cause for ever being made. Grange dosen’t do as much football playing in this picture as I expected and wanted. Oh, yes, there Is a football game in this, picture, but the author, for reasons of suspense, keeps Red out of the game until the last minute. I am sure that your interest will center mostly upon Red Grange. The future will tell how good or how bad a movie actor he really is. Grange knows how to play the role of a football player. The future will tell just how well he can play other roles before the camera. The bill includes an overture by the Circle Orchestra: Dessa Byrd at the organ; “The Midnight Follies” and other events. At the Circle all week. -I- -I- -IEVERYTHING IS JAZZ AT THE OHIO THEATER About as hot a show as I have seen in many moons. That’s my general verdict of the Jazz Week program at the Ohio. The program has three “hit” departments—First Charlie Davis and his gang; second, Bob Gordon and

his musical adventure with the pipe organ, and third, Monty Banks in his comedy, “Atta Boy.” Davis is getting along splendidly with his intimate “gang” p r e s e n t ations. Each week ho makes his programs a little smoother. Tho jazz week program is by far the best he has given. He opens up with “The Birth of the Blues" in which his soloist has a

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corking good chance. Then there is a woman jazz singer from Chicago who sings "Breezin’ Along With The Breeze” and for the big wow, Davis presents two colored boys who own at least two pair of tho most wicked dancing feet in the world. These two lads with Davis’ orchestra just spillin’ the hotest kind of hoofin’ music about tore up the theater when I was present. • Talk about hot dancing and hot music—You do not need the heat on at the Ohio this week. Tho amosphere is hot enough. Boh Gordon at the organ is introducing anew song this week. The theme *s about a guy wanting a girl to boas jealous over him as he is over her. Then the author of the piece appears and sings it. Good, catchy melody. Should get over with ease. Monty Banks has gone a long way forward in being a featured comedian. This Is proved by his work in “Atta Boy,” which is a travesty or burlesque upon the movie idea of the life of a newspaper man.Banks as the copy boy who is kidded into the position of being a star reporter, has a role which is rich in business. This comedian takes a lot of punishment, physical, in this picture. At times he is nearly a human punching bag. The trick automobile scene is a thriller. About as clever a bit of fun as I have seen on the screen this season—the scenes devoted to Banks riding on top of a ladder which is placed in an automobile without a driver. It is sure thrilling. A knockout show is on view at the Ohio all week. -I- -I- -IANOTHER “ABIE” CANDIDATE ARRIVES There seems to bo but two divisions of comedy dramas this season. One —those that resemble “Abie’s Irish Rose.” The other —those that don’t resemble “Able.” And “Private Izzy Murphy,” with George Jessel is one that resembles

“Abie” and is the latest “Abie” candidate. The first part of the picture gives Jessel a comedy opportunity. He runs two food joints in New York, one under a Jewish name and the other under an Irish name. When he falls in love with an Irish girl he uses the Irish name. The second part is sob drama, just crowded full of sentimental applesauce, but really well done. Izzy goes to war under his Irish name because he wants to retain the love of his Irish sweetheart. Ills Irish name is reported among those listed as dead. This brings the Irish sweetheart and Izzy’s mother together In several touching scenes. You know that these scenes*are well handled the second that you learn that Vera Gordon is cast as the Jewish mother. And how this woman can act in such roles. Patsy Ruth Miller is the sweetheart, and a sweet little thing she Is in this movie. _ Jessel, you know Is highly successfull on the stage these days because he is doing great business in Chicago in “The Jazz Singer.” Jessel Is interesting to me djecause he seems to get into the spirit of his work at all times. He never would win in a beauty contest, but he has that sincerity of purpose about hint which puts him over both on the stage and on the screen. I am well aware of the fact that many will say that “private Izzy Murphy” is just hoakum all dressed up in sob sentiment. Will grant that, but it is darned good theater at that. I enjoyed this one. The stage presentation this week is being given by Ben Light and company. Bill includes Floyd Thompson and his band, anew reel and other events. At the Colonial all this week.

-I- -I- -I‘FOI R HORSEMEN” RETURNS TO CITY When a picture is a good picture, when first presented, it is always a good picture. “The Four Horsemen” was a good and great picture when it was first shown the public, and it will always be a good picture, even fifty years from now. The reason for bringing it out again at this time is due to the death of Valentino. All of his old pictures became suddenly marvelous box office draws from the time of his death. “The Four Horsemen” is a strong enough picture to stand upon its own feet and not upon the reputation of a movie actor who no longer exists. This picture really made Valentino. No doubt about that. It is not necessary at this time to go into detail concerning this picture, because I have devoted a lot of space at other times to it. You probably will want the cast again and here it is: Julio Desnoyers Rudolph Valentino Marjruerite Luurier Alice Terry Madariaga the Centaur . . Pomeroy Cannon Mareelo Desnoyers Joseph Swiekarci Celendonio Brinsley Shaw Karl \ on Hartrott Alan Hah Dona Luisa Bridgetta ClarU Elena Mabel Van Buren Arpensola .... Brodwitch (Smoke) Turner Trhernoff Nigel De Brulier Laurier John Sainpnlis Senator Eaeour Mark Kenton Chichi Virginia Warwick Rene Eaeour . Derek Ghent Capt. Von Hartrott / Stuart Holmes Prof. Von Hartrott Jean Hersholt Hemrieh Von Hartrott ..... Henrv Klaus Eodgekeeper Edward Connelly Lodgekeeper's Wife .. Georgia Wooilthorpe Georgette Kathleen Key Lieut. Col. Von Rlchthoffen . Wallace Beery Captain D'Anbrey Jacques D’Auray Major Blumhardt Curt Rehfeld Mile. Lucette (the Model) ... Mile. Dolorez The French Butcher “Bull ' Montana The German Woman Isabel Keith Her Husband Jacques T.anoe Conquest Noble Johnson Tho Count , Harry Northrup The Old Nurse Minnehaha Lieutenant Schnits Arthur Hoyt Dancer Beatrice Dominguez ‘The Four Horsemen” will always be a great picture. Bill includes Russell Robinson and his entertainers; Lester Huff at , the organ, and a news reel. At the ApoUlo all week. -I- I- -I-“Ben-Hur,” movie version, opened an engagement at English’s last night. It will be reviewed in Tuesday’s Times. Other theaters today offer: “Abie's Irish Rose” at the Murat; “Yip, Yip, Yaphangers” at the Lyric; Syncopation Show at the Palace; Dade and Wahl at Keith’s; “Fine Manners” at Sanders; “Tramp, Tramp. Tramp” at the South Side; “The Strong Man” at the Uptown; “No Man's Gold” at the Isis and burlesque at the Mutual.

TURNVEREIN WILL HAVE ANNIVERSARY Celebration of Seventy-Fifth Birthday This Week. Seventy-fifth anniversary of the Indianapolis Turnverein will be held Friday and Saturday at the Athenaeum. A banquet Friday night will open the festivities for members and their families. Saturday night a public gymnastic exhibition will be presented. Out-of-town guests will attend the dinner. Charles Nagel, St. Louis, Mo., Secretary of Labor under President Taft, will speak. Other speakers will be: Governor Jackson, Lieut. Col. N. J. Koehler of the United States Army, Theodore Stempfel and Richard Kurtz. Richard Lieber will be toastmaster. National representatives of the American Gymnastic Union, with which the Turnverein is affiliated, and former instructors of the school, will attend. Six Indianapolis men founded the organization in 1851. PRINCE KNOWS HOW LONDON.—The Prince of Wales has mastered the Charleston and dances it with a skill and sense of rhythm that only professional dancers can equal. Recently at a popular supper resort? crowds watched and applauded his graceful efforts.

By Eddie Ash Times Sports Editor Allowing for Red Grange’s inexperience as a movie performer, the football picture at the Circle this week is worth the money. In fact “One Minute to Play” portrays campus activities of minor college life splendidly and the football that goes with the Grange feature is of the standard that puts a kick into it for the audience.

The few crude angles will be overlooked because the former world's greatest college grid player is given “plenty of play” In the show and his experiences as a student nnd football star no doubt will “go over big” with the average cinema fan who also Is a sport enthusiast. The picture is built around Red Grange as the freshman, "Red Wade,” in a small California rah, rah Institution, and though Red appeared rather old for a college yearling, the directors schemed a little to meet this fault. They simply made the hero a dumb boy In high school and explained It took him six years to flounder through a four-year course. At any rate Red went to college and a terrifflo college "Jam” In a smoking car changed his destination and he landed at an institution he had not started for. He was a fast worker, was Red, in fact unusually fast for a freshman. The co-ed love bug stung him before he even got to college. And furthermore he got himself a co-ed kiss while en route to “higher learning.” If you don't think that’s rapid play it might be mentioned that many rah rah boys don’t get to smack the skin you love to taste, until they are regarded as “veteran collegians,” or in other words, until they learn more about "fooling ’em.” Red eventually got “in bad” with his mates of “Old Parmalee” for not reporting for football at once, but said mates did not know he .was under a handicap. His “old man” owned a bank roll that would choke the Thundering Herd and he held a club over Parmalee with an endowment proposition. He said he did

Movie Verdict COLONIAL—George Jessel in “Private Izzy Murphy” is corking good entertainment. Sentimental? Yes, but good theater. OHIO —Monty Banks In “Atta Boy” does a bur'esque on the life of a star reporter on a newspaper. CIRCLE —Red Grange makes his debut as a movie “star” in “One Minute to Play.” APOLLO—"The Four Horsemen” has always been a great picture, and still is.

First Entry in Talent Hunt

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First entry in the Ardath-Times talent hunt is Miss Martha Hoyle, 3207 N. Illinois St., who is a graduate of the Metropolitan School of Acting, Indianapolis. Miss Hoyle states in her letter to Fred Ardath that she has played in many amateur productions, but has never had the opportunity of getting on the professional stage. “This Is just the chance I’ve been looking for," she says. Ho wmany are there, who, like Miss Hoyle, have just been waiting for an opportunity to break before the spotlight? Let you answer he your photo, n'tme, address, age, previous stage experience, if any, and stage training received, if any, written on a slip of paper sent to Fred Ardath, Palace Theater, Indianapolis, Ind. Fred Ardath will Judge your wares and if you have sufficient talent, and ability a tryout on the Palace stage will be granted you. If you show genuine rrierit you will be placed In Ardath’s productions or In productions designed for the vaudeville circuits. Tho Times is not acting as a booking agent for vaudeville acts, but is making an honest effort with Mr. Ardath to give everybody with real theatrical talent a chance to show it. FLORISTS TO aTtEND Purdue Will Dedicate Horticulture Bldg. Thursday. State Florists’ Association of Indiana will attend dedication of the new Hortlculaure Bldg, at Purdue University, Lafayette, Thursday. Armistice day program will be held in connection with the dedication. A dinner will be held In the evening. OHIO TERRIER WINNER Rock Bound’s Tangee. owned by Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Clark, of Lancaster, Ohio, was awarded first prize In the annual specialty show of Boston terriers held under auspices of the Boston Terrier Club of Indianapolis at Tomlinson hall Sunday, The club’s cup also went to the Lancaster terrier. More than 100 dogs were entered.

not bring up his boy to be a football maniac. But Red played and starred, and then got jolted by a visit from home on the eve of the crucial game with Claxton, the "Hostetter rival” of Parmalee. Night before the big fracas, bonfire, night shirt parade, ’n everything. Boxes, old Fords, signs, fences, barber poles, all went for fuel. Real stuff, that! But Red wasn’t there to join the other campus heroes in telling the rooters how Parmalee was going “to win tomorrow or die.” The picture will explain the “why” of Red’s absence. Red, after much suffering, finally got in the next day’s conflict and became a hero all over again. And as a reward he met up with hl3 favorite bonbon co-ed at the old trysting place and there was a hug, and a hug. Oh, well, the average collegian will understand that scene! The picture shows the raving coach between halves. Red Grange, aJ Red Wade, star of Parmalee. George (Wildcat) Wilson, former coast grid star, carrying the ball for terriffic yardage for Claxton. (The real George Wilson.) Happy college youths. Oh, so happy. A smart dog. Red’s pal. So smart in fact, he must have earned a degree at Allbright College. Beautiful bonfire. A “John Law” knocked for a “gool.” Student room glimpses, where students play while they work. Hold ’em! Hold ’em! Touchdown! Touchdown! And that’s “One Minute to Play.” Go to see this picture and to enjoy it. Not to criticise it.

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This test covers theatrical subjects. Both the legitimate stage and silent drama are included. The correct answers to the questions appear on page 14: 1— Who is shown in the accompanying picture? 2 Who played the lead in the picture, “The Sea Beast"? 3 Who is the author of the play, “What Every Woman Knows?" 4 Who played tho lead In the picture, "The Black Pirate?” 5 Who wrote the play, “Fallen Angels?” 6 What actor is noted for his interpretation of Merton In “Merton of the Movies”? 7 Who played the male lead in the picture, "Variety?” 8— Who is the famous star of the "The Music Master?" 9 Who directed the picture, "Way down East?” 10— Who played the female lead in the picture, "The Big Parade"?

RADIO CONTEST WINNERS ON AIR To Broadcast Baldwin Hour of Music Tonight. The Baldwin Hour of Music to be broadcast from WFBM this evening between 8 and 9 will he provided by the winners of tho Young Artists’ Contest, sponsored by the Philadelphia Sesquicentennlal music committee. The winning soprano of this district was Miss Ocle Higggins; the tenor, James Hatton, and the contralto, Miss Ruth Vivian Shorb, all of Indianapolis. Hatton received first place in the contest held In Toledo, and third place in the contest held in Philadelphia last week. Miss Higgins won second place at Toledo. The Lincoln String Trio will complete the program, which Is as follows: Selections from '“Queen High” Gensler , „ The Lincoln Trio. ‘‘Who Knows?” Sickles Oeie Hiiryins. "The Dream," from "Manon”... .Massenet „ James Hatton. "Nur Erne Naeht' Gravelle The Lincoln Trio. “Death and the Maiden” Schubert Ruth Vivian Shorb. (a) “Nocturne’’ Curran (b) Flirtation” Meyer-Helmund James Hatton. Overture to “fl Trovatore" Verdi The Lincoln Trio. (a) Exile" Burleirh (b) “My Soul Is Like a Garden Close' - Woodmaa Ocle Hlxg-ina (a) “Shadows” Carrie Jacobs Bond (b) “Jean" Burleigh Ruth Vivian Shorb and the Lincoln Trio. Berta Miller Ruick will be accompanist. Close to ¥15,000,000 was spent throughout the United Stated lust year for the presentation of broadcast programs.

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Tracy Hall-Mills Case Setting Record for Crime Publicity.

By M. E. Tracy The Hall-Mills case sets a record in crime publicity. On tho day Mrs. Jane Gibson, stur witness for tho State, collapsed; more than 500,000 words wero sent out. This is quite enough to revive the time honored dispute as to whether such publicity does more harm than good. Dr. Jumes Snowden, former professor at the Western Theological seminary, thinks it "fulfills a useful function.” “Os course there is much objec* tionable matter admitted to our newspapers,” ho says, “such as tho silly ‘Peaches’ Browning business, which becomes nauseous and most of us want to hear no more of it. As to the Hall-Mills case no other case In the history of our country has been so sensational. In the character of both victims and alleged perpetrators it is unprecedented. Whatever morbid curiosity may attend its publicity, the publishing of the facts in the case is socially necessary.” •I- ’l’ -ICrime Deterrent Crime la fathered by the thouglß that it can bo so contrived and ried out as not to be detected. tainty of punishment and exposing is its greatest deterrent. Ruthless publicity has a definite bearing on this certainty. Not only officials charged with enforcement of the law, but criminals who break It fear tho front page and the big headlines. More than one lazy sheriff has been spurred to action by what some people call sensational Journalism, and more than one fugitive from justice has been caught because at million eyes were permitted to gaze on his likeness. Beyond this, the public Is kept interested and wide awake. •I- -I- -ISunday’s Sermon In 1924, the American Express Company was being systematically • robbed at Elmira, N. Y. All attempts to catch the pilferers proved unavaibing. Neither the company’s own operators nor the private detectives who were brought In could get anywhere. Then Billy Sunday came to town, with his trained hymn singers, his high powered evengelism, and above all else, his soul-searing sermon “The Wages of Bln.” In one of the audiences was a woman whose guilty conscience could not withstand that sermon.’ ’ Returning to her home after hearing It, she spent a sleepless night, and early the next morning went to the police station to tell what, she knew about the express robberies. What she knew was enough lead the recovery of the vast amouHß of goods and the arrest of nirtw residents of the city. Not only that, but it was enough to start an investigation which, although lasting for two years, is apparently nos * finished yet sinoe two more arrests * were made on Saturday. -I- -I- -IHoudini and Spiritualism

In spite of the fact that he did more to cast doubt on their sincerity than any man who lived, spiritualists will endeavor to get into communication with the late Harry Houdlnl. ■Whether this is heaping coals of fire on his head, or Is taking an unfair advantage, now that he can no longer speak for himself to the great living audience, It does nqt alter the fact that the most serious and lasting side of his career was devoted 1" exposing what he believed to be the greatest fake of the modern world. He did not come to such a belief through sheer prejudice. At the outset ho not only investigated spiritualism, but practiced It with an open. If not a sympathetic, mind. “To me it was a lark,” he writes in his book, "A Magician Among the Spirits.” “I was a mystified, and as such my ambition was being gratified. “As I advanced to riper years of experience," he adds, "I was brought to the realization of the seriousness of triflng with tho hallowed reverence which the average human bestows on the departed, and when I personally became afflicted with siinjj lar grief I was chagrined should ever have been guilty of frivolity and for the first time realized that it bordered on crime.” •I- -I- f That Tax Refund President Ooolidge seems still unwilling to sanction a tax cut. ' Warned by election results thathis Administration Is growing un- . popular and that something must he done to improve its standing, he is ready to authorize a refund of from 10 to 12 per cent. This is unsatisfactory not only to the public, but to many Republican leaders. It is an obvious makeshift, a political sop, a compromise that does not meet the issue squarely. A $300,000,000 surplus in the treaS ury means more than the fact that the Government can give back so much money to the- people for one, year. It means that the Ooverif* ment has come to a point where it is earning that much in excess of what it spends, or of what It needs to spend every twelve months. If a refund of 10 or 12 per cent on the taxes of 1925 is possible It Is possible on those of 1926 and 1927. With the public debt being constantly reduced, there is no reason to suppose tho expenses will increase or that the Government couldn’t give hack as much next year as it can this year. Under such circumstances, but a straight, candid cut in taxVr should ho considered. THEY STAY WED HAMPTON, N. H., Nov. 6.—A re cent count shov/ed thirteen couples u whd had been married more then fifty years. One of the couples ha vq, * been married for sixty years. ThereIs one golden wedding oovple to every 100 inhabitant*. ~