Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 225, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1926 — Page 4

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GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN Today a considerable portion of the inhabitants of the earth pay tribute to the birth of Him who brought a message of good will —and of peace. His dream of peace on earth and men whose Hearts were rid of hate and filled with love is still a dream to be realized. On this day of the year it is more nearly complete than on any other, and in the joyous celebration the hearts of men are softened and washed a little cleaner of their jealousies, their greeds, their vanities and their soddenness. Just as the wise men followed the star to Bethlehem centuries ago and found the Babe who was to be the leader of civilization, found in the manger the Child who was to change th direction of all history and of all thought and living, wise men today , turn their thoughts and their to His word and His teachings. To the devout the day has its religious significance of hope and trust and faith. But so broad and deep and eternal was the first message which ushered Him into the world that it requires no devotion to creed or even to Christianity to know that it is the great solution for human happiness. The hope of peace on earth moves slowly to its fulfilment and yet there is the hope that it will some day, and perhaps sooner than expected, be a reality and mankind will abandon the law of force for the law of love between nations. It Is becoming more difficult each year to inflame whole nations with hate against other men simply because they speak a different tongue or may have a different hue in their faces. That dream of peace is found on the other, the dream of good will toward men, when all shall have only kindly thoughts for others, when selfishness shall be banished and hearts shall have sympathy instead of indifference or contempt. Each Christmas becomes more joyous in its expressions just in proportion to the fund of g;ood will which is created during the year by the practice of the preachings of human brotherhood. Good will comes when men find their relations to eSch other founded not on cntest against each other but ii\ the broad spirit of cooperation and service which is expressed in acts and deeds. The ringing of bells which ushered this day but echoed the joy in hearts that have thrown off their shackles of envy and, hate and greed. For more than twenty centuries mankind has been journeying back to that manger, there to find new hope and new joy. They find it in the glad cry that rang out with the morning' stars, a challenge to the old order of hate and force, a promise of happiness through love, a hope that never dies in the human heart but grows as the years pass. “Peace on earth. Good will towards men.” That is the promise, that the hope. THE AGE OF EAGLES Sinbad the sailor told a bizarre tale of great black birds as big as the palace of the caliph, settling down upon trees that towered into the sky as high as the world is wide, there to settle down upon foliage of precious stones and carry aw r ay tucked under their wings rubies as big as rocks and emeralds like ponds. A modern Sinbad tale Is that of the new giant mooring mast to reach more than 1,000 feet into the air, built atop the roof of an elghty-five-story building' of Detroit, and there fuel those birds of the air launched by commerce today. i his : ..,ru aerie may ( seem remote to most of us. B ■ oantlii g les.-. remote is the somewhat smaller kno g lie which authorities declare will be as uiuc.i a part oi the home of the future as the garage of the present. Eddie Rickenbacker, for instance, declares that in about twenty years, “a house size” airplane will be as ordinary a thing as today’s flivver. Another item in our already exalted standard of living budget, but we’ll all have ’em, if "everybody else” does! WHILE W AITING The endeavor of Harley Clarke to secure a fiftyfive million dollar valuation on the two electric companies of this city when he puts them together has been temporarily checked. , The attorneys who represent the buyers of power and to some extent the small user, will have a month in which to gather evidence of the real value, which they believe to be many millions of dollars less. This gives a month’s respite in which not only the evidence may be obtained but it may be disclosed whether the fight is really in behalf of the people or a fight between two financiers and two sets of politicians. On the surface, it does not appear that the people have much chance of escape from extortionate rates for light and power or that Indianapolis stands much chance of relief from an industrial handicap 'which comes from this fact. But that month of delay will give the public service commission and the attorney general time to pursue another inquiry which is imperative and Immediate, Attorney General Gilliom charged before the commission that the electric light companies of this city are violating the law by giving rebates or special rates to favored interests in this city. 'He charged specifically that more than $300,000 / each year is being taken from tho pockets of the home owners and put in pockets of those in much better position to pay. The law makes this a crime. It provides, on con viction, for a prison sentence of a year for any utility head or agent who is a party to such a crime. It provides also for fines against those who accept rebates. The attorney general charged that the Indianapolis News, great and powerful, is among those who have received rebates. If these companies are violating and have violated the law, that fact should be demonstrated before ifny permit is given for them to change their ownership or their character. The first duty of the commission is to investigate these charges made by its legal adviser. The first duty of the attorney general should be to send utility magnates to jail who have robbed.

as he says, the people of this city of a half million dollars a year in order to give privileges and favors to their friends. Here is a whole month for the job. There should be a public demand that the charge of Gilliom be either proved or demonstrated to have been mere bluff. COOLIDGE AND THE BELLS President Coolidge, that august dignitary who issues messages to Congress so full of talk of matters weighty, we now learn is a very inquisitive person. It seems the President has the habit of pushing emergency police bells scattered around the White Houste, just “to see what would happen.” Often • in leaving or entering oil his daily strolls he pushes the police emergency bell near the front entrance. We haven’t heard much before this of the President’s sense of humor. This is one of the first intimations that we have had of the capacity for “practical jokes” that has come from the White House in many moons. We are wondering if just a trace of the eternal boy that once roamed the Vermont hills still lives, even though In the super-dignified home of the first man of the land. With Santa Claus Just around the corner, and this such a gladsome season and all, we suspect it does. MAKING NO COMPLAINT On Dec. 15, the British government sent us her Christmas respects and a nice check for $92,950,000, wiping out another fraction of the well-known war debt. The policy is in keeping with Sir Austen Chamberlain’s statement, "We will make no complaint. We will discharge our obligations.” It is the best way to pay debts that we know of. An Eastern professor says the scientific discovery of the child is the greatest ever made. But, professor, how about the time mother found William behind the barn smoking? * Headlines you never see: CHAUFFEUR QUITS; SAYS RICH WIDOW TRIED TO ELOPE WITH HIM. / The Army-Navy game drew such a big crowd at Chicago, it can be revealed now, because the people saw the cadets’ guns and thought it was going to be another shooting party. Five bootleggers, two bandits, two burglars and four auto thieves were arrested in a raid on an Ohio roadhouse. These roadhouses are getting to lie quite popular with the idle rich. If Prince Carol wants the Roumanian throne so badly, why doesn’t lie come over here ana Indorse a few chairs? Then he can go back and buy twelve of them. What this country needs is a combination bathtub and telephone disconnector. Famous fallacies: “It really wasn’t so much his fault. He was an only child, you know!”

AX HONEST’ CRITIC fly N. D. Cochran

I am going to quote a letter from a man who severely criticises me, and it is because I believe his letter shows that he is entirely sincere and honest In his criticism. Besides lam not so sure that I am right and he is wrong. And I think his letter shows that he is a good citizen. Anyhow, I’m going to print it. It Is from Mr. C. H. Lane of Carbon Hill. Alabama, and was addressed to the editor of the Birmingham Post. It says: * “A few days ago an article appeared in your paper written by Mr. N. D. Cochran belittling the church. Just what he Is hitting at Is yet to be known. I think from his line of reason he meant nothing whatsoever. He slams and bangjs around and seems to finally decide because two preachers were a little weak the church is no good. Just tell us what la good, Mr. Cochran. “I guess you don’t ride any more street cars because a conductor went crooked; don’t buy any more groceries because the grocerman went crooked; don’t mail any more letters because the postmaster failed to be honest; threw away all your money because you found a nickel with a hole in it; don't go to the bank any more, because the cashier stole some money and left the'State; and I guess you will soon pack up and leave the U. S. A. because some American was dishonest. And how will you get off and where will you go? 1 admit that some preachers are not what they ought to be, but I love the church and believe it the. greatest institution in the world today, the K. K. K. not excepted. I think the church is still God’s agent in the world and believe the ministry is still pointing sinners to the cross of Christ for pardon and peace. I have known the church since my childhood and honor her because she gave me my honorable birth, my Christian parents, a host of good friends and a good, pure wife. The church is helping me raise my family and I shall not turn an ingrate and chunk at her because I turn out to be a failure in the world.” I here Is not a line or a sentiment in that letter with which I have the slightest fault to find. I don’t know Mr. Lane from a load of hay, but from his letter I think I woul.* just as lieve have his word as his bond. I imagine he is a good neighbor and a good citizen. His faith in his church—and I haven’t the slightest idea what church he belongs to —is wholly commendable. The happiness he gets out of his religion and his faith l s something 1 wish every human being could get out of the same faith. He doesn't judge the church by one delinquent minister. Neither do I. He doesn’t judge Christianity by °* e r.? r ? aCher - Wh ° doesn,t understand the Chrirtianitv of Christ. Neither do I. And I am really glad that Jie belongs to a church—no matter what the denomination tfiat has given him so much of happiness and joy in this life here on earth. While I can't believe in the Ivu-Klux KJan, it is '*° n t e my buslnes s if he can and does. I do believe nat the great mass of the membership of this order in which I cannot believe, are as honest and sincere in their belief as Mr. Lane evidently is in his. In their d ™, tl “ n their country, to the public schools and to what they honestly believe is a menace to what they m in Par ’i oan sympathize, even though I cannot join in eithei their fears or their remedies. I actually believe in the American Constitution and particularly the first ten amendments added to it through the efforts of Thomas Jefferson: and hence I believe in freedom of conscience, the absolute and inalienable right of every American citizen to worship and therefore in the equality before the law of every God according to the dictates of Ills own conscience to before the American Revolution on both sides of the American citizen be he Protestant, Catholic or Jew. 3et I am a Protestant, with axicestry running back family.

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Tracy Baring Christmas Shams Easy, but No One Is Convinced.

By M. E. Tracy Tt were easy enough to play “Old Scrooge,” and rail at Christm;is. The spirit of the day has obviously been commercialized. Business is made to boom on the idea of giving; salesmanship has borrowed a page from the book of organized charity; shop early and spend more might well be the slogan. You can think of a dozen arguments to prove the sham and hollowness of it all, but they convince nobody. Each year you vow never to take it at such • a wild pace again, but when December comes around, with her snow flurries, her double-truck ads and her wide-eyed tots looking for Santa, you feel the same old emotions welling up. Health Still Good The Christmas spirit continues to enjoy robust health in spite of the many ways it has been abused and perverted. People may strain themselves and overspend to keep up the show, but they like it. They are glad of the respite from those rules and restraints which go with standardized efficiency; glad to lay the budget aside and play the part of care-free children, even though It keeps their noses to the grindstone for six months afterward. But Wait! Sophomoric wisdom, home for a vacation, brags how it won’t fool the next generation with that “Santa Claus yarn,” but wait until the babies begin to arrive. The rjisillusionment of childhood has always brought on a season of cynicism, and probably always will. At 21, most of us are In a mood to regard life as just a rubbish heap of exploded fairy tales, but when the houso begins to echo to the of little feet the mood wears off. If it weren’t for the touch of baby fingers, the confiding smile In baby eyes, seier ■< would drive the human race to a mad house. It’s not law, .the government or social codes that keep us straight; it’s the children. “Mother’s knee" Is constantly glorified because of what it does for the tot. Asa matter of common sense, it does quite as much for the mother. The average father would not be the man he is were it not for the obligation he feels to set the right kind of an example for his son. The legends, customs and symbols by which alone it seems possible to plant the deeper truths In Immature minds form no small port of the scheme. That is why the Christmas spirit lives, why the Santa Claus myth will not down, why twenty-five or thirty million little trees adorn as many homes today, why parents from Maine to San Francisco sat up late last night to play the good old game. Pretense of Day The biggest piece of hypocrisy in connection with Christinas Is the pretense that we older folks don’t like It, that we would change it If we could and that we only tolerate it to stop the teasing. How many dads will spend the day playing with mechanical toys they bought for little Willie, and feel the better for it? How many mothers will make doll dresses, and forget that they are growing old In the pleasure of it? The man or woman is daft who didn’t get a kick out of childish laughter In the gray dawn, and who didn’t crawl out of bed to share In the fun. Spirit of Help Christmas Is one of those institutions, and, perhaps, the most important of them, which reveal the Joy of giving, of sharing and sacrificing. It has been said that man Is the only animal that delights In killing. By the same token, he Is the only animal that delights in helping and saving. Ts It weren’t for the fact that pure strangers are constantly picking their fellow men out of the gutter for no better reason than that they want to, we might well be discouraged. A quality has made Its appearance in human nature that cannot be found anywhere else that distinguishes man from the rest of creation. The priest and levite, who “passed by on the other side,” stand for the brute hangover there is in us. The “Good Samaritan” stands for some thing different, something better. The Christmas spirit has helped that something to play a stronger part in life.

Mother’s Anxiety Brings Death Bit Vnited Prr ** THOMASBORO, 111.. Dec. 25. —Fear for the safety of two # small sons left alone in a farm house while she and her husband went to town to buy Christmas gifts was held responsjble today for the death of Mrs. Mary Ethel Weir, 32. Mrs. Weir was found dead of exhaustion on a muddy road near here, her third child, an infant, clutched in her arms. Her husband had been arrested by a State patrolman when they returned from the shopping trip, charged with intoxication. The mother was left here while her husband was taken to Champaign. She became anxious concerning safety of the other children and tried to reach her home by plowing tPi rough impassable roads on foot.

Isl Cupid and Pan are mischievous. Bacchus is diabolical, but ■ Now why? Men create grids In their own image as God created man in B Let’s take the old fellow, strap his legs and arms to the dissecting 'TjJaPr KfvvJ M board, shoot a sniff of anesthetic up his dear old snoot and carve into ■ him. Well, what do we see? Gouging into his subconsciousness we I There we find the reason for his merriment. His philosophy Is the . When man gives he is happy if he is worthy to give, and to be worthy B to give first of all one must have self-respect. Only the beggar feels S worthy to receive. It Is the strong man who feels able to give. This I mood of giving which Santa Claus conjures up strengthens the self-re--5 giving and giving again, self-respect, by the sheer act of Imitation and |jjje Christmas is the one season where we say “God bless you” Instead of j “God help me,” and the phrases are poles apart. He who gives a blessing Suddenly he finds himself in a fraternal attitude toward the world. When X SvjfXfeguaL * man realizes that he Is the equal of any other creature on earth, he Jab* out his chin, elevates his breast bone, throws back his head, looks t the world In the eye and laughs In his heart at the earthworm he once ' kagl-jjjH GriSSan was. All this we can see by looking into the vitals of old Santa Claus if 1 " i lying there unconscious under the anesthetic as we prod through his UraBBJ after thought for his subconsciousness. v * ■MHH The merry god of our modern mythology Is more than a god. he Is a prophet. When we get It into our head that we can make Christmas run Wt 365 day*, we can be as merry as he. But when every day Is Christmas, fS. we must keep our self-respect, we must keep our fraternal attitude Ir jkTV toward men. We niust'reallze that we are the seed of the ordained King, r*^l fSV brothers of men and children of God. reborn out of our self-imposed in- )Ju. feriority. out of the beggar complex which would receive, into the royal .alMAfeMiLA line that dives. { W** G Knowing this we will laugh and grow fat. Rome day In another age. M \\ySjr™' ™ ‘•t!'/, men may be born again by the salvation of Santa Claus. Then they wili ~ * • j,'-* ' look back upon this as a mean and sordid age. Some posterity may see us ,ft ’ now only as men who sought to take, men who would ask and beg and iif. f //1 i Rouge and grind, before they learned to give and bless, and before they O' // ,* /„ knew ,hey were worthy to rattle out the keen laughter of proud hearts. * All the world then will shake its excess abdominal adipose “like a bowl a {ifti 1 full of Jelly.” So when you meet the happy god, hold him fast; every U 1 *luy you can keep him through the year makes you happier and the wor| d better. * LS* j All hail Santa’Claus, the prophet of the new order. V*‘A // & .<■-* ' it.

Musical Eyents in Indianapolis and in Grand Opera Circles in Chicago

SHE eighth week of the civic opera season at the Chicago Auditorium will bring the long promised revival of Mozart's melodious and difficult “Don Giovanni," which will be given a gala performance on Now Year's eve with a cast of superlative excellence. Unusually colorful stage settings have >ieen elaborated by Julian Dove from sketches by Schenck Von Trapp, who for long was art director of the Wiesliaden Opera, and now fills that post at Darmstadt. This will be a complete new production along the most modern lines, and the staging will reflect the ripe experience of Charles Moor, stage manager, which he has gained in the leading opera hotisi-s of Europe. The usual New Year’s eve prices will prevail—sl.so to $10 —this being the only occasion lp the year when departure Is made from the scale of $1 to $6. except, on the popular Saturday night performances, when 75 cents to $3 is charged. Saturday, Christmas day, “The “Jewess" will be repeated as a matinee bill, with Rosa Raise, Eide Norene. Charles Marshall, Alexander Kipnis, Jose Mojica and the entire corps de ballet; Webeh conducting. Christmas night the merry and

Bible Test

You’ll find this Bible test interesting. Check your. answers with the correct answers appear on page 12: 1. What incident in Biblical history is illustrated by the, accompanying picture? 2. Who was the mother *of Solomon? *3. Who told Hagar to return when she fled from Sarah? 4. Is Titus a book in the New or Old Testament? 5. Who cut off Malchus’ ear? 6. How long was Jonah In the fish that swallowed him? 7. Who was the father of Judas Iscariot? 8. From what psafm is 'this taken: “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the ttrmamertt showeth his handiwork”? 9. Who killed Agag, king of the Amalekites? 10. Wlm w<w MtWtaaM* wungest so mi

melodious “Barber of Seville” will tie givet. at popular prices, with Florence Macbeth, Charles H ickett, i Giacomo Rimini, Virgilie Lazzarl and V.ittorio Trevisan; Moranzoni conducting. Sunday, Dec. 26, at 2 o'clock, “La Traviata” will be given Its first performance this season, with Claudia Muzlo, Tito SchajiJ and Richard Bonelll: Moranzoni conducting. Monday evening, Dec. 27. “Samson and Delilah" will bo repeated, with Fernand Ansseau singing Samson for the first time in several seasons, and Cyrena Van Gordon, Cesuro Formlchl, Edouard Cotreuil, and the corps de ballet, Weber conducting. Tuesday evening, “La Cena Delle Reffe” will ho repeated, with the same great cast: Claudia Muzio, Antonio Cortls, Luigi Montesanto, I Vlrgilio Lazzarl, Polacco conduct--1 ing. Wednesday evening "Tristan and Isolde” will be repeated with the | same fine singers: Elsa Alsen, Cyrena Van Gordon. Charles Marshall, Richard Ronelli and Alexander Kipnis. Polacco conducting. Thursday evening will bring another repetition of the ever-popular “Alda,” with Claudia Muzlo, Augusta Lenska, Fernand Ansseau, Cesare Formlchl, Virglllo Lazzarl and Alexander Kipnls, Weber conducting. Friday evening. (New Year’s Eve) "Don Giovanni” will be git en, with Rosa Raisa, Edith Mason, Louise Loring, Tito Rc.hipa, Vnnni-Marcoux. who will make his first, appearance since return to the company In this performance), Alexander Kipnis, Virgillo Lazzari and Vittorio Trevisan, Polacco conducting. Saturday matinee, (New Year's) “Tiefland” will be repeated in English, with the same cast that sang the premiere: Elsa Alsen, Lorna Doone Jackson, Irene Pavloska, Helen Freund, Forrest Lamont, Giac< mo Rimini, Alexander Kipnis and Jose Majica, Weber conducting. The New Year’s night performance will be “Martha,” at popular prices, with Florence Macbeth, Antonio Cortis, Virglllo Lazzari and Vittorio Trevisan. Moranzoni conducting. “Oetllo" will be repeated at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Jan. 2, another big suburban special, with the famous Chicago cast: Eleanor Sawyer. Charles Marshall. Luigi Montesanto. Jose Mojica and Vlrgilio Lazzari, Moranzoni conducting. T~niSS BEULAH MOORE, student under Miss Frieda Heider of the Metropolitan School of Music, will sing Christmas carols at the home of Mrs. E. J. Gausepohl, 2363 Broadway, Wednesday for the Ladles Missionary society of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Ohufch. Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock, .Miss Anna Catherine Arzet, Miss Charlotte Rlfres. Miss Anna Marie Sander, pianists, and Miss Irene Noerr, soprano, students of Miss Heider, will appear at the Christmas party of the Monday guild at the Woman’s Department Club. ARD NELL, head of the j I voice department of the Meti J ropolitan School of Music. and Mrs. Nell will leave Monday for Washington, D. C., to spend the holidays with their son. Edward Nell, Jr., and hear him in his new leading role with the New York "ompany of the “Vagabond King,” which has been the leading light opera success of the season.

f Finn ISS ™ LEN LOUISE QTJIG and Hiss Leone Kinder, niomI 1 hers of the faculty of the Metropolitan School of Music, will entertain their Junior students with a Christmas party at the north school building, corner Pennsylvania and Thirty-Fourth Sts., next Friday, Dec. 31, from 2 to 4 o’clock. There will be a short program, followed by on exchange of gifts. pupil of Miss Lula Brown of i—the voice department of the Metropolitan School of Music, will be soloist Sunday morning. Dec. 26, at the first Moravian Church. SHE Patton Trio of tho Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will give the program j ori Jan. 5 at the banquet of the Business Woman’s section of tho Department Club. This will be guest night when all employers are invited. The banquet will bo held at the Chamber of Commerce, IRS. SAUNDERS, teacher of cornet In the wind lnstru- — - J ments department, of the Indiana College of Music apd Fine Arts, will play the Christmas carols on Christmas Eve for the town of Woodruff Place. ISS GERTRUDE HACKER, director of the dancing department of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, and ten students are dancing at the Indianapolis Athenaeum on Tuesday night the 28th. Milton Heller, a pupil of Miss Hacker, will present a program the same night before the Southern Club. Fred Jefry of the voice department of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, Is spending the week in Chicago attending the opera.

Writes Pageant

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On Sunday night at the Tabernacle Prqsbyterian Church, a pageant written and directed by Charles Norris Houghton, 17, a student at Shortridge, will be repeated. It was recently presented at the church with Impressive effect. How many of the 5-cent pieces coined in 1883 were without ihe word “cents”? Out of a total coinage of 22,969,421 the. word “cents” was omitted from 5,479,519.

DEC. 25, 1926

Work Lacking : for Partner' Deny If Possible,

By Milton C. Work The pointer for today Is: When lacking normal support for partner’s suit, deny when possible. Three hands were given yesterday to Illustrate the difference between' assisting and denying an original 1 suit-bid by the partner; they are supposed to be held by North, South having dealt and 'bid one Spade. The question is: Whpt should North do If West bid two Diamonds, and what If West pass? 1. Sp.: x-x-x. 1-H.i Areo-x-x. Dl. x-x-x- 1.: Klng-Quoen-x-x. 2. Sp.: x-x. Ht.r Jaok-10-x-x. DL Queen-10 x. Cl.: Queen-Jack-9-x. 3. Sp.: x-x. Ht.: Ace-Queen-Jack j x. Di.: x-x-x. Cl.: Ace-Queen-x-ou i In No. 1. in the event of a bid by ( West, North should assist South'B l spades because the hand contain* the requisites for such raise. If West pass, North should pass. ing normal support for his partner** Major bljl, he should not change It. No. 2 contains less side strength than No. 1 and lacks normal support i for the Spade suit ’lf West bid. North should pass; he should not assist. If West pass, North should i deny Spades by bidding one Niy Trump. ■ In No. 3. lack or normal suppotx in the partner’s suit makes an assist inadvisable if West bid, and a denial imperative if West pass. After a pass, No. 3 should bid two Hearts or ono No Trump (optional); after a two Diamond bid, two Hearts. To further exemplify this Important doctrine, let us suppose the following hand to be held by North: i Kp.: Jnek-fl. Ht.i 4-8 2. DL: Ace-Klng-Jack-8-5. Cl.l King-107. What should he do under each of the following bidding conditions? 1. South one Spade, West pass. 2. South one Spade, West two Hearts. 8. South one Heart. West pan*. 4. South one Heart, West ono Spade. Think it over until Monday*. (Copyright, John F. Dllle CtV) Work, the fntcmafJonal authority on Auction Bridge, win answer questions on the game for Time* readers who write to him through The Times, enolosing a self-ad-dressed, stamped envelope.

Questions and Answers

! ..You can g-et an answer to any one* or information by writing tP JU l l 1 ' ul ;V )( G ! '. limes Washington H . re Y ) ‘ No v York A vn., WaaffiTr I i on - u. 0.. Inclosing 2 cents in starana | for roily, legal and marital advice cannot be riven nor can extended research be undertaken. All other aii’stiona will receive a personal reply M Unsigned request* cannot be Hr„we3 ■ Al] letters are confidential.—Kdltor. Can a fellow that deserted the Navy four years ago get a release or return and finish the rest of his time? ; A deserter from tho Navy can always be arrested but, in time of peace, after two years from the date of desertion, ho can plead the twoyear statute of limitation If brought l 'to trial. For all Information concerning the punishment for deser- 1 tion from tho Navy, apply to the 1 Bureau of Navigation, Navy Dopart-' ment, Washington. Is there a verse in tho Bible which says that we shall not know the winter from tho summer except for the budding of tho trees? The verso is often quoted as coming from tho Bible, but it 1* not thert. What are tho meaning* of the names Elizabeth and Ann? Elizabeth moans “consecrated to God,” and Ann moans “gracious." Gan Government employes living In tho District of Columbia return home to vote when they have taken up pemmnenb residence in the capital? They may go to their home States to vote, or vote by mall In thoee States whore that form of voting is legal, notwithstanding the fact that they aro permanently domiciled In tho District of Columbia, provided they have maintained a 1 egal residence In their home States. Domicile * and “legal” have different mennings in law; thtfl first merely means the place where one sleeps, the second is a matter of lntont. A porson who has established a legal residence In a particular State by living thar ethe required time to vote, and then obtains an ippointment in the Government service requiring removal to Washington, nevertheless by continuing to vegistor in the district from whichlie moved, can maintain a legal residence there and continue to voto. Can you tell me about the stale •f the sun, Its distance from the arth and all about If* composition and I vow scientists figure its distance mm the earth? The sun Is 865,000 miles in diameter and 92,930,000 miles from th® earth. A full discussion of the sub. jeet can be found in our Washing*, ton bureau’s bulletin on “Popular - ? Astronomy,” which can be obtained' on request to the bureau for 5 cent® in postage stamps. ’ What is tho area and population of Poland? The territory of Poland comiflses Congress Poland (Poland as delimited and handed over to Russia by the Congress of Vienna, 1815), Galicia, the former Prussian Poland; Upper Silesia, and a portion of th® Wilno (Vilna) territory. The republic divided Into the city of Warsaw sixteen counties, subdlvidid Into 276 districts and self-governing cities. It comprises an area of 149,359 square miles and has a total population of 27,192,674. What is the meaning of the name “Beulah”? It is from the Hebrew and mMgpv married.