Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 243, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 January 1927 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times , IIOY W. HOWARD. President. BOYD GURLEY, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • client of the United Tress and the NEA Service • • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dally 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-— M Aln 8500.

No law shall bo passed restraining the free interchange of thought and opinion, or retricting the right to speak, write, or print freely, on any subject whatever.—Constitution of ndiana.

WHERE SHALL WE GO? This newspaper called upon the Chamber of lommerce to protect the buyers of electricity from shat, to it, seemed an extortionate raid upon the eople’s pocketbooks. It did so In desperation. The municipal government Is in such a low tate as to offend the sensible judgment of every onest man or Invite suspicion as to its judgment The public service commission had been indicted s bought In advance by the utilities, any utility, hich sought it services. When Harley Clarke bought the two electric unpanies and sought to merge them this newspaper lised Its voice in protest against the fictitious value e sought to place upon them. This newspaper demanded that there be one (stem in order to escape the cost of duplicate sysms, duplicate officials, duplicate valuations. The advice of The Times was followed. The hamber of Commerce, representing the commercial iterests, and the industrial interests of this city mployed an expert to value the properties of these ve companies,. , * The Chamber of Commerce forced a reduction of ites to every buyer of electricity in homes or in ictories. The Times believes that the Chamber of Comerce is honest Somewhere and some place we must pin our ilth, This newspaper distrusted city officials with xxl cause It distrusted the public service commison with better cause. It believes that if the Chamsr of Commerce could notjie trusted it was time for very honest man to move out of Indianapolis. The agreement of the Chamber of Commerce id Harley Clarke is now under attack. If The Times and the members of the Chamber Commerce have been betrayed hy the directors of lat body it is time to surrender. The Times does not believe that the directors the Chamber of Commerce have been bought. It is faith In their integrity. It has faith in their honty. It has faith In their judgment. These men have invested their dollars in Indllapolls. They can only profit as Indianapolis grows id Is prosperous. I£ resents the suggestion that these men are snal and have been bought. The Times knows no other means by which In : anapolis may grow than through this leadership. Ity government has failed, State government ha* Had.—4f Industrial and commercial leadership fail, iere is no hope. The Times believes that in the matter of the ergar, a necessary thing, that the Chamuer of ommerce has acted for the best Interests of Jadilapolis. It believes that every assault upon (he Chamber Commerce Is an attack upon Indianapolis. The Times believes that unless confidence can reposed in the Chamber of Commerce we have ached a state of Bolshevism and of anarchy. The Times resents blackmail. The Times resents force. The Times resents the oppression of secret in* lence. The Times resents most of all the use of State iremment, city government, commercial leadership r private and venal ambitions. If there was ever a time to make the leadership commerce and of Industry effective it is now, If the Chamber of Commerce should surrender the secret demands of the blackmailer it should go ig and baggage into the camp of the enemy. The Chamber of Commerce must become Ibe ivernment of Indianapolis. It must represent public •inion, There#ls but one question before the memirship of that body: Will you trust that body or diver yourselves to the weak, Incompetent, and >rse city adndnistration. Os course. The Times does not believe that the\ eat body of citizenship should be compelled to ake this choice. It hopes that at some day and at mo time there will be a city government in which e citizenship can give its trust. That time is not nr, The Times prefers the Chamber of Commerce the organized forces of government. It believes the integrity of the Chamber of Commerce, It does not believe that a director or that body uld be bought on an auction block at so much per iad, Those who attack the merger must believe that nkers, manufacturers and merchants have been ught and sold, If we have reached this state of degradation there no hope. THE SALARY RAISE Against the Constitution is the verdict of the At■ney General concerning the measure by which e legislators sought to Increase their pay from to $lO a day. The Attorney General is perhaps the best lawr which the State has had in its employ for many year. His decisions concerning the law are beyond ipute. fie is the best lawyer which Indiana lias er had or perhaps will have again His politics are something different, x Whenever a political measure is presented Mr. lliom may be depended upon to carefully protect i political associates. But, when he is asked for a legal decision his lings may be taken as the law of Indiana. No Supreme Court will disagree with his logic his legal reasoning. Gilliom Is a lawyer. Gllliom jo is a politician. When he said that the legislators had no right Increase their salaries the people of this State iy be assured that the legislature had no legal jht to Increase its pay, They may try to get more money. They may / tempt by subterfuge and by camouflage to hide air purpose. They can not legally get more money the State of Indiana, than the six dollars a day ed by statute when they desired to become legtslars. This nay be unfortunate. If they passed real ivs which the people wished and demanded thdji igw* -veil be paid many times the ten dollars a y fixed* hr themselves as the if salaries and stipend.

To get more than this they become outlaws and anarchists. Gilliom has stood between the orderly procedure of government and a lot of tempted judgment These lawmakers ought to have more money. They should have enough to pay their hotel bills, their booze bills and their poker bills. The State of Indiana should hire these men at a sufficient wage to lift them above the temptations put out by lobbyists of the corporations—the privilege seekers and the bosses. The}' should be enabled to live in decent hotels and buy for themselves decent meals. They should not be subjected to the temptation of suave, genial, plethoric agents who will buy them decent meals and decent roomsThey should be above the subtle bribery of lawyers who list themselves a,^lobbyists. Unfortunately the law is against this thing The State of Indiana is not able# to compete with the privilege seekers who desire to shackle and to burden Indiana. ' What a tragedy is thero in the honest decision of Arthur Gilliom. He has told the Governor in legal language that Indiana can not afford to compete on equal terms with utility lobbyists, medical lobbyists, crushed stone lobbyists and sand and gravel lobbyists. Gilliom stands for law. And in standing for law he has made it impossible for those members of the Legislature who desire to be honest to lift themselves above temptation. Rather a tragic situation, ir we stand with Gllliom we turn loose our legislators to the lobbyist bandits. If we desert law and Gilliom we subject these lawmakers to the temptations of the venal, the greedy and the crafty. Remember a man living in a three-dollar-a-weok room and buying his own meals at a cafeteria is an easy prey for the vultures who have othey people’s money In their pockets. \ COMPULSORY. VOTING. Every man and woman who refrains from voting in a primary election would become a criminal under a measure Introduced by the best member of the Marlon County delegation In the Legislature—a wonian. All that she hopes to accomplish could be done by tills simple process. Every good-minded and pub-lic-spirited citizen would applaud her solution for present evils. She proposes that every citizen, man or woman, who refrains from voting at any primary of the party to which they belong be made a criminal. She proposes that any citizen, or woman, who refrains from voting in any election be branded with the scarlet letter. Her purpose Is commendable. But there Is grave precedent as to whether her methods will add anything to the common fund of democracy. What would happen if thousands of uninformed and uninterested voters were compelled to cast a vote in the primary. It may be assumed that voters, male and female, who cared so little about their own candidates as to reach a preference would add little to the decision of a primary. It may be presumed that any voter, maid or female, who cared so little about the result of an election as not to vote could add but little to the organized Intelligence necessary to make a democracy a reality. We have been making a lot of new criminals. Whenever we have seen an evil we have passed a law. We have tried to send men to jail for omissions and commissions and the general result has been that we have had a government by the minority, Avery small minority. - It Is a debatable question as„to whether forcing a lot of indifferent and uninformed men and women to take part In a primary of an election will add to an Intelligent verdict in either primary or election. What is needed most of all is an intelligent, vigorous leadership in both parties in the primary. More essential is a difference between the candidates or Issues and character in the election. We have been creating a lot of criminals by law. We have been making decent men and women outlaws by statute. If we can force intelligence, democracy, decency, human brotherhood into the ballot by creating more criminals through slackers, let’s try it. Rut experience has shown that progress never comes by compulsion and force. The highly commendable goal sought by the lady legislator is too Idealistic as to promise results. Addition to the number of votes either in primary or election of tiiose who are uninterested or uninformed does not offer a solution for our present evil. 1 üblfc interest and public sentiment are the only safeguards of public rights. These can not be compelled. The man or woman who votes for the simple purpose of evading a Jail or a fine can not be depended upon to give any contribution to that thought or zeal which must be the foundation of all progress. We’re telephoning to London now—the only ,way the Atlantic hasn't been crossed is on roller skates. One tiling about going to the dogs—you’ll always find plenty of people to help you get t^ere.' A good way to keep the figure beautiful is to use only a pocket mirror. The Atlantic ocean used to be big. We re telephoning across now, and the next tiding you know It will be freezing over. If a bridge is built across the Atlantic, we’ll bet Ihe Americans get all the advertising concessionsGambling Is Illegal in Kanas, but they plant a lot of wheat out there- ____ V Queen Marie says she is going to write a book of fairy tales to be Bold In this country. (Evidently the queen has sized us up quite accurately.

-THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

■Mil ■■Will II ■ l^| Tracy Shutting Door on Peace Opened Door for Jingoism.

By M. E. Tracy The Republican party has leaned backward to discredit Woodrow Wilson, going farther than its sensible leaders would have preferred In order to wreck his program. Some Democrats have helped. Our troubles in Latln-Amerlca constitute but one of th ' disastrous results. Narrow minded partisanship has produced a misshapen foreign policy. When the door was shut on movements In the Interest of peace, it was necessarily opened for Jingoism. The bumptious attitude this Government has assumed toward Mexico and Nicaragua Is the logical outcome of a consistently mean effort to crush the work of a statesman for the sake of a party. We are out of the League of Nations, out of the World Court, out of tune with every big constructive activity In the world. If the Bolshevists call us Imperialistic, they but voice the suspicion that millions have come to harbor. It’s Doubtful Now Copies of Mrs. Chaplin’s divorce complaint have beer, put on sale In Los Angeles at 25 cents each and have produced a record sale. This makes It less doubtful whether Chaplin should be barred from the movies. Upholding Intolerance An anti-evolution bill has been put before the Oklahoma Legislature. It Is modeled after laws enacted in Texas and Tennessee, but not sponsored by any creed, according to W. R. Trent, one of the authors. Whether sponsored by a creed. It represents creedal ideas, stands for intolerance and Is designed to uphold religious belief by law. Business, Sentiment Business cannot kill sentiment. Honry Ford, who predicts that we shall have synthetic meat some day, has Just bought the school house where Mary went with her “little lamb.” The industrial wizard was evidently Just as much impressed with the old rhyme as the rest of us, and wanted to preserve Its associations. No poem has been more oommonly learned, or remembered, none more parodied or abused. It is a paradox of human nature that we laugh at the things we cherish and then try to balance the account by enshrining them. Ifenry Ford has made his fortune by wrecking methods and customs of the past, but nothing seems to give him greater delight than to spend some of it In memorializing them. In this respect he Is wonderfully human. Dispensing Liberty Ma Ferguson has Issued 3.289 clemency proclamations and says she Is through. Yesterday she granted forty-two full pardons, two remissions of fine and Jail sentences ono furlough and one commutation of a twenty-five-year murder sentence for three years. At least fifty additional pardons have been granted. It Is said, but not announced, owing to the Inability of clerks in the secretary of State’s office to keep up with the rush. Austin Is besieged with belated petitions for mercy, and the wail that will go up because of "Ma’s" announcement is bound to be spontaneous and sincere. No one looked for her to suspend operations until the last moment. Meanwhile. Jim Ferguson declares that his wife’s pardon record represents not only even handed justice, but good finance. He says It is putting the prison system In hotter shape by relieving the congestion and leaving fewer convicts for the State to support. How It Worked The queerest part of the pardoning business is that not all the convicts appreciate what Is done for them. Ono walked into Houston polico headquarters yesterday and announced that ho had committed forgery and should bo locked up. Ma load released him last Fourth of July, but after working on a farm three months, he decided that this kind of a life was too dull, so he signed his employer’s name to a check for $135 and went to Denver. Failing to get employment there, he decided that prison was a good boarding place and came back to Texas. No Path of Roses A convict’s wife has sued the Fergusons and the sheriff on the ground that her husband was pardoned because she had deserted her children and he had to come home to take care of them. She declares this untrue. that she did not leave her children, that the statement damaged her and that she is entitled to 550,000 by way of recompense. The way of a pardoning Governor is not rosestrewn by any means. Neither is the way of the people of a State that has a pardoning Governor. PRESENT MEDICAL BILL Outline New Means to Prevent Unlicensed Practice. Changes in the medical practices act to make it enforcible, are enumerated in a bill introduced in the Indiana House of.Representatives by Representative Huffman (Rep.) of Elkhart. • . Directed at those who practice medicine without a license, the bill outlines a line of procedure to prevent unlicensed persons from practicing medicine. The chief change lies in the matter of enjoining persons charged with law violating. The bill introduced by Huffman would enjoin the person charged from operating until he had cleared himself of the charges made. The bill is being sponsored by the Indiana State Medical Association, which has 8 ,000 members.

Master Class Lecture Course On Voice Will Open At Indiana Music College

SHE Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts announces a master class lecture course on voice, for ten days, beginning Jan. 31. Five lectures will be given on alternate days, and Mr. Seagle also will give a limited number of f>rivate lessons. Mr. Seagle does not come irS' a stranger to Indianapolis, as he has appeared here in and many of Indianapolis’ best singers have studied with him at Seagle Colony on Sc.hroon Ijake. This is the first vT*oal niiister class ever held In our city and Indianapolis Is to be congratulated on having Mr. Seagle, who is pre-eminent both as singer and teacher. For nine years Mr. Seagle has maintained a school at Sr-hrool Lake, New York, where many teachers and students spend the summer months In study. On an estate of 600 acres in the Adlrondacks are cottages where students and guests may live. There Is an open air theater for recitals and entertainments and a big farm house refectory. Mr. Seagle’s large and delightful studio Is far away where there Is no disturbing element but the birds. For fourteen seasons Mr. Seagle was assistant to the eminent artist and teacher, Jean de Roszke, at his home In Italy. De Reszke considered him the best exponent of the De Reszke school of singing. The foremost critics of our country acknowledge Mr. Seagle’s technique as perfect. His interpretation Is exquisite and always appealing. Or.e critic says of him: “This artist Is one of those rare singers to whom technique is a means of expression so thoroughly developed, that the Intricacies of Interpretation are as

In Recital

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Joseph Szigctl

The Indianapolis Maennerchor will present Joseph Szlgeti, violinist, in recital at the Academy of Music Sunday afternoon,' Jan. 23. •

easily accomplished as conceived. Technique subservient to the demands of discriminating taste and exacting Ideals of a poet, is the resume of Seagle's art.” This is the finished product that long years of best training can give, the kind of effort that produced the great singers of the palmy days of the Italian "Bel Canto.” but which the singers of this day with their Ideas of rapid success are either unable or unwilling to make, says an other. A third critic says: “This singer can produce a big tone and a little one, and he produces them normally and with musical results. His voice placing is admirable. Few singers, capable of such interpretation have voices of such beauty, with perfect phrasing, smooth tone and even legato. His voice Is one of ample power and resonanace and his method of tone emission remarkably easy.” The quuartet. Frances Johnson, Ila Frlermood, James Hatton and Fred Jefry, accompanied by Gleen Frlermood will open Friday afternoon session of the Character Education Conference, Jan. 21, at the Lincoln Hotel. They will give “There Is No Death," by O’Hara and “Invictus” by Huhn. The following program will be broadcast on the Indiana College of Music radio hour on Wednesday evening the 19th. "Bjirk, Hark! the Lark". . .Sehubert-Llszt “Scherzo” . Mendelssohn Gertrude Whelan. “Evening Star’’ (“Tannhauser"). .Wagner Tom Broadstreet. “Andantino” Martin-Kreisler "Rooooeo" Haesche Carl Frye. “Madrigal” Chaminade “Lonesome Moonlight" Strickland Ila Frlermood. Talk—" Music and the Radio Audience.” Arthur W. Mason. (Director of Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts. I “Tango" Albcniz-Godowsky “Country Gardens" Grainger Gertrude Whelan. “The Dream Ship” Friarmood lla Frlermood. “Spring Song" w Mendelssohn “Roudlno” Kreisler Carl Frye. “A Dream” Bartlett “If 1 But Knew" Wilson “The Wind Speaks” Grant-Sehaefer Tom Broadstreet. [~7' 1 1 HE following pupils will ap- : i I pear in the Saturday after- | * | noon students’ recital, Jan. at the Indiana College of Music j and Fine Arts: Jean Aronhalt. Mary | Jaqueiine Holliday, Margaret June I Callane, Jack Hunter, Dorothy Bryan, Jane Davis. Stella Borkowitz, Harry Myers, Dorot,hy June Shera, Edith Kutlon, MaTgaret Ehlert, John Nunamaker, Daisy Ray, Albert Urwitz and Albert Reep. Pupils of Miss Roes, Miss Loucks, Miss* Hoffman, Miss Gorsuch, Miss Beauchamp, piano; Ferdinand Schaefer and Evan Georgieff, violin teachers, and Ruth Todd of the dramatic art department. mOSEPH SZIGETI, young Hungarian violinist, who Is making his first American tour, will appear at the Academy, of Mu- ■ sic on Sunday afternoon, Jan.- 23, under the auspices of the Indianapolis Maennerchor. He has played In every country of the world except South America and in the Orient, and he is ranked with the great violinists of our time, in fact he has become an international favorite. London acclaimed him as “one of Nature’s violinists.” Christiania announced that his playing had “the sacred fire.” Amsterdam described him as “grand, noble.” Bologna declared that such playing had been

| "unknown to us since the Interpretations of Kreisler.” Madrid hailed I him as “a magician.” Paris considers him “among the most remarkable," while Brussels holds him to be in the sariie category. Bucharest j says that he “combines all of the I qualities of the great artists,” and Rome summarizes the matter by calling him “a master of the violin." The concert at the Maennerchor is for members of the society only. E OVERS of Gorman "lieder” 4 will be entertained by the Circle Theater ensemble un- | der Edward Reseller Monday night j when the Circle Theater broadcasts j over WFBM, Merchants Heat and I Light Company station from 7 to 8 o’clock. Mr. Resener has selected a pro--1 gram made up entirely of the songs of Franz Schubert, one of the greatest of German classic composers. A brief account of Schubert’s music and his career will be j presented as a corollary feature dur- ! lng the progress of the program. The Circle Ensemble, which will I Interpret Schubert's music, la comj posed of the following artists: Ed- ; ward Resener, first violinist; W. Escobar Symmons, viola: Walter Hans, j flutist, and Dessa Byrd, pianist. The program follows: "Unfinished Symphony” .Ensemble ' Violin Solo — Ava Maria”...Mr. Resener; Flute Solo—“ Serenade" Mr. Demlnx Cello Solo—" Death and the Girl" Mr. Rouleaux "The Erl King" Ensemble j student under Misa Frances j i__J Wishard, and Marion Chap- j lin. violinist, pupil of Hugh McGlb- ] eny, head of the violin department i I of the Metropolitan School of Music, I j will play a program for the Parent- j Teacher Club of School No. 18 next j Wednesday. Miss Dorothy Stewart, soprano, | j student under Miss Frieda Heider of ! ’the Metropolitan School of Music, j will be soloist at the Moravian j i Church Sunday morning. Miss Martha Davis, pianist, stui dent under Arthur G. Monnlnger of j 1 the Metropolitan School of Music, I will be selected and act ns accom- i panist for the Frankfort Choral Society In a concert to be broadcast I next week from WFBM. The next regular monthly musicale I j broadcast by faculty members of the i Metropolitan School of Music at 7:30 I p. m., the fourth Wednesday of each j month from WFBM will be given by Willard MacGregor, artist pianist of the school, and Hugh McGibney, head of the violin department. Miss | Grace Hutchings will be accompanist for Mr. McGibney. The program is j being arranged in response to many requests which have come into the station and the music school. Mrs. Katherine Murdoch, soprano, j and Miss Grace Hutchings, pianist,' have been engaged to broadcast a program from WFKB next Monday evening at 7:30 p. m. The next students recital at the Metropolitan School of Music will be given in the Odeon Saturday after-1 j noon, Jan. 29, at 3 o’clock.

RNEST C. FOLEY, concert pianist and piano teacher. Is a i. recent addition to the facuty of the Irvington School of Music. He studied four years with Jeanette Smith at Lafayette, Ind., and then with the well-known piano virtuoso. Silvio Sclonti at the American Conservatory of Music In Chicago. He has dono concert work in Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, as well as other cities' and has taught piano for nine years. Paul Thaleman Saffron has been added to the faculty of the Irvington School of Music as a chorus director. He teaches voice, violin and orchestra. He has studied with such men as Frederick Kern, formerly Kapellmeister at Mayence; Blumenberg at Leipsig, Yeatinan Griffith at New York and at the American Conservatory of Music at Chicago. Mr. Saffran was musical director at Eden Seminary, St. Louis, a member of the Musical Society, Cincinnati, and director of high school music at Cumberland, Md., and lately of Chicago, where he was engaged as chorus director. He has exceptional talent in composition and has made arrangements of songs which have been exceedingly well received. On Jan. 20 he is opening a chorus class which Is open to all. Mrs. Frank Mills is anew French teacher with the Irvington School of Music. She has studied in the French school at New York City and spen|t summer before last in France, thus gaining proficiency in the language as spoken at home. She also has had teaching experience. Bernard Shulgrasser, teacher of violin, has been added to the faculty of the Irvington School of Music. Mr. Shulgrasser has had an extensive training; he studied six years In -the Conservatory of Music at Leipsig, Germany, he led an orchestra for four years in Mariam pole High School In Lithuania and then from 1923 till 1925 taught music In the High School of Ralvarija; Lithuania. He then came to the United States and opened a studio in Chicago; in 1926 he opened a private studio in Indianapolis. ZA HE January meeting of the • I Harmonie Club will be held —J in the Little Theatre, Monday afternoon, Jan. 17, at 2:30 o’clock, Mrs. Grace Watson Duckwall acting as the hostess. In reviewing the opera “Die Toten Augen,” by Eugen d’Albert, the text and musical analysis will be in charge of Pauline Schellschmidt with illustrations played by Paula Kipp. The vocal score and solo piafio parts will be given by Lillian Adam Flickinger, Charlotte Lieber, Asel Spellman Stitt, Norma Mueller, Jessamine Barclay Fitch, Mrs. James Ogden, Mrs. Robert Blake, Dorothy Knight Greene, Pauja Kipp and Mrs. Ross Caldwell. Asa divertissement Miss Loretta Van Meter, pupil of Madame Leontine Gano, will dance the solo dances of the Faust ballet music, to the accompaniment of violins, cello and piano piayed by Berenice Reagan. Marguerite Billo, Susan Woodbury and Dorothy Knight Greene. Mrs. Duckwall will have as her assistants Mesdames Bernard Batty, Glenn Frlermood, James Lowry, France® Johnson, Lillian Adam Flickinger, Louise Sohellschmldt-

Koehne and Emma Doeppers. Mrs. Robert Bonner will preside. SHE student section of the matinee musicale will meet Friday afternoon, Jan. 21, at 3 o'clock in the green parlors of the Y. W. C. A. Miss Pauline Schellschmidt will give a talk on “The Artist, the Critic and Criticism.’’ The program by the students will be In charge of Mary Virginia Wallace. On next Wednesday afternoon at the Masonic Temple at 3 o’clock, the Indianapolis Matinee Musicale will present the Reuter-Sametini-Wallen-steln Trio in recital. Program 'follows: Ernest Chausson. "Trio In G Minor (1881) "Pas trop lent-Anime.’’ “Vita." "Assez lent.” “Anlme.” Frank Bridge from "Miniatures" "Saltarello." “ Valeo rnsse.” "Hornpipe." Antonin Dvorak ...from the "Trio Op. 00 (Durnky)" “Andante (Dumky) Movement." Mendelssohn. . from the “Trio in D Minor" "scherzo.” Brahms ."Trio. Op. 8 B Major (new Ed.)” “Allegro con brio.” "Scherzo." "Adagio.” "Allegro." * 1 O artist visiting Indianapolis \ is more popular than the world famous violinist Fritz Kreisler, who will be heard In recital on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 23. In the Murat Theater in the first of the five Sunday afternoon concerts under the direction of the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Enterprises. From all Indications the prevailing rule of "a sold out house" will bo again evident. The second of the Sunday afternoon series will present Sergei Rachmaninoff, the eminent composer, pianist on Feb. 13. Mr. Rachmaninoff Is making an extensive tour of this

The Greatest

Fritz Kreisler

On Sunday afternoon, Jan. 23, at the Murat, Ona B. Talbot will present Fritz Krelsler In recital. Many claim that he is greatest of the living violinists. country, and according to the press is attracting large and extremely enthusiastic audiences. The Boston Post declares: "The qualities which place Mr. Rachmaninoff as a pianist in the very vangnards of his colleagues were again and gratifyingly in evidence; the big proportions, the sense, artistically, as well as physically, of force In reserve; the individuality in phrasing; the bold energetic outlines which Rachmaninoff gives to nearly everything he plays.” Roland Hayes whose artistry during half a dozen years has won the highest recognition in London, Paris, Vienna and Berlin, is again repeating his triumphs in this country. Rif. Hayes’ unique possession Is the singing soul of a poet—a tender, sensitive, deeply conscious soul which can only bear the pain of a public exposure veiled in music. The man's shy and tremulous reactions have that intensity and vividness which finds expression in great art. Mr. Hayes will give his Indianapolis recital on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 20. The reigning prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Maria Jeritza, is the soloist engaged for the fourth of the Sunday afternoon series on March 20, and Tito Schlpa, leading tenor of the Chicago opera, will close the season with a recital on May 1. NE of the most important mull )l s * ea l ©vents in Indianapolis l for many seasons is the coming of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski, conductor, in the seepnd of the fifth annual series of orchestra concerts of the Indianapolis Symphony Society, Ona B. Talbot, managing director, in the Murat Theater on Monday evening, Feb. 21. After a recent concert of the Philadelphia Orchestra in Cleveland the reviewer of the News wrote: “If anyone asked me to name what in my opinion, was the most inspiring artistic event of the season in Cleveland to date, I would have no hesitancy in naming the concert by the Philadelphia Orchestra. The audience numbered between 6,000 and 7,000. The audience was spellbound. Yes, amazed by such flawless performance of well-known musio. I, for one, never heard Stravinsky’s “Fire Bird” before, it seems, and I have heard it conducted by many men, including the composer. It was thrilling music, full of passion, romance and inspiration. Stokowski, Wunderkind. Superman, genius.” The third and last of the orchestra series of thfe Indianapolis Symphony Society will present the Cincinnati Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conductor, Sophie Braslau contralto on Monday evening, April 18. What battleships are now in commission in the I’nited States Navy? The Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Maryland, Nevada, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Woyming.

JAN, 15, 1927

Work Finesse Up to Non-Danger Hand to Insure the Game,

By Milton C. Work The pointer for today Is: The principle of finessing up to the non-danger hand should he followed even when it means fewer tricks for Declarer; provided such saerifie assures game. There are many P.ridgo players who, either because they do not plan and therefore fail to count the tricks they can surely win, or because of an ambition to win a large number of tricks, fail to make the play known as “cinching the game;” although game is worth more than any score, other than one produced by an ex ceptionally successful double. Take the following case; contract one No Trump: North S.: K-Q.T-B. ’ IT.: A-Q-J-5. D.: J-9-7. C. li-9. West East Leads Plays Five of Clubs Queen of Clubs South s.: A-6. H.: 10-9-7. D. A-Q-10-8-5. C. A-6-4. ( Declarer, while planning, should note that he might win the first trick; and If he did so. and both of his finesses succeeded, he would obtain a Grand Slam; but if he take that first trick and his finesse fail, he might not make his game. By hold lng up until the third round ho can assure his game, provided he be satis fled to finesse the Hearts but not the Diamonds. The Diamond finesse, if it succeeded, will produce one more trick than the Heart finesse if it sue oeed; but the loss of the Diamond finesse would place the lead in tindanger hand and cost game, while the Heart finesse ran lose and place the lead In the non-danger hand, after which game still can be made. To illustrate, the diagram Is completed with the adverse Kings shown in the most unfortunate location for the Declarer: North S.: KQ-J-B. H.: A-Q-J-5. D. J-9-7. , C.: 10-9. West East 3.: 9-3-3. R.: 10-8-7-4. H.: 8-4-3. H.: K-6-2. D.: K-2. D.: 6-4-3. ZJ.: K-J-8 5-2. C.: Q-7-3. South R.: A-6. H.: 10-9-7. D.: A-Q-10-8-6. C.: A-6-4. It will be noted that he would still be able, If ho played in tho way above Indicated, to make four Spade tricks, one Club trick, three Heart tricks ard one Diamond trick, or a total nine tricks at No Trump. " Another variation of this question will be discussed tomorrow. (Copyright, John F. Dllle Cos.) Work, the international authority on Auction Bridge, will answer questions on the game for Times readers who write to him through The Times, enclosing a self-ad-dressed, stamped envelope. Questions and Answers You can ret an answer to any Question of fact or information by writlnc to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1822 New York Ave., Washington, D. C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal replv Unsigned requests cannot be ansvlered, All letters are confidential.—Editor. Is there a method of removing ink stains from a floor? After scouring the spots with moistened sand, apply a solution of one pound of oil of vitriol a.nd two quarts of water. If this discolors the wood to any extent, bleach with a saturated solution of oxalic acid. If the ink stains are not too old, an application of a paste made of chloride of lime and water will also remove them. The paste made of chlorld of lime and water will also remove them. The paste Is put over the spots in a fairly thick layer and allowed to remain until nearly dry, i when the layer Is removed with n knife or spatula, and the spots washed with luke-warm water. Re peat the operation if not successful on first application. How Is smokeless gunpowder m .ode? Two types of smokeless powder are used: collodized and Indurated cellulose nitrates adopted by France, United States, Russia and Japan, and a collodized mixture of cellulose nitrates and nltro-glycerin adopted by England, Germany and Italy. The powders are granulated while plastic by squirting the mass Into rods, cords or threads, or cutting them Into flakes or strips. How many persons were treated during tho summer cruise of tho Alaskan hospital ship of the United States Bureau of Education? Three thousand Alaskan natives were examined this summer and 500 cases treated by the doctor and two nurses during a 2,200-mlle cruise on the Yukon River. Os the cases examined eighty pointed to tuberculosis, and It was recommended that a hospital be opened for their treat ment. Venereal diseases were found to be negligible. Is there a course In accident prevention in any American college to train safety engineers and public safety directors? New York University in New York City, in cooperation with the Ameri can Museum of Safety, offers such a course. The curriculum includes iri ( dustrial and public safety and a course in accident prevention will he open to graduates of the university, employes in .industries which arc members of the Museum of Safety; insurance safety inspectors, Government officials and employes, Indus trial safety committee men and others professionally interested in accident prevention,