Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 267, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1927 — Page 4

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

LINCOLN’S INFLUENCE While the Nation today pays its tribute of reverence to the memory of the Great Emancipator on the anniversary of his birth, Indiana might well read once again his immortal pledge that this sha.l be a Government of the people, by the people and for the people. This State has a pride in its reflected glory in Lincoln. It will rear a monument to his mother. It will perpetuate the fact that he was once a part of this State. But if there be one State in which the shadow of Lincoln is needed as a warning, it is Indiana. Considerable courage, or was it bravado, was shown by the Legislature when it formally listened to a eulogy of his greatness. That same Legislature had voted down, by a caucus of the party of which Lincoln was the first president, a resolution of inquiry into frauds and corruption in the State. Can imagination picture a Lincoln voting, with conscience bound and voice stilled by a party machine, for such a resolution? Would ne have been content to let charges of corruption and of betrayal of the people go unanswered and unpunished? Would Lincoln have believed that the Government was of the people or by the people or for the people when it refused to permit the full light of knowledge to phine in official places and to let the people know the truth? And what would he have said had he been present in the legislative halls and found there that army of special pleaders of privilege, the lobbyists for the public utilities? Slavery has taken on many forms in varied phases of history. But essentially slavery is the enforced labor of one man for the benefit of another. He found it in the open ownership of men whose skin was black by those whose skin was white. He saw men bought and sold. He saw them driven to the cotton fields by the lash and saw them cringe to the crackof the whip. His place in history was made eternal when he said this form of slavery must pass. The principle of slavery lurks behind every injustice perpetrated by the privileged under the law. The principle of slavery Is hidden, deep perhaps but still there, in every cent of unjust charge made by gas or electric or water or street railway company. There is slavery of the people when its government is delivered into the hands of those who drive men by necessity to their labor and take their wage through these added charges for the necessities of life. There is slavery of the masses when the suave Legrees of the modern day use the secret influence of legislators to obtain the substance of the people for their masters. How have we kept the faith with Lincoln? Have we a Government of the people as long as party caucuses smother the suggestion that corrup tion be investigated and the acts of officials be bared? * Have we a Government by the people as long as the voice of the lobbyist is stronger than the demands of the masses? Have we a Government for the people as long as laws are made to protect the privileged dollars while honest business and honest effort 4s forced to pay tribute to the powers of greed? We need more than lip service to the memory of Lincoln. We need, badly need, a real reverence for his immortal principles of liberty and freedom, liberty to live without oppression, freedom from the nomination of the shrewd and conscienceless. NAVAL DISARMAMENT Competitive armament has disturbed the world now for a long time. What a grand thing it would be to see for a change a period of competitive disarmament? . Suppose, answering Coolidge’s proposal for a live-power naval limitation 'agreement, Great Britain, France, Japan and Italy were to respond with cne voice: “Sure, we’re for it. And we’re not going to w r ait for someone else to start it. We’re going to reduce our navies right now.” Try to picture each of the nations, including our own, outdoing one another in their efforts to perpetuate peace. It's hard, isn't it? It’s hard, especially in the light of events since the arms conference of 1922, held in Washington. That conference was a real success. On the whole, the nations subscribing to it have carried out the disarmament program agreed to. This program however, dealt only with big battleships. It left the nations free to do as they pleased in the matter oi light cruisers, destroyers and submarines. And some of the nations have pleased to speed up construction. They have left the United States far behind. It is to meet this situation that President Cool Idge is seeking a second arms conference. It is not always possible to know what moves governments, blit belief has been general that the United States succeeded in bringing about the agreement concerning capital ships by its generous offer to Bcrap much greater tonnage than any other na lion was asked to scrap. That, and the fact that the United States then had under way a battleship building program which would soon have made the strongest naval power in .the world. Tb" agreement was that for every five capital ships in tne United States Navy, Great Britain should have five, Japan three, France one and two-thirds and taly one and two-thirds. It would seem on first thought that all the nations participating in this agrement would be ready to extend it to other craft, as the President suggests. But each has a lot of particular reasons for not doing so. Great Britain wants light cruisers for this, France wants submarines for that, Italy and Japan destroyers for the other. And all their reasons are doubtless sound enough from the standpoint of their naval men. Official replies have not been received from any of the nations concerned, but their reluctance to stop building and unwillingness to scrap any of the vessels already built is indicated by unofficial comment in all these countries. Meantime Congress is on the point of authorizing the construction of three new cruisers. Coolidge’3 proposal is not likely to change the purpose of Congress, unless the unexpected should happen and the

four other nations should immediately agree in principle to his 5-5-3 suggestion concerning auxiliary war craft. Nothing of ihis kind is to be anticipated during the remaining three weeks of Congress. The opposition revealed unofficially abroad to the Coolidge proposal Is likely to confirm Congress in its purpose. The three cruisers about to be ordered could be scrapped, while still In the blueprint stage—as much of Great Britain’s scrapping was done in the matter of capital ships—if the other nations meet us half That is apt to be the view in Congress. We believe Congress will be found sincerely supporting Coolidge’s efforts toward disarmament. We do not believe the authorization of three more cruisers will indicate any desire to do otherwise. SAME OLD JIM Once more the people are given a close-up on Senator James Eli Watson and his slant on public office. Out of the files of the treasury department comes, a letter, hidden there for five years, which is important only as it reveals Watson. At that time Newberry, finally rejected by the Senate for his extravagant use of money in his election to the Senate from Michigan, was fighting for his seat. His opponent was Henry Ford. Watson, as he later proudly boasted, was one of the defenders of Newberryism. How did Watson fight? His letter tells. He wrote to the Treasury Department asking that it soak Henry Ford on income taxes. He asked that the power of the Government be used to swat his opponent. Nothing about the issues of the campaign. Just hit below the belt if you get a chance. Throw a scare into your enemy’s pocketbook if you can. The revelation is important at this time, as Watson will again knock at the door of the Senate for admission, showing his scant majority in the last election. New standards for senatorships are being created these days. The Senate is beginning to frown upon men who use too much money in elections. The Senate might frown upon those who try to use their influence in departments for oppressive purposes or for protection. Possibly the Senate may be interested in knowing in what other cases Watson called upon the Treasury Department for aid. Did he use, as was broadly charged, that department to help secure a friend where once he had an implacable enemy? Same old Jim. He never changes. The Senate might find other evidence of treasury tampering if it really gets inquisitive. . . . North Carolina legislators are turning their fire on petting. Undoubtedly a law would stop this practice. 4 ' They’re fighting in Nicaragua, but that's a neutral zone, so it doesn t count. The Navy proposes to make the old frigate Constitution a floating museum. Better keep it handy. 1 we may need that boat some day. • G. K. Chesterton suggests a statue of Sherlock Holmes be erected in England. We might pay the same honor to Senator Walsh.

DIVIDING THE G. O. P.

-By N. I). Cochran -

With Nicholas Murray Butler leading the wets and i Senator Borah the drys, the Republican party may j have to face the prohibition problem after all. As the Democratic party is hopelessly bogged in the same ■ mire, however, the G. O. P. can afford to put on a good ! fight in its own ranks between now and 1928. Anyhow, the time has gone when both parties can dodge the issue by declaring that so long as the Eighteenth amendment is in the Constitution and the Volstead act on the statute books the law must be enforced. Everybody knows that public officials have to swear that they will enforce the law. They can't change the oath of office; and they can’t announce that they take the oath with mental reservations. But everybody knows also that some laws are enforced md others are not. There are also different ways of enforcing the same law. Some politicians would like to have both parties dodge the prohibition issue; and a lot of dodging has been done. But an issue that everybody makes the subject of daily conversation and argument can’t be dodged indefinitely. What Is In the public mind as a political issue must finally find its way into party platforms. Politicians know that. What bothers them is what is the safest way to tackle an animal that can ' either butt or kick. Some Democrats are trying to hold the solid South and at the same time reach out for the wet States by pushing States’ rights. Some Republicans are leaning the same way in the hope of holding the dry West and the wet East together. The Democrats who follow McAdoo take the dry end of it, hoping to hold the dry Democratic South and attract the dry Republican West. Their undercover tactics are to work the dry and religious issues in double harness. Openly they attack Governor Smith as a wet, but covertly they attack him because he is a Catholic. States like New York. New Jersey, Maryland and Massachusetts wqnt a wet Democratic candidate, and wouldn’t worry much, if rt all, about his religion. But they would draw the line on Senator Walsh of Montana because lie is a dry, thpugh the fact that lie is a Catholic won't bother them. Bus in these States the proportion of Catholics is much higher than it is in the South. According to the last available statistics of church membership in the various States, there are in Alabama 518,000 Baptists, 323,000 Methodists and 37,000 Catholic*, other Southern States show as follows: Arkansas, 287,000 Baptists, 176,000 Methodists, 21;000 Catholics. Georgia. 721,000 Baptists. 388.000 Methodists, 18,000 Catholics; Mississippi, 441,000 Baptists, 226,000' Methodists, 32,000 Catholics; South Carolina, 413,000 Baptists, 279,000 Methodists, 9,500 Catholics; North Carolina, 635,000 Baptists, 339,000 Methodists and 6,000 Catholics; Tennessee, 320,000 Baptists, 286,000 Metho lists, 23,000 Catholics; Virginia, 457,000 Baptists 148,000 Methodists, 37,000 Catholics. That gives an idea of what the Smith Democrats are up against in the solid South. ' When it is considered that the backbone of the Anti-Saloon League movement, the Ku-Klux Klan’and prohibition forces is the membership of the Baptist. Methodist and other Protestant churches, It may be understood what McAdoo is driving at; and what a job the Democrats have on their hands in getting New York, New Jersey Massachusetts, Maryland and other northern and eastern States together on the same platform with Southern Democrats when prohibition and religion are made political issues. Their only consolation is the fact that the Repub. lican party is getting into a Similar jam. It began with the defeat of Senator Wadsworth of New York by the Anti-Saloon League and allied forces In politics.

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Tracy

Lincoln's Greatness Increases as Years Pass,

By M. E. Tracy Considering all that has been said and written about Abraham we ought to be weary of the subject. The fact that we are not is the best proof of his greatness. Other figures shrivel as the years go by, but his becomes more towering. The strange story of his life grows more fascinating as the horizon recedes. His own generation thought it knew and understood him, but we know that it did no^ Fifty years after death finds him a greater enigma than ever. Science Puzzled Science cannot explain Abraham Lincoln. N) eugenist would have picked*his parents to produce the greatest of our Presidents and no sociologist would say that his early environment was the best for budding genius. He ought to have grown up narrow, If not ignorant, and bitter, if not without ambition. ’ According to pet theories, a child born in Lincoln’s circumstances has no chance. We weep over the kind of home into which he came and sneer at the kind of school he attended. You can understand how ranch life made the sickly Roosevelt strong and strenuous, how painstaking study produced a Daniel Webster, how Washington and Lee became great strategists, but what made Lincoln great and how can boys emulate him? More puzzling still, of what did Lincoln’s greatness really consist? Simplicity Henry Ford says, and other men have said it before, that there are ten or a dozen simple rules, if properly understood and applied, would solve most human problems. Lincoln did still better. He lived that theory, whether in his home, his law office, or as President of the United States. Herndon records that it was his custom when trying a ease, to let the other side squabble and quibble over all the non-essential points, while he stuck to the one big point. Lincoln Went to the bottom of things, refusing to be sidetracked by sophistries, of hair-splitting arguments. When some of his advisers wanted him to go after England because they thought she was showing so much sympathy for the South, he replied, "One war at a time, gentlemen.” When some thin-skinned religionists asked him to stop Sunday battles, he said. “Certainly, if you get j the other side to agree.” When some bolier-vhan-thou temperance advocates wanted him to dismiss Grant because the latter drank, he merely expressed a wish to know what brand of liquor Grant used in order that he might “send it to the other Union generals.” Human Nature Lincoln dealt with the deep and simple truth, “Fighting for the right, as God gives us to see the right.” He looked to wisdom rather than statesmanship and to sincerity rather than politics. Above all else, he visualized human nature as the greatest force in the world, and had an abiding faith in the better side of it. His appeal was always to the good in men. he saved a condemned sleeping sentinel, or refused to persecute alleged spies. Saving Patience Lincoln believed in open debate, no matter how tense the situation, or how irritating the issue. He never tried to close men’s mouths or carry a point by force so long as any other way remained. It was his patience that saved the border States for the Union. He stood for' the principle that unrestricted discussion is basic in a republic. You can’t imagine him sanction# ing the imprisonment of Debs, or encouraging such laws as Congress and some of the State Legislatures passed during the World War. Neither can you imagine him steering this government into such a mess of foreign relations as it now faces. Folly's Fruits The world that we went forth to save for Democracy suspects and distrusts our motives. The league that we prompted finds us unwilling to participate, The clamor for arbitration which we continue to make Is mocked by what we are doing in Nicaragua. Such a situation could never have arisen if the simple, honest ways of Lincoln had remained fashionable. No wonder France rejects the Coolidge plan for further disarmament, or that Latin America thinks in terms of a coalition to protect itself. Where did the expression to “escape by the skin of one’s teeth" originate? See the twentieth verse of the nineteenth chapter of the book of Job, Bible: “I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.” Is there any wa*y of making pencil marks indelible? To fix pencil marks so they will not rub out, take well-skimmed milk and dilute with an equal bulk of water. Wash the pencil marks (whether writing or drawing) with this liquid, using a soft flat camel’s hair brush and avoiding all rubbing. Place upon a flat board to dry. What do the names Olympia and Minnie mean? piympia is from the Greek and | m-fans "Heavenly." Minnie is from the Latin and means "little one.”

Today We Celebrate a Great Man’s Birthday

t 1 t\\ > I § [• WILL BEVOLT \\\ i; WILLYOU

Roland Hayes to Include Spirituals in His Concert at the Murat Soon

r~JT\ NNOUNCEMENT was made , A today by Ona B. Talbot that I. I Roland Hayes, N >gro tenor, who will be heard in concert at the Murat Sunday afternoon, Feb. 20, at 3 o'clock will include a group of Negro spiritual in this program. Indications are that a capacity house will be present to hear this tenor as parties are coming from all over the State. Hayes’ program will be as follows: I. Caldara "Solve Amiehe” Galnpni "Eviva Rosa" ("La Calamila <li Cuori" Beethoveu “Adelaide” 11. Schubert •. . . "Nacht Unde Traume" Schubert "Ra-tlose Liobc" Faure "Le Secret" Debussy ‘Mandoline" Santoliijuido ‘‘Erinni” 111. Griffis . . . "The Lament of Ina the Proud" Grilles "In a Myrtle Shade" Slonimnky "La Fuite de la Lune" Roger yuileter I Shakespeare I IV. —Negro Spirituals— - Arr. by Gustav Rlemm a . .“I Pool Like My Time Ain't rfcne" Arr. by Hall Johnson "Hold On" Arr. by Roland Hayes .... Lit'l David, Play on Yo' Harp" Arr. by Roland Hayes "Great Campmeetin ’’ OHE 1928 class has arranged for a Valentine party to bo g'ven at the Irvington School of music, Feb. 14, at 7:45 In the evening at which the A. S. F; Club members will be guests. The class will have its monthly meeting the Sunday of the month at 3:00 the guest artists for this meeting will be Mrs. Glenn Kingham, reader, and William Hogfle. whistler. Anyone wishing to become a member of this club is eligible if he is of high school age and has had three years of music. The following program will be given by the advanced pupils of the Irvington School of Music, Friday evening, Feb. 18. at 7:45. The public is cordially invited. “Dance dee Cloehettes" Rebicoff , , . Frances Hawekette. Macliusla" Irish Song Thelma Caldwell. "Sento nel Core” Caccini Elva Feller. “SolfejjiettO” Bach Charles Dickens. “Two Roses” Lohr Marguerite Ferguson. "When Celia Sings" Arue Carol Coapstiek. “Arise. Shine" McDermid lone H. Ague*. "Spirate Pur" Donand.v Margaret Grainger. “Butterfly” De! Riego Mary Nugent. “Serenade” Schubert Cecillia O'Mahoney. “Jewel Song" Faust Adelaide Miller. "Mynion's Aria” Thomas Martha Killion. “From the Land of the Sk.v Blue Waters” i Cadman Organ, Dorothea Hogle. SHE fourth radio program in the 1927 series of the Victor Talking Machine Company will be presented on the evening of Feb. 18, through eight stations, by three distinguished artists of concert and opera, assisted by the Victor Concert Orchestra. The artists are Miss Mary Garden, soprano, of the Chicago Grand Opera Company; Enfilio de Oogorza, baritone, and Hans Barth, pianist. Rosario Bourdon, one of the musical directors of the Victor company, will direct the orchestra. Beginning at 9 p. m.. Eastern

Here Sunday

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Raehmanoff

On Sunday, Feb. 13, at 3 o’clock at the Murat, Ona B. Talbot will present Rachmaninoff in recital. He will be greeted I#' the largest audience in his experience with Indianapoljs Sunday.

standard time, the concert will be heard through stations of the "blue” network of the National Broadcasting Company, and four affiliated Southern stations. These stations are WJZ, New York: WBZ, Springfield and Boston; KDKA, Pittsburgh; KYW, Chicago: WHAS, Louisville, Ky.; WS£, Atlanta: WMC, Memphis, I and WSM, Nashville. Miss Garden, who is one of the world’s most notable operatic figures, is a native of Scotland, but came to the United States at the age of six years. Her musical instruction began in early childhood, and she played the violin in concert at the age of 12. Later she studied singing in Paris, under some of the most distinguished European teachers, and made her operatic debut in Paris at the Opera Comique in the title role of “Louise.” So successful was this,debut that she continued singing the same role for 100 successive nights. Mr. De Gorgorza is another internationally famous singer who has gained a large following with the radio audiences. He was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., of Spanish parents, who were visiting in America, and was taken to Spaii by his parents at the age of two months. Hans Barth is an American pianist who attracted conspicuous attention among the critics when but 11 years old. He evinced deep interest in the piano at the age of 4 and made his first concert appearance at 6 years, his performance winning, for him the tender of a scholarship in the Leipsic Conservatory of Music. The program to be presented by these artists is as follows: Intermezzo from “Cavalleria Ruzticana” , Mascagni Amtra a Dance. from "Poor Gynt". . .Gririr \ ictor Concert Orchestra under direction of .... Rosario Bourdon. "Mother O’ Mine" Tours “In Old Madrid" Bingham-Trotere _ Emilio De Gogorza. .Polish Dance ’ Scharwenka Rustle of Spring” Sindlng Hans Barth. Depuois lo Jour, from "Louise" , • Charpentier At Dawning Cadman . , Miss Mary Garden. ‘Amaryllis” Ghys-Seredy _ victor Concert Orchestra. "Teresita Mia” Nieto "O Sole Mio” Capurrodi Capua „ Emilio De Gogorzs. Narcissus” Nevin "Flatterer” Chaminade Hans Barth. "At Parting” Peterson-Rogcrs How Gentley. Sweet Alton" Burns-Spillman Miss Mary Garden. The student section of the Indianapolis Matinee Musicale will meet Friday, Feb. 18. at 3 o'clock in the green parlors of the Y. W. C. A. The program which will be in charge of Mrs. Charles J. Gaunt will be as follows: Piano—"lmprovisation and Melody”. Brown Nancy Moore, pupil of Professor Rudolf O. Hyne. Voice—" The White Swan” Hulten "On the Steppe” Gretchantnoff Mrs. Paul Seehausen. pupil of Lulu Brown. Violin—“Berceuse” Jocelpn Cornelia Cockrane. pupil of Donn Watson. \ oiec—"Change of Mind” Curran "A Banjo Sohg” Homer Irene Scott, pupil of Lulu Brown. Piano—“ The Crap Shooters” Lane "A Cringo Lango ' Lane Charlotte Rifner. pupil of Frieda Heider. Voice—" Her Rose” Coombs “The Secret” Scott Margaret Rasback, pupil of Mrs. W. R. Sieber. Piano—“To the Sunrise” Lorjussen "Vake” Levitzki Mildred Morgan, pupil of Earle Howe Jones Voice—“Vieille Chauson” Bizet "Tex Yeux" Rebey Martha Gruselle Martin, pupil of Glenn Friermood. Accompanists: Lulu Brown, Mrs. W. R, Sieber. Mrs. William Werner. SHE following program will be broadcasted from the Hoosier Athletic Club on Thrusday, Feb. 10, from 7:30 to 8:30, by the Irvington School of Music. “O. Dry Those Tears” Del Riego • Machushla Irish Song Thelma Caldwell. “Yellow Violet” Mokreigs ‘ Country Garden” Grainger Flora Sauer. Comet Solos Selected Margery McCullough. • Readings ...... ~...... Selected Mrs. Glenn Kingham. Aria from "Madam Butterfly" . . Puccini Irene Hamilton. “Where'er You Walk" Handel “Waters of Minnetonka” Licurance Joe Perrine. Ana from "Barber of Seville” . Rossini Ernst Heberiein. S r ~~~ TUDENTS in piano, voice, violin, cello and dramatic i -J reading will give the next regular recital at the Metropolitan School of Music, Saturday afternoon, Feb. 19, at 3 o’clock in the Odeon. i The public is invited. Taking part in the program will ; be the following: Martha Cox. Bernadine Grow. Ruth Edwards. Lowell Love. Floyd Ross, Harriett Harding, Edna Lanham. William Hancock, Robert G. Deupree, Betty Marglleth. Ruth Eloise Dale Jane Elizabeth Walker. R. H. Elliott Ruth Stockton. Elizabeth Thale, belle Hedges, Beulah Moore. Bertha Miller Marie Shaner. Mrs. H. jacobelli. Gene Smith, Morrison Davis. Maxme Rosenbaum Frank W. Oilphant, Martha Wolf. Mary Lonrmann. These pupils are students of the following teacherev^ Willard MacGregotw , 'Edward Nell. B F S varthout. Earle Howe Jones. Donn Watson. Helen Sartor. Gladys Smead. Franklin

N. Taylor, Hugh McGibeny, Arthur G. Mpnninger. Mrs. Arthur G. Menninger, Grace Hutchings. Helen Louise Quig, IT. Otis Pruitt, Norma Justice ana Adolph Schellschmidt. ® JUNIOR OPERA CLUB has been organized among the junior students of the Metropolitan School of Music. At a Valentine party given to the club members and parents by the directors of the school last week officers and directors of the club were elected. An operetta, “The Lost Princess Bo Peep," will be given in April, rehearsals having already started. Edward Nell is directing the operetta, assisted by B. F. Swarthout, Miss Frances Beik of the dramatic department and Mme. Leontine Gano of the department of dancing. Mrs. Grace F. Mackay, former State chairman of junior and juvenile clubs for the National Federation of Music Clubs, was chosen as director of the club. The councillors chosen were Edward Nell, Miss Frances Beik, Miss Grace Hutchings, Mme. L. Gano and B. F. Swarthout. l'he club will be federated in the NT. F. M. C. Officers elected were: Vincent Haines, president; Lucile Stanley, first vice president: Maxine Moore, second vice president; Geraldine Swarthout, treasurer; Margaret Hamilton, recording secretary. Forty young persons enrolled as charter members of the club. Miss Helen Louise Quig and Miss Anita Wandell are accompanists for the operetta. j r- | HI MU ALPHA, national muI 1 I fraternity for men, l . 1 whose local chapter is in the Metropolitan School of Music, announces the following pledges: Willard MacGregor, Henry Marshall, Tull Brown and Franklin L. Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest G. Hesser entertained the fraternity at dinner last week, at which time Edwin Jones was appointed publicity chairman and plans were made to give a concert of American compositions during the week of February "2. Tentative plans were also made for other musicial and social events to be given during the spring season. ISS GLENNA MILLER, who recently graduated from the . the public school music course of the Metropolitan School of Music, and Butler University, has accepted a position as supervisor of music Walton (Ind.) schools. M““ ONDAY evening, Feb. 14, Miss Helen Sartor of the dramatlc department of the Metropolitan School of Music will present* two one-act plays and a number readings in the auditorium of the Broad Ripple High School Lithe benefit of Broad Ripple Christian Church. The plays are “The Neighbors” and “The Dream Lady.” In the casts will be: Marian Fehrenbach, Mary Niooll, Geraldine Kuntz, Maxine Rosenbaum, Mary Ellen Cooper, Farietta De Vault. Helen Louise Small. Mary Beatrice Whiteman. Anna Foster. Lorene Dulcy. Jane Elizabeth Walker. Bernice Wire. Miss Florence Martha Keepers, pianist, of the faculty of the Met(Turn to Page 7)

Guest Artist

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Dusolina (iiaiinini

The guest soloist witji the Maennerchor on Monday night, Feb. 28, will be Dusolina Giannini, an artist of high standing.,

FEB. 12, 1927

Work

Side King Sufficient Help for Some Five-Card Suits.

By Milton C. Work The pointer for today is: A five-card suit headed bjr King-Queen-Jack should not he bid without side strength, but a side King is sufficient to justify the bid. A five-card suit headed by Klng-Queen-Jack is a very strong holding, but without side strength it is not strong enough to bid. One of the reasons for this is that it is not apt, to be very helpful for any other suit declaration the partner may make; and, unless partner have four cards of it—>vhich is not to be expected, it will not produce more than two tricks for the partner’s No Trumps if one adversary hold Ace-x-x in it. Considering in order the hands, given yesterday: 1. Sp.: King-Queen-x-x-x. lit.: King-x-x. Di.: x-x x. Cl.: x-x. Here we have a suit headed by a quick trick—concededly a more valuable quick trick than an Ace—but without a quick trick on the side. While bidding this hand would in, some cases work well, it would In more cases work disastrously and it would tend to unsettle the partner’s confidence. The hand should therefore be passed, with the intent of bidding secondarily if an advantageous opportunity occur. 2. Sp.: King-Queen-.Tack-x-x. Ht.j x-x-x. Di.: x-x-x. Cl.: x-x. In this case the suit is very much stronger than the suit in No. 1, butas was explained at the start of this article, it is not a bid without side strength. 3. Sp.: King-Queen-.Tack-x-x. lit : King-x-x. Di.: x-x-x. Cl.: x-x. Here we have sufficient side strength to justify a bid of one in the suit. The side King is apt to be helpful as an entry and for other purposes. The hand is too strong to pass, as passing with it might result in the passing out of a game hand. 4. Sp.: King-Queen-Jack-x-x. Ht.: Queen-x-x. DI.: x-x-x. Cl.: x-x. Tn spite of the natural desire to bid a King-Queen-Jack at the head of five, the lightest side strength which justifies it is shown in No. 3. The side strength in No. 4 is just a little too weak to justify a bid. (Copyright, John F. Dllle Company.)

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor of The Times! We have I sent the following letter to the members of the Legislature: Gentlemen: We are rot inaugurating precedent, twenty-two States have already pensioned their blind, thereby declaring that they shall be self-respecting citizens. There are those in all classes of the blind who need financial aid, th® young blind need a subsidy because in thenyouth they spend their time in segregating schools with IJxury, and modern conveniences which is not. the life which will be their lot after' graduation; leaving school without experience, without a dollar, without knowledge of the life they are enter.' ing, they must face the struggle for maintenanaee without prestige or influence and facing an exacting world. The older blind need aid not alone because they are growing old but lack of sight has prevented them from laying up in store for their declining years. The newly blind need help because . their loss of sight removes them from their normal activity and com-",, pels them to begin life over again. Blind women need the helping hand extended because so many* gates of opportunity to labor swing shut at their touch. Strong, capable, proficient blind men need dollars because compensation laws declare that factory owners must have provision for acci-. dents among their employes, and in consequence insurance companies : protect themselves against blin3 { men. Five pensioners, sons of veterans * of the Civil War, working in the > State factory for the blind, receive J pensions and own homes of which they may well be proud. Five non#; pensioners working by their side d<>; not own their own homes and mufet face these strenuous times with pov-' erty added to their handicap. Less than 6 per cent, or 139 of the;* 2,214 Mind people residing in the? State of Indiana are employed in the # State factory for the Mind. Voters and taxpayers will not fear” this bill when they learn that only#* one-seventh of one mill on eyery dol-ll lar will be necessary to meet the re-Jj quirements of this bill, and that by* raising this tax they can greatly aid** in removing the handicap imposed#? by blindness. # Railroad employes, retired teach- ■ ers„ iuperannuated ministers and*, mail carriers are pensioned. ButJJ their occupation makes them breadF winners. Why * not pension the blind? # When their misfortune com-2 paratively unqualifies them to earn 2 bread, and in many cases ‘the oh-S jects of grudging charity even s'! among relatives. f Genelemen, for these reasons arujf many other equally good reasons.s will you look upon our bill with pass-t* ing favor? Yours respectfully. N. C. WILSON. j* Chairman legislative committee, * Terre Haute, Ind. jj ! —. Where are Singapore and the Fed ; crated Malaiv Slates? The Federated Malay States aruS on the Malay Peninsula, adjoining lower Slam. Singapore Is the chief# port of the Straits Settlement. Itw just misses being the southermost Ijj point of Asia by half a mile of water ' channel- Both are Asiatic possesf-*' sions of Great Britain.