Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 282, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1927 — Page 6

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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.

ARE WE POWERLESS 2 Will the State of Indiana confess that it is powerless to protect itself against invasions of its Constitution? This is the serious question now before the Legislature in the matter of a petition for impeachment of Judge Clarence W. Dearth of Muncie. The question is not merely the removal of a judge. It is a question as to whether there is left in this State the power,'anywhere, to protect freedom of speech and integrity of property rights. If one judge can, by orders to police and sheriff under his jurisdiction, suppress one newspaper by forcibly taking possession of its issue, then every judge may do the same. If one judge may confiscate the property of newsboys without hearing and without a trial, then, every judge may confiscate any property of any citizen. The facts brought out in the public hearing leave no room for doubt but that the State must assert its sovereign rights to protect very fundamental liberties. It is no longe-r a matter of one judge. It is a question of whether the Constitution itself is in force in this State. Nor can the Legislature permit it to be said that the people are powerless in this situation. That it has power to impeach is the interpretation of the laws of this State by very able and conscientious lawyers. The Legislature placed laws on the statute books in 1897 to meet just such a situation. If there be no such power there, then the people are powerless to remedy judicial tyranny of any kind. The Constitution becomes an absurdity if it be admitted that judges can be removed only after they have been convicted of felonies in some court, probably in their own court. Under such a view a judge who has sole power to order the issue of warrants, could withheld even an indictment of himself and remain immune as long as he remained in office, no matter what act he commits. For the Legislature to assume that the Supreme Court will declare that its own acts, never tested as yet, are invalid, is to abdicate the power and trust imposed by the people. The facts seem to be very plain. One newspaper was suppressed. Thirty-eight boys were arrested on the excuse that the papers they peddled contained a slander against the judge who arrested them. They lost their papers. If the people are powerless to protect themselves in such a situation, then Indiana may well be advertised as the empire of "You CnnV’ THEIR CHANCE if the members of the lower house are really in earnest about wishing to do something to curb the utilities and their greed, they have their chance in the Harlan measure which escaped death in the Senate. That measure would give the public service commission power to look into the expenditures which these utilities list as “operating expenses.” It is in that account that the public pays for many things besides light, heat, water, gas and telephone service when they receive their bills. At present the commission regulates only the income It limits only profits. But it has no power to check the expenses of corporations when they carry on their payrolls useless employes whose services are, for instance, political. It has no power to check the extravagances that may come through contracts with allied corporations whose stock is held by insiders. Every dollar that is wasted in this manner, every dollar spent for lobbyists, every dollar spent for “parent companies” whose supervision charges merely mean a form of graft upon the communities in which the utilities operate, adds to the cost of utility service. Properly exercised, this power of supervision over utilities ought to result in lower rates to the public. The lower house has charged, in resolution, that the Senate has been controlled by the utility lobbyists. But this one law did pass the Senate and will become a law if the House will pass It in such form as not to endanger its yfe in an untimely wrangle over amendments. The House has its chance to vindicate itself. That utility lobby will not like it. Perhaps the people may get a little more justice if it becomes a law. DAVID REED’S BEHAVIOR Many reputable lawyers contend that a client, no matter how guilty, is entitled to the best possible defense. That is apparently the theory upon which Senator David Reed of Pennsylvania, cast in the role of chief defense counsel for his former political enemy, William Vare, is operating. Reed is utilizing every possible obstruction to prevent the Senate from completing the Pennsylvania election investigation. In following this course he m£y think, lawyerwise, that he is doing what any competent defense counsel would do. At any rate, that's the most complimentary view that can be taken of his tactics. In blocking the Sena.te investigation of the last election in Pennsylvania, however, Reed is flying in the face of several compelling facts. One is that the United States Senate is not a

police court where the game is to convict or acquit, regardless of the broad dictates of justice. It is, or ought to be, above petty technicalities. At present Vare stands convicted in the eyes of the country of glaring irregularities in his campaign for the office of United States Senator. His lawyer in such a case does not serve him well in seeking a technical legal acquittal at the expense of a universal public verdict of guilty. Vare is entitled in his own behalf to have the Senate committee complete Its Investigation. Another point is that Senator Reed, while technically Vare’s defender, is himself a defendant at the bar of public morals. The Senate Investigation, if allowed to continue, would delve deeply Into Pennsylvania election affairs in which Reed and his political group, as distinct from the Vare group, are charged with having played a role not above reproach. Reed's present behavior is reprehensible both In his capacity as Vare’s defender and on his own account. WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH CONGRESS? So long as we have, every two years, what is called the short session of Congress, so long will we continue to witness legislative jams such as that in which Congress is now milling about. When only a few days remain, a filibuster, against which even the cloture rule Is Ineffective, can be started and maintained. December to March —with the holidays out—is not a practical period for a congressional session. Nor Is It sensible to return men to Washinugton to legislate with the thought in their minds that it doesn’t matter what they do, that they are through anyhow. The Senate has three times voted for a constitutional amendment offered by Senator Norris of Nebraska, which does away with this lame duck session of Congress. Under its provisions, men elected in November would take up their duties the following January. The President likewise would be inaugurated in January. There is no difficulty in getting this amendment through the Senate and Norris will offer it again next session. But the House can kill It, as it has done three times. > / If the people desire effective service from Congress, they will instruct their Congressmen to vote for this Norris amendment.

DOHENY IN MEXICO , . Louis Fischer, author of Oil Imperialism, and one of the few well-informed men on oil, speaking in Washington this week, confirms the charge that Ed L. Doheny is the principal American oil man in Mexico refusing to accept tbe government’s terms. Doheny, he said, owns 34 per cent of the American oil claims in Mexico. The Standard Oil of Indiana and the Standard Oil of New Jersey, with the Transcontinental, hooked up with Doheny it refusing to accept leases for titles which they claim, and at the same time refusing to submit the validity of their titles to court review, Mr. Fischer says there is a growing suspicion that the titles may be tainted with much the same kind of fraud as those in the United States which have just been denounced by the United States Supreme Court. This, he ventures, as one reason why Kellogg, as representative of oil rather than the people, would rather resort to threats and diplomatic bullying than to any legal settlement of the Mexican dispute. TEN MONTHS; WORTH 20 YEARS A convict known as “Peg-leg Jack” Gordon recently was captured in Knoxville, Tenn., ten months after he had broken out of a New Jersey prison, where he was serving a twpive-year term. Because he broke jail and assaulted a warden, fifteen years hqve been added to his prison sentence. Informed of this, he smiled and told his captors that his ten months of liberty were worth far more than twenty years in prison. With this remark, he went back jauntily to serve out his time. Jack Gordon will be an old man when he gets out of prison, if he does not die there. Judging by his record, it would seem that prison is a pretty good place for him; certainly he need not arouse our sympathy. Yet his remark contained a profound truth; and as he resumes his old job of weaving chair bottoms or picking oakum or whatever they do In Jersey penitentiaries, we can ponder on it for a time. To a convict in prison, any sort of state where one is not watched constantly by a man with a gun is liberty. To a man on the outside, liberty may need much clearer definition. Yet both men fvant it —nay, must have it if they are to live—and most of the trouble in this world comes because some people feel that some other people are denying it to them. Liberty is not a thing that can be denied forever. Even a convict in his cell, sooner or later, is apt to break loose and clout a warden; and when it is a nation instead of a lone convict that is involved, the breaking out is terrible to behold. If you don’t believe it, think of the revolutions that France and Russia indulged in after centuries of slavery. We may well beware how we infringe the liberties of others. We may also take pains to understand this craving for liberty. It will help us to understand, for instance, the feeling that animates the Chinese just now. , You can catch a convict and put him back. You can't do that with a whole nation. A student, caught in a theft, was unbalanced, college authorities decided. But then maybe he was trying to balance up. A woman left $25,000 to the United States Government. The millennium got by before, we had a chance to notice it. “Coolidge Lifts Iron Duty,” says a headline. But we re going to stick to the job, just the same. The United States has made rjiles for Nicaragua, but that, doesn’t seem to bother the revolting Chinese a bit.

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Tracy Texas Alone in Having Been Republic Before Being State,

By M. E. Tracy FT. WORTH, Texas, March 2. Texas was born ninety-one years ago today, not as a State, but as a republic. It is the only one of our forty-eight commonwealths to have had such an experience, to have revolted by itself and established a government of its own. On March 2, 1836, a band of rugged pioneers, assembled in a frame building as representatives of 30,000 persons, adopted a declaration of independence from Mexico. Circumstances made such a course inevitable, but it seemed the height of hopelessness, if not of folly. Santa Ana had already crossed the Rio HQrande with an army at his back four times as large as Texas could possibly muster, and within four days tbe Alamo was to fall.

Pride can play strange pranks with power. Drunk with triumph. Santa Ana rushed forward to gain all the glory and met a crushing defeat within less than six weeks. For ten years the Texas flag flew beside that of other nations. She negotiated treaties, had her fling at diplomacy and acted in all other respects as a sovereign government. Then she joined the Union, which precipitated a war with Mexico and J expanded the domain of this country j by about one-third.

Understands Mexico Texas is probably more tolerant toward Mexico today than the rest of the country. She is certainly more tolerant than our State Department. An understanding of Mexico and of Mexican aspirations causes Texas to take a sympathetic attitude. You don’t hear much criticism of the Calles regime down here, or much talk to the effect that the new Mexican land laws are worth quarreling over. Texas knows what has held Mexico back, and that the Mexican people cannot free themselves without such reforms as appear drastic to us and as would be entirely out of place to the United States. Borah’s Daring Senator Borah took an unprecedented step when he wrote to President Calles for information with regard to the oil situation in Mexico. No doubt he felt that the State Department had not been as frank with Congress and the public as it might have been. He is not alone in this respect. There has been a lot of note writing and intimating, but as a general proposition, facts have been conspicuous for their absence. Doheny Again Calles says that 3SO oil companies, controlling 94 per cent of the land in dispute, have complied with the new law. while twenty-two companies, controlling 6 per cent of the land have refused. He is a prejudiced witness, of course, but even so, his statement cannot be dismissed as wholly unreliable. It is worth noting that Mr. Doheny is among those refusing to comply- with the Mexican law, and that the Supreme Court has just denounced him as guilty- of trying to trick his own government. Truth Is Wanted There are rumors of a break between Borah and the Administration because he wrote directly to Calles instead of asking for information through the State Department. It has been the custom for the State Department to handle such matters for other persons, even chairmen of foreign relations committees. to be guided by its say so. A good custom, unquestionably, so long as the State Department is willing to lay all its cards on the table, but not so good if it isn’t. What Congress and the people want is the truth. If Borah has gotten more of the truth by writing to Calles than he could have by talking to Kellogg, he has rendered a public service. Chasing Red Bogey Not only our own Government, but several others have strayed far from the loudly cried war aim of “open covenants openly arrived at.” Too many secretaries of state are stalking Bolshevism in the dark, or trying to make folks think they are. The most progressive nations on earth are balking progress in Mexico and China on the ground that it is the only, way to silence a few soapbox orators. British and American diplomacy has become a single track affair so far as these twj countries are concerned. In each we are doing more to help the war lords, reactionaries and mosabacks than those who arc striving for something different and better. It is strange to And so many Americans and Englishmen hoping that the bandits and tyrants of north China will beat the Cantonese, and that Calles will fall victim to another revolution in Mexico. Such a condition is brought about in large measure by the way the foreign policy of both governments has been shaped. Wo have gotten so excited chasing the red bogey up a blind alley as to find ourselves boosting the most reactionary elements.

OTHER THEATER OFFERINGS Other theaters today offer: Eddie Leonard at Keith’s; the Transfleld Sisicrs at the Palace; Jane Dillon at the Lyric; “The Show” nt the Ohio; * The Winning of Barbara Worth" at the Circle; ‘‘Tell It to the Marines” at the Apollo; new show at the Isis; ‘‘Fools of Passion” at the Ritz; ‘‘Black, White Sheep” at the Uptown, and burlesque at the Mutual. What is the population of Mexico and what proportion are Roman Catholics? The population is 14,234,799 of which about 80 per cent are Roman Catholic adherents. **

You Never Can Tell How Far Those Things May Go, Calvin!

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Be Brave and Put on the Glasses of Mr. Zero and See Some Cruel Facts of Life ■■■■ ■ By Walter D. Hickman

Looking through the eyes of a man with a mediocre mind is a cruel task. It took vast courage and a lot of genuine intelligence for the Little Theatre Society to present “The Adding Machine,” by Elmer L. Rice. The first thing that the society needed to ’a this daring and honest piece of satire as well as human tragedy, was nerve. There will be those who will yell from the housetops the word 'shame" because the society dared to do this play. I have no patience just now with any mind that is so small, which will not be tolerant to a mental experience, a voyage int 6 the brain box of another Individual. Os course this play stepped on my toes and even, ruffled me up a bit, but I will never be so dense and so unfair that I refuse to see life through the eyes of the other fellow. And that is just what “The Adding Machine” really is. You give up your eyes and borrow those of Mr. Zero, an accountant and bookkeeper in the same store for twentyfive years.

Tbe second, that the curtain goes | up on ‘‘T'no Adding Machine” you j see Mrs. Zero as Mr. Zero sees her. • Not as she may appear to you but | as her own husband sees her. As you use the eyes of Mr. Zero I in the first scene you see Mrs. Zero as the narrow minded, small talk and small fighting wife, who would worry a staint into his grave. Mrs. Zero has no comeback because you are seeing her through the narrow, limited and conceited eyes of her husband. The Crash In the second scene you have Zero perched upon bis stool writing down figures and adding them up while his assistant Daisy Devore reads them off. You hear them talk but the major part of it is not what they say to each other, but what they are thinking. Zero thinks between figures of what a mess his wife is; why he ever married her; about the woman who lived across the way and who was arrested for indecency: why he didn’t have the nerve to call upon her; what a fine guy he is and what a swell asset he is to the firm—all these thoughts and many others go through his brain. He is blind to the fact that the woman who works opposite him is a woman who loves him very much and the woman who could have made a man out of him. And you also in this same scene see through the eyes of Daisy. She may be a little selfish because her love for Zero is so great that she even hints at suicide. The fact is that Zero never had a kind word for Daisy. He quarreled Do You Know Your 4 Ancient History? Today's set of questions will find out just how well you remember the ancient history you studied when you were in high school. You’ll find the answers on page 16: 1 — In the valleys of what two rivers did civilization first flower in what we now call the “near east?” 2 Who were the Pharaohs? 3 Who was king in Babylon when the Babylonian empire was Overthrown by the Persians? 4 What Syrian monarch formed an alliance with' King Solomon of Israe'? 5 Who was the Persian king who led an army across the Hellespont in an unsuccessful attempt to subjugate Greece? 6 Who was the Spartan commander who led such a heroic defense against the Persian Invaders at Thermopylae? 7 Between what two nations were the Punic wars waged? 8— What Carthaginian general inflicted numerous defeats on the Roman armies and made a name for himself as one of the greatest generalsiln military history? 9 wVho conquered w'hat is now Frante for the Roman empire? 10— What was the famous “Pax ' Romina?”

with her all the time, even about nothing. But she loved him and hungered for a word of kindness. That evening, just before Mr. Zero left the office, the boss enters and starts to toll him that the firm has decided to oust all their bookkeepers and put in adding machines, “because a schoolgirl could operate them.” Then the small brain of Mr. Zero snaps. And he knows that he is whirling through space, and suddenly you actually see what he sees while his brain is whirling. Mr. Zero and the boss go round and round. Masterful stage equipment makes this possible. Here you see the value or having .George Somnes direct productions. Here is tho finest and most complicated scene that the Little Theatre has ever tackled. And the result is a masterpiece. Very Cruel In the third scene, after Zero has stabbed his boss to death, you seo Mrs. Zero in an angry mood waiting for her husband to come home. He is late. She is giving a party, to which Mr. and Mrs. One, Mr. and Mrs. Two and the like are invited. When they arrive, these narrowminded people Indulge In talk that oven a baby would bo ashamed. There is excuse for a child, but never married people being so mentally small.

The crash comes when a police- j man arrives and arrests Mr. Zero for j murder and Zero thinks that his wife ; even didn't give him credit for I having enough courage to kill the i boss. \ George did a startling : and an effective thing when he j created the set for the Court of J Justice trying Mr. Zero for murder. You see. In the background, a judge wearing a mask, expressionless, hearing the evidence. In front of him in a sort of a suggested is Mr. Zero. Remember there are only two people on the stage. None on the stage actually talks. The author permits you to see what Mr. Zero sees and to feel what he feels while the trial Is going on. The jury is not on the stage. It is in the front row of the theater, right next to the audience. When the jury yells "Guilty” and marches out, we see Mr. Zerd trying without success to find out Just what justice really is. The Grave Opens We do not see Mr. Zero put to death by an order of .a court of justice, but we see his grave in a graveyard along with other graves. A street walker enters the graveyard at night with a boy companion for a definite purpose, because her apartment had been raided on a tipoff given the police by Mrs. Zero and she had served time. The giri recognizes the new grave and thinks it would be a great joke on Zero if she would stage a petting party on his grave. Her boy friend does nor see the joke and they leave. Then thp grave ope .is and Mr. Zero stretches out and decides that he will walk He does, and another restless soul comes out of his grave. Both find out that they are murderers. One had killed his boss, the other his mother anti who feared that he was going to burn for his crime. So .the two leave the graveyard and travel to "a field” all pretty, reminding one of the country. Here the two souls of murderers talk over things and they can't understand why they should be in such a pretty place when they should be burning. Then a voice calls for Mr. Zero. Zero fears that it is his wife trying to keep up with him. But it is only the girl who worked opposite him at the bookkeeper’s desk. She had committed suicide. So the two sit down and stage a loving scene and even plan a little bit of free love. At least, they plan j to be together, because the girl figures that Zero is now no longer bound to his wife because the marriage vow only bound him until death. But Mr. Zero hears that there are thieves, liars, free thinkers and about everybody in this “field,” and so he decides to journey on. So he

leaves the girl who blindly follows him. We next see Mr. Zero still dressed in his burial clothes in “another place” working over a machine. Then the man who has managed the place for centuries comes on the scene and tells Mr. Zero that his time Is up and that he has to return earth. Mr. Zero does not want to return because he likes his Job in this “another place.” The manager of tho place admits that it is a bum system but it has been in use for centuries and he tells Mr. Zero that he has been up there many times before. Mr. Zero learns that he was first a monkey and a mighty weak sort of a monkey at that. “You have always been a slave,” the manager tells Zero. And Zero learns that all ho is fit for is to work and slave. Zer-> pleads not to return and agree:’, only when Hope, referred to as a pretty blonde girl who would keep him company, is promised him as his companion on his return. And Mr. Zero exists to Join his fair blonde companion. Curtain. I have tried to tell you the story of "The Adding Machine,” as I see it. Here is strango but powerful mental food. Don't he afraid of it because it is both a satire and a warning upon narrow-mindedness, false

* Plain Words Do not become excited over what you may hear regarding “The Adding Machine, which is being presented this week at the Playhouse by the Little Theatre. It took real nerve and fine vision of purpose for George Somnes and the society to present this play. Here is the most revolutionary thing that has ever bc-n produced from a thought stimulation standpoint in many seasons. It is brutally frank. It Is unique. 1 recommend It to those who are not afraid of a new mental experience.—W. D. 11.

principles, wrong ideas of greatness, intolerance and the failure to have a little love and unde’-standing for those who are either bigger or even smaller than thfe other fellow. A Fine Cast The cast is excellent. The best I have ever seen the Little Theatre use. The outstanding one is Walter Vonnegut as Mr. Zero. Masterful and convincing work. The cast is so important that I give it to you as follows: r z Pro Walter Vonnegut Mrs Zero . " Eleanor Heater Daisy Diana Dorothea Devore beora Weimar The Boss Waltber Lleber Mr One7 -Horaee Mrs. One Mrs. Win. P. A w Mr Two Lnther Allen Mrs. Two . R°;e Crunan Mr. Three Bay Holtmann Mrs. Three Mrs. Harry Pihl Mr Four Kenneth Strawn Mrs. Four Charlotte Howe Mr Five Harold Meeker Mrs Five Mrs. buev Sahakian Mr. Six Neil Firestine Mrs. Six AsnesDady Policeman Paul Hodges j u( ]re Paul Hodges Judy O’Grady Ruth Melnnis Todd Youtip Man Harold Shrdlu Malco m Kelly A Head Paul Hodges bieutenant Charles Waller bieber joe Neil Firestine Asa critic, Ido not ask you to like it. I only suggest that you see it and tolerate it long enough to form your own Idea what it Is all about. "The Adding Machine” is for the adult who is not afraid to think. If you arc easily mentally frightened, then stay at home and put extra covers upon the bed. I recommend “The Adding Machine" as the most revolutionary and far-rcachlng accomplishment of the Little Theatre. And the society had enough backbone and honesty to produce It. ll is all to the credit of Gcorgo Somnes and the Little Theatre. On view at the Playhouse tonight and the rest of tho week. , - Arc children bom of common law marriages legitimate? In States where common law marriage is recognized children born of such unions are legitimate.

MARCH 2, 1927

Work When to Bid a King-tO Five-Card Suit Explained,

By Milton C. Work THE POINTER FOR TODAY IS: King-10 flvo card suits should be bid if the side hand contain two quick tricks. In yesterday’s article careful consideration was given tb the bidding of five-card suits headed by KingJack. Today our topic will bo the distinctly weaker suit, viz., five cards headed by Klng-10. While that holding is not as strong as the King-Jack combination, it nevertheless Is a hand which Is dangerous to pass If the remainder of tho hand contain two tricks which are unquestionably quick. Yesterday four hands were given, in each of which there is a King-10 five-card suit. Considering them seriatim, we find: 1. Bp: King-10-x-x-x Ht: Ace-x-x DI: Ace-x-x-x Cl: x. In this hand the Aces of Hearts and Diamonds —two quick tricks—fully justify a Spado bid, although the Spade suit is very weak. However, the suit is long and, if the partner have some help in it. readily may be established. The hand as a whole is distinctly stronger than tho Ace-Klng-x-x-x combination which is the minimum suit-bid. To pass with the thirteen cards above named might result in the loss of a valuable opportunity, 2. Sp: Klng-10 x-x-x Ht: Ace-x-x Dl: King-Jack-x-x Cl: x. This hand should be passed. When the suit does not contain a quick trick, a bid should not be made unless there are two quick tricks on the_plde. The Diamonds may produce the second side trick, but it does not pay to take any such risk with so little in the suit that is bid. 3. Sp: Klng-10-x-x-x Ht: Ace-King-x Di: Jack-x-x-x Cl: x. This hand is the absolute minimum for a Klng-10 five-card suit-bid. There are many who would not approve of the bid; but while the Ace-King of Hearts is not as strong a combination as tbe Ace of Hearts and Aee of Diamonds in No. 1, nevertheless it furnishes the two quick tricks guaranteed-by the bid and the bid should be made. In the long run it will prove a whiner. 4. Sp: King-10-x-x-x Ht: Ace-Queen-x Dl: Jack-x-x-x Cl: x. Tho side hand not containing two quick tricks, this hand should be passed. Tomorrow we will consider the bidding of Queen-high five-card suits. (Copyright John F. Dllle Cos.)

ffclSs ip of Jj Datlq Lenten Dgi)olion\ji Prepared by Rev. Charles Emerson Burton, D.D., for Commission on Evangelism of Federal Council of the Churches of Christ: in Amartai. e.opTT jan

Topic for the Week "GOD IS A SPIRIT" Wednesday •'God Is Spiritual” SCRIPTURE: Read —Isaiah 40. 18-31. “God Is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him In spirit and truth” (Jn. 4:24). •‘The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness self-control” (Gal. 6:22, 23). "God Is love” (I Jn. 4:8). See —Job 26:13; Psalma 104:30. MEDITATION; Love and nil the fine graces—whence come they? Just as fruit comes from the plant and reveals its nature, so these testify that God Is spiritual. A mechanical tree cannot bear fruit. We think of God as a creator, manufacturer, mechan lc; but we think inadequately until we think of him ns spirit, person, father. Only so are we saved from a machine-like universe. I want vital relations with that Spirit. I know that worshiping this God In truth <1 mands sincerity. I search my heu.. therefore for any dark insincerity, and I measure my life by the fruits of tho spirit In love and the works of righteousness. "We want to see (he deep things of God, tho life of the Spirit per-A mcating the life of the flesh, to findf the Impress of eternity stamped up- | on the forms of time.” HYMN: Lord of all being, throned afar, Thy glory flames from sun and star; Center and soul of ev'ry sphere, j Yet to each loving heart how near I Lord of all life, below, above, Whose light Is truth, whose warmth Is love: Before thy ever-blazing throne We ask no luster of our own. Grant us thy truth to make us free. And kindling hearts that burn for thee, Till all thy living altars claim One holy light, one heavenly flame. —Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1848. PRAYER: Thanks for our knowledge of God. Pray for—the grace of love; nonChristians. Collect— Almighty Father, whose power knows no limit, let us feel within us the movlngs of Thy might. We thank Thee for life, marvelous in Its way. We bless Thee for the world, rich in its woolngs of life. We rejoice that Thou are a spirit with whom our spirits may that Thou hast shown forth Thy naturo In tho Christ, who lives with Theo and with us. Wo praise Theo for the high privilege of prayer In which spirit blends with spirit. Mercifully forgive us that wo have so often chosen the satisfaction of our lower Instincts to the impoverishmenteof tho soul. Quicken, we pray Thee, our inner awareness of Thee, so shall temptation have no authority over us. Through Thy graoe | engage to walk In all Thy j Amen. 1 Where is Belmullet? ' It Is a town In County Mayo, IreI land, on Blacksod Bay, thirty-two i mitys west of Ballina. The population is about 750.