Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 292, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1927 — Page 4

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THE UTILITY BURDEN Public utilities had a very prosperous year in 1926, according to the reports filed with that public Service commission which the lower House of the Legislature asked the Governor to discharge. The people who pay the bills may wonder why they, as partners, should be expected to rise up and shout over this fact. Two cuts In rates have been made in this city. One of these came with the light merger and represents only a very small portion of what should be saved from the costly competition between a strong concern which depended on service and a weaker one which depended on politics to keep them at a dead level. For years the people paid rates sufficient to support the political light company and, of course, paid enormous profits to the one efficient company as the price of keeping the other one in existence. So that cut, welcome as it is, brings no credit to the public service commission. The other cut was in gas rates and was made only after The Times had called attention to the enormous profits of the company. At least the commission said that the reduction was du in a large degree to the facts given the public by The Times. But that reduction was exactly what the company wished to give in order, perhaps, to escape a real investigation of its profits. It might be called a crumb dropped from a heavy laden table. It now appears that the cut in rates was made and ordered by the commisison before the. report for last year was filed, that any examination was perfunctory, that the commission probably acted as a messenger for the gas company and relayed the desires of that company to the public. The important fact is that the commission, in making its order, gave no facts on which it tyas based. It gave the public no intimation as to how much this company earned. It gave no figures as to profits or earnings or expenses. The commission failed to perform those functions for which it was created. It did not act as the protector of the public. It did not even pretend to be a judge in a case, anew view of its functions which has lately been adopted. In this case, certainly, the commission gave an additional reason for the resolution of the Legislature asking that its members be dismissed and new men named who would represent public interest. Now comes the telephone company which shows that it took a million more dollars in profit out of Indiana last year than it did the year before. That means, of course, that telephone users paid that much more for service than it cost the company to render any additional service. The water company turns in a report which indicates that it had a profit of 15 per cent on its investment, which is a fairly good return. All of these companies only through tho use of public property and are given a monopoly on the sale of public necessities. All of these companies take their share of every pay envelope, of the price of every manufactured product, of every sale in any store, large or small. The bigger the burden they put upon the home, the factory and the store, the less chance these Institutions have to prosper. These reports in themselves justify that demand for the resignation of the public service commission members. But, of course, they will not be forced to resign. . They will stay in office. For the utilities understand government and the science of Indiana government. They know the value of keeping a huge lobby to watch the Legislature and show a skill in distributing campaign contributions. These burdens will continue until the people show enough interest in their own welfare to really own their own government and not permit it to be knocked down to the highest bidder in primaries and elections. THE CITY MANAGER Machine politics has furnished the final and convincing evidence of the need of a city manager form of government in Indianapolis. When Governor Jackson signed the measure which then became a law under which present mayors cannot be supplanted by city managers until the end of their elected terms, he confessed for all the machine that the people need a change, want a change and would obtain a change if they had the power. / So certain were the mayors of Indianapolis and Evansville that the people they serve would like to get rid of them that they asked the state to set aside the implied contract with the people at the time of their elecion. , The argument that a man who pays his money for a campaign for mayor is hired for four years and ought not to be deprived of any emoluments or perquisites or power during that time, is of course, most fallacious. When Mayor Duvall made his strenuous effort to obtain nomination and an election, the law under which he sought office gave to the people the right to change that office to a city manager at any time the majority so willed. That law stood as .the protection of the people against misuse of power. That was a part of his contract. To get rid of that part of the bargain, the Legislature was induced to pass this new law which permits him and all other mayors to keep the jobs until their terms expire. There has never been a more flagrant breaking of contract or of faith with the people. Apparently the people have no recourse. No one comes forward with an opinion that a law which sets aside a contract in their favor is unconstitutional. That seems reserved for the protection of officials with whom the people may desire to enforce their contracts. v The answer, of course, should be an Immediate organized effort to prepare for a city manager government at the earliest possible moment. It would be a pity If Indianapolis found itself two years hence, again tied to the archaic, costly, expensive, political, partisan government which is responsible for much trouble and which has become a real obstacle to its growth and its prosperity. Let’s get rid of the system which fastens the burden of politics upon the people. Let’s get rid of & Oontract breakers for all time. #

WHEREIN WE JOIN MR. KELLOGG’S DEFENDERS Magnificently naive, to use one of our gentler adjectives, is the latest bedtime story from Washington explaining just how Adolfo Diaz came to be made president of Nicaragua. It seems—according to the Washington Post, regarded somewhat in the light of an organ of the State Department—that it was Mexico, not the United States, that brought it about and she did so by means of one of the boldest forgeries known In the annals of diplomacy. It was like this, we are informed. One day Lawrence Dennis, the young charge d’affaires down in Managua, received detailed instructions to “use pressure” to put Diaz in power, said instructions "purporting” to bear the signature of Secretary Kellogg. But, . . . tho story continues: . . . claims that the document is a forgery, sponsored by unscrupulous Mexican officials, have been advanced by defenders of the State Department policies. The signature of Secretary Kellogg is false, they assert. They contend the entire tone of the document reeks of illogical reasoning quite at variance with diplomatic subtlety. “In conclusion they point out the patent stupidity of any State Department official who willfully might send out 6uch a communication.” It is a really wonderfully written document, but it seems to leave a few stray ends dangling loose. All along the “State Department’s defenders” have insisted that Mexico was backing the Sacasa revolution against Diaz. The present yarn depicting Mexico as the creator of the opposition as well somehow doesn’t quite gibe. Secondly, if the document is a forgery, why did Secretary Kellogg feel bound to help the Mexican game along to the handsome extent of sending several thousand marines and a dozen United States warships to Nicaragua to bolster up the forgerymade Diaz? I Thirdly, how did the forgery get into Dennis’ hands? Important State documents of this nature surely are not written on stray hits of wrapping paper and sent on to our legations by the first small boy that happens along. Signed, sealed and delivered into well-locked diplomatic pouches inside the State Department itself, they are supposed to be forwarded by special messenger or other safe means. If the instructions to Dennis are a forgery, as charged, it is a serious accusation not only against Mexico, but against the State Department as well. For somewhere there would have to be a traitor of the most odoriferous variety to pass the forgery along. . On this beautiful specimen of Ciceronic logic we have just one small comment to make: If that is the test of authenticity of State Department documents then those same “unscrupulous Mexican official::" must now be bordering on nervous prostration due to overwork. For they have been monstrous busy of late, shaping. with their wicked forgeries practically the bulk of our diplomacy. Anyway, Mr. Kellogg now has a pretty good idea of what his friends and defenders think of his policies. That makes it unanimous. ELMER GANTRY Sinclair Lewis’ long-heralded book about the preachers has reached the bookstands and is stirring up the country, even as predicted. He calls it “Elmer Gantry,” a name likely to take its place in our vocabulary along with “Babbitt,” for it is that kind of a book—a book to arouse violent discussion and bitter debate. Just as Lewis vivisected the American small town in “Main Street,” the American business man in “Babbitt,” and the American doctor in “Arrowsmith,” he now has applied the scapel—and occasionally the butcher knife —to the men in the pulpit. Gantry, the principal character, is a Baptist preacher with an instinct for immorality that amounts almost to a passion. He has no lovable qualities like Babbitt; from first to last he offends almost every sense of decency. The opening of the story discovers him as a star football player in a jerkwater Baptist college in Kansas, loose in his behavior and wavering in his faith in the dogma of the church. By his physical prowess he succeeds In subjugating the other undergraduates until they bestow upon him all the honors of the class. Finally, in a wave of emotionalism, evoked by a Y. M. C. A. revivalist, he hits the sawdust trail and at the moment gets his first taste of the power that can be wielded by a sonorous voice and canting words, when he sways the audience in a speech announcing his conversion. His life at the theological school is more maturely licentious than it was at college. He is finally expelled. Follow a few years as a traveling salesman until he is again drawn to the mourners bench at the feet of a beautiful female evangelist by a lust for her physical charms and a reawakened desire to exercise the spell of his voice and enthusiasm upon large audiences. After joining this woman revivalist Gantry marches rapidly up the ladder to pulpit fame and financial success. Lewis undoubtedfy intended to make Gantry, not typical of the Baptist church ministry, but rather a prevalent type in the evangelical creeds. But It is to the church as an institution that he applies Ills knife; occasionally with delicacy, but more often with brutal strokes. It is the shams, the hypocrisies, the ignorance and the futilities of churchmen and church dogmas that he is seeking to expose. And to what end. Vivisection is a science and the only excuse for its cruelty is that it enables the vivisector to find a means for curing human ills. Lewis fails in that function. He dissects but attempts no reconstruction, nor even suggests remedies for the evils he discloses. He is intelligent enough to know that religion is too deeply ingrained 4n human psychology to be erased by criticism or exposition of the vulgarities that may have crept into it. A book like “Elmer Gantry” only succeeds in offending the devout and the intelligent reader who is groping for a better means of spiritual elevation than thfe churches now offer. One lays it aside with a feeling that the author was more desirous of sensational success in the book market than of contributing to the spiritual uplift of mankind.

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Tracy Now Religion Joins the 'Chain' Craze —it’s Good Business.

By M. E. Tracy The latest is a great religious circuit ala Keith, with tabernacles in every town of more than 100,000, with such well known headliners as Mrs. McPherson and Billy Sunday to draw the crowds. You can’t quarrel with the idea from a business standpoint. It is absolutely in line with what a board of directors and an auditing department would suggest. Besides, if religion is to become an affair of organization and salesmanship, why not do the biggest sort of a job? The revival drift :s evidently toward faster and better pay. That being so, why hesitate to borrow methods from the vaudeville theater? They have already borrowed from the box office. Business has become the dominant strain of this jazsy age. We want a bookkeeper and an expert for everything, with dividends semiannually. With cities “managed,” the gospel on a circuit, and all the movies brought under trust control, we should be very happy, providing there is no default of interest on bonds and preferred stock. Canned drama offers the same field for merger and combine as canned fish. That is why Wall Street’ is interesting itself in filmdom. There is nothing new in the scheme of putting Hollywood and your favorite movie house under the same directorate. The distributing agency that formerly bought from one and sold to the other might just as well be included. The first thought back of the venture was one of protection and developed within the movie business. The second is one of profit and comes from the financial expert. The third will be one of regulation to safeguard the public, and__you can depend on politicians to supply it. Nice —and Dull What has occurred in the beef, oil and steel industries shows how business begins to combine vrith the idea of protection, how it is intrigued by that of profit and how finally it becomes so obstreperous as to invoke regulation. If the various branches of the movie trade are brought under the control of a few great corporations, as now seems inevitable, we shall presently be more concerned over the price of tickets than the character of films. When dividends become the allimportant object, you can look for “safety first” to become an all-im-portant policy. That means such a censorship Is bound to please/ the vast majority. The balance sheet tolerates no unnecessary risk, whether from a cranked steel beam or a racy headline. When the movies become organized you can depend on them being safe, sane, tame, respectable and uninteresting. Business Rules Business has become the dominating force in life. It bears the same relation to modern government and (society that the army did to those of Rome, or the church did to those of the middle ages. We are coming to measure everything by money and mechanics. The risk of the experiment lies in its repressive force. Business is essentially conservative. It runs to routine, to a fixed system, to methods that can be depended upon to produce given results from day to day. It welcomes such discoveries and inventions as will make the existing order more effective and profitable. It opposes those promise revolutionary change. * The telephone industry fears nothing so much as a device that will make radio available for private communication and the electric industry fears nothing so much as cold light. Dangerous Fields Art and religion are the most dangerous fields for business to enter.* They demand freedom beyond everything else; freedom of conscience, faith, intellect and imagination. Nothing worse could happen in this or any civilized country, than for the church and the theater to fall under control of business methods. An evangelistic circuit and a movie trust mean little by themselves, because each represents little more than froth, but they are symptomatic of what may eventually occur. Organized capital and more particularly the system of operating vast enterprises which it has evolved, is reaching in all directions. Wherever there, is a dollar to be made, or a deal to be turned, you will find it present. Business has its advantages. They are not to be ignored or minimized. There are some phases of life, however, that cannot be subordinated to it without great loss. Art and religion are two. Q. To what age do white oaks grow and when do they mature? A. They grow to be 150 to 300 years old and mature between 75 and 125 years, depending’ upon the locality.

Movie Verdict OHlO—Wallace Beery tries to enter Hall of Fame as Casey in “Casey At The Bat.” Jury still in doubt. CIRCLE—“An Affair of the Follies,” is another one of those stage stories in which a show girl turns down riches to marry poverty and love. Remember this is a movie and not life. APPOLO —The Navy and the Marines have been glorified again. This time in “Let It Rain.”

Anything to Keep Body and Soul Together!

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Wallace Beery Tries to Enter Hall of Fame as Casey With a Baseball Bat 11 By W. D. Hickman

An effort has been made by Wallace Beery to enter the Hall of Fame as Air. Casey and a baseball bat. Y'ears ago when I was a youngster in a little town in Illinois everybody

who “orated” or spoke pieces in public generally recited "Casey At The Bat.” To me the poem has never been the knockout classic as it is to many others. Its appeal came from the general love that Americans have for baseball. As Wallace Beery has suddenly developed into a comedian of much box office power, those who control what

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goes on the screen decided to permit Wallace Beery to be the Casey in this “immortal” poem. The director goes back about twenty-five years. Those were the days when the good* women when they went buggy riding would say to their fresh escorts, “Unhand me, Sir, I thought you weYe a gentleman but I see that I am mistaken.” Those were the days, according to the subtitle writer in “Casey at the Bat,” when the skirts of women started at the ankle and when men’s thirst was satisfied at every corner. The director has tried to reproduce small town baseball life twenty-five years ago and then shift it to New Y’ork during the same period. Casey in the movie version was idle six days a week and on Sunday became the village idol when lie played ball with the home team. Never have I seen Wallace Beery act so much like William C. Fields as he does in this one. Casey was in love with a small town belle, played by Zasu Pitts who has developed a sort of a Lillian Gish way. Zasu is given no chance to be a funny woman this time, exopt that she does look funny in her old fashioned long dress. It seems to me that the director and the person responsible for bringing this poem to the screen would have bettered conditions if the small town atmosphere had been produced with more regard to realism. There is a strong element of farce In the first part of the movie, and then it becomes mightily melodramatic when some crooks try to frame Casey. ' They frame him, but use such a silly method, which shows that Casey, if the movie version be, Times Readers Voice Views Editor of The Times: Now 'that the Legislature has adjourned, the good citizens of Indiana should offer up a prayer of thankfulness and manifest a spirit of pride in the great work accomplished by their lawmakers. The late Legislature certainly acquitted Itself with great honor and profit to their State. The membership of the outgoing Legislature have certainly crowned themselves with everlasting glory as lawmakers. Yet among the many measures they enacted, and the many resolu- ' tions they passed and the many [ commissions they appointed, I find I nowhere among this vast maze of legislative action a resolution offered to determine the exact time dog days begin and when they end. This is a very important matter from the standpoint of health, as we are told fresh fish is unhealthy food in dog days. Nor has this same body arrived at any definite understanding, by investigation, as to how the odor sack may be removed from the skunk without injury either to the operator or the animal. This, too, would be of great Importance to dealer. I take it these are matters of sufficient interest that they should not have been overlooked. In their mad rush for personal glory, as they greatly transcend in importance many of the measures they so vigorously and heroically wrestled with. | * J. R.

true, was pretty much of a sap. Now, I may ne all wrong about "Casey at the Bat,” and I probably am. There will be those who will rave over the quaintness of th% production and will welcome it as something really different. Wallace Beery makes Casey a complete boob ,a small town sap, and I doubt if this Casey could actually swat a fast ball. So I will let the baseball fans and those who love the poem to champion this one, as I can’t become enthusiastic over this one. Charlie Davis and his gang are In “Radioland” this week. At tlio Ohio all week. \ THE NAVY AND MARINES ARE GLORIFIED AGAIN It is becoming quite popular these days to glofify the marines and the Navy. “Let It Rain,” with Douglas MacLean, is another attempt to make these two branches of service mighty alluring. Os course, the best of all this kind of entertainment is “Tell It to the Marines,” just everyday life of the

leathernecks, done with a fine regard to realism. "Let It Rain” is a different sort of entertainment, as it runs to comedy, farce and melodrama as well as i theatrical romance. Tho actors playing the marines and the Nav£ in “Let It Rain” act more like freshmen on a College campus than they do men in the service of Uncle Sam.. Os course. Douglas Mac Lean is a good

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actor in farce and in comedy. If you consider “Let It Rain” as just entertainment, a sort of an extravagant comedy idea of life upon a battleship, then this one will not worry you. But If you desire realism, even in your comedy, then this one will worry you just as it did me. Mac Lean is cast as “Let It Rain Riley,” the leader of the marines who goes In for hazing and playing tricks 'upon members 'of the Navy on a battleship. It. seems that the battleship in this movie is more of a stunt parlor than a real battleship. Mac Lean and a gob fall in love with the same girl, a telephone operator in a big hotel. Both the gob and the marine play tricks upon each other to win the hand of the girl. And of course, Mac Lean wins the girl, played by Shlrely Mason. Os course, Mac Lean gets in a lot of trouble and is kept in quarters for treating a superior officer a little too rough. McLean disobeys orders, arrives on time when a gang of mail bandits were getting ready to overpower the marines and steal the money. When these train scenes arrive, this movie becomes very melodramatic and Mac Lean succeeds in rounding up the bandits all by himself. And while this exciting affair was going on, the girl was present to see him make a hero of himself. The bill includes a Buster Brown comedy, a news reel, Dick Powell in songs and music by Emil Seidel and his orchestra. At the Apollo all week. Otis Skinner opens a three-<jay engagement tonight at English's in “Honor of the Family.” Other theaters today offer: Jack Norworth and Dorothy Adelphi, at Keith’s; Calm and Gale, at the Palace; "Seminary Scandals,” at the Lyric; “Music Master,” at the Uptown; “The Music Master,” at the Sanders; 1 “The Last Frontier,” at the Southside; .“The Western Whirlwind,” at the Isis, and burlesque at the Mutual. GEORGE JESSEL WINS IN VITAPHONE PRESENTATION Some months ago, I journeyed to Cincinnati to see George Jessel in “The Jazz Singer.” Yesterday I went to the Circle In Indianapolis to sCe how this same

man came out with his experience with Vitaphone. When I first encountered Vitaphone in New York last September,

I thought then it might be just u fad. But, after seeing- the second Vitaphone bill at , the* Circle this week, 'I know now that Vitaphone is not a fad, and that it will become just as important to movie theaters as the photoplay. George Jessel is a comedian of life. He knows moods and, above all, he knows how to get direct contact with

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his audience in a second’s time, was shown yesterday, when the audience applauded his wise remarks so loudly that it was difficult at times to hear what he was really saying. Jessel starts his act, and while talking a telephone bell rings, and he admits that such Interruptions, are disgusting. Finally he answers the phone and discovers 'lt is his “mommer” wanting him to make his younger brother take a bath. “And we have lived in that house for eight years and the water all of a sudden gets hot.” This telephone stunt is a comedy knockout. Then Jessel closes with one of his intimate heart songs. He has been faithfully recorded as to voice as well ns mannerisms. Really, very wonderful. The second number on the Vitaphone bill is Mischa Elman, noted violinist. Vitaphone has caught the delicate shading and expression which is characteristic of this man’s playing. The third presentation on Vitaphone is the Four Aristocrats, who play banjo, uke, piano and the like. Here is sensational Jazz playing. As wonderful as the first Vitaphone bill was, the second is ten times more enjoyable. The movie feature is “An Affair Os The Follies.” with Lewis Stone, Billie Dove, Lloyd Hughes and Arthur Hoyt. Here is another one •of those backstage romance movies in which a Follies beauty, played by Miss Dove, turns down a rich guy (Lewis Stone) for a poor but good looking clerk (Lloyd Hughes) who couldn’t keep his job. The marriage is quite a mess because the Follies beauty left the stage for her apartment and a husband. Said husband could not meet the bills, so friend wife returns o work. Husband runs away and little wife is so lonely. Now don't be ridiculous. Sure Billie and Lloyd, that is the characters they play, make up and everybody is happy. Oh so happy. Here is just conventional entertainment with a, new twist hero and there to a very old and muchly used th'rme. I At the Circle all week.

Questions and • Answers

You can get an answer to any question <St fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 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 reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered All letters are confidential.—Editor Q. Having waited eight rears sirce obtaining my first papers, can I now obtain iny American citizenship? A. Seven years is the maximum time allowed in which to apply for citizenship. You will hare to apply for first papers again, and must then wait at least two years before applying for your second papers. Q. What Is the present capital of Russia? A. Moscow. Q. Gene Tunney heavyweight champion boxer of the world when he played in the motion picture “The Fighting Marine”? A. The picture was made last summer before he became champion.

MARCH 14,1927

Work Informatory Double May Be Disastrous Boomerang,

By Milton C. Work The pointer for today Is: The informatory double, soundly used, is a most effective weapon; improvidently used it is a devastating boomerang. At the risk of repetition, I again strongly emphasize the Importance of using the Informatory double conservatively. With a dependable partner—one who can be relied upon to have at least five high cards of such strength and with such guards that they will probably take tricks—the Informatory double usually is effective and rarely produces a loss of any consequence; but the lmprovh dent doubler who, without the requ!-' site strength, may be forcing his partner to assume a contract to take eight tricks with a hand not good for even one, Is a very dangerous vis-a-vis. When a player announces that he will not double unless he lias the five lilgh-card strength requirement above described, and lives up to his announcement, he avoids serious losses and maintains the fldence of the partner. ■ One other essential point to be remembered in connection with the use of the informatory double is that the partner (irt tho absence of an intervening adverse bid) Is forced to bid: consequently his bid (unless he rebid) cannot bo depended upon as showing anything more than four cards of the suit he names. It is a common and serious error for a doubler who has doubled soundly with a holding just sufficient to Jus-, tlfy the double, to feel that when tha answer of the partner happens to be in a suit in which tho doubler is. strong, it is the duty of the doubler to raise the partner's bid. This is an unsound practice which produces innumerable and serious losses. When tho doubler’s strength no. more than Justifies Ids double, the partner of the doubler should there* after do all the talking. If South (Dealer) bid one No Trump, West holding Sp: A-10-x Ht: K-x-x-x Di: K-. T-x Cl: Q-lOsx would have a sound double, but If North pass,* East bid two Hearts, and South two No Trumps, West should not bid three Hearts; East’s forced bid may have been made with four worthless Hearts ami a trickless hand. (Copyright, John F. Dllle Cos.) of Prawß i plDatUj Lenten Pfik)tion%Y Prepared by Rev. Cl aries Emerson Burton, D.D., for ' \ Commission on Evangelism of Federal Council of tho Churches of Christ in America. Copj-risu test • Topic for the Week: “CHRIST IS A SPIRIT’* Monday , “This Makes His Words Significant” SCRIPTURE: Read w-7:11*19. ”The words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, .and are life” (Jn. 6:63). "As tho V-ather taught me I speak these words” (Jn. 8:2H). “Every one therefore that liearetli’ those words, of mine, and doeth them, shall be likened unto a wise* man” (Mt. 7:24, 26). MEDITATION: "The multitudes* were astonished at his and so are we. His words were not presumptuous because His was tltq : mind of the Infinite. Is it hard to. conceive of Christ as one with God? •• We know His love. His long suffer* ings, His goodness, His self-control. His self-sacrifice. Now His onenesa with God means at least that these same qualities are In God. Can a life rise higher than Its source? Certainly God tho fountain Is as good as Jesus the stream. I will understand it if I ran; I will live by |t(| whether or no. I want the words of* Jesus to rule my life and the life of* 1 the world. “Thou wouldst not have me accept Thy will because I ‘must’ but because I ‘may.’ ” HYMN: Christian, rise, and act thy creed, Let thy pray’r be in thy deed; Seek the right, perform the true; Raise thy work and life anew. Hearts around thee sink with care; Thou canst help their load to bear; Thou canst bring inspiring light; Arm their faltering wills to Qfklu Come then, Law divine, and reign, Freest faith assailed in vain, Perfect love bereft of fear. Born in heaven and radiant here. —F. A. Rollo Russell, 1893. PRAYER: Prayfor—light on God’s word: victory In vexations; church schools; young people’s societies. Collect—O Thou whoso will-to-do fails not, wo thank Thee for freedom, for the responsibility which makes failure possible but success glorious. We bless Thee that Thou hast trusted us. Such friendship Is beyond price. Give us now the inner power of Him who triumphed over every obstacle, yea, even over agony, hatred, and death. Wo fear for our souls before the high trusts of heaven. We confess our sinfulness In pursuing little things. Correct us by the call of Thy faithfulness. Give us Increasing faith In th** | Invisible, unfaltering courage for tliflj conflict with evil and deliverance from the fear of death. Amen. Q- Is tiie baritone voice In the I bass or tenor register? A. Baritone is between tenor and bass but is regarded as high ba.s*. rather than a lower tenor. Th# baas voice is of three kinds, basso profundo, basso contanto, and baritone; or first, second and third baaa.