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

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS Does the phrase “freedom of the press” mean anything to you, or is it something you accept for granted, like air or springtime or rains? It did mean something to the men who founded this republic and who, under the leadership of Thomas Jefferson, wrote into the Constitution that it could not be abridged by law. They considered it- essential to the maintenance of all other rights. That right had been gained through long centuries of struggle against encroached and embuttressed power which saw in open discussion of public topics a menace to any tyrannies it might wish to impose upon subjects. Jefferson saw it as the needed protection- of popular government, for if the press of the Nation can be controlled or coerced, then public opinion is compelled and is not free. Many have tried during the past century and a half to interfere with that freedom. g At times censorships of various kinds have been proposed and in other instances those in power have attempted to dictate what should and what should not be printed. But these attempts have always failed. Suggestions that laws should control the printed page have always been repellant to public thought and it has not been necessary to invoke that constitutional barrier to any infringement upon this right. For the first time in the history of this land a State Legislature has declared that the right is a positive one and that the Constitution itself is strong enough to protect it. The House of Representatives has charged that a judge has violated this constitutnoial right by an exercise of illegal power and that the physical suppression of the press is just as much a crime against the Constitution as would be the passage of a law limiting its rights. Today the Senate pf the State will meet to act ass court and determine, first of all, whether the judge did actually interfere with the freedom of the press by arresting without warrant of law and without power, newsboys who were distributing papers which contained articles which he personally disapproved. V if it should be shown that this is the fact and that such an act did occur, then the very important question of whether the people can project this right of a free press through its Legislature will be presented to the Senate and probably to the courts. It makes little difference to the pepole of the State whether this particular judge holds his place or not. Most, citizens will hope that the evidence will exonerate him. But all citizens are interested in whether, the people have any remedy against tyranny when it shows its face and whether the Legislature, which eome3 directly from the people, can act to protect the Constitution. Some good will be done at least, if it but makes more of us think about the Bill of Rights and what it means. More good will be accomplished if citizens are convinced that it is worth protecting and defending against any invasion or encroachment, no matter how slight or from what source. HOW THE WORLD'S HOPE OF DISARMAMENT WAS KILLED Today the League cf Nations disarmament parley begins at Geneva. But, says the-Paris Temps, the Un’ted Stales lias wrecked it before it starts. i resident Cooiicige, the French paper charges, made its failure dou' ly sure first by calling his own naval limitation conference—the only thing he cares about—then refusing to accept as a basis for discussion the preliminary studies prepared for the parley beginning today, Therefore, the Temps concludes, he “has paralyzed all effort to bring about universal disarmament.” 'l-rue, the effort “to bring about universal disarmament” has been paralyzed, but the blow that did it was struck seven years ago, not just now. A handful of Washington politicians paralyzed it back in 1919 and 1920. Whether merely shortsighted or blihdly partisan it must lie left for history to say. But whichever it was their blindness destroyed the world's faith in man's most encouraging vision since the sinking disciples were saved 1900 years ago by the Man of Galilee. At the end of the great war a sort of religious frenzy took hold of mankind and peoples everywhere prayed for peace as they had never prayed before. Fresh up out of the valley of the shadow’ they stood weak and eager, their arms uplifted asking that they and theirs be spared the like again. At this juncture our American President appeared among them with a program for world peace and disarmament. Joyfully the inhabitants of ail nations rallied about him as suffering humanity will about a savior. The moment was right for civilization to take the greatest step in its history—a step w’hiqh would go a long way toward ridding it of war. But the step was never taken. Not in Europe nor In Asia but here in America rose up a small band of people to cast doubt upon the idea. And so misrepresented, so ridiculed and jeered at and scoffed at was it that the poor, dazed, peace famished peoples did not know which way to turn or whom to believe. Bitter and resentful, they sullenly lapsed back into their old ways of fear and hate and suspicion. The great moment had passed not to’ return, most likely, until the earth has its next bath in blood. Today, like a disillusioned lover, the world seems trying to forget its disappointment. And it is forgetting. The muck and mud; the stench of the trenches, the hideous, blackened corpses lying unburied among the barbed wire, and all the other horrors of war, are but dimly remembered. Instead it is talking once more of its glories—as if there were such a thing! President Coolidge was right when he said if the world wants disarmament it must first have moral disarmament. The world was morally disarmed back in 1920, but, tragically enough, we lacked the statesmanship in this country at that time to give the necessary backing to the one American who saw this most clearly. _ There is a tide in the affairs of men, an old-

fashioned “copy book” used to say, which, when taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. So far as universal disarmament is concerned, it begins to look as if the tide had gone out and left us. HOW TO USE THAT $500,000,000 Secretary Mellon announces that by June 30, the United States Treasury will probably have a surplus of $500,000,000. That raises the question of what to do with it. The immediate suggestion, of course, is tax reduction. A more sensible suggestion probably is debt reduction. There are a number of reasons for this. One reason is that there is no impressive need of general reduction of Federal taxes at this time. That doesn’t mean that there isn’t plenty of room for readjustment of Federal taxes, but the remarkable industrial prosperity of the country offers proof that industry, as a whole, is not being stifled by excessive Federal taxes. Under such circumstances, a far-sighted policy would postpone general tax reduction until it is needed as a stimulus to Industry. A reason for applying the surplus to debt retirement is that it is clearly needed for that purpose. The debt of the United States at present is approximately $19,150,000,000. At Its peak in 1919, just after the war. it was approximately $25,500,000,000. That means that about $6,350,000,000 has been paid off during a period of about eight years. This has generally been hailed as an astounding accomplishment. Perhaps the reason is the magnitude of the figures involved. The actual rate has been about the same as that at which the Cfvll War debt was paid off and has been considerably lower than that planned by Congress when the debt retirement program was adopted in 1920. The congressional plan of 1920 called for complete retirement of the war debt in twenty-four years. At the rate which has been maintained since 1919 It will take about thirty years. The principal reason for this, of course. Is the failure of some of the European countries to agree to pay their debts at all, and the arrangement of a sixty-two-year debt paying period with others. This leaves two possible programs. One is to defer paying off the European share of debt in the hope that Europe will pay up sooner or later. The other is to go ahead and apply treasury surpluses to debt retirement, and take chances on what Europe will do. The wisdom of the latter course seems clear. Uniform retirement of \he World War debt over a twenty-five-year period, with the Government paying an interest rate of 4*4 per cent, costs American taxpayers about $16,000,000,000 in interest. Retirement of the debt over a thirty-year period at the same rate of interest, raises the internal cost to almost $20,000,000,000 —about four-fifths of the original debt. Every year that retirement of the debt is postponed adds its enormous toll in interest charges which must be paid by taxes. . Under such circumstances sound public policy, congressional expectations, as outlined in 1920, and the desire for permanent tax relief dictate the application of any treasury surpluses ii the near future to debt retirement. For the next perfect figure contest we nominate Andy Mellon. He pays off 4% per cent loans with per cent notes. . * Now that a whist club is suing a bridge author, charging he stole their rules, we're going out and buy a rubber ball and some jacks. Another of Ihose headlines you never see: TENNESSEEANS PROPOSE HARROW FOR PRESIDENT. Legionnaires can go to the Paris convention and return for $175 each, according to the convention committee. Not unless they’ve changed. ' .—.-A. ■ ■■ HE DOESN’T ENTIRELY AGREE WITH MRS. CATT • By N. D. Cochran There is nothing surprising in the prediction of .Mrs, Carrie Chapman Catt that women soon will be wearing trousers. The natural follow-up would be that men soon will be wearing skirts. It is merely another indication that evolution is still evoluting. The tendency of the times appears to be for some women to become more masculine and some men to become more feminine. It won't be so bad if. when female pants and male skirts come into style, the movement were confined to the lie-women and the she-men, for dress then will be informative. Tn Japan you can distinguish the single, married and other women by the way they wear their hair. Mrs. Catt calls attention to the fact that trousers were a feminine garment, while skirts were masculine. That is true in China now, and the Chinese is the oldest civilization on earth, going way back of the Greek and Roman. So the prospective change has historic background. Eut if the change is made now and all women wear pants and all men wear skirts, there won’t be much significance in the change. For many generations pants have been an emblem of autnority. Often you have heard the remark that in this or that family the wife wears the pants, although in fact she really wore skirts. Women wearing the figurative pants of authority in the home is so common that. It is something taken for granted. So she might as well put them on when she goes downtown. But we would like to see some discrimination and have the feminine women wear at least the vestige of a skirt: for then when a timid male sees a real lie-woman coming along in pants he’ll know enough to pick up his skirts and run. Evidently present styles were invented by man—woman being put in skirts so that she couldn’t run too fast when the pursuing male took after her; and he got rid of skirts and put on pants so he could the more easily overtake his prey. Mrs. Catt, however, has the wrong slant on the thing. She says the present trend of fashion is a distraction In the intellectual advance of woman. “She might as well carry a sandwich board bearing the advertisement, ‘See my legs’’ as to wear champagne colored stockings.” That's where Carrie is wrong. It is the matter of pursuit. Skirts have not been getting shorter for purposes of advertising publicity. In this industrial and utilitarian age it became an economic and matrimonial necessity. Men have been 'gradually becoming more feminine and timid as women have been becoming boldfr and more pursuitful. The shorter her skirts are the faster she can pursue; and to make the timid male easier prey his legs are now to be tangled up In skirts. We must remember that women control fashions; and it will be well to ponder on the fact that she has a purpose and means business when she puts on pants.

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Tracy Perjury, Like Circumstantial Evidence, Can Convict the Innocent,

By M. E. Tracy It is common enough to hear of men wrongfully convicted through circumstantial evidence. Asa matter of record, quite as many have been wrongfully convicted through perjury. The case of Conley Dabney is one in point. He was convicted of killing Mary Vickery and sentenced to the Kentucky State reformatory for life. Mary had been seen riding in his taxi the night she disappeared. Somewhat later a womans skeleton was found in an abandoned mine shaft and was identified as that of Mary by her father. What clinched the case, however, and made a verdict of guilty inevitable, was the testimony of Marie Jackson, who swore that she saw Dabney strike the fatal blow and drag Mary Vivkery’s body to the hiding place. Now Mary comes back to proclaim that she was never dead at all, much less murdered. And Dabney says Marie Jackson lied his life away because he wouldn't leave his wife and run away with her. Why? If it is at all right for Henry Ford to make a billion by manufacturing j flivvers, why isn't it all right for Aaron Sapiro to make a million or ene-tenth of one per cent of that amount, by organizing cooperative farm movements? The question has little bearing on i the Ford-Papiro libel suit, now being | tried at Detroit, but it touches that sense of value which is all Important to common justice, if not to the kind dished out in court. Mr. Sapiro says that he didn't really make the million, though he received it, as he had to divide with assistants and pay office expenses. But suppose we leave that out of the picture, what then? The man worked for fifteen years on a great perplexing problem. He devised the plan for farm marketing organization, which, no matter how poorly it may have worked In some cases, has proved all right in others. He developed something like ' 100 such organizations all told. At one time ho was handling the legal 1 affairs of no less than sixty with a total membership of 75,000. What is the proper recompense for such services over such .a period? What would the average corporation lawyer receive? Reed, Colorful Figure The Ford-Sapiro libel suit brings Senator Reed to mind. He is easily its most colorful figure. For several years his name has been conspicuous in the headlines from coast to coast. Last summer he assumed nationwide importance because of the vigorous and fearless way he went after the primary scandals in Pennsylvania and Illinois. Today he is frequently mentioned as the possible Democratic presidential nominee in 1928. Hard to Beat Senator Reed did excellent work in bringing to light the slush fund. He would have done more had a Republican controlled Senate not interfered. As if is. his efforts may bo handicapped for lack of funds. The sergeant-at-arms of the Senate has just refused to go to Pennsylvania for some ballots that are wanted in connection with the Wil-son-Vare contest, because he was afraid that he wouldn’t be paid. Senator Reed has given both written and verbal Instructions. In addition, members of the committee had agreed to advance the necessary SI,OOO. The sergeant-at-arms, however, preferred to wait for legal advice. He wanted to consult lawyers, he said, before proceeding on such a venture. In this dilemma, the Reed committee hired a lawyer of its own, not to counsel the sergednt-at-arms, but to do his work, go to Pennsylvania, get the ballots and bring them to Washington. The Republicans are trying to hush the primary investigation. They have had all they want of it. Reed is a hard man to beat, however, and when they dig a pit for him, they are more than likely to fall into it themselves. Fall of Shanghai When Shanghai falls, will it be a victory for Bolshevism, as some believe, or merely a change of rule? Russia has certainly profited by the stupidity of western nations. For years South China begged London, Paris and Washington for recognition, but only to be turned down. She accepted aid and advice from Russia when no lone else was left. Much has been made by the presence of Borodin and other Bolshevist leaders among the Cantonese. They were there to help the Russian cause, of course, but how much headway have they -made? South China has been glad to buy arms from them, but has she accepted their political ideals.

Movie Verdict romantic comedy as well as stirring melodrama of the old school, that's “Don Juan,” with John Barrymore. He is the entertainment grand. OHIO —Florence Vidor' In a delightful comedy drama, is the drawing feature of “Afraid to Love,” here for the week. APOLLO—Chester Conkling makes Bebe Daniels work hard in “A Kiss in a Taxi,” and then takes the picture from her with hi* nerfect comedv.

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Ah afternoon at home with Don Juan was an indication that there were ladies present. Don Juan, you recall, actually was mandated by his father, when he was fatally stabbed by a woman, to break the hearts

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of as many worn ] en as possible and] then leave ’em fiat. In more noble words, the ‘young Don Juan was Instructed by his very ’’wise" dad to love 'em and leave 'em, as we would say today. Don Juan. In the person of John Barrymore, certainly carried out the mandate] of his father. Tou see the fair ones coriiing and going

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In a constant line to his home in Rome. The clever Don Juan was not a bit confused when three 'of the fair ones arrived at the same time. He had a line of convincing applesauce for all of them. And did they fall for it? Toey certainly did. It seems to me that you must consider “Don Juan” a smart comedy instead of a tragedy of the heart. Here you see the best of the heart breakers at work actually carrying on his work. Don Juan loved for the purpose of carrying out the instruction of his dead father. But one day he met the lovely and good Adriana Bella Varnese, played by Mary Astor in the Warner Bros.’ production of “Don Juan.” He saved her noble father from being poisoned by the Borgia, the all powerful lot in Rome in that early day. For his award, Don Juan forced his way into Adriana’s bed chamber, but discovered that he had at last encountered one woman who would not be tempted by his love making. Dou Juan then begs her to teach him to be a real man. He was handicapped in his lessons because the jealous and powerful Lucretia Borgia, played by Estelle Taylor (in a most magnificent characterization), was determined to make Don 'Juan her own property. Then “Don Juan” as a movie becomes melodrama in the full sense of the word, l'ou will be thrilled when Don Juan fights to the death the husband of he pretty Adriana. Herq is as thrilling a fight scene as has ever been placed upon the screen. Barrymore is magnificent at all i time, but in the duel scene he bei comes a regular Douglas Fairbanks ; when it comes to jumping, fighting and jumping some more. Os course, Adriana never gave h.er heart to her husband because it Mas a 1 plot of the Borgia and she had to save her father from death. After many fights and a horror chamber scene, Don Juan rescues the beautiful Adriana and together on the same horse they ride to Spain and happiness. “Don Juan.” is romantic fun, produced In most elaborate style. It Is both clever and wise in many passages. Here is some nifty fun as well as good melodrama. John Barrymore brings as much • artistry of characterization to the two roles that he plays in “Don Juan” as he does on the legitimate stage. Here is as fine a dashing and romantic characterization as you will ever want to see. You probably will agree with* me that in “Don Juan” | you have Barrymore at his very best. Never have I seen so mqpy beautiful women in one movie. Mary Astor is just too lovely for words. Estelle Taylor makes Lucretia Borgia a lovely but fierce female demon. Here is great work. Some and probably many will say that here is the perfect romance. It will hold your interest from the very beginning when you see Barrymore as the father of Don Juan and then as Don himself grown to manhood. From a scenic standpoint, “Don Juan” ip a symphony of color and beauty. In spite of the rain yester-

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day, the Circle probably broke their attendance record. The cast of Dor. Juan “is as follows: Doi Juan John Barrymore Adriana Della Varntae Mary Aatnr I’rdrillo Willard l otus I.uiTftia Rorgia Estelle Taylor Hein i Adriana's Maidl.... Helen Costello Maid • Lucre tl* Maid) Myma Loy B atrire . June winton Leandro John Rocbc Trusia . . . .• June Mario wo Don Joan (S yrnrs old' Yvonne Day Don Juan 110 years old) . Phillip© de Lary Himehback John Georg# Murderess of Jose Helen DAlgv Caesar Borgia Warner Oland Donati .Montagu Un Duke Della Vamcs© .... Josef Stvlckard Duke Margoni Lionel Brsham Import* Phyllla Haver Marquis Rinaldo Nigel de Brulier Marquise Rinaldo. ...r lledda Hoppe Alchemist Gustav von Seyffertitr. The Dowager Emily Kitrroy For the first time, at the Circle, Vitaphone Is used to provide the mu sical score for the feature pleture. The orchestra used by Vitaphone is tbe New York Philharmonic, with Henry Hadley conducting. Here you will see what can really be accomplished by Vitaphone as a means of providing the score for a feature picture. It is delightfully effective. , The bill also includes two short subjects on Vitaphone, one being “Tannhauser - overture by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and the other Eugene and Willie Howard in a knockout of a comedy act called “Between Acts at the Opera.” Here is a bill which probably will shatter all box olHce records at the Circle, and it should. At the Circle all week. CHESTER CONIf'LIN “STEALS” A PICTURE With a comic serious regard for personal purity, Chester Conklin has succeeded In making one of the finest farces we have ever seen out of “A Kiss in a Taxi,” with Bebe Daniels, at the Apollo this week. So completely does Conklin take this picture away from Bebe that it seems as if the brilliant Miss Daniels was one of the supporting cast for Conklin’s play of humor. As is usual with pictures lately, the scene of action is laid in Paris. Miss Daniels is cast as Ginette, a fiery waitress in a French case, and in

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kiss her on that particular day. This always ended in a scrap, and as for ourselves, left no impression whatever. Chester Conklin is cast as the secretary of the Society of Arts, and he makes It his bofist that his only weakness is wine, and he will not drink even his weakness except at home, for fear that women might take advantage of him on the streets. And when he gets into the wine cellar his weakness gets full play. Conklin doesn’t get into the picture until late, but he makes every foot of film count. His thrilling jag is the funniest stage drunk we have ever seen. It should be immortalized, it is so correct in all the details. The bill includes an “Our Gang” comedy, news reel and Emil Seidel and his orchestra in featured musical selections. Ray Winnings is at the organ. At the Apollo all week. (By the Observer.) COMEDY DIANA IS “AFRAID TO LOVE” A comedy drama with Just enough of the improbable to make it interesting is Florence Vidor'* latest film

story, ‘‘Afraid to Love" at the Ohio this week. Comedy of a refined sort, but which has enough kick to amuse, Is

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with the condition (hat he marry at once. It happens that Sir Reggie, played by Clive Brook, is in love with the one woman whom he must not marry so be decides to marry some one and then divorce her and take his little vamp all to himself. Everything works out fine. Reggies lawyer has a lady client, who has run out of money and nerds more badly. Florence A'idor in this part agrees to go through with the marriage for the money that she wilt get from the bargain. After tbe marriage things begin to get twisted. Miss Vidor as the wife finds out that the lady love of her new husband Is trying to trick him and make herself and her real lover a nice bit of money so they can run away together. Os course this Is all wrong in the wife's opinion so she sets out to correct matters. And her method of trying to win her husbands love for herself furnishes the comedy we have been talking about. Charlie Davis and His Gang are featuring a musical sketch this week, "Ride 'Em Cowboy." Included on the bill are news reel, comedy nnd Bob Gordon at the organ. At the Ohio all week. (B.v the Observer.) Elliott Nugent in “The Poor Nut." opens a three-day engagement tonight at English’s. Other theaters today offer: Beverly Bayne, at Keith's; Cliff Edwards, at the Lyric: Balkan Herenaders, at the Palace: "The Auctioneer,” at the Uptown; “The Kid Brother.” at ttye Sanders; "Paraijlbe for Two,” at the South Side: "Red Clay." at the Isis, and burlesque, at tbe Mutual. Questions and Answers You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to Th© Indianapolis Time* Washington Duriiu 13'“! New Turk Ave.. Washington. D. C, inclosing % centa In stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot he given nor can extended research be undertaken. Ail oMier question* will receive a personal rep’y Uns'gned request* cannot be answered. All letters are confldeutial. —Editor Q. Are all women employes of the Navy Department called yonwmanettes? A. Leowanettes are women who enlisted In the Navy during the World War to replace men in office •position*. Tfyere are no employes of the Navy Department now bearing listed in the Navy dhly as nurses. How long Is an alien permitted to stay In this country on a visit? Six months, although for students and certain other classes the term may be extended. Unauthorized stay in this country renders the subject liable to deportation. What Is the Victoria Cross? A decoration conferred on officers and men of al ranks in the British army and navy for personal bravery. It waa founded Jan. 29. 1896. Q AND A BAT

the picture spends most of her time throwing crocks and things at her gentlemen admirers. It was a shameful waste of crockery. Ginette had the reputation of being extremely hard to kiss, and it was the custom of the smart young fellows to collect at the case where she worked and draw lots as to who should be the one to try and

Work Play From Dummy After Small Card Lead Is Puzzle,

B.v Milton C'. Work The pointer for today is: When a small card Is led and Dummy holds a face and one small card in that suit, Dummy'© pla> depends upon the cards In the closed hand and upon uhrther the contract Is a Trump or No-Trump. A puzzling question frequently arises for a Declarer when Dummy holds a King. Queen or Jack, with one small card of the suit opened. If Dummy have three or more cards of the suit originally led. It Is generally easy to decide which should ho played, but when there nre only two nnd one is an honor, a problem Is apt to present Itself. The player who merely guesses or who follows n hunch, is bound to b playing a part of the time with the odds against him: tbe player who is acquainted with the odds nnd probabilities, docs not resort to guesses and is not troubled with hunches, but plays the card which produces the better mathematical chance for success., It Is obvious that in determining which card should be played the holding of the Clored Hand Is the main factor. Suppose Dummy has Klng-X and t'losed Hand Ace* •Tn6k-x;'in that case the King x in. Dummy Mould not be a problem l|| cause by playing small trim Dummy three tricks must be made in the suit, regardless of the location of the Queen. But if Declarer should blindly follow a rule to piny King from King and one, he would only take two ticks in the suit If the Queen were in the leader's hand, and the second lead of the suit was made from any other hand. During the next two weeks these articles will cover a number of situations In which the King, Queen or Jack is held with one other card in the Dummy hand, and will Illustrate what should be done In each case The ease that will be our special topic tomorrow ts the holding of King-Jack <no small card of the suit) in Dummy with two or three small cards of the suit In the Closed Hand, a small card of the suit being the original lead; the question being whether In such case King or Jack should be played from Dummy. Copyright John F. DtUe Cos.

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the big feature of this tangled drama of a man and his wife to be. Miss Vidor as the wife Is just herself, ns sweet and loveable as she has always been. To see her gently and firmly take the vamp out of her husband's affections is to look upon some clever drama cleverly acted. The story is that of Sir Reginald Belsize. who has been left a fortune

Topic for the Week "SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT" Monday "Our Inner Impulses ir* Significant" SCRIPTURE: Read—Psalm* 42. "He that belleveth on the Son of God hath the witness In himself" (I Jn. 5:10). “That which is known of God is manifest in them (Rom. 1:19>. "As. the heart panteth after tiie water brook*, so panteth my soul nfter thee. O Hod" fP*. 42:1*. "Now faith is assurance of tiring.' hoped for. a convkdlon of things not seen" (Ileh. 11:1). See-p-I Kina* 10.12: Psalm* 14 1: Revelations 1:12; Jeremiah 20:0 MEDITATION: Wo talk to an infant. The Infant simply hear* sounds. Slowly he realizes that there is meaning in these sounds. After months he begins to interpret that meaning. More frequently he misinterprets it: but 'ho learns. Likewise a* spiritual Infants we have a babel of feelings, emotions, impulses. but these have meanings. Wo need time to interpret these meanings and if we misinterpret. It is not strange. All the while, hoi.over, God Is knocking, and we are yearning to understand. "I know by the craving of my heart that Thou must be at door." HYMN: Lord of nil being, throned afar. Thy glory flames from sun and star! Center and soul of cv ry spliore. • Yet to each loving heart how near! Lord of all life, below, above. Whose light is truth, whoso warmth is love; Before Thy ever-blazing throne We ask no lu*ter of our own. ’ Grant us Thy truth to make u.s free. And kindling heart* that burn for Thee. , - Till all Thy living altar* claim One holy light, one heavenly flame. —Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1848. PRAYER: Pray for—tuner sense of God: freedom from anxiety; the heavy laden; the intepiperate. Collect—Lord of all truth, whose mind I* quick and powerful, we . praise Thee for the universe, no vast, so orderly, so dependable. W# bless Thee for the persons of men and the powers of friendship intliem and u*. but yet more for friendship with Thyself, for fellowship with Thy Son, and for Thy pervading presence with us in the Holy Spirit. Precious are the moments of intimate Intercourse with Thee. Reprov# us, we entreat Thee, for the pursuit of things to the forgetting of friendships human and divine. Give ns the discriminating mind which de tecta the subtllea of sin and beauty of holiness. Ho shall we knoß victory in the conflict. Therefoiwe covenant with Thee to put flrsi things first by the grace of Christ. Amen Can alien* who entered the Uotted State* Illegally, become American citizens* No. because they have m legal residence in this country.

MARCH 21,1927