Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 298, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1927 — Page 6

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OUR GOVERNMENT Same old story, these meetings of the city council, and the meetings of the various city boards. While bridges crumble and streets remain in Impassable conditions, the different parts of the city government squabble and debate as to which pocket of Mr. John Citizen they will take the money to pay for needed improvements, and in the end nothing at all is done. The closing of the College Ave. bridge for weeks is a fine example of just how the present political fork of government handicaps and burdens the city. Had the same sort of an emergency been created in any industrial or commercial plant in this city, there would have been action within two days. Someone with business sense and judgment would have hired a real expert to find out what was needed and then the work of repair would have been begun. A business enterprise would have discovered the most economical solution and proceeded to apply it. Something very different happens when the city is faced by a problem that involves the convenience and the welfare of the public. The city council, for some unknown reason, wants to look at the bids for work before it votes any bond issue. The board of public works wants the money from bonds so as to keep its gasoline tax for repair oi streets and tries to pass the burden along. The park board takes a guess at what might be done. But in the end nothing is done and the public puts ,up with congested traffic, delays and great in convenience. Os course, it. means nothing to the taxpayer as to what fund these repaiis are paid from. For the taxpayer knows that he must pay the cost, no matter how the money is raised or in what manner it is apportioned. This condition should impress the people with the utter imbecility of the present form of govern ment which, by its very nature, prevents a business solution of purely business problems. Managers of the movement for a city manager form of government understand the necessity. That is the reason they have become active in the past week in formulating plans to change to the city manager form of government which does permit a business administration of the city’s affairs and cuts out the factional and partisan jealousies and motives. A city manager, in charge of the city at the present time, would be intent on getting results, not on building up a paper record for one department at the expense of all others. A city manager would solve the problems of city needs on a business, not a political basis. True, that new form of government-can not be had for another two years, thanks to the political pressure of the bosses upon the last Legislature and the Governor. They changed the law giving the cities the right to free themselves from politics through this change in government So that it does not apply to the administration of Mayor Duvall. But the groundwork can be laid for a change in government-at the end of his term and when he has finished his two years, the people can supplant him net with another set of but with a busi ness organization. Each day adds to the evidence against the pres ent system. Each day shows the necessity of get ting rid of partisan politics in city affairs. The movement for a city manager form of gov ernment ought to be almost unanimous. It probably will be, with the exception *f that new order of Elephants, a secret society which apparently has political spoils as its purpose. ) The time has come to set Indianapolis free.

ANOTHER MERGIfR Before the public service commission approves of the purchase of the independent bus lines by the street railway system the people should be informed as to what may be expected from this change in ownership. Theoretically, a single ownership of transporta tion system inside the city seems desirable. But there is a question as to whether the bus lines and the street cars can be considered competitive and if they are competitive, whether it is not competition as to the quality or service rather than as to price. Apparently a very large number of people were willing and to pay a higher fare for rides in the gasoline propelled busses than they were to pay the lower fare for street cars. That suggests that perhaps the time has come when the bus is a permanent necessity in city trans portation and that many citizens find it convenient for their purposes and are willing to pay for it. If this be true, then there should certainly be some protection for this part of the public and some certainty that they will be insured of a continuation of this sort of service. If the purchase of bus lines by the street railways is for the sole purpose of driving those who have patronized the bus lines into patronizing the street cars, the public service commission should discover that fact. Possibly the street railway company is iu better position to give bus service than the independent lines. It seems very certain that the only way in which these bus lines could attract four million passengers a year was by offering something which the public wanted and needd. If that be true, then that service should not be discontinued without some showing that It is unnecessary. The public has a right to the best transporta- : on system possible and if monopoly interfere with that sort of service there should be no monopoly. The reported price of a half million' dollars for a bus service that has been built up under very great handicaps and with no little official opposition suggests that it is a business which may be needed. NO ALIMONY And now it appears there is no alimony in tbi3 Ame of marrying “Daddy” Erowning. So one more gold rush is ended. gets no alimbny, nothing at all. That , other greedy feminine arms from Daddy's neck, it should teach avariMakers and abnormal girls a lesson from the o£ expediency, If from 30 other. If

it accomplishes this purpose Justice Seeger’s decision will have done much for the country. However, It leaves only one thing to be desired. Had it been possible to frame the decision In such a way that it would have discouraged Daddy, too, the document would have been a worthwhile one, Indeed. As it is there is danger that Daddy’s fertile brain may devise some new unwholesome activity to put him back on the front pages. For the past two years Browning’s adventures In adoption and matrimony have done more to pollute thought than all the plays that now harass New York censors. More than all things it is to be desired that he shall pass into complete and permanent oblivion. WONDERFUL MACHINES Clarence Darrow is a man who has a large slice of our admiration. Yet when he says, as he did in a debate at Boston the other night, that man is apparently only a machine, we are impelled to voice our sharp disagreement. This conclusion, of course, Is not one that Dariow delights in. A number of the wrinkles and lines on that face of his were put there, doubt it not, by his somber meditations on man and his destiny. But, to Darrow, there is no escape; mechanism is the explaining principle of all life. There is no way of definitely proving, in black and white, mathematical exactitude, that this mechanistic theory is wrong. But in the heart of nearly every man there must rise up an instinctive protest against it. Are we machines? We do not believe we are; but if it be true, even Darrow must admit that we are the most cunningly devised machines that ever graced this or any other planet. , For look you; while we machines behave in some ways as all other machines behave, needing fuel, repair, and rest, and even wearing out when worked too hard—we respond to some very intangible stimuli. We are moved by htings that move no other machines in existence; we have controlling buttons and levers that can be pressed only by unseen hands; indeed, we generate our own commands, tar down inside. A little bit of colored cloth, with stars in one corner and red and white stripes across its breadth, has moved myriads of these machines to face death; abstract words like justice and freedom have caused others to undergo all kinds of hardships and selfdenials; such things as love and faith have been mighty forces, more powerful than hunger or weariness or fear or cold. Furthemore, some of these machines have done very subtle and delicate work. One of them wrote the "Eroica” symphony; another designed St. Peter’s; another wrote “Leaves of Grass”—(read that, some time, if you think you're a soulless machine); another painted the Sistine Madonna. Machines like these are machines of a transcendental kind. They are not machines in the ordinary sense of the world, and all the scientists in Tie world cannot prove that they are. They are woven out of finer stuff than any of us have dreamed; and the blind hope that is an integral -art of them was not put there without a reason.

SOMETHING NEW Have the sun-kissed super-boosters of the Golden State been all wrong? In five years Californians incorporated have spent $2,000,000 to entice people to central and northern California and the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce has spent even more to lure settlers to the Elysian shores and valley to the-south. Comes now anew and different organization in the Sacramento valley to say the old style boosters are all wrong and their millions spent to little purpose. It is the Sacramento region citizens council, a great agricultural Chamber of Commerce, embracing twenty-one counties in and around the Sacramento valley. At a recent meeting the council adopted anew way to woo prosperity. It will not try to bring settlers to California to further increase population and production, but will allow them to stay in the East and buy California’s fruits, vegetables, olives and nuts. One of the prophets of the new idea is Simon Lubin, merchant son of the famous David Lubin of the Inlin Institute of Agriculture. “California doesn't need any additional population either to consume our surplus, nor add to it,” lie says. “We profit most by their remaining where they are, provided they consume our products and produce what we want. farmer who can teach us how to improve what we grow should be encouraged to come, but we do not need mere population that depresses local wages and tends to lower the plane of our culture.” This new attitude, it should be quickly added, is not intended to discourage tourists. Thdy’ll always be as welcome as the flowers in spring are welcome elsewhere. (Meaning to say that flowers bloom most every month in California. You’d be surprised!) The general assembly in an eastern state is considering taxing amusements. If this is carried along further perhaps the various state legislatures can be made to pay their way. ■ t Senator Borah gave his pay raise back to the Government. It was reported about the same time that several old .Roman ruins were badly shaken up, supposedly from Diogenes getting uneasy in his gave. A bill to allow all kinds of swearing has been brought before the British Parliament. They’re taking their golf more seriously .over there since the American victories of last year, ’tis said. As the famous governor would say about April 1: “It’s a long time between backfires.” Country people are more liable to injury than city people, asserts an insurance man. Let’s settle this question once and for all. Boy, page Mr. Borah and Mr. Butler. Some powder goes off with a bang; some goes on with a puff. Darrow says the stuff that man is made up of can be purchased at any drug store for about 95 cents. The ladies come higher.

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Tracy Snyder Tragedy Casjs Little Girl in Saddest Role,

By M. E. Tracy A wife and her paramour plotting death for the luckless husband over a bottle of bootleg hootch; a bridge ■party which the wife and husband attended with their 9-year-old daughter in tow; a return home at 2 o’clock In the morning, where the paramour hides and waits his chance; some whispered words of reassurance between him and the wife, while the doomed husband seeks a bed from wfiich he will never rise, and then murder. You wonder if you are reading some weird tale spun out by a diseased or drunken mind, until you learn that it comes from the lips of the wife herself, after a fifteenhour grilling by the police. Poor Mrs. Snyder, why didn’t she seek a divorce if she couldn’t find happiness with her husband? And the poor dupe, whom she has implicated, why did he permit Infatuation ,to lead him so far? Did he hope to get away with what has ruined so many men? Worst Os all, poor little Lorraine, who must face a long, long future, with the biggest memory of her childhood centering around a father who was beaten to death while he slept and a mother who confesses she was party to the crime. Such tragedies have occurred before, and the chances are they will occur again, but they are not so common, thank God, as to be on an inside page with a one-column lead. China, the Enigma China is a land in travail with the fall of Shanghai standing forth as the latest big event. The scene of action is too far away and the people taking part in It are too strange for us Americans to understand clearly what has actually occured, much less what the future holds. Quite evidently something of stupendous Importance is happening in China, something that might easily change the drift of human empire, but we don’t sense it; we lack the background. Some say the second largest empire on earth is about to go Bolshevik, that a pan-Asiatic league is in the course of formation with Russia leadjng the way, that before the fracas is over, India and other European possessions will be aflame with revolt. Others say it amounts to little, save a change of masters; that if any outside power profits it will be i Japan, not Russia, and that all western nations need to do is establish friendly relations with the Cantonese. Where Trade Lies What we don’t know is a mighty argument for closer study of Far Eastern affairs. Whatever else may be said of it, trade opportunities lie on the other side of the Pacific and we need them if we are to keep up our rate of production. Trade has always been the forerunner of political movements. But (or the caravans the desert, Alexander would never have thought of marching east. But for the possibility of getting Oriental goods more cheaply and quickly, Columbus would never have set out to find a westward passage to the Indies. No one who has followed history can doubt that we have more at stake in the Pacific than in the Atlantic. or that our future will hinge on the way we approach our problems on the sunset horizon.

Borah's Boom Whether Senator Borah is making a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, other people stand ready to’ make it for him, as was brought out in New Haven, Sunday. on prohibition and the foreign policy has served to make him an outstanding figure. There is little room for choice between him and President Coolidge without regard to the former, but there is plenty room with regard to the latter. Borah is utterly opposed to the Administration’s course in Nicaragua and Mexico. If he has it in mind to be a candidate for the Republican nomination he sljould talk about that more and prohibition less. Wet, Prosperous The modi common argument in favor of prohibition in this country is that it has brought prosperity, but the prosperity claimed for it here is nothing compared to the prosperity Ontario expects. Ontario looks upon the prohibition act as little short of a guarantee of her vast and immediate expansion. With liquor permits to be had at $2 apiece, she looks for such a rush of Ame,:ican tourists as was never heard of before. Premier Ferguson says he expects that no less than 3,500,000 will cross the Detroit River to enjoy Ontario's beer apason this year. The town is booming to this idea. Hotels are being constructed as rapidly as human ingenuity and adequate capital will allow, and an all-night ferry service is assured and a lot of American money will find its way into the province. OTHER THEATER OFFERINGS Other theaters today offer: "Afraid To Love,” at the Ohio; “A Kiss In a Taxi,” at the Apollo; new bill at the Ritz; “Don Juan” at the Circle; Fly and Kerr at the Uptown; "Red Clay” at the Isis and burlesque. at the Mutual. Who is the present chief of staff of the American armies? Maj. Gen. Charles P. Summerall. What battleship of the-United States has the greatest horsepower? The Florida, with a maximum of 41,810 horsepower. What is the family name of the King of England? .Windsor, j -

Some of Best Fun of the Season Is to Be Found in ‘Poor Nut’ at English’s , - ' By Walter I). Hickman

One o the best eamples of good wholesome theater that I have seen in several seasons is “The Poor Nut" with Elliott Nugent. Here is a little story of college life that is so full of real copiedy that one is glad that the play was written. You will recall that Elliott Nugent was associated some seasons ago as a member of the Stuart Walker

forces but in recent years he has been writing his own plays in association with father, J. C. Nugent. The two :ome time ago turned out the successful comedy, “Kempy” and now they have their biggest hit in “The Poor Nut.” This play stayed on Broadway for months

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and moths and in Chicago it was one of the leaders for months. Here is a clean jlay. One that makes people glad to go to the theater. It is a noisy show, but it has that punch of youth which makes one want to yell and become a college student again. The American stage needs entertainment of the type of “The Poor Nut.” Is is certainly no disgrace to laugh in the theater. I yelled last night and I was not ashamed. Had a corking good time and I want as many people as possible to have as good a time as I did last night. Here is a play for and by young people. They at last have their day in the theater. I do not care if the Nugents have violated most of the rules of playwriting. Let them violate a few hundred more if they will give the American stage another “Kempy" and another “The Poor Nut.” Elliott Nugent is cast as John. Miller as a poor boob of a student, working in a book store off of a college campus. The play actually deals with the way that our John Miller became a track hero and a winner at a college track meet. Am not going to tell you the method because the process is in the hands of two girls —Margerie Blake, played by Norma Lee. and Julia Winters, played by Betty Garde. The second act is the big wow of the play —the trainer's tent in the athletic field and then the official boxes at a corner of the stadium. Here is the scene where Percy Helton as “Magpie” Welch, the cheer leader of Ohio State, works the act up to one of the most thrilling acts that any play can boast of. Helton has that naural sort of a rough and ready college way about him that makes him a favorite from the start. Might as well tell you the “scandal” —Helton nearly missed the performance last night, A. F. Miller told me. Helton missed his connection in Chicago and took an airplane from there to Indianapolis, arriving shortly before the curtain went up. That little ride cost Helton over $96. But he was on time and gave a great performance. Elliott Nugent has carved for himself a permanent place of fame upon the stage. There are only three of the younger ones who have such a position. They are Gregory Kelly, Glenn Hunter and Nugent; Nugent has that honest to goodness something about him which causes him to make every character he attempts as real as if he were living the part. And that is artistry. Miss Norma Lee is one of those lovely aids to a most enjoyable evening. Larrie Fletcher, who did such splendid work with Stuart Walker's corfipany at Keith's last season, Is cast as “Spike” Hoyt. It is a noisy role and Fletche. ~..j a great time with it. The cast is a large one. “The Poor Nut” is one of the best buys of the season. You are going to feel like kicking yourself If you don’t see this one. At English’s today, Wednesday nmtinee and night.

Sailor, Beware!!

RE . IE SKETCHES FOUND IN SHARPI.ES ACT HERE. There Is the spirit of a big revue in the variety offering of Wally Sharpies and company In “Smile Awhile,” at Keith's this week. The act has class and style from the very beginning, when two pages announce that the sketch to be presented had to do with murder. Here we see Mr. Sharpies as the distressed husband of a dead wife. The police pin the murder on him, and then, by the use of the “flashback,” Sharpless acts out the "tragedy.” It seems that when the husband came home from work his wife had a fine dinner for him, but the menu contained no beans. And all because friend husband loved beans better than anything In the world, he drew out his revolver and shot his wife to death because she failed to give his beans for supper. The police officer was so touched at the tragedy that he invited the poor husband to his house for dinner. And when the police officer discovered that his wife had failed to prepare pineapple—well, he ups and shoots her. The second sketch, as announced, was written by a crazy 'man. It sure is crazy, but it is funny. The third number brings the entire company on the stage to present a burlesque version of grand opera. To the strains of noble operatlo music, the singers tell the sad story of Sally, the girl who disappeared and never returned. Sally has been missing for a long time and this operatic outburst tells the whole sad story of Sally. Here is rare and good fun In travesty. It is splendidly presented by Mr. Sharpies and his associates. Miss Beverly Bayne, remembered for her work some time ago on the screen, is present in a little sketch, called “From Eight Till Twelve.” It concerns a man and his wife. Husband wants to go out and play poker with friends and so the wife decides upon a plan which more than cured her husband of the poker fever. Miss Bayne is a beautiful woman and does very well in a little sketch which does not call for any heavy work. There are two others In the company. Miss Patricola Is back with her violin and the same nature of songs with which she has been identified so many years. The PasqualJ Bros, are Indeed three unusual men when it comes to putting over an acrobatic routine. Some mighty good work here. Joe Weston and Harriet Hutchins have an eccentric comedy offering in which Miss Hutchins dominates everything by her active personality and eccentric manners. Lew Castleton and Max Mack are two good soft shoe dancers. Their eccentric stepping is splendid. They have a burlesque on acrobats. Well done. Herberta Beeson still remains one of the best dancers on the wire. At Keith’s all week. THREE REM, WINNERS ON BILL AT THE LYRIC The winners at the Lyric this week are as follows; First—Cliff Edwards, known as "Ukelele Ike,” who is an estabblished favorite with those who go in for phonograph music. Edwards knows how to handle the “uke” but I was more impressed with the way he got strange sounds out of his throat and then syncopated those sounds Into haunting harmony. He opens with “Sunday” and the goes into a rountine of comedy numbers as well as a number of stories. He is a complete success upon the stage. He has a stage presence W'hich helps him greatly in putting over his intimate music. Second —Mildred Carew and girls in one of the best, most finished and pretty dance offerings of the season. This act has delicate charm and exquisite beauty. It is seldom that you find such pretty girls and talented as to dance in a vaudeville offering. The opening dance is old A.

fashioned in spirit. This dance creates a lovely atmosphere which assures one that here is both rare talent and rare beauty. The solo numbers of the girls are all delightfully presented. The artist number which closes the act, is also a winner. Here is a dance offering which really dignifies the variety stage. Here is one of the delights of the season. Third—Bobby McLean, known to those who follow Ice skating as the world’s champion Ice skater. Movies of some of McLean's victories are flashed on the screen before he appears in person. He is able to develop a great amount of speed upon a small space. For an act of this type, McLean has a winning offering. Well done. Evans and Leonard may be called tramp comedians of the royalty type. Frish, Rector and Weber are singers of modern songs. They specialize in comedy numbers. They have no trouble In making an audience demand more. * - Alexander and Elmore go in for eccentric and a little too rapid comedy. They seem to feature a “Browning and Peaches” joke. As far as I am concerned, I never want to hear those names again on the entertainment stage as a basis of a joke. I was late in arriving and missed the Alex Gibson Trio. Anew pipe organ has been installed at the Lyric and Lester Huff is the master of this musical instrument. I will tell you more about this instrument at another time. At the Lyric all week. BALKAN SERENADERS ARE A HIT AT PALACE The Balkan Serenaders, a stringed orchestra of six pieces, in company with a dancing team, a woman solo dancer and a tenor offer most in entertainment the first half at the Palace. This act has been dressed up in a way that aids greatly to the pleasing effect that is theirs. Act opens with the orchestra and the tenor.

This young man, the tenor, will surprise you with the quality of his yoice. He is a baritone, and for ballad singing he would be hard to beat. With songs that have grown familiar through the years he could make quite a hit, in our opinion. He has the appearance and the voice, and that is all that is needed. The man and woman dancing

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team have several numbers which they do very gracefully. The young woman solo dancer features some Intricate splits and bends. A girl’s camp with all the nice young ladies on the hunt for anything that wears pants furnishes the comedy for the act of Frank Dobson Company. The girls are hunting excitement and evolve a plan in which the young doctor of a neighboring boy’s camp is to be the victim; One of the girls makes a bet she can make him propose in ten minutes after she meets him. Are a few laughs in the act. Saul Brilliant and company offer a comedy number featuring an eccentric brand of song and instrumental playing by the man. Hoffman and Lambert offer the man in some comedy juggling tricks and the woman In several songs. Carl and Inez open with a sketch concerning a hungry boy and his indifferent sweetheart. Finish the act with a song and dance. Included on the bill is a photoplay, “The Last Trail,” with Tom Mix, and news reel. At the Palace today and tomorrow. (By the Observer.) , . Jft.-

MARCH 22j|H

Worß? Play of Same Cards Varies With Trump or No-Trump Bid,

By Milton C. Work The pointer for today Is: With a King-Jack Doableton of the suit led in Dummy and no high card of that suit in the closed hand; play Jack when there is a Trump, King when the contract Is No-Trunip. An inexperienced Bridge player is apt to consider it remarkable that with the same cards of a suit in Dummy and in Closed Hand respectively, and with the same small card led, upon whether the contract is a trump or a No Trump. But it should bo remembered that the leader opens his hand very differently against the two classes of contract, and it is to meet this difference that the Declarer varies his play. For example, against a No-Trump the opening is a small card from a long suit headed by Ace or AceKing; but * against a troump declaration, the Ace (or King front Ace-King) is the accepted, usual and conventional opening. This does ungk mean that an Ace suit should be 1™ against a trump declaration every time the leader has such a suit; but it does mean that rarely, if ever, should he lead small from a suit headed by an Ace. Knowing this, the Declarer alters his play accordingly, If at No Trump a Deuce bo' led and he have King-Jack In Dummy, with no winning card of the suit in Closed Hand, the Dummy play is little better than a guess, as the leader may have opened as Acesuit or a Queen-suit. There is a slightly greater chance, however, that the lead has been from an Acesuit and therefore the King should be played; but playing a trump contract, the lead is not from the Ace, and the Jack is the Dummy play/ The lead is apt to be from the Queen, and when it is, the piny of the JaCk makes a trick in the suit. But suppose, playing a No-Trunip. that Dummy (North) holds: Sp: x-x-x Ht: A-x-x-x Dl: K-x Cl; Q-9-x-x and that South has: Sp: A-K-J Ht: Q-x-x Dl: x x-x Cl: A-J-ld-s. The adversaries have not bid, the opening lead is the Five of Diamonds. What Diamond should Dummy play on the first trick, and if the King be pluyed and win, how should declarer plan his subsequent play? Suppose Dummy leads the Club Queen to trick 2 and East plaj's low; what should Closed Hand play? Think over these questions until tomorrow. (Copyright, John F. Dille Cos.)

y Dailq Lenten Demotion Prepared by Rev. Char lea Emerson Burton, DJX, for Commission on Evangelism of Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in _ America. O •mrrtght MI 3

Tuesday “Our Awareness of God I $d Be Trusted.** Scriptural Read—Matthew 5:1-12. “Blessed are the pure in heart) for they shall see God” (Mat. 5:8). I thank thee, O Father . . . that thou didst hide these things from the wise and understanding, and didst .reveal them unto babes” (Mat, 11:25). “I am the light of the world; he that followeth me shall not walk In darkness, but shall have the ligl)t of life” (Jn. 8:12). See—Romans 1:20; I Cor. 2:10, Meditation: Quickly the babe becomes sure of the presence of people. It may take some tlmo to distinguish between father and mother, nurse and stranger. So the puro of heart, the sincere of soul, the chlld-lhce of mind, are awnre of God, That awareness may be dim, but it is a acquaintance. Am I more aware God today than a year ago? AVhac am I doing to sharpen my spiritual discernment? “When I myself am still, I catch Try still small voice and ’ thens know that Thou art God,," Hymn: Dear Lord and Father of mankind. Forgive our feverish ways; Reclothe us in our rightful mind, 1 In purer lives Thy service, find, 1 In deeper reverence, praise, Drog Thy still dews of quietness, Till*all our strivings cease: Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess Tho beauty of Thy peace. Breathe through the hearts of our. desire Thy coolness and Thy balm: Let sense be dumb, let flesh retlrff; Speak through tho earthquake, wiiid and fire, O still small voice of calm. —John G. Whittier, 1872. Prayer: Thanks for fellowship of believers. 'y Pray for—puro hearts; strangers; the impure. Collect—Almighty Father, whoee power knows ino limit, let us feel within us the movings of Thy might. We thank Thee for life, marvelous in its way. We bless Thee for the world, rich in its wooings of life. We rejoice that Thou are a spirit with whom our spirits may commune, and that Thou host shown forth Thy nature In the Christ lives with These and with us. praise Thee for tho high privtlej of prayer in which spirit bjends wl spirit. Mercifully forgive us tl| we have so often chosen the sat! faction of our lower instincts to tj impoverishment of thfc soul. Qu!<) en, wc Pray Thee, ouV Inner awai ness of Thee; so shall temptaMi have no authority over us. Throu) * Thy grace, we engage to walk In t Thy woyg. Ajpto,