Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 302, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 March 1927 — Page 4

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

Common Sense and Justice The question of what the newspapers print is coming up to bother Judge Raymond, presiding over the Sapiro-Ford case, as it does the judge in most every important trial nowadays. In the present instance the court has not instructed the members of the Jury not to read the newspapers. Manifestly such a prohibition would be a hardship, since the trial may last two months. It would not only deprive the six men and women jurors of one of the pleasures of life, but might very •well deprive some of them of information essential to them In some manner or other. Dispatches from Detroit indicate that the judge Is seeking to divide the responsibility in this matter between the jurors and the newspapers. The newspapers are asked to avoid reporting or commenting on the trial in any manner that might be prejudicial to the interests of either party to the suit. No bar against publication of the evidence has been set up as was done by that misguided judge down in Bay St. Louis, La., a year ago. For their part the jurors have been admonished to be careful what they read and to disregard anything which might influence the movement. The court seems to be following a common sense course and it is greatly to his credit when it is considered that common seuse is sadly lacking in our American jury system. An ideal jury would be one that could read every sort of prejudiced newspaper story concerning the case it was considering, that could listen, out of court, to every malicious gossip who had anything to whisper on the and could still bring in a fair and just verdict. That would be a jury of the community’s most enlightened citizens, a jury of education and experience and of proved fairmindedness. An ideal jury, one we can not hope to see in our time. What we do see, every day almost, is a jury solemnly- sitting in a case after having proved beyond possible doubt its unfitness to decide the questions placed before it. Having excluded from the jury all persons who admit having read newspapers concerning a given crime, or having heard that the said crime had pccurred—a crime with which the whole community may be ringing—the lawyers are free to turn any simple problem into a highly technical tangle and leave it to this concentrated ignorance of the community to solve. . That isn’t common sense. It hasn t any immediate bearing on the SapiroB ord trial, but every time we see a judge struggling tvith the problem of the press during a trial that receives newspaper attention, we can't help regretting this manifest weakness of the American jury system. Staining Our Hands With Blood There is something unspeakably tragic about whattis going on in Nicaragua. We have put President Adolfo Diaz in power and we intend that he shall remain in power, no matter how much Nicaraguan blood it takes to keep him there. We could stop the war any time we see fit for the Liberal president, Juan B. Sacasa, admitted to the foreign editor of the Scripps-Howard newspapers that under no circumstances would he fight the United States. So all Secretary of State Kellogg has to do is to order the American forces now in occupation of both coasts and most of the important interior points, to extend the occupation to include the rest of the country and order the Liberal forces to lay down their arms. "But that would be intervention!” we can hear Secretary Kellogg objecting. “And we have no intention of intervening. Did not the President himself say, in his message to Congress on Jan. 10, that he was ‘sure that it is not the desire of the United States to intervene in the internal affairs of Nicaragua,’ and did he not say before that, that the American Government is not taking sides in the present trouble, one way or another.” He did that Mr. Secretary. But the brutal fact remains that we have intervened with armed forces in Nicaragua, call it by whatever name you will. And it is equally true that we are daily “taking sides in the present trouble” to uphold Diaz and defeat Sacasa. A dozen warships are blockading both coasts of Nicaragua to kill any possible chance the Liberals might have to get arms. We allow neither food nor iaiment. to reach the Liberals if we can prevent it. We even refuse to allow them to get medicines to cure the sick and treat the wounded. If this is not “taking sides,” then what is it. If this is not intervention, what is it? And if this is being “neutral” then the world has labored a long time under a misapprehension as to what neutrality means. We are not only faking sides in Nicaragua, but we are doing something infinitely worse. We are pinioning the arms of one side and encouraging the other to step in and beat it up. Pure Perversion Let the record be kept clear and plain. No one should be deceived as tq the influences which forced through the Legislature the law, signed by the Governor, which prevents the people of Indianapolis and Evansville changing their form of government until Mayors Duvall and Males have completed their terms. These men spent large sums of money to obtain the offices of mayor, or other people spent huge sums of money in their behalf. When they were elected the people of Indianapolis and Evansville, under the law, had the right to change to a city manager form of government, whenever they chose to exercise that power. These mayors, or the political machines behind them, changed that contract with the people. They secured the passage of a law by the Legislature and secured the signature of Governor Jackson. under which the people are robbed of that i ight to change their form of government until these mayors have completed their elective terms of office. They, and no others, secured legislative approval of their terms of office, changed the contract with the people, secured a State approval of servitude of these cities to the mayor then in power. That was bad enough. What follows is worse. The official organ for the political machine of

Indiana and of the political machines of all cities, the Indianapolis Star, now has the termerity to charge that the friends of the city manager form of government secured this change in the law. That is perversion of truth in its boldest form. The friends of the city manager form of government protested as loudly as they could. They appealed to the governor. They appealed to the Legislature. The plain truth is that the friends of a change in form of government from the present boss controlled, high-handed, arbitrary and inefficient machine government tried to prevent the very thing now charged by the machine to be their work. The more evident truth is that the citizens of this city and of Evansville, tired of boss rule ; tired of inefficiency, tired of privilege, want to get rid of partisan politics in city government. The law ties them to this form of government fop another two years unless good lawyers set aside this ruthless robbery of the people of thetr legal rights. The people are tired of the thing which Jackson tied to them when he chose the company of machine politicians to the advice of stable, conservative and decent citizens. Perhaps the best that can be done is to get ready for a change from this government which Duvall, afraid of the people and afraid of their judgment, seeking legislative protection, has perpetuated. Whenever and wherever the plain people get a chance to sign a petition for a city manager form of government, they can be depended upon to sign and sign quickly. But for these henchmen and beneficiaries of machine rule to blame the friends of the city manager form of government for a perpetuation of machine rule and for legalizing machine politics for two moro years is so great a perversion of truth as to cab for protest. Partisan politics has no place in city government. Duvall proved the case when he asked a bossccntrollcd legislature to protect him for two years from public wrath and indignation. Frankenstein’s Monster An Ohio youth recently invented anew kind of radio receiving device. He installed It in the cellar of his home and called in his friends to sec it work. The friends formed an interested circle. The young inventor proudly explained everything. Then, with a little flourish, lie stepped up, seized the s vitch, and threw on the current. There was a sharp snap, a crackling sound, and the inventor dropped to the floor, dead. Something had gone wrong. His pet invention had electrocuted him. Like Frankenstein, the young man was destroyed by a device of his own creation. This idea —of a man destroyed by an invention that he can not control—always has exercised a fascination for the human mind. It seems almost as if men realized, vaguely, that in the process of building up a civilization they had harnessed forces that are more easily started than stopped: as if they sensed dimly (hat in rising from the jungles of savagery they had taken up a burden which might well crush them if they were not wary. This may sound a bit ponderous and far-fetched, but it isn't. No doubt you can recall the recent World War; did you ever realize that that war very nearly wrecked our civilization? Had the strain it imposed been just a little bit more severe the whole world would have slid back ten centuries into semi barbarism. But the World War was only a natural, logical outgrowth of the kind of civilization we had erected. Mankind, was nearly destroyed by a monster of its own creation. Nor is that all. if there ever is another world war it will be worse than the last one—more costly by far in men, materiais and money. Could the world survive it? It is entirely within the bounds of possibility for white civilization to come to a climax and then collapse in a great armed conflict. Frankenstein created a monster that he could not control, and it destroyed him. The young Ohio inventor invented a machine that did not act as he expected it would < and he too was destroyed. We all of us have built up'a civilization that contains within it the seeds of world-rending violence and destruction. Let us walk very carefully, and pursue our naiional and individual paths with extieme care, lest wo too be destroyed. Yellow Tabloids Have Blues The future looks dark for the New York tabloid newspapers. It seems almost certain that in a few years they will cease to be the greatest educational influence in their city. An insidious power is creeping jn, destroying their monopoly on the minds of the five million. i he New 1 ork public library announces that its daily attendance of readers is 12,000; that it gives out 11,000 reference books every day; that in 28 days it issued 880.000 volumes for home reading. The library has delivered a powerful blow to our conviction that the tabloids are supplying everyhing that New Yorkers want to read. It is discouraging to our notion of popular education that the citizenry wants to know about something besides holdups, divorce cases, movie actresses and love-nest murders. It's difficult to say what can be done about it Maybe a board of censors could be appointed to ban a books on history, biography, science and all hings. Or perhaps the library can be sensationalized to the standard of the tabloid. • One thing is certain. The tabloid will never lose its grip upon the minds of those who can not read. Senator King decided to abandon his one-man invasion of Haiti over the ban of President Borno. \e wonder if the marines in Haiti would be reluctant to arrest a United States Senator. - Mental hygiene bureaus are being established in colleges in an effort to cut down the suicide rate. That recalls the old-fashioned day when a college education was supposed to give a man a start in life. Governor Small has set aside Health Week In Illinois. Another disarmament conference?

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Much Equal Rights Talk, But Woman Still Favored.

By >l. Tracy Gray stands a slim chance compared to Mrs. Snyder. In spite of all the talk about equal rights and even, handed justice, it is hard to convict a woman. Very few women have been hanged or electrocuted in this country, a fact that can not be accounted for on the ground that women are vastly less given to murder than men. The law always has been indulgent toward women, and still is. This was never more grimly Illustrated than in the famous Lucretia Chapman case, where a woman was acquitted and a man hanged on practically tlie same evidence. Settle It! Governor Smith's religion has become an issue and possibly the most important issue, in his struggle for the Democratic presidential nomination. Efforts to soft pedal it only make the situation worse. There has been too much whispering and insinuating already. If any reason exists why a Roman Catholic should not be President of the United States, we might just as well face it. If no reason exists the chatter ought to be stopped. Smith Knows Whether a man's religion unfits him for public office probably depends more on the man himself than on the particular faith he follows. Any man can become fanatical over a faith, no matter by what name it is called or through what kind of an organizaiton it functions. By the same token, any man can be truly religious, without being unfair or intolerant. Better than any one else. Govern)r Smith knows where he draws the line between his duty as a member of the Catholic church and his duty as a citizen of the United States. It is good that he has been asked to make a statement on the subject. It is better still that he has consented to do so. Frankness, whether with regard to slush funds, Nicaragua, rum or religion. lu.K Income the crying need of American politics. Kissing the Rod Russia offers to pay France sll.000,000 a year lor sixty-two years in settlement of her debt, but only on j condition that she is guaranteed a loan of $40.000,000 or $50,000,000. The ironical part of it is that this loan would be used to rehabilitate French factories which were confiscated by Russia when she established the Soviet form of government and for which she refuses to allow any indemnity. France considers the offer “feeble’’ ' and would undoubtedly break off ne-1 gotiations were It not for the vast oil supply which Russia controls. France feels that If she could make arrangements to purchase a considerable part of this supply, she would have gone far toward breaking the American monopoly under which she labors. With such an end in view, she is in <a mood to compromise. New Sleep German doctors have discovered a new anaesthetic which they claim may soon supplant ether and chloroform. It is a bromide preparation and is administered by injection. It acts on the intestines, not on the heart, lungs or nerves, which permits of operations that are impractical with ether or chloroform. Aged people can take this new anaesthetic, it is said, without fear of heart failure and it makes possible the use Os surgery In the treatment of pneumonia and tuberculosis. Speed Major Seagrave is not satisfied with the record of liiii miles an hour which he made at Daytona Beach the other day, but will try to make it 200. You sometimes wonder whether there is any rate of speed that will satisfy human amhition. Probably not, and probably this Is a good thing. Speed in itself may not amount to so much, but the knowledge and development it leads to are very important. Time and distance have been the two greatest handicaps to human progress. The more ground men can cover, the more they can learn and the farther they can see and hear the farther they can project their minds in every direction. While Major Seagrave was out inspecting the beach last Thursday morning, he was summoned to answer a telephone call from London. He said it was like talking across the street. Here you glimpse the combination of two essential factors of progress as they can he employed by one man. One moment this British driver is setting up anew mark in his racer, the Mystery S, and the next he is telling a British editor the good news across 8,000 miles of sea. What Is a “telescope fish?” It is charged that this breed \%as artificially produced through the skill of the Chinese. The body of the fish Is spherical and apparently dwarfed, having a double tail, which is sometimes almost disconnected from the body. The eyes are abnormally large and bulging like those of a frog and have the appearance of small telescopes adjusted to the eye, which give the fish their name. Some of them look forward, while others have the eyes so arranged that they appear to look upward and for that reason they are called celestial telescope fish. They have all the marking of other varieties of goldfish, and owing to the peculiar shape of the body, they move slowly through the water.

Remember Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow?

Indianapolis Will Have a Memorial Concert for Late Edward MacDowell

rpT, DWARD MACDOWELL. at Ip! ti ' l ' n ’ M “ liS death, nearly L— -1 twenty years ago, was the greatest American composer. He wrote many beautiful pieces for children and his greater compositions for the piano arc well known to every piano student. During his later life, he lived on a farm in Peterboro, New Hampshire. in the midst of the beautiful In nature and did much of his best work. Wishing to afford the same advantages to other creative artists, lie established there a colony for that purpose and was gradually <lcveloping it. Since his death Mrs. MacDowell has devoted her life to this end and has toured the country over and over, giving lecture-recitals for the benefit of the colony. Artists of all classes are benefiting

sdioui|sinp of P rityet> #Datli) Lenler. Demotion Prepared by Rev. Charles 1 Emerson Burton, D.D., for | Commission on Evangelism 3 of Federal Council of the I Churches of Christ in America. Copjrlxht 19Z7

Topic for the Week “SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT” Saturday “We Should Live by the Light We Have” SCRIPTURE: Read Matthew 1 25:14-30. “If ye know these things, blessed are ye if ye do them” (Jn. 13:17). “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves” (Jas. 1:22). “Blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it” (Lk. 11:28). See —John 20:29; II Timothy 1; 12. MEDITATION: Consider the spiritual truths of which we arc sure. Love is better than hate; unselfishness than selfishness; friendship than treachery; goodness than meanness; self-control than license, etc, etc. Our conscience insists on tho love of the better. To live by tho light we have is to obey that spiritpal voice. How fat-reaching this is! It rails for the actual application of known truths to personal life, lo business, to polities, to social questons, to international relations —a largo order! For it power is * available through prayer. “Inspire me with that ‘love of love’ whlctt implies ‘the scorn of scorn and the hate of hate.’ ” HYMN: O Master, let me walk with thee In lowly paths of service free. Tell me thy secret, luffp me bear The strain of toil, the fret of care. Teach me thy patience; still with thee In closer, dearer company, In work that keeps faith sweet and strong. In trust that triumphs over wrong, In hope that sends a shining ray, Far down the future’s broadening way— In peace that only thou canst give,— With thee, O Master, lot me live. —Washington Gladden, 1879. PRAYER: Pray so to weigii things spiritually; personal safety; seameu; the wayward. Collect —Heavenly. Father, whose tender mercies compel our love, we thank Thee for the gift of Christ our Savior. In Him oar shortcomings are filled up; our sicknesses of soul are healed; our rebellions of spirit are quelled. For salvation full and free we bless Thee. In the presence of Thy outpouring of love our selfishness stands revealed. Breathe into us of Thy spirit that we may he strong to forsake sin, to overcome temptation and to live in the light* which Christ supplies. O our Father, grant us to know something of Thy passion of love. Help us to proclaim the gospel to all mankind. Record our pledge before Thee that we will exalt the things of the spirit. Amen.

and there arc now twenty or more .-Audios for musicians, painters, sculptors and writers, which have been erected by admiring friends. The endowment fund, begun years ago is far from completed and the National Federation of Music Clubs has undertaken, at the suggestion of its president, Mrs. Edgar StillmanKelley. to have the children complete this fund. While the children are raising a fund of pennies and 5-cent pieces, the grown-ups are collecting the dollars. To this end a “two-piano” recital has been arranged for April 7 to be given by our two distinguished artist teachers. Bomar Cramer of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts and Willard MacGregor of the Metropolitan School of Music. This assures a splendid entertainment and a “two-piano’’ recital in Indianapolis is rare. The committee of federation workers, Mrs. Grace Watson Duckwall, chairman; Mrs. Edwin 11. Shedd, Mrs. J. A. Goodman and Mrs. Henry Schurman, has met with generous cooperation from music lovers and invite all who may be Interested in the cause to assist In making the attendance commensurate with its worth. The Armory, pianos, programs and stationery have been contributed and the following is a partial list of the patrons: Mr. and Mr*. Jam** W. Foster. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Ayres. Mr. and Mr* A. M. Coli-. Mr. and Mr*. Lawrence Chambers. Mr. and Mr Hugh MeOibeny. Mr. and Mr-.-Henry Si hurm; nn. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W Mason. Mr Biunelie Harrington. Mr and Mis. Ed Nell. Mr and Mrs. Will Korkwood. Mr. and .Mrs. J. Hartley Sherwood. Mr. and Mrs. Booth T.irUlngton. Dr. and Mrs. It. 1. lilakeman. Mr. ami Mrs. Otto Hattetsen. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Coburn. Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Friermood, Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus Baker, Mrs. Meyer Block. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sommers. Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Kiser. Mr. and Mrs. E E Fliekinger. Mr. and Mrs. George and Miss Elizabeth Hserle. Mrs. Elizabeth Marmot). Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Shafer, Mr. and Mrs. R. S Chspell. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Failey, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dowden. Mr. and Mrs Charles Latham Jr.. Mrs. Anton Vonnerut. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Rappapnrt. Dr. and Mrs. O. H. Pantrer, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kalin. Mr. and Mrs. Will Landers. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Dean. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Wolff. Miss Elsie Sweeney. Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer Fnr-M-ott. Mr. and Mrs. Jprry Lyon, Mr. end Mrs. S. L. Shank. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. James H. Lowry, Miss Mary Moorman. Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Bonner Mr and Mrs. Douglas C. Gilson. Mr. and Mr. ,). p. Frenzel Jr.. Mr. and Mrs. James L. Gavin. Mrs. Charles A. Pafflin, Mr. and Mrs. John Sommerville. Mrs. James E. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Kobin, Mr. Fred Jeffery’. Mtss Beauchamp. Mr. and Mrs. Don Watson. General and Mrs. Dwight Aultman. Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Meier, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Born, Mrs. Grace Clarke Pierce. Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Rulck, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard R. Batt.v. Miss Grace Hutchins. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brackett. Mr and Mrs. Fred Hetherington. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Harman. Misses Lauter, Misses Alexander. Miss Flora Lyons, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bornstein. Miss Marjorie Fischer, Miss Dorothy Goodman and Miss Evelyn Hahn: all members of the Sigma Alpha lota and the Mu Phi Epsilon Fraternities and tho faculties of the Metropolitan School of Music and the Indiana College ol Music and Fine Arts. fT-Jt ISS FRANCES BEIK, head Ijylj of the dramatic department LL-if of the Metropolitan School of Music, will present, her students in a three-act play Monday evening, April 4, at 8 o'clock. The public is invited. There will be.no admission fee. The play “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” was produced by Winthrop Ames, at the Century Theater in New York, and is given here by special permission. In the cast will be: Elizabetn Wheteel, Sara Crouch, Helen Foster, Virginia Kelly, Irene Mcßane, Hardin Callithan, Preston Hargit, Joe Betherd, Carl Betherd, Ida Jean Waltz, Betty Crandall, Evelyn Wolfard, Fanchon Fattig, Virginia Stout, Eugene Kerr, Mary Lou Over, Emily Mae Johnson, Dorothy Jane Peiine, Jane Illrshman and Jean Bannister. The Vienese trio, Margarite Billo, violin, Harriet Harding, cello, and Beulah Moore, piano, students from the ensemble class of Adolph Schelischmidt, will play incidental music in between acts. Willard MacGregor, artist pianist of the faculty of the Metropolitan School of Music, gave a concert in St. Louis, his former home, last evening. and will give a recital In Columbia, Mo., Monday evening. Miss Kathryn Cosette Hutchinson, cellist, Miss Arabelle Chambers, pianist, and Miss Elsie Adams, violinist, from the Be Natural Club,of the Metropolitan School of Music, have been engaged to Broadcast a program each Tuesday morning from WKBF. They will play for the K. of P. lodge at Acton next Wednesday evening.

Miss Lois Day, soprano. Miss ! Dorothy Yoke, piano, and Miss Elsie | Adams, violinist, students of the I Metropolitan School of Music, will give a program Wednesday evening for the Emerson Ave. Baptist Church. mllE bimonthly students’ program of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will he given on Saturday afternoon, April 2, at 2:30 p. m. Frederick Tucker, William Wise, Mildred Sehurh, Freeman Gibbs, Madeline Trent. Max McCord, Carl | Tevis, Ruth Harriett Barnes, Jane Slutzky, Helen Gertrude Shaner, Vera Sudbroek, Mary Pauline Smith, Margaret Jane Callane, Marvin Hein, j Emma Elizabeth Hallett, Dora Wagnon, Harold Phillips, Martha John- ! son. Ruth Rootstein, Betty Seay, Wilhelmin. McElroy, Bernice Showers. Elsie Lewark, Justine Ptotsenburg and Virginia E. Bauman are students of Irene Hoffman, Evan Georgieff, Mrs. Blanche D. Brown, ! Gladys Lnueks, W. E. Tallentire, Eleanora Beauchamp. Pauline Roes, Gertrude Hacker, Ruth Todd, May Gorsuch and Arthur Mason. The piano, violin, dramatic art and | dancing departments will be represented. Mrs. Blanche D. Brown has charge of the program. A few students of the dancing department of the Indiana College of Music and Fine. Arts, under Gertrude Ilacker, will dance during the week of March 27 at the Ohio Theater. Milton Heller will do Spanish dances. Betty Jane Wolfe will danec and give monologues, Estelle Ruth j Cohen and Margaret Cuddy will give toe dance numbers and a group of dancers will be in the finale. SHE following program, under the auspices of the Indianapolis Chapter St. Mary-of-the-Woods Alumnae Association, will be given Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the auditorium of the Knights of Columbus Hall: “Largo” ... Handel Harp Ensemble. One Lives But Onee," “Viennese Waltz'’ ...... Klrauss-Tauslg-Turkey in the Straw. (concert arrangement) Guion Mrs. William J. Stark. "Ave Maria” . . Percy Kahn Song of the Volga Boatmen” . •• . Arranged by Chaliapin Capt. Stratton * Fancy” Taylor Mr. Edward La Shell*. “Ballade” ~ Hamelmans Mias Prentice. "Last Ttoae of Summer” (arranged for harp duet). Mm* Connor and Mis* Prentice. “KvTic" and “Gloria” from “Missa Pontifleoles” Perost Pchnla Cantorum. “Mazurka” Schnecker Mis* Lock tin. "Marietta's Lied zur Laute," Aria from "Dir- Tote Stadt” Korngold “Florian Song” Godard “A Spring Serenade" Gilbert* Mr*. James M. Pearson. “Winter” Thomas Mias Prnestl. “My Love's hi Arbutus” Old Irish “Hunting Song” Old EHgligli Schol l Cantorum. “The Volga Boatmen".. . Arr. by Salzedo Harp Ensemble. Accompanists: Mrs. E. E. Voylcg, Helen Shepard. Frances K. Spencer. The Schola Cantorum, under the direction of Elmer Andrew Steffen, is composed of the following members: Harry E. Galland. Bernard O. Zimmer, Francis O'Brien, william Fogarty Jr., Francis Delaney. Humbert. Pagani. Paul Smith. Ralph Leonard. Joseph Brandt, Robert. Wener, David Lawler, Edward La Shell*. The membera-of the harp ensemble, composed of students of the music department of St. Mary-of-the-Woods, are: Harps—Miss Catherine Connor, Indianapolis; Mias Alice Lookltn, Rio. 111.; Miss Martha Prentice, Columbus, Ohio; Miss Winona Price. Indianapolis: Miss Marian Proesel. Chicago; Miss Mary Lee Sullivan, Monroe. La.: Miss Rachel Tobin. Indianapolis. Violins—Miss Margaret O'Connor, Joplin. M 0..: Miss Katherine R. Smith, Evanston. 111. SHROUGHOUT the world today the 100th anniversary of Ludwig von Beethoven’s death is being commemorated. Born December 16, 1770, Died March 26, 1872. This tribute is more than a respectful memorial to a master of music. Bethoven the commoner, the musician, labored patiently at mastering his craft while America fought her War of Independence and Europe shook to the terrors and portents of the French Revolution. A young man of 22 lie went to Vienna to perfect himself iu his art as the victorious armies of Napoleon were advancing along the Rhine. Another man of destiny! It was for Beethoven to sound symphonies that would reverberate long after the conqueror and his can(Turn to Page 7)

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Attempt Only Vitally Necessary Finesses in No-Trump.

The pointer for today is: When playing a No-Trump, the adversaries having established a suit, losing % finesse generally means good-bye game; so only vitally necessary finesse should bo attempted. Yesterday a hand was given which illustrates the above pointer; it was: Dummy (North) —Sp: A-x-x Ht: K-x-x Di: J-9-x-x-x Cl: K-x; Closed Hand (South)—Sp: Q-J-10 Ht; A.-10-2 DI: A-Q-10-8 Cl: J-5-2. The play of the first trick was given yesterday, as follows: Six of Clubs; Three of Clubs: Ten of Clubs; Jack of Clubs. Suppose that we now place ourselves In the position of the Declarer, not knowing the location of the adverse cards, and we can lose a finesse and still make game, but it Is impossible to win game without risking a finesse. There is Just ns much chance of winning the Spade finesse as there Is of winning the Diamond finesse. There has been no bidding and no indication of the location of either King: but If tlie Spade finesse win, it would make only three Spade tricks which, in addition to the one Club t-Ick already won, two Heart tricks and the Ace of Diamonds, would leave the Declarer two tricks short of game; and so after that, the Diamond finesse would still have to be tried. To risk an Ineffectual finesse is doubling the chance of failure; therefore the Diamond finesse should be the one attempted because, if It win, the Declarer will take one Club, five Diamonds, two Hearts and one Spade, and make game without venturing the Spade finesse. With a total of nine Diamonds in the two hands, the Diamond finesse should he taken in stead of attempting to drop a possible adverse singleton King; the finesse has an even chance of success, and the odds against finding an adverse singleton King are very great. The Dummy should be put in with tho King of Hearts (trick 2), and the Diamond finesse then tried, as in the hand described earlier this week: First lead Jack of Diamonds, on which Closed hand plays the Ten: second* lead Nine of Diamonds, on which Closed Hand plays the Eight; third lead small Diamond, win with the Queen; and then establish the long Diamond and put Dummy in with tho Ace of Spades; the nuuectssary finesse in Spades should not be risked as it is not needed for game and if it lost would cost game. The thirteenth Diamond cashed in Dummy, and the Ace of Hearts In the Closed Hand make the total of nine tricks. | Next week we will have Dummy plays from Queon-x and Jack-x, Copyright John F. Dille Cos.

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Almost everybody is familiar enough with the Bible to answer today's questions without much trouble. In case any of them stump you, the answers are printed on page 14: 1. How long did it take Solomon to build his house? 2. Who was ldleazar? 3. Who asked Balaam to curse the children of Isreal? 4. How many cities of refuge did the Lord tell Moses to build? 3. After Saul defeated the Amalekites, what was the fate of Agag. ; their king? 6. Who was David's oldest < brother? • 7. Who was Adonijah? 8. How long did David reign over Israel? J 9. With what powerful nation did Solomon form an alliance, marrying the daughter of the king of that £ nation? ■'

Questions and Answers

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