Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 314, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1927 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President BOYD GURLEY, Editor. v WM, A. MAXBOKN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Allianee • • • Client of the United Press and the NEA Service • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dally except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis • • • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week • • • PHONE—MA in 3500.

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Sign Your Name Today is the last day in -which to sign the petition for a City Manager election. At such an election the voters of this city can decide whether they will junk the present form of government, with its political burdens and Its notorious betrayal of public welfare for the modern system of city government which makes business conduct and business methods the basis of spending the city’s money. One of the great benefits of the City Manager form of government is the taking of city government out of partisan politics. City councilmen, under that system, are not elected on tickets which bear the names of national parties. That robs the boss of his greatest weapon. There are thousands of Voters, who, for the sake of regularity or habit, vote a certain ticket no matter how bad the nominees may be or how unfit they are. With these voters as the basis, the boss can nominate men who have pledged the powers of their office to him. and then line up enough sordid voters to gain a victory. Democrats and Republicans who want exactly the same thing in city affairs find themselves voting against each other. The councilmen under the new system select a manager who is skilled in management of big enterprises, who has a knowledge of city needs and has ability as an executive. He bolds his job only so long as he gives the people good service. His mind is occupied with trying to get results, not with lining up politicians for the next election and giving jobs to ward heelers instead of those who wish to give real service to the city. Such cities as Cincinnati, Kansas City and Cleveland have found that the new system is a vast improvement over the form of government under which Indianapolis struggles to keep afloat. They have rid themselves of the influence of national politics in city affairs—and who can suggest any reason for injecting national politics into city government? They have executives, not politicians, running their public affairs and as a result have decent streets, better service of garbarge collections, better service from police and fire departments and less taxes. If you want a chance to get this system for Indianapolis, be sure that your name is on one of these petitions today.

It’s An 111 Wind That Blows— Former Secretary of War Henry L. Slimson today sets sail from New York, Nicaragua bound. As special envoy of President Coolidge, Mr. Stimun goes to study the situation in. that neck of the woods and fetch back to Washington some first hand information upon which to base our future policy. Secretary of State Kellogg has let the President in for a lot of grief of late through mismanagement in Nicaragua and doubtlessly the President would like to save as much out of the wreck as he can. This is a human, even a patriotic desire. The United States has vast interests at stake throughout Latin-America, and Secretary Kellogg’s bull-in-a-chlna shop treatment of them has got us in bad from Texas to Tlerra del Fuego. No informed Latin-Americans deny we have these interests or object to our protecting them. But there are ways and ways of doing it and Mr. Kellogg has not found the right one. Perhaps Mr. Stimson can find it. There are indications that the Administration may use the Nicaraguan canal as a way out of the hole Mr. Kellogg has got it into. That is to say President Coolidge may see fit to develop the thought he expressed in his message to Congress last January, when he intimated that one of the main reasons for our intervention In Nicaragua is our canal grant there. Since 1916 we have possessed the right to dig an inter-oceanic canal across southern. Nicaragua and if It can be shown that the time has come when this vast project should be started, it would undoubtedly ease up some of the pressure against the Administration for occupying the country with marines. Many thoughtful Americans believe with those in charge of our security, that a second canal across Central America would be worth while as national defense insurance. This is true, no matter how much they may and do disagree with Secretary Kellogg’s stumblings down there. Thus it would be an astute political move for the Administration to focus public attention on the need for this canal. Next year is election year and something is urgently required to counteract the havoc wrought by the Secretary of State. Likely enough Mr. Stimson’s report to the President will not overlook this. If so, we can only say it’s an ill wind that blows nobody good. The canal is an ultimate necessity and as it will take a long time to construct, It should be begun in the comparatively near future. The regrettable part of it all is, however, that if sprung at this time and in this way, it may be used as the League of Nations, as a political football and politics has, or should have, no part whatever In matters of national defense. Apathy On Prohibition The head of the Anti-Saloon League blames apathy on the part of the churches for the failure of prohibition. “When the church demands prohibition enforcement with the same emphasis that it demanded passage of the law, the question of prohibition will be settled,” is the significant challenge sent in pamphlet form to members of churches which have allied themselves with the league. The statement is important. There is an implied admission that the question of prohibiton has not been settled and that there is no real enforcement of the law. Coming from a source which has maintained steadfastly that conditions are growing better, this admission should result in bringing the whole question out into the open as a subject for legitimate debate, without danger that any one who declares

the law is not enforced and has failed to accomplish its purpose being charged with aiding bootleggels or being "wet” or paid propagandists for a return of the old saloon. The plain statement of fact is that the question is not settled and will not be settled unless there is an enforcement of the Volstead law. If it be not settled, the American method of discussion ought not be barred and certainly no one could object to its settlement after full and free debate and along lines dictated by common sense and mature judgment based upon experience. If there be apathy on the part of members of churches who were zealous for the passage of a law, may it not be suggested that these same members who now show no interest, have refused to follow the logic of force and do not believe, in their own minds, that morals can be lifted by law. Asa matter of fact, force and Christianity are strangers and utterly repugnant to each other. Yet the whole theory of this law is one of force, and force to the utmost. The one method of securing obedience is the threat of jail. There is lost any appeal to conscience or better judgment such as were contained in the early temperance movements when the pledge of the Good Templars and similar organizations was a personal decision to refrain from an evil habit and custom. These forces made sobriety a virtue to be cherished, not an external imposition of a statute. The man who stood for temperance and exemplified it in those days gained as his reward not only a personal satisfaction, better health and a better chance for financial success but a higher social standing. The drinking man was under a certain ostracism and contempt. The attitude has changed since prohibition has made drinking fashicgable in circles where it was once tabooed. That very apathy of which the Anti-Saloon now complains and for which it indices members of churches springs from the fact that the law itself carries no sense of moral turpitude. The average conscience is not shocked by the fact that some friend has patronized a bootlegger or has a few bottles of wine from grape juice. There is no ostracism for the man who makes such purchases. There are few cases on record where citizens have offered to give evidence against friends and neighbors for violation of this law, except for mean motives of hatred, spite or jealousy. Many of the men who voted in this State for the Wright law have not only violated that law themselves but many more have seen violations on the part of their friends and not protested. They would, almost automatically, cause arrest on any other law, no matter how close the friendship. They would help hunt down their best friends if they saw them stealing an automobile, robbing a bank or committing some form of outrage. They have no such strong sentiment in favor of this law. Undoubtedly the charge that there is apathy among church membership is well founded. It would be worth while to discover the cause of this apathy.

Mills and the Gods A great change n coming over the United States Treasury Department. i hanks to Ogden Mills, the new undersecretary, it s snowing distinct signs of becoming human again. For six years the treasury has occupied a place almost unique in the annals of American politics. It’s been a sort of modern Valhalla, a temple of great financial gods, radiating a distilled aroma of fiscal righteousness. Suggestions that the treasury might have certain human frailties have been consistently met wiih arched eyebrows and Implied rebuke. “Do you presume to suggest that a department headed by a man who is worth half a billion dollars could make a mistake In financial matters?'’ (Heaven forbid! Go to the foot of the class!) Mills, in the brief period he has been undersectary, has punctured the internal inflation of the treasury. He has talked and written like a mere mortal. His letter to the Princeton professorsf> gned by Mellon, of course—designed to squelch their plea for war debt revision, was more like an invitation to further debate than a final message from the gods. . And now in his New York address on Federal taxation, Mills has again displayed himself a* a normally pugnacious and partisan mortal. In that address he frankly acknowledged the existence of what he called “our political Opponents.” v He forgot his present role as high treasury potentate long enough to take a few political wallops at A1 Smith, his opponent in the last New York gubernatorial race. And he handled figures with a zest and abandon which almost suggested a deliberate invitation to come-backs. He skated out on thin ice of Federal revenue prognostication, lie talked about what might be expected to be the “normal” treasury surplus, he debated the question of whether Democrats or Republicans have made :i better showing in reducing Me national debt, and he speculated about tax reduction program. Mills’ New York speech was a controversial afcl provocative speech. It was just the kind of a speech treasury officials haven’t been making in recent years. ' *w Perh „ aPß WhGn Secretary Me,lo “ gets back from ho will stifle Mills’ partisan outbreaks by minding him that when one sits beside the gods one must act like a god, not like a hard-boiled, twofisted Republican wheelhorse. We hope not. What the treasury loses in atmoitfhere by having Mills act human will be more than made up by sL e rts° PUlar edUCaU ° n involved in the arguments he l-rjy® leally,I eally , ° ught to know something about the worfd financ a ,nstltutlon in the history of the If we can have debates on the subject instead of divine revelations perhaps we will find out. Peaches Browning has written a song. Young man, bew r are wine and women, too. It’s about time to discover that we’re lucky to have lived the winter in such a dirty house!

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I o \r\7 IKAL i Says: Merely a Bit of Relaxation Which Tired Lawmakers Deserve?

By SI. E. Tracy The Tennessee House of Representatives adjourned on Thursday to see Babe Ruth play ball. Shall we accept such action as showing what applied fundamentalism really means, or as merely a bit of relaxation which tired lawmakers deserve? This is a great country, but greater in nothing than that peculiar sense of humor which can see no joke in denouncing Darw’in by statute and then quitting the job to watch a hired entertainer swat the liorsehide. Said it With Stabs Vaso Radich loved his wife, though separated from her, as he explained to a Milwaukee court. Just to prove it he stabbed her six times when they happened to meet. The Milwaukee police picked them up at about the same time—the woman dead and the man running around in dazed circles. It would be a sufficiently interesting story, perhaps, if ended right there, but the best part is yet to come. Radich was not only arrested, but indicted, tried, convicted and sent on his way to the State prison for a life term within the space of six hours. Though a record-breaking case, this is typical of Milwaukee justice. The home of Victor Berger and the stronghold of socialism has found a way to overcome the law’s delays. That is why the crooks and criminals give it such a wide birth. Contrast in Justice In contrast with the swift, sure justice dealt out to Vaso Radich in Milwaukee, a North Carolina court allows a man convicted of assault on a woman to accept banishment from the State in lieu of a two-year prison term. This idea of banishing convicts is becoming .popular. It soothes the sob-sister conscience and saves money, but it contributes nothing toward the prevention of crime. New Eyes and Ears It is not only possible to hear but to see by w’ire. and not only by wire, but by radio. The electric eye as well as the electric ear has come into being as a workable fact. Men have actually sat In a New York o;ce and seen those with whom they talked in Washington. What is still more remarkable, they have seen Herbert-Hoover’s lips move as lie delivered an address over the radio two hundred miles away. World's Fast Pace The world has moved fast during the last four or five generations. It was only 100 years ago that John Walker, an English chemist, sold his first box of friction matches. What a boon matches were considered by the housewife of that day. No more fumbling with tinder and flint to light a fire or candle In the cold. Now we use matches mostly to light pipes, cigars and cigaretts.

Still Far Apart In spite of the inventions and the discoveries, of all the improved means of travel and communication, we still live far apart. At the press conference in the Rritish foreign office on Thursday a reporter asked the Government spokesman if he had any information “regarding the military situation in Chicago.” Silly Remarks We can afford to laugh, but more than one American has made just as silly remarks about China. Maorvelous as the telephone, telegraph and radio may be, they still fall short of conveying the information they should. The fault is ours, no doubt, because we gossip too much and listen too little for anything but jazz. People can’t be v serious all of the time, but they should be serious enough to recognize a grave situation whenever it develops. i Blunder Whatever the Chinese situation may have been yesterday, or the day before, it is grave now. Chang Tso-Lin’s raid of the Russian embassy was the stupidest kind of a blunder. It gives the Soviet ft legitimaU excuse for aggressive measures, while it robs other nations of legitimate excuse to support Chang TsoLin. Chang Tso-Lin has not only been the great bulwark of the British, French and American Interests in China, but the one hope of stopping the Cantonese. He was anti-Bolshevist, of course, and w'as loved more for that than any other reason. Any way one looked at the Chinese situation, Chang Tso-Lin was the best bet of the powers who are trying to set China right without actual intervention. Hia unjustifiable attack on the Russian embassy comes pretty near to spoiling his usefulness. Who said “Who steals my purse Steals trash?” The quotation is from Shakespeare’s Othello, Act 3, Scene 3 and reads as follows: “Good name in man and woman, dear, my Lord, Is the Immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse tieals trash; ’tis something, nothing; ’Twas mine, 'tis his; and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him. And makes me poor indeed.”

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Ona B. Talbot Puts the Orchestral Situation Right Up to Music Patrons

SHE orchestra concert on Monday evening, April 18, presenting the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Fritz Reiner, conductor, Sophie Braslau, contralto soloist, will bring to a close the five years series of orchestra concerts organized under the Indianapolis Symphony Society, Ona B. Talbot, managing director, to promote a love for great orchestra music. A group of public-spirited men and women have given their loyal support to this undertaking which has meant much for the cultural development of the city. With the beginning of the sixth season, greater plans are being formulated which make the series of orchestra concerts a permanent and large contributing factor in the musical affairs of the State. Tlie sixth season will be dependent for its distinctiveness by the willingness of the patrons of music to show by their attendance at the last symphony orchestra concert on April 18, Easter Monday evening, that they wish orchestra concerts. When the musical public of the Pacific Coast accepts an artist it does so with a whole-heartedness which the more sophisticated East does not always exhibit, yet an artist to win the acceptance of those far western cities must be high in merit. The Pacific Coast being far away has not had as much mediocrity as the East has had. Sophie Braslau, the contralto, went out there two seasons ago for the first time and her tour was an uninterrupted succession of triumphs.

In San Francisco. Redfern Mason wrote In the Examiner that her recital "proved her an artist of rare gifts and rarer personality.” Walter Bodin wrote that "the singer sings as a bird might. She sings because it is the thing for her to do. She has a voice heavy with the wealth of tone; her vocal and emotional ranges are almost beyond belief.” SHE concert season In Indianapolis under the direction of The Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Enterprises will close on Sunday afternoon, May 1, with one of the most famous tenors of the age in his first appearance in Indianapolis. Tito Schipa. premier tenor of the Chicago Opera Company, has won tremendous fame in the last five years and every city of importance has been visited by him time and time again. The coming of this great artist to Indianapolis is being eagerly anticipated by the music lovers throughout the State. Schipa's second and final concert in New York last winter was next morning described in the HeraldTribune under the headline “Em itional Riot Greets Tito Schipa at Carnegie Ilall,” and continued, “The weather proved no deterrent to the several thousand enthusiastic admirers of Tito Schipa, who crowded Carnegie Hall last night, scarcely leaving room for the artist on the stage. ’ The Atlanta Georgian stated of Schipa's appearance there, “It was the biggest concert audience Atlanta ever had;” The Evening Ledger, Philadelphia, declared- “Mr. Sch.pa was received with immense enthusiasm by an audience which taxed the capacity of the Metropolitan;” The Pittsburgh Sun said, “Tito Schipa, renowned tenor, returned to the Mosque last night to sing before his thousands of admirers.” But whether it is in a city where Schipa has sung anrftjally since he began his concert tours in this country five seasons ago, or whether it is his first local appearance, the record is just the same. The Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial - Appeal described the latter situation as follows: "Although he came to Memphis relatively unknown, except to the few who had heard him elsewhere, Schipa plunged into the greatest ovation ever accorded a singer on a local concert stage.” Mr- ISS Margaret E. Delameter of the Progressive Series Piano Studios will present her pupils in an operatta "From Out of the Past,” Thursday, April 14, at 7:45 o’clock in the Irvington Masonic Temple. Marian, age 9, lamenting over scale and study practice, is shown by her mother how beautiful both are if played well. The mother

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leaves and Marian stills asleep. She is awakened by boys and girls entering who explain to her many things, in music that are dark without this understanding. The program will be as follows: "FROM OCT OF THE PAST" Cast of Character* Marion—Figures from out of the Paat Mother—Musical Terms and Dances "Berceuse" Godard „ , Iris Boyd. "Spring Song" Mendelssohn Martha Jackson. From Out of the Past".. Tone Picture Dorothy Jane FuHon. "Spanish Dnnce" Behr Tina T>e Jackson . "Dance of the Dolls" Poldini Helen Rasener. "An Old Fashioned Dance" Johnstone Caroline Stone. "Turkish Rondo" Mozart Florence Janitz. "Tou Are It” Weidig Catharine Caub'e. "Brilliant Camu" Reinhold Edith Marie Overtree. "Burial of Rover' Tone Picture Millicent Cumminge. "Rosa" Tone Picture Rose I.ouis* Wald. “The Little Humming Bird” Gest Scott Jackson Jr. "The Meadow Lark" Faeth Virginia Austin. "Courteous Child" Weidiz June W irgler. "Darling Heart" Weidig Jane Hennessy. "Triumphal March" Ocsten De Armand Dochez. "The Fountain Spray" Johnstone F.ugone Mock. "Up to Mischief" Tone Picture F.lnora Morris. ‘'Study'' Streabbag Marie Smith. "ITurdue/Race" . . Tone Picture Dorothy tVihlerman. "On a Summer Night" Tone Picture Helen Osterhage. "Moment Musical" Shubert Stanley Johnson. "Eutterfly” Lavallee Reginald Holmes. "Springs Approach" Kroeger Rhythm Orchestra. IT t IHE Studio Club for Music Api ! I preeiation, of the Indiana I * I College of Music and Fine Arts will hold its monthly meeting on Wednesday. April 13, at 7:45 p. m. The subpeet will be “The Moderns" and Mrs. Lenora Coffin, teacher of music appreciation, will conduct the program and talk on the subject. Ila Friermood will give songs by Christ, and Bonar Cramer will play Scriabin. The public is invited without charge to attend this meeting. The monthly advanced students recital of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will be given Monday evening. April 11. at 8:15. Miss Eleanors. Beauchamp has arranged the following program Sonata Op. 2. No. I—"Prestissimo" Beethoven La von Patrick Reading—" Cupid and the Cadillac." Beaulah Hager "Dancing Doll" Poldini * Maxine Rue Reading—“ Burgundian Defiance." Kay Thomas “Etude F major” Chopin Esther Hollister “Introduction and Polonaise” Allen Jack Ford “Troika” Tschaikowsky Mary Pauline Smith “Concerto G minor" Bruch "Allegro Modcratto Adagio.” “Allegro energico.” Louise Dauner Reading—“ He- Find Ride in an Automobile/' Evelyn Koehler “From a German Forest" Ma-Dowel! “Os Brer Rabbit” MaeDowell Fanetta Hitr. “Amaryllis” Edward Parlovt Virginia Lett. Janes Adams. Beatrice Johnson. Barbarbridgcs, Gertrude Wilson, Mar. Brown. “Sonata in A major ' Scarlatti Frances Robbins "Aria-La Bohenv " Puccini Eugenia Magidson "Wedding Day at Tro'dhangen ’ ....Grieg Lepha Wilson These are students of • Eleanor Beauchamp: Frances Johnson, Flora Lyons, Wilma Davis Mine, Botnar Cramer, Glenn Friermood and Ferdinand Schaefer, in piano, voice, violin and dramatic art.

Ocie Higgins, pupil of Glenn Frierwood and Charles Buckley, student of Feqdinand Schaefer, both of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, won the Great Lakes District Contest in the Students’ Class for Voice and Violin, held recently at Detroit. They will appear in the National preliminary finals of the Natonail Federation of Music Clubs at the Biennial Convention at Chicago, Tuesday, April 19. Ruth Todd of the Dramatic Art Department of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, will give the play “Blink,” with Mrs. W. D. Long, at the Spring meeting of the Federation of Clubs at Liberty, Indiana, on Thursday, April 14. Miss Hacker of the Dancing Department of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, will give "In Dutch” with Charlie Davis, at the Ohio Theater during the week of April 10. The dancers are: Anna Mae Danner, Helen Schmidt, Artie Gibson, Mary Jane Foran, Ruth Petterson and Helen Gertrude Shaner.

The bi-monthly students’ recital of the Indiana College of Music, will be given Saturday, the 16th. at 2:30 p. m. Lucile Yow is in charge of the program. The following students are taking part: Mary Jacqueline Holliday, Emma Elizabeth Haliet, Marjorie Miller, Kenneth Galm, Betty Jane Peterson, Ruth Apostol, Margaret Pfennig. Dorothy Weber, Jean Louise Aronhalt, Beatrice Urwitz, John Eugene Eklttnd. Audley Kinder, Jane Adams. Estelle Ruth Cohen. Margaret Cuddy, Onia. Katherine Gladdish, Alfred Coffin, Marvin Hein. Albert L'rwitz, Irma May Steele, Martha Davis and Raymond Harms are pupils of Gladys Loueke, May Gorsuch, Blanche Brown, Pauline Roes, Flora Lyons, Frances Johnston, Evan Georgioff, Ruth Todd, Gertrude Hacker and Lucile Yow. The monthly faculty-business luncheon of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will take place Monday, April 11, at noon. |, . , liREE programs will be given I j at Butler University next * * week for noon eon vocations by musicians from the Metropolitan School of Music. Wednesday the Metropolitan School trio, Dorm Watson. violin: Adolph Schellsehmidt, cello, and Earle Howe Jones, piano, will play and there will be solos by Mr. Jones and Evan Walker, baritone. Thursday Mrs. Arthur G. Monninger. pianist, Edwin Jones, violinist and Robert Schultz, and William Polk, cornetists, will give the pro(Turn to Page 9)

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Editor of The Times: Insects outnumber all other animal life. At the present time there are about 500,000 species of living creatures on the earth. Now of thesf 400,000. or four-fifths, are insects. Each kind is represented by a vast number of individuals. Os these, many thousands are classed as injurious because of the destruction of property essential to mankind. Os these, many thousands there is one which is of utmost interest to our own city. This is the Bag Worm Moth, which, if not checked, will eventually damage our shade trees beyond renewal. At this season of the year, while there are no leaves, they may he seen by the hundreds’. Almost every tree has its quota, of the little pendant cocQons dankling from the branches and Wigs. Today I counted 109 on one small haw tree. Now is the time to destroy them, while they are easily found. The male is supplied witli wings and can fly well, but the female is wingless and does not leqve the cocoon in which she lias lived her entire life. Examine a number of the bags which are on the trees now. Some of them will be found empty. These contained the males of last season. Others f.ill be found to contain many yellow eggs. These are the bags of the former moth mother. In May or June these eggs will hatch out a host of tiny worms. When nearly grown the bags are too heavy to be held up, so are allowed to hang down. During this period they moult several times. For a day or two they do not feed, and are quiet. They do not move around much, usually remaining on the same tree in which they were born. But W’hen fully grown the roving fever hits them, they leave the parent tree and migrate to another. Thi3 done, they securely fasten their bags to small twigs by strands of silk, and transform into chrysalids. In early fall the final change takes place. The male, emerges from his cocoon fully grown with transparent wings, and black body, and flies away to seek a mate. The female which is wingless and footless, never leaves her case, but fills it with eggs, stops up the entrance with her body and dies. It is said that this is the only instance where eggs pass through the winter in a cocoon. These are the cocoons or “bags” that hang on the tree all winter. W. C. PARKS.

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CvT\ cAjetkm tujtjbn "C.Work & In Some Hands Dummy Should Sacrifice to Gain Lead,

The pointer for today is: In some hands Dummy should pla.v an unnecessarily high card on the first trick in order to obtain the lead. As an illustration of this pointer, take the following deal: With South playing a No-Trump contract, the Five of Clubs would be West’s original lead. The Declarer using the Rule of Eleven and sub trading five from eleven would know that there are just six Clubs higher than the card led, not In tin hand of the leader; and as all of them are in the Closed Hand and Dummy. East cannot hold .any Club higher than tiie Five, so the trick can be taken with the Eight in the Closed Hand. But it is in the Dum my hand, not in the Closed Hand that the next lead is desired: by overtaking each time. Dummy has three entries in Spades, but may need four —two leads of Hearts and two of Diamonds. Playing the Jack of Clubs on the first trick will not affect the number of Club tricks to In won by Declarer, so Dummy should win trick 1. and, trick 2, lead a Ilia mond. When the first, finesse wins, trick 3 should he used to give Dum_ my the lead with a Spade; trick lead a second Diamond and agaiii finesse; trick 5, lead the Ace of Dia rnonds to see if adverse Diamonds drop; and trick 6, utilize Dummy’s second Spade entry. Dummy having another entry, do not now cash Dummy’s thirteenth Diamond and force an awkward discard front Closed Hand; but lead a Heart, and having less than nine in the two hands, take the double finesse (playing the Ten). When that wins, use Dummy’s last spade entry’, cash the thirteenth Diamond, discarding a Club from Closed Hand, lead another Heart and make a Small Slam by the fortunate break of Hearts. Copyright John F. Dille Cos.

fellorafi of i ms. ~ .m. ■wrv-iTwiJw,. pr, w •'rnßOTaj/JQ Dailq Lemlen Dpibiioa Prepared by Rev. Charles Emerson Burton, D.D., for Commission on Evangelism of Federal Council of tho Churches of Christ in America. Copyright

Topic for the Week “THE SPIRITUAL STRUGGLE ™ Saturday "Choice is Essential" ‘ Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith Jehovah of hosts” (Zeeh. 4:6). “Repent, ye therefore, and turn again" (Acts 3:19.) “If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit unto them that ask Him” (Lk. 11:12). See—lsaiah 6:68, Mark 1:14, 15: John 5:40-43. MEDITATION: I have many conflicting desires, but T have will power also. I can and must decide If I choose to, I can cover the light and quench the spirit, or I may repent and make it burn brightly Earnest desire for the spirit of God assures the presence of that spirit. With my host of fellow-seekers after God, let me blend my will with his. "That which makes me greater than the beasts of the field 1s not my superior strength, but mv superior insight into my own wealness. My greatness is my sense of needs unsatisfied." HYMN: Christian, rise, and act thy creed Let thy’ pray'r be in thy deed; Seek the right, perform the true. Raise thy work and life anew.

Hearts around thee sink with Thou const help their load to hi Thou const bring insipiring ■f Arm their faltering wills to fight. Come, then, Law divine, an I reign, Freest faith assailed In vain, Pcrfert love bereft of fear, Born in heaven and radiant here. —F- A. Rolto Russell, 1895 PRAYER: Thanks for daily bread Pray for—spirit, of good will lovers of self; young people. Collect: O, God. who dweilest in the beauty of holiness, we praise Thee for the beauty of the earth, for loveliness embodied in noble men and for the revelation of Thyself in Jesus Christ the incarnation of Thy conquering love. We arc covered with shame at the thought of Thy faithfulness for we have net been ever true to Thee. Keep us frotji infidelity to Thy friendship. Save us from treachery of soul. From the choice of pvil and from the enthronement of the lesser things deliver us. Awaken in us a living sense of Thy spirit. Give us hunger and thirst for righteousness. May our hearts burn *vith the pre? ence of Christ in us. So would wo enthrone Thee, trust Thee, lot' Thee, obey Thee; all by the grace of Christ. Amen. Where should one address mail to the Rlngling Brothers Circus? Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows, Bridge port, Conn. What is the record of the worliltffc free rifle match and who holds According to the latest available records a Swiss named Hartman is the holder of the world’s individual free rifle match championship. His ord is 1.109 out of a possible 1,290. The world’s free rifle team match record is 6,835 out of a possible 6,000 and is also held by Switzerland.