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Congress Is Coming Some time in October Congress will be convened to take up its unfinished business. That is what Congress always convened for, since its business is always unfinished. But, at the moment it is more unfinished than usual, due to the action of reactionary members in the last session; their filibuster prevented passage of the flood control bill designed to avert a great disaster from the waters of the Colorado River; the same filibuster also prevented the granting of power to the Reed committee to complete its investigation of slush fund primaries; and, finally, prevented the appropriation of money for carrying on essential work of the Government. Always unfinished, the business of Congress, and it always will be, so long as we have a representative form of government. Now and then we get impatient with Congress. We get tired of reading about debates. We say, why don't they quit and go home and give us a little peace. That’s because we are lazy. While Congress is doing its work we leel that it is necessary to think about Government problems. The Congressmen are only our employes and we feel it necessary to watch what they do. But we get tired of thinking. A month or so of the exercise is about all we can stand. What we’d like would be king or emperor, endowed with complete wisdom and very kind instincts. We’d like to turn the job over to him, allowing him to do our thinking and deciding for us. We’d like that, but we know it isn’t possible. We can not count on the wisdom of a king, nor even on his kind instincts. We have to accept the responsibility for managing our own affairs and we do so—through Congress. The coming Congress will have much of importance to do. The one thing of most immediate importance that it might be doing—voting money for the relief and rehabilitation of the flooded districts—will probably be beyond doing when it meets. The President has avoided calling this extra session early enough for that. By October the elaborate scheme whereby financial interests will lend money at interest to the stricken sections, will doubtless be too well under way for Congress to do anything about it. Coolidge likes to have Congress in session even less than we lazy constituents like it. The very fact that he has called this extra session is evidence enough of the need for it. Tax reduction, by Congress, is said to be one of the things most desired by the President from the coming session. Withholding money from the flood sufferers has helped to make tax reduction possible. Well, much as we hate to think, we’ve got some thought coming as to tax reduction. We’ve got to help our Congressmen decide whether it is better to reduce taxes now or use the present surplus to reduce our national debt—which would mean continual tax reductions throughout the years to come. If we decide for tax reduction we’ve got to determine whose taxes are due to be reduced. Shall it be, for instance, those interests which have been given the profitable job of financing flood ’ lief? Reduction of corporation taxes and the surtax on big incomes is likely to be the Administration’s program. Tax reduction, of course, doesn’t necessarily mean reduction of your taxes. Congress is coming and we’ve got to start thinking. Why Not Now All the reasons which would move President Coolidge to call Congress in extra session in October would apply to an earlier date. The need for handling the flood emergency, the failure of urgent deficiency appropriations which is embarrassing the courts and the public building program, the certain delay in the organization of the Senate, owing to the Smith and Vare cases, the need to recount the Pennsylvania ballots before they are destroyed, as they will be in September—these are just a few of the very good reasons for assembling a Congress whose members have been elected since Novemtv--1926. Eventually. Why not now? Silver Spoon Education News that the average student in a select young women’s college of the East spends on the average S2OO a month during the time she is in attendance at the institution gives rise to the query of how many of these young ladies can earn this amount of money following their graduation. Two hundred dollars a month is SSO a week, and the woman in business or teaching who commands this salary is the exception rather than the rule. There will be many critics who will say that il h ® purpose of a college education is to prepare a student for life, a college which accustoms its stuents to a standard of living and luxury higher than these students can maintain when put upon thenown resources is not accomplishing Its purpose. Veils are dying out in Persia, it is said. We wonder what the police reporters over there have to say now about a threat.

How City Manager Law Will Operate in Indianapolis

Seven commissioners will be elected on a non-partisan basis by the voters. Candidates for commissioners will be nominated by petitions signed by (not less than) 1 per cent of those who voted at preceding regular city election. Pour of the first seven commissioners elected will serve for two years; the remaining three for four years. After that all commissioners j serve for four years. This will mean 1 that at least three men familiar! with past transactions always will be on the commission. Commissioners will draw salaries i ©f SSOO a year each. This commission will select the city manager, name his salary and will have the power to remove him Should he prove unsatisfactory. The City Manager, a full-time,! non-political executive, will have ac-1 tive direction of city affairs and wil make all appointments. Hie commission is forbidden by law to interfere with the City Manner in his appointments or admin- 1 istratlon of affairs. i will be departments of law, j

Schools For Grownups Cleveland’s plan for a public school building to be devoted largely to adult education starts a movement that should find favor and imitation in any number of communities. All over this broad land are countless people who have been forced to drop their schooling early in life and go to work. Arrived at middle age, they realize that they have missed something. Entering high school with youngsters is not to their liking, and their requirements, also, could not be met in the average high school course. Here it is that the adult school will fill the gap. It will not compete with colleges or universities or even junior colleges Many of the people who will find that the adult school fills their needs will be people far from ignorant. Having worked at any trade for a number of years is in itself an education of a sort. It is a school of practical experience, and upon this experience the adult school can no doubt add the theory necessary to a complete liberal education. The whole program of such schools cannot be made until the experiment is tried. As the work goes on it will develop. It is possible that such schools will be open at all hours of the day and night. Cleveland’s pioneering, at any rate, should be watched with no small amount of interest by the country at large. A Pistol Shot In Warsaw The assassination of Peter Voikoff, soviet minister to Poland, checks off one more milesUyie on the muddy road to, war between Russia and her enemies. His asiassin is only a high school boy, a czarist youth, Boris Korenko by name, and his motive, according to himself, was to avenge what he calls “nationalist Russia for the acts of its present rulers. Poland, it appears, had nothing to do with the shooting. The trouble is, Moscow will not look at It in that light. Instead of seeing in the murder a political crime committed by one Russian against another, Moscow will see in it an international plot against the communist regime. Already there is bad blood between Poland and Russia. And behind Poland Russia thinks she sees the hand of Britain and France subsidizing her and pushing her on. Even now Moscow is saying the Polish government can not dodge responsibility for Korenko’s bullets, connecting the assassination in Warsaw with the raids on the soviet premises in London and Pekin. Just as it is the fashion outside of Russia to see a “red” hiding behind every tree, and blame Bolshevism for our evry ill, from the cook’s quitting to carbuncles, the Russians themselves see an international conspiracy behind every bush outside their country and lay the blame for all their ills thereon. It’s a dangerous state of mind, all the way around. It has become a sort of chronic mania on both sides. And just as the man with a persecution kink in his make-up is the most dangerous maniacs, nations suffering a comporable complex are liable to run amuck any time. A condition like this can not go on forever. Russia has 145,000,000 population. In man-power she Is a match for Britain, Germany and France combined. She has a standing army of 562,000 men and behind that a reserve force numbering millions. As though not properly punished at Christmas time, father now has to go through the added torment of Father's day. “Is Man a Machine?” was the subject of a debate m an Eastern city. Yes, but the driver sits in the back seat. Chamberlin and Levine never may equal Lindbergh s glory, but look what they did for Ambassador Schurman! A Rotarian presented King Albert with a ->ox of cigars. Nominations are now in order.

The capping on an oil well broke, and the oil "ran wild.” A large amount of it ran down a gulch and off the property owned by those who had sunk the well. An adjoining property owner built a dai:> in the gulch and caught about 35,000 barrels of th oil. He claimed the ownership of the oil because it had flowed onto his land. The owners of the weli claimed that the oil was their property which had temporarily escaped from their land, and which they had a right to recover. HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE? The actual decision: The Supreme Court of Arkansas decided that the owners of the well were entitled to recover the oil which had flowed off their land. The court said, “The oil had become personal property and subject to be reclaimed after It had involuntarily escaped from the owners’ possession.”

finance and other departments which the commission may establish ; all responsible to the City Manager. I The commission will exercise all j powers now exercised by the City i Council, and will function in that capacity. The law has been passed upon byJ a number of the most prominent i lawyers in Indianapolis. It has been ' found to be practicable, workable, adequate and constitutional.

IMPORTANT You Do Not Have to Register to Vote JUNE 21 You Must Cast Your Vote in Person. You Cannot Vote by Absent Voter Ballot.

Law and Justice by Dexter M. Keezer

Questions and Answers

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M. E. TRACY SAYS: Canton Is a Better Place to Live in Because of What He (Mellett) Did, and Will Be for Many Years.

Copies of “Oil” are becoming hard to get in New York, which shows what a Boston court decree has done for Upton Sinclair’s book. Censorship usually helps the sale of books. If a book happens to be bad it defeats Its own end. “Oil” is not a particularly bad book. If raw in spots so is the situation with which it deals. Sinclair has merely told what many people suspect with regard to oil in politics and night life in Hollywood. The difference is that they gossip about it with tongue in cheek, while he puts it in black and white, and signs his name. Is Lengel Next? With three men sentenced to prison for life and one promised immunity providing his confirmation turns out to be true, the law now reaches out for ex-Chief of Police Lengel in connection with the murder of Don R. Mellett. This fearless editor’s victory over vice and gang rule in Canton Ohio grows more complete as the months go by. The ruthless and corrupt machine against which he seemed to make no headway while still alive becomes a hopeless wreck in face of the public indignation caused by his wanton and useless murder. Canton is a better place to live in because of what he did, and will be for many years. Few communities have ever owed more to a single man. Learned His Lesson Big Bill Dwyer, who headed the biggest rum ring ever prosecuted by the Federal Government, and whose sentence of two years in Atlanta has just been confirmed by the Supreme Court, says that he Is broke, that he never wants to see another case of whisky and that people will stay on the right side of the law if they know shat is good for them. “I spent years in daily fear of my life,” he says, “always expecting arrest, forever dealing with crooks and double-crossers, and now look at me. lam in debt, my wife is heartbroken to see me sent to prison and my five kids in school are pointed out as the children of Dwyer the bootlegger.” He finds it possible, however, not only to attend the Belmont Park races, but to occupy a box, which causes some people to doubt that his financial situation is as desperate as life seems to think. Two-Fisted Justice Irwin Wiesner not only got Justice, but more of it than he bargained for, when he invited Judge Campbell “to come dutside and settle matters” during his trial for disturbance of the peace hi Escalon. Cal. Instead of taking refuge >n the dignity of the bench and charging the prisoner with contempt of court, as he might properly have done] Judge Campbell accepted the invitation. stepped down from the bench and knocked Wiesner senseless in less than one minute. Technically, this was the wrong procedure, but practically it was a quick and convincing way to settle the ease. The county would be better off if we had more such judges.

Haig’s Attack Field Marshal Haig is kind enough to admit that the war might have lasted longer if America had not entered it, though he thinks the result would have been the same. The only way to prove the point is to let the allies go it alone the next time they get in a jam. Field Marshal Haig and others like him appear to be doing all they can to put America in the right frame of mind to try the experiment. Levine a Sportsman When offered SIOO,OOO to fly back home. Charles A. Levine said he would consider the matter, but that if he accepted he would give the money to Chamberlin Meanwhile, he has sent back the 250 cancelled stamps which the Postffice Department has been fussing about and which experts have estimated would be worth SI,OOO apiece, as a gift to the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. He now declares that he and Chamberlin plan to establish a trans-Atlantic aerial service, and that he is ready to put $2,000,000 into the venture. Such things look like real sportsmanship. Peaceful Russia Admitting that Russia has been tricky rather than frank in the furtherance of “red” propaganda and the evasion of debts, it is only fair to say that had the representatives of any other nation been subjected to the indignities, humiliations and outrages that have been hers during the last few years, there would be war. The Soviet government is either more honestly inclined toward peace than the rest of the world has been willing to concede, or its leaders are in a more helpless position. Because of widespread illiteracy and inadequate news service the masses of Russia probably do not know all that has been going on, while their straightened circumstances would make them rather indifferent if they did. No matter what causes Russia to refrain from capitalizing the provocations of trouble to which she has been subjected, the world can afford to be grateful for it. What is the address of Belle Bart, astrologer? 20Q West 57th Street, New York City.*

Winning the West

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Adolph Zukor and Other Famous Leaders in Film World Will Attend the Indiana Theater Opening

The inaugural performance at the new Indiana theater on the evening of June 18. gives promise of being a gala affair, according to Ace Berry, managing director of the new house. Contrary to the usual custom in such affairs, the general public will be given an opportunity to witness the inaugural. The leading ’executives identified with First National Pictures, the Publix Theater Corporation ana Paramount Pictures, and representatives from the many branches of the realm of public entertainment will bo present to aid in opening the Indiana with pomp and ceremony. Adolph Zukor. president of Paramount, is expected to be the guest of honor. Other members of the Paramount organization who will attend are Jesse L. Lasky, vice president; Sam Katz, president of Publix; Harry Marks, A. M. Botsford, Nathaliel Finston, Sam Dembow, Barney Balaban, Sidney R. Kent, F. L. Mctzlcr and M. J. Sullivan Charles Skouras. St. Louis. Mo., theater magnate who opened their Ambassador theater last is expected to be included in the list, and the Publix presentation department will send John Murray Anderson, Boris Petroff and Frank Cambria. David Chatkin. Watterson Rothacker. Cullen and Reeves Espey of the Skouras Brothers Enterprises; Maurice Barr and E. V. Richard of the Saenger Amusement Company of New Orleans, where another Publix house has recently been opened, together with Richard Rowland. Ned Depinet and Sam Spring of First National are still others expected. Robert Licber who Is chairman of the board of directors of First National. will be host to executives from many branches of the film industry. ■ Among the producing companies which will be represented, in addition to First National and Paramount, are Warner Brcc., United Artists. Universal, Fox. Producers Distributing Corporation, Pathe, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Film Booking Offices of America, Educat.onal. Tiffany Renown, besides International Newsreel Pathe News, Fox News, Kinograms and a host of others. DIRECTOR OF MUSIC IS TWICE HONORED The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, affiliated with Cincinnati University, last night conferred the degrees of Doctor of Music on Ernest G. Hesser, director of music in the city schools, in recognition of his service in the field of public school music. ' While head of the music department at Bowling Green Normal School, Hesser wrote the first course of study in music for the State of Ohio. The course of study in use in the Indianapolis schools, also the work of Hesser, has been introduced in the Cincinnati public schools, and is

Times Readers Voice Views

To the Editor: Regarding the present agitation about the use of liquor for medicinal purposes, let me say that I regard the whole rumpus as only a tempest in a teapot, for, after all, no sane-minded individual would in a grave necessity refuse to give liquor to a patient in danger of death regardless of the legality of the thing. For, after all, prohibition does not prohibit as has been amply demonstrated again and again in the last eight years. I will say that the prohibition law since its beginning has always been more honored in its breach than in its observance. So much for prohibition! P. H. TRAVERS, 540 E. Market St., Indianapolis.

Bidding the East Goodbye

sought after by school systems throughout the country. Another honor was recently shown ' Hesser in his appointment as chairman of the Committee on Vocal Affairs ot the Music Supervisors National Conference, the largest body of organized musicians in the world. He is the composer of numerous songs. Many supervisors from other cities visit the music classes in the schools annually, among the most recent being George Oscar Bowen, director of music in Tulsa. Oklahoma, e.nd Miss Lillian MacCrackcn. supervisor at Boulder, Colo. The Teachers’ Chorus, organized by Hesser five years ago, has attracted the attention of educators, appearing on the program of the department of superintendents of the National Education Association, convening in Cincinnati two years ago. The chorus nas served as a model for similar organizations since* organized in other states. Indianapolis High School music organizations have carried off the major portion of the honors in the annual State music contests. LOT OF GOOD THINGS ON BILL AT PALACE My verdict of the new events at the Palace is topped with the statement that the Pathe News has the best movies of Lindbergh that I have seen so far. The news reel shows the new American hero leaving Paris for Brussels, his arrival there and his great reception, also views of Lindbergh paying his respects to the

Unknown Soldiers’ monument; his hop-off to London and scenes of his magnificent reception by over 100,000 people there. Many of the "shots” are closcups cud shew better than anything that this great lad is a credit to all the best traditions of America. You will sec his natural, good healthy smile in this Pathe News edition. I suggest that you stay and see this news reel. The vaudeville part of the bill is mighty entertaining. Youth dominates in the dances of Boilas Six Comiques. This is a speedy dancing act. Trovato is an eccentric violinist of the most entertaining type. He is a good showman. He can mimic any whistle on his violin. Marietta Craig and company appear in “Batty!’ a travesty upon “The Bat.” I have seen “Batty" several times before, but it is certainly being better presented this season than ever before. The Luster Brothers go in for acrobatics and they have "a spoon in the glass" stunt which is clever. Bob and Eleanor Coll in “Youth and Talent,” certainly live up to their billing. A mighty pleasing dance and musical offering. I The feature movie is “Marriage.” At the Palace today and Saturday. By Walter D. Hickman.) Other theaters today offer: Eva Mandell at the Lyric: “The Enemy” at Keith's: “Easy Come, Easy Go” at English's: "The Understanding Heart" at the Ohio; “Rough House Rosie” at the Apollo: Bob Custer in “The Fighting Hombrc”; “Babe Comes Home” at the Circle and , “Michael Stvogoff” at the Colonial.

JUNE 10. 1927

AUCTION BRIDGE by MTLTON C. WORK Third Hand Should Pass Hand, Dealer, Second Bidder Might Bid.

The pointer for today is: Ace-King and Three Small Cards Should Be Bid Without Side Strength by a Dealer or Second Hand (Dealer Having Passed): But Should Not Be Bid By Third Hand After Two Passes Each day this week a North hand is given with the previous declaration in four cases; the question in every case being what should North declare? Yesterday’s North Hand (Score, Love-All): 4 9.7.6 7-4 O A-K.J.J.J 4 J*e-5 My answers and reasons follow? No. 9. South pass, West pass; North should pass. The reason for the pass is oxplained in the above pointer. With this holding it would be very foolish to pass as a Dealer or Second Hand: but as a Third Hand after a partner’s pass, an Ace-King fivecard suit should not be bid unless it has at least a King as side strength. No. 10. South one No Trump, West pass; North should pass. The North hand may be very helpful for a No Trump and to bid a Minor under such conditions (there being no score* would most unsound. No. 11—South one Spade, West pass; North should pass. North has normal support for South’s Spades; to bid Diamonds would deny such support. No. 12—South one Heart; West pass: North should bid two Diamonds. With lack of normal suppovt for South's Major, a denai is necessary if North have denial strength. In this case, the strength being limited to one suit, that suit should be bid rather than No Trump. (Today's North Hand. (Store, Love-All) 4 K-j-3 J-2 0 K-Q.IO-4 4 K-9-6-3 Bridge Answer Slip of June 9 No. 12 South pass; West pass; North should No. 14. South one Spade, West pass; North should No. 15. South one Heart; West pass: North should ?Jo. 16. South one Diamond, West pass; North should

Brain Teasers

The first five of the questions below deal with points of English grammar. Answers to all the questions arc found on page 24: | 1. Which is corroet: “None were' there" or "None was there”? 2. Correct the error in the sentence. “He don't like me.” 3. What arc the principal parts of the verb “to lie,” meaning to he clown ? 4. In the sentences. "The hen has lain an egg.” arr*. "The ben has laid an egg." which is correct? 5. Correct the error in grammar in the sentence, "Every one should mind their own business.” 6. In what part of North America did the Aztec Indians live? 7. What is the meaning of the Irish word, “maveurneen”? C. What famous river flows through Rome, Italy? P. Into what gulf docs the Colorado River empty? 10. What race of people live in houses called igloos?