Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 207, 11 July 1914 — Page 1

i J VOL. XXXIX. NO. 207 RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY EVENING; JULY 11, 1914 SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS

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SAYLES TO LEAVE AFTER SPLIT WITH MURRAY OH TERMS Dispute Over Next Week's Play and Money Division Ends Run With Crowd Awaiting Curtain. Theatre-goers have witnessed tbeir matinee idol, Francis Sayles, in bis last play here. A large audience gathered at the Murray theatre last evening to witness a thrilling historical melodrama, "Madame X," but so busily engaged were Francis Sayles, proprietor and star of the stock company, and bis manager, David Heilman, in a controversy "with O. G. Murray, owner of the Murray theatre, over the terms of a contract Saxies and Murray had entered into, that the curtain was never rung up and the disappointed crowd was dlsy-ed after the box office receipts hStoeen refunded. Sequels? the disturbance in the Murray otfpfe last evening, besides the canceling of the company's engagement in this city, were staged today. This morning while Heilman was first appealing to the police and then to Justice Abbott to secure three trunks belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Sayles and held by Murray as security for $48 he asserts Richmond's popular matinee idol owes him, Ray Muszar, an actor employed by Sayles, was dramatically declaiming his intention cf securing the .$59 he had heard Sayles had on deposit in a local bank for back salary and a loan he said he had advanced to Sayles. Murray Explains Contract. "When the Sayles players were here before I had a contract with them that we should operate on a 'fifty-fifty' basis, and that I was to share "ith the company tho expense of a scenic artist and royalties for shows," said Murray today. "When the company returned here for the engagement Just closed I agreed to a 'sixty-forty' arrangement, the sixty per cent gotng to the company on the understanding that it assumed the entire expense of the scenic artist and royalties, and that it should present royalty plays satisfactory to both parties. "When I learned that for the next two weeks plays were to be produced which I did not regard high class, I demanded that I receive fifty per cent of the receipts as my share. Sayles refused and I gave him two weeks notice. I met him and Heilman last night and Sayles notified me he would close his engagement at once." Muszar Demands Pay. While Mr. Murray was making this Statement the agitated Mr. -Muszar made an interesting entrance. He said he had learned' Sayles had deposited in a local bank and he intended bringing legal process to secure this money. "Why, Sayles told me last night he only had F9 cents," continued Muszar heatedly. "He owes Miss Eyferth and myself about $150 and I'm going to see a lawyer. Just think. Mr. Murray, I went down in my own pocket and helped pay the transfer bill when we came to Richmond and I never got $5 back." Mr. Sayles said today that Murray had no contract right to demand 10 per cent increase in his receipts and that the play he had billed for next week was a royalty production which would appeal to the patrons of the theatre. He said he refused to continue his engagement the remainder of the week because Murray had not treated him fairly. An attorney informed Heilman today that Murray had no right to retain the trunks belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Sayles under any consideration. Murray says he is not only holding these trunks but the scenery as well. Mr. Sayles asserted his work here was handicapped by the dispute Mr. Murray has had with the labor unions. He said he had asked Mr. Murray to lease him the Gennett theatre, which lie intended to operate with union men, but that Mr. Murray turned Idown the overture.

STRIKE IN COLORADO TOPIC OF SPEAKER Noted Socialist' Leader to Explain Situation in Street Address Tonight. W. R. Snow, a noted lecturer of the Socialist party, will deliver an address on the tenets of the cause at Main and Ninth streets tonight. The Colorado situation will receive the attention of Mr. Snow. During the mining strike there a few months ago, miners, their wives and children were shot down by armed guards hired by the mine operators. It was also charged that members of the state militia were in the employ of the mine owners and that the mine workers had little chance of getting a square deal. An Investigation of the charges was made by the Colorado state officials. No single conflict between capital and labor has received the attention which the Colorado situation was given all over the country. SHIV&EY TO SPEAK Char6 Vihiveley, of this city, a life membjfpt the supreme lodge, K. of P., haafsben distinctly honored in being choBen as one of the K. of P. orators to give an address In the church of Chicago on September 6, the golden anniversary of the order in Chicago. Every church in Chicago on that date will have a K. of P. speaker. The gathering will be one of the largest in the history of American lodges. Mr. Shiveley will also attend the meeting of the supreme lodge at Win-

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Through the Farm Service Department, the Palladium is trying to render a distinct service to the farmers of the county. In order that this service may be made more efficient, and deal more directly with the problems that local farmers have to face, the Agricultural Editor asks that farmers write to the paper suggesting plans and ideas for adding to the value of the Farm Service Department. We also want reports of unusual crop yields, methods of handling livestock, etc. Address all communications to the Farm Service Department. ELEVATE SPILLWAY TO DEEPEN WATER ABOVE GUAR BRIDGE Directors Propose Addition of Two Feet to Permit the Passage of the New Motor Boats. Immediate steps will be taken by the directors of me Richmond Lake and Park company to add two feet to the spillway which is holding back the waters of Morton Lake. Because of opposition to the construction of the dam by utilities and factories in the river bottom below, the permission of city council will be asked before anything is done. The spillway . is of such a nature that as much as five feet can be added without altering the dam. It was found that with the present ..eighth of the spillway, there is a large tract of water above the Gaar bridge which is from two to six inches deep. Covers Up Weed. The directors want to cover up these low places and put two more feet of water over the tops of the weeds which the water has not yet rotted down. The lower basin will not be materially altered because of the steep slope of the banks. Little opposition to the plan is expected because of the special re-enforcements placed in the dam. Engineers pronuonce the dam unusually strong with almost no possibility of its giving away. On the lower side of the dam a heavy fill is being made for the double purpose of making a roadway across the dam and to weight the dam as ballast against the water pressure from the upper side. Another motor boat was added to the few at the lake yesterday andstill another will be placed on the water within a few days. Motor boats have only a small channel in which to run above the Gaar bridge and the proposed heighth of the spillway will add enough water to make the entire upper body passable. MAN SOUGHT SENDS REPORTER CAR FARE TO VISIT HIS HOME Julius Stikeleather, for whom the police have been searching to answer a charge of pointing a gun at Patrolman Menke and threatening Patrolman Bundy, in a letter to The Palladium today, says h is in Richmond. A few nights ago officers went in an automobile to Brookville, thinking the man was there. Since then they have suspected him of being in hiding somewhere south of Centerville. Stikeleather in his letter accused Tne Palladium of publishing false accounts of his actions and inclosed a dime, probably for carfare, for a reporter to call on him. Up to 2 o'clock the invitation had not been accepted. Chief Goodwin, when shown the letter, was much surprised and announced his intention of taking some officers to the Stitkeleather home this afternoon to ascertain if the man were there. If he is the chief says that this time he will be compelled to submit to arrest. Stikeleather in his communication denies he threatened to kill his wife and children, but Chief Goodwin says that members of the family told police officers that Stikeleather did make such a threat. His letter in part follows: "Richmond, Ind. "Editor Palladium I would like to ask you to not print in your paper anything you cannot back up. I read your article ' in Wednesday's paper about me, which was a notorious lie. Menke's report was true. I asked him to go on and he went. As for Bundy I ha- no words with him only as a friend. As for your assertion in your 'pitiful story' that I threatened my family's life is an absolute falsehood as I can prove by my whole family of children. I said I would shoot mysi and my oldest boy took the gun and ran away with it. I am in Richmond now. If you want me, come to me." EUGENICS BLOCKS CUPIO. PORT JERVIS. N. Y., July 11. Mrs. Fred Sludt, a widow, 69, who purchased the release from the navy of George C. Huff, 24, so that she might marry him, found that under the Wayne county eugenic law, she will have to obtain a physician's certificate before the ceremony will be performed. The Weather FOR INDIANA Generally fair to1 night and Sunday. TEMPERATURE. Noon 94 -Yesterday-Maximum 95 Minimum ' ... ..... ... . . 64

RAINS AT OPPORTUNE TIMES GIVE BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR CORN Good Weather, Coupled With Careful Cultivation, Puts Crop in Fine Condition in Early Summer. BY A. D. COBB. Outlook for a good corn crop In Wayne county Is unusually promising. The rains of two weeks ago came at a very opportune time, and so far the dry weather has had no bad effect on the growth of the crop. Early in the season, many farmers were discouraged because it was a hard spring to get the ground In shape for planting the crop, the ground crusted badly after planting, and in many localities worms and birds destroyed a great deal of the young corn. One feature of this year's growing season has been that very few weeds have grown in the corn, on account of dry weather. The majority of farmers have kept their fields in unusually good shape, keeping the surface of the soil loose, and preserving all the moisture possible. It used to be the practice to "lay the corn by" after the third cultivation. This season after the corn reaches such a height that the twohorse cultivators can no longer be used, farmers are going through it with a one-horse cultivator, or drag, and keeping the soil in fine condition. Many are finding it a good praptice to drag an old mower wheel between the rows. This makes a fine soil mulch and kills late weeds. The best corn in the county is in the West River valley, and in the Walnut Levels country. Farmers in the Greensfork valley claim the best corn ground in Wayne county, and the crop there is in splendid condition. Corn on upland soil is growing nicely but is not as far advanced as in the bottom land. In the southern part of the state the crop is suffering from drouth. Ripley and Dearborn counties report no rain since April. Decatur county reports a very light rainfall until last week. Northern counties report plenty of rain and corn doing fine. Wayne county seems to be in one of the most favored spots in the state this season, for the making of a good corn crop.

STORK OF RUNAWAY PUZZLES OFFICIALS Girl at Friendless Institution Claims Muncie as Her Home. The girl being held at the Home for Friendless Women, first believed to have runaway from her home in Atlanta, Ga., but who now says she is a fugitive wife from Muncie, Ind., is a perplexing problem to Matron Thomas. Mrs. Thomas is of the opinion that the girl is either half-witted or the worst fibber the institution ever sheltered. "I am inclined to believe that the girl has run away from some reformatory," said Miss Thomas today. "Her stories are numerous and conflicting and I don't believe she knows what the truth is. We will hold her until her case can be fully investigated. If we can learn nothing about her we will have to turn her loose.' ' When first arrested here the girl gave her name as Myrtle White and said she ran away from her home in Atlanta because her stepmother had mistreated her. This story she has since varied considerable but this morning she gave Mrs. Tnomas an entirely new account of herself. She said her name was Myrtle Kramer, that she lived in Muncie and was married. She also said that she had run away fro mher husband and had come to Richmond with another man. She said they secured a room at a hotel on North Eighth street and that if the arresting officer had not taken her so soon he would have also secured her affinity. The girl said the man had just left the hotel to get a can of beer when she was taken by a policeman. UNIT ADDS $56,000 TO PLANT VAL Kleinknecht Reports on the Growth of City's Utility Since Early Fall. The valuation of the Richmond municipal electric light plant has increased from October 1, 1913, to July 1, 1914, over $56,000 as shown by the inventory of valuation of the plant just completed. This inventory, announced by Superintendent Kleinknecht today, places the present valuation of the plant at $318,014.21. The first of last October the plant was valued at $262,000. Since that time a new unit has been placed in operation and there have been other improvements. Also the plant, since the establishment of the new joint rate schedule, has increased its business over one-third, and today is one of the most successful municipal enterprises in the United States. GAS KILLS FIVE HAMMOND, Ind., July 11. The coroner today investigated the deaths of Willfim and Buster Lloyd, who with theirtmother, Mrs. Charles Lloyd, and two' other children, . were found asphyxiated by escaping 'illuminating gas in their home here. The condition ojf the other three was serious today, but - they were expected ;, to ' re covery r ' ' .

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V Unearthed among hundreds of old photographs which were being prepared for the scrap heap, the above photograph, taken by Wesley Hirshburg, a photographer of Atlanta, Ga., who is well known here, was discovered by his brother, John Hirshburg, a local photographer, while visiting in Atlanta. The picture is one of James Whitcomb Riley and Joel Chandler Harris, two famous dialect poets of the United States. Realizing the great value of the picture, which had been discarded,. John Hirshburg asked his brother for it. His brother readily gave him the photograph and thought nothing of it. This occurred in the fall of 1908. , Printed . YearsAgo The following spring, "Uncle" Joel Harris died, and Mr. Hirshburg at once realized the great value of the picture. He sent it to the Century Magazine company, which offered him a large sum to have a photo-engraving made1 of it. He acepted the proposition, and in the Century of April, 1909, the picture was published with a long account of the life of "Uncle" Joel Harris, and a history of his literary works. The picture was taken by Wesley Hirshburg in 1900, and is considered one of the best ever taken of the great negro dialect poet. Because of his close association with James Whitcomb Riley, the dialect VAUDEVILLE STUNTS FOR MORTON PARK Directors Favor Races and Contests for Amusement Resort on Lake. Amateur vaudeville and other attractions for Sunday afternoon at Morton park is a, plan being worked out by concession holders, and if possible the first of a series of Sunday afternoon entertainments will be started a week from tomorrow. The crowds at the lake on Sundays have been growing smaller the last few weeks owing to lack of amusements and the fact that there are so few benches on which to sit. The concession holders will try to secure the bandstand for amateur stunts. Roy Peck, a well-known minstrel man, has been chosen to take charge of the Sunday afternoon programs, and the matter will be broached to him as soon as other arrangements are completed. ; Not only vaudeville, but races, contests, concerts and other amusements have been mentioned. The directors of the park company favor the plan. T MORE CLOTHES BUT LESSJfORRIES Tailors Decide on Percy's Garments, But in This Heat ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Julyl. O splash! What do you think is coming off now? Nothing less than shapes for men. Shapes for men is the latest; even later than votes for women. They say the tango is responsible, but even tango could hardly be responsible for a low-down trick like that.' - The National Association of Clothing Designers went into session at the Royal Palace today to devise plans and specifications for next season's garments for men, and the proper kind of shapes that men should put on .them. Listen, Montmorency! Your vest pardon waistcoat is going to be convex at the top; your suit is going to fit snugly; your sleeves are goin to taper; your shoulders are going to be padded into classic lines; and last of all, dean .boy ,, you are going to - have a waist line. Honesty

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Photo by Hirshburg. poet of the north, the picture became of especial value. Joel Chandler Harris was born in Putnam county, Georgia, December 8, 1848. His education consisted merely of that which was offered in the village school, but he was a great lover of books, and much of his learning was acquired at home. When a boy he was employed on several of the newspapers in Atlanta, and finally became editor of the Atlanta Constitution. He was considered the foremost newspaper man in Georgia. Idol of Colored Folks. He was the great idol of the colored people. During the years following the war, he was the one white man the colored race had respect for. He was, called . "Uncle Joel"., by . his negro friends. His activity as a poet extended over a large number of years. He is rated in the south as James Whitcomb Riley is in the north. He was so loved that a statue has been erected in Atlanta by the colored people of Georgia. He was a great friend of Rile, the two visiting each other frequently. The picture was taken while Riley was a visitor at the Harris home in Atlanta. They kept in close touch wit-i each other, and in many ways the poetry of one resembles that of the other. No one has portrayed more succesfully the humorous side of the negro character and imagination than Harris. MAY RUY MACHINE FOR SCH00L MOVIES Whitewater Social Center Directors Will Act After First Exhibition. Children attending the Whitewater Social center Monday afternoon will be given a treat consisting of moving pictures, stereopticon views and music. The executive committee is working out a plan to purchase a phantascope, as the moving picture apparatus invented by Francis Jenkins, a Richmond man, is called. This machine is especially adapted to school purposes, and may be used for stereopticon slides as well as movies. In case of the purchase it will be installed in the school permanently. . The exhibition Monday and the degree of interest shown will determine whether the machine will be purchased.' Miss Carolyn Hutton will give a violin recital in connection with the picture program. She will, be accompanied on the piano by Mies Mildred Schalk. The public library -will furnish a series of stereopticon slides. The cooking class, conducted by Misses Larsh and Laws, will have its first lesson in the basement recently fitted up for the purpose. Miss Fletcher's sewing class and the Neighborhood Women's Shewing circle will both meet. TEACHERMIDJOURN National Body to Meet at Oakland in 1915. ST. PAUL, July 11. Declaring that the gathering was the most successful in the history of the organization, delegates to the annual convention of the National Educational Association depcJted from their homes today. The final session was held last night, but the new board of directors met today and approved the selection of Oakland, Cal., as next year's convention city, and fixed the date as August 16-23. The convention at its closing session approved the recommendation of L. N. Hines, superintendent of Schools at Crowfordsville, Ind., and secretary of the child hygiene department, for a public ' supervisor of health, for the

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LIMIT OF TWENTY MINUTES T0. SERM0I1 Rev.' Stovall Asks Members to Cry Halt When Time Is Up. -

The Rev. ,W. Q.. StovaU, .who just finished a successful series of Sunday evening sermons on the home at. First Baptist church, will begin a series of mid-summer Sunday evening short talks tomorrow evening on "Lives That Have Been Changed by Little Things." The subject tomorrow night will be "O Little Question." July 19. "Jealousy;" , July 26, "Climbing a Tree." . " These evening meetings " will last not more than forty-five minutes, and it is expected that every minute will be interestingly occupied. Mr. Stovall gives any one the right to tell him it is time to stop if the sermon goes past twenty minutes. SURVEYOR DENIES USE OF INFERIOR MATERJALjN ROAD Levi Peacock Asserts Trust Did Not Prepare Specifications and That Gravel is of Good Quality. . A. J. Trippeer, one of the contractors on the Morton boulevard system, and County Surveyor Levi Peacock today indignantly denied that a considerable stretch of concrete roadway had been constructed by Trippeer out of inferior material before the material had been condemned. Statements to this effect had been made ysterday by men who are employed on the job. Peacock also resented the assertion that a representative of the so-called "cement trust" had prepared the specifications for the work. These specifications, he said, were prepared by himself and he cited witnesses, including the cement man alleged to have been the author of the plans, to prove his assertion. "The statement that 86 feet of concrete roadway, made of inferior material, was put down by Trippeer before the material was condemned, is not correct," Peacock said today. "As a matter of fact that section of the road was made of the very best material. The day after It had been put down I went out to the Trippeer job and found that about thirty more feet of. roadway had been laid. ""Some of the matertafnon nattd-TOs filled with loam and I told Mr. Trippeer not to use it and he promptly complied with my request. Of that thirty feet of concrete probably six feet will have to be torn out. That tuis small amount of unwashed sand and gravel was used was not intentional on the part of Trippeer. His washer had not been acting uniformly and because of this some of the material came out with the loam on it. He then decided when this fact was detected to suspend operations until the washer worked satisfactorily. "Probably it will be of interest to note that under the specifications the contractors are not required to wash their sand and gravel and have been doing so in compliance with a request I made them. That alone proves that they are trying to put down as good a concrete roadway system as they possibly can." Surveyor Peacock absolutely denies that District Representative Franks of the Universal Cement company was brought here on the complaint of another agent of that company or that he made serious complaint over the nature of the work being done. "I sent for Franks myself because I was anxious to have him pass on the job," he said. "He was very well satislied with the progress of the work." BAVIS WANTS DEBT LIMITSjNCREASEO City Officials Suggest Plan to Buy Utilities Which State Body Favors. City officials are responsible for a plan to allow towns to purchase public utilities. The legislative committee of the Indiana Municipal league, of which City Attorney W. A. Bond of this city, was appointed chairman at. the league meeting at Columbus, Ind., this week, will devote much of its attention to a plan suggested by President Bavis of the local board of public works and endorsed unanimously by members of the league. This plan provides for raising the limit of indebtedness of a municipality from 2 per cent of the total taxable valuation to 10 per cent, providingthat the additional indebtedness assumed by a municipality, over 2 per cent, is for the purpose of purchasing and rounipalizing some public utility, by which action the citizens of the community will be benefited. This plan was first proposed at the 1913 convention of the league, but was brought to life again by Mr. Bavis at the convention just closed. His action met with enthusiastic "approval. It is the plan of the convention to have its committee work, to have the municipal debt limit raised 8 per cent, either by an act of the next legislature or to have it incorporated as one of the provisions of the proposed new state constitution. Indiana cities have for years been handicapped in their efforts to munipalize public utilities because the limit of their bonded indebtedness was too small. As an instance of this is cited the case of this city, when an effort several years ago to have the city purchase the water works plant was defeated because the city could not float the necessary bond Issue to

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- .. -A PyW:; FOR ARCADE . WITH CLUB HOME, Project 1 for Commercial ' Building in Heart of City Arouses- Enthusiasm , at ; First Fish Bake. ' ' A chamber of commerce for Richmond has become a possibilty since the suggestion last night by Lee B. Nusbaum that the Commercial club erect either an office building at Main and Eighth streets or an arcade from Seventh to Eighth street, . north of Main. ; Mr. Nusbaum made the suggestion last night as toastmaster at the banquet served the Blues by the Reds in the membership campaign, which was held recently. It was received with a demonstration and an outburst of en-, thu8ism. It was after the former presidents , of the club, S. E. Swayne. John F. McCarthy, and the present head, George E. Seidel, had reviewed their experiences with the Commercial club and its growth and prosperity, that the toastmaster made his remarks. "It is time this club was getting into a building of its own," Mr. Nusbaum said. 'We have grown and prospered, and we have become influential because the club has a reputation for square dealing. Suggests Arcade. "My plan Is to buy the property north of the Second National bank, between the two alleys, from Seventh to Eighth streets. There we could build a commercial arcade, with store and office rooms. This is not only an improvement, but it is an Investment. It would furnish us with a permanent home and it would bring in money." - Enthusiasm for the plan had already started to grow, and some one at the tables suggested Eighth and Main streets as a site for a business block. The idea was immediately taken up and suggestions came from all directions. Shoud the project be gone into farither, it is probable a company would be organized as the Comercial Building company. Shares of stock would be sold to members of the Commercial club in small or large quantities. The building matter will be discussed informally by members and brought up at the next meeting of the board of directors. It" is probable that a , committee will Ae appointed to draft a plan of operation for the building. Charles Thomason and George Ballinger, leaders of the victorius Blues, made short talks. They were followed by Fred Kennedy, leader of the Reds. The campaign was rehearsed and the result announced. The result so far is 119 new members, bringing the total membership to more than seven hundred. --- . -. The fish bake, a new idea in the club, pleased the one hundred members present. The serving was done under the direction of John Zwlsslet. and Charles Slifer. Whitefish were brought in big pans and were steaming hot when placed before the feasters. Word was passed around that the fish had been caught in Morton lake, and almost all believed it. NEGRO BOY CLAIMS CARMAN HAD GUN Lad Asserts Doctor Showed Revolver to Wife and the Members of Family. NEW YORK, July 11. Nassau county officials found important new evidence in the murder case ol Mrs. Louise Bailey at Freeport, L. I, when they learned today that a negro boy employed by Dr. Edwin Carman shortly before last Christmas said that the physician had a blue steel 38-cali-bre always loaded at his his houss where it might be seen at all times by members of the family, including Mrs.. Carman, who is charged with the murder. The evidence caused tlie search for the weapon to be redoubled. A box of 38-calibre cartridges was found hidden in the attic of the Carman home before the physician's wife was arrested. It was a 38-calibre bullett that killed Mrs. Bailey. Dr. Carman has denied possessing any 38-calibre revolver, declaring that the only weapons he had were a 22calibre gun and an old rusty revolver kept in the garage. Sheriff Pettit today received a second letter from the woman who wrote him yesterday confessing that she killed Mrs. Bailey. This letter, like the first one, was mailed at Station L in Brooklyn, and read as follows: "Why don't you take some action? Why don't you attempt to find me? Dr. Carman can give directions.1 The writer of the letter apparently found a way to mail it without arousing suspicion of the detectives who are looking for her in that section of Brooklyn. KENTUCKY REDUCES OUTPUT OF WHISKEY Distillers Hope to Deplete Big Stock Before Begin, ning Work oh New. - - LOUISVILLE. - July 1L The production of whisky in Kentucky will be reduced 60 per cent this year as a resuit of an agreement In which more than half the distillers of the state are joined. . . . - This is due to the large stocks and overproduction of the last five years. -. Practically every distillery. Instead of beginning its 1914 crop in November and . December, will postpone open tions until January, ' and then' make half the usual output. . Distillers m -other states are expected to take a symllar course.