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A Correction

GTlHE other day The Times editorially stat
IL ed that there were only 213 incomes in
the United States subject to the 40 per cent
surtax. That figure was correct as to incomes
Of 1923 on which the tax was paid in 1924.
Now, however, the Treasury has made public
the total number Of such incomes for 1924, on
which payment is being made this year. The
number is 314.
The point made in the editorial was that
the surtax which Secretary Mellon has been
working so hard to reduce affects only small
number of very big annual incomes. The 40
per cent is taken only from incomes exceeding
100000 year and is taken only from that
part Of such incomes above the 100000 mark.
1t is interesting incidentally to observe
that there were one hundred citizens receiving
these large wages for their services last year
that were not so well paid the year before. The
big incomes appear to be getting bigger. The
rich may be getting richer, as the old song
says.
In the class next below, the 100000 to
100000 incomes, the number Of payers in
creased from Ill to 137. In the class from
100000 to 100000, the number increased
from ZIG to 322. And so clear down to the
class from $4,000 to $4,000, the number grew
between 1923 and 1924 In all the classes be-
low $4,000, however, the number diminished.
Which opens up another field of philosophy
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Acknowledging the
Corn Belt

70 INCE there was told recently in these
III columns something of the plight of the
farmers in the corn belt, the Government has
undertaken to find some measure OF relief. The
heart of the corn belt and scene of greatest dis
tress is the State of Iowa. The price of corn
means lot to Iowa, just as it does to Indiana.
When it was selling for $1.00 year ago, the
farmers were persuaded to keep cool with
Coolidge. Now it is selling for SIS cents and
the farmers cant be kept cool any longer.
Of course, farmers like other voters, have
short memories. There ism t any more voting
to be done until next fall when Cummins, an
Administration favorite, comes up for re-elec-
ton to the Senate. Maybe if conditions hap
pen to be good just before the voting day Cum
minis will have nothing to worry about. Maybe,
on the other hand, since this would call for
little faster forgetting than usual, Cummins
would have lot to worry about.
The Iowa political situation is typical of
other tangles that face the Administration.
There's Brookhart waiting to see whether the
Senate seats him or Steck, his Democratic op-
ponent, whom the Republican organization
aided. If it is Steck, then Brookhart will be
candidate against Cummins, and most every
body seems to think he will win Some out in
Iowa even predict riot and bloodshed by the
disillusioned farmers if Brookhart's seat is
given to Steck. That'is an extreme prediction,
but it shows the feeling that is developing
Wherefore the news from Washington is
perfectly understandable. This news is that
the President has been consulting with Chi
cago bankers with view to persuading them
to do something for Iowa banks to the end
that the banks may stop going busted and do
something for the farmers.
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'CTIVITIES at the Metropoli-
| al tan School of Music next
III week will include a faculty
concert, two programs to be broad
cast from WFBM and a students re-
cital.
Friday evening, Dec. 4, at SIS in
the Odeon, the first Of a series of
concerts will be given open TO the
public. A program Of German music
by faculty members assisted by the
trumpet choir and the string or
chestra will be the offering.
The program viii be a. follows:
Holy Night" ltraditionaD
How Could I Leave Theel" =. ;Kucken
Duos for two pianos;
SIX Wa'tzes On, 90" .. Brahms
Sonata for violin and piano. Or; IL
Anesro con brio Andantie' with variations
Rendo allegro
Henry Marshall and Lucille Wagner.
ProiSeue f.nn '"rhe Maid of Or;
Piano:
frrH22iSnersnachi'' sc SlnGsl srf9% 81
''Tarantela. venezia-Napoii'' -. List
r
Dance:
M Directed by Nine. 'Gano.
'',.Traum durdidie Dammerung" Strauss
"Harf Hark the Larix'i ..... Schubert
Frieda Heider.
Mrs. Wagner at the piano.
Theme and Variations" =. Mendelssohn
Adolph 'scheiischmidt and Florence
Martha Keepers. 49,.
Andsnte and Ailesr;o M ozart.
Sitting orchestra Hugh McGibeny directing
m HE Indiana College of Music
and Fine Arts will present
~ the following students in a
recital Wednesday evening, Dec. Q,
1925, at S:15 ir the college audlto-
rum: Cole watkins. Everett Todd,
Jack Ford, Gertrude Whelan, Geor-
giana Brown, Tired Baer, Pauline
Becker, Ocie Higgins. Vivian WI
ley, Helen Dauner, Tom V. Broad
street, Otto Graf and Helene Nc
Carly.
The above are pupils OF Bomar
Cramer, Glenn Friermood, Ferdinand
Schaefer, Ruth Todd and Eleanora
Beauchamp.
f"1 HE following students in
rcital Saturday afternoon,
0 Dec. 8, 1925, at 2:3O at the
Indiana College Of Music audito-
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foundations OF the greatest institu-
ton that has ever blessed human
society.
garded these unlettered, uncouth
fishermen as the most unpromising.
But among such unpromising people
God sometimes discovers the great
est characters. When God wanted
an Abraham Lincoln to save the
union, He found him among the rail
splitters Of the undeveloped Middle
West. When God wanted an Evans
Roberts to wake up the sleeping
churches of Wales He found him in
the coal mines. When He wanted
a Dwight L. Moody He found him
in a shoe store When He wanted a
Gypsy Smith He found him in
gypsy tent. When He wanted a
Billy Sunday He found him on a
baseball diamond. If we had been
looking for such leaders we would
have gone TO the University or
Theological Seminary. But how often
God surprises us by calling out His
prophets from the obscure places of
earth and from among the ranks of
the lowIy.
Does life seem unpromising 10
you? DO you regard yourself as In
significant and without any qualifi-
cations for a worthwhile career?
What you need Is to see in yourself
what God sees I'm you. In the plain
est of us God sees gifts and powers
which, If discovered and developed,
would make us a great blessing to
the world.
Copyright, 1925, by John r. Gunn)
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NE outstanding feature in the
earthly ministry of Jesus was
the way He was impressed by
unpromising people. He never
seemed to look upon anyone as ordi-
nary. He saw something promising
in everyone who came about Him.
He saw the vision, of a white soul
even in the outcast woman who one
day fell at His feet crying for mercy
and pardon. No matter with whom
He was dealing, He seemed to feel
that He had a good deal to work
upon.
Look at the way He selected His
disciples. Apparently He went about
1t in a haphazard way. Walking by
the sea of Galilee one day He came
upon a company of fishermen, and
He selected one and another Of them.
as though any one He ran across
would answer well enough for a
disciple or an apostle. He could
doubtless have continued his walk
along the seaside and have selected
many others just as competent as
the ones He did select. Unpromising
as these men must have seemed In
the eyes OF the world, Jesus saw
in them the founders of the Chris
tan Church. He recognized that
even common men were so uncom-
mon as to be inherently able, in
cooperation with Himself. to lay the
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cNN Tuesday night, the pupils
II Of Olive Killer, assisted by
- Miss Ruth Long. a pupil of
Lois Brown Dorset OF the Indiana
Central College, will give a concert
at the Riley library.
The program follows:
Merry Bobolink" ........ KroVnann
Frederick Miller
March .ss-... ............."-... Helm
Lucas Cafouras.
Mlnuet In g" .............. Beethoven
.,e Gersham GRADER.
Schoen Rosmarin" ........... Kreisler
Opal Jefferis
olu TERRAIN ..............- v- Kredsler
Glenn JamlSin
sunny BOY ,..s... .'.......a Ourran
AS we faFt ..'...'. 49,. .Igenfr1tz
Ruth Long
Ave Maria ................ 0ounod
Forrest Parker
Sarapande' .,,....,....~-,. Bohm
"Cavitina" ................... B0hm
Lavon Thompson
From the Land Of the Sky Blue
WateT '.......'..H. Cadman-f ost
Frederick Hohlt.
OrlentaIe '.... ......'.s..... Cui
Wesley Woollen.
lal Nah Idndy Lou" ...... Strickland
w III AVdiy ss..'s ..'s.s. bOyu
Ruth Long.
Ildlan Lament ............. hrcisler
Muriel Wagner
Three Spanish Dances. ...... .Mosbkowsiki
No. l. Mordecai Brill. t-
No. 2. George Lehman.
No. 3. Max Engle.
Dut for Two Violins. .....,........ Allen
Margaret Berdel and Lavon Thompson.
80
A plano recital will be given by
Alfredo Casella, composer, next Fri
day afternoon at the Masonic Temple
under the auspices of the Matinee
Musicale.
The program follows;
:, GTanzcnS" ., ............. Frescohaldl
.,raSu d1ilpDoVn
sonata. "A Major) ........... Mozart
80 Nema Vartato"
"Aiieeretto Ala Turca."
,,,Ghildren,s Corner (suite) pebussy
Ia cSthedraio ;Englouiie." '''''
'Bruveres."
Ia TtrFassme des Audiences du Clair de
Ia Puerta del Vino"
General Lavine' tEcccrtricl
Sq sonata tia$4j .oa0s sfra lvfSsSG
"Adaeietto"
Il Pieces .Eniantines" Cie2o, =. .caseua
SoFS Ha snS re- s0 Ss%
emit "sidlianS" "Giga.' ''iinqetto.
"carill9n. " "BeeFceuse." "aalop Fipsi.".
''roccata" t1o0D .,.......... Casclla
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HEALTH OR
POLITICS

HU1ILLIAM D u d L e 7
NV FoULKE, OF Richmond.
IL Ind, former United States
civil service commissioner. in a
Thanksgiving address in Indian
apolis, scored the State board Of
health for it's failure to act in the
matter of the Washington Qnd)
water supply suspected Of being
contaminated with sewage.
He cited the case as a horrible
example of the paralyzing effect of
politics on public service. He
picked good specimen.
A year ago several cases of
typhoid appeared I'm washin yton.
The citizens suspected the water
supply. Six months ago an ex-
perienced engineer made a survey
of the situation. He found city's
sewage emptied into White River
above the intake OF the city's water
supply.
Perhaps that wasn't responsible
for typhoid. but it added age and
strength, not pristine purity, to
washington's drinking water. And
certainly calls for the attention of
the State health board.
However last spring the health
board was reorganized in COM
formity to the political exigencies
OF the new State administration.
Then In August the new board
tried to Gust DR.. King, the old sec
rotary. to make place for a more
active party man. He appealed to
the courts, where the squabble of
purely political origin now RACES.
Meanwhile the State board of
health does nothing but meet and
adjourn; the urgent report Of the
engineer on the Washington water
situation gathers dust in a pigeon
hole. AS far as the State board OF
health is concerned every voracious
little germ in the State can riot
joyously and unrestrained.
What do the politicians, who
have disrupted the work OF the
health board care about typhoid
germs and staminated water
supplies? Typhoid germs don't
vote nor belong to the party Or
ganization.
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emigration of the masses of the peo-
pie from the thinly populated coun-
try.
Our society life was one OF the
most exclusive and snobbish to be
found anywhere in the world. 1
was brought up to believe that we
were something quite apart from all
other humans. Any one who worked
for living was regarded as belong
ing to another world.
The middle class intellectual was
just as far outside of our circle as
was the peasant, and the lawyers,
doctors, professors and artists were
all regarded as belonging to the same
embarrassing, plebian crowd. We did
not even try to understand them,
and it was considered bad taste to
seek their company. In short, our
society never came into contact with
other social circles, and we rarely
knew there were interesting people
outside of our own set.
Disputes With Friends
1t was In this atmosphere that i
was brought up. But as l grew
Older, 1 felt the absurdlty Of It all,
and many violent disputes occurred
between me and my friends.
To marry a man who had no title,
even If he belonged to good old
family, was regarded as O degrade.
ton. The social etiquette Of the
Hungarian nobility was most tyran.
nical. There were people one could
meet in the country, but not in tho
city; others who were invited to big
receptions, but who were not to be
asked for luncheon. Again there
were others who were only met at
charity entertainments. but who,
after they had paid for the pleasure
of seeing you, were not supposed to
see you again until the next charity
ball.
At one Of those charity balls a
countess in the grand chain" was
put in the disagreeable position Of
having to give her gloved hand to an
unknown neighbor. To avoid this
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Stage of Almost
Street Lights Authorized
BY Mr.. Fixit

.,r Mr. :, FiE kit is The Tines representa-.
com complaints on civic improvements at
Them harsh words" Mr.. Fixit
spoke about the board Of works are
hereby retracted. That body has
authorized street lights on Harding
St., from Sixteenth to Thirtieth SITS.
DEAR MIR. FIXIT: Please see the
man about installing new lights at
w. Sixteenth and Harding SITS It
is as black as a stack Of black cats
and there's lots Of traffic. The
closest street lights are two blocks
away.
II. P. D.
W. Harding st.
The board has included your
corner in plans.
DEAR MR.. FIXIT: VIII you
please tell me If the street car com
pany paves in the tracks and does
the city pay rs per cent of street
improvements?
.t YOUR. READER.
Law says the company shall
pave between it's tracks. The
board of works has the authority
to enforce this law. Property own
ers must bear cost of all new paw
ing. However, in resurfacing the
city pays rs per cent.
DEAR MIR. .FIxIT. We have been
trying to get an old dead tree next
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To Secretaries Davis
and Wilbur

ClONGRBSS, we are told, is to be asked to
III spend $4,000 for a monument for the
Tomb OF the Unknown Soldier at Arlington.
God forbid! There are some things SO
sublime that any attempt at establishment be-
Titles them. The lily is spoiled by gliding.
The Unknown Soldier is an Idea, a
Thought, Something that Lives in the mind,
rather thanya concrete thing, mere human
body that lies dead in a grave He is Patriot
ism. He is Devotion to Duty. He is Self-Sac-
rlfice. He is the Spirit Of America at her
noblest and best
Who is there that can carve stone which
will do justice to all these? They tried it in
New York. They hired one of the world s most
famous sculptors to carve ''Civic Virtue"
And civic virtue is near to what our Unknown
represents. Yet what did they getf A monu-
ment showing man somewhat resembling
Firpo, the Wild Bull of the Pampas, standing
self-righteously upon the neck of frail woman
prostrate.
That monument does not help the imagi-
nation to better realization of civic virtue.
10 the contrary. New Workers laugh and call
it The Rough Guy" No more can SCULPTOR
add to our conception of the Unknown.
There are, however, two things we can do
with utmost propriety, for both represent ma
tlonal devotion rather than dollars.
First, we can put upon the tomb simple,
classical Roman altar of bronze and, as the
French so fttingly do for their Unknown.
keep fire of remembrance burning upon il
always. Fire is plain, simple and pure like the
inspiration that leads plain, simple American
TO give up his life for his country
Second, we could and should post a puard
OF honor at the tomb and keep it there always.
ike the flame. The troops are easily available
and heavens knows they are posted at far less
consequent places.
Thus the tomb of the Unknown would re-
tain all its simplicity yet have thrown about
it a proper atmosphere of solemn reverence
which-more s the pity!-some visitors do not
now seem to feel. 1t would present picture
which even the least imaginative could appre-
ciate: The simple tomb, the altar above it
with its eternal blue flame and the Unknown's
buddies standing guard beside him.
1t ism I a gorgeous monument the Tt.
known wants, but to be remembered No dol
lar-built column, the gift of a ridiculously rich
nation, would be half so fitting as the simplest
act showing national devotion and respect.
The Secretaries of War and Navy are act
ing commission to consider what recon-
mendations are to be made to Congress. We
respectfully offer the suggestion herein con-
tanned.
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BY William e. GilrOy, ID. ID.
Editor of The COnGregatiOnalist

OLITICS and personal ambi-
ton have ever tended toward
IL the interference with justice
on, the part of those specially APP
pointed to dispense it. Ambitious
men, with their own axes to grind,
have cared little what injustice other
men suffered as long as they have
been able to further their own ends.
Felix. the Roman governor. when
he went out of office, had left Paul
still a prisoner so that he might
curry favor with Paul's enemies.
Festus, who succeeded Felix, was
tarred with the same stick. He
cared more for his own ends than
for justice.
So, when the Jews once more
pressed the charges against Paul be-
fore the new governor he played
safe-for himself, and disregarded
the rights Of the matter. 1t is true
that he exercised a rough sort OF
justice, and told the Jews that it
was against Roman custom to send
a man to death without giving him
a chance to defend himself; but after
having at first compelled the Jews
to come to Caesarea to accuse Paul
he weakened and insisted that Paul
should go back to Jerusalem and
answer his accusers there.
Paul's Perils
Paul understood full well the perils
of the way-that probably his foes
would arrange to lie in ambush and
seize and kill him on the way. So
Paul refused to go to Jerusalem,
and exercised his rights as a Roman
citizen in appealing to Caesar.
While Paul was being held, prior
to being sent 10 Rome, King Herod
Agrippa, with his wife Bernice,
came to Caesarea to pay his respects
to the new governor. Festus told
Agrippa about Paul and Agrippa re-
quested to hear Paul for himself.
With great pomp Agrippa and
Bernice came to the place of hearing.
whittier also Festus had summoned
the chief captains and principal men
of the city. If they had gathered
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rum: Yvonne Powell, Margaret J..
wilson, Beatrice Roehm. Sophia zim-
norman, Meba Weis, Maxine Fer
guson, Margaret ]. Collins, Resale
Swift, Betty Seay, Dorothy Walsh,
Catherine Schwindler, Paul Bech-
told, Grace Potter, Martha d. Lesh-
er, Thelma Holt, Ethel Jennings.
Irma Steel and Mrs. Janet Rosen-
thai.
m UNDAY afternoon music at
the John Heron Art Insti-
. tute on Nov. 20. will be given
at 4 o'clock in the Court Of the
Museum. The Athenaeum Male
Chorus, Dewitt S. Talbert, conduc-
tor, will give a program Of part
songs, assisted by Miss Ruth t.
Beals, contralto. The public is in
vited and there is no admission
charge.
Miss Ruth 7. Beals. contralto, who
will be the assisting soloist, appeared
last August with oscar Seagle in the
oratorio Elijah" at Schroon Lake,
New York. She is an active member
of the Ladies' Matinee Musical So
ciety and of the Mu Phi Epsilon
Sorority and is we'll known here in
church and concert w1rk. Paula
Kipp will be the accompanist for
the chorus and Berta Ruick for Miss
Beals.
The program is as follows:
"Bedouin Song" .. Arthur Foote
sylvia" Obey Speaks. Art. BY Gaines
Chorus.
"sapphische Ode" Johannes Brahms
Der Tod Das LIST Die Kuhi Nacht"
Miss Beals. '''''''
Songs MY Mother Taught Me-, ..I
shadow MARCH, 4 nvorafb Daniel AIi r FEEot saltS
Chorus
Aria--"o Rest In the Lord" from
elijah" ...,.... Felix Mendelssohn
20 ~ welt, D u Bisi So wundsTschon'
................ With. Gericke
Chorus,
IT Have Hung MY Tent in Crimson
where Tired Caravans Are Resting"
From the Arabian Song Cycle
Charles Gilbert Spross
Birth Of NORM M,:: Re,i: Frances L0Oni
"Maiennacht" ............ J. B. Zcriett
marzluiI $500 fS,i:.,.-'''. ". Anserer
Berta Ruicl5 win be the accompan.
list for the soloist and Paula Kipp.
for the chorus. Dewitt S. Talbert is
conductor Of the chorus
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Countess KaroIyi's Own Story

she held out her lace handkerchief
to the abashed man, who although
embarrassed, arose manfully to the
occasion, took the handkerchief,
blew his plebian nose into II. re-
turned it and murmured his thanks.
Taught at Home
1t was not the habit to send chill
dren Of the aristocracy to school
Our nursery was filled with govern
esses--French, English, German and
Hungarian-and we lived our lives
excluded as much as possible from
the outside world. Even our parents
we seldom saw. The girls were
brought up with the hope OF an
early marriage to a wealthy noble
man. The girls, even when grown
up, were supposed to believe the
story of the stork.
AS the large properties were most
ly entailed, they were inherited only
by the boys OF the family. so, often.
when the eldest son inherited the
entire family wealth from his de-
NSaoSu le1NhSNl MS AnoAHtT, blbteIS
and younger brothers were left abso-
lutely nothing And, so It was a
Arm principle that a nobleman must
not work, they could do nothing but
either run heavily into debt or marry
an heiress.
In every country there is a more
or less small class of people who
have those same ideas. who live this
same kind of life of luxury and ego ,
tistical pleasure with little thought
for others. But believe there is
no other country in the world where
these people had such great political
influence through their wealth and
position or had such a fatal power
over the life Of the nation, as was
the case in Hungary before the war.
And all Of the calamities which
have befallen our country during tho
last decade have been largely due
to these conditions.
Next: my Experiences in the
Revolution"
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THEY WANT
OUT

ElINE prisoners at the Indi-
i'm ana Reformatory at Pen
III dleton made a break for
freedom following their Thanks
giving dinner which they enjoyed
as guests of the Hoosier common
wealth. The rifles OF the guards
halted eight, but the ninth outran
the bullets and disappeared in the
great open spaces outside the
prison walls.
OF course, a posse was immedi-
ately organized to pursue the flu
gitive, the tocsln sounded. and
quite likely the escaped convict
will be apprehended before the
has gathered more than an arm
full of liberty.
That frequently happens, be-
cause the authorities at Pendleton
and other penal institutions are
experienced in chasing prison
breakers. Every few days a SINH
lar attempt occurs at one OF the
States penal institutions.
Some humanitarians and soft
shelled sociologists maintain the
fiction that penal institutions
should radiate a sweet atmosphere
OF lavender and old lace.
It is quite the fashion to expect
prisons to be hospitals. homes and
educational institutions - places
where those who come into COLI
sion with the criminal statutes
can be gilded, reformed and re-
turned to society as angels OF
light.
But judging from the frequency
with which prisoners attempt to
escape from confinement and the
unanimity with which they appeal
for paroles and pardons prisoners
don't want to be angels OF light.
All they want is out Which Is
the reason 1t is well for society
to keep them in.