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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25
THE AGE OF EAGLES

Sinbad the sailor told bizarre tale of great
black birds as big the palace of the caliph set
Ting down upon trees that lowered into the sky
high the world is WIDE there to settle down upon
foliage Of precious stones and carry away tucked
under their wings rubies big rocks and emerads
like ponds.
modern Sinbad tale is that of the new giant
moering mast to reach than 900 feet into the
air. built atop the roof of eghtyfvestory building
of Detroit, and there fuel those birds of the air
launched by commerce today.
This slant aere may, seem remote to most of us.
b ometh1 ess remote is the somewhat smaller
b nt, lie which authorities declare will be as
much part OF the home of the future the garage
OF the present
Eddie Rickenbacker, for instance declares that
in about twenty years, "a house size arplane will
be as ordinary thing as today's fivver.
Another item in already exalted standard
of living budget but we'll all have EN- II Everybody
else does!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25

opera season at the Chicago
- Auditorium will bring the
long promised revival of Mozart's
melodious and difficult Don Clio
vanni." which will be given a gala
performance on New Years eve with
a cast Of superlative excellence.
Unusually colorful stage settings
have been elaborated by Julian Dove
from sketches by Schenck Won
Trap. who for long was art director
of the Wiesbaden Opera. and now
fills that post at Darmstadt.
This viii be a complete new pro-
duction along the most modern lines.
and the staging viii reflect the ripe
experience Of Charles Moor, stage
manager, which he has gained in
the leading opera houses of Europe.
The usual New Years eve prices
will prevail-S1.5O to $1O-thls being
the only occasion in the year when
departure Is made from the scale of
81 to So. except on the popular sat
urday night performances, when rs
cents to SO is charged.
Saturday. Christmas day. ''The
"Jewess" will be repeated as a matt
nee bill. with Rosa Raise, Eide No
rene. Charles Marshall. Alexander
Npnis. Jose Mojica and the entire
corps de ballet; WebeS conducting.
Christmas night the merry and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25
Health Still Good

The Christmas spirit continues TO
enjoy robust health in spite of the
many ways It has been abused and
perverted.
People may strain themselves and
overspend to keep up the show. but
they like it.
They are glad of the respite from
those rules and restraints which go
with standardized efficiency; glad to
lay the budget aside and play the
part of care-free children, even
though it keeps their noses to the
grindstone for six months afterward.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25
i r aCV
Barring Christmas ShamS
Easy, but No One Is
Convinced.
BY NJ. e. Tracy

It were easy enough to play "Old
Scrooge," and rail at Christmas.
The spirit of the day has obviously
been commercialized.
Business is made to boom on the
idea of giving; craftsmanship has bor-
rowed a page from the book of or
ganized charity; shop early and
spend more might well be the
slogan.
You can think of a dozen argu-
ments to prove the sham and hol-
lowness of it all, but they convince
nobody.
Each year you VOW never to take
it at such wild pace again, but
when December comes around, with
her snow flurries, her double-truck
ads and her wide-eyed tots looking
for Santa, you feel the same OLD
emotions yelling up.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25

You'll find this Bible test inter,
esting. Check your. answers with
the correct answers which appear
on page II:
1. What incident in Biblical his.
tory is illustrated by the, accompany.
ing picture?
2. Who was the mother 4of Solo
mon?
8. Who told Hagar to return when
she fled from Sarah?
4. Is Titus book in the New or
Old Testament?
8. Who cut off Malchus' ear?
6. How long was Jonah in the fish
that swallowed him?
Z. Who was the father of Judas
Iscariot?
s. From what psalm is this taken:
'The heavens declare the glory of
God; and the armament showeth his
handiwork"?
8. Who killed Agag, king of the
Amalekites?
10. Whe was RaassoAaR Youngest
soa7
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25
But Waitl

Sophomore wisdom, home for a
vacation, brags how it won't fool the
next generation with that Santa
Claus yarn" but wait until the
babies begin to arrive.
The establishment Of childhood
has always brought on a season of
cynicism. and probably always will.
At 81. most OF us are in mood 10
regard life as just n rubbish heap of
exploded fairy tales, but when the
house begins TO echo TO the patter
of little feet the mood wears off.
If 1t weren't for the touch of baby
fingers. the confiding smile I'm baby
eyes, science would drive the human
race to a mad house.
It's not law, the government or
social codes that keep us straight;
it's the children.
Mothers knee" is constantly
glorified because Of what It does for
the tot. AS a matter of common
sense. 1t does quite as much for the
mother.
The average father would not be
the man he is We're 1t not for the
obligation he feels to set the right
kind of an example for his son.
The legends, customs and symbols
by which alone it seems possible 10
plant the deeper truths in immature
minds form no small part OF the
scheme.
That is why the Christmas spirit
lives, why the Santa Claus myth
will not down, why twenty-five or
thirty million little trees adorn as
many homes today, why parents
from Maine to San Francisco sat up
late last night to play the good old
game.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25
PretenSe of Day

The biggest piece of hypocrisy in
connection with Christmas is the
pretense that we older folks don't
like it. that we would change It II
we could and that we only tolerate
it to stop the teasing.
How many dads will spend the day
playing with mechanical toys they
bought for little Willie, and feel the
better for It? How many mothers
will make doll dresses. and forget
that they are growing old in the
pleasure of IL?
The man or woman is daft who
didn't get a kick out OF childish
laughter in the gray dawn, and who
didn't crawl out OF bed TO share in
the fun.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25
Mothers Anxiety
Brings Death

BU United Press
THOMASBORO, ILL.,. Dec. 25.
Fear for the safety of two
small sons left alone in farm
house while she and her hus-
band went to town to buy
Christmas gifts was held re-
sponsible today for the death of
Mrs. Mary Ethel Weir. 80.
Mrs. Weir was found dead
of exhaustion on muddy
road near here, her third child,
an infant, clutched in her arms.
Her husband had been arrested
by a State patrolman when
they returned from the shop
ping trip, charged with intox-
ication.
The mother was left here
while her husband was taken to
Champaign, She became anx-
ious concerning safety of the
other children and tried to
reach her home by blowing
through impossible roads on
foot.
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Lacking Normal Support
for Partner Deny If
Possible.
BY Nixon O. Work
r,,fv,4o,. p.,. A-I.r a..

When lacking normal support for
partners suit, deny when possible.
Three hands were given yesterday
to illustrate the difference between
assisting and denying an original
suit-bid by the partner; they are
supposed to be held by North, South
having dealt and bid one Spade. The
question is: What should North DO
if West bid two Diamonds, and what
If West pass2
1. Sp.: Xxx. Ht.I Aoe-x-x. Dis
Xxx l.: IEing-Queen-x-x.
2. Sp.: Xxx. Ht.; Jaclz-1O-x-x. Dis
Queen-10-X. q: Queen-Jack-9-x.
8. Sp.: Xxx. 1T: Ace-Queen-Jaok
x. Di.: XXX. CT: Ace-Queen-xSx.
In No. I. in the event of a bid by
West, North should assist South's
spades because the hand contains
the requisites for such raise. II
West pass, North should pass. Hav-
ing normal support for his partners
Major bid, he should not change IT,
No contains less side strength
than no. 1 and lacks normal support
for the Spade suit. If West bid,
North should pass; he should not as
sist If West pass, North should
deny Spades by bidding one No
Trump.
In No. 3. lack or normal support
In the partners suit makes an as
sist inadvisable If West bid, and a
denial imperative II West pass.
After a pass, No. should bid two
Hearts or one No Trump (optionaD
after a two-Dlamond bid, two Hearts.
To further exemplify this impor-
tant doctrine, let us suppose the
following hand to be held by North:
Sp.; JACKIE. Ht.l 4-S-2. d.; Ace
King-Jack-S-5. Gil King-107.
What should he do under each of
che following bidding conditions?
1. South one Spade, West pass.
2. South one Spade. West two
Hearts.
8. South one Heart, West pass.
4. South one Heart, West one
Spade.
Think It over until Monday.
Copyright, John r. Ollie Cu0
Work, the international authority
on Auction Bridge, win answer
questions on the game for Times
readers who write to him through
The Times, enclosing a selH.ad-
dressed, stamped envelope.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25

he says, the people of this city of half million
dollars a year in order to give privileges and favors
to their friends.
Here is a whole month for the job. There should
be public demand that the charge of Gilliom be
either proved demonstrated to have been mere
bluff
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25
MAKING NO COMPLAINT

On Dec Is, the British government sent us her
Christmas respects and nice check for $92,95OOOO,
wiping out another fraction of the well-known war
debt The policy is in keeping with Sir Austen
Chamberlain's statement, I'VE will make no COM
plant We will discharge our obligations" It is the
best way to pay debts that we know of.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25

How many of the scent pieces
coined in 1883 were without the
word cents?
Out of total coinage of 1900 ,421
the. word cents was omitted from
5,479,5 $40.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25

An Eastern professor says the scientific discov-
cry of the child is the greatest made. But, pro-
fessor, how about the time mother found William
behind the barn smoking?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25

What this country needs is a combination bath
tub and telephone disconnector
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25

The Army-Navy game drew such a big crowd at
Chicago it can be revealed now because the people
saw the cadets guns and thought it was going to
be another shooting party
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25

If Prince Carol wants the Roumanian throne so
badly, why doesn't he over here AND indorse a
few chairs? Then he go back and buy twelve of
them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25

Five booteggers, two bandits, two burglars and
four auto thieves were arrested in raid on an
Ohio roadhouse. These roadhouses are getting to be
quite popular with the idle rich
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25

Famous fallaces: 1T really wasn't so much his
fault. He was only child, you knowI"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25

Headlines you never see: CHAUFFEUR QUITS
SAYS RICH WIDOW TRIED TO ELOPE WITH HIM
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25

Can a fellow that deserted the
Navy four years ago get a release
or return and finish the rest OF his
time?
A deserter from the Navy can al
ways be arrested but, in time of
peace, after two years from the date
OF desertion, he can plead the two
year statute Of limitation If brought
to trial. For all information con
corning the punishment for deser.
ton from the Navy, apply to the
Bureau Of Navigation, Navy Depart
ment, Washington.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25

Is there a verse i'm the Bible which
says that we shau not know the win.
ter from the summer except for the
budding of the trees?
The verse is often quoted as com.
ing from the Bible. but II "a not
thert.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25

CT ISIS HELEN LOUISE QUIG
I'M and Hiss Leone Kinder, men,
81 bers Of the faculty Of the
Metropolitan School of Music, will
entertain their junior students with
Christmas party at the north
school building, corner Pennsylvania
and Thirty-Fourth SITS, next Friday,
Dec. 81, from to 4 o'clock. There
will be a short program, followed by
an exchange OF gifts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25
Musical Events in Indianapolis and
in Grand Opera Circles in Chicago

melodious Barber Of Seville" will
be giver. at popular prices, with
Florence Macbeth, Charles Hlckett
Giacomo Rimini, Virgilie Lazzari
and Vittorio Trevisan; Moranzoni
conducting.
Sunday. Dec. &c, at o'clock, LA
Traviata" will be given its first per
Torrance this season, with Claudia
Muzio, Tito Schap and Richard 30
nelli; Noranzoni conducting.
Monday evening. Dec. 27. Samson
and Delilah" will be repeated, with
Fernand Ansseau singing Samson
for the first time in several sea
sons, and Cyrena Van Gordon. Ce-
sare Formichi, Edouard Cotreuil
and the corps de ballet, Weber con
Quoting.
Tuesday evening, La Cena Dele
Beffe" will be repeated, with the
same great cast: Claudia Muzio
Antonio Cortis. Luigi Montesanto
Virgilio LAzzari, Polacco conduct
ing.
Wednesday evening Tristan and
Isolde" win be repeated with the
same fine singers: Elsa Alsen. Cy-
rena Van Gordon, Charles Marshall
Richard Bonelli and Alexander Kip.
mis-. Polacco conducting.
Thursday evening will bring an.
other repetition of the ever popular
Aida" with Claudia Muzio, Augusta
LenslIa, Fernand Ansseau. Cesare
Formichi. Virgilio Lazzari and Alex
ander Kipnis, Weber conducting.
Friday evening. CNew Years Eve,
Don Giovanni" will be Civ en-, with
Rosa Raisa. Edith Mason, Louise
Loring, Tito Schipa, Vanni- Marcoux,
who will make his first appearance
since return to the company in this
performance, Alexander Kipnis, Vir-
gilio Lazzari and Vitterio Trevisan,
Polacco conducting.
Saturday matinee, CNew Year's)
"Tiefland" will be repeated in Eng
lish, with the same cast that sang
the premiere: Elsa Alsen, Lorna
Doone Jackson. Irene Pavlosl1a, Hell.
en- Freund, Forrest Lamont, Giacomo
Rimini, Alexander Kipnis and Jose
Majica, Weber conducting.
The New Years night performance
will be Martha" at popular prices,
with Florence Macbeth, Antonio
Cortis, Virgilio Lazzari and Vito.
rio Trevisan, Moranzoni conducting.
'Oetllo' will be repeated at 2
o'clock Sunday afternoon. Jan. 2, an
other big suburban special, with the
famous Chicago cast: Eleanor Saw
yer. Charles Marshall. Luigi Monte.
santo, Jose Mojica and Virgilio Lag
zari, Moranzoni conducting.
ISIS BEULAH MOORE. stud.
I'M ent under Miss Frieda Heider
0 of the Metropolitan School of
Music, will sing Christmas carols at
the home of Mrs. e. J. Gausepohl,
1868 Broadway, Wednesday for the
Ladies Missionary society of the
Tabernacle Presbyterian Church.
Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Miss
Anna Catherine Arzet. Miss Char
lotte Rifres, Miss Anna Marie
Sander, pianists, and Miss Irene
Noerr, soprano, students of Miss
Heider, will appear at the Christmas
party of the Monday guild at the
Woman's Department Club.
EDWARD NELL. head of the
r., voice department of the Met
- ropolitan School of Music.
and Mrs. Nell viii leave Monday
for Washington, D. c., to spend the
holidays with their son. Edward
Nell, Jr., and hear him in his new
leading role with the New York
company of the "Vagabond King, .
which has been the leading light
opera success Of the season.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25

ISIS IRENE SCOTT. soprano,
IMI pupil Of Miss Lula Brown Of
LII the voice department of the
Metropolitan School Of Music, win be
soloist Sunday morning, Dec. 20, at
the first Moravian Church.
RI HE Patton Trio of the Indiana
1 College of Music and Fine
A Arts will give the program
on Jan. at the banquet Of the Bust
ness Woman's section of the Depart
ment Club. This will be guest
night when all employers are invited.
The banquet will be held at the
Chamber of Commerce.
FRS. SAUNDERS, teacher of
I'M cornet in the wind instru-
Ill ments department of the In
diana College of Music and Fine
Arts, will play the Christmas carols
on Christmas Eve for the town of
Woodruff Place.
ElI ISIS GERTRUDE HACKER,
IM director of the dancing de-
IL partment of the Indiana Col
lege Of Music and Fine Arts. and
ten students are dancing at the In
dianapolis Athenaeum on Tuesday
night the 2Sth. Milton Heller,
pupil of Miss Hacker, will present a
program the same night before the
Southern Club. Fred Jerry Of the
voice department Of the Indiana Col
lege of Music and Fine Arts, is spend
ing the week in Chicago attending
the opera.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25

What are the meanings Of the
names Elizabeth and Ann?
Elizabeth means "oonsecrated To
God" and Ann means gracious"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25

God" and Ann means gracious"
Can Government employees living
In the District of Columbia return
home to vote when they have taken
up permanent residence In the cant.
tai?
They may go to their home States
to vote, or vote by mail in those
States where that form of voting
is legal, Notwithstanding the fact
that they are permanently dontciled
In the District of Columbia. provid.
ed they have maintained a egaI
residence In their home States.
"Domicile" and legal residence.
have different meanings in law; thu
first merely means the place where
one sleeps, the second is a matter of
intent. A person who has estab-
lished a legal residence in a partition
lar State by living Their ethe required
time to vote, and then obtains an
appointment IN the Government
service requiring removal to Wash
ington, nevertheless by continuing to
register in the district from which
he moved, can maintain legal resi-
dence there and continue to vote.
Can you tell me about the size
If the sun, its distance from the
earth and all about It's composition
and how scientists figure it's distance
from the earth?
The sun is S65,0OO miles IN Diane
ter and 92,9S0,OO0 miles from the
earth. A full discussion Of the sub
ject can be found in our Washing
ton bureaus bulletin on Popular
Astronomy" which can be obtained
on request to the bureau for 8 cents
in postage stamps.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25

What is the area and population
of Poland?
The territory Of Poland comIerises
Congress Poland poland as delimited
and handed over to Russia by the
Congress Of Vienna, 1879, Galicia,
the former Prussian Poland; Upper
Silesia, and a portion of the Wilno
Wilma territory. The republic is
divided into the city Of Warsaw andv
sixteen counties, subdividid into 276i
districts and self-governing cities. tt
comprises an area Of 149 ,359 square
miles and has a total population Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25

What is the meaning Of the name
'Beulab"?
1t is from the Hebrew and msaaR
married.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25

fT1DWARD NELL. head of the
III, voice department of the Met
- ropolitan School of Music
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25

TN the poem. THE Night Before
Christmas" we are told that the sur
plus abdominal adipose of Santa
Claus SHOOK when he laughed like a
bowl full of jelly"
This makes the classic picture OF
nIrr
Evening star., 1926-12-05
Water Pipes
Installed in EurOpe

Europeans are submitting to the
American institution of the Saturday
night bath. but not without protest.
The American construction firm Of
Ulen & Co., which Is installing canal
iZation to make the bath possible, has
had temporarily at least to hold up
the laying Of water pipes in nearly all
countries where it has started work
because Of the violent political up
heavals. In Poland four cities were
being Americanized underground, and
about 25 per cent of the allotted ex.
penditure had been made when Mar
shall Pilsudski got busy. The battle
took place before the company's Of
fees. Uncertain Of the turn politics
might take, a further undertaking Of
$40 100000 was postponed. In Athens
work was well under way on a reser-
voir and pipe system when Gen. Pan
galos declared himself dictator. Work
had slight setback, for Athens needs
the water to drink, not to bathe in.
But Portugal protests most. There
society has to dress every few days
for another revolution. But as the
disturbance does not last very long
the canalization work does not feel
the revolution much more than It
does 4 he numerous holidays.
Evening star., 1926-12-05
BY r.. y. F.ALLAIZE,

Secretary of the Royal Anthropological
Institute, London.
Where and when was glass first
made? In lecture recently delivered
in London, England, to the Society OF
Glass Technology, Prof. Sir Flinders
Petrie, in giving an. account of the
origin and distribution Of early glass,
said that no glass was made In Egypt
before 1900 Be. Up to that date all
glass found in Egypt was imported.
In Mesopotamia. however. glass was
being made as far back as $500 Be.
The connection between Egypt and
Syria which followed the conquests
Of the Egyptian monarchs of the
eighteenth dynasty led to the intro
duction into Egypt Of a large number
Of Syrian workers in various branches
Of the arts, and within so years Of
that date glass became one of the
commonest objects in Egypt. The
most popular use Of glass In ancient
Egypt was in the form of glass beads.
Of which enormous quantities have
been found in the course Of excava-
tions.
The popularity of glass beads has
been one Of the most fruitful pieces
Of evidence with which the prehistoric
archeologist has had to deal. Beads
are among the more important OBJ
jects by tracing the distribution Of
which it has been possible to demon
strate the movements of early peo-
pies, Of early cultures and the lines
Of early trade routes through Europe,
western Asia and North Africa in pre-
historic and early historic times. In
this way has been traced the regular