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Evening star., 1926-11-28
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

A hayaar for the benefit OF the
r,.,,roh of the Redeemer, Italian Bap-
t;st will be held Tuesday evening at
1000 Kirby street. under the auspices
of the Seekers of Good" CLUB
A luncheon for the benefit Of the
Dav Nursery. Ursuline Sisters, will
he given Monday and Tuesday, De-
cember 6 and Z, from IL am. TO
q. M. at Elks' Hall.
Miss Olive McNeel will speak on
Paving Attention to the Law OF
7, I,ife' tomorrow, pm. at meeting Oh
| the Washington Practical Psychology
Club at the Playhouse. Public IN
| vited.
The Columbia Hospital Alumnae
Association will hold bazaar Decem-
her and at Columbia Hospital.
| Public invited.
The District of Columbia Branch Of
| the National Woman's Party Will
| meet December l, s pm, at national
headquarters. Miss Mabel Vernon.
State chairman of Delaware, will out.
line the national program for the
year and also speak of the plans for
| the convention to be held in Cali
! fornia in February. Miss Sue White,
State chairman of Tennessee, will
also speak. Mrs. Emile Berliner will
| preside.
Washington Circle, Child C0nserva-
ton League, will meet tomorrow, 2:30
p.m.. at 5525 Illinois avenue.
The Minnesota State Society will
have a card party Tuesday. pm, at
| the Chastleton Hotel, Sixteenth and
r streets. Representatives in Con-
gress and other officials OF the Gov
ernment from Minnesota are expected
and all Minnesotans and their friends
are invited. William j. Williamson
is chairman Of committee on arrange
mentS.
The Advertising Club of Washing
| ton will give a luncheon Tuesday,
1890 pm, at the City Club, when it
will be joined by the Soroptimist Club,
the largest womens civic club in the
| city. The program will feature a
speaker, entertainment and awards.
A bazaar for the benefit Of the build.
| ing fund of the Church of the Re-
deemer will be held Tuesday, 7:30 pm.
under auspices of the Seekers Of Good
Club.
West End w. c. T. U. will meet at
parsonage, S12 Twentieth street, to-
morrow at s pm.
The Women's Society Of the First
Congregational Church will hold it's
annual bazaar and Christmas sale at
1405 f street tomorrow and Tuesday
from IL am. to 10 pm. Luncheon
| will be served each day from 11:30
to 2.
Evening star., 1926-11-28
Cloth Made From Pineapple.

'sPina' cloth that is manufactured
from the fiber of pineapple leaves is
attracting the attention of the textile
world. The fabric is said to wear
almost as well as leather and may be
dyed to almost any color. The cloth
is being made in the Philippines. In
parts of China and on the Indian
archipelago.
Evening star., 1926-11-28
Spalding's Widow Dies.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia,
November 27 @.-Mrs. Elizabeth
Spalding of Point Iona. Calf. widow
of A. G. Spalding, head Of the sport
ing goods firm, died here today.
Evening star., 1926-11-28

A fish packing plant to be built in
Arxentfna will handle Soo tons Of fish
laii2a
Evening star., 1926-11-28

The Women's Society OF the First
Congregational Church will hold it's
annual bazaar and Christmas sale at
1405 F street tomorrow and Tuesday
from IL am. to 10 pm. Luncheon
will be served each day from 11:30
to 2.
Evening star., 1926-11-28

West End w. c. +. u. will meet at
parsonage, s12 Twentieth street, to-
morrow at pm.
Evening star., 1926-11-28

A bazaar for the benefit of the build.
ing fund of the Church of the Re-
deemer will be held Tuesday. 7:S0 pm.
under auspices of the Seekers Of Good
rf,fh
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-05
Is the Senate Simply
Stupid?

ri SENATE that will accept the present
IA plan to dispose of Muscle Shoals is a
Senate that would legalize burglary. 1t would
only be necessary for the burglars to call their
profession by some less familiar name.
The present Senate apparently refuses to
think. 1t wants to be fooled.
Last year when the idea finally penetrated
the Senate head that it was on the point of
making Henry Ford present of 1896, 250, 600,
it threw the proposition out and began over
again.
What is the Senate now trying to dof It
is proposing to lease Muscle Shoals on terms
which so far as possible, shall provide bene-
fits to the Government and to agriculture equal
to or greater than those set forth in Fl. R. 518 -
And what is Fl. R. 5187 1t is the resolution IN
der which Henry Ford was offered a gift Of
nearly quarter of billion dollarsl
Following the Senate's awakening to the
danger in the Ford offer, the President named
a commission to investigate Muscle Shoals and
if possible find satisfactory bidder. This
commission found no such bidder, but drafted
conditions under which it thought bids should
be asked. Failing to get such bids or such a
bid, the commission said the other alternative
Government operation-shoul be followed.
The House disregarded this report Of the
President's commission. 1t passed the present
obnoxious resolution, containing no safeguards
for the public investment or for the con-
sumers of the public power. 1t passed II. r.
518 once more, in other words, without hav-
ing even the guaranty Of Henry Ford s good
name attached to it.
And that is what the mysterious man in
the White House has been jamming through
the bewildered Senate
Senator Robert NJ. La Toilette, Jr, in an
able speech, attempting to start the Senate 8
mental processes working again, probably es-
timated correctly the purpose behind the pro-
ceedings of the past year. He spoke Of the
effort TO confuse and tire out public resist
ance so that this $1500OO,O0O investment Of
the people may be leased into private hands -
And all the while" he said, "the plain
duty of the Government to operate this great
property for service, not for profit, stares us
in the face. It is the solemn direction and
promise of the statute Of 1916 (the statute
authorizing the Muscle Shoals project), which
for SIX years now we have been lodging, while
we try to hoodwink the public into believing
that we ought to dodge and avoid it,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-05
Wanda Landowska Proves That There
Is Great and New Beauty in Old Music

produced by the very wise httlN
"doggie."
Grace and Eddie Clark with songs.
some tap dancing and several wise
cracks" furnish some good fun.
The Rath Brothers close the bin
with feats OF strength that are prob.
ably among the best In the country.
Lifting each other about seems but
child's play TO these men, and they
are both husky fellows.
Bill includes photoplay. with This
Ring" with Lou Tellegan. and a
news reel.
At the Palace today and tomor-
row. By the Observer)
other theaters today offer; THE
Student Prince" at English's; Benny
Rubin. at Keith's; lads and Fancies
Revue" at the Lyric; 1.-THE Sky
rocket" at the Ohio; THE Far Cry"
at the Circle: 'Braveheart," at the
Colonial; Dancing Mothers" at the
Apollo; big Pal" at the Isis, and
burlesque at the Broadway.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-05
LOOKING OVER NEW
EVENTS AT THE PALACE

With a fund Of good stories and
pleasant way Of telling them,
Ralph Whitehead. at the Palace to-
day and tomorrow, spends an enter
tanning half hour making friends.
Prominent in the act. although
she is not used very long. is
Miss Gertrude Pennington the ac.
companist. From her we have a
couple Of fine piano solos. AS an
encore Mr.. Whitehead sang one OF
the song hits from big Boy" Al
Jolsen's show which closed a few
weeks ago. Both people were with
this show.
Helen and Gertrude Clinton are
two dancers who carry a rather
novel orchestra with them. The or.
chestra numbers only three men,
but by playing one instrument as is
ordinarily done and then sticking
one of these "kazoo" things in their
mouth they manage to make enough
noise, or music, for six.
The two girls carry the act how
ever with several dances among
which are specialties by each OF
them and a fast and snappy
eccentric Charleston" in which
they all figure.
Crissie and Daily are a couple who
have some good stun when the man
initiates a dog, fur. tail and every.
thing. Act has lots OF comedy as
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-05
RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON :

ing honest work. I'VE are going
to have good street improvements
or none" is the boards attitude
Citizens generally will back the
board in it's determination to
smoke out dishonest paving con-
tractors and to insure that work
done shall comply with specihca-
tons.
Indianapolis has accepted and
paid for a lot OF shoddy pavement
in the past-surfacing that van
ished in chuckholes before tax pay
ments for construction were COM
pleted. Apparently on many jobs
the contractors did as they pleased
and inspectors employed by the
city to keep tab on the work did
their inspecting by telephone.
And some of the more recent
street improvements-suc as the
r. Tenth st. and Eugene St. pave
ments-though laid on the ground
seem headed toward court on
charges of faulty work.
Recently this writer showed a
Chicago visitor over the city. I'm
dianapolis." remarked the Chi
cagoan following the trip. "is a
very attractive city. But you GER
talnly have lot of bumpy pave
ment, even on streets where the
surfacing seems to be compare
lively new and traffic light" And
he said 1t. Our paving must be
bad to impress man from Chi
cago.
Paving specifications are drawn
to insure the quality and durar
bility of the work, not to give the
city engineering force exercise in
English composition. The taxpayer
is entitled to the sort OF work
specified and paid for. II the board
Of works will take action to insure
getting such paving, it will de-
serve applause.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-05
Outdoors

Outdoors
zSF~7WEEN the place we call
the heavens, and the place
we call tho earth, labors
good Old Mother Nature for us all,
for all she's worth. Picking out for
every season just the proper sort Of
dress, she's, no doubt. the real main
reason why the worlds worth while,
I guess.
All the color schemes we think of
are suggested by the sky, through
a fan-like spreading rainbow, when
q storm has passed on by. Fen the
clouds that seem to gather when the
dark Of night Is due, always clear
and make things brighter when the
moon comes shining through.
Like soft and easy carpet is the
grass that grows so green, and the
white and cheerful clover adds its
beauty to the scene. Picturesque
the rangy mountains that are tower
ing to the sky, as they act to make
the level lands more pleasing to the
eye.
Giant trees that tower so manly;
then the slender, meeker type that,
with blooms, in early spring time,
say that fruit will soon be ripe. Ma
ture knows that we're depending on
the drink of life she pours, and that
Joy is quite amending In her won
drous great outdoors.
Any time you find a counterfeit
coin, pick it up. You can get pinched
FOR passing it.
A girl lost her glasses and thought
she had to be examined all over
again. But she didn't-just her
eyes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-05
By Waiter Hlclxn

Nine. Wanda Landowska yester-
day afternoon in an Ona B. Talbot
Intime concert at the Columbia Club
proved that there is lot Of musical
beauty in the world.
She seemed to cause many OF us
to rediscover this fact. am not too
familiar with the Earpsichord. but
I did enjoy my second Introduction
to this instrument yesterday.
Nine. Landowska, whether she was
at the piano OF the harpischord,
proved that she was splendid art
list as we'll as a big personality.
First Of all she has that foreign
air about her which causes her to
melt into artistic atmosphere which
she creates. a woman's gown may
not help to make her a great artist
but It can do a great deal to make
the picture created one of charm
And Nine. IAndowska creates a
beautiful picture while seated at her
beloved instruments. She is a def
mite artist enjoying the ability to
make the melody leave the keys
with astonishing speed.
At the piano. Nine. Landowska
probably made her most lasting i'm
preston by playing Invitation to
the Dance" in the original version.
Yesterday was a most delightful
afternoon Of melody. Nine. Land
owska, was the final Intime concert
to be presented by Ona B. Talbot in
the ballroom Of the Columbia Club
this season.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-05

I'll He revenue act of 1928 pro-
vides that the status Of tax
- payer relative to the amount
of his personal exemptions shall be
determined by apportionment in &C.
cordance with the number of months
the taxpayer was single, married.
or the head Of a family.
For example, a couple married on
Sept. 80, 1925, would be entitled to
an exemption of $S,125; that is. s-12
of 81, 500 for the husband while
single, plus 9-12 of 81 800 for the wife
while single, plus 3-12 of $500 for
the period during which they were
married.
If on June 30, a taxpayer ceased
being the head of family-the sup
port in one household Of relative or
relatives being discontinued-he is
allowed an exemption of $2,500-one-
half of the exception of $1,000
granted a single person. plus one-half
of the exemption of $500 granted
the head Of a family. With regard to
the $500 credit for a dependent. the
taxpayers status Is determined as Of
the last day of the taxable year. II,
during the year, his support Of such
dependent ceased, he is not entitled
to this credit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-05
PURIFYING
THE FILMS

C7MEMBERS of the Central
I'M w. G. T. u. according to
Ell action taken at a meeting
of the organization Wednesday
night, will write letters to produc-
ers Of motion pictures asking the
smoking and drinking scenes be
eliminated from all films.
1.-THE drinking scenes are an in
vitation to every persons viewing
the picture to violate the Con-
stitution Of the United States"
declared a speaker. land the en-
couraging of smoking among
young girls is not only demoraliz-
ing, but will injure their health"
The good women of the W. &C.
T. U. mean well. But really. ladies,
do you think II producers compiled
with your request, If movies were
made solely from inocuous themes
suggested by GrimIn's Fairy
Tales and Mother Goose, there
would be any marked improve
Ynent in public morals?
Tho influence Of the films is
exaggerated. If every film refer
ence to drinking was expunged,
the Eighteenth Amendment would
have Just as rotgh shedding as at
present. And girls smoked before
movies were invented,
"Nanook of the North"--a great
screen success-didn't influence
many young people to go to Labra-
dor or Greenland and become Eski-
mos. Nor has the film version of
''Ben-Hur" turned us into a ma
ton of charioteers.
There are a lot OF cheap. tawdry
trashy f1lms-which as far as the
spectator, whether mature or ju-
venile, is concerned, are a dead
loss. But they aren't especially
harmful to morals. Most people,
young and old, bring the same set
Of morals out Of the movie house
that they took in regardless of the
film.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-05
Anti-SaIoon League

am in favor of modifying the
the sale of light wines and beer nm
der Government control, thus elimi-
mating the bootlegging and hijack-
ing that is SO prevalent in the coun-
try today.
l would suggest that Mr.. Shu-
maker resign his present position
and exert his ability and effort to
some productive endeavor that would
be more beneficial to society instead
of being the mouthpi9ce of a decayed
organization. MI I'll. CAREY.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-05
WHISPERS ARE ALL
WE HAVE LEFT

IND now the gals are wear
n ing galluses. as the latest
feminine fad, report Indian
apolis downtown stores. Gay,
gaudy galluses for sport wear;
galluses that go over the shoulders
and button to the skirt, front and
rear; galluses Just like those worn
by grandpa and Clarence barrow.
Talk about equality of the sexes!
This is going too far. Are none of
the time-honored masculine pre-
negatives to remain sacred and
safe from the iconoclastic hands Of
modern females2 With galluses
go almost the last badge OF our
superiority.
Woman has taken the ballot and
public offices. With her tennis
and swimming she Is crowding
man off the sport page. She
wears our socks. smokes our
cigarets, liquors up and cusses in
mastery. man-ike fashion. And.
according TO fashion hints from
Paris, she has adopted mans
tuxedo coat for her own use.
Such feminine dinner Jackets are
uptown stuff now, we are In
formed. Next she may start to
chew plug tobacco. That fits in
nicely with wearing galluses.
We long for the good old days
when men were men and women
we're something else-when a
gentleman could knock his wife
down without being plugged full
Of lead by her.
But those days are gone. The
gals have taken from US all the
treasured symbols of our Iordly
sex except our whiskers. We can
grow 'em and they can't. But
that's small satisfaction. Who
wants to go around looking like
both the Smith Bros. just for the
sake of asserting our masculine
rights?
So we1l endure the feminine
usurpation. They can wear our
galluses and our dinner coats. But
If they ever try to get us to adopt
the feminine type Of evening gown
low neck, no sleeves, no back
good night
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-05
A LUCRATIVE
| BUSINESS

ri IE American Telephone and
Telegraph Company reveals
~ net profit for 1925 of
$107, 4O5, 046 approx kim ely
$16.000,000 more than the year
Notwithstanding to the annual
report Of the company just made
public, A fairly lucrative bust
ness.
That report ought to interest
Hoosiers. For more than a year
the Indiana Bell Telephone Com
pany-owned body, soul and
breaches by the A. T. & T.--has
been pleading with the more or
less obdurate public service COM
mission for increased rates in this
State.
In arguing It's case, company
attorneys and officials produced
reams of computations, invento-
ries, appraisals and what-not all
tending to substantiate its claim
that the company was not making
a fair return on its investment.
The plight Of the Indiana Bell. as
pictured before the commission,
would almost wiring tears Of COM
passion from a man who had just
got the wrong number.
It's a dull day when some A.
T. G. T. subsidiary is not pleading
with some State commission for
a rate increase. Usually the same
showing is made as in the Indiana
Bell case-the poor subsidiary Is
not making a fair profit.
Yet, with all its fragments thus
ostensibly Improbable and in
need Of higher rates to survive,
the telephone octopus as a whole
makes the tidy sum OF s100,000,00O
a year. There's magic for you.
The old-time alchenists who tried
to make gold out of mud wasted
their time. They should have gone
into the telephone business.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-05
Famous Composers
Johann Sebastian Bach

IN 1ACH the greatest organist of his generation and the
D fountain of German music born in Esenach in
1886 He of musical family, his father being we'll
known vionst and the musical atmosphere and traditions
of the Bach family have made deep impression ON the
boy.
His early musical training given him by his father,
later continued under his brother In 100 he went to
Luneburg where he accepted in the church choir and
here for time he received valuable training later coming
under the influence of great composer, Reinken, who
developed him rapidly
Bach held several court positions organist, being
capemeister to Prince Leopold for years. lie
later appointed and director Of music at the uni
versiy and churches of ST. Thomas Leipzig and St. Mich
olas holding these positions to his death
Bach's productions for the organ remain
unsurpassed His best known works probably the d
Minor Toccata and Fugue the Chromatc Fantasia and
Fugue Cd minor) and the Clavchord (4S preudes and
fugues through all the major and minor keys He died
in 1850 after having been blind the last year of his fe
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-05
Her Wrist Watch

Ia IN enterprising jewelry hrm proposed 10
IAI adorn the uplifted arm Of the Statue Of
Liberty in New York Harbor, with wrist
watch.
The purpose of course, was to make more
popular the wearing of this bit of useful jew
elry and to obtain rather novel advertise
ment for its product.
The department at Washington, IN whose
care this statue is intrusted, turned Indignantly
away from this commercial purpose. Probably
the only reason for its refusal was the fact
that it never had been done and Of course to
the bureaucratic mind anything that is new is
terrible.
As matter Of fact most Of us believe the
goddess needs something to bring her up to
date 1t may not be wrist watch but she
needs the things for which the wrist watch
stands
There was time when men measured
time by shadows; then some old philosopher
invented the sands glass through which the slow
ly falling grains marked the regularity of
passing hours Another generation and an
other genius produced the old-fashioned clock,
whose heavy weights controlled the moving of
the hands. A new time and new day brought
the small pocket piece by which men could
regulate their actions and divide their days
with some regard to system and punctuality.
When the wrist watch appeared it was
looked upon with contempt by he-men who
considered it piece of foppery. The boys in
France learned just how useful it could be.
Viewed from that standpoint the wrist watch
is not only useful thing but stands as mon
ument of the ability of men to change their
habits and their implements to fit changed con-
ditions of living.
1t may be true that the goddess herself has
become sadly out of date and that our inter-
probation of liberty and the devices by which
we obtain freedom and maintain it have not
kept step with the complexities of the new civ
ilization.
We may be depending, for example, upon
an hour glass device to secure for us freedom
of speech, freedom of worship, the security Of
homes from illegal search. Certainly some
things that happen in this country indicate
that we should bring our ideals of liberty up
to date.
We are sending editors to jail for daring
to print what they believe to be the truth The
century old precedence of courts of equity are
used to jail leaders of labor We twist our
laws and raid homes without search warrants
which comply with constitutional provisions
for their protection.
The fellow that had the idea of wrist
watch may have hit upon happy thought.
Unless the goddess of liberty and her
ideals of liberty are kept strictly up to date,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-05
CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY

EASTON. Pa.-Twins here recent
ly celebrated their eighty.fifth birth
day. although they were born on DIFF.
ferent days in different months OF
different years7 They are Mrs. Lou
lisa Barron and Henry Br1nker. He
was born on the night Of Dec. 81.
1870. and his sister arrived in the
morning OF Jan. 1. 1SA1, sixteen
hours later.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-05

To the Editor of The Times:
OUR splendid editorial on the
Anti-Saloon League is GER
~ tainly worthy Of commenda-
ton and told the truth in every par
ticular but it did not go far enough.
The Anti-Saloon League is obso-
iete 1t should have passed out six
years ago when the saloons quit
business and the bartenders got en-
alignment in productive industry.
The public in general is satisfied
that saloons have been abolished
forever. even though the present
prohibition laws have not proved
successful.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-05

John Barrymore's latest con-
tribution to motion pictures, THE
Sea Beast" will be shown at the
Circle the coming week, 1t has
been announced. THE Sea Beast,
is the photoplay version of "Moby
Dick" Herman Melville's story OF
the mysterious white whale which
roams the seven seas. Barry
more Is seen in his most exacting
rCle
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-05

What finally became of the first
ironclads, the Monitor and the
Merrimac?
The Monitor foundered Dee. 81,
1852, while en- route to Beaufort, N.
c., and the Merrimac was destroyed
when the Norfolk navy yard was
evacuated by the Confederates May
IL, 1862.