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Evening star., 1926-11-26
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DISCUSSES CAMPUS
Professional Women of Fra
ternities Gather to Talk on
Career and Home.

With voting delegates present from
| 13 women's professional fraternities,
as we'll as many unofficial guests. the
| National Professional Pan-Hellenic
| Association began q twO-day meeting
this morning in the Garden House of
| the Grace Dodge Hotel.
| Women who have won distinction
| in many lines of activity will lead
| discussions tending to clarity campus
| problems and to make clear the re-
| lationship between professional
career and home duties.
Objects Are Outlined.
Miss Louise Stanley, chief of the
Bureau of Home Economics, Depart
ment of Agriculture, anl president of
the association, called the meeting to
order this morning. The initial pro-
gram constituted an outline of the
work and purposes of the association,
which held it's first annual meeting
last year at the call of Mrs. Mabel
Walker Willebrandt. Assistant Attor-
ney General Of the United States and
member of Phi Delta Delta Law
Fraternity.
After the business programs to-
day women of other professional or
ganizations will join with members of
lAc dSSOCldINtI Ill d ulIlI1CI dl tne
Grace Dodge Hotel. Tomorrow's pro-
gram will take up practical profes.
sional problems and will include
various reports. The final session, in
the afternoon. will witness the cleo
ton of officers and the adoption of
a plan of work.
DIR. Iva Peters Speaks.
College activities Of young women
who are fitting themselves for the pro-
fessions constituted the general topic
for discussion today, and delegates
were afforded practical opportunity to
take up various phases Of the prob
lens confronting modern college
women.
Speaking from a psychological stand
point, DR.. Iva L. Peters, student of
vocational guidance for women, spoke
on What the College Is Doing to
Help the Undergraduate Find Her
self" Representatives Of deans Of va.
rious colleges outlined campus prob
blems on which the deans of women
would like to help. The program to
morrow will consist largely of re
search problems for the reconciliation
of a profession with marriage and
motherhood.
One Of the speakers tomorrow will
be Mrs. Lillian Moller Gilbreth of
Atontclair. N. j., who at the age Of
4S is founder and president Of firm
of consulting engineers besides being
the mother of IL children and the
author of several books.
Woman Lawyer on Program.
Mrs. E. Jean Nelson Penfield,
member Of the New York bar one of
the seven original incorporators Of
the Woman Suffrage Party of New
York, will discuss also the relation
between a home and a career.
Other sororities represented are:
Alpha Epsilon Iota, medicine; Delta
Omicron. music; Iota Sigma Phi,
chemistry; Kappa Beta Pi. law; Omi-
cron Nu, home economics; Phi Beta,
music and drama; Phi Chi Delta. busi-
ness Phi Delta Pi, physical education;
Phi Upsilon Omicron, home eco
nomics; Pi Lambda Theta, education;
Sigma Alpha Iota, music; Sigma
Sigma Sigma. education, and Theta
Sigma Phi, journalism.
DR.. Louise Stanley, who is q mem
Evening star., 1926-11-26
Outwitted the Court.
From Capper's Magazine

A bright young lawyer pleading for
mis- client on trial for burglary.
Your Honor, the evidence shows
my client did not enter the room at
all. He merely inserted his arm
through an open window and took a
few trifles. His arm being only a
small part of himself, why should you
cause his whole body to suffer because
of one offending member"
VERY WELL" said the judge with q
twinkle in his eye. your logic is good.
I therefore sentence your clients arm
to one year in JAIL Your client may
accompany it or not as he pleases"
Whereupon the defendant un-
screwed his cork arm, laid it on the
judges desk and walked out
Evening star., 1926-11-26
HURLED OUT WINDOW
AFTER FATAL FIGHT
Seaman Attached to U. S. S. Pa
toka Victim, and Two of An
other Vessel Are Held.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, November 20
Joe Menuel. seaman, attached to the
L. s. S. Patoka. was killed yesterday
in a local hotel and his body was
thrown from a third-story WiiiuoW
into an alley, where it was found at .
am. by policeman.
officers found Lester Salesk1' also
of the Patoka, suffering from deep
scalp wound and other injuries. Ihey
arrested Edward Brookhardt ana
Grady Newbourne, seamen, attached
to the u. S. S. Vestal, on charges OF
having murdered Menuel and assault
ed Saleski William J. Dowd. seaman
attached to the U. S. S. Arkansas
found in another room at the hotel.
is held as a material witness. Ponce
were told that the five sailors regis
tered at the hotel Wednesday night.
There was evidence in one or the
rooms Of a terrific struggle. A leg or
a broken chair apparently was used
in beating Menuel to death.
Evening star., 1926-11-26
Holds Prohibition Big Issue.


If the Fall elections teach any les
i son at all. it is that both parties must
face the prohibition question honestly
and fearlessly" he said. "Prohlbltlon
embodies a national issue which is
! irrepreSSible.
Either the Volstead act must be
changed or it must be enforced, ana
am convinced it cannot be enforced.
We have spent nearly 150,O00,OO0 try
| ing to enforce it and have Sacrlflced
nearly $4,000, ,00O,O00 in taxes while
the effort has been made and our last
state is worse than the first.
THE Democratic creed offers the
one and only solution. We have
always believed in the right of each
State to settle in it's own way ques-
tionS which intimately concern it's
people. it's peace, it's order, its morals
| md its customs.
This is such a question. Many
of the States prefer absolute prohlbl.
| ton. Others do not. So instead OF
attempting to club communities which
resent the Volstead act into taking
it, let the problem be settled under
| the traditional Democratic doctrine
of local self government and State de-
| termination and turn the subject back
| to the State, so that each state may
! handle it in accordance with the con-
victions and will of it's own people"
Prohibition, Gov. Ritchie said, has
bred more interstate discord and more
political towards and hypocrites and
! has done more damage to the body
polite and to our social fabric than
ANYTHING which, in my observation
at least, has ever entered our national
| life.
Denies Disregard for Law.
II resent the imputation that those
who recognize this and who want to
| find a remedy for it are lacking in
regard for law and order. There is
| no disregard for law and order in
protesting against an unsound and
unenforcible law.
! 1--WE must admit that a break has
| come in the constitutional right of
! free speech and free press. We may
concede that peaceable assemblies are
sometimes dispersed. We may real
| ize that contempt proceedings and
paddock injunctions too often take the
place of jury trials. We know that
unwarranted searches and seizures oc-
cur and that man may now be
placed in double jeopardy for the
same offense if only the Nation
prosecutes him the one time and the
State the other.
but at least the right to petition
for redress of grievances still remains,
and l put my reliance on that.
1T is for principles that | plead, for
policies. for fundamentals. And re-
turn to local self-government will,
more than any other one thing, tend
to put an end to sectional contro-
versies. group interests and class con-
tiicts."
Asserting that at cannot be denied
that a spirit of excessive federalism
has been the political earmark Of the
last quarter of a century" Gov.
Richie said that "by a process of
amendment, surrender, acquiesence
and Indifference we have been build
ing up a Federal Government at the
expense of the States" Thus I'VE
have become the victims of foolish,
unWorkable and unSound laws" and
the individuals failure to assert the
charter of his liberties has caused a
breakdown in political FIBER
Evening star., 1926-11-26
Practice and Preaching.

From the Birmingham Age-Herald.
"Why did you laugh when that man
at the adjoining table told the waiter
he didn't know what to eat?"
"Oh, I happen to know who he is.
He's an expert dietician and writes for
chain of newspapers. Every day he
tells several million of readers what to
eat
Evening star., 1926-11-26
Mule Family Has Grown.

The Bureau of Animal Industry
says that the first mule bred in this
country of which it has record is
one bred by George Washington. The
first jack brought to this country
was presented to him by the King of
Spain.
Evening star., 1926-11-26

Der of Pi Lambda Theta (education,
and Omicron Nu (home economics),
nd chief of the United States Bureau
Of Home Economics, is president of
the Professional Pan-Hellenic. Mrs.
kathryn Stanley Dohr, Phi Chi Theta
.ousiness), is vice president, and Miss
Louise Foster of the Department of
Justice, Phi Delta Delta Qaw), is
Secretary-treaSurer.
Evening star., 1926-11-26
HERNDON VETERAN DIES.
Edwin B. Simonds Was Forty
Years in Government Service.
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HERNDON, Va, November 20
Edwin 3. SimOnds, born in Lima,
Peru, in 1881. and a resident of Hern-
don since 1868, veteran of the Civil
War. and for forty years a Govern
ment employe in Washington. retiring
in 1920, died at his home here last
night.
Mr.. Simonds served in the Civil War
with the LIST Regiment of Minnesota
and carried wounds from Bull Run
and Antietam. He is survived by
Miss Belle Simonds, a daughter, of
Herndon; Mrs. w. S. Blanchard.
daughter. Washington, and two sons,
Arthur Simonds of Omaha and Will
lard SimondS of BerWyn, Md.
Evening star., 1926-11-26
Taking No Chances.

From the Berlin Ulk.
Vacuous youth thought you were
a mind reader. Why do you read my
hand instead Of my mind?
Clairvoyant-It's so much easier. 1
can see at once that you have a hand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-07
ELECTRIC ICE BOXES

Fine it is these swelterng days to have one of
those electric refrigerators working for you in the
pantry. Always plenty of ice, in nice little cubes
convenient for use.
The United States Department of Commerce
thinks it won't be long until we all have them. They
look to see electrical refrigeration sweep the coun
try in the way the radio has.
few years ago it was almost unknown Today
something like 100000 American homes have this
hot weather blessing.
The cost of operation of one of these boxes is
said to be little if any than the cost of Ice.
But the service would be brought within the reach
of vastly greater numbers if the price of electric
current were as cheap in all cities as it is in some
Those cities dependent entirely on private concerns
for their electricity paying from to II cents per
kowatt hour. Those cities having municipal plants
are paying low as cents, the same as is paid by
twentyseven cities and towns in Ontario.
AS the identification of our living proceeds it
may be that we finally will see that handing over
our power resources to private exploers doesn't re-
veal great deal of common sense on our part.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-07
GOOD FOR GERTRUDE

There is glow of national pride in the &C
compshment of Gertrude Ederle courageous Amer
lean GIRL in swimming the English channel
1t is something to be first in anything. 1t is
fine to be champion.
Swimming the English channel has always been
challenge to the impossible and the imagination
Only five men in all history have been able 10
accomplish It, No other woman although many
have tried had ever succeeded in conquering its
tides and waves and storms and rough currents
1t was to be expected, of course, that when an
American girl did finally prove that there is no
field of endeavor in which women can not compete
with men, she would do the job right by cutting
down the time record.
Girls who may envy her fame and fortune which
will come from her accomplishment, might take a
lesson from Gertrude in other things than swim
ming
She did not win because she happened to be
born with a healthy, vigorous, muscular body.
She did not win by any fortunate or lucky
chance.
She first had the ambition to swim that channel.
And then she trained for it. She sacrificed for it,
She denied herself present pleasures. She thought
of the goal She had chosen
Those who win the big prizes in life know where
they want to go, whether it is swimming channel or
gaining million dollars, writing poem or play
And when they know, they do not permit petty
things to stand in their way.
Gertrude brave girl and today's outstanding
American heroine, points the way to other things
besides athletic conquests.
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district ten miles square, filed abundant water and
power sixty miles distant and is getting ready to join
the ssterhood of Pacific coast cities that have de-
clared themselves free of private water and power
interests.
The district has rights to power enough to
supply city of 100000 and water enough for a
million
The Silver Creek project is surveyed and ready
for action, but apparently Sacramento is in for the
same sort of that has torn San Francisco A
certain element wants to wholesale the power to one
of three private power companies now in the field,
while another wants the city to follow the brilliant
example of Los Angeles Seattle, Tacoma and other
cities that have proved that the big money in the
hydro business is in the retailing end. A board of
consulting engineers has been appointed, of which
two are said to be public ownership men and two
are for the wholesale plan. When the report of the
engineers and the offers from the private companies
come in the fight will start.
The city's water and power rights worth way up
in the millions, bought from Placerville en-
gineer for only $4,000.
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Keeping Up
We have been z

We have been able to keep up with
the channel" events, and especially
with every detail Of Gertrude
Ederle's successful attempt to swim
it. largely through the splendid work
done by the United Press.
Scientific methods. plus good horse
sense. enabled this, news gathering
organization to match her feat with
n coverage that was every bit as
inspiring.
It was only a matter OF minutes
after Miss Ederle had landed at
Kingsdown before the New York
papers were out with fourinch
headlines, while the great trunk
wires running to Boston. Chicago,
Indianapolis. San Francisco, Atlanta,
Dallas, had already carried the
message to hundreds Of editorial
rooms.
was in the main office of the
United Press when the cable began
to speak in the language of the
lightning.
Typewriter keys clicked almost in
tune with the dot and dash"
President Bickel. who stood right
back of the operators chair, clapped
his hands as the words took form,
while Mr.. Bender shouted them so
that all the writers and other teleg-
raphers could hear.
That is system, science and or
ganization-rhe kind of thing that
makes it more and more worth while
to win.
T. i. j.
The notion prevails that coopera-
ton discourages individual effort, but
don't you suppose that Gertrude
Ederle tried all the harder because
she knew that 1OOOoO,OOQ horne folk
would be told of her success within
the space Of minutes?
1t is a fact that every world rec
ord has been smashed since the
telegraph and telephone were in
vented.
Take swimming for example, and
the one-mile time has been reduced
by more than five minutes within
the last fifty years, while the 100
yard time has been reduced by more
than twenty seconds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-07
INDIANAPOLIS FIRST

Every man and woman in this city enlist
under the banner of Indianapolis First as raised
by the Chamber Of Commerce.
s, II it were impressed deeply into the hearts and
minds of every boy and girl who decade hence VIII
be the active workers in commerce and industry,
there will be no need of any future revivas for civic
consciousness.
Cities being merely aggregations OF human be-
ngs, are very human.
They have character and moods and ambitions
and hopes and aims and courage the lack of these
latter virtues.
And what they are is but the reflection of the
spirit and the attitude Of the men and women who
live in them.
II the majority of the people pessimstic
you may expect a city of knockers.
If the majority are hopeful, contented, satisfied
and purposeful you will find the hustng, energetic
and growing city.
The man who has no faith in himself never &C
complishes anything and goes backward In the race
Of life You find him apoogizing for himself in
stead Of endeavorng to exercise his talents.
The city composed of those who have no faith
IN it is quite likely to take on the same general
inferiority complex that makes either failures
in life or so dif1dent that they do not progress.
It is not suggested that indianapolis has any in
fertor complex But there is room for more faith
in its future more pride in its present, more conf
dence in it's greatness i~f re,
The spirit which makes cities not only large
but prosperous is that Of pride and confidence.
There come times when it is valuable, to take
stock Of ourselves There is need, now and
tn IN, to look about ourselves and find out exactly
what we posses and what may need.
There is real value in cities taking stock of
themselves their assets and their resources and
reminding all who live in them of these things.
city composed of men who believe that 1t is
the best city and the one with the largest oppor-
tunities is bound to become just that through the
very infection of optimism and faith.
There is need of course, for cooperation Of
effort in public enterprises and the massng Of civic
spirit into a force which express It.
e The chamber, so understand, proposes to do just
this thing.
1t is calling to the spirit of optimism and i'll
tends to base that appeal firm foundation of
facts to prove that this is the First city.
It is calling, most of all, to the men and women
who live here to remember the reasons why they
prefer it to other cities and revive their faith in
its future. h$ %3
1t will call, trust, for general and universal
expression of good will and good cheer:
1T may call for united action projects which
will keep Indianapolis First not only in material
growth and expansion, but in the hearts of every
who dwells within It'll ga
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-07
WOMEN WANT WORK, NOT
CAREERS
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

The term career hunters, applied to that ever in
creasing number Of married who are making
efforts to work outside the home is very much mis-
used.
These women are mot necessarily painting for
careers. That is they do not expect to break into
the art salons with their pictures, or to ennoble lit
erature with their pens, to sartle financial circles
with their business This indeed is far from
their imaginations.
What they want is interesting work And surely
that is not >exorbitant unreasonable demand
There is a certain type of woman to whom the in
cessant round of household duties is maddeningly
monotonous Contrary wise, others love taking care
Of their simple homes. They artists when II
comes to cooking. They happy when they are try
ling new recipes In their kitchens
For, essentially, women varied in their ma.
lures as They have just many different likes
and diskes, just many dissmilar habits and tastes
1t is nonsense to suppose that every woman is born
with passion for housekeeping, Just it would be
nonsense to that every naturally likes engi
neering.
1t is true that any work is likely to become tire
some or monotonous now and then. However, that
does not alter the fact that each earth is at
liberty to choose the sort of work he likes do
When he marres he is not obliged to stick clerBng
in shoe store If he prefers something else Having
home and family does not hinder him from pursuing
the trade in which he is interested.
Is 1t unreasonable to assert that the way should
be made clear for women to do the work for which
this work keep them from having home and babies
which all except the most abnormal OF desire?
There should be no question of choice in such a
matter No woman should be made to feel that she is
foregoing the blessing of home and babies Just
cause she happens TO be interested in the max
ing of hats.
And the time is fast approaching when it will be
ridiculous to that the who works sacrifices
her family upon the altar Of her ambitions.
We shall not be truly civilized until that time is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-07
LINCOLN'S LETTERS

Abraham Lincoln died on Aprild5 1866
Robert Lincoln, his son and the last surviving de-
lscendant of the family died on July 26. 1926.
"A few years before his death Robert Lincoln
presented the Government with his fathers collection
Of about 10 900 letters
tn This collection includes letters written and
ceived during the Civil War period. The most i'm
iportant are thoses from Lncoln's chiefs-stanton
Seward, Chase. etc.-which have never been pub
lished
RI In presenting the letters to the Government
Robert Lincoln stipulated that they should not be
made public until twenty-one years after his deah
AS result of this arrangement, letters addressed
to the Civil War President, many of them holding
keys to tremendously significant events, will be
opened the public view the first time in 1947
At that time no person will be alive who old
enough to have any appreciation of the events dis
cussed and described when the letters were written
Historians will take the letters and try to
reconstruct pictures of Civil War happenings. They
lwin,sof course. have only partial success.
9 There Is nothing unusual in the arrangement
to keep the Lincoln letters from the public view
SO many years 1t is general custom followed
by the literary executors of great men.
ut is a custom however, that is aristocratic in
origin. Aside from the question OF offending the
feelings of living men, the principal for it is
that it Is not counted wise to allow the masses to
have a too intimate picture of affairs Of state
lapse of fifty hundred years overcomes that
difculty. Even the most precious of state secrets
are Of little Importance when all OF the actors are
dead,
1t seems little unfortunate that the letters of
Lincoln, the great protagonist Of democracy, should
be handled in the old aristocratic way. The
disposition of the letters. of course, was not made
by the Civil War President, and what he would have
chosen to do with them no one knows.
"A full faith in democracy however, and perhaps
an essential element in its successful working in
wolves willingness to let the great of people
know the affairs of state before they are ancient
history.