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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
Sign Your Name

Today is the last day in which to sign the
petition for City Manager election
Al such an election the voters of this city can
decide whether they will junk the present 10TH
of government with it's political burdens ana us
notorious betrayal of public welfare for the modern
system of city government which makes business
conduct and business methods the basis OF spending
the city's money.
One of the great benefits Of the City Manager
form of government is the taking OF city govern
ment out of partisan politics.
City councmen, under that system, are not
eected IN tickets which bear the names of national
parties That robs the boss of his greatest weapon
There are thousands of voters, who, for the sake
Of regularity or habit vote a certain ticket no
matter how bad the nominees may be or how unfit
they
With these voters as the basis, the boss can
nominate men who have pledged the powers of
their Office to him. and then line up enough sordid
voters to gain victory.
Democrats and Republicans who want exactly
the same thing in city affairs find themselves voting
against each other.
The councimen under the system select
a manager who is skilled In management OF Dig
enterprises who has knowledge of city needs and
has ability as an executive.
He holds his job only long as he gives the
people good service. His mind is occupied with
trying to get results not with lining up politicians
for the next election and giving jobs to ward heeles
instead of those who wish to give real service to
the city.
Such cities as Cincinnati, Kansas City and
Cleveland have found that the new system is vast
improvement the form of government under
which Indianapolis struggles to keep afoat.
They have rid themselves of the influence of
Jr-,o
any reason for injecting national politics into city
government?
They have executives, not politicians, running
their public affairs and as a result have decent
streets better service of garbarge collections, better
service from police and fire departments and less
taxes.
If you want chance to get this system for
indianapolis, be that your name is on one of
these petitions today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
Apathy On Prohibition

The head of the Anti-Saloon League blames
apathy the part of the churches for the failure
of prohibition.
when the church demands prohibition enforce
ment with the same emphasis that it demanded pass
age of the law, the question of prohibition will be
settled" is the significant challenge sent in pamphlet
form to members of churches which have allied
themselves with the league
The statement is important. There is an
implied admission that the question of prohibition has
not been settled and that there is no real enforce
ment OF the law.
Coming from which has maintained
steadfasty that conditions growing BETTER this
admission should result in bringing the whole ques
ton out into the open as a subject for legitimate
debate, without danger that any one who declares
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
Times Readers
Voice Viez0S
Editor of The Times;

Insects outnumber all other ami
NAL life. At the present time there
are about 100000 species of living
creatures on the earth. Now of these
100000, or four-fifths, are insects.
Each kind is represented by a vast
number of individuals.
OF these, many thousands are
classed as injurious because of the
destruction of property essential to
mankind. Of these, many thousands
there is one which is of utmost in
terest to our own city. This is the
Bag Worm Moth, which, il not
checked. will eventually damage our
shade trees beyond renewal. At
this season of the year, while there
are no leaves, they may be seen by
the hundreds. Almost every tree
has it's quota Of the little pendant
cocoons dankling from the branches
and twigs. Today I counted 100 on
one small haw tree.
Now is the time TO destroy them,
while they are easily found. The
male is supplied with wings and can
fly well, but the female is wingless
and does not leave the cocoon in
which she has lived her entire life.
Examine a number of the bags
which are on the trees now. Some
of them will be found empty. These
contained the males of last season.
Others Nill be Gound to contain
many yellow eggs. These are the
bags of the former moth mother. In
May or June these eggs will hatch
out a host of tiny worms, When
nearly grown the bags are too heavy
to be held up, so are allowed to hang
down. During this period they
moult several times. For day or
two they do not feed, and are quiet.
They do not move around much,
usually remaining on the same tree
in which they were born. But when
fully grown the rowing fever hits
them, they leave the parent tree
and migrate to another. This done,
they securely fasten their bags to
small twigs by strands of silk, and
transform into chrysalids.
In early fall the final change takes
place. The male energies from his
cocoon fully grown with transpar-
ent wings, and black body, and flies
away to seek a mate. The female
which is wingless and footless, never
leaves her case, but fills it with
eggs, stops up the entrance with her
body and dies.
1t is said that this is the only in
stance where eggs pass through the
winter in a cocoon.
These are the cccoons or bags"
that hang on the tree all winter.
w. c. PARKS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
Said it With Slabs

Vase Radich loved his wife,
though separated from her, as he
explained to a Milwaukee court.
Just to prove it he stabbed her
six times when they happened to
meet. The Milwaukee police picked
them up at about the same time
the woman dead and the man run
ming around in dazed circles.
1t would be a sufficiently interest
ing story, perhaps. if ended right
there, but the best part is yet to
come.
Radich was not only arrested, but
indicted, tried, convicted and sent
on his way to the State prison for
a life term within the space of six
hours.
Though a record-breaking case,
this is typical Of Milwaukee justice.
The home of Victor Berger and
the stronghold of socialism has
found way to overcome the laws
delays.
That is why the crooks and crini-
nails give it such a wide birth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
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BRIDGE,
bN,MiIl<1sz ~"''"@
CN<'rz, 49, 4
In Some Hands Dummy
Should Sacrifice to
Gain Lead,
The pointer for today is:

Inc pointer Tor today is:
In some hands Dummy should play
an unnecessarily high card ON the
first trick in order to obtain the
lead.
As an Illustration of this pointer,
take the following deal:
With South playing a No.Trump
contract, the Five Of Clubs would be
Vests original lead. The Declarer
using the Rule of Eleven and sub
tracing five from eleven would
know that there are just six Clubs
higher than the card led. not in the
hand of the leader; and as all Of
them are in the Closed Hand and
Dummy. East cannot hold any Club
higher than the Five, so the trick
can be taken with the Eight in the
Closed Hand. But it is in the DUN.
my hand, not in the Closed Hand
that the next lead is desired; by over.
taking each time, Dummy has three
entries in Spades, but may need -four
two leads of Hearts and two OF
Diamonds. Playing the Jack Of
Clubs on the first trick will not af-
feet the number Of Club tricks to be
won by Declarer, so Dummy should
win trick l. and, trick 2, lead a Dia-
mond. When the first finesse wins.
trick 3 should be used to give Dunn
my the lead with a Spade; trick
lead a second Diamond and again
finesse; trick 5, lead the Ace of Dia-
monds to see If adverse Diamonds
drop; and trick 6, utilize Dum1nys
second Spade entry. Dummy having
another entry, do not now cash
Dummy's thirteenth Diamond and
force an awkward discard from
Closed Hand; but lead a Heart, and
having less than nine in the two
hands, take the double finesse play
ing the TEN. When that wins, use
Dummy's last spade entry, cash the
thirteenth Diamond, discarding a
Club from Closed Hand, lead another
Heart and make n Small Slam by
the fortunate break of Hearts.
Copyright John +. Ollie Co.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
BIunder

Whatever the Chinese situation
may have been yesterday, or the
day before, it is grave now.
Chang Tso-Lin's raid of the Rus
sian embassy was the stupidest kind
of blunder.
1t gives the Soviet a Legitimate
excuse for aggressive measures,
while it robs other nations of legiti-
mate excuse to support Chang Tso-
Lin.
Chang Tso-Lin has not only been
the great bulwark of the British,
French and American interests in
China, but the one hope of stopping
the Cantonese.
He was anti-Bolshevist, of course,
and was loved more for that than
any other reason. Any way one
looked at the Chinese situation,
Chang Tso-Lin was the best bet of
the powers who are trying to set
China right without actual interven-
ton.
His unjustifiable attack on the
Russian embassy comes pretty near
to spelling his usefulness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
Mills and the Gods

great change is coming over the United States
Treasury Department
lhanks TO ogden Mills, the new undersecretarv
It's showing distinct signs Of becoming human again
FOR six years the treasury has occupied place
almost unique in the annals of American politics
Is been sort of modern Valhaa, temple of
great financial GODS radiating distilled aroma of
fiscal righteousness
suggestions that the treasury might have GER
'' nuinah lraltles have been consistently met with
arched eyebrows and implied rebuke "Do Won nre.
sumo to suggest that department headed nv q man
VINO is worth half billion dollars could make q
mistake in financial matters?p OHeaven forbid, 90
10 the foot of the CLASSIC
Mills, in the brief period he has been undersec.
tary, has punctured the internal imitation 90 a.
treasury. He has talked and written like roouo
mortal His letter to the Princeton nrofessors
signed by Mellon of course-designed IN soueIob
Iher plea for war debt revision was more like an
invitation to further debate than a final nessoco
from the gods.
ana now in his New York address on Federal
'"Aa'ion Mills has again displayed himself as a
normally pugnacious and partisan mortal
III that address he frankly acknowledged the
nents" oppo
lie forgot his present role as high treasury,
po'ehtate long enough to take a few political wal
Tops at AL Smith, his opponent in the last Nou,
York gubernatorial race
And he handled figures with zest and abandon
"nion almost suggested deliberate invitation IN
come-packs. He skated out on thin ice Of Federo1
revenue prognosticaton he talked about what ,rib+
oe expected to be the normal" treasury surnIus
ne oeoated the question of whether Democrats mr.
republicans have made Il better showing in redufing
the national debt, and ne speculated about ta 70,
duction program
Mills New York speech was a controversial aAd
provocative speech. 1t was just the kind of snoecb
treasury officials haven't been making in recent
years.
rernaps when Secretary Mellon gets back from
EUROPE he will stfe Mills partisan outbresks h.,
reminding him that when one sits beside the gods
one must act like god, not like hard.boiled two.
hsted Republican wheelhorse
We hope not.
"nat the treasury loses in atmosphere nv bav.
ing Mills act human will be more than made I'm b,,
tue popular education involved in the arguments ba
starts. ne
we really ought to know something about the
largest financial institution in the history ~ ,bo
world. s VI Tue
IL we can have debates on the suhiec, ,ns.o.s
Oh olVane revelations perhaps we will find ont
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
Still Far Apart

In spite of the inventions and the
discoveries, of all the improved
means of travel and communication,
we still live far apart.
At the press conference in the
British foreign Office on Thursday a
reporter asked the Government
spokesman If he had any informa-
ton regarding the military situa-
ton in Chicago"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
New Eyes and Ears

1t is not only possible TO hear but
to see by wire. and not only by
wire, but by radio.
The electric eye as we'll as the
electric ear has come into being as a
workable fact.
Men have actually sat In a New
York o;ce and seen those with whom
they talked in Washington.
What is still more remarkable.
they have seen Herbert 4foover's lips
move as he delivered an address
over the radio two hundred miles
away.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
~
Tracy
~ Says:
Merely q Bit of Relaxation
Which Tired LaaO-
makers Deserve?
BY NJ. L. Tracy

The Tennessee House of Repre-
sentatives adjourned on Thursday
to see Babe Ruth play ball.
Shall we accept such action as
showing what applied fundamental
ism really means, or as merely bit
of relaxation which tired lawmakers
deserve?
This is a great country, but
greater in nothing than that pecu-
liar sense of humor which can see
no joke in denouncing Darwin by
statute and then quitting the job to
watch a hired entertainer swat the
horsehide.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
Worlds East Pace

The world has moved fast during
the last four or five generations.
1t was only 100 years ago that
John Walker, an English chemist,
sold his first box Of friction matches.
What a boon matches were con-
sidered by the housewife of that day.
No more fumbling with finder and
flint to light a fire or candle in the
cold.
Now we use matches mostly to
light pipes, cigars and cigaretts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
Topic for the Week
THE SPIRITUAL STRUGGLE"
Saturday
Saturday
Choice is Essential"

Not by might, nor by power, but
by my Spirit, saith Jehovah OF
hosts Czech. 4:6). Repent We
therefore. and turn again" (Acts
S:19) IF ye then, being evil
know how to give good gifts unto
your children, how much more shall
your Heavenly Father give the Holy
Spirit unto them that ask Him
ok. 11I2)
see-Isaiah s:6S, Mark ia, 15
John 5.40.43.
MEDITATION: have many
conflicting desires, but 7 have will
power also. I can and must decide
If 1 choose to, can cover the light
and quench the spirit. or 1 may re
pent and make 1t burn brightly
Earnest desire for the spirit of God
assures the presence of that spirit
With my host of fellow. seekers
after God, let me blend my will
with his.
That which makes me greater
than the beasts of the field is not
my superior strength, but my
superior insight into my own weak
ness. My greatness is my sense Of
needs unsatisfied."
HYMN:
Christian. rise, and act thy creed
Let thy pray'r be In thy deed,
Seek the right, perform the true
Raise thy work and life anew.
Hearts around thee sink with carcA
Thou canst help their load to beaM
Thou canst bring inspiring ligh&
'$Arm their faltcring wills to fight
Come, then. Law divine, AMI
reign,
Freest faith assailed in vain,
Perfect love bereft Of fear,
Born in heaven and radiant here
i. A. Rollo Russell, 1895
PRAYER: Thanks for daily bread
Pray for-spirit of good will
lovers of self young people.
Collect. o. God. who dwellest in
tue DCduly VI UOllltSSs VIC llldlSc
Thee for the beauty of the earth
for loneliness embodied in noble
men and for the revelation of Thy
self in Jesus Christ the incarnation
of Thy conquering love. We arc
covered with shame at the thought
of Thy faithfulness for we have net
been ever true TO Thee. Keep us
fropl infidelity to Thy friendship
Save us from treachery of soul
From the choice of evil and from
the enforcement of the lesser
things deliver us. Awaken in US
living sense of Thy spirit. Give US
hunger and thirst for righteousness
May our hearts burn with the pres
.ence of Christ in us. So would We
enthrone Thee, trust Thee, love
Thee, obey Thee; all by the grace Of
Christ. Amen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
Silly Remarks.

We can afford to laugh, but more
than one American has made just as
silly remarks about China.
Marvellous as the telephone. tele-
graph and radio may be. they still
fall short of conveying the informa-
ton they should.
The fault is ours, no doubt, be-
cause we gossip too much and listen
too little for anything but jazz.
People can't be serious all of the
time, but they should be serious
enough to recognize a grave situa-
ton whenever it develops.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
Contrast in Justice

In contrast with the swift. sure
justice dealt out to Vase Radich in
Milwaukee, North Carolina court
allows man convicted of assault on
a woman to accept Punishment from
the State in lieu of a two-year prison
term.
This idea of banishing convicts is
becoming popular. 1t soothes the
sob-sister conscience and saves
money, but it contributes nothing
toward the prevention of crime.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
Ona B. Talbot Puts the Orchestral
Situation Right Up to Music Patrons

n HE orchestra concert on Mon
day evening, April IS, pre-
senting the Cincinnati Sym
phony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner. con-
ductor, Sophie Braslau, contralto
soloist, will bring to a close the five
years series of orchestra concerts
organized under the Indianapolis
Symphony Society, Ona B. Talbot,
managing director. to promote a love
for great orchestra music.
A group of public-spirited men and
women have given their loyal sup
port to this undertaking which has
meant much for the cultural de-
velopment of the city.
With the beginning of the sixth
season, greater plans are being for
mulated which make the series of
orchestra concerts a permanent and
large contributing factor in the
musical affairs of the State.
The sixth season will be depen-
dent for its distinctiveness by the
willingness of the patrons of music
to show by their attendance at the
last symphony orchestra concert on
April IS, Easter Monday evening,
that they wish orchestra concerts.
When the musical public of the
Pacific Coast accepts an artist it
does so with a whole-heartedness
which the more sophisticated East
does not always exhibit, yet an artist
to win the acceptance of those far
western cities must be high in merit
The Pacific Coast being far away
has not had as much mediocrity as
the East has had. Sophie Braslau,
the contralto, went out there two
seasons ago for the first time and
her tour was an uninterrupted sue
cession of triumphs.
In San Francisco, Redfern Mason
wrote in the Examiner that her re-
cital proved her an artist of rare
gifts and rarer personality" Walter
Bodin wrote that 'the singer sings
as a bird might. She sings because
it is the thing for her to do. She
has a voice heavy with the wealth
of tone; her vocal and emotional
ranges are almost beyond belief"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
Who said who steals my purse
steals trash?"

The quotation is from Shake
speare's Othello, Act 8, Scene 8 and
reads as follows:
Good name in man and woman,
dear, my Lord,
Is the immediate jewel Of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash;
It's something, nothing;
Twas mine, it's his; and has been
slave to thousands,
But he that filches from me my
good name
Robs me of that which not enriches
him,
And makes me poor indeed"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09

What Is the record of the worldM
free rifle match and who holds It? u
According to the latest available rec
ords a Swiss named Hartman is the
holder of the worlds individual free
rifle match championship. His zee.
ord is 1,109 out of possible 1900.
The worlds free rifle team match
record is 1886 out OF a possible 5000
and Is also held by Switzerland.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09

Where should one address mail TO
the Ringing Brothers Circus?
Ringing Brothers and Barnunl
and Bailey Combined Shows, Bridge
port, Conn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09

us ABOUT time to discover that we're lucky TO
ua'e n'eo the winter in such dirty house,
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reaches Browning has written song. youro
man, beware wine and women too.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09

The bi.monthly students recital
of the Indiana College of Music, will
be given Saturday, the 10Th. at $50
p. m. Lucille Vow is in charge of
the program. The following students
are taking part: Mary Jacqueline
Holiday, Emma Elizabeth Hallet,
Marjorie Miller, Kenneth Calm,
Betty Jane Peterson, Ruth Apostol,
Margaret Pfennig, Dorothy Weber,
Jean Louise Aronhalt, Beatrice Ur-
WITT, John Eugene Eklund. Audley
Kinder, Jane Adams. Estelle Ruth
Cohen, Margaret Cuddy. Oma Kath-
crime Gladdish, Alfred Coffin. Mar
vim Helm, Albert Urwitz, Irma May
Steele, Martha Davis and Raymond
Harms are pupils of Gladys Loucke,
May Gorsuch. Blanche Brown, Pau
line Roes, Flora Lyons, Frances
Evan Georgieff. Ruth
Todd, Gertrude Hacker and Lucille
Vow. The monthly faculty-business
luncheon of the Indiana College of
Music and Fine Arts will take place
Monday, April II, at noon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09

III HREE programs will be given
at Butler University next
week for noon eonvocations
by musicians from the Metropolitan
School of Music. Wednesday the
School trio, Dom Wat
son. violin; Adolph Schellschmidt,
cello, and Earle Howe Jones, piano,
will play and there will be solos by
Mr.. Jones and Evan Walker, bari
tone. Thursday Mrs. Arthur G. Mon
ninger, pianist, Edwin Jones, violin
list and Robert Schultz, and William
Polk, cornetists, will give the pro.
Turn to Page 81
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09

HE concert season in Indian
apolis under the direction of
The Ona 3. Talbot Fine Arts
Enterprises will close on Sunday
afternoon, May 1, with one of the
most famous tenors of the age in
his first appearance in Indianapolis.
Tito Schipa, premier tenor of the
Chicago Opera Company, has won
tremendous fame in the last five
years and every city of importance
has been visited by him time and
time again. The coming of this great
artist to indianapolis is being eager
ly anticipated by the music lovers
throughout the State.
Schipa's second and final concert
in New York last winter was next
morning described in the Herald
Tribune under the headline Emo
tional Riot Greets Tito Schipa at
Carnegie Hail." and continued, 1.-THE
weather proved no deterrent to the
several thousand enthusiastic admir-
/ ers of Tito Schipa, who crowded Car
negie Hall last night, scarcely leav-
ing room for the artist on the stage.
The Atlanta Georgian stated of
Schipa's appearance there, ut was
the biggest concert audience Atlanta
ever had;' The Evening Ledger,
Philadelphia. declared. "Mr. Schipa
was received with immense enthus-
iasm by an audience which taxed
the capacity of the Metropolitan"
The Pittsburgh Sun said, Tito
Schipa, renowned tenor, returned TO
the Mosque last night to sing be-
fore his thousands of admirers"
But whether it is in a city where
Schipa has sung annually since he
began his concert tours in this coun.
try five seasons ago, or whether it
is his first local appearance, the rec
ord is just the same. The Memphis
CTenn.) Commercial Appeal de-
scribed the latter situation as fol-
lows: Although he came to Mem
phis relatively unknown, except to
the few who had heard him else
where, Schipa plunged into the
greatest ovation ever accorded a
singer on a local concert stage"
Tccy n r
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09

I'll ISIS Margaret f. Delameter of
IM the Progressive Series Piano
Studios will present her pu-
pills in an operatta From Out of
the Past" Thursday, April IA, at
7:45 o'clock in the Irvington Masonic
Temple.
Marian, age 9, lamenting over
scale and study practice, is shown
by her mother how beautiful both
are IL played well. The mother
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