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THE UTILITY BURDEN
Public utilities had a very prosperous year in
1926, according to the reports filed with that public
Service commission which the lower House of the
Legislature asked the Governor to discharge.
The people who pay the bills may wonder why
they, as partners, should be expected to rise up and
shout over this fact.
Two cuts In rates have been made in this city.
One of these came with the light merger and rep
resents only a very small portion of what should be
saved from the costly competition between a strong
concern which depended on service and a weaker
one which depended on politics to keep them at a
dead level. For years the people paid rates sufficient
to support the political light company and, of course,
paid enormous profits to the one efficient company
as the price of keeping the other one in existence.
So that cut, welcome as it is, brings no credit to
the public service commission.
The other cut was in gas rates and was made
only after The Times had called attention to the
enormous profits of the company. At least the com
mission said that the reduction was du in a large
degree to the facts given the public by The Times.
But that reduction was exactly what the com
pany wished to give in order, perhaps, to escape a
real investigation of its profits. It might be called
a crumb dropped from a heavy laden table.
It now appears that the cut in rates was made
and ordered by the commisison before the. report
for last year was filed, that any examination was per
functory, that the commission probably acted as a
messenger for the gas company and relayed the de
sires of that company to the public.
The important fact is that the commission, in
making its order, gave no facts on which it tyas
based. It gave the public no intimation as to how
much this company earned. It gave no figures as to
profits or earnings or expenses.
The commission failed to perform those func
tions for which it was created. It did not act as
the protector of the public. It did not even pretend
to be a judge in a case, anew view of its functions
which has lately been adopted.
In this case, certainly, the commission gave an
additional reason for the resolution of the Legisla
ture asking that its members be dismissed and new
men named who would represent public interest.
Now comes the telephone company which shows
that it took a million more dollars in profit out of
Indiana last year than it did the year before.
That means, of course, that telephone users paid
that much more for service than it cost the company
to render any additional service.
The water company turns in a report which in
dicates that it had a profit of 15 per cent on its in
vestment, which is a fairly good return.
All of these companies only through tho
use of public property and are given a monopoly on
the sale of public necessities.
All of these companies take their share of every
pay envelope, of the price of every manufactured
product, of every sale in any store, large or small.
The bigger the burden they put upon the home,
the factory and the store, the less chance these In
stitutions have to prosper.
These reports in themselves justify that de
mand for the resignation of the public service com
mission members.
But, of course, they will not be forced to re
sign. . They will stay in office.
For the utilities understand government and the
science of Indiana government. They know the
value of keeping a huge lobby to watch the Legis
lature and show a skill in distributing campaign
contributions.
These burdens will continue until the people
show enough interest in their own welfare to really
own their own government and not permit it to be
knocked down to the highest bidder in primaries and
elections.
THE CITY MANAGER
Machine politics has furnished the final and con
vincing evidence of the need of a city manager form
of government in Indianapolis.
When Governor Jackson signed the measure
which then became a law under which present
mayors cannot be supplanted by city managers until
the end of their elected terms, he confessed for all
the machine that the people need a change, want
a change and would obtain a change if they had the
power. /
So certain were the mayors of Indianapolis and
Evansville that the people they serve would like
to get rid of them that they asked the state to set
aside the implied contract with the people at the
time of their elecion. ,
The argument that a man who pays his money
for a campaign for mayor is hired for four years
and ought not to be deprived of any emoluments
or perquisites or power during that time, is of
course, most fallacious.
When Mayor Duvall made his strenuous effort
to obtain nomination and an election, the law under
which he sought office gave to the people the right
to change that office to a city manager at any time
the majority so willed.
That law stood as .the protection of the people
against misuse of power.
That was a part of his contract.
To get rid of that part of the bargain, the
Legislature was induced to pass this new law which
permits him and all other mayors to keep the jobs
until their terms expire.
There has never been a more flagrant breaking
of contract or of faith with the people.
Apparently the people have no recourse. No one
comes forward with an opinion that a law which
sets aside a contract in their favor is unconstitu
tional. That seems reserved for the protection of
officials with whom the people may desire to enforce
their contracts. v
The answer, of course, should be an Immediate
organized effort to prepare for a city manager gov
ernment at the earliest possible moment.
It would be a pity If Indianapolis found itself
two years hence, again tied to the archaic, costly,
expensive, political, partisan government which is
responsible for much trouble and which has become
a real obstacle to its growth and its prosperity.
Let’s get rid of the system which fastens the
burden of politics upon the people. Let’s get rid of
& Oontract breakers for all time. #
WHEREIN WE JOIN
MR. KELLOGG’S DEFENDERS
Magnificently naive, to use one of our gentler
adjectives, is the latest bedtime story from Wash
ington explaining just how Adolfo Diaz came to be
made president of Nicaragua.
It seems—according to the Washington Post,
regarded somewhat in the light of an organ of the
State Department—that it was Mexico, not the
United States, that brought it about and she did so
by means of one of the boldest forgeries known In
the annals of diplomacy.
It was like this, we are informed. One day
Lawrence Dennis, the young charge d’affaires down
in Managua, received detailed instructions to “use
pressure” to put Diaz in power, said instructions
"purporting” to bear the signature of Secretary
Kellogg.
But, . . . tho story continues: . . . claims
that the document is a forgery, sponsored by unscru
pulous Mexican officials, have been advanced by de
fenders of the State Department policies. The sig
nature of Secretary Kellogg is false, they assert.
They contend the entire tone of the document reeks
of illogical reasoning quite at variance with diplo
matic subtlety.
“In conclusion they point out the patent stu
pidity of any State Department official who will
fully might send out 6uch a communication.”
It is a really wonderfully written document, but
it seems to leave a few stray ends dangling loose.
All along the “State Department’s defenders” have
insisted that Mexico was backing the Sacasa revolu
tion against Diaz. The present yarn depicting Mex
ico as the creator of the opposition as well somehow
doesn’t quite gibe.
Secondly, if the document is a forgery, why
did Secretary Kellogg feel bound to help the Mexican
game along to the handsome extent of sending sev
eral thousand marines and a dozen United States
warships to Nicaragua to bolster up the forgery
made Diaz?
I
Thirdly, how did the forgery get into Dennis’
hands? Important State documents of this nature
surely are not written on stray hits of wrapping
paper and sent on to our legations by the first small
boy that happens along. Signed, sealed and deliv
ered into well-locked diplomatic pouches inside the
State Department itself, they are supposed to be for
warded by special messenger or other safe means.
If the instructions to Dennis are a forgery, as
charged, it is a serious accusation not only against
Mexico, but against the State Department as well.
For somewhere there would have to be a traitor of
the most odoriferous variety to pass the forgery
along. .
On this beautiful specimen of Ciceronic logic
we have just one small comment to make: If that
is the test of authenticity of State Department docu
ments then those same “unscrupulous Mexican offi
cial::" must now be bordering on nervous prostration
due to overwork. For they have been monstrous
busy of late, shaping. with their wicked forgeries
practically the bulk of our diplomacy.
Anyway, Mr. Kellogg now has a pretty good idea
of what his friends and defenders think of his poli
cies.
That makes it unanimous.
ELMER GANTRY
Sinclair Lewis’ long-heralded book about the
preachers has reached the bookstands and is stirring
up the country, even as predicted. He calls it “El
mer Gantry,” a name likely to take its place in our
vocabulary along with “Babbitt,” for it is that kind
of a book—a book to arouse violent discussion and
bitter debate.
Just as Lewis vivisected the American small
town in “Main Street,” the American business man
in “Babbitt,” and the American doctor in “Arrow
smith,” he now has applied the scapel—and occasion
ally the butcher knife —to the men in the pulpit.
Gantry, the principal character, is a Baptist
preacher with an instinct for immorality that
amounts almost to a passion. He has no lovable
qualities like Babbitt; from first to last he offends
almost every sense of decency. The opening of the
story discovers him as a star football player in a
jerkwater Baptist college in Kansas, loose in his be
havior and wavering in his faith in the dogma of the
church. By his physical prowess he succeeds In sub
jugating the other undergraduates until they bestow
upon him all the honors of the class. Finally, in a
wave of emotionalism, evoked by a Y. M. C. A. re
vivalist, he hits the sawdust trail and at the mo
ment gets his first taste of the power that can be
wielded by a sonorous voice and canting words, when
he sways the audience in a speech announcing his
conversion.
His life at the theological school is more ma
turely licentious than it was at college. He is
finally expelled. Follow a few years as a traveling
salesman until he is again drawn to the mourners
bench at the feet of a beautiful female evangelist by
a lust for her physical charms and a reawakened de
sire to exercise the spell of his voice and enthusiasm
upon large audiences. After joining this woman re
vivalist Gantry marches rapidly up the ladder to pul
pit fame and financial success.
Lewis undoubtedfy intended to make Gantry, not
typical of the Baptist church ministry, but rather a
prevalent type in the evangelical creeds. But It is
to the church as an institution that he applies Ills
knife; occasionally with delicacy, but more often
with brutal strokes. It is the shams, the hypocrisies,
the ignorance and the futilities of churchmen and
church dogmas that he is seeking to expose. And to
what end.
Vivisection is a science and the only excuse for
its cruelty is that it enables the vivisector to find a
means for curing human ills. Lewis fails in that
function. He dissects but attempts no reconstruc
tion, nor even suggests remedies for the evils he
discloses. He is intelligent enough to know that re
ligion is too deeply ingrained 4n human psychology to
be erased by criticism or exposition of the vulgari
ties that may have crept into it. A book like “El
mer Gantry” only succeeds in offending the devout
and the intelligent reader who is groping for a bet
ter means of spiritual elevation than thfe churches
now offer. One lays it aside with a feeling that the
author was more desirous of sensational success in
the book market than of contributing to the spiritual
uplift of mankind.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Tracy
Now Religion Joins the
'Chain' Craze —it’s
Good Business.
By M. E. Tracy
The latest is a great religious
circuit ala Keith, with tabernacles
in every town of more than 100,000,
with such well known headliners as
Mrs. McPherson and Billy Sunday
to draw the crowds.
You can’t quarrel with the idea
from a business standpoint. It is
absolutely in line with what a board
of directors and an auditing depart
ment would suggest.
Besides, if religion is to become
an affair of organization and sales
manship, why not do the biggest
sort of a job?
The revival drift :s evidently to
ward faster and better pay. That
being so, why hesitate to borrow
methods from the vaudeville theater?
They have already borrowed from
the box office.
Business has become the dominant
strain of this jazsy age. We want
a bookkeeper and an expert for
everything, with dividends semi
annually.
With cities “managed,” the gospel
on a circuit, and all the movies
brought under trust control, we
should be very happy, providing
there is no default of interest on
bonds and preferred stock.
Canned drama offers the same
field for merger and combine as
canned fish. That is why Wall
Street’ is interesting itself in film
dom.
There is nothing new in the
scheme of putting Hollywood and
your favorite movie house under the
same directorate.
The distributing agency that for
merly bought from one and sold to
the other might just as well be in
cluded.
The first thought back of the
venture was one of protection and
developed within the movie business.
The second is one of profit and
comes from the financial expert. The
third will be one of regulation to
safeguard the public, and__you can
depend on politicians to supply it.
Nice —and Dull
What has occurred in the beef, oil
and steel industries shows how busi
ness begins to combine vrith the idea
of protection, how it is intrigued by
that of profit and how finally it be
comes so obstreperous as to invoke
regulation.
If the various branches of the
movie trade are brought under the
control of a few great corporations,
as now seems inevitable, we shall
presently be more concerned over
the price of tickets than the char
acter of films.
When dividends become the all
important object, you can look for
“safety first” to become an all-im
portant policy.
That means such a censorship Is
bound to please/ the vast majority.
The balance sheet tolerates no un
necessary risk, whether from a
cranked steel beam or a racy head
line.
When the movies become organ
ized you can depend on them being
safe, sane, tame, respectable and un
interesting.
Business Rules
Business has become the dominat
ing force in life. It bears the same
relation to modern government and
(society that the army did to those of
Rome, or the church did to those of
the middle ages.
We are coming to measure every
thing by money and mechanics.
The risk of the experiment lies in
its repressive force.
Business is essentially conserva
tive. It runs to routine, to a fixed
system, to methods that can be de
pended upon to produce given re
sults from day to day.
It welcomes such discoveries and
inventions as will make the existing
order more effective and profitable.
It opposes those promise revo
lutionary change. *
The telephone industry fears noth
ing so much as a device that will
make radio available for private
communication and the electric in
dustry fears nothing so much as
cold light.
Dangerous Fields
Art and religion are the most
dangerous fields for business to en
ter.* They demand freedom beyond
everything else; freedom of consci
ence, faith, intellect and imagina
tion.
Nothing worse could happen in
this or any civilized country, than
for the church and the theater to fall
under control of business methods.
An evangelistic circuit and a
movie trust mean little by them
selves, because each represents lit
tle more than froth, but they are
symptomatic of what may eventual
ly occur.
Organized capital and more par
ticularly the system of operating
vast enterprises which it has
evolved, is reaching in all directions.
Wherever there, is a dollar to be
made, or a deal to be turned, you
will find it present.
Business has its advantages. They
are not to be ignored or minimized.
There are some phases of life, how
ever, that cannot be subordinated to
it without great loss. Art and re
ligion are two.
Q. To what age do white oaks
grow and when do they mature?
A. They grow to be 150 to 300
years old and mature between 75
and 125 years, depending’ upon the
locality.
Movie Verdict
OHlO—Wallace Beery tries
to enter Hall of Fame as Casey
in “Casey At The Bat.” Jury
still in doubt.
CIRCLE—“An Affair of the
Follies,” is another one of those
stage stories in which a show
girl turns down riches to marry
poverty and love. Remember
this is a movie and not life.
APPOLO —The Navy and the
Marines have been glorified
again. This time in “Let It
Rain.”
Anything to Keep Body and Soul Together!
*%£s'*g~r~
Wallace Beery Tries to Enter Hall
of Fame as Casey With a Baseball Bat
11 By W. D. Hickman
An effort has been made by Wal
lace Beery to enter the Hall of
Fame as Air. Casey and a baseball
bat.
Y'ears ago when I was a youngster
in a little town in Illinois everybody
who “orated” or
spoke pieces in
public generally
recited "Casey At
The Bat.” To me
the poem has
never been the
knockout classic
as it is to many
others. Its appeal
came from the
general love that
Americans have
for baseball. As
Wallace Beery has
suddenly devel
oped into a come
dian of much box
office power, those
who control what
Wallace Beery
goes on the screen
decided to permit Wallace Beery to
be the Casey in this “immortal”
poem. The director goes back about
twenty-five years. Those were the
days when the good* women when
they went buggy riding would say
to their fresh escorts, “Unhand me,
Sir, I thought you weYe a gentleman
but I see that I am mistaken.” Those
were the days, according to the sub
title writer in “Casey at the Bat,”
when the skirts of women started
at the ankle and when men’s thirst
was satisfied at every corner. The
director has tried to reproduce small
town baseball life twenty-five years
ago and then shift it to New Y’ork
during the same period.
Casey in the movie version was
idle six days a week and on Sunday
became the village idol when lie
played ball with the home team.
Never have I seen Wallace Beery act
so much like William C. Fields as
he does in this one.
Casey was in love with a small
town belle, played by Zasu Pitts who
has developed a sort of a Lillian
Gish way. Zasu is given no chance
to be a funny woman this time, ex
opt that she does look funny in her
old fashioned long dress.
It seems to me that the director
and the person responsible for bring
ing this poem to the screen would
have bettered conditions if the small
town atmosphere had been produced
with more regard to realism. There
is a strong element of farce In the
first part of the movie, and then it
becomes mightily melodramatic
when some crooks try to frame
Casey. ' They frame him, but use
such a silly method, which shows
that Casey, if the movie version be,
Times Readers
Voice Views
Editor of The Times:
Now 'that the Legislature has ad
journed, the good citizens of Indi
ana should offer up a prayer of
thankfulness and manifest a spirit
of pride in the great work accom
plished by their lawmakers. The
late Legislature certainly acquitted
Itself with great honor and profit
to their State. The membership of
the outgoing Legislature have cer
tainly crowned themselves with
everlasting glory as lawmakers.
Yet among the many measures
they enacted, and the many resolu
' tions they passed and the many
[ commissions they appointed, I find
I nowhere among this vast maze of
legislative action a resolution offered
to determine the exact time dog days
begin and when they end. This is
a very important matter from the
standpoint of health, as we are told
fresh fish is unhealthy food in dog
days.
Nor has this same body arrived
at any definite understanding, by in
vestigation, as to how the odor sack
may be removed from the skunk
without injury either to the oper
ator or the animal. This, too, would
be of great Importance to
dealer.
I take it these are matters of suf
ficient interest that they should not
have been overlooked. In their mad
rush for personal glory, as they
greatly transcend in importance
many of the measures they so vigor
ously and heroically wrestled with.
| * J. R.
true, was pretty much of a sap.
Now, I may ne all wrong about
"Casey at the Bat,” and I probably
am. There will be those who will
rave over the quaintness of th% pro
duction and will welcome it as some
thing really different.
Wallace Beery makes Casey a com
plete boob ,a small town sap, and I
doubt if this Casey could actually
swat a fast ball. So I will let the
baseball fans and those who love the
poem to champion this one, as I
can’t become enthusiastic over this
one.
Charlie Davis and his gang are In
“Radioland” this week.
At tlio Ohio all week.
\
THE NAVY AND MARINES
ARE GLORIFIED AGAIN
It is becoming quite popular these
days to glofify the marines and the
Navy.
“Let It Rain,” with Douglas Mac-
Lean, is another attempt to make
these two branches of service mighty
alluring.
Os course, the best of all this kind
of entertainment is “Tell It to the
Marines,” just everyday life of the
leathernecks, done
with a fine regard
to realism. "Let
It Rain” is a dif
ferent sort of en
tertainment, as it
runs to comedy,
farce and melo
drama as well as
i theatrical ro
mance. Tho actors
playing the ma
rines and the
Nav£ in “Let It
Rain” act more
like freshmen on
a College campus
than they do men
in the service of
Uncle Sam.. Os
course. Douglas
Mac Lean is a good
In T till
Douglas
Mae Lean
actor in farce and in comedy. If
you consider “Let It Rain” as just
entertainment, a sort of an extrava
gant comedy idea of life upon a bat
tleship, then this one will not worry
you. But If you desire realism, even
in your comedy, then this one will
worry you just as it did me.
Mac Lean is cast as “Let It Rain
Riley,” the leader of the marines
who goes In for hazing and playing
tricks 'upon members 'of the Navy
on a battleship. It. seems that the
battleship in this movie is more of
a stunt parlor than a real battle
ship.
Mac Lean and a gob fall in love
with the same girl, a telephone oper
ator in a big hotel. Both the gob
and the marine play tricks upon
each other to win the hand of the
girl. And of course, Mac Lean wins
the girl, played by Shlrely Mason.
Os course, Mac Lean gets in a lot
of trouble and is kept in quarters
for treating a superior officer a lit
tle too rough.
McLean disobeys orders, arrives
on time when a gang of mail bandits
were getting ready to overpower the
marines and steal the money.
When these train scenes arrive,
this movie becomes very melo
dramatic and Mac Lean succeeds in
rounding up the bandits all by him
self. And while this exciting affair
was going on, the girl was present
to see him make a hero of himself.
The bill includes a Buster Brown
comedy, a news reel, Dick Powell in
songs and music by Emil Seidel and
his orchestra.
At the Apollo all week.
Otis Skinner opens a three-<jay en
gagement tonight at English's in
“Honor of the Family.”
Other theaters today offer: Jack
Norworth and Dorothy Adelphi, at
Keith’s; Calm and Gale, at the
Palace; "Seminary Scandals,” at the
Lyric; “Music Master,” at the Up
town; “The Music Master,” at the
Sanders; 1 “The Last Frontier,” at the
Southside; .“The Western Whirl
wind,” at the Isis, and burlesque at
the Mutual.
GEORGE JESSEL WINS IN
VITAPHONE PRESENTATION
Some months ago, I journeyed to
Cincinnati to see George Jessel in
“The Jazz Singer.”
Yesterday I went to the Circle In
Indianapolis to sCe how this same
man came out with his experience
with Vitaphone.
When I first encountered Vita
phone in New York last September,
I thought then it
might be just u
fad. But, after
seeing- the second
Vitaphone bill at
, the* Circle this
week, 'I know now
that Vitaphone is
not a fad, and
that it will be
come just as im
portant to movie
theaters as the
photoplay. George
Jessel is a come
dian of life. He
knows moods and,
above all, he
knows how to get
direct contact with
■<7
Billie Dove
his audience in a second’s time,
was shown yesterday, when the au
dience applauded his wise remarks
so loudly that it was difficult at
times to hear what he was really
saying. Jessel starts his act, and
while talking a telephone bell rings,
and he admits that such Interrup
tions, are disgusting. Finally he an
swers the phone and discovers 'lt is
his “mommer” wanting him to make
his younger brother take a bath.
“And we have lived in that house
for eight years and the water all of
a sudden gets hot.” This telephone
stunt is a comedy knockout. Then
Jessel closes with one of his intimate
heart songs. He has been faithfully
recorded as to voice as well ns man
nerisms. Really, very wonderful.
The second number on the Vita
phone bill is Mischa Elman, noted
violinist. Vitaphone has caught the
delicate shading and expression
which is characteristic of this man’s
playing. The third presentation on
Vitaphone is the Four Aristocrats,
who play banjo, uke, piano and the
like. Here is sensational Jazz play
ing. As wonderful as the first Vita
phone bill was, the second is ten
times more enjoyable.
The movie feature is “An Affair
Os The Follies.” with Lewis Stone,
Billie Dove, Lloyd Hughes and
Arthur Hoyt. Here is another one
•of those backstage romance movies
in which a Follies beauty, played by
Miss Dove, turns down a rich guy
(Lewis Stone) for a poor but good
looking clerk (Lloyd Hughes) who
couldn’t keep his job.
The marriage is quite a mess be
cause the Follies beauty left the
stage for her apartment and a hus
band. Said husband could not meet
the bills, so friend wife returns o
work. Husband runs away and little
wife is so lonely.
Now don't be ridiculous. Sure
Billie and Lloyd, that is the char
acters they play, make up and ev
erybody is happy. Oh so happy.
Here is just conventional entertain
ment with a, new twist hero and
there to a very old and muchly used
th'rme.
I At the Circle all week.
Questions and
• Answers
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Q. Having waited eight rears
sirce obtaining my first papers, can
I now obtain iny American citizen
ship?
A. Seven years is the maximum
time allowed in which to apply for
citizenship. You will hare to apply
for first papers again, and must then
wait at least two years before ap
plying for your second papers.
Q. What Is the present capital
of Russia?
A. Moscow.
Q. Gene Tunney heavy
weight champion boxer of the world
when he played in the motion pic
ture “The Fighting Marine”?
A. The picture was made last
summer before he became champ
ion.
MARCH 14,1927
Work
Informatory Double May
Be Disastrous Boom
erang,
By Milton C. Work
The pointer for today Is:
The informatory double, sound
ly used, is a most effective weapon;
improvidently used it is a devas
tating boomerang.
At the risk of repetition, I again
strongly emphasize the Importance
of using the Informatory double con
servatively. With a dependable part
ner—one who can be relied upon to
have at least five high cards of such
strength and with such guards that
they will probably take tricks—the
Informatory double usually is effect
ive and rarely produces a loss of
any consequence; but the lmprovh
dent doubler who, without the requ!-'
site strength, may be forcing his
partner to assume a contract to take
eight tricks with a hand not good
for even one, Is a very dangerous
vis-a-vis. When a player announces
that he will not double unless he
lias the five lilgh-card strength re
quirement above described, and lives
up to his announcement, he avoids
serious losses and maintains the
fldence of the partner. ■
One other essential point to be re
membered in connection with the
use of the informatory double is
that the partner (irt tho absence of
an intervening adverse bid) Is forced
to bid: consequently his bid (unless
he rebid) cannot bo depended upon
as showing anything more than four
cards of the suit he names. It is
a common and serious error for a
doubler who has doubled soundly
with a holding just sufficient to Jus-,
tlfy the double, to feel that when tha
answer of the partner happens to be
in a suit in which tho doubler is.
strong, it is the duty of the doubler
to raise the partner's bid. This is
an unsound practice which produces
innumerable and serious losses.
When tho doubler’s strength no.
more than Justifies Ids double, the
partner of the doubler should there*
after do all the talking. If South
(Dealer) bid one No Trump, West
holding
Sp: A-10-x Ht: K-x-x-x Di: K-. T-x Cl:
Q-lOsx would have a sound double,
but If North pass,* East bid two
Hearts, and South two No Trumps,
West should not bid three Hearts;
East’s forced bid may have been
made with four worthless Hearts ami
a trickless hand.
(Copyright, John F. Dllle Cos.)
of
Prawß i
plDatUj Lenten Pfik)tion%Y
Prepared by Rev. Cl aries
Emerson Burton, D.D., for ' \
Commission on Evangelism
of Federal Council of tho
Churches of Christ in
America.
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Topic for the Week:
“CHRIST IS A SPIRIT’*
Monday
, “This Makes His Words
Significant”
SCRIPTURE: Read
w-7:11*19.
”The words that I have spoken
unto you are spirit, .and are life”
(Jn. 6:63). "As tho V-ather taught
me I speak these words” (Jn. 8:2H).
“Every one therefore that liearetli’
those words, of mine, and doeth
them, shall be likened unto a wise*
man” (Mt. 7:24, 26).
MEDITATION: "The multitudes*
were astonished at his
and so are we. His words were not
presumptuous because His was tltq :
mind of the Infinite. Is it hard to.
conceive of Christ as one with God? ••
We know His love. His long suffer*
ings, His goodness, His self-control.
His self-sacrifice. Now His onenesa
with God means at least that these
same qualities are In God. Can a
life rise higher than Its source? Cer
tainly God tho fountain Is as good
as Jesus the stream. I will under
stand it if I ran; I will live by |t(|
whether or no. I want the words of*
Jesus to rule my life and the life of* 1
the world.
“Thou wouldst not have me ac
cept Thy will because I ‘must’ but
because I ‘may.’ ”
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 care;
Thou canst help their load to bear;
Thou canst bring inspiring light;
Arm their faltering wills to Qfklu
Come then, Law divine, and reign,
Freest faith assailed in vain,
Perfect love bereft of fear.
Born in heaven and radiant here.
—F. A. Rollo Russell, 1893.
PRAYER: Prayfor—light on God’s
word: victory In vexations; church
schools; young people’s societies.
Collect—O Thou whoso will-to-do
fails not, wo thank Thee for free
dom, for the responsibility which
makes failure possible but success
glorious. We bless Thee that Thou
hast trusted us. Such friendship Is
beyond price. Give us now the in
ner power of Him who triumphed
over every obstacle, yea, even over
agony, hatred, and death. Wo fear
for our souls before the high trusts
of heaven. We confess our sinful
ness In pursuing little things. Cor
rect us by the call of Thy faithful
ness. Give us Increasing faith In th**
| Invisible, unfaltering courage for tliflj
conflict with evil and deliverance
from the fear of death. Amen.
Q- Is tiie baritone voice In the
I bass or tenor register?
A. Baritone is between tenor and
bass but is regarded as high ba.s*.
rather than a lower tenor. Th# baas
voice is of three kinds, basso pro
fundo, basso contanto, and baritone;
or first, second and third baaa.