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TIT INDIANAPOLIS STAR MONDAY APRIL 9 1917 7 THE DAILY PAGE OR WOMEN House Members Ready to Vote Miss Rankin Good Woman Representative Prefers to Be Host to Col leagues at Meals Rather Than Ac cept Invitations Special to The Indianapolis Star WASHINGTON April Now that the members of the House of Repre sentatives have had an opportunity to get acquainted with Miss Jeannette Rankin the first congresswoman they are ready with one accord to vote her into the ranks of "jolly good All of the bachelors In the and there is a raft of them have made the acquaintance of Miss Rankin and every time one speaks to her some jokester makes the old crack about matrimonial possibilities but Miss Rankin is taking her job seriously and her thoughts seem to be far from matrimony It was a rough initiation into congres sional life that Miss Rankin got when she was put right up against the neces sity at the very outset of voting for or against a declaration of war with the greatest power on earth It is violating no confidence to say that Miss Rankin was on the fence quite awhile be fore she decided to cast her vote against the war declaration Some of her best friends and relatives for that matter were insistent that she should vote for the declaration of war She evaded in terviewers who sought Information as to her position finally declining to come out of the House to see them and sending out word that she hadno news for them Picture of Neatness Mies office on the third floor south side of the House Office Building presents a picture of womanly neatness Although a member is entitled only to one room Miss Rankin and her two lovely feminine secretaries have succeeded by a clever arrangement of Interior furnish ings in blocking off a private apartment within the big room Everything Is spick and span A day or so ago the report became circulated that Miss Rankin would have an additional office room as signed to her It soon became evident that if a second room should be set apart for her use those having the matter in charge would have to do some tall ex plaining to the other members even though she happens to be a woman There are scores of members who are seriously handicapped by the lack of space Then again it is understood Miss Rankin will have an active part in the fight which will be renewed for woman suffrage and those members not favorable to the pro posed suffrage amendment anticipate that if a second room Is assigned it will be used almost exclusively as headquarters on government property too for carrying on a most active and earnest suffrage campaign It is this particular feature that fails to strike a sympathetic chord among some members though otherwise they stand ever ready and willing to ex tend to the new woman member every courtesy Any one visiting Miss office will readilv understand why addi tional room is "necessary During the hours her office is open there is a con stant stream of callers mostly women with a sprinkling of newspaper men and photographers Prefers to Be Host Miss good fellowship has been shown on several occasions about lunch time Of course she has many invita tions to take lunch with other members but she prefers to be the host herself She will gather about tier several gentle men colleagues take them down to lunch and pay the check herself like a regular thoroughbred Uncle Joe Cannon the jolly young octogenarian from Illinois does not re call some of the friends who rush up to greet him on the strength of an acquaint ance made away back yonder when Uncle Joe spoke at Podunk or Coon Hollow A day or so ago a man went up to the former speaker and introduced himself Mr Cannon was patient and listened The stranger went on to tell how he had met the distinguished Illinolsian twenty years before and recalled a supposed incident you recognize me asked the man returned Uncle Joe you? Well tell you my friend if St Peter recognize you any better than I do I am afraid you are on your way to some other place than What will be the name of the new war? This is a question that is receiving some consideration here but after all it will be the people who will decide Common usage determines the names of wars Various suggestions are War for War Against Au tocracy' and Kaiser's War" The sixth big war in which the United States has engaged has not of course been named The President tn his mes sage asking for a war declaration said: shall fight for the things we have always carried nearest our hearts for democracy for the right of those who submit to authority to have voice in their own governments for the rights and liberties of small nations for a uni versal dominion of right by such a con cert of free people as shall bring peace and safetv of all nations and make the world at last The resolution declaring war passed by Congress made it plain that the war ia not against the German people but against the Imperial German government Even in these days when guards not only are thick as flies but are supposed to be all eyes strange things will hap pen or example three Indiana men walked right in on the floor of the House of Representatives the other night with out of any kind and listened to President Wilson when he delivered his historic war message to the joint Houses of Congress The floor of course is re served only for those who have floor priv ileges At that time many persons would have given hundreds of dollars for ad mission to the galleries and the thought of securing admission to the floor proper right among all the dignitaries seems to have occurred to only three outsiders These Hoosiers simply fell In line and walked in on the floor with the senators when the members of the upper branch came over to the House to attend the joint session The three were inley Mount of Laporte Ind and red Joss and Henry Pierce of Indi anapolis 4 About THE Theaters English! Mrs iske In Murat Park Rose Melville in 2:15 and 8:15 Vaudeville 2:15 and 8:15 Lyric Vaudeville 2 30 7 :30 and 9 00 Majestic Burlesque 2:15 and 8:15 NOTES THE STAGE Of more than ordinary interest is the en gagement of Mrs iske the foremost among our American actresses at tonight Tuesday Wednosday nights and Wednesday matinee Not only does Mrs iske pres ent visit mark her return to theatrical ac tivity after a long rest hut she Is seen In a brand new modern comedy placing on the stage for the first time an environment at once novel and interesting The' comedy en titled Is from the pen of Marian Deorest recalled for her and Is founded on Helen Mar novel It pictures life ajnld the quaint surroundings of a Pennsyl vania Dutch settlement and Mrs iske has been supplied by Miss Deorest with one of the most delightful comedy roles she lias had and in In recent seasons Mrs iske is seen as Susan Miller an affected posing woman high flown in speech and in dress who replies th an advertisement for a wife and finds her self married to Barnaby Dreary a surly tight fisted Pennsylvania Dutchman with three grown children The role furnishes Mrs iske with ample opportunities for the display of all those flashes of fun and amusing feminine affectations recalled so de lightfully in her performances or Cyprienne in Bumpstead Letgh How Bumpstead How Susan Dreary despite her curious personality and her airs and graces gets the upper hand of the unpleasant conditions surrounding her new lot her efforts reaching a happy climax when she settles in a surprising and novel fashion the love affair of little Barnabetta her stepdaughter forms an amusing and in teresting story Messrs C'ornv and Riter under whose management the actress Is now appearing have displayed admirable taste in the scenic production of and pains taking care In choosing the surrounding nlayers Among the members of the com pany are Walter Wilson Henrv Mortimer John Daly Murphy Robert HtoWe UI Hugh Chilvers Sol Aiken Madeline Delmar Vir ginia Chauvenet Anita Clarendon Eleanor McMurtrie and Anna Reader that ever popular play of Indiana country life is the attraction at the Park for ail of this week with a mat inee tomorrow Wednesday Thursday and Saturday Rose Melville will again bo seen as the little Posey County girl who has made thousands laugh and cry In the fifteen years she has been presenting the piece Miss Melville consented last year to present in the movies and the film was a hup success but not nearly so much as the spnken version of the play for to miss the quaint sayings of Is to miss half of the play In the well known seminary acene rank Mlnzey manager of the play nnd incidentally Miss husband has introduced rfianv new vaudeville num bers Of course is still doing her famous dance and Obadiah the undertaker's assistant is still writing "MOTHER DOESN'T HAVE TO CALL US TWICE SINCE WE STARTED TO HAVE POST TOASTIES OR BREAKAST JkSr 9 witty epitaphs to go with his marked vic tims of the village The Avon Comedy our which is to headline bill all the week Is an old favorite in vaudeville but this year the quartet has a new act called Hun garian that is said to be very funny Bert Melrose the funnv clown comes next Harry and Eva Puck will be heard in the latest song hits Nelson War ing the man and his piano will do his entertaining specialty Roger Gray and company will prosent what they rail ylllelzed musical and there will be Stone and Hayes In a comedy and Sylvia lAjyal and company Raymond Bloomer gained his first stage experience at the Bush Temple Stock Com pany in Chicago in 1907 In 1908 he ap peared In in 1910 he supported Mine Trenteni during her New xork run with In 1911 he became a member of the New York Win ter Garden organization supporting Gaby sirs during her first American engage ment The same season was finished out ritzl Scheff In and'Baron Mr Bloomer then joined the David Belasco forces in 1912 was with David Warfield in and for thn two following seasons was with the Belaseo production of "A Good Little Then followed his engagement with the 'air and cast during the New York engagement in which he appears as Philip Evans the man about town and wil! be at next week is a mervelously human story It does not ten to the slums for a pint nor to the rendezvous of doubtful characters for th persons in the plav starts In a big city banking institution and passes in successive Inter esting stages through the homes of high society and all pertaining thereto Beatrice Sheldon the tortured little heroine is a character that one sees around day after day week after week but it has remained for Anna Grossmark Gross to put such a' character bn paper and fn put into the mouth of the character words that if they are simple are there with a "punch r' is not a tirade against so ciety manners or customs It is a story of what might happen to the most innocent minded girl in ibe world It might happen to your own daughter Mr and Mrs The atergoer and fnr this reason if for noth ing else you should and see the play and be thankful fnr the wonderful lesson It contains without any attempt at moraliz ing will be produced at the Murat Theater on tomorrow and Wednesday night April 10 and 11 with matinee on Wednesday by Messrs Ernest Shuter and Charles IL Bauer Prominent members of the really excellent cast are Holmen Kate Gyon Percy Helton Joseph Rawley Robert Jhorntg Carl Gerard and others Blue the offering at the Murat Theater three nights and Wednesday matinee commencing Tuesday April 17 takes its i 1 1 from an inn of the same name sup posed to be located in Vienna and although there are American characters in the operetta al! the scenes are laid in the Austrian capital The story deals with the son of a wealthy Austrian gentleman Ru dolph who is overfond of con viviality and a constant visitor at the Blue Inn where he has fallen In love with Mlzzl a flower girl at the inn Ru father decides that a change of scene will be well for him and sends him to America to make his fortune Twenty four years later Rudolph returns to the scenes of his youth having accomplished his mission In America only to find that the little flower girl had promised to be true to him Is now tho wife of one of his boon companions Rudolph however doe not allow this to weigh ton heavily on him anil he turns to the widow of his late partner in America who has followed him all tle way from Chi cago and the curtain falls as she promises to marry him In the cast many of them still in their original roles are John Young Robert itkin fihep Camp Madeline Nash Helen Eloy Tjoulae Kelley and other rom the glory of horse racing to the glamor of the footlights Is the path fol lowed by Bobby Vail formerly a well known jockey who Is now appearing in vaudeville as the principal comedian In Explorers a big girl act which heads the till for the week Vail was a mem ber of the famous Johnny Cock stables in 1901 ho won thr Louisville sweepstakes rfdlnsr Rosebud winning against field of the fastest horse of rhe day in the cIhsm That same year won the Carter handi cap riding Dolly ollowing an accident when he was tn4 from a norse wh riding Bobby began to take on weight something which the prrfei'lnnal dreads even tnor so than does the pro fsMional beauty It marked his finish as a rider of race horses WOtflEN DELEGATES ARRIVE NEW ORLEANS La April Several hundred delegates and virtually all the officers including Mrg Josiah Cow les of IjOB Angeles arrived today to attend the council meeting of the General ed eration of Woman Clubs which opens here tomorrow The counc il meeting will continue through next riday oday ash ion 0 BOOK REVIEWS AND Dr Bans th Danish theological pro fessor who in Ills book and mentioned before quotes from the religious and intellectual leaders of Germany to show their spiritual blindness makes no hxrsh comments on the strange self complacency he finds there but lets the men speak for themselves or ex ample he quotes Dr Preuss a theologian of as comparing the passion or sufferings Germany with the passion of Christ being used In the sense with which we apply the word to the sufferings of Christ Germany is the persecuted one rance is Herod Russia is Pilate England the Sanhedrin respon sible for the great crime Turkey is the repentant thief and Italy the treacherous Judas God has in Luther practically chosen the German people says Dr Preuss and that can never be altered Another German writer shows how God shows His special favor to the Germans: our submarine in spite of an al most overwhelming superiority ot force in the course of sixty minutes sends three English cruisers to the bottom without suffering any hurt itself this heroic deed unparalleled in naval history is for the Christian people a testimony from the Lord on high am with you! Do you see Dr Bangs freely quotes criticisms of this spirit of arrogance from German sources and says this spirit is not all of Germany He entertains a profound ad miration for the German people but he regrets the blindness of their spokesmen (The George Doran Company New York) A STENOGRAPHER IS THE BLACK AND GOLD EMBROIDERY TRIMS THIS SMART GRAY SUIT Pockets are not a new chapter in the story of fashions but pock ets are numbered among the novelties lately introduced They are effectively used on a street frock of tan wool Jersey embroidered in black and gold The bodice is semi fitted emphasizing the large waistline The skirt is plaited in four groups of six plaits each Small bullet buttons covered with the material are used to fasten the frock down the back TODAY'S HOROSCOPE By Genevieve Kemble MONDAY APRIL 9 An opposition of the moon to Jupiter does not promise very much for this day in resuming business inances are not favored and any risk of money is warned against Speculation and investment are alike under the baneful transit As a birthday anniversary the native is warned against risks and advised to keep a firm hand on his business affairs A child born on this day will succeed best under others and must guard against ex travagance Archibald Roosevelt to Marry Miss Lockwood Society Girl of Boston BOSTON Mass April 8 An engage ment of widespread interest announced in Boston is that of Miss Grace Lock wood only daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas St John Lockwood of this city to Archibald Roosevelt son ot former President Theodore Roosevelt and Mrs Roosevelt of Oyster Bay I Miss Lockwood is a graduate of Miss School a Back Bay institution and was presented to society in the autumn of 1913 She was a member of the Sewing Circle of that year and is secretary of the Vincent Club having been active in the doings of that organ ization since her debut The Lockwood family resides at HI Bay State road Boston and it is supposed that Miss Lockwood first met young Mr Roosevelt while he was a student at Harvard She has a brother Dunbar Lockwood who is a graduate of Har vard class of Her mother was a Stackpole Archibald Roosevft is the third son of the former President During his so journ at the White House as a young boy he was familiarly known as Archie and was well liked on account of his quiet manners He has inherited his love for outdoor life and dur ing his college career he was one of the leaders in the military government at Cambridge helping to enroll 1000 men in the Harvard regiment He was the first one to register He obtained his degree at Harvard last June He is now in Hartford Conn em ployed hy the Bigelow Hartford Carpet Company Like his older brother Theo dore Jr he has learned all branches of the carpet making trade Kermit Roosevelt the former Presi second son was married in June 1914 to Miss Belle Willard daughter of the ambassador to Spain Joseph Willard younger brother Quen tin Is still at college being a student at Harvard No date has been set for the wedding RED CROSS SUPPLY SERVICE TO SOLICIT OR HOSPITALS WASHINGTON April 8 A new or ganization designated the Red Cross sup ply service has heen formed as a bureau of the American Red Cross to forward and distribute among American soldiers and military hospitals gifts and supplies from patriotic individuals and relief so cieties throughout the country Headquarters of the new service will be in Washington with branches to su pervise the collection and preparation of supplies at New York Boston Chicago Denver New Orleans and San rancisco Tho central office here itIs announced will he iri close association with the War and Navy Departments and the Council of National Defense and will be under the direction of rank Persons for mer director of the Ohartty Organization Society of New York The work of smaller towns and cities will be directed from the branch headquarters GIRL GUEST ON AUTO RIDE SUES HOST WHEN HURT BEDORD Ind April 8 Ruth Hlllen berg has filed suit against John Emery demanding $15000 damages because of in juries sustained when a Belt Railroad engine struck an automobile In which she and a companion wore riding as guests of Emery Miss Hillenberg alleges she was injured permanently ORMER LOCAL MAN IS DEAD DANVILIJv Hl April James Green 70 years old for many years en gaged in the omnibus and transfer busi ness in this city is dead following an illness of several weeks Mr Green had made several fortunes and lost therm He was here for years before the advent of the first street car Mr Green died comparatively poor He was a native of Parke County Indiana and during the civil war amassed a fortune at Ross ville purchasing horses and mules for the United States Army Mr Green was for merly in the livery business in Crawfords ville and for about seven years conducted the Bates House bus and transfer busi ness at Indianapolis JAP TRADE GROWING WA SHTNGTON April 8 The growing Importance uf American trade with Japan has rt Huited In ihe appointment nr rank Butter assl tant chief of the Bureau of oreign and Domestic Commerce a com mercial attache to the American Embneey at Tukio Mr Rutter will all un hlu new mhision within a Law weeks HEROINE In Blue Sophie Kerr who is a clever writer of short stories tries her hand at a long one She re lates the fortunes of a young stenog rapher who is employed by an Inventor He works with chemicals and it pres ently develops that he is inventing ex plosives and the secret of one is eagerly sought by agents of foreign powers He is pledged to give Ids formula to the United States government however and the time comes when it must be deliv ered Almost at the hour when he is to leave New York for Washington he receives a telegram calling him to Canada to the deathbed of his sister Thereupon he turns his precious formula over to the stenographer with precise directions where to take It when she arrives in Washington The girl who is loyal to her employer being iiufact in love with him as he is a personable young man and understands the situation takes the precaution of providing herself with an other blue envelope and placing in a blank slip of paper Of course on her way to Washington she falls into the hands of villains who under the pretense that she is de mented and is under their care spirit her from the train and take her to a remote spot In the country How she escapes and also saves the se cret are the incidents forming the climax of the tale Incldentallv she agrees to marry her employer Tho action of the story Is rapid the events are not too improbable and the interest Is well sus tained (Doubleday Page Co Garden WORDS ROM THE HEART All that is known to the public about the anonymous author of Poems" is that he is an Englishman who has lost two sons in the war The poems are songs of patriotism mingledwith the cries of a bruised heart It Is the intensity of feeling that makes them notable rather than any special poetic merlt though they are in good literary form These lines must appeal to the parents of sons whom the war has taken: I know all our England shone before you When you went down Tt made a radiance Even of the front of Death Oh son You died for England valiant as he that bore you And sent you forth with a ptill countenance And broke her heart for England and Ilves on And here are lines that may fit another land than England: We were unprepared We were most unwise We have heen like that or centuries But taught ourselves a thing or twn And muddling through The book is to have stirred Eng land profoundly (Page Doubleday Co) A MILITARY MANUAL A useful manual for the use of pros pective army officers is Notes" by Capt SI Parker of the United States Cavalry who was detailed by Maj Gen Leonard Wood to prepare officers for commissions In the Reserve Corps It is made up of the au lectures to New York men in pre paring them for examinations and certain excerpts from War Department manuals It includes the important data in the Court Martial Manual the Small Arms iring Manual company administration notes on military sketching and hlppol ogy and on field service regulations In addition to the subjects mentioned there are hints on elementary infantry instruc tion which should be most valuable to any one engaged in training an Infan try company The book Is highly endorsed by Maj Gen Wood and many other army of ficers and in condensed form gives Just the information needed by every pros pective officer As thr War Department can not at this time supply 1he Manualsnecessary for the instruction of officers this book is expected to fill the want Tt is published by George Harvey 109 Tjafayctte street New York Its price Is if MYSTERY A CLOCK Bell author of MacGregor" has turned Ins attention to quite a dif ferent sort of literature In his new book the Clock This is a tain of crime and mystery with villains of a peculiarly vicious type for the hero to discover and circumvent iguring In the mystery is a remarkable clock which is placed in position and so adjusted that it can not ba disturbed for a year with out danger to the person who meddles with it But it Is suspected that the man now dead who is responsible for the clock has concealed within It a hand ful of diamonds which the villains great ly desire Also the lawful heir would like to know their whereaboUTs It is around this clock and theso diamonds that the events of the story revolve At times In the course of the unraveling of the mystery the situations are Jhrlllincr If the author does not succeed Gn making his tale entirely convincing he can con tent himself with the reflection that dev otees of detective stories are not overly critical (Duffield Xc Co New York) 4 GEN ACHIEVEMENTS Ina little book Wood Apos tle of Preparedness" Isaac Marcosson offers IHfth tribute to the American gen eral of highest rank A sketch of ljf' and military achievements is given and it is a highly honorable record Hut Marcosson's admiration Is especially cx dtoi now because Gen Wood incar nated both the letter and the spirit of preparedness in a time when the gov ernment was Indifferent to it Mareusson has 1een in Europe during the war and knows the importance and necessity of preparedness tribute tn Wood by Theodore Roose velt printed on the cover It ends with these words these eighteen years he has rendered to America serv ice of the very highest value and of a kind that could be rendered only by man of wholly exceptional power nnd ability ardent in his blg hearUd devo tion to the honor of the flag and the wel fare of the (The John Jane Company New YorkI A TALE SIMPLE LIE In Prince" Pett Ridge describes the career of a Ixindort dress maker whose sole ambition was to con duct her business successfully and rear 0 HUDNUTS GRITS SAMPLE RECIPE with tk GRIT GRITS Served as a Vegetable In 4X lb Bags at Your Grocers 47s LBS Hudnuts Crlt Pancakes One cun boiled Hud AMERICAN MMINY tA JlMAKANUIMa ways to serve it all of them satisfying and appe tizing Hudnuts Grits give you more food substance and more nourishment than any vegetable and at only a fraction of the cost The low cost makes it easy to try American Hominy Company Indianapolis Hudnuts Pearl Hominy in 4 lb Bags Hudnuts Cream Meal in 3 lb Bags Now on Sale at All Grocers Throughout the South Hudnuts Grits have been tho recognized food staple for over fifty years as widely used as pota toes have been in the North Directions for cooking HUDNUTS CHITS into a number of palatable dishes to take me place contained HUDNUTS WIxAMM SttM 'q tfivawiA tn i of high priced vegetables are in bag Reduce the cost of breakfast too You can make the most delicious pancakes with Hudnuts Grits And plenty of other good breakfast dishes too So an all around food or dinner it will take the place of any high priced vegetable There are many flour one half tea spoon salt one heap ing teaspoon baking powder one egg one cup milk Sift the dry ingredients to gether Soak the Grits In milk add the egg well beaten Stir all together and add enough more milk to make a thin batter Bake on a hot grid dle Herve with and butter or gravy Others to follow Co New York) the whole it Doran her children three daughters and a son to bo respectable members of This docs not sound as if an exciting tale could be made from It and it is citing or eventful wave in the mildest wav but it is a record of common life that holds the Interest to the end because of the simple humanness of the characters Tim dressmaker diff nified self respecting woman is es pecially well drawn and the realism or the tale is admirable Mr Ridges eense of humor permeates the adHu tn Interest The the book at the end but on Is a cheerful tale (George narrative and MILITARY ECHO ROM THE PAST Mexican War Diary of George edited by William Starr My ers mention of which has previously been made in will not find many readers left among Mexican vet erans but the book will have an interest to survivors of the civil war especially those who served under McClellan As a West Pointer McClellan then only 20 years old was especially severe on the shortcomings of volunteer troops and their officers but no one can rend the hook without being Impressed by the fol ly of sending untrained noldlers into the field The is published by Prince ton University Press CHEERUL VERSE Members of the Indiana Society In Chicago are showing their friends auto graph copies of Strickland i 11 1 In 's letcst book You and Me" which they obtained from his Chicago publish ers orbes Co Mr Glllilan Is always obliging 'and the publishers promise to obtain his autograph for any purchaser of the book Ynu and Me" is a collection of verse with the mingling of humor and sentiment characteriBtie of the author It was George itrh who sai 1 "The genius who extracted sunshine from cucumbers in it with GHHlan He gets fun out of his work worry vexa tion bad ten per poverty and politics and passes it bimk to tho folk who pro duced 1n Its unrecognizable stat fie Is rt regular harvesting machine of hu mor As he passes through the country he rakes it clean with giggles bunches thorn up and hands them back in neat bundles in bls books and from the lecture Tle price of bls book Is $1 Including postage for a Life Insurance i a volume whose title explains Its char acter It written by Warren Horner a Hf Insurance rnan and Is published In Lippincott's "training se for those who want to find them The life insurance business It is explained by the author Is the most scientific business in the world with very unscientific methods in the producing end "It he says most enticing al lurements on the gilded side for the call fcjcrossfulj the average agent Is a 'financial failure and a greatly pre ponderating number of thnqe who under take the work never attain any reason able success but stray Into other pts It is to explain the causes of failure and to point out the road to suc cess that this book was written It is nontechnical and will repay reading by those ho are Interested in life insur ance business Many persons are very wH1 posted In th lore of many forms of plant lif who know Httl or nothing about trees yet trees afford a inselnatlng stndv In ield and orest Trees" by Maud Going may be found much Information on the the varying habits and Chara terists of trees the qualities of th wood and the extent of forst waste that constantly goes on A gond deal of spare Is devoted to the work of ihe foreMr In national forest reserves (A McClurg GO) Ocean and Its Mvstr1 bv A Hyatt Verrill Is not a technical book but one for the general ralr who has Tint time for a nrk study nf orran cur rents marine life and dnep rea wonders but has a natural curiosity about these phenomena Mr Merrill presents a grat variety of interesting information In this volume and th book is one to supply en tertainment to voung and old (Duffield Jr Co New York) Amateur Philosopher" by If Grabo deals with these problmR which confront every man in bls desire to formulate a satisfactory view of th signifies and direction of life Quo tations heretofore made In other columns of Th Star show the manner of treating these questions Subjects considered by th author are Hereby" cialism and Jasillitsion rnenta of and intui "ree Will and "Morality" uture Life" As Pure as the Easter Lily THE lifo of garments purchased for Spring and early Sum mer can be easily doubled and the new fresh appearance retained almost indefinitely by proper cleans ing Let us keep your new garments new The Eastman Co Superior Cleaners and Dyers New 23 522 Main 4715 211 Mass Ave INDIVIDUAL SAES Our Safe Deposit Vault contains a largo number of individual safes ranging in prices according to size These safes are under the sole con trol of the renter and afford convenience privacy and security We desire to again call attention to our improved vault it being cov ered with a network of electric wires operated by the American Dis trict Telegraph Company We invite you to call and inspect our boxes and vault Meyer Kiser Bank Washington St lions of God and Matter" Ifgion and Religious I Ideals" and "The PIrco of Literature" Sons New York) IN THE MAGAZINES Outing for April fa filled with fish stories golf Rtorles accounts of a canoe cruise and coon huntlngr tennis loro and Inforrriation about other out of door sports The man with a taate for these recreations will read It with enjoyment and long for vacation time In addition to the articles tn the April Bookman referred to "Was Jesus Christ a Pacifist?" and God of Mr the Uuokrnun for April contains a number of otlvr contributions specdal interest Amen Rllianl a native Syrian writes th revolution in Arabia its causes and purposes He asserts that whn Turkey Instead of joining her steadtast and loyal friends ran and England anl allied her self with Germany she thereby alien ated from her the strongest element of her population namely the Arabs These followers of Islam have been loyal to the Young Turks believing that eventually they would surcepd In rejuvenating the empire and maintaining the integrity of Islam Thv discovered howeter that tho Young Turks were trying to weaken thorn as a religious and political power Out of this discovery grew a movement in Syria anl Egypt favoring homo rule and the alliance of the Turks with Ger mans has strengthened it into a revolu tion ihat hopes for a new and independ ent nation "International Under th in and New Orthodoxy in are other features of the number In Heads of the Public" Clayton Ham ilton writes forcibly about the folly of theatrical marjngers who are so afraid of going "over the heads of the public" that they give the public inferior plays and he cites many proofs of the fact that plays from the pens of men who did not write down to the public have been almost uni formly successful James ord con tributes a clever satire on modern literary conditions under th title Village of Syndicate Masque of the Im the caution over a group of poems by ralward the names of the authors not being given The Bookman says this series will be continued throughout the year pnd in it 'will be published many of the best ex amples of contemporary American poetry Ai ih conclusion of th series the au thors names will published Mean while opinions ar Invited regarding the poems and their authorship As a gen eral opinion of tho current batch It may be said that It is poor stuff Tho Yale Revw which is one of the ablest and most carefully edited of Amer ican periodicals of the serious class opens Us second quarterly number of the vear with a paper by William Howard Taft on "The ollowing it a paper by Charles Cheney Hyde on lues Be hind the Crisis" concluding para graph reads: "If In a future war tli people of United States while neutral endeavor to aid a single belligerent alone capable of availing itself of our markets as surance of the retention our neutral status will depend upon nur 'ion of such military and naval power as to render us more 'dangerous as an enemy than as a friend to the state whose cause we are opposing Jn the present conflict such an assurance has never been within our grasp" Among other contributions are and National Unre deemed "Russia In Constanti "The Alleged Isolation of Ger and 4 Heaven and Happiness" of De and Need of Scien tific ORM RED CROSS CHAPTER BEDORD Ind April A Red Cross chapter is being formed here and a num ber nf local woman have signed up for memberships Patriotism in the county Is at high tide and from every and quarry building in Bedford in the county and from hundreds of homes Old Glory Is flying CASTOR IA or Infants and Children In Use or Over 30 Years Always bears the Signature al GRITS lU.