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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12
Views of Times Readers

Editor Times-I have resided here
for seven years and read The Times
all the time, and recently I read
the best joke of the whole seven
years.
The Real Estate Board report is
that the city is overbuilt and rent
ais are on the down grade. Of
course, the easiest way is the best
way for the Real Estate Board, and
anything will do to get the job of
its hands.
The real reason for the downward
trend Of rental property is because
the real estate firms and owners are
hogging every dollar they can
squeeze out Of their tenants, and
doing nothing for them. They will
not paper or paint or repair the
property and make it fit to live in.
Seven out Of ten vacant houses
in the city are deteriorating for
want of paint and repairs. They
have so much paper on the walls
it is pulling the plaster of. They
also hire the cheapest labor and
buy the cheapest material.
They are infested with all kinds
Of "varmints," and that shows a
poor health department. Other
cities have ordinances to promote
health in rental properties. Some
of the owners Of these houses should
be made to live in them.
If the real estate board would
talk its rental owners into hiring
skilled labor and using good ma
terial, and put their property in
good shape, they soon would see
that the city iss not overbuilt.
Chicago rental properties are
kept clean, and always are filled
because they are kept clean. All
water colors are washed of before
they are retinted, wall paper is
limited to two coats by health
ordinance, exterminators are con-
tracted by the year to keep
down pest infection. Hotels, room
ing houses and public eating PLACES
are inspected frequently.
A fine city like Indianapolis
could be the same way. Many men
who are idle and their families
having to depend on weak red tape
charity today could be working and
living in some Of these vacant
houses instead Of doubling up with
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12
SAYS:

Whether We Like 1t or Not,
We Hare Come to Live In
an International Era and
Should Join the World
Court.
THOUGH it involves disagree
Il ment with the policy advocat-
ed by Scripps- Howard newspapers,
I feel that President Hoover was
unwise in placing the world court
question before this session Of con-
greSs. First, conditions were such
as to make it difficult for him to
present the question with unre-
strained vigor, which is indicated
plainly by the tone of his message.
Second, they we're such as to put
congress in a restless and irritable
mood.
Third, they were such as to favor
opposition toward most any White
House proposal, regardless of merit.
Fourth, they were such as to pre-
clude possibility of a fair, thorough,
straightforward discussion.
Fifth, they were such as to make
it more probable that the question
either would be pigeonhoIed through
pressure of other business, or would
be settled by deals and coalitions
with little or no bearing on it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12
We Should Play Ball

MY feeling originated in a belief
I'VE that the time was inopportune.
not in any change of view regard
ing the world court. Now that the
fat is in the fire. I shall cease to
quarrel over the wisdom of putting
1t there, and go back to the main
question, which is whether to PLAY
ball with the rest of the world for
a reign of law or continue sulk-
ing in the corner.
I can see only one side to that
question. Whether we like it or
not, we have come to live in an
international era. What is even
more significant, we probably have
done more than any other people
to bring that era about, to produce
and perfect the industrial mocha
nism which made Chat era inevi-
table.
Finally, We placed ourselves I'M
der definite obligations to help meet
the challenge presented by that era
when our President and our dele
gates forced Europe to accept the
League of Nations as sine qua non
of peace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12
Local Color

IT'S one thing to go to a night
l. club for frivolity and quite an
other to drop in as a student Of
sociology and a collector of local
color. After all, I must have &C
curate information, and my data
should be fresh.
It is possible, then, that you may
see me in some favored haunt dur
ing the next few weeks, in spite of
my advanced age. But do not, I beg
of you, wave to me as if I were an
ordinary habitue and one seeking
boon companions.
Even the most casual observer
hardly can fail to detect new light
in my eye and a sharpened pencil
in my upper coat pocket.
You-and pity you from the
depth of my lleart-are out for ju-
bilation, stimulation, a wild time,
while I am solely seeker of facts.
This will be my penance for mis-
spent youth.
Sadly and soberly I will stray
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12

strangers or living in some OF the
filthy roon1ing houses, II the real
estate board would make an honest
report Of the cause and call
meeting Of the owners and talk II
over. A HOOSIER,
But Not Proud of It.
After Living Here
Editor, Time=I have been read
ing a great many articles lately by
Mr.. Tracy, also the letters In the
peoples voice column about the
present slump and unemployment.
If the President and controlling
capitalists really wanted business to
pick up, why did it take the Presi-
dent q year or more to even talk Of
putting S1,500,000 into a fund TO
carry on emergency employment
that won't be started for five or
six months? Try to imagine how
far 81 100000 would go toward buy
ing tools and machinery for such
work.
Why do Muscle Shoals, the Mis-
sissippi river and many other gov
eminent projects have to lay over
at this time, with nothing done on
them? Just conference after con-
ference held with no results, only
lot Of progress talk, which merely
disheartens the masses Of people.
Now if billions Of dollars could be
raised in month or so for war
purposes, why can't millions be
raised in the same length Of time
for improvement and real pros
perity, instead Of talked prosperity?
Isn't a persons life, health and
morality worth as much in peace
times as in times Of war? Why,
then, should they be depressed and
deprived of their rights to a good
living when it is in the country
IAN idle mind Is the devils work
shop"
The Communist party could not
ask for better hotbed than today's
conditions TO spread its churchless,
Goddess party lectures.
What middle we are inI The
confidence Of the people lost, with
a surplus Of farm and manufac-
tured products piling up daily which
can not be consumed under present
conditions.
Ex-SoIdier and Times Reader.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12
Questions and
Answers

What is the duty on imported CO.
Goa door mats brought into this
country?
Ten cents per square yard.
What Is the value of an Indian
rupee in American money?
About So cents.
When were Martha Washington
dollar bills issued?
The first issue was Feb. Is, 1878;
the second, Aug. 4, 1886.
Where was Jessica Dragonette
<orn and educated? How old is she,
and is she married?
She was born in Calcutta, India,
and received her eduation at Geor-
gian court convent in Lakewood, N.
J. She is about "a years old, and
is unmarried.
How many Jews are there in Pal
estine and how many in the world?
Latest statistics show a total Of
10000 Jews in Palestine, and a.
What Is the water content of
milk?
About s725 per cent.
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btTkEFl
%ANlN(VgR$ARYI
JOHN JAYS BIRTH

Dec. IL
ON Dec. IL, 1745, John Jay, an
~ eminent American jurist, was
born in New York City, the son
Of a wealthy merchant.
Following his graduation from
Columbia college in 1854, Jay
studied law in New York City and
soon attained eminence in his pro-
fession. He was a delegate to the
First Continental congress in 1774
and formed one Of the committee
of three which drew up the cele-
brated address to the people Of
Great Britain in which the rights
Of the colonies were stated.
After he had served as chief
justice Of New York and president
of the Provincial congress Of New
York, Jay was appointed United
States minister to Spain.
His real diplomatic fame, how
ever, rests with his services at Paris,
whence he had gone to join Frank
lin in negotiating the treaty of
peace between Great Britain and
the United States.
Jay is considered to have had a
prominent share on the American
side in the signing Of the Treaty
of 1913.
When he returned to New York
Jay was appointed secretary for
foreign affairs. Upon the organi-
zation of the federal government he
was allowed by Washington his
choice of al the public offices to be
filed by the Presidents appoint
ment.
He chose to be chief justice Of the
supreme court, which position hi
filled with marked dignity anc
ability until 1898.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
TN cases involving large policies,
= insurance examiners are likely to
study carefully the general appear
ance of the applicant.
It is generally known that over
weight after middle age adds to the
danger Of early death, and figures
have been recorded showing that
heart disease is more than twice as
common as the cause of death in
overweight men than in those of
normal weight.
A man with high blood pressure
may have flushed cheeks, and a
thick neck. In cases of heart dis
ease, the cheeks may be flushed
with brick red color and the lips
appear slightly blue. The fingers
may be dubbed at the tips.
Rapidity of the heart is not neces-
sarily a danger sign, because ex-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12

line. "Ex-Man About Town" might
do. But I want any such book to
be accurate and comprehensive.
There is just a shade of suspicion
in my mind that maybe I haven't
entirely covered the ground. In
another month or so I might have
the material complete.
Personally, I would not be in
clined to accuse myself of back
sliding when I moved about just a
bit more if the purpose of these
expeditions was clear in my mind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12
Dead Life

THE long and stuffy hours Of
4 passionate concentration upon
the fortunes of poker are q thing
of the past. There isn't the slightest
reason to question my sincerity in
this resolution. I've made it a dozen
times in the past.
At 42 any sensible man must
come to realize that he no longer is
young. He should begin to train
himself in the pleasure Of clinging
to his own firesids equipped with a
good book
He should begin to write his
memoirs. I intend to start almost
any moment now All I need is a
title. want something in the EEK"
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veterans privilege to receive an endowment later.

veterans privilege to receive an endowment later,
when they will need it?
Secretary Mellon has pointed out several good
technical and financial reasons why the proposal
would hurt business by choking the bond market and
public debt operations. Those reasons doubtless have
convinced business men and financial experts of the
folly of the plan.
But the rank and file of veterans should under
stand that the government in turning down the pro-
posa is not bein hearess and boiled toward the
veterans On the contrary the administration in this
instance is couageousy rising above the dictates of
demagogery and voecatching to preserve intact for
the veterans the very bonus endowment system which
the veterans worked so hard to establish.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12
Daily Thought

The righteous are bold as a Lion.
Proverbs 28:1.
Let us have faith that right makes
right, and in that faith let us dare
to do our duty as we understand 1t.
Lincoln.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12
Mine the Same
T DON'T mean that if anyb

DON'T mean that if anybody
A says, est down ard have one
with U.s." inevitably will refuse.
Some outward show of participation
in the hollow whoopee of the place
is a necessary duty Of every seeker
after local color.
But unless I am better actor
than I ever believed, I will make a
sad and gloomy guest at your ia
BILE. Always in my mind there will
dwell the thought, zone more chap
ter of this and can be done for
ever with the kingdoms of dissipa-
ton"
1t may even be that on the night
before I sit down to do that portion
Of my book which is to be called
Poker and It's Evil Aspects and
Consequences I will drop in upon a
game for just few rounds.
Miss Edna Ferber, before writing
her novel, "Show Boat" spent some
time on a craft Of this sort. Sin
clair Lewis had to visit Main
Street to write about It.
Copyright. 1880. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those OF
one of Americas most inter-
esting writers and are pre-
sented without regard TO their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.v-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12

To the scientist who said the germ for the COM
mon cold is too small to be seen by the microscope
the witty cynic says ooh don't bacilr"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12

dentist may be boring at times but he's usually
pretty quick on the draw.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-12

through gay and noise rooms and
in my heart take no share in the
festivities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-27
MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE
BY MoLLIE MERRTCK.

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, DecemtSr q
(N.A.NA).-If you can aSsimila d. the
Idea of $176,000,000, then you We a
faint idea of what it is going cost
to make movies during the year 1881.
OF course, it will really amount to
far more than that, but this is the sum
producers have planned for the original
outlay. You can add few random
millions for surprises, retakeS, remakes
and mistakes.
When you realize that 35 features
made by Warmers last year cost $780,
100000, you can easily see that movie
making is no small money venture.
Out of these projected pictures one
lot, the Fox, will make 20 or 80 silent
| versions as a compliment to those per-
sons still preferring their entertainment
without sound. Many of these will
reach the foreign market-and foreign
ers Still like their movies to be movies
IN every sense.
Despite the rumors which come to
n1e from New York that movie stars
are travelling around out here with
armed guards because Of the gang ter
ror prevalent, have yet to see or hear
Of such a. case.
Some time back I told you in these
columns of the Lloyd babies guard and
of the guard put over the niece of Mary
icity given the Llloyds~by the adoption
Of a very beautiful child, destined to be
the playmate of little Gloria.
Undue publicity arouseS cranks, and
10 avoid such things the Loyds in
stalled a protector for the youngsters,
and Mary Pickford followed suit.
Once in the long ago the children Of
Harry Carey were subject to an at
tempted abduction, and that started a
lot of excitement. Conrad Nagers chill
dren have always had a keen eye kept
on them, but not by a guardian OF the
law. A chauffeur does the work to and
from school, and excellent servants and
o trustworthy housekeeper continue the
good work at home.
But during the pre- Christmas holi-
day shopping never saw more Of the
famous Strolling along the boulevard
gazing in shop windows. They didn't
seem in fear Of any reign of terror,
and close investigation doesn't reveal
any one with gunman at his back.
I love excitement, and such state
of affairs would have its need Of enter
tainment for us civilians, If not so en-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-27

Mu KNOW
II EVeN YEAR
WHEN SANTA
Returns FROM
HIS HRiS1 MAS
1nP> AlS
LILLE ELVES
PREHARE a
HUGE FEAST
f0S HIM 49,
THIS YEAR.
7" GCNGS
MW7EQ COT
ANo 0AN T0Q<
SO M6E 1aey
AREL0N
Their WAY 10
NE 0lNiN6
RAu/
80
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-27

tertaining for the famous.
When police uncovered the private
list of Jake CaresS' abductor 1t included
the names of three multi-milli onaireS,
who have since gone about with armed
guards. But gangSterS are wise guys,
and to steal q star is as hard q Job as
it would be to get away with the King
Of England.
The non-famous out here are having
a time Of it, though. The terror Is at
its Wintry height. Boys with guns are
doing bold things which have sent the
police Scurrying. might add that in
times such as these few chalk marks
less on the tires of automobiles left
standing a little over time along the
boulevardS and a little more chalk
nights would be an original idea. You
can do a good deal Of driving about
lonely midnight streets and never see q
minion of the law, but try to do q
little parking without having q gent in
blue at your elbow with a stick Of
yellow chalk in his hand!
When Universal went to make O
scene for Lew AyreS' first starring We
hicle, which included an inaugural ball
at the White House, q member Of the
local police force was found to be
Hoover's double. Tom Jensen laid aside
his star for few days work before
the camera. And Jessie Perry was cast
for the role of Mrs. Hoover.
And the Bishop Of Aberdeen and
Orkney, returned home from q tour Of
the world, told his interviewers that
Hollywood is Just little bit Of all right,
in his opinion.
st found Hollywood fun Of hard
working, honorable people, living quiet
lives, as respectable as the jewellers in
any reputable London suburb-Ealing
or Wimbledon or Barnes" said the
bishop.
Now, some Of those executives who
have combed America looking for the
second Clara Bow might drop In at
Wimbledon or Barnes for good red-hot
material. It's an idea!
Copyright, 1880, by North American News
paper Alliance)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-27

Rather than accept low prices for
their products many farmers In Bel
GUM are trying to have all their grain
consumed in their homes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-27

A. Resign.
As. Money drawer.
46. Free.
AZ. Girls name.
40. Inland waterway.
40. Logical synopsis.
81. Descendant Of Noah's second son
So. Edits.
So. Goddess of fruitful earth.
81. Most profound.
SIS. Feminine ruler.
Down.
/. Bishop Of Milan.
2. African Stork.
8. Preparing for publication.
4. Journeys in a conveyance.
S. Bohemian river.
6. Variety of lettuce.
z. An article.
8. Swoons.
9. Gambling game.
10. Unusual.
IL. Greek letter.
IL. Food constituent.
10. Highest mountain In the world.
IA. Is indignant.
ID. Beds Of ore.
20. Clemency.
%. Gyrate.
"A. Constellation.
20. Human joints.
81. Festivities.
%. An ant: arch.
80. Dependency Of China.
80. Plant emulation.
80. A masculine name.
"a. Candidate.
IS. Part Of a surveying instrument.
36. French novelist.
81. Emerald-ereen arsenate Of copper
80. Narrates.
80. Vendors.
Al. Oppose.
a. Clouds rof pulverized earth.
as. More domesticated.
~. Bengalese groom.
40. A collection Of tents.
so. Unfold.
81. Edge. :.
SO. Of.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-22

After the escape Of the Arabs the great apes had
turned their attention to their fallen comrades
One was dead but another and the great white ape
still breathed The hairy monsters gathered about
these two grumbling and muttering after the FASH
ion of their kind. Tarzan was the first to regain
consciousness. Sitting up he looked about him.
The shock had thrown him down and dazed him.
but save for wound in his shoulder he was far
from dead He rose slowly to his feet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-22
JOHN d. HOWARD.
CHAS. S. SHREVE.
Trt,efAA
tyll.14.1s.ls.2l.22
THos. j. OWEN L SON AUCTIoNEEE.s,
1881 EYE ST. NV.

SsoyTR FEAT Es 5sITr e6$SSsE51sI,ISS M.
LocATED on ~ TlIE i,r RoAp LEADING IA ING
TIE THAE AssEssoRs RECORDS As PAR
BY Virtue 1sSt Of certain deed of trust. duly
recorded in Liber, No; 4l45; folio 11s Ct SEQ.
thereby the undersigned trustees will sell
on HSs aSs'Gn VEN e
OF july Al f6,,oI 1880, At crI -FOUR oGLoG nS
instor Se p,stiict Of Columbia. and desianated
being particularly described by metes and
bouncs as follows. and also being known as
Pat No Sa ef 81
d c., dated March 23rd. 1869: Beginning IT
said sarvey thence north O so west 81 ps
to stone; thence north So west 37.46 DIS.
SO South sS Re p to the center Of
road; thence with the north line Of lot
besInnins. cOntsnins acres T this PROB
erty now known and described on the tax
records of said District of Columbia as par
Gel 24sfii, improved by two-s9bry frame
money to be paid in cash. balance in two
equal installments, payable in one and two
snnum payable semiannaaiy from day 81
sale. secured by deed of trust upon the prop
purchaser. deposit OF $500 will be re-
quired at time of sale. All conveyanclnE
recording. etc. at cost of purchaser Terms
of sale to be complied with within thirty
days from day Of sale. otherwise the trustees
the gk and cost of defaulting purchaser
after five days advertisement of such resale
in some newspaper published in Washing
RALPH p. BARNARD,
GUY A. JOHNSON.
Evans Building.
iv1i.1416.1821.2 % Trustees.
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WANTED 10 BUY-ROUsEs

WANTED TO BUY MODERN, WELL To-
Gated house in Takoma Park Address BOX
Sic. Star once. 21sS
WOULD LIKE 70 PURCHASE A DRsIR.
able detached house bet Conn ave. and
Wisconsin ave. and North of Mass NV
bet. $4,000 and $4,000: not less than 40
rooms. and garage. Write giving fun par
uculars, price. trust and when due ! am
Willing to pay CASH but want "a bargain
Address Box isS,B, STAR once.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-22

The ape-man's eyes wandered toward the spot where
last he had seen the "she" who had aroused such
strange emotions within his savage breast. Where
is she?" he asked. THE Tarmangani took her
away" replied one of the apes. "Who are you
who speak the language of the Mangani?" I am
Tarzan" replied the ape-man mighty hunter,
greatest of fighters. When roar the jungle trem-
bles am Tarzan of the Apes have been away,
but now have come back to nv people"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-22

Singly and in tWos the searcherS. who had ridden
out with Achmet Eek upon the trail of the Belgian,
returned empty handed. With the report of each, .
the raiders rage and chagrfn increased. until he
was In such transport of ferocous anger that none
dared approach him. Achmet Eek paced up and
down in his silken tent but his rage served him
nsught Werper gone and with him was gone
the fortune In gems which had aroused the Arabs
greed,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-22
10th Street Heights
$1O.950
So.o5O.

pS,SOU.
Good News for Someone!
Here Is a home that should sell today!
The terms equally as attractive and the
house more so; There are large rooms. 2
water heat, electricity, Just SHORT dis
1904 Belmont I'd, and you'll agree, then
phone for appointment to inspect.
F. ELIOT MIDDLETON,
Realtor,
2Os Investment Building METROPOLITAN 1927
McLachlen Banking Corp'n.
$9,000-12 rooms. z baths. double garages
lot S0x150 best section of Brookland
$7,500-iG rooms, garage, sleeping porches;
lot 60x150
$6,750--6-room brick. with garage very de-
desirable and convenient Northwest
location.
Many other properties in various sections
of the city.
Real Estate Dept. 10th and @. e.
lCoLoRED] NEARBY vIRGINIA-4-RoOM
house, 2 acres. d. c.. 4-rm house. | acre.
500 cash, bal. like rent. Met. 1900. Ciev. 0216
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WANTED-MONEY.

HAVE REAL ESTATE WORTH AT LEAST
$4,000 on which wish to borrow $4,000
Immediately. Will paw substantial bonus
Box soc. Star Office