davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-05
Thief Gets Bonus Certificate

A bonus certificate calling for
1885 and sos in cash was the loot
of pickpocket who robbed Charles
Ballinger, Martinsville. while he was
at an auction sale on East Wash
ington street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-05
Health Club to Hold Dance

First Of series OF dances to be
given by the Health Nature Study
Clubs of indianapolis will be held
at 8 Friday night at the Commu-
nifty house in Brookside park.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-05
WOMEN UNITE
TO FIGHT FOR
RIGHT TO Toll
National Association Given
Start Here; Will Battle
Police Clusters.

indianapolis policewomen today
have powerful ally in their battle
against dismissal from the police
force on minor technical charges.
This ally is the new National As
ISOLATION Of Working Women, being
formed here to stop discrimination
against working women, because of
their sex or marital status.
I'VE are going to defend all these
policeWomen against unfair dismissal
on charges which would not be pre-
ferred against men," declared Mrs.
Florence K. Thacker, a practicing
attorney and an incorporation Of the
Indiana association.
Organized in Nine States
Mrs Thacker was attorney for
Mrs. Margaret Osborn, policewoman,
who last week won a suspension in
place of dismissal, given police
women in the past by the safety
board.
I'VE are not trying to force any
one to retain incompetent employees"
she said, but if police officials want
to get rid of these women, let them
do it fairly"
The N. A W. w. is being organ
lied in nine states, and work will
be started in other states soon, Mrs.
Thatcher explained.
National headquarters may be
established here, inasmuch as an
Indianapolis woman, Mrs. Ida Broo,
certified public accountant, is act
ing as national secretary.
Permanent officers have not been
named.
Asks for Fairness
Years ago our grandmothers
stayed at home and worked said
Mrs. Thacker. They were kept
busy with baking, washing and
other household drudgery.
'Man-made machinery has taken
away these jobs, and now women
are going out into the business
world to work. And why shouldn't
they have the right to work? Of
the million married women en-
ployed in the country now, 95 per
cent are working because of eco
nomic necessity and are helping to
support families.
There is complaint that women
take jobs frorn men and that work.
ing women should retire now in
favor of men, because of the de-
preston.
why wouldn't it be just as fair
to ask men who are we'll fixed finan-
cially to quit their jobs, or to ask
men making $4,000 a year to divide
their jobs and salaries with one Or
more other men, as to ask a $1,000
a year woman to give up her job
entirely?"
Membership Is Limited
The associations membership is
limited to working women of ma
ture age, who at some time have
been employed gainfully. It is not
concerned with the younger girl who
is working as a stop gap between
school and marriage.
Mrs. Mary Kynett, 1921 Central
avenue, president of the May
Wright Council for Women, has
charge of organizing chapters of
the association here and in nearby
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-05
BY AL JOLSON

BY AL JOLSON
BELIEVE read something in history the effect that Caesar
slave ride with him in his chariot to keep him humble.
In Hollywood when making
feeling they
sound electricians others Importance
Oh. boy how they roust about If they
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-05
Date

ITeTtIIIU ANLtTLCON eu6TuJ
Watson's At
Date ToWar
Labor
9-OS District ..... Favorable
immigration restriction bill ........ Favorable
Appropriation employment bureau ~ Unfavoraple
l2-18-lS products of child labor .. Favorable
clause in first deficiency bill 800 Not voting
5l9 League of Nations pact - Unfavorabe
Amercanization BILL education of litter Paired
ates Unfay orable
223-2O railroad bill conference re- Paired
port containing antsbor provisions Unfavorable
4 100 Motion to increase appropriation for labor
departments bureau Of Cancellation Not voting
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-05
Vatsons rotes on legislative matters of interest to labor
Measure

WILSON'S Al
Measure titude Toward
Labor
Passage Of bill providing higher pay fof night Paired
work in postal service Presidents veto Favorable
Bill to protect free labor from competition
with convict made goods ............... Favorable
CONFIRMATION OF JUDGE PARKER Unfavorable
Conference report denying wage increases to
federal employees ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Unfavorabe
NorrisLa Guarda anti-in junction bill 49,. Favorable
Prohibiting convict labor on government
roads Observation-Disclosures. Favorable
Motion to recommit treasury postofhce bill
with instruction reduce per Favorable
Sales tax amendment to bill ..... Unfavorabe
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-05

Retirement bill, amendment prohibiting affl-
iation Of federal employees with organized
Senator Shoots sales tax amendment to
HR8245 Observation-Disclosures. ........
Second vote on sales tax amendment ......
immigration restriction bill .........,....
Postal employees wage increase bill .........
Child labor amendment to Constitution .
Passage of postal wage increase bill over
Bill abolishing railroad labor board and pro-
viding collective bargaining ............
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-05

Next-Bebe Daniels gives the
Ow-dOwn" on Hollywood at play
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-05
Second Section
Record of Senator James E. Watson on Labor Measures

aoh is the American Federation Of Of Senate
The Washington times., 1932-04-07
WeGive ,OOOSquareMileS
of Land to Japan


The House of Representatives give away 114OoO
square Americana property much all the New
England States and New York Jumped together.
This property the Philippine Islands
The House did vote in response to demands by the
people United States the people of the Philippines
No people consulted.
voted the contrary at the demand of Cuban
sugar growers and few American sugar growers
certain American dairy of whom want to charge
the American consumers more for sugar and butter.
The Philippines raise sugar. and vegetable oils which are
used in substitutes for butter.
On the high and staesmanlke grounds that these are
menace to America, the House took its action.
The House lobbyists told vote It jammed
the through under rule that compared avorab
with which accustomed the days of the late
Joe Cannon or the late Nicholas Longworth.
bill that would rob the United States of possession
worth billions and we'll the seeds of another in
the Far East rushed through with exactly FORTY MIN
UTES debate.
The obbes that whipped Congress into this STEAL GER
tainy earned their pay They should put goodszed bill
to their employers and they should their money promptly
The bill that thus raroaded through the House,
approved by the Senate would give the Philippines prac
tca independence immediately and complete independence
eight years later.
It would undoubtedly revolution in the Philippines
in the next few years. which this country would settle
would fall into the hands of certain land grabbing nation
OF the Far East and that should be involved in the
sutng troubles since have large invested there and
a good many citizens living there
It would just volcano in eruption in that
part of the world with ourselves principally responsible for
And in exchange for this desirable state of affairs
would have the privilege Of paying few cents for
and other necessities that Cuban capitalists few Amer
can producers could make money
AS example of selfish stupid and pinheaded politics.
the vote of the House is unique
All you say that it is worthy of the selfish stupid
and plnheaded Congressman who put it
The Washington times., 1932-04-07
Fees and Patriots
Charges at Capitol and Mt. Vernon

Several members of Congress- indignant at the fact that
fee charged for admission to Mt Vernon renewing aa
ton for the transfer of the property the Federal Government
the members of Congress something about which to
become indignant let them look at their house.
In the Capitol itself exists of the examples of
mercalization of patriotic shrines
The guide system of the historic building which levs tribute
for personal profit upon every school child and patriotic v
tor should shame the Congress far than excellent
work that being done and has been done blythe ladies who
are in charge of Mt Vernon.
Of the home of Washington should owned and
trolled by the nation which he founded
But the nation through Congress- had plenty opportunity
many years ago to obtain the property.
Congress did not act and the buildings and grounds
falling into disgraceful condition when patriotic group
women saved them.
Probably there should be fee for admttance
shrine the Potomac and certainly the home of Washington
should be open Sunday.
But Just certainly there should be fee for guide service
at the Capitol
readily and with far less controversy than the stu
alton at Mt Vernon.
The Washington times., 1932-04-07
LISTEN. WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

mouths and motions with our
limbs.
We have a few dreams, a
few emotions
Then, presently, we die.
But actually, we've been dead
all the time!
We have known a little pur-
poseless animal life, but we
have thrown away our chance
to live a HUMAN LIFE.
This, of course, most of us
would Indignantly deny. But
it's true. Most of us spend
SO or so or 10 years on earth
carefully avoiding human life.
For human life is an uncom-
Portable, lonely, often danger
GUS affair. It does not con-
SiSt of eating, sleeping, work
ing, playing, making love. The
lowest brutes can do and do
all these things. But a man,
to be worthy of the name, must
do more.
His Great Task
He must think. He must
make sacrifices; take chances,
force his body and mind into
new territories; run the risk of
loss, and pain, and betrayal,
and humiliation.
He must dare to face the
truth, which is nearly always
highly unpleasant experience,
and apt to make you look and
feel like 80 cents.
Yet all these things the
human animal must do it if he
is to live the life of a man;
and if he doesn't do them, he
has truly TAKEN HIS OWN
LIFE"
Think that thing over.
You condemn suicides-BUT
ARE YOU ONE?
You do not believe a man
should throw his life away
BUT HOW MUCH OF YOUR
OWN LIFE ARE YOU USING?
Sit down. Audit the last "a
hours. Write down what you
really did, really thought. How
much of that day was really
used; how much wasted? Add
it up. Maybe you'll be sur
prised!
Copyright, 1882, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1932-04-07

Too many folk enjoy digging
up the family skeleton in other
persons families.
Few families are without the
black sheep somewhere.
But is is surprising how many
will refer to the one who has
caused heart aches when con-
versing with or about the fam
lily concerned.
This is a world of temptation.
Stronger men that you have
gone wrong, and so have their
sisters and their cousins.
But you don't want that fact
hashed over every time your
name is mentioned, in office or
out of it. ...
1t means lifelong watchful-
ness and :. stiff check rein on
impulses, to prevent man or
a woman from stepping off the
accepted path.
Each individual should be held
responsible for his or her own
actions.
That some member of the
family has not lived strictly up
to the standard of moral civil
ization or otherwise offended
should not be charged against
the one who is straight.
Often those who circulate
scurrilous reports are merely
putting up a smoke screen to
cover up their mistakes, and so
create a situation which will
make their own depredations
less apparent.
The Washington times., 1932-04-07

said just ELSIE ROBINSON
that condemning suicide.
YET EVEN AS WE DID so,
NINE TENTHS OF US WE'RE
COMMITTING SUICIDE
THROWING AWAY OUR OWN
LIVES!
What queer, inconsistent
things we humans are!
We grow cold with horror if
we see a man lying dead, his
life ended by his own hand;
but we never turn a hair if we
see a man LIVING DEAD, his
life wasted by his own will.
All of us some of the time,
and some of us all the time,
do LIVE DEAD. Our lives are
as truly thrown away as though
we had put a bullet through
our brain.
Empty Days
Moments, hours, days pass
by, filled with possible adven'
ture, filled with opportunity
and we let them pass. We do
not embark on those adven-
lures. We do not use those op-
portunities. Instead, we exist as
aimlessly as a toad in a puddle.
We eat.
We sleep.
We play.
We make love.
We work a little-as little as
possible.
We make sounds with our
The Washington times., 1932-04-07
ONCE-OVERS

How do you choose your
friends?
Does financial or social posi-
ton regulate your decisions in
cultivating certain persons as
friends?
Then you are not so anxious
for friendships as to satisfy
your ego.
You want to be classed with,
and be fought to represent,
: grade of society from which
you will gain some favorable
reflected prominence.
Perhaps in your heart you
do not care for the real article
and so you do not seek heart
in your associates.
All you desire is standing and
you want to keep stepping up
on those you mingle with as
friends.
AS long as they permit you
to associate with them and
they make no demands upon
you which you must satisfy,
you are contented.
You shur those who might
be sincerely attached to you
because they have no power
to lift you as high as you
wish to go.
In ether words, you want
friends so you can use them
as stepping stones to further
your own purposes.
Copyright, 1882, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.l
The Washington times., 1932-04-07
StuyveSant'S Wooden Leg
Which Was It?

The vexed question of which of Peter stuyvesan legs
wooden will shortly be settled and debate which has
agtaed New York since the British Man
haitian Island from the Dutch will then be ended.
For many years historians artists and laymen have dis
agreed the point
Some favored the right leg, others the left.
But Peter himself lay buried at Eleventh Street and
Second Avenue, New York there way of determining
the argument short of digging him up.
Now however, the wooden leg itseif-which rests in a
grave in Curacao, Dutch West Indie-is to be exhumed
The mayor of Curacao has formally granted permission
and probably within few days the 100000 inhabitants of
New York city will be enlightened after lifetime of suspense
We thank stars for that
We have been waiting patiently could for the
information but the strain beginning to tell us.
The prospect of having the subject cleared up for
another 300 years almost too much
The Washington times., 1932-04-07

In 1893, during one OF the
most destructive thunderstorms
on record, 81 places in Buenos
Aires were struck by lightning
and 10 people were killed.
So stringent are bar examina-
tions today that only 465 out
of every 1000 aspiring lawyers
ever pass them.
California produces practic-
ally all this country's lemons
(no pun intendedD.
Striped shirts wear out faster
than plain ones.
The Washington times., 1932-04-07
DO YOU KNOW THAT

The Indianapolis Star esti-
mates that there are about
2,382,000 persons in civil pay
rolls in this country.
Police Commissioner Clifford
Davis, of Memphis, Tenn, says
that of IS murders in that city
last year 33 were due to i'm
morality.
The annual return from Min
nesota's poultry business is
more than $60,000,000.
Virginia has about 5000 miles
Of naYigable fishing waters.
The Washington times., 1932-04-07
Kansas Stays Dry
By SO Votes

Kansas stronghold of prohibition in the 48 States
remains dry in the current returns from the Literary
Digest poll by the impressive majority of SO votes
total votes thus far State are 1888 The
'drys' there exceed the ''wets' by exactly seven
hundredths of per cent.
No other State in the Union gives prohibition majority
in the Digest poll And the total United States
shows 2758767 against the Eighteenth Amendment and
1868 for it.
That that the foes of prohibition outnumber the
friends Of prohibition almost to l. But it means nothing
else the moment Congress- which recently refused to
grant the people such harmless beverage as 5 per
cent beer still keeps its eyes and shut the figures
The SO Kansans who have held their State in the dry
column to statesmen than the remain
ing threeourths of the population of the United States
That's representative government for you.
The Washington times., 1932-04-07
Not One Penny for
The Man at the Bottom.

And what are we doing
about it?
The Government is trying
to cure the evils by helping
the people at the top, but
nothing has been done as
yet that relieves the misery
of the millions at the bot
tom. It is trying to main
tain the earning power of
money, and thinks that a
part of the function of gov
ernment, but is doing moth
ing to increase the earning
power of average men on
the theory that government
has nothing to do with in
dividuals." "
We have put $2,OOO,O0O,-
600 at the disposal of the
man at the top, but not one
penny for the man at the
bottom.
Now the railroads must be
saved; there are imperative
reasons, affecting everyone,
why they must be. And
banks with frozen assets
must be saved, for their fail
ure would reach the masses
with it's effect.
But none of these meas
ures come within shouting
distance of the solution of
the paramount problem Of
saving society and our in
stitutiOns through necessary
readjustments making for
the social justice which we
do not have.
Thus there is no intem-
perance in DR.. Fosdick s de-
scription of the attitude of
our responsible leaders and
the people as one of the
"smug complacency." Never
in American history has the
times demanded such an out
standing leadership, amount
ing to genius, as today; a
leadership capable of COM
pretending and graphing
with the social and economic
evils that are responsible for
our present plight.
The Washington times., 1932-04-07

Did you
a n d you r
friends argue
about it, all
shocked and
distressed
feeling, some
how, that the
thing W a S
wrong, and
that no man
should waste
the precious
.a,
gift of life?
Pro b ably.
Most of us
The Washington times., 1932-04-07
Heard No More
Of That

One year ago, men of sub
stance in the industrial and
financial sphere were placing
an intelligent Interpretation
upon the meaning of these
times. They were admitting
that something must be done
for social justice; that there
must be drastic reforms in
our industrial system by the
industrialists themselves and
that Government must do its
part. They were admitting
that there is no such thing
as overproduction, and that
undercon assumption is our
trouble; that the machine
The Washington times., 1932-04-07
Mixed Grill

ance to make love. The bache-
lor'S reluctance.
There ought to be a law
against letting a man select his
own necktieS in the spring,
when his suppressed desires are
breaking out into a rash of
aurora borealis effects.
The average mans way of
erasing a girls image from his
heart, is by drawing another
girls image across it.
If the modern man would put
as much technique, concentra-
ton and enthusiasm into his
making and his business as
he does into his golf and his
The Washington times., 1932-04-07

Are XOu a Suicide?
When that great man took
his life the other day did you
wonder if he had the right?
The Washington times., 1932-04-07
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

bridge, he would be more OF a
bowling success as a husband.
Food, at the average woman's
teas, is so beautifully camo-
flaged, that you scarcely know
whether to eat it, smell it, or
pin it on you as a corSage.
So long as a girl is single, she
finds it highly amusing to flirt
with another woman'S husband;
but after marriage, somehow,
she loses all that board-minded
leniency toward the community
ownership of husbands"
Nothing so depresses a mans
ego and fills him with such an
inferiority complex as to dis
The Washington times., 1932-04-07
"Stupid COmplacency"
Of Americans
Bv Claude G.. BOUers

Author Battles of the Jackson Period The Struggle
for in America" Jefferson and Hamilton"
Tragic Era," and other important works.
The Washington times., 1932-04-07

age calls for readjustments
in hours and days of labor to
give to men their inalienable
right to work that some way
must be found to give to
workers a sense of security
in their jobs; that we must
abandon the idea that human
beings who have worked
constantly all their lives can
in old age be thrown upon
the human scrap heap like
so much rubbish to rot and
starve; that some form of in
surance must be found; that
we would have been better
off had we given a more gen.
erous share of the joint fruit
of capital and labor to the
workers.
Then, suddenly, we heard
no more of that. We have
often wondered just what
happened? Did the stone
blind reactionaries discipline
the enlightened and tell them
to close their mouths?
What Do We
See About Us?
We need not become hope
lessly pessimistic by frankly
facing the realities in
America today. The ostrich
which sticks it's head into the
sand to escape danger is not
a model for an intelligent
man. What do we see about
US?
We see 3O,OOO,OO0 farmers
being reduced to an economic
level Of the peasants of pre-
revolutionary France.
We see more than 6,0O0,-
900 bread winners eager to
earn their bread denied their
inalienable right to work,
and 100000, including
their dependents, just a step
ahead of beggary.
We see well-meaning but
short-sighted m en- and
women begging for dimes
and dollars from door to
door to prevent the starva-
tion of the victims of our
system.
We see gangs of racket
eers and gunner living
brazenly on crimes Of viol-
lence and beyond the control
of the law, and see these
increasing in numbers and
impudence. Ordinary mur-
ders in America no longer
get big headlines; it is all
routine.
And this all means society
itself, in it's organized ca
pacity, is entering the stage
of distintegration.
The Washington times., 1932-04-07

WYE HAVE been reading
W Leon Trotsky's history
of the Russian revolu-
ton from just before the fall
of the Romanoffs to the ac-
cession of the Communists.
Whatever m ay be said
against Trotsky in Russia
and out, it cannot be said
that he is not a genius with
the pen. Among all t h
literary statesmen there is
but one who approaches him
in the capacity for vivid
narrative, and, strangely
enough, this is his pet aver
sion and supreme foe, Win
ston Churchill.
In these days Of shaking
political and social founda-
tions everywhere, the con-
servatives and even reac-
tionaries in America would
do we'll to read this book
of Trotsky's. Even these
will be impressed by the fer
vor and self-sacrfice of the
Communists. T e masses
are suffering under the pres
sure of the various Plans,
but they are suffering glad
ly, because they feel that in
the end there will be a new
social order in which the
common man will be happier
and more secure.
To fin d anything ap-
preaching the fervor Of the
people for a system, one
must 60 to Italy where an
other plan is being tried.
TO those who believe in
democracy and IN such lnStl-
tutions as we have here, it
must be appalling to realize
that millions are willing to
suffer and die for a prin-
ciple and policy hostile to
our own.
In this country how few
there are among the power
full who are willing to suffer
the loss Of a penny for the
preservation of our institu-
tiona1 life