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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-15
SHAKESPEARE AS TRIPLETS

SHAKESPEARE was not two men, but three.
- He was himself, Sir Francis Bacon and
third Englishman called King Edward VI
Many scholars and pseudo-Scholars have
made long research, and no research, and
written tracts and books to show that Bacon
wrote Shakespeare. Now comes j. Edward
Morgan, of Alameda. Cal, who after study
Of Shakespearean documents gathered from all
over the world declares:
Il believe that Edward VI, Bacon and
Shakespeare were one and the same person
do not expect to prove this, but have irrefu-
table proof that Bacon throughout his lifetime
thought he was Edward VI"
Ordinarily. a man who thought he was
Edward VI and wasn't would be you know very
we'll where. But Mr.. Morgan hastens to add
that King Edward VI, according to varied his
torical accounts. died of consumption at 16 or
was poisoned at the instigaHon of John Dudley,
duke of Northumberland.
While other Baconians claim that the great
thinker was the son of Queen Elizabeth, Mr..
Morgan thinks he was her half brother, so
that which ever is the case the plot thickens
like London fog out of which it evidently
grew.
Yet what story it would be if it could be
proved
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-15
SIGN OF RECOVERY

THAT those house toulouse canvasses to
enlist consumers in the ranks of the NRA
can have direct and beneficial effect on the
nations buying habits is indicated by cur
rent statement from an executive in large
chain of retail shoe stores
This man fatty says that the NRA house
toulouse campaign has been "one of the great
est stimulants to retail buying"
His company has stores in every city of
100000 population or more in the United
States; and in the period Immediately follow
ing the NRA appeal to consumers, it enjoyed
business 300 per cent better than that for the
same period in 1882.
1t does not take very much bordering to
make one realize what an enormous impetus
business will get if such a pickup in retail
sales is general.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-15
CHICAGO COMES BACK

TT is hardly surprising to learn that Chicago
Il is beginning to experience a genuine bust
ness boom at last The Century of Progress
exposition has brought great many visitors
to the middle western metropolis and they
have spent great deal of money.
The result is a stimulation of all lines of
trade. and a brighter horizon than Chicago
has known for many weary day.
: The week that began on Labor day for
instance. saw a total of s4OOOOOOO spent by
visitors to the exposition. That. of course.
was an exceptional week.
But it is perfectly evident that even far
smaller amount of spending. continued week
after week. would set the cash registers jan
cling in the good old-fashioned way.
Nor is this matter that concerns Chicago
alone. Prosperity is contagious, thank heaven;
If Chicago's business is good, lot of out
lying places are going to feel the effect. The
worlds fair is a pretty important item in our
long-avaited climb back toward prosperity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-15
NO SHORT CUTS

CENATOR ROYAL s. COPELAND ignoring
- the Constitution and the police power
vested in the forty-eight states urges fed
eraI Scotland Yard to combat the crime army
Governor Alfalfa Bill Murray of Oklahoma,
New York grand juryman, and others demand
return of the whipping post Missouri has
localized the death penalty for kidnapers, and
Illinois follows suit by demanding that the
abductors of aged August Luer be sent to the
chair.
Chicago embarks on the highly dangerous
course of sentencing its public enemies on
their general reputation and imposing SEN
fences of 1879 years.
There is nothing new in all this ineffective
fvsteria. Always when crime becomes battling
tnthinking people forget the lessons of his
tory and CRY out for more punishment, tor
ture and death for the criminals.
y Such reformers should go to London Tower
and other museums to see the rack, wheel
thumb-screw. Spanish collar and similar dis
cerded refinements Of torture by which So
cietv used to try to scare bad people into be-
coming good. They never worked any bet
ter than the whipping post or electric chair
works today.
The road to crime abatement has no short
cuts. When we drive out politics graft and
ineficiency from our police departments and
courts. when we make justice swift and Ger
tain. when we abolish poverty, crime will be-
come rare Treating the symptoms and ignor-
inc the causes will not cure the disease.
The government can not cure lawlessneSs
BY becoming lawless, nor society cure crime by
becoming savage.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-15

1T is by no means true that the
l. protected girl always is a good
girl, but we can not ignore the fact
that the one who is forlorn and
hungry finds it harder to be good
than she who is we'll fed and de-
Gently housed.
In spite Of this, however, our well
fare societies keep repeating that
thousands of young women now are
tramping the national highways.
subjected to the temptations that
such a life is certain to offer. If
they come unscathed out of this
fiery furnace, they indeed can quail
fy as feminine Daniels, paragons Of
strength and courage.
This condition, more than any
other phase of the disastrous de-
preston, will prove the costliest in
the long run, Because the welfare
of a nation depends largely upon
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-15
THEATER TICKETS

THEATERGOERS, for once in their lives,
IL are to get break in ticket buying, thanks
to NRA
The scalpers the sharks, the spectators,
the agents, are to be put in their place. The
new rule says that 25 per cent Of the tickets
must be put on sale at the box office.
Rule 3, adopted by the subcommittee Of the
National Legitimate Theater Committee, code
agency. provides that agents may take max
imum profit of only IS cents on orchestra seats
and 50 cents on balcony seats.
The buy" long-standing curse of the
theater world. is no more. The buy" con-
notes practice whereby agents bought large
blocks of theater tickets long in advance of
their use and charged whatever the traffic
would bear.
Many an ambitious drive has been made
against the buy" and all other forms of ex-
ploitation of theater tickets. But the rocky
shores of the theater agencies always have
received the wreckage of the most hopeful of
the movements.
The NRA committee not only will apply
and enforce the rules, but will apportion the
tickets among the agencies.
theatergoing public. long at the mercy
Of the spectators and victims of the snub-
bing 'house-sold-ou of the box Office ticket
sellers, will bless NRA for this new deed, if it
works out as it promises to do.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-15
One Use for Gin

A THOUGH gin is rather nox-
< n ious stuff until mixed with
friendly juices, it obviously is the
first choice of all amateur orators
who stand in dire need of Dutch
courage. Once it has been tossed
into a water glass by some con-.
venient straightforward, there is
nothing visible through which you
may be exposed to criticism. @
And yet unfortunate mistakes
have occurred from time to time.
Back in the days when I worked
over the radio I faced that nervous
period just before going on the air
with the greatest trepidation It
was my custom to watch the slow
hands of the clock and seek to sta
bilize myself at three minutes, two
minutes and thirty seconds before
the hour.
Although this made me far less
nervous than I would have been
otherwise, I found that 1t impinged
upon the rules of both the major
chains and also worried the produc-
ton man.
And so I changed my technique
and appeared in the studio at the
proper time, bearing with me glass,
containing clear. cool gin from the
well. With this arrangement. I
could manage my own nerves and
still give no concern to those in au-
thOrity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-15
|M.E.TracySays:

~UBAS trouble is chronic rather than acute.
~ Though aggravated by depression, the rest
lessness and discomfort from which 1t springs
are bound up with the poverty and 1neXperlence
which the island has not been able to overcome.
It takes years. if not centuries, of popular
educat ton to fit people for self-government, ana
it takes mass prosperity to support popular eou-
cation.
Democracy can not be imposed from above
or the outside Except it grows naturally from
the bottom it is bound to fail. We had democ-
racy in our towns and villages long before we
had it on a national scale. Our forefathers had
been trained in it for generations oe1ore tnlS
republic was established.
That is not true of the people of Cuba or
of any other Latin American country They had
not been permitted to practice democracy under
Spanish rule as our ancestors were under BRUSH
rule They knew nothing about the privileges
and responsibilities of sef-government from a
community standpoint
CUBA was changed from Spanish province
~ to an independent republic overnight. Her
difficulties were not leSSened by the shadow OF
American interference. Her successful admins
trations have been more or less despotic.
Russian leaders were wise in not trusting
mass rule under quite similar circumstances
They could not have done what they have II
they had.
Democracy requires something more Cldu
paper constitutions. We do very wrong in aSSum-
ing that people who have served no apprentice
ship in popular government can adopt our system
successfully or that the violence by which they
often change administrations means what it
would here.
What Cuba and all other Latin American
countries need as a basis for improved govern
ment and what We could help them to get, is
a greater degree of mass prosperity. Their I'M
mediate problem is economic rather than political
They need markets more than they need
intervention need the implements, methods, and
knowledge Of modern life. Without these modern
government is impossible
OUR attitude toward Latin America and espe-
" cially toward Cuba, has been more NEEDLE
some than helpful. We have been far reader to
spend money on expeditions than for improve
ments. The dollars squandered on intervention
OF one type or another during the last fifty years
would have gone a long way toward building a
good road system, or providing a good banking
system.
History leaves no doubt that political self
sufficiency follows economic self-sufhcency, but
we are trying to revise the order in Latin
America We expect poverty stricken, illiterate
people to set up a government somewhat like
our own and keep it going.
If they fail we assume the right TO interfere
1t was on this theory that we drove Huerta out
of Mexico but only to keep that country in hot
water for ten years
Our Latin American policy is born of dreams
not realities designed to accomplish what goes
with ideal conditions, rather than what is pos
sible under existing limitations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-15
A Woman's Viewpoint

The fact is that economics and
religion are Siamese twins, truth
too often overlooked by our most
excellent people. No country can
be said to be either civilized or
Christian so long as large percent
of its worthy citizens are jobless and
in want.
The church fails in its highest
duty when it neglectS to incorporate
this doctrine into it's teachings.
When the morale is low, men make
poor citizens, and women ever
have found it impossible to live on
a good reputation alone
1t seems a self-evident fact that
economic security for women is an
essential to any good or intelli-
gent civilization, and until such Sc
curity is assured in the United
States, we probably shall not expe-
rience any moral RENAISSANCE.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-15

of the NRA from employees going to
and from work.
If the leadership in this altruistic
program by which Mr.. Roosevelt is
striving to lift the country out OF
the slump we're taken out Of the
hands of the Chamber of Com
merce luminaries, who represent the
worst type of capitalist, this city
might get some real benefit from
the NRA.
1t is amusing to contemplate the
Chamber of Commerce representa-
tiveS composing the local MIRA
executive committee acting as judge
and jury of complaints made
against their own fellow members
the employers of Indianapolis, who
today are violating their covenant
with the President That is, il
would be amusing if it were not SO
tragic.
With all the local ballyhoo and
the published figures of re-employ-
ment rate is one to business firm
and the average pay roll increase
about $40 a week.
Ask Mr.. Chase or some of the
Chamber of Commerce master
minds how they would like to live
on $14.50 to $40 a week.
1t is a fact that the Indianapolis
Railways is not living up to the
code, or would such query be con-
sidered less majesty, as the presi-
dent of the company also is the
recovery general?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-15
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

the virtues of its women and the in
tegrity of its men.
Nor can the one long survive
without its complement. When men
have little integrity, women usually
lack chastity of body and nobility
of mind.
n
TOR the last four years starva-
Il ton wages have been doled out
to women and girls, and in a good
many instances by men who regard
themselves as upright leaders Of
their communities. But I say to
you that they are the very foun-
tainheads of vice.
The employer who can afford and
vet does not pay living wage; the
housewife who boards her funds TO
adorn herself, while her servants
are underpaid and without COM
forts, are both assistants to Satan
ind promoters Of vice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-15
FRIDAY SEPT. IS. 1898.
THE NEW DEAL IN POWER
PAGE IS


NOW the power experiment at Muscle
Shoals has been brought down to the
concrete business Of fixing rates at which
electricity Will BE- sold. The Tennessee Valley
Authority will sell power to municipalities
throughout the region for mills a kilowatt
hour. and. exercising its jurisdiction over re-
tail schedules, 1t proposes to. have energy sold
to domestic consumers at rates beginning at
8 cents a hlowatt hour and going steadily
downward. as consumption increases to 2
cents, l cent, and mills.
Here, then, is that cheap government gen
efated. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS power that
the proponents of Muscle Shoals so long have
sought. Here is the yardstlck by which pri-
vste power costs and private power rates may
be measured No need longer to guess about
the benefits. so far as rate structures are con-
oerned, of government operation.
Place this power yardstick up against the
rates charged in Washington, in New York in
Knoxville, in Denver. in Chicago, in st. Louis,
and according to the figures of Director Lili-
enthal the result is proof that the IVA rates
are lower.
IVA is determined that no one shall be
able successfully to contest its charges on the
basis that they are possible because of govern
Inent subsidy. The explanation that the Z
mill wholesale rate will make the Shoals plant
strictly self-supporting and self-liquidating
would have been sufficient.
But iva, fortunately, is meticulous about
its plans, and, like private power companies,
and in the same relation, it intends to charge
of proper costs of furnishing service, opera
ton, maintenance, depreciation. taxes. 1t also
is making provisions for reserves for interest
and retirement of the Shoals investment.
Thus. finally the way is clear for electric
cation Of urban and rural areas of the Ten
nessee basin. Certainly, to take advantage of
these low rates, the large and small cities
there. and organizations of farmers will ar
range to acquire or construct distributing
systems.
. The Muscle Shoals experiment will be I'M
der way as this is done great social test
will have started, wherein cheap power viii
help to tighten the burden of human labor.
This. in fact is a new deal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-15
HIS Little Mistake

DUT as luck would have 1t, was
- engaged one night to do an in
tervieW with an inspirational writer
named Wash Young. Mr.. Young
does not smoke or drink, but lives
wholly for his better nature. And
so, of course, I needed something
potent to put me in accord with his
philosophy.
With a mere twist Of the wrist
1 got one-third of the contents of
the flask into a goblet which was
set upon the reading desk. MY
function was to introduce the
speaker Of the evening in terms as
laudatory as I could muster.
Perhaps l laid it on a shade too
thick. At any rate, Wash Young
reached for a draught of the crystal
fluid. He choked, he coughed. and
very nearly died. was much
pleased, and I think it made an
excellent broadcast.
And so I say that when repeal
actually is in effect, let us have as
little regulation as possible. I don't
want to spend the rest of nv life
treading softly wherever I 20 be-,
cause my pockets are filed with
tumblers.
Copyright 1879 bv The --,,,a,,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-15
PRETTY Ne0rLY Neutral

WITHIN the last two years l.
w have become the most dis
ssionate of vets. Any change to-
crd more liberal regulations may
, a handicap. At the moment l
an adopt the attitude that what
night seem indulgence is in truth
no more than a sturdy defense of
personal liberty.
In all probability I will become
aScetic, or something very close to
that mournful estate, after cocktails
and rickeys have ceased to be SYM
bols of rebellion.
I have been puzzled at the in
ability of radicals to grasp the
gains which they can make under
repeal. For the most part their at
titude toward the fight has been
one of hostility or utter indiffer-
ence. Only a few weeks ago the
Communist organ. the Daily Work
err, announced, with all the clamor
Of a first-page box, that it had OBJ
tanned, through the enterprise of its
staff photographer picture of
Haywood Broun taking a drink just
before mounting a stepladder to
make a speech in Union square.
There was the suggestion that this
exhibit would be held reserve and
used at such time as it might do
the most good. Since the meeting
in question was under Communist
auspices, I hold that this attitude
is little less than cricket. And
yet I can afford to say, Print and
be damned to you" -.
I must admit that even the best
snapshot of the sort would be a
great deal less than sensational. It
has been my experience, as a very
timid speaker, that one shot just
before the chairman calls you into
the execution chamber may make
all the difference between good
enough" and complete failure. Is,
And so it has been my practice
to reach for flask at literary ban
quets, political meetings, baseball
dinners and t-togethers of the G..
A. R. The Communists are not in
possession of any exclusive material.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-15
FIRE PREVENTION WEEK

I'm oct. begins the nations annual OBJ
~ servance of Fire Prevention week While
q great many Of these weekly programs are
both boresome and family ridiculous. this is
one which deserves the support of all citizens.
II deserves support principally because
most fires start through human carelessnesS,
and because all big fires begin as little fires.
II the ordinary man exercises little extra
care in connection with every activity which
has to do with the control OF fire. he can do
his part toward wiping out one Of the most
devastating of all our economic wastes
In 1881 fires In the United States caused
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-15

Times readers are inUited to cypress
their tielos in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can have chance
Limit them to $50 cords or leSS.)
By Police and Firemen's Friend.
This is just another letter to the
signer Fair Play" We have an
honest mayor when he said it would
cause corruption and racketeering
and other criminal offenses if po-
lice and f1remen'S wages were cut
any more, and I glory in his Spunk
for not cutting them any more. l
am a taxpayer and am willing to
pay for the protection we get from
both.
7 suppose if Fair Plays" house
would catch on fire he would not
call the firemen, just let it burn.
Also. if he would have gun stuck
in his ribs or hit on the head with
a blackjack, or even his automobile
stolen, he wouldn't call the police
men.
They would be the first ones he
would call, and raise hell If they
we're a minute later than he thought
they ought to be.
The police and the f1remen have
more expense than the ordinary
citizen. The fireman has two homes
to keep, as not any one gives him
a meal Also, a policeman has more
money to put on uniforms than a
fireman. and he even has to buy
the shells of his guns, as not even
one shell is given to him. The shells
cost cents apiece.
They even donated 2 per cent OF
their wages all winter and had to
donate to the Community Fund be-
sides. You can hear at least one
call every hour over radio police
calls, "a destitute family, investi-
gate"
Now what do you suppose that
investigation means? None other
than to dig in his pocket and help.
A policeman is on duty twenty-four
hours a day, regardless of uniform.
If some of our real estate men
and Chamber of Commerce leaders
would get from behind those desks
and fight fires and face bullets, they
would say that $35 a week, which
our men are getting. isn't one-third
enough. If they want wages really
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-15

total loss Of little more than $3.50 900 900.
Add 70 that the bill for fire insurance and the
cost of supporting innumerable fire depart
ments, and you begin to see how expensive the
fire menace really is.
The moral, in connection with Fire Pre-
vention week is obvious.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-15
Variations
BY CHRISTIE RUDOLPH

b1 OnhIS1lE RUDOLPH
A room looking down upon a street,
Looking up to the sun, at darkness
and rain,
In search Of some soul I'm likely
to meet,
A body most pure, and free from
pain,
Ny ears listen for some heavenly
strain.
From the heavens deep yastness
Of blue,
Spreading its beauty all around,
I'm watching and waiting this
whole life through,
While shadows are fading upon
the ground.
A bit Of green spring is new,
And budding trees with blossoms
few,
Entangled with electric wires run
ming through ~
But why this scattered vagueness?
That's part of life, too.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-15

BY E. D. C.
. a S a reader of The Times, I
"A should like you to just have
this word.
I should like to know if it would
not be a wiser request of our
police chief to ask some of those
persons who are disturbed so
easily by newsboys on Sunday
morning, if it would not be wise
request to ask these people to
leave their clubs on Saturday
night instead of Sunday morning.
And does he think that the
highballs they drink in the wee
hours of Sunday morning are of
more profit than that the boy
who carries papers to get his task
completed in time to attend Sun
day school? I should like to know
which would be the wiser to cor
rect. In my estimation, the high
ball drinker should be reprimand-
ed instead of the poor newsy.