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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04
WHAT IS SUCCESS?

VXTHAT makes man a success in life? Just
w what is the prize most worth getting,
and how do you go about winning it?
There are dozens of answers. to those ques-
lions, some of them right, some of them
wrong, and some a little bit of each. But once
in a while you run into something that hints
that the best answer may be simpler, and diff
ferent, from anything you had supposed.
Suppose you listen for minute to the story
of a lad named Jack Cicuto.
Jack was an orphan. He was reared in the
famous home at Mooseheart, Ill. He got into
his teens, finished his high school course, and
set his heart on getting more education. So
presently he found himself a student at John
Carroll university, in Cleveland.
It's not so easy to work your way through
college in the midst of a depression, but Jack
did it. He not only earned his way, but man
aged to pay for a 81, 1000 insurance policy to
take care of three brothers and his kid sister,
back in Mooseheart
He played football, too-good football. He
was half back on the university team; for all
that he was a pint-sized chap.
well, JACK Ieu III UIllS IAN anu WAS CdheIl
to a hospital Pretty soon he knew that he
wasn't going to get we'll He didn't have any
relatives TO sit by his bedside and comfort
him, being an orphan. He just had his reli-
gious faith-and the knowledge that he still
had a little work to do.
So. dying, Jack asked for pen and paper
and wrote a note to three of his football
buddies He told them about his insurance
policy, asked them to see that it got straight
enend out for the sake of his brothers and
sisters, told where they could find the few
odd dollars he had in his room. And then,
with his pen struggling all over the paper, he
concluded:
Il am gradually growing weaker. But 1
am happier than 1 ever have been. am
making wondrous prayers 1t would be i'm
possible for me to do any more. Tell all the
fellows I said, So long! I'll see you all in
heaven"
Now. that's all there is to this story. But
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04

more than 100000 has been re-
corded since.
Q-How can a sheepSkin diplo-
ma be smoothed for framing?
A-Moisten it with water and
dry it under tension, as stretch
ing over a frame.
Q-Is the guillotine still used for
execution in France?
Ayes.
Q-What nationality was the
late Joseph Pulitzer, founder of
the Pulitzer prizes?
A-His father was Magyar
Jewish and his mother Austro-
German and he was a naturalized
American.
Q-Where in the Bible is the
verse "A man shall forsake his
mother and father and shall
cleave unto his wife?"
A-Genesis 2:24 and quoted by
Jesus in Matthew 1875 and Mark
10;7.
Q-Is there a premium on s.
cent pieces, dated 1888, without
the word cents?
A-No.
Q-Give the number of daily,
weekly, tri-weekly and semi
weekly newspapers published in
the United States, Canada and
New Foundland.
AIN January, 1888, there were
2.l16 dailieS, 522 dailies with Sun
day editions; 40 tri-weeklies; 375
semi-weeklies; and 1l,546 weeklies.
Q-Where is the highest point
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04
It Seems
to Me
by HAYWOOD BROUN-

- ID III VOOO oAOCAN-=
1T is proposed by Gerard Swope
l. that business should be turned
back into the hands Of business.
In other words, the American peo-
pie are asked to intrust their eco
nomic present to the very people
who made a fearful mess Of it,
If the captains Of industry had
justified their rank I would agree
that for the present there might
be utility in letting them keep
things going until such time as the
nation makes up its mind which
way We are going to jump.
But during the recent years the
captains and the kings have de-
parted, leaving nothing but a rather
sorry assemblage composed OF few
sergeants and very many corporals.
Not every industrial leader has
been proved incompetent, bUt so
many are under suspicion that a
bearish attitude toward the entire
bunch certainly seems the way to
bet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04
M. Tracy Says:

IF Joseph v. Mckee had not entered the New
4 York mayoralty race as an independent
Democratic candidate, there is little doubt that
La Guardia, the Fusion nominee, would have
won an easy victory over Tammany.
Mr. McKeeS entrance was so unexpected and
SO closely associated with the visit of Post
MASTER General James Farley as to justify wide
spread suspicion that he acted on invitation or
persuasion rather than on his own initiative.
In fact Mr.. McKee's recent career suggests
nothing so distinctly susceptibility to invita-
ton or persuasion. Last year, when he had the
opportunity to make himself the leader of New
York, he preferred to be guided by the sage
advice of political friends who were identified
with the ruling machine
s. The significance of his eleventh hour eruption
is to be found in his own definite assertion that
it means a great deal to the Roosevelt admin
istraton.
Whether true or not Joseph " Mckee thinks
that he is essential to the happiness if not the
survival of President Roosevelt, and that vote
for him is vote to uphold the latter.
NTHILE many people refuse to accept this
w view, they find it difficult to avoid the
thought that some one planted it in Mr. McKee's
mind, since it involves too grave implications
for normal man to entertain, much less voice
publicly.
This necessarily brings new issue into the
campaign. New Workers find themselves con-
fronted with the task, not only of repudiating
Tammany Hall, but of proving their independ-
ence.
If Mayor OBrsn stands for retention of
machine politics. as he obviously does, Joseph
V. Mckee stands for outside interference
Worse than that he stands for outside inter-
ference which could easily associate itself with
the old order.
To put it plainly, if Mckee is elected, none
other than our genial friend Postmaster General
Farley would be cock of the walk, and it would
be comparatively easy matter for the whole
1ammany organization, with the exception of
a few top-notchers, to find refuge and relief
under his lowering wing.
II MAT phase of the New York election makes
II it both interesting and important from
nationwide standpoint. 1t would not be good
thing for any one connected with the present
administration at Washington to get an idea
that the time was right for injudicious interfer-
ence with local self-government, especially along
the lines laid down sly Tammany hall We are
IN Tor enough discipline, enough bureaucracy.
enough dictation, without that
The one hope of securing the essential degree
OF cooperation lies in keeping national plans
and programs as free from politics as is human
~ possible, and every attempt to play politics
should be resisted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04

GIN fairly sick of all this talk
i about our increased leisure, :"
writes working girl. Goodness
knows we can use more and stin
not have time for all the things
we've been wanting to do for years"
Doubtless this point of view is
shared by many of her generation,
about whom our professors are SO
much alarmed. 1t is at least easy
to comprehend her meaning.
However fine the arguments about
woman's rights to a place in in
dustry may be, we shall never be
able to transport her entirely out
of the home. A little bit OF her
heart will always be left behind.
Men working do only mems work as
a usual thing. But working girls
and women have besides their
other tasks, a multitude of small
occupations that are necessary TO
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04
SATURDAY. NOV. 4. 1893
BEHIND WIGGIN

NUMBED by the shocks Of repeated SEN
ate committee revelations. the mind
does not easily follow the crude career of Al
bert H. Wiggin as head Of the Chase National
bank group. The picture Of this man selling his
own bank short and prohting by the crash to
the extent Of many millions Of dollars is par
ticularly sickening
II the country is looking for a scapegoat
Mr.. Wiggin certainly is running Mr. Mitchell
his National City bank competitor a close race
But simply to blame Mr. Wiggn and Mr.
Mitchell for financial racketeering is to miss
the point. This sort of thing happened in too
many American banks to be accidental 1t
was not mere chance that brought men of the
Wiggin and Mitchell type to the control of the
two largest banking institutions in the coun-
try, if not of the world
Our system seems to have put premium
on such men, according to them; its highest
responsibilities, its greatest honors, it's rich
est rewards.
Since these men and their methods were
more or less worshipped by the nation dur
ing the boom, the public should take unto it
self some Of the blame it now heaps upon it's
late idols of Wall Street.
AS long as our banking system permits
bankers to be gamblers with other peoples
money, it is somewhat childish to cry over the
discovery that gambling sometimes is rather
INSCRIPTIONS business.
Certainly profound and sweeping reform in
cur banking laws is essential But even that
will do little good unless our entire public con-
ception of banking is changed
If the function of the banker is to get rich,
it is rather cheap to whine about the Virgins.
Only when personal profit is ruled out as
a major motive for the guardian of other
peoples money, only when banking is raised
to the professional level of public service, will
we get rid of financial shysters in high places.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04
GiUinQ o. FelU Crumbs

TINE new plan. as I understand
Il it. does contain some provisions
for supervision by the government.
I like the NRA scheme much better.
That, in effect, makes the govern
ment the business supervisor with
some Slight aid and comfort from
the owners.
NRA sets labor in the saddle. The
Swope plan reverSeS the process. I
would not like to live or die b. the
intelligence of every labor leader.
But for better or worse it seems to
me that the key men of the unions
have had more foresight than the
vast bulk of the employers.
General Johnson has expressed
approval of the Swope suggestion
and hailed it as a form of national
planning. The labor groups call it
business fascism" My own atti-
tude toward fascism is that even
when it seems to work 1 do not like
it,
Certainly can not grow enthu-
siastic over any economic dictator
ship intrusted to the gentlemen who
were f1unked out by the 1929 panic.
There is a harsh rule of the sea
that the captain who loses his ship
does not receive another command
even though it may be demonstrable
that the catastrophe was not of his
own making or responsibility. But
as yet there has been no convincing
evidence that our captains of finance
and industry were not guilty of at
least contributory negligence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04

IN continental United States east
Of the Mississippi river?
Amount Mitchell. Yancey
county, N. c., has an elevation Of
1884 feet.
Q-What is the area of the
State of Vatican City?
A-108.7 acres.
GLOW long has the Saturday
Evening Post been published?
A-Continuously since it was
founded as the Pennsylvania
Gazette by Benjamin Franklin, in
1928, except for few weeks when
the British occupied Philadelphia
during the revolutionary war.
Glow many football fatali-
ties occurred in 1882?
A-Thirty-seven.
On playing euchre, can a
player demand a new deal if he
receives all mines and tens?
A-There is nothing in the
rules for euchre that permits
calling for new deal simply be-
cause a players hand contains
nothing higher than mines and
tens.
Q-How much did the United
States pay for Alaska?
A-The purchase was made
from from Russia in 1867 for
S7,200,000 in gold.
Q-What three American cities
have the largest area?
A-Los Angeles, first; New York
City, second, and New Orleans,
third.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04
A Woman's Viewpoint ::
. BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

by. MRS. WALTER EEhGUSON
make a home, even if that home is
only a one-room apartment.
These women and girls wash out
their stockings and underwear. They
mend their dresses and make over
their hats. They shampoo their
hair and manicure their nails and
clean their gloves, and hundreds OF
them cook their own food in kitch-
enettes.
Being women first and workers
afterward, they probably never will
be able to rid themselves entirely Of
certain primordial desires, the
urges that drive us on, at the most
unconscionable hours to doll up the
dressing table drawers with gay pa
per, or to put fresh coat Of enamel
on the kitchen table, or to rehang
all the pictures.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04
THE THREAD WE LIVE BY

THE fearful and wonderful way in which
human life exists in universe which is
forever hostile to it is shown graphically in
the annual report of the Smithsonian insti-
tuition.
DR.. Charles c. Abbot points out that the
only thing that keeps the ultra violet rays
of the sun from killing all mankind is a thin
layer of ozone in the upper reaches of the
stratosphere.
This belt of vapor is so nebulous that, if
concentrated, it would be less than an eighth
Of an inch thick. Thin as it u.s. however, it
keeps the suns rays from blistering us to
death in short order.
And DR.. Abbot adds that if the layer were
thicker, the ultraviolet rays would be cut
off altogether and in that case, too life would
be impossible.
Only the most delicate of hair-line adj
justments make the existence of the human
race possible.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04
The Wren

BY MARGARET E. BRUNER
Once when my spirit was depressed,
I paused to watch a tiny wren,
Who flew with movements full Of
Zest
Into his house, then out again.
And on each trip he bore a load
Quite heavy for SO small bird,
He paused, and from his throat
there flowed
The loveliest strain my ears had
heard.
And as listened to the song
OF Joy, which labor had set free,
1t seemed I felt myself grow strong
Perhaps his message was for me.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04
The Furnishing Spotlight

O'''9 ~ f|NUOtt 1fCO
MOST of the men bearing the
AA great names in thei royal sue
cession of American business have
been called recently to Washington.
Some of them have been show up
as gentlemen more than a shade
too sharp in taking advantage of
the laws loopholes.
And the most charitable thing to
be said for any one of them who
has appeared at investigation or
code hearings is that the poor fell
low had no clear idea of the mess
which he was making.
do not think that the world can
be made over readily in any imme-
date period between dawn and sun
set. I do not like even the general
premise of the economic system I'M
der which we live, and yet I will
admit that until there is complete
organization for something better,
some effort must be made to mud
die through.
But even though I concede the
present necessity for carrying on. I
do not see why the task of leader
ship should be intruSted to folk
who have shown a Iamentable lack
of public spirit and social con-
science.
And even more damaging indict-
ment may be laid at the doors OF
those who have been termed the
rulers of America. Some things
they did because they were greedy
and INSCRIPTIONS. But even more
of their crimes against the commu-
nifty may be attributed to plain
stupidity.
And now, according to the SWope
plan, we are asked to give authority
over millions to the very men who
could not work effectively with their
thousands. 1t seems to me that the
American public has a right to say
to these business leaders who would
step in as overlords, GO out and get
yourself reputation"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04

BY a Taxpayer.
1 see in your paper of today that
our honorable mayor and few men
and a judge say that we shall not
have natural gas in our city
Please tell us why the Citizens
Gas Company should not have a lit
tie competition. We have COMPETE
ton in every other line Of business.
If we had only one newspaper, we
should be in mess.
But judge who probably gets a
good wad from our utilities has the
right to tell us what we can have
and can not have. Is this fair?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04
In With the Tide

MTHOM did these fnanciers and
w key men ever lick? They
were able to coast along during
boom times in which no elevator
boy or boot-bl could 90 wrong
in his selections. But with the
first touch Of frost the gentlemen
Of the upper crust turned red and
purple and finally a dun brown.
They fell to earth and were gathered
up in the baskets of the sweeper.
Dead leaves are lovely things, but
when they cry out, 1--WE want to
go back where we came FROM" I
think proper answer might be,
you had your chance"
The blue eagle is not a bird
above reproach, but I much prefer
this flier to any little brown hen
which is to set once again upon
the china eggs of business i'm
potence.
Copyright. 1888. by The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04

There are said to be. more than 100000
nudists in the United States. There should be
many more, what with one being born every
minute
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04

1t took two hours for Mrs. Roosevelt to get
into Philadelphia the other day. There's fort
the Republicans still refuse to give up with
out a struggle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04

Washington college has awarded President
Roosevelt the honorary degree of Doctor OF
Laws Doctor of Archaic Laws, it should be.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04

Candidate for mayor at Long Beach, L. T.,
had box of cigars stolen from his Office. The
burglars must be voters.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04

There's a reason for Litvinoff coming to
the United States incognito. 1t isn't he who
wants TO be recognized, it's Russia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04

Although the blue eagle has become quite
popular, the turkey remains the favorite birc
around this time of year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04

Man will be much bigger and brainier in
100000 years, says New York scientist Maybe
So but we doubt whether suckers will stop
being born every minute even by 5O1933.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04

report, SIS the core of the liquor problem"
Still leaving the liquor to be drunk at least
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04

BY E. B.
clear sky comes the announcement
of the dismissal Of President
Athearn of Butler university by a
coterie of financial and political
trustees, as DR.. Athearn puts it in
his arraignment of trustees.
DR.. Athearn rapidly was becoming
one of the most virile and progress
sive college presidents in Indiana,
or the middle west. This writer
considers DR.. Oman of De Paw
university and DR.. Athearn as two
of the most energetic, progressive,
and virile presidents ever to pre-
side over the destinies of their re-
spective institutions.
A coterie of critics undertook to
hamstring DR.. Oman Of De Paw
a few months ago, but fortunately
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04

BY Wonderer.
Why does so muchtmoney have to
be collected through the Com
munity Fund to be given over to the
different reliefs? At the same time,
the township trustees are spending
scads of the taxpayers money for
the same thing.
Who pays for the big banquets
given at the Claypool hotel and the
Columbia Club?
1t is I common talk among the
working class of people now
employed that foremen come to
them and tell them that they have
to give or else lose their jobs, or
words to that effect
This fund was not thought of
until after the war. Then the man
with the money saw his chance of
making the working man the sap,
while the rich man sat in his swivel
chair and made his.
If we had some Hitlers in the
city of indianapolis and the state
of Indiana, we would be better OFF.
I have been in fraternal work for
several years and am very &C
tive in it around Thanksgiving
and Christmas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04
So They Say

We are grateful to the Repub-
leans who have made it possible
for us to be around, and we want
to reward them. Postmaster Gen.
eral Farley.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04

Jimmy Durante comedian, has filed his
name for copyright He wouldn't dare file his
nose.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04
Daily Thought

Ye have plowed wickedness, We
have reaped iniquity; We have eaten
the fruit Of lies: because thou didst
trust in thy way, in the multitude
OF thy mighty men-Hosea, 1913.
TT is no sin to be tempted the
Il wickedness lies in being over
come. -Balzac.
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Stain finally has quit stallin'.
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(TimeS readers are inUited to eTpress
their Uielos in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can haze chance.
Limit them to ESQ q0ords or Iess.J
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However good a dictatorship may
be, however constructive and con-
venient, it always compromises the
future because it leaves as a legacy,
disorder. - General Plutarco Elias
Gales of Mexico.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-04

Only men of indubitable courage
dare to be economists in this year
of 1933.-Chancellor Elmer Brown,
New York university.
Montana labor news., 1933-05-25
ROSTER
of MISSOULA UNIONS

International Association of Fire Fighters,
Local No. 271-Meets first change day of
the month at l 100 p. m. at Fire Station
President, Il. C. Curran; Vice President
r. d. Nelson, Secretary Treasurer, Wal
ter Brechbill; Trustees, M. j. Griffin,
c. p. Kern and j. d. Russ. Delegates
to Trades and Labor Council, Geo. Welt
eel and w. A. Walsh.
Montana labor news., 1933-05-25
COMMITTEES OF ACTION ARE
PLANNED BY CONGRESS CAMPERS

such destructive educational policies
as are favored by the big business
men.
Writing in the Real America Mag
azine, Pres. Charles B. Stillman of
the joint conference of teachers and
principals of Chicago says, "There
is substantial evidence that many large
taxpayers and men of great financial
power resent the provision of educa-
tional opportunities for the children
of the poor almost comparable to the
opportunities available for their own
children. Perhaps they do not relish
universal training and equipment of
the children of the masses for effec-
tive life competition with their own
children in all the important callings."
Stillman is past president of the
American Federation of Teachers.