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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17
HE'S A HARD FATHER
Wanted Babies to Sleep on Floor;
Given 80 Days for Neglect.

Because the floor was the nightly
resting place of Sam Dobbs, Of 2219
East New York street, in his boy
hood Tennessee home, is no reason
for his own daughters to live in the
same rigorous manner, Juvenile
Judge John F. Geckler said Monday
in giving Dobbs a thirty-day jail
sentence for child neglect.
Mrs. Ruth Dobbs. 2116 East Wash
ington street, mother of the chill
dren, told the court her husband OBJ
jected when she wished to buy bed
for the children. Rose Ann, Is
months, and Betty Lou, ?.
Let them sleep on the floor;
used to when I was a boy" Dobbs
was quoted as saying.
The purchase of silk bonnets for
the babies also met with objec-
tons from Do bs because they
were too fancy his wife said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17
KateSmith Type of Variety
Act Finds Good Response
Once Again 1t Is Personality That Makes One Person
Stand Out on the LYriC's Vaudeville Bill.
BY WALTER D. HICKMAN
1T seems that the Kate

WALTER HICKMAN
Smith entertainer arrived
Il vaudeville show type
Farrell
Forsythe Seaman.
O she is built along those lines
S
what the her personality
delightful rowdy She allows that up
the that they
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17
REGISTER AS LOBBYISTS
z. n. Taylor, Adolph Fritz to Repre-
sent Labor Federation.

T. N. Taylor, president, and
Adolph Fritz, secretary, have regis
tered as legislative lobbyists for the
Indiana State Federation of Labor
Others who registered today with
Secretary of State Frank Mayr Jr.
were Andrew E. Durharl, Green
castle, and Frank L. LitJleton, In
dianapolis, for the New York Cen
trail railroad. and w. J. Behmer, In
dianapolis. for the Big -Four.
P. O. Bowers and AIva Farquar of
Charlottesville filed to represent the
Indiana Fraternal Congress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17
In the Air

( Weather condition at a. m;
West-northWest wind, eight miles
an hour; temperature, 80; baromer-
ric pressure, 3017 at sea level gen.
eral condition, overcast, light fog;
ceiling, estimated 1900 feet; visi-
bility, two and one-half miles; field,
good.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17
Penalty Is Stipulated

Pupils in common schools of In
diana will study only textbooks ap-
proved by the state textbook COM
mission if a bill approved today by
the senate education committee be-
comes a law.
School superintendent and prin-
cipals face revocation Of license if
other books are recommended to
pupils. Changes in geography and
history textbooks are prohibited
more often than once in five years,
and more than once in ten years
for other subjects.
Another textbook bill applying to
high schools was postponed indefl-
nitely by the senate committee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17

Haney and Stewart are again
back on the boards. Haney is the
old soldier type of dancer. He has
good dancing feet and does real
stepping. But I can't see the wis
dom of introducing the two chill
dren who try to sing and dance.
They can dance, but it slows up
the punch work of Haney.
Raynor Lehr and his company
Us presenting a farce, very ancient
in theme, called 1T Can Be Done"
Song and dance routine slows up
the action of the farce.
In the Lehr organization, it is
the quartet which again scores by
virtue of harmony This weeks
Lehr Offering does not have the
class, speed, color and high class
material as the opening revue of
last week. That's my opinion. Be
your own judge.
I was late and missed the first
act The movie is, They Call 1t
SIN with Loretta Young and
George Brent.
Now at the Lyric.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17

late Kate Flea
more so famous
and so loved in
the days when
the two "a - day
was the vogue in
vaudeville. 1t was
Hates pOnderous
shape as we'll as
h er marvelOusly
human PERSONAL
ity and sense of
the theater that
made her so IA
nous. And it is
these same attri-
butes W h i c h
makes Miss Far
Ill IL .,,rArAnrnI
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17

ing individual on this weeks Lyric
bill. Mr.. Forsythe as well as Miss
Stewart "a good dancer and a
pretty fair nutty comedienne), fit
into the comedy work of Miss Far
rel and the piano.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17

act over The mountain. And The
audience agrees with that state
ment of comedy fact. Miss Far
rell does her comedy along the true
theater method which made the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17
Sponsored by BiddIe

(Dem., Bloomington, a leader in
the administration forces, sponsored
the bill. Members Of the roads COM
mittee, before approving the
measure, made dismissal of highway
superintendent optional with COM
missioners. He changed the name
Of highway superintendent to high
way supervisor and set a per diem
pay of from 81 to SO, depending on
total mileage of county roads under
the supervisors jurisdiction.
Senator John Bright Webb Dem,
Indianapols), declared the title of
county highway superintendent was
poison to the public" He insisted
county commissioners should be
given jurisdiction over county road
work and appoint supervisors to
carry out their orders.
In smaller counties, the jobs may
be added to duties of county
surveyors, on a per diem basis.
Two other bills introduced to
abolish the present highway COM
mission will be postponed Indefinite
ly, as repeal provisions now are in
Senate Bill 30, favorably considered
by the roads committee.
Drafted by Lutz
Final draft of this inclusive
measure was made by Philip Lutz
Jr., encouragement, assisted by
Wickard and Senator James B.
Brewster Dem, Corydom, roads
committee members.
Ketchum explained to the commit
tee that provision for discretionary
use Of paving materials made at the
states penal institutions followed
similar provisions in the present
law and should be retained.
Salaries of commissioners were
left at 5000 a year, all opposition
to this figure having been dropped
by committeeman. The argument
on the salary may come from the
floor on second reading.
Explaining this feature of the
new measure, Ketchum said that at
present the commission director is
paid $500 a year, and that each
of the former commissioners drew
an average of 3d. 20 each year as
per diem pay.
Salary Total Lower
Salaries of 5000 a year for each
of three commissioners he said would
be a few hundred dollars less than
combined salary and per diem as at
present.
An emergency clause would make
the law effective upon approval of
the Governor. All property, con-
tracts, supplies and equipment of
the Old commission automatically
would be turned over to the new
commission.
Appointment of full-time COM
misSioners, claim authors of bill,
will fix responsibility to greater de-
gree than now is possible under di-
vided control by four commissioners
and a director.
Full Power to Governor
Full power Is gwen GIle OOFSI1lOI
to appoint and remove commits
sioners at any time, with a four
year limit on any single term of
Office.
A bill providing for tel-year
adoption period of common school
texts, instead of the present five
year period, was being considered
favorably py the senate education
committee today.
Senator Biddle announced that he
proposed an amendment to the bill
which also would prohibit supple
mental texts being demanded by
the schools.
This feature has added greatly tc
the cost to parents of sending chill.
dren to school, he said.
Senator Chester A. Perkins Dem.
South Bend has prepared a bill
raising exemptions in executions O.
! judgments end bankruptcy case,
from 5000 to 81 400.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17

Other theaters today will offer:
"Cynara" at the Palace, The Ami
NAL Kingdom at the Apollo,
Blackstone on the stage and Law
yer Man" on the screen at the In
diana, Frisco Jenny at the Circle,
and movies at the Colonial.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17
MARK TWAIN'S
| 'C0NNE CTICUT
{ Yankee DEAD
Sunny lin Marvin, Famed
Hotel Man, Buried in
Far West.
BY JAMES T. WICKIZER
United Press stan Correspondent

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 17-The
Connecticut Yankee-the one Mark
Twain took to King Arthur's court
was buried today
James Sunny JIM Marvin, 81.
veteran hotel man Of California s
BONANZA days" friend Of Presidents.
opera stars. empire builders and
silver kings. who was that sauve
shrawd Yankee whom Twain de-
scribcd. died Saturday.
Today Sunny jim was buried un-
der the whispering pines Of the Ma
tional cemetery in the san Fran
cisco preside.
Sunny jim was a Don vivant of
Yankee vintage. Behind his black,
handle-bar mustache was a smile
that warmed the hearts Of the great
and ncar-preat he met over the
desks Of famous San Francisco and
other hotels.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17
LEGALS
CENTER TOWNSHIP TRUSTEE S
ANNUAL REPORT

81, The township trustees annual report to
me advisory. board of Center township,
disbursements and balances all of town
ship or1eyenues for the year ending Dec.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17

think although | receive
I do often conceal their
rouge all still children vague them
like how many mental
did little tact and hon.
destroy dump easily will Sit
ling when the showed
the All books have
apple inside And all like been inspired with this idea.
a skilled The Golden Rule urges
love neghbor ourSelf.
a a good how love
although neighbOr ineligeny do
away the mystery good for
make a restaurant him? Nothing tell this
street her boudOir, except science
pleasure watching The Bible admonishes
the artist always to of cold water The
a good job spirit S
of par asks, Are there any colon
ents write this question bacii in it? giving
The child should with neighbor health poison?"
this knowledge, made to The religious Impulse
feel "a nshes the spirit
trivial matter in life Children ton but greatly
department.
in
specially devised set
They
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17
visited at White House


Catering to hustled ladies and
beaver hated gentlemen Of the
70'a and COS was Jims professional
calling.
He was the frilnd of President
Grant, Leland Stanford, George
Hearst, Bret Hartc, Coils p Hunt
ington Helen Modjeska, David Be
lascO Lolita Crabtree, Ellen Terry
and Henry Irving and the bonanza
kings Flood OBrien, Fair and
Mackay.
He visited Lincoln at the White
House.
Fred Sharon a Nevada silver
princeling who turned pOntico and
became Nevada's FIRST United States
senator, hired Marvin at his Brown
stone Palace hotel, and there it was
that Mark Twain, young reporter
for the Morning Call and Sunny
Jim became fast friends.
Born in Connecticut
Assigned by his editor to cover a
fire or a murder, Twain more often
than not covered 1t in Sunny Jlm'S
office or in the Respondent palace
bar
Marvin, born in North Holbrook,
Conn, began his career as maitre
dhotel IN New York.
When the hearty living Bonanza
kings died, and their golden era
passed, Marvin retired.
1T used to be that people lived, ~
said Sunny jim, but now"
Heart Attack Fatal
Early in the century, Marvin
visited the man, who used him as
the basis for character every
school boy knows. During one Of
his visits at TWains New York
home, jim met Harriet Beecher
Stove.
so you're the woman who made
me cry" said Sunny jim. Uncle
Toms Cabin" it seems, was Sunny
Jims favorte opera.
A heart attack brought death to
Sunny jim as he dOzed in a chair
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17
November
Interest from 6 banks sl68.45.

FAY .i-a tf-NA "l p t'.i+'tsA'
son Plummer teachers pension, sll63:
25lhv Coczcraan' seacI5t oeI.a,D Oh ssIioo'ooi:
1 L. NJ li2o1-i sscba-,s oens5o1 SIi 81
Teresa Connollv te2chaer5y s, pension 5ll36
'a ts1.J pension. siL63. Ruth DOUGLASS.
seCe.e,C-;;5eer.s ,aretoT s11 as Zolm9 Cummings
+eecpar'7 noneior sf136. John 2. Man
nirr. docket fees 5000
Statement showing amount Of all moneys
oaid 10 HE various funds Of center town
shin Of Marion county. disbursements
sor tl7e vear ending nee al 1892.
LOT '''e year 1 ToT1sbi ~ Fn8d-
Balance on hand jan. 2 3 I l}3 70 1921
Tets ~ baia5eos s17d pcceint-s27 1883.
Disb1rsements during vear-sl9 100 20.
ri4l"4 ""4'''e0o Boad F,,rd
Balance On hand Jan. ?. I932-s41f43e.
Tofsi ' bal9nces i and receipts@s4 1856 So.
F '.98ii'i b9lances q Bee .'' 81 io32@None.
Special School FUND
Balance on hand Jan. O. 1932-s37 0l4-0o'
Receipts during year-s25 593 sc.
Total Of balances and Ioceip-e-s52 6Ol9Z,
Disbursements during vear-s22 .ol8.53
MAJ "S-'1-0es -r[5;t5c,, t7-,---
rsa7o~ca m l,or1d ~ . f1q2-e2S l7S IS.
Pereirte dilring SIC 55438
Total Of balances and receipts -s53 Q3272.
Tisburser7ertg c1Irinr wear $50 SO q.
No. Find
Balance on hand Jan 2 1922-si0 9l3. 50.
1retp gums year .l5 ,,-3- con a5t p.
T -o.e5 ~ D,let-lss anu an al a.
7ireI bsIs,,ces re- w. 81 100 RI 494f3
-'l4i 08i7i-01s a. 49, 4 - ~
r,.f.,-,o -, - u ~ -'-,o9o - 400 "a
T5saa5t on nana Jan z 53o 81 ~ TO-
-rt1sip.s W. -.-s yta.-2 -y -s'Q o. e.- oos IN
4olal q palances ana recelpls- - i'o@o'oV'
-e1l,-4se,,Ilells curing 5eaI-7o.. 33cco an
Final balances Dec. 81, l932--sll 6985o.
-Ie9cAers Pension tunc-,.
5aIence o. nand Jan. z. l53l-s57a,4o.
receipts curing Vear-S4l6.34
4QI ~ OF rafalcee and rcccr3t7- 5c3z-7D.
Disbursements during Year-s53l p
IInal balances Dec. 81. l932-S30i.25
Balance on hand Jan 9 1932-st15 423 y.
Receipts during year-S10z 556 IS
Total Of balances ana iprs-5l87- 1888.
D-sou-selnents during year-sl04 4Al-65.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17
SPEEDY SENATE
ACTION URGED
ON ROAD BILL
Rush Approval to Be Asked
for Measure, Slated for
Introduction Today.

Immediate passage of the adj
ministration measure abolishing the
present state highway commission
and creating a new state road COM
mission, with three full-time
members, appointed by Governor
Paul V. McNutt, will be recon-
mended at today's session of the In
diana senate. The senate recon-
vened this afternoon.
The recommendation will come
from the senate roads committee.
The committee today also APP
proved a measure to abolish the
Office of county highway superin-
tendent, at the option of county
commissioners.
This bill affects the custer fight
against Charles W. Mann, Marion
county highway superintendent.
whose term expires next year and
who has refused to resign at the
request of the Democratic board Of
commissioners.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-17

John Msuring. 7 p salsrv for 2
r1nr4hs sEnn. Na-v Marninr T. P elerr
fo- months. s3T5: Indi7na T~us1 bord
~,S f--.are-. N same for SCHOOL No 2
s5.562.5o; Mcpherson Coal. 40 tons and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07

He will want to know Why nnoribund townships
should be kept alive by artificial respiration.
And II he halls from state with 5000 to 10000
school districts he is going to mutter in his sleep
about the incubus which the mud-road age has
fastened on him"
Tax reforms: If legislatures are courageous and
just they will tax on the basis of ability to pay.
Then they need not curtaf humane and regulatory
functions
Job insurance: Unemployment insurance bills
win be urged upon thirty legislatures, and their
passage promised by at least six work security
is better than charity this reform is long overdue
Child labor: To send back to school some 2,OOo,-
900 child wage earners and give their jobs to
employed adults the states should adopt the uniform
16-year school age minimum and ratify the federal
child labor amendment.
Old-age pensions: Alaska and seventeen states
have old-age pension laws, which more humane,
efficient and cheaper than poorhouses. Why not
the other thirty-one states?
Lame duck amendment Seventeen of the needed
thirty-six states have ratified the Norris amend
ment. The others should do by summer.
The times call for cooperation and courage. If
the states act in unison through organizations like
the American Legislators Association and the COM
ing national state tax conference, they can save
time and effort
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
FREE TRADE IN BRAINS

The American Association of University Profess
sors, at their New Haven conference, passed two
resolutions that should be repeated loudly and often
enough for every congressman and federal bureau
crat to hear.
One protests the restrictions placed on the entry
into this country of professors who do not come
under the immigration quotas. The other opposed
the ruling of Secretary of Labor Doak making it
difficult fer foreign students to work their way
through American colleges.
There should be barrier to importation of
brains into America" DR.. Casmir zdanowicz of the
University of Wisconsin told the conference For
educational reasons, they should be admtted-the
teacher, the student, the book the educational film >"
The haraSsment of Dr. EnSten illustrates the
present attitude of immigration and state de-
partment officials
When this country has abolished poverty and
disease created the perfect state and achieved its
goal of happy race perhaps it then can afford to
raise barriers against foreign thought In the mean
time, there should be free trade in brains.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
UP TO THE STATES

The forty -four legislatures now gathering under
state capitol domes to do the peoples business are
charged with the solemn duties the incoming
government at Washington.
States as great engines move slowly" but now
they must act quickly to prevent widespread suf-
ferng and injustices Here some of the prob
lens that will wait longer for solution:
Relief: Men and women should not starve or live
on 7-cent meals. States that have reached the end
of their resources must demand federal aid. And of
course work relief is better than breadlines.
Economy and efficiency The biggest tax savings
will be effected through reorganizations and consoh
dations of local units. Professor Thomas H. Reed
of the University of Michigan says: 1T win enrage
the 1898 taxpayer to think that in his metropolitan
area there hundred governments with taxing
and bonding power where would do.
IF he lives in rural section where ten counties
could be joined he is going to inquire angrily why
there should be ten jails ten sheris, ten clerks,
ten treasurers where OF each would be MIficent
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
THE DEMOCRATIC PROGRAM

The Democratic legislative plan outlined by
members of congress who met with President Elect
Roosevelt appears from reports to be promising,
but incomplete.
That Mr. Roosevelt has reaffirmed his policy to
rely on beer and income taxes for new revenue,
rather than the general sales tax, is all to the
good. The proposed increase of the lower bracket
income to the wartime level and lowering of ex-
emptions will hardship the class which,
next to the unemployed, has carried the heaviest
burden of the depression-both through salary cuts
and through support of unemployed relatives. But
1t is an emergency which justifes such means.
Even more justified is a similar increase of sNr-
taxes to wartime level. The little will pay
extra; should the man of larger income pay pro-
portionately.
Perhaps this is included in the Democratic plan
and may appear when the fragmentary reports are
supplemented by an official statement of the pro-
gram.
Likewise. the plan incomplete without adj
dition of some nuisance taxes. Such revenue may
be necessary to balance the budget even with the
beer tax but certainly will be required If President
Hoover vetoes the beer tax measure, many believe
probable.
AS reported the plan is less complete on
the economy side The proposed $1000 900 savings
show the Hoover economies are too small, consider
ing that the current deficit may above and a
half billion and the cumulative depression deficit
upward of Ave billion.
Only possible large scale economies are in veteran
and army navy appropriations AS has been shown
time and again. the veteran outlay can be reduced
about $500 900 900 without hardship to any men suf-
fering from injuries.
At least half that much can be cut from the
army-navy expenditures without Gripping national
defense. Lesser important economies can be made
in prohibition enforcement and in subsidies.
Either the Democrats will come to these econ
omies or they will not be able to keep their cam
paign pledge to reduce expenses rs per cent and
to balance the budget.
To do this will require courage. But if ever a
party can have courage, it is Immediately after an
election in which it has received an overwhelming
mandate of confidence and hope.
From outward Appearances it that the
president-elect is alive to the needs of this
emergency than are some of the old-line Democratic
congressional leaders.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-07
Just Plain Sense,
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

IF were on jury I no more could sentence
prisoner to death than could 20 out in cold
blood and kill man.
This to be sure, is no argument against capital
punishment. It only happens to be my personal
opinion
There are, however, good many arguments
against imposing the death sentence and curiously
enough, some Of the best ones are received from
proponents of the system. This, for instance:
Capital punishment has not failed as a muir
der deterrent 1t only has failed to be applied
murderer has ninety-nne chances out of a hundred
to escape the moose. If this chance were reversed
the argument advanced by Mrs Ferguson and other
anti-capital punishment propagandists might have
some weight, but not while public records upset it."
am still not ready to grant the latter part of
this contention. And it seems to me- if the former
is true and that ninety-nine out of every hundred
criminals escape-and assured1y they dot is sure
and certain proof that the death sentence is not
now preventing crime at all.
1t only means that the hlindredth man Is I'M
justly treated by society that permits so many of
his kind to avoid any retribution and this is the
final and ultimate iniquty
THIS capital punishment thing is like prohbi-
49, Clon II would be perfectly grand II it could be
made to work. But long as jures are composed
of men and women and so long men and women
are emotional rather than rational and so long as
there remain many loopholes Of escape for the
majority. claim that it is utterly unfair to take
the lives of the rare few.
Why should Mrs. Judd go to the chair while
hundred thousand other commit murders
and escape? Last year one deliberately shot her
husband over such trivial thing as a bridge game
and went scot free.
Is this justice or plain stupidity? If We were
half as smart We think ourselves. we could de-
wise other methods of punishment that would be
far more effective.
II We can't kill all murderers then we should kill
none I am emphatically against the state taking
human life. If this makes me a sob sister then a
sob sister am.