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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-16
Word to Wise

BY FRANCESCA
Werther was fond Of his Char
lotte,
Faust had his heart-tbrob, too.
Dante was thrilled by Beatrice,
The same way I'm thrilled by you.
Raphael loved his Madonna,
Poe had his Annabelle Lee;
A love unrequited was won by the
smile
Of Mona, from great Da Vinci.
Wilde wrote his verse to Dolores
The great lover, Romeo,
Was faithful forever to sweet Juliet
And Anthony fought for Cleo.
All the world loves a lover. It's said,
Though they lose moe often than
win;
Il wonder how long I must sit on a
tack?
Just when viii you ever give in?)
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NOT EMBARRASSED

XX71lEN that chief stowaway aboard the
w incoming La Guardia administration,
Henry Hesterberg, the defeated borough presi-
dent of Brooklyn, was named to the $10840
vacancy in the board of water supply on Tues
day, the following remarkable colloquy took
place between Mayor OBrien and the new
holder of the lifetime job threatened with
abolition by Mayor Elect La Guardia:
Said Mayor OBrien, in effect, II thank the
new incumbent for his willingness to take the
position"
The willing new incumbent in effect: mot
at all, your honor I do not believe there will
be anything in the new position that will en-
barrass me-"
Unless it be Mr.. La Guardia when he abol-
ishes the job That ought to be bit discom-
fitting, to say the least.
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M. Tracy Says:

A CCORDING to Senator Black of Alabama,
N this country has very little to show for the
vast sums of money it has handed over to ship
owners for the promotion and development OF
merchant marine.
AT the end of the present ten-year program"
he says, this government will have paid out
more than half a billion dollars 10. snip opera
tors in subsidies.
And then he makes the startling declaration
that, thought we began the program with fleet
of 5000 ships, we shall end up with fleet of
seventy-hve.
That represents not only bad showing but
great disappointment. Ten years ago it
looked as though the United States might, with
prudent management and wise use of the pub
lie credit, build up great merchant marine.
TN theory, nothing seemed to be needed except
l. such subsidies as England and other Euro
pean countries granting. In theory, the
task included little more than a sale Of our
government-owned fleet at reduced prices, the
granting of juicy mail contracts and the pas
sage of laws which would protect American
shipowners against foreign competition.
All these things the government has done
only to find that our merchant marine has
shrunk by more than 80 per cent.
Senator Black charges that most Of the money
has been used to fill the pockets of operators
owners, while the promised construction of new
ships has been ignored. He says that some have
made thousands of per cent their private
investments, while failing to use the taxpayers
contribution either wisely or proltably.
The gravity of the situation lies in what we
are going to do next rather than in what has
been done.
A merchant marine is of vital Importance not
only from the standpoint of trade, but as an in
tegral part of the national defense. A country
like the United States can not hope to develop
its commerce. or guarantee its citizens adequate
protection without a great feet of merchants
ships.
! DY every rule Of the game, the American mer-
- chant feet should be larger than that of
any other nation. Our resources, industrial de-
velopment, potential power of production and
place in the family of nations warrant no less.
We can not hope to achieve the desired end,
however by following program which has
failed so completely. More than half billion
dollars has been squandered to no worthwhile
purpose.
Some people think that We have become in
capable Of successful competition with foreign
countries in building and operating ships, and
that we might as well throw up our hands If
that is true we have lost something of great
value. Our great grandfathers found it possible
not only to meet but to beat their foreign rivals
In the roaring forties, when this country had
no such resources and no such trade as it boasts
equal to EnglandS What is the matter with
twentieth century America that she can't do
an equally good job2
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:: The Message Center ::
win defend th vOare "a

tox, contributor to The Times Mes
sage Center.
The majority Of people are wage
earnerS. We must look to human
beings to consume what is produced.
Machines do not eat nor wear out
clothing-the owners Of the ma
chimes can use but a small amount
of production goodS-the unem-
ployed have no wages, the geese
that laid the golden eggs are turned
cut to starve. The markets are
glutted.
The overlords of banking and in
duStry flock to Uncle Sam for a
generous helping of the peoples
money and relief legislation for
themselves.
Thievery is just illegal where the
thieves are not big enough to de-
mand laws.
There is no peace in the lives of
the wage earners; they have no Sc
curity now; what about old age?
People hungry and in rags forced to
pay others to curtail and destroy
disable goods.
Mr.. Mattox, the patriotism you
spoke of is being squeezed out of
people as you would squeeze the
water from a sponge. The real pa
triot could not be an eXploiter on
Wall street-uSing an Abe Lincoln
phrase-they are found back there
behind an iron-weed.
And these patriots some day are
going to re-read the Constitution
and take the literal meaning of:
1--WE hold these truths to be self
evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain inalien-
able rights, that among these are
life, liberty and the pursuit Of hap
piness. That to secure these rights
governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from
the consent Of the governed; that
whenever any form Of government
becomes destructive to these ends.
is is the right of the people to alter
or to abolish it, and to institute a
new government, laying it's foun-
datlon on such principles and Or
ganizing its power in such form as
! to them shall seem most likely to
effect their safety and happiness"
The logic of events, in our anti
quated economic system, is proof
enough to any student of economics
that our next step is chaos or Co
operation. Socialism points the way
to true cooperation.
Ask your questions, Mr.. MattoX.
make your criticisms. I am sure
some one will answer them.
By Reader and Theater Fan.
In answer to Times Reader" in
your paper, Dec. Il:
I, too, am an ardent reader of
The Times.
How any one who lives and works
in indianapolis can stand up for
such thing as the Walkathon, a
fly-by-night outfit, and run down
their own established theaters,
owned and operated by Indianapolis
men, is more than I can under
stand.
also made one trip to the Walk
athon. Yes, they have a 25 cents
admission price, but I sat on those
board they call seats, and listened
to lot Of bla-bla and so-called en-
tertainment, didn't even stay two
hours. If you care to go and stay
any time at all, they have very good
seats for 40 cents-funeral parlor
chairs.
Every week I patronize a down
town theater. 1t costs me Is cents
and can stay as long as I wish, sit
in an upholstered seat, see real en-
tertainment and I am privileged to
! dance afterward-au for 25 cents.
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bad husband is worse than none at
all. Because it seems to me that
We only grow through our expert
ences in the art of living. And if
all our experiences are not happy,
we can still develop and enrich our
characters and become finer women
by means Of the sad ones.
Naturally no one would be so
foolish as to advise marriage with a
man whom you might recognize at
once as a ne'er do well or a rogue.
But surely love-often as it betrays
us-is worth risking something for.
Playing safe often means sorry. We
must take our chances with life.
So the old-fashioned slogan is as
good as any for tackling matrinony
Hope for the best, but be pre-
pared for the worst"
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THE finest boon life offers us is
4 experience. When, therefore,
a woman refuses to accept the nor
NAL experiences of existence because
she is afraid of their consequences.
she turns her back upon precious
gifts that are rendered her.
For example, girl in Cincin-
natl writes: Il am "a and very
much in love with boy only one
year my senior. Ny parents do not
want me to marry him because they
feel he is too young for me and
that he does not show the stability
Of character they think husband
should have. I love him. What shall
I do?"
OF course, my dear, you hear it
said on every side that one must
deliberate long before trusting one
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Il II Il
Experts Strike Out

IT has looked to me as though Mr..
l. Roosevelt was recruiting some of
his talent By the Connie Mack
system for he has brought in men
who never worked in the govern
ment trade or handled big money
before and the turnover in person.
mel is brisk these days.
Mr.. Mack, on his part, found that
a lot Of seasoned, highly professional
experts were playing his baseball
firm into debt and he just con-
Guided that it didn't take experts
to do that for him. They were
perfect in everything but the i'm
portant matter of net results and he
had nothing to lose by experiment.
ing.
Maybe some of Mr.. Roosevelt's
team don't know anything about
governing country, but Rettig
didn't know how to pitch either and
he struck out Sisler twice.
Copyright, 1888. by United Features
Syndicate, Inc
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A Woman's Viewpoint ::
BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

self to marriage, which is consid-
cred womans most important deci-
sion in life. To certain extent,
the truth Of such an argument can
not be denied, but only to certain
extent. 1t is almost as unfortunate
to deliberate too long as it is not
to deliberate at all.
THE worst enemy Of happiness is
l. fear. So long as you are afraid
marriage will not reward you as it
should and your fears will probably
be justified. But once make up your
mind that you expect the best
and will work like the dickens to
get 1.-THE breaks are apt to come
your way.
Enphatically, do not agree with
those authorities who say that a
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CHASE NATIONALS PERFORMER

A LSO comes Winthrop Aldrich to poke his
= head out of the muck of banking scam
dals and proclaim his dislikes for Roosevelt's
banking reforms Mr. Aldrich is a gentleman
OF much prominence, being son-in-law of our
esteemed old fellow-citizen, John D. Rookie
9eller. who in his time suppressed many coal
4
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Fiqure This Out

TIE caught them fresh in the
4 Il morning, served them in
the afternoon and, in many cases,
fired them at night. No grocer'S
boy passing Connie Mack's ball yard
was entirely safe from Connie
Mack's scouts, who lay in wait and
prowled the town, hauling respect
able wagon helpers down off their
trucks and pressing them into
service as heavy-hitting outfelders,
although some Of them we're known
to protest that they couldn't hit a,
balloon with a banjo.
Once a hotel clerk named .Rettig
pitched a game of ball for Mr. Mack
and shut out the st. Louis Browns,
who were leading the league, and
finished only halfa-game behind
the champions that year. Three
days later Mr.. Mack let him go.
Il knew from the start that he
couldn't pitch said Mr. Mack, but
he beat the Browns and struck out
Sisler twice. How do you account
for that"
But at the same time and by the
same process Mr.. Mack was CATCH
ing and OBTAINING in his service
some very able ball players and
after long while he found some
other able athletes to team up with
them. Then he had a champion
club again.
Like Mr.. Roosevelt. he didn't par
ticularly care whether they were
duly registered members of his
league or not. He tried fallen-away
National Leaguers and even outlaws
on his ball club. Their baseball
politics made no difference to him if
they could play his kind of ball and
win their weight in ball games for
Connie Mack. And some of the best
ball players that Mr.. Mack acquired
during those years were young men
who had the appearance of Wild
eyed, wild-haired nuts when he got
them. Though lacking in profess
sional style and grace they played
him some competent baseball to the
puzzlement of experts who said
baseball just couldn't be played that
way.
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DERHAPS if you were to hunt
4 around in Washington now you
would find some tender of a nailed
up and forgotten door down In the
catacombS of the Capitol who dates
back to the Hoover administration
and thus preserves the continuity
Of the familiar American govern
ment would not wish to wager
on that, though, because Mr.. Sha-
mus Farley has been doing a very
thorough job of heaving the ras-
Gals out, to use the old patriotic
term, and the presence of a Repub-
lican in job which might be
adorned by a deserving Democrat
would be a great humiliation to Mr..
Farley.
Recalling the Connie Mack plan
Of reorganization and reconStruc-
ton as it operated in those years
between 1914 and 1928, I find much
that resembles certain goingS-on
which have occurred in washington
since Mr.. Roosevelt stood up there
on the temporary platform, which
looked like a lemonade stand at a
county fair, last March 4, and an
nounced that he was going to start
all over.
When Mr. Mack dispersed his old
club there then began to appear
in the lineup of the Philadelphia
Athletics such a succession of Wild
eyed, wild-haired nuts and left
handed catchers and shut-eye hit
tiers and tangle-footed first base
men as never had been seen outside
the funny papers.
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WyneEOOpS
By A Times Reader.

~ HIUCICOOf(C
By Times Reader.
I have been reading in your
paper the articles DR.. Catherine
Wynekoop has been writing con-
corning the early life of her
mother. What is her motive for
this unless it is to obtain SYM
pathy from the public?
If my mother had committed
this heinous crime and disgraced
a highly honored name such as
the Wynekoop's must have borne,
I would feel like retiring into OBJ
security instead of keeping this
awful thing before the eyes of the
public by having these articles
printed.
Anyone who deliberately can
take the life of an innocent young
woman the way Dr. Alice Wyne-
koop did is a murderess in the
eyes of God and man and should
be dealt with the same as any
other criminal regardless of
family name Or education.
pathy in answering a heartbroken
mother. I would be glad to hear
from her again.
By william A. SprowI.
In the Message Center of Satur-
days Times
Was a girlie's views done up in
rhymes.
It seems she thinks employers
should froWn
On all their help who live out of
town.
She says that she will stand by
those
Who have before expressed in prose
Their hatred for US, and what a
pity!
For we who live outside the city.
If forced to give up home or jobs
Because of cries or walls or SobS
From owners of repossessed idle real
estate,
Or just from thoughtleSs. Jealous
hate.
I wonder why people just can't
agree
And keep our country a land of the
free.
Remember that we, too, must live;
When help is needed, We always
give.
One writer just couldn't understand
or see
Why they should hire a man from
Tennessee.
Another moaned and heaved a sigh
Why they even hire folks from old
KY.
Tennessee, Kentucky, or any other
state,
They're all united, there are forty
eight"
Now get on your toes and set the
sail,
This battle-scarred ship will wealth
er the gale.
It's true, this has been a terrible
test,
But most every one has done his
best.
1t doesn't help to fuss or growl,
With that I'll sign off.
By A. L.
I can't place him, he has right
to his views. I have seen as he
sees, but smart men change their
minds Maybe he is old and set in
his ways. I belong to the younger
generation; the economic system Of
my father does not cope with mod
ern machinery. I refer to Mr. Mat
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Samuel insult can't understand why he's
so unpopular in America. He isn't. Thou
sands of Americans would like to have him
come back.
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Germany's new reichstag assembled. voted
yes and adjourned Now, there's one reform
for which Hitler deserves credit.
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Some scientists believe that the north pole
used to be near where New York is now. 1t
moved, when the town got too hot for it.
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The Lindberghs are doing their Christmas
hopping.
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Fair
Enough
DEC. 16, 1898
by wEsTBRooK PEGLER'

MY friend, Connie Mack, the
WI baseball man. has taken apart
and distributed the pieces Of an
other of his great baseball clubs be-
cause they could not win their
weight in ball games for him. 1t
might cheer Mr.. Roosevelt to know
that a man who did this once be
fore has been we1-enough satisfied
with the method to try it over again
because there seem TO be points Of
resemblance in their way Of doing.
OF course, it might not cheer Mr.
Roosevelt to be told that Mr. Mack
spent eight years in the cellar Of
the American League after he broke
up that other team and that it took
him fifteen years to win another
championships and I DO not know
what my object is in bringing that
up. However, there is nothing bind
ing about that part Of the Connie
Mack plan and Mr.. Roosevelt might
get his club up there, or there
abouts, as the baseball people say,
within four-year term. NOBODY
ever viii sue him for that
Mr.. Mack always aims to retain
a locker room boy or bat caddy as
a holdover from a broken-up ball
club to preserve in a nominal sort
of way the identity of the F2lila-
delphia Athletics while the new
team is being organized.
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their Uielcs in these columns. Make your
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By A. L.
I can't place him, he has a right
to his views. I have seen as he
sees, but smart men change their
minds Maybe he is old and set in
his ways. I belong to the younger
generation; the economic system Of
my father does not cope with mod
ern machinery. refer to Mr. Mat
Evening star., 1933-08-15
STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM

Roger will be an odds-on favorite to
win again over his home layout in view
Of the impressive performance he put on
to annex the Maryland title over the
same course This tourney Is played
by amateurs over the 72-hole distance
which the pros use to settle little dis
pute among themselves It's quite a
physical ordeal to play 72 holes Of medal
play golf, but the fathers Of the game
around Washington have stuck to the
medal play championship since 1920
Entries will close on September 10,
with Dr. Barr and must be accompanied
by the So entry fee. Course privileges
are to be extended to all entrants on
of member clubs having handicaps of
IA strokes or less are eligible to COM
pete for the title
IRIS. j. F. GROSS, who topped the
lV Washington entrants yesterday
in the handicap tourney being
staged by the Maryland Country Club
in Baltimore, was in good spot today to
win one Of the prizes in class A. Mrs.
Gross had a card of 98-l+S4. One
stroke behind was Mrs. J. F. Dowdau
Of Congressional, who scored 96-11-85.
Mrs. J. w. Harvey Of Manor had lo7-
14-93 and Mrs c. B. Amorous Of Con-
gressional failed to return q card The
tourney is to end today.
Young Harold N. Graves and George
Diffenbaugh, both Of Indian Spring,
finished in third place in the Middle
Atlantic p G. A. pro junior tourney
yesterday at Woodholme. They scored
49, one stroke above the score at which
two Baltimore teams tied for first place
F. NJ Baggett and Cliff Spencer Ct
Beaver Dam had rs and Harvey John
son Of Kenwood and Russ Hollebaugh
unattached Washington pro, carded 49,
Don O'Brien, young Georgetown star,
paired with Alex Taylor Of Rolling
Road to score "a.
From tor-d,ody Colorado comes
1Dvd that Albert r. M1cKenxie,
Columbia amateur, is playing
Dhere his so,, Roland Is the pro-
fessional. Hugh Mackenzie,
brother OF Albert and also Co.
lun.bid golfer, left Washington q
te.D days ago for Colorado.
Harlan Will, the District municipal
links champion, can beat the local pub
lie links boys, but he has trouble hold
ing his own with Tom Hudgins, the
Woodmont pro. Will and Hudgins have
a battle every couple of days at Wood
mont, with the pro usually getting his
nose In front at the end Of a torrid
session Of shot making. But the kid
sure can blast 'em from the tee," Tom
says. And he is plenty straight, too.
He Is going to be very fine golfer
some day soon"
Evening star., 1933-08-15
P|ML|CO WILL USE
NEW TICKET DEVICE
TotaIisator Is Combination
of Salesman, Mathema-
tiCian-Gives Odds.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
n ALTIMORE, August 15.-An-
X nouncement was made yes
l. terday by Matt L. Dagger,
general manager and secre-
tary of the Maryland Jockey Club,
that the American Totalisator, a
new electrical device invented by
H. L. Straus of Baltimore, will be
used during the Pimlico Fall race
meeting, beginning November 1.
The totalisator, which sells tickets
records instantaneously the amount OF
money wagered on each horse, shows
the total pool on all horses, displays
prices after a race Is declared official
and flashes approximate odds ct in
tervals of every minute and half,
first was used in America at the July
meet at Arlington Park. Chicago.
The usual number of ticket sellers,
Deiger said, will be employed to op-
crate the machines
One Button Controls All.
THE tickets, which will be printed
ana Issued by the machines as
they are requested, will be in
denominations of 50, s5, $40 and $50.
The bettor gives his money to the
seller, who presses a key, the ticket
coming out of a slot in front of the
purchaser. The machine, which is
about the size OF typewriter. also sells
81 straight and place and s6 straight,
place and show. tickets .
In the stewards or judges stand will
be placed the control button, available
for member of the Maryland Racing
Commission to press and thereby auto
matically close all machines.
Daily the color of tickets will be
changed and none will be printed in
advance. nor will the emblem be made
known to track employees until about IS
minutes on week days and an hour on
Saturdays before races are started.