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Evening star., 1933-07-05
EUROPEAN CRITICISM
OF U, S. IS RESENTED
Ambassador Straus Declares Atti-
tude Taken Has Been
Unfair to Ideals.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, July 5.-European criticism
of America was rejected last night as
unfair by Jesse l. Straus, United States
Ambassador, speaking at the American
Chamber of Commerce Fourth OF July
dinner. President Lebrun attended.
The Ambassador made a vigorous de-
fense of the American economic policy.
said Europe did not understand the
United States and suggested better
spirit of appreciation of President
Roosevelt's efforts.
When we read in the daily press,
he declared. "of some nations, whose
friendship We desire and who should be
cur friends. that we are grasping, that
we are selfish and that we are pursuing
a course unfavorable to world peace
and the solution of world problems, /
think it time for us to argue the un-
fairness of such pronouncements."
He asserted that many European
economists regard the United States as
a vast economic laboratory" but re-
minded his hearers that the success OF
the experiment would benefit the world.
Americans. he added, were conscious
of the dangers but We're not worried
because the Government "haS the
temerity to suggest ideas other than
those 'expertly' imposed for years upon
nations without great success"
America. he said, has adopted a
peaceful policy and despite criticisms,
in large measure unwarranted, we have
done our full share toward re-estab-
lishment of harmony throughout the
world"
Evening star., 1933-07-05
ALLEGED SENDER
OF THREATS CAUGHT
Police Arrest Gustave Michan for
Writing Letters to Norman
P. Clement
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BUFFALO, N. Y, July 5.-Falling
into trap set by police and State
troopers in an effort to catch the per-
son who had sent letters demanding
$4,000 under threat Of death to Nor
man P. Clement, Gustave Michan, %,
of Lackawanna, NJ Y, until recently Of
Chicago, was arrested near the Buffalo
city line early yesterday. Clement Is a
prominent Buffalo capitalist and charity
worker.
The capture came after police, in Mr..
Clements big sedan, tossed a packet
into the bushes at spot directed in
the letter. Troopers, lying in hiding
near the rendezvous, reported that
shortly after the dummy package had
crawled cautiously to the spot. AS soon
as he opened the bundle the troopers
closed in.
Clement received two threats, the
first last week Police laid their trap
at that time, but the writer failed to
put in an appearance, presumably be-
cause several automobiles were parked
in the vicinity. This week a second
note was received and the authorities
again acted
According to police, the prisoner con-
fessed he had sent the notes, but de-
clared he had no intention Of harming
Clement if his threats were ignored.
Police said Michan told them he
picked out Clement as likely prospect
after reading about his activities as a
leader in the joint charities and COM
munity fund drive in Buffalo.
Michan, out of work. said he had
lived in Chicago until the death Of his
mother last July He went to Lacka-
wanna after a relative there offered to
give him home.
Evening star., 1933-07-05
SEES EDUCATED
TEACHERS NEEDED
Kentucky College Head Pre-
diets Advances in Stand
ards of Profession.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO, July 5-Teachers attend
ing the sessions of the annual conVen-
ton of the National Education Associa-
tion today were told that the time was
coming when they must be educated
individuals"
The statement was made by one OF
Their own number, H. L. Donovan, pres
ident of the Eastern Kentucky State
Teachers College at Richmond, KY,
and he made it he said because ne
foresaw the dawn of a new age IN
which Eve will think in terms OF
human values, rather than in terms OF
vast stores of material possessions Ior
q few favored members OF society WHO
can not consume them.
Half Educated Teachers.
In speaking of present educational
standards he said "it would not be eX-
aggeration to say that at least 70 per
cent of the elementary teachers OF our
nation are educated persons.
Among requirements he listed for
future teachers of the lowest rank were
four years of training at college that
provides laboratory such as mooel
school in connection.
lle lCdSlICl Va lAAS AN" No>'
said, must be an active, aggressive
competent and efficient participant IN
society, possessing fundamental
knowledge of government, politics
economics, sociology and social psy-
chology."
In a report of the Joint Commission
on the Emergency in Education, pre-
pared for submission today by John K
Norton of Teachers College, Columbia
University, New York, he said teachers
would take an offensive rather than a
defensive attitude in their fight against
forces threatening education.
Importance of Education.
1.-The whole trend of American life IN
recent decades, and particularly, since
the onset of the depression. has empha--
sized the fundamental importance OF
education" he said.
Prof. Norton accused what he called
a small but active minority OF business
and financial leaders Of campaign to
slash public services. He said they
little realized the fundamental i'm
portance of education when they per-
mitted their influence and money 10
be used in the campaign to "curtan
education to the three RS"
Evening star., 1933-07-05
MILLIONS FOR NEWSPAPER
ADVERTISING is PLANNED
Columbia Pictures Feels the Coun-
try Has Turned Corner and
Prosperity Is Near.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j.. July 5.-Co-
1umbia Pictures Corporation plans to
spend millions in newspaper and mag
azine advertising in the belief that 1.-The
country has definitely turned the cor
ner"
I'VE feel that there no longer remains
any question of a wide return of an
appreciable degree of prosperity within
the next II months" Jack Cohn vice
president, said, "and we are merely
preparing to share in it."
The production budget adopted at a
meeting of executives and sales repre-
sentatives last night, will exceed by mil
lions of dollars appropriations in the
past, an announcement said. The ad-
vertising campaign will be conducted
through 106 newspapers and an un-
named number of magazines.
Evening star., 1933-07-05

What an Event! This
Thursday Only" Specia !
brings you tremendous Sc
lection of SOC and 35c silk
mixture and Isle hose with
clocks, verticals and novelty
effects. Sizes 10 to II.
Evening star., 1933-07-05
EINSTEIN TO COOPERATE
WITH HEBREW COLLEGE
Will Direct Physics Institute and
Administration of University
at Jerusalem.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 5.-Dr Chain Weiz-
mann, president of Hebrew University
at Jerusalem, said yesterday he received
a cablegram from Prof. Albert Einstein,
world famous physicist, announcing he
would actively cooperate in admins
tration and direction of the Physics In
stitue of the university"
DR.. Weizmann, here for the annual
convention of the Zionist Organization
of America, said:
ut gives me great pleasure to an
nounce that Prof. Einstein has agreed
to give the university his active CO.
operation. In accordance with plans
already adopted by the board Of gov
ernors of the university. and in accord
ance with the views CT Prof. Einstein.
there will be certain reforms introduced
which will strengthen the structure.
Proposals to that effect will be made at
the next meeting of the board to be held
in Zurich in August.
Evening star., 1933-07-05
SAILBOATS TO RACE
Savannah Will Enter Three Boats
in Charleston Meet.

SAVANNAH, Ga, July OP).-Three
fast sailboats will represent Savannah
in the Charleston, S. c., yacht races
July 6, Z and 8.
They are the Thunderbolt, owned
by Robert Groves, jr.; the Outlaw,
owned and sailed by Raymond M. De-
mere and the Alma, owned and sailed
by John Wylly.
The OUTLAW won second place in the
senior series of the Carolina Yacht Club
last year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-26
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
AN AMBITION REALIZED

TT is hard not to feel bit Of sneaking SYM
pathy for that l7-year-old boy in Milford.
conn, who stole a railway locomotive the
other day and set out TO go to the Century Of
Progress exposition in Chicago
Of course, the lad didn't get there Not
being used TO engines. he slammed his into
string of box cars before he had gone more
than mile or two. causing $4,000 damage
and winning for himself jail sentence Of
thirty days and a $50 fine.
But it's so easy to understand how he felt
lot Of us used TO feel that hfe's greatest
moment would come if only We could sit. just
once, at the throttle OF locomotive
This lad, who actually put his desire into
practice at least had some get-up-and- go
about him.
Given the proper sort Of guidance he
ought to get somewhere. some day-and that
somewhere" won't be in a cell in jail. either
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-26
OUR DANGEROUS KITCHENS

THE kitchen doesn't ordinarily seem like
L a dangerous place-except perhaps. when
truly inexpert cook starts connecting in
digestible dishes for defenseless diners
But figures released by the National Safety
council show that huge number of fatal
accidents take place in American kitchens
every year
The highway, of course, is the scene Of
more fatal accidents than any other spot.
But there were $4,000 deaths last year from
accidents which took place in the home. and
fully "a per cent of these occurred in kitchens
Falls and scads seem to be the most pro-
life sources of home accidents. And while it
is bit difficult TO see just how safety code
can be devised and enforced for the home, a
little care and forethought in the midst of the
daily round of activities ought to save a good
many lives each year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-26
M. E.Tracy Says:

NEW YORK furnishes vivid illustration of
what happens TO a community in which
the chief object of government is to maintain a
political organization. The present admnistra-
ton has been unable to economic and balance
its budget for just one reason: Tammany Hall
can't stand the sacrifice.
Tammany Hall depends on patronage. Sep
arated from the municipal treasury, it would
not last year.
Tammany Hall has been built around the
idea of what well-organized machine can do
for the faithful through jobs, contracts and pull
with all branches Of government
The average New York voter has been edu-
Gated TO believe that If he stays hitched he can
depend on favors and protection. District
! leaders are expected TO come across Coming
across includes not only getting people on the
pay roll and keeping them there. but seeing that
they are not dealt with too roughly when they
get into trouble.
! 1t also includes a judicious distribution of
contracts and what for want of better word
is called honest graft. The people of New York
are not blind to the dangers of such situation
but have consoled themselves with the thought
that 1t represents less inconvenience and less
cost than would a change.
THEY have argued that Tammany Hall
Islands for training and efficiency and that
any reform administration would lose more
through in competence than Tammany Hall
takes for gravy. The business slump gradually
is changing their viewpoint, however, because it
shows up the basic weakness
Tammany all could not economic If 1t
wanted to, because its political strength is a
bought and paid for commodity The very fact
that it has trained its supporters to expect
something means that it must go on giving them
something.
Though property values in New York City
have suffered a terrific decline, and though the
average income has gone down by a third if
not more, the citys expenses keep right on Such
economies as have been put into effect are slight
when compared to the need.
But for the leniency OF bankers New York
City would be virtually broke Even so. il has
become nec& ssary 10 call special session of the
state legislature to give the city power to levy
new taxes.
WHAT Tammany leaders hope is that the
w Roosevelt administration can increase
business 70 such an extent as will enable New
York TO stand these new taxes. They are well
aware that they are playing with fire. but they
have no choice in the matter. It is case Of
/ taking chances with municipal bankruptcy or
breaking their own organization.
| They prefer 10 make Tammanv Hall safe
and TO get that President Roosevelts recovery
program will do the rest The chances are that
/ it will. but neither New York nor any other
city can stand the kind Of tribute or the kind
of philosophy, imposed by Tammany Hall in
definitely
| II anything the financial loss is Of less con-
sequence than the moral loss. A frame Of
mind which values government for what can
be taken out Of it through political power and
pull eventually will wreck any municipality,
state or nation.
There simply Is no substitute for common
honesty and civic consciousness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-26
1t Seems
to Me
; By HAYWOOD BRoUN

NEW YORK. July 26.-A Jol-
~ son has shocked me pro-
foundry For years I have admired
him as a performer and marveled
at his instinct for showmanship.
Suddenly. and without warning. he
has climbed down into the class
OF the clumsy amateur
am referring TO the latest tele-
grams from Hollywood. which an
nounce that the comedian felled
Walter Winchell twice in a chance
brawl back Of the press section at
a fight club.
JolSon should know better than
that. ANY promoter would be glad
10 underwrite such an encounter. II
should be possible to pack the Yam
kee stadium with hundred thou
sand people who eagerly would pay
$40 apiece 10 see Walter Wincheu
Knocked down once
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-26
OUT OF THE MINES

COAL mine operators have agreed to en-
~ ploy no miners under Is. The United
Mine Workers want the age limit set at 49,
The national recovery administration will de-
eide For humane and economic reasons, IL
should insist that no boy under Is be allowed
to so down into the coal mines 10 work.
The mining of coal not only is a mans Job
II is more hazardous than any other major
American industry. Particularly it is hazard
Gus TO boys. The 1880 census revealed 1904
operatives under Is working in coal mines.
Pennsylvania recently made public study
OF 1880 accident records of $500 boy miners.
II found that one Of every seven BOYS under
Is was injured in the course Of a year. OF the
injuries one in every five was severe.
Five were killed. eleven suffered permanent
disability In the bituminous mines. lss boy
workers in every 1000 were injured, compared
with l4s OF all workers injured
Accidents in mines are three times more
frequent than in other industries, four and
one-half times more severe The laws Of Ave
states-New Mexico. Arizona. Texas. New IT.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-26
Literature and J0lSOn

TINE episode has implications
IL which can not be neglected by
writer's and by the critics OF writ
ing II touches upon the moot
point as 70 whether a creative ar
fist should have liberty or license,
or both.
The war correspondents az the
front say that Jolson hit Winchell
because that interpreter of the
American scene has prepared
motion picture script based upon
real or supposed incidents in the
life OF Jolson.
Even if there is justice in this
assertion, Mr. Winchell has a right
to say he has sinned in company
with the masters. Dickens and De-
foe drew their characters out Of
real life. and only recently Somerset
Vaughan composed a novel. using
as his material certain scandalous
rumors concerning a dead lion
II the reputation Of Thomas Hardy
is not to be protected. why should
the life Of AL Jolson be sacrosanct?
OF course, the test lies in the
manner in which the material is
used. I would allow the writing
man to distill has fiction out Of the
most sacred condolences Of his
friends, if only he makes a good Job
of it.
If Shakespeare had come to ME
with a notebook and an axious look
and said. Tell me something about
yourself" very gladly would I have
revealed all I'm not so sure that
l would tell Winchell
II is not unjust that the heart
break of even the most diflldent
should be blasted to make a superb
Roman holiday. But we shy folk
have q. right to complain if our Sc
cret sorrow is dragged out into the
light for the mere purpose OF ami
mating an indifferent eight-reel
SuDer-Super production
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-26
SUPPRESS CRIME LEGALLY

THE breath-taking power asked by Massa-
chusetts Attorney General Warner of
the state legislature reveals a hysteria of the
type that often follows upon such revolving
crimes as the recent kidnapings
This law officer wants to mobilize groups
of citizens into ant-crime agencies and en-
power them to search homes and automobiles,
to arrest with or without warrants, to carry on
other high-handed acts in the laws name
Massachusetts legislators should read their
own states history to remind themselves that
it was just such invasions of the rights of
person and property that set of the spark of
the American Revolution.
The people today will submit to such ty-
rannous practices in the name of law enforce
ment no more readily than did their fore
fathers in resisting King Georges methods.
Congress and the legislatures should arm
law officers with every reasonable weapon with
which to detect arrest, and punish racketeers
kidnapers. and other public enemies in high
and low places.
But lawless law enforcement is self-defeat-
ing. 1t does not prevent crime; it breeds more
crime.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-26
PROBLEMS AFTER REPEAL

A COUPLE of years ago. repeal Of the
n eighteenth amendment looked like very
remote possibility. year ago the possibility,
far less remote. still was only possibility.
Two months ago it began to change into
probability Today it looks like dead GER
tanty.
The unanimity with which all sections of
the country are indorsng repeal marks the
elimination of one of the strangest and most
surprising shifts of public sentiment in Amer
lean history.
But the truly interesting and important
part Of it ell is still to come.
majority of Americans evidently, have
decided that federal prohibition is a mis-
take. No one knows. yet, what laws the sew
eral states will devise to control the liquor
traffic once the amendment is repealed; and,
for the moment that question is unimportant.
Whether we are acting wisely in repeating
the amendment ultimately will depend less on
the new laws We pass than on the mental
attitude with which, individually and collec-
lively we face the problem of alcohol itself.
To boil it down TO a colloquial phrase it is
the question whether We are going to have
sense enough to take it or leave it alone.
A complex industrial civilization like ours
can not operate on tradition of hard drink
ing. Probably it was a dawning recognition
of the fact that made us willing to expert
ment with federal prohibition thirteen years
ago SS
And now that we have learned the failure
Of that method OF coping with the problem.
we are going to have to find some new system
of social control which will keep alcohol from
becoming a menace.
our best bet oddly enough. we'll may be
this dawning economic system by which the
ordinary working man is going to get more
leisure better living conditions. and higher
wage.
Strong drink, additionally. has been the
wage slaves method Of escape from unpleaS-
ant reality. Excessive drinking was not so
much the cause OF abject poverty as abject
poverty was the cause of excessive drinking.
And from this it is clear that the success
Of the repeal experiment will depend largely
on the success of the industrial new deal"
Bringing the submerged tenth" up into
freer and happier life is our best chance of
making alcohol a useful servant and not
ruinouS master.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-26
wEDNEsDAY. ~ 8 ~
GYPPING THE JOBLESS

A HEARING on the closing Of two New
York private employment agencies re-
veals human nature at about its lowest
Witnesses told of having been required to
advance fees for Jobs only 10 find those joos
were mythical one elderly applicant for an
elevator job said he paid So in advance fees
and then spent IS cents in car fare TO reach
the place where no help had been requested.
An inspector testified that 500 had been
collected in initial fees with the firms full
knowledge that the Jobs advertised did not
exist
This depth Of meanness. doubtless. can be
pumbed in any American city. Wherever
such private exploitation Of mems desperation
exists. there can be found the well known
evils of excessive fees. fee splitting, crooked
collision with employers, and other forms Of
knavery.
California has a free state service vet in
1920 267 private fee agencies collected $780,
600 in fees from the jobless. Estimates of the
annual tribute exacted by this countrys fee
agencies run as high as s5OOOOOOo.
Some day Job placement will be a public
monopoly, as 1t should be. The twenty-five
states with public services recognize this. So
docs the Wagner act. that will provide uni
fed fedcra-state service through federal aid
and federal standards.
But for some time 10 come fee agencies
will persist. The supreme court does not per-
NIT states to wipe them out by statute, as
Germany and some OF the Canadian provinces
have done Pending the time when the pub
lie services will drive the fee agencies out of
business. the states should regulate the priva-
teers more effectively.
They should do this with the same type
Of aggressive efficiency that Wisconsin dis
plays And now that employers are hiring
again it is time to think OF this sort Of
regulation.
We must tolerate the fee agencies a little
longer: We need not tolerate their swindles
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-26

MOT having seen the manuscript
~ in question I can not say be-
yond doubt whether Walter Win
chell wrote with the tongue Of
angels or merely with his own in
cheek. take 1t that the right
hook delivered by AL Jolson was
form of literary criticism. And vet
l think that there was a certain
lack OF logic in the course Of action
which he chose for himself
A reply in kind would be far more
adequate. If Winchell has written
a scenario around the life of ,Jolson.
1t would be far more fitting for Jol-
son TO counter with a novel built
upon the character of the column
ist.
Indeed, this is a book which must
be written unless all our fiction folk
are blind TO an opening as wide as
any barn door But for the fact
that the title was used last season
for play, the tale should be called
success Story" II would be tragic,
OF course. What Shall II Avail a
man?' might convey the idea
l am tired Of being told by people
about the great wrong which they
think Walter Winchell has done to
the community. I feel that some
consideration should be paid to
what the community has done TO
Winchell.
The Bible is not consistent in
this matter. In one place we are
told that it is a bad thing for a
man to gain the whole world and
lose his own soul. And In another
chapter our attention is called. I'M
favorably. to the man who hid his
talent in a napkin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-26
A Woman's Viewpoint /:

overwhelming quantities can not
qualify for a good mother, because
the best salesman at large IS your
own youngster. trying TO sell you
his plans and ideas.
But I console myself Does j.
really matter? I have known any
number of good mothers" in nv
time. and. as a rule. dislike them
almost as much as their children
seem TO do They are so likely TO
be dictatorial. overbearing, and very
high on themselves.
In fact. right now. I'm so tired
Of trying 10 follow the rules for be-
ing a good mother that I've decided
70 be a poor one and let it go at
that.
It's so much pleaSanter around
the house, too. and the children
and 7 have so much more fun when
I am not functioning in the role
! Of exemplary parent"