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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-06
Unselfish
BY AUSTIN JAMES

BY AUSTIN JAMES
Should fortune smile upon my face
Bestow her riches unto me,
Lord grant that I may never grow
A Miser in prosperity.
Hide not the lot in life have,
Find solitary fun in it
But share each hour of pleasantness
That other folks might benefit.
Hoard not my thoughts nor my
ideals,
Store not away the days I live
In happiness; but dof my cloak
And Joy to others freely give.
Should I learn how to i've in leace
Preparing eor Eternity,
Lord grant that others may give
The seed Of my philosophy.
If I should learn to do task
With expert hand; this task I'd Go
But share the knowledge that I'd
gained
That other folks might do it too.
A genius though I may become
Or yet again be swathed in pelf,
Lord grant that I may never be
A MiSer Of my loWly self.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-06
Here's the A71sWer

BY Court EmplOye.
I noticed in Tuesdays Times
that another person, who knows
little about governmental func-
tions, has taken it on himself to
criticise.
The telephone conversation from
Mr.. Justa Taxpayer regarding the
absence of judges from their
benches is another example of
somebody not knowing what
they're talking about.
For Mr.. Justa Taxpayers infor-
nation, wish to tell him that
Monday was general term" day
in county courts. He probably
doesn't know the meaning of gen.
eral term, but it is the day, once a
month, when county judges hold
a meeting to discuss rulings, and
to settle claims against the state.
No cases are set at this time but,
if necessary, a pro tenn. judge can
handle any emergency matter.
Every county judge could have
been found in the private cham
bers of Judge John Kern, in
Room 1, last Monday, where they
probably were doing more work
than Mr.. Justa Taxpayer does in
a week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-06
A Woman's Viewpoint
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

quently, are not doing them very
well.
Just as we never have been able
to put the profession OF motherhood
upon any actual business basis, so
it seems to me a mistake to think
We can force educators to conform
to rules. After all, the mind is not
so easily bound with red tape.
n
A NY college or high school grad
L n uate knows that certain teach
ers were able to arouse his enthusi-
asn1, and that certain others pre-
sented him only with dry facts,
which are the equivalent of nothing.
The most important instructor is
personality and you can't bring per-
sonality into such an atmosphere
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-06
POLITICAL PATRONAGE

MO high administrative officer of the gov
eminent within recent years has spoken
more frankly about political patronage and its
evils than did DR.. Arthur E Morgan, chairman
of the Tennessee Valley Authority, before the
Public Ownership institute at Chicago.
What many have thought the eminent
doctor said Il speak deliberately" said he,
.and not without intimate experience, when I
say that very seldom does the person who is
appointed through political influence prove to
be the best person available for the position"
His picture of congressman and senator's.
fable men who desire most of all to be effective
in solving our pressing national problems" -.
.spending their days tramping from office to
office" hunting jobs for constituents :. is in
many respects true and in all respects neither
pleasing nor inspiring.
The IVA chairman became almost auto
biographical when he spoke of how pressure
increases upon administrative officers, how
'eradually the storm cloud gathers" and how,
finally ''the wrath of the whole patronage
system of the nation will burst" on the head
of the administrator who shuns political in
huence.
He recognizes, as all reasonable persons do.
that it is essential to good government to re-
move administrative functions from the sphere
of political influence. And he finds that the
present administration has made the larger
portion of its appointments on the basis Of
merit.
But Dr. Morgan does not recognize so
quickly the practical aspects of the patronage
problem. So long as congressman and sena-
tors are elected as they are. so long as reelec-
stion is so mportant-important, it might we'll
be said, to the solution of those pressing
national problems"-the problem of patronage
probably will remain.
Meanwhile. reforms in the system might
well be accomplished by administrative off,
GERS. but only if they have the cooperation of
those same tramping congressman and the
constituents behind them.
If Dr. Morgan's candor about patronage
helps bring that reform any nearer. he will
not have spoken in vain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-06

II AM fortunate in numbering
l. among my friends many school
teachers. The term, of course, in
cludes several types of individuals.
I have known scholarly college
professors, high school principals
with a touch of Rotary. very good
and very poor grade instructors, and
many an ignorant girl doing her
first term in some shabby rural
classroom. Generally. have ad-
mired their patience. but only in
rare instances did their good judg-
ment arouse my enthusiasm.
Most of them were square pegs in
round holes - which is the chief
thing from which the business Of
school teaching suffers. Entirely
too many teachers who do not like
to teach hold the jobs and, conse-
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For Remembrance

r WOULD not quarrel with this
4 tradition or rosemary in a land
where idols are strapped with all
the speed of skyscrapers. But it has
made it very tough for the younger
generation of ball players. In no
other field of native culture does the
same situation hold true. The mas
cent poet, painter, or short story
teller has the edge upon his rivals
who have gone before. Those who
are not with us are Victorians and
outmoded. After a while or so every
Longfellow, Tennyson or William
Dean Howells is regarded not only
with indifference, but even a GER
tain hostility.
You don't mean to say you still
are reading that stuff" says the
high school lad with great disdain.
But the Immortality of big leaguers
seems to be much more securely
anchored. The raving of a present
day fan can be stilled in a second
by any old timer who chooses to
say, You may talk of Lou Gehrig
SNO, VI NSOAnOi JOu AlCNC4 SdW 14dl
Chase"
AS one who has lived through
vast number of generations 1 am in
position to say that some Of the
reputation of the men who have
passed into the little leagues and
even more remote spots is partly
legendary. Chase never saw an aft
ernoon in which he was fit to play
in the same league with Gehrig.
Ruth lowered over Donlin, Wagner,
Lajoie and any of the famed hitters
OF the past. The Babe, indeed, has
become himself myth and even
his mightiest performances will soon
be told with the accretion of ro-
nance. Those drives which sailed
into the center field bleachers will
presently be swats which hurled all
the way across the Hudson.
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unless you really love to teach. The
qualifications of the good teacher,
even above all degrees, is the ability
to interest the child, to inspire the
adolescent and to whet the crri-
osity of the youth for knowledge.
This is the beginning and the end
Of the instructors art.
I believe. as consequence, that
We shall live to regret-if We are
not already regretting, although we
may not know tour foolish in
sistence that teachers conform to
regulations, age limits, conditions of
matrimony, motherhood or sterility.
Good teachers in fact are rare be-
ings and wherever we can find them
we'd do well to see that they enter
the American schcolroom and stay
there.
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their riet1S in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can haze q chance.
Limit them to ESQ 4oords or less.J
BY r. L. Morgan.
Since the dawn of the new day."
promised us by the new DEAL" has
commenced to break up, scatter and
drive away the clouds of gloom and
despair and illuminate our skies
skies with the beauty of morning,
permit me to express through your
columns few words in defense CT
the NRA.
After watching the many effective
swings of the "big-Stick," and wit
Messing the spectacular drive for
national recovery take form and go
forward, and after observing the
steady rise of the barometers of
trade and business throughout the
nation, and feeling the invigorating
confidence which our great pro-
gresSive leader is inspiring, I am con-
WINGED that the NRA means what
the three celebrated letters stand
for, National Reconstruction AS
Sured," and that the so-called new
DEAF is not a miSdeal as claimed
by its enemies.
While the movement is running
into many bumps and knocks, and
is encoUntering many harassing and
opposing trade-Winds which are
making the pull hard and difficult
up the grade of the rough and I'M
marked detour, and while our faith
full driver and his skilled mechanics
are being Kissed and snapped at
from beneath every rock and bush
by those who dc not like to be dis
turbed by the advance and roar Of
progress; and while many Of us do
not like to surrender our selfishness
and greed long enough to get off
to relieve the load, yet, believe
the soar and screams of the blue
eagle will soon lead us to the top
of the hill, and back on our old
national highway where we can
smoothly coast down to the valley
or land of milk and honey which
they have been telling us for the
last four years was "just in sight.
Like the Bible, the "NRA" has a
plan of salvation for us. True, we
may not understand and may not
agree on the several verses, chapters
and commandments contained in it,
or the several UNCONVENTIONAL codes
and creedS drawn under it, yet we
should all recognize the fact that
the plan as a whole, like the Bible,
has extending through it a silver
cord of truth, charity, mercy and
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:: The Message Center ::


our weak, rundown, anemic body
polite. Let us insist on our God
given right to double standard of
blood Of red and white corpuscleS,
or gold and silver. Let us have six
teen of white to one of red.
With all of our pumps going, and
with plenty of good, rich blood or
money circulating through our sys-
tenn, containing the two necessary
sets of corpuscles, red and white or
gold and silver, we soon will have an
overflow of national wealth and
health, and will be able to kill, upon
the return of the two lost republican
prodigal sons, prosperity" and
"normalcy," not only the fatted CALI
but the pigs also.
BY Pink.
A tragedy that was news a week
or so ago concerned the leap of a
young lady from a third story
apartment window in order to
escape from two men. AS the papers
recorded it she was earning 81 a
week and is said to have been told
that her job would be taken from
her if she didn't attend this party.
She went and, as a consequence, is
in a hospital. That was the story.
Now here is ours. We were just
wondering how many ministers, last
Sunday, missed the chance to build
a powerful sermon around this
tragedy. Here is a young girl asked
to live decently on 81 week. Here
is a depression that makes jobs so
scarce that she is alleged to have
unwillingly consented to the de-
mands of man higher up so she
wouldn't lose the poor one she had,
and here is a rotten, vicious capital
ist system that breeds a thing like
this. Is there a minister in town
militant enough to denounce this
system? You say you know of sew
eral? We say, ooh. yeah?"
Editors INSTRUMENTATION has shown
the girl was employed only during the
midday rush hour.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-06
It Seems
to Me
by HAYWOOD BROUN=

NEW YORK, Oct. 6.-Two new
4 heroes have come up into the
hearts of Manhattan a little after
the manner Of dawn and thunder.
am referring to that part of the
community which takes its baseball
seriously. Only a season ago, may
be half a season, Bill Terry and Carl
Hubbeu were in China cross the
bay as far as the fervor Of the fans
was concerned.
Everybody knew Terry as a superb
batter and fielder. and Hubbell was
accounted competent. But neither
young man was spoken of in the
same breath with the great names
of the past.
America forgets the novelist of
the last decade, the actor who was
so very good season before last, and
the motion picture star who thrilled
the country six months ago. But
The name and fame of pitchers and
hard-hitting outfelders fingers on.
There is a finality of feeling toward
Donlin and Matty and Doyle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-06
Terry Through the AQes

TERRY, believe, will class with
Il the great of the game, not only
because of his individual proves.
but on the basis of his talent for
popular psychology. He has taken
an ordinary ball club and turned it
into a pennant winner. Whenever
any man can convince a somewhat
nondescript lot of associates that
they are men Of destiny, things
happen to boundary lines and ball
games. I've been wishing for
months that I could meet some such
miracle man who would give me a
pat on the back and say, you can't
be as bad as all that"
In fact, the world stands in need
of prophets pouring oil. We could
dispense with some of the Jere-
miahs. AS far as I'm concerned I
mean to use the success of the
Giants as a sort of cheering symbol
for myself. And on those after
moons when I feel that I'm hitting a.
little less than my weight. I'll try to
force a smile and mutter to myself.
What Of it, kid? Don't forget
Blondy Ryan"
Copyright. 1888. By The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-06
FRIDAY. OCT. 6. 1899.
MR.. FARLEY ONCE MORE

IF President Roosevelt is to carry out his
= splendid program he must do two things:
He must keep his hold on Progressives in
all parties.
And he must break the hold that Wall
Street has had on the two old party organiza-
tons At least, he must break the hold it has
on the Democratic party.
This means that he must find way to
undo the harm being done to his program by
his friend James Farley, postmaster general
and Democratic national chairman. Mr.. Far
leys ambition to seize political control of New
York City is in a fair way to wreck the Presi-
dents greater ambition. Last week by knitting
Major La Guardia, independent candidate for
mayor, Mr. Farley aroused the distrust of
,Roosevelts Progressive supporters throughout
the country. This week, by drawing Ferdinand
Pecora into the New York City campaign. Mr..
Farley has given new lease Of life to Wall
Street manipulation of national affairs.
Mr.. Pecora has been engaged for several
months in the investigation Of Wall street for
the senate banking and currency committee.
He has been dragging to light the banking
practices which have had so much to do with
the countrys present desperate plight. He has
done a great deal, but his job is little more
than begun. He has not even made start on
the stock exchange. the very heart of the whole
mad financial mess which President Roose-
welt has undertaken to clean up.
At this stage he is Communicated for the
fe 0Ioo
on the ticket beside Joseph v. Mckee, banker
candidate for mayor Without at all i'm
pugning Mr. Pecora's integrity, it is no tribute
to his intelligence to report that he has &C
cepted the offer. Mr.. Farley thus has done
complete job for his Presidents bitterest foes.
He has put the prestige of his position behind
the bankers candidate for mayor and he has
curtailed the investigation of the bankers
themselves.
For the investigation, a first step toward
freeing American industry from financial
strangulation is being curtailed by this move
and there is no use to blink that fact
MIR. Pecora can not investigate the bankers
in Washington to any real effect while running
as their candidate in New York City He may
say, as he does that he will do all his running
on his week-ends at home. And he may say,
in all sincerity, that he isn't the bankers cam
didate But did you read the news dispatches
in which his acceptance was announced? Then
you read this paragraph:
"One of the first to congratulate Pecora
was Clarence Dillon, head of the investment
banking house, now under investigation"
Mr. Dillon's congratulations came straight
from the heart AS one of the solid elements"
whose support Mr.. Mckee is seeking, he no
doubt felt much more solid the moment he
heard the news.
s The President is a resourceful person. He
may be able to keep his hold on the countrys
nonpartisan progressives despite the blunders
to date of his political manager But give his
political manager time in which to make one
or two more moves and even the resourceful
President will not be able to break the hold
that Wall Street is regaining on his party.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-06
So They Say

1t is my opinion that possibly
economists write the laws of eco
Monies after the event.-Banker
William A. Hartman.
I wish it was only by book burn
ing that intolerance vented its
madness.-H. G.. Wells.
German nationalism today is a
pagan revolt against Christian civil
ization.-Ludwig Lewisohn, novelist.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-06

Now we learn that furs may cause hay
fever. We weren't Sc sure of that, although
we knew furs have brought tears to many
womans eyes,
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A TIME FOR TRUTH

sTHIS is the time" said President Roose-
l. Welt in his New York address. when you
and know that though we have proceeded
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-06

No matter how high Commander Settle
thinks be can go with that stratosphere bal
loon of his, he should realize that eventually
he'll have to come down to earth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-06

Squirrels in Connecticut have begun mi
grating, according to an official report. Does
that mean that the state has rid itself of nuts?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-06

Lloyd George thinks the World war should
have ended in 1916. And Woodrow Wilson
would have gone down in history for having
kept us out Of it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-06

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The Washington times., 1933-10-20
RENO URGES FARMERS TO STRIKE TOMORROW
Unrest Calls
Out Troops
In MxicO

MEXICO CITY, Oct. 20 GN.SO.
The city of Monterey was turned
into an armed fortress today as
the government of President
Abelardo Rodriguez took extreme
measures to meet the threaten
ing situation caused by growing
political strife.
Troops occupied the palace of
the state government at Monte
rey. Three regiments entrained
for Vera Cruz and other detach-
ments were sent to San Luis
Potosi.
Plutarco Elias Gales, son of
the former president, resigned as
mayor of Monterey to take over
leadership of the social democratic
party in the state.
Gen. Juan. Andreu Almazan,
chief of military operations in the
state of Nuevo Leon, has assumed
supreme command of police and
military forces in his district.
Governor Francisco Cardenas of
Monterey issued a manifesto
charging a faction of the social
democratic party hitherto affili-
ated with the national revolution
ary party with disavowel of the
government in power.
The Washington times., 1933-10-20
GIRL, z, FACES
kEt4.Y'S PALS

CHICAGO, Oct. 20 G.N.s).-
Guarded by Federal agents, Ger
aldine Arnold. IL years old,
waited today to testify before a
Federal grand jury against three
men accused of sheltering George
c'Machil4e Gun) Kelly here
while he was sought for the
Charles F. Urschel kidnapping.
The three held for shielding
Kelly are Joseph Bergl, gangland
automobile armorer and partner
of the late Gus Winkler, gang
chieftain; Abe Caplan tavern
owner, and the latter's brother,
Charles. Geraldine. who accom-
panied the Kellys. will be the
chief witness against the men.
Authorities are holding Kelly's
16-cylinder automobile, found in
a South Side garage. A Cleve-
land finance company has filed
lien against the automobile.
The Washington times., 1933-10-20
Gov. RoIph Criticized
Bv D. c. Penal Chief

Action by Gov. James Rolph,
jr., of California, in allowing a
condemned man to have liquor be-
fore his execution was scored by
Washington dry leaders, ci argy,
men and a local prison official
today.
''It's satanic. Not satisfied
with running his body, they
want to ruin his soul, too. How
can he make his peace with God
in such condition"
That was the comment Of Mrs.
w. Hiram Wadleigh, president of
the District of Columbia chapter
of the Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union.
Capt. NJ. M. Barnard, District
penal superintendent, said that
the generosity of the Governor
was Childish and silly" and that
it cheated the purpose of the exc
cution.
DR.. j. r. Sizoo, pastor of the
New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church, said:
when a man goes to meet
his Maker he'd better be SOBER"
From Rufus Lusk, executive Sec
retary of the Washington Crusad-
ers, came the query:
"Why nOt?"
The Washington times., 1933-10-20
ROOSEVELT 7
MAKES BID
To RUSSIA
Exchange of CabIegrams
Paves Way for Conference
Soon on Recognition
By LINTON WELLS
Copyright. 1888. International
News Servicel

MOSCOW, Oct. 20 'Q.N.S.).
The Soviet foreign office will
make public at II o'clock to-
night a p. m. Eastern stand
ard time) an exchange of
cablegrams between President
Roose welt and President
Michael Kalinin Of the all
union central committee of
Soviet Russia, which have
opened the way for early
recognition of the Soviet gov
ernment by the United States.
international News Service is
able to make this exclusive rsEe;,
lation from authoritative sources.
U. s. Takes Lead
Taking the initiative, according
to this information, President
Roosevelt is understood to have
dispatched a telegram to Kalinin
expressing willingness of his ad-
ministration to open negotiations
with the Soviets for the purpose
of establishing official relations
and effecting an amicable settle
ment of all outstanding differ
enceS.
Among the obstacles which had
previously blocked American rec
ognition of the Soviet government
were the long controversy over re-
pudiation by Moscow of the debts
owed the United States by the
czarist and Kerensky govern
ments, and similar reputation of
debts owed private individuals in
the United States, as well as
Soviet counter claims for damages
growing out of American partici,
patton in the Archangel and
Vladivostok expeditionary cam.
(Continued on Page 2, Col. y
The Washington times., 1933-10-20
Doomed Man Asks for More
LIQUOR as Moose Nears
BARBARA STANWYCK

SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Cal,
Oct. 20 Q.N.SD.-Dallas Egan
called for more whisky today
shortly before he was to go to the
galloWs for murder.
The condemned man sent word
to DR.. L. L. Stanley, acting warden
of San Quentin, that he would
like "just one more drink" Egan
said that the eight ounces of
liquor given him yesterday had
gone down the hatch" despite
his efforts to make it last until
hanging time today.
The acting warden gave orders
that Egan's request was to be
granted-just before he started
his walk to the Scaffold. Egan
said:
"Ill go out with q nice taste
in my mouth"
Scheduled to be hanged today
for the murder of w. j. Kirkpat-
rick. Battle Greek (Mich0 visitor
to the Olympic games in Los An
geles last year. Egan in his death
cell toyed with a phonograph and
drank whisky-good straight old
mellow Kentucky Bourbon.
Governor James Rolph, jr.,
granted Egan's last request, that
he be given whisky. Egan had re-
fused to seek executive clemency.
"Give him all he can safely
StanG up UNDER"
This was the order given by Gov
e nor Rolph to acting Prison War
den DR.. L. L. Stanley.
Taking his liquor straight,
Egan smiled and said:
"It'S great stuff. Thank the
governor for me-"
He took what he termed a
"good stiff shot" as the hour of
his doom grew nearer-but DR..
Stanley said that Egan would
not be intoxicated when he was
hanged.
At the trial in Los Angeles
Egan startled the court by wav-