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The Washington times., 1934-03-15
By International News Service


Spurned in his effort to enlist
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh to serve
on a superboard to study the oper-
ations Of the Army Air Corps, Sec
retary Of War George H. Dern said
today he had telegraphed asking
the noted flier to reconsider his
refusal.
In his telegram refusing Dern's
invitation, the Colonel took occa-
sion to lambast the Administra-
ton the second time for cancelling
the air mail contracts held by
commercial companies and order
ing the Army Air Corps to carry
the mail.
Lindbergh Firm Suffered
Colonel Lindbergh is technical
adviser for one of the companies
whose contracts were suspended
by Postmaster General Farley.
The renewal of the flier's con-
troversy with the Administration,
which started when he sent a tele-
gram to President Roosevelt criti-
cizing the wholesale cancellations
as "un-American," appeared
among the following develop
mentS:
/. Senate voted Mr.. RooseveIt's
request for a $10,00O,000 fund to
be expended at his discretion for
Improvement, development and
augmentation of military avia-
tion."
2. Senate passed the Admins
tration bill, already passed by the
House, authorizing the Army Air
Corps to carry the mails for q
period not in excess of one year.
It is now before the House for
consideration of Senate amend
mentS,
The Washington times., 1934-03-15
ITALY

ROM E, March Is U.N.SD
With preliminary talks behind
them, Premier Mussolini, Chancel-
lor Dollfuss of Austria, and Pre-
mier Gomboes of Hungary settled
down to concrete problems at a
meeting in II Duce'S Palazzo
Venezia office today. The three
considered, specifically, the re-
ports of their respective economic
experts, which have been months
in the preparing.
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OUOS DEFENDS. ARMY AIR MAIL EFFORTS AS WAR TEST
Air Quiz Bid
Is Spurned
By Lindy
Continued from P@ge y

Continued from P~ge y
know anything about the rail-
roads, but 1 do know about
aviation"
81 never actually flew any
air mail myself, but the Army
started the air mail system in
this country. 1t surveyed the
routes, made all the flying ar
rangementS and started the
service. Later it was turned
over to the Post Office Depart
ment.
URGES COST PLUS BASIS
II believe there should be .
minimum rate Of pay guar
antee. The rates should be
based on the cost Of flying the
mail, plus q reasonable profit"
With a request from Secretary
of War George H. Dern that he
reconsider his refusal to serve on
a "super board" for study OF
Army air operations still un
needed, Col. Charles A. Lindoergh
today agreed to appear before a
Senate committee to give his
views on permanent air mail leg.
islation.
In refusing to serve on the
''super board" on which Clar'
ence Chamberlin, noted aviator,
and Orville Wright. co-inventor
Of the airplane, were also asked
to sit, Lindbergh again criticized
of commercial air
mail contracts as "un-American.'
Chamberlin, who accepted his
appointment to the board and
is now in Washington, expressed
regret that Lindbergh had not
seen fit to join in the boards
Army planes remained grounded
while Maj. Gen. Benjamin D. Fou-
lois, chief Of the Air Corps, COM
pleted a thorough inspection of
planes and personnel preparatory
to resuming mail flying.
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Robinson Is Safe Again

You talk about Robinson being
selfish. Mr.. McNutt refused to
lower his own salary and so did
Judge Baker. I expect NIcNutt's
2 or 4 per cent club also will clean
up about $4,000 by 1886, and then
he will try to be President. Well,
We will wait.
No, Mr.. Editor, you have no
right trying to correct some one
else. If you will clean up your
own house first, then you might
be able to clean up the senate.
We all know your policy, and I
prefer little Arthur, because he
has at least done something since
he has been there. Your knocks
are only boost, and do not think
your paper has power enough to
fool us into forsaking our comrade
this fall. You may be an ex-
soldier, too, but I think you are
just one Democrat who votes for
his party.
Well, this fall, we will see Just
how many Republicans you fool
in indianapolis and indiana.
Well, I will be seeing you again
some time.
Be a sport, print this.
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WELCOME HOME

NTELL if it isn't SPRING Come right in
w and take off your coonskin coat and
goloshes Draw up to the fire, Spring, and
thaw out
You usually let us know when you are COM
ing up from the south-a message or two to
say you were on your way. But this year
we've not had word that you were anywhere
in the vicinity
Well, you wouldn't believe what we've been
through these last two months! We have
almost got a taste for blubber and taIlow
candles All We needed was an aurora borealis
to complete the illusion. My, but we are glad
to see you'll The men on the street were selling
pussy willows yesterday, although we dare say
they were grown in a hothouse-they are even
initiating you these days.
How about letting that robin out of its
cage? Well perhaps you know best You've
had more experience than We have.
Here, girl, drink this. We don't want you
to come down with the flu now that you are
here But we are glad you're back
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ATTENDANCE TAX

THE United States senate finance commit
tee should move with great caution in
the matter Of adjustment of the attendance
tax although the latter means millions of
dollars of helpfulness to the national budget
and although we pay that tax when we buy
the cute little admission tickets at the show
window
Lobbying with that committee to wipe out
this tax, comes John M. Kelly, no relation of
Big Foot" Kelly, super-press agent, whom old
timers will remember. John M. Kelly repre-
sents Ringing Brothers. Barnum and Bailey
combined circuses and tells the senators that.
IF you don't stop taxing us we've got to quit
and turn loose our 300 elephants, 1000 horses
500 tigers and other animals"
Mr.. Kellys alternative is full of terror To
be sure, among the millions of idle and de-
pressed there may be enough folks hungry
enough to eat 300 elephants, 1000 horses and
the tidbits among Mr.. Kelly's Other ANIMALS"
but, the line surely would be drawn against
those 500 tigers, thus most seriously impairing
the beneficial effects of turning loose the whole
menagere.
Moreover, since infancy the writer has held
that about the worst thing that craftsmanship
at Washington could perperate would be to
bust up circuses.
Singularly enough, in the large lobby that
went at the senate committee to beat the ad-
mission tax there was no audible representa-
tive of the noble art of prize-fghting.
Possibly, this because the promoter of prize
fights collects the TAX when ne sells the ticket
OF admission. Hence, there was no need to
duplicate Mr. Kelly's argument by threat to
turn loose, say, 300 prize-fght champions, 1000
Would-be champions some 500 or more tiger
1sh Set-ups for champions mauing and "other
animals" of the prize ring.
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NO ESCAPE FROM RETRIBUTION

CAMUEL INSULT seems to have taken on,
~ most of the aspects of a will-o'-the-wisp.
On this side of the Atlantic, black headlines
tell the latest news of his wanderings: on
the other side he fits about the borders
homeless and restless, a fugitive harried bv
some compulsion whose roots go deeply into
suosoll OF the land that he has dsowned
OF all the strange figures of these tempes-
tuous years, this self-exied utilities iuggler
surely is one of the strangest.
He climbed high and he fell long way:
and although retrlbution seems quite unable
to overtake him, no one need imagine that
his tortuous flight is enabling him to escape
anything.
Consider what he had a few years ago.
He was rich beyond dreams and powerful
beyond any mans need. He was an indus
trialist, financier, patron of the arts.
If an ambitious brokers' clerk had dreamed
a widely extravagant dream of worldly great
ness, it would not have come up to the reality
which was Samuel insults
Everything that cleverness and acquisitive-
ness and ruthless energy could get for a man,
IN land where those qualities were allowed
to function unchecked, he had won.
All this he had, and all of it has dissolved
like the mists of yesterday morning. His
principality has shrunk to a rusty Greek
freight steamer; his dominion extends to her
bridge, but no farther.
The ship wallows across the eastern seas
bound for Abyssinia, or for Persia, or per-
haps for Somaliland-it does not matter. for
insult really is hunting port not to be found
on any chart, place of refuge that this life
with its imperfections, never will open to him
again.
1t makes. indeed, very little difference
whether the man ever actually is collared
and brought back to America He carries his
own punishment with him; an unquiet shade
that must stand eternally at his elbow and
remind him of the kingdom that he lost. the
reputation that he destroyed
How can a man run away from thing
like that? insult can not; no man can. He
can dodge from one out-of-t he-way seaport
to another to the end of time 1t does not
matter. Retribution caught up with him a
long time ago.
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men? Surely it's present circulation
should be maintained if not in
creased.
This. on our part, will not entail
any real sacrifice other than the
giving up of the dross for the finer
things of life. 1t is largely a ques-
ton Of using good judgment. We
should be prepared to- appreciate
the views Of scholarly men who
praise the excellence and honesty of
the editorials in The Times.
Let every church member who is
tempted to be inactive in promoting
the Christian spirit, face his arch
n m y-Communisrn. Remember
the words of our own world citizen
of Indianapolis: IF Christiandom
does not make itself more Christian
than Communism, Christianity will
perish from the earth"
The mirror now is raised before
those of us who condemn the sordid
printed page. Can we, unhestitant,
look into the eyes Of our own image
with truth and sincerity?
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WHY THEY LIKE HIM

NOME of Roosevelos ultra-zealouS editorial
y friends are overriding the matter OF
making excuses for the Presidents premature
cancellation of the air mail contracts. He was
wrong. they offer, cor rather misnformed by
his advisers" in thinking that the army flierS
had the equipment and training necessary for
taxing over the mail carrying job on short
notice
The true leader does not lead for long who
casts the blame for his stumbles back upon
subordinates of his own choosing. Never yet
has Roosevelt done so. He acknowledges
mistakes in his policies, does not assume an
attitude of faineance toward the proposition
and does go ahead with the next best thing
in sight. The unprecedented and great
powers given him have not filled his self
estimation with obseSsion Of Hitler ipfanibility.
Blame for any error in the air mail matter
rests on Mr.. Roosevelt, not on his advisers,
and it turns out that Mr.. Roosevelts action in
that matter, sound or erroneous is a godsend
to the country. since it makes the tremendous
revelation that our army aviation force.
created by millions IF dollars worth Of tax
payers sweat to carry and deliver bombs in
defense Of the nation. is unfit as to equipment
and training to carry and deliver even
ordinary mail.
For this sorry, dangerous condition of our
army aviation force not Mr.. Roosevelt is to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-23

BY H. G. N.
Well, I see that you still have
the chip on your shoulder; and, as
I am an eX-soldier, I am man
enough to knock it off.
Our little Arthur no doubt pays
as much attention to you as lit
tie cur in the streets of Washing
ton.
Well, we can say this-that
through his efforts something has
been done for the soldier who real
ly suffered from want. 1t may be
true that he voted for a raise of
IS per cent in salary as a senator,
but he also voted for the bonus
as he always has done.
Mr.. Van Nuys always has voted
against us, but, though well I
know the bill will be vetoed by
Mr.. Roosevelt, and we all know
that with so many "donkeys" in
the senate, it never would pass,
so I will make one grand stand
play and help the soldier. Mr..
Van Nuys never has done one
thing in the senate since he was
sent there. 1t looks as if he is
afraid to do anything. Well, he
doesn't need to worry His term
is for six years, but, I will bet he
never goes back after that.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-23
DEPLORES ACTIVITIES OF
BELL TELEPHONE co.

BY Jimmy Cafouros.
That the telephone company-the
Indiana Bell Telephone Company
is progressive is fact. 1t is abso-
lutely undubitable.
That the telephone company is
not operating at loss is apparent.
During the most trying years Of the
past depreSSion-or is it passing de-
pression-they built beautiful and
practical building. Besides that they
another-an Unfortunately toll
cradle feat.
If the telephone company is pro-
greSsive and if it is not operating at
a loss. then the most natural infer
ence to be drawn is that the tele-
phone company welcomes criticism
that is constructive whether it be
censure or of the nosegay variety;
and that since it is not operating at
a loss then it is making Roadway.
And to make Roadway in these
times is like looming into the flrma-
ment when prosperity wakes.
Why has the telephone company
abruptly donned the role of a Shy
lock seeking his pound of flesh? If
Mrs. Smith, the widow who has had
a phone for twelve years and paid
for it in that time, or John, the
cobbler who has had phone this
last quarter century, and paid for
it-mind, paid for tiff either Mrs.
Smith or John, the cobbler, is Slight
ly in arrears of last months pay
ment, high, piping, wheezy and
brisk feminine bit of glucose with
an admiXture of lime and cement
sharply admonishes the aforesaid
Mrs. Smith or John the cobbler and
threatens to shut off the telephone.
May now put in a word. It is a
damned shame that there is only
one telephone company. If there
were two, competition would bring
them back to earth. Since we can
not have two, let us be happy and
content with our lot, deplorable
though it is, and eventually the
worm will turn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-23
Triviality
BY ARCHER SHIRLEY

You say It's but a trifel All yes.
but worlds
Are changed by little things. The
clear, sharp flash
From pistols mouth, the fall of one
small man
Has tossed, ere now, great nations
into war,
Till rivers ran With blood, RED as the
rays
OF burning suns thrown on some
western hill.
The words of one just man. spoken
in love,
Have made lost world glad; have
brought to hearts
Who knew no joy or peace, eternal
rest.
a verse from out a poets mind; a
rush
OF babbling song; the ringing of a
bell,
Have made souls leap, have drawn a
new spring
For weary travellers along LIES road.
And yet you say the deed is small.
not meant
To pain or cause another grief; your
acts
Are ST. e moves. you do them with
out thoegtl-
Still they are livins : things, they
bring to those
You love great happiness or pain,
and change
A life, world from 81 its chosen
course
To some new path. Think well on
little thingsl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-23
ANSWER GIVEN TO
CONSERVATION CRITICISM
By Charles E. Wvman.

BY Charles E. Wyman.
Gentlemen-I enclose marked
clipping which shows that people
who have charge of conservation
hardly ever think further than to
pass the job by and get compli-
mented by people who make less use
of their minds than the ones who
plant without a though of the prof
its to be gained by proper planting.
I suggest that when planting for
shade they plant nut bearing and
wild fruit bearing trees for the nat
ural feed of our song birds and the
pleasure of future generations as
they would gather nuts.
There are many varieties of the
finest of Towering trees that could
be planted for the same expense
necessary to plant only for shade.
He who plants tree plants a
shade for generations. Why not
give more than when we have the
opportunity?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-23
JAPAN'S AIR LOSSES

HE United States has been pretty badly
disturbed by casualties in its army air
force OF late 1t might be worth noticing that
Japans air force, which has not had to carry
any mail bags, has been having an even more
difficult time
During the past seventeen months Japa
heSe army and navy fliers have been killed in
airplane crashes. The tragedies are the result
OF vigorous training maneuvers which have
been carried out this winter. Japan is bend
ing every effort to get ready for trouble. Evil
IDENTIFY she has been putting her airmen
through course Of sprouts little bit too
stiff
Whatever the air mail venture may have
shown about defects in American army
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LAUDS PUBLICATION OF
WORTHWHILE SERIES
BY Hiram La ckey

A certain city boy went to the
country to find work. An old farm
er gave him job sent him to the
barn and told him to feed every-
thing. When the boy returned to
the house, the farmer asked the boy
if he had fed the ducks. The boy
answered as cheerfully as would a
grasshopper in Canada.
What did you feed them?"
quizzed the old gentleman.
Il fed them your finest millet seed
and timothy hay" replied the boy
with satisfaction.
why, son." replied the old gen.
tleman mildly, that seed millet is
too expensive to waste on ducks.
Did the ducks eat what you fed
them?"
NO" replied the city boy with an
Indifferent shrug, they just talked
about it."
Since the appearance of the Life
of Our Lord" there has been much
favorable comment about the whole
some influence The Times is exert
ing on our community. It is re-
freshing to see Christians feel this
challenge of The Times to its read
ers and to see them rally to the
support of its standard of truth and
Righteousness. Many appreciate
the fact that The Times has found
something of more news value than
such frivolous discussions as the d.
rection in which Dillinger whites.
Enough has been said about the
unworthy printed page. Isn't it now
time for us to do something for a
newspaper which has printed The
Life Of Our Lord thus placing the
value of human personality above
the price Of those things which
cheaper and. snlirch the lives Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-23
COTTON CONTROL

THE cotton control bill, which has just
passed the house, is the latest forward
step toward that planned agriculture upon
which recovery must rest.
It's principle eventually may be applied to
other farm crops if voluntary cooperative
plans for their production are endangered by
chiselers 1t does not, in our opinion, mean
regimeptation of agriculture and industry, as
some Of its opponents argued in the house de-
bate.
1t does mean, however, that a sense of
social responsibility will be demanded of cot
ton growers. In this connection, the south
itself asked for the measure.
Administered intelligently, it is flexible
enough to permit the further application of
the recovery plan to cotton, and at the same
time PRINT us to retain our great foreign mar
ket for cotton, without which the south would
be ruined
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-23
PROSPERITY RESTS WITH
HIGHER WAGE SCALES

BY the Vagabond Philosopher.
Here are reasons wyn the NRA
and CWA will fail to bring pros
perity:
/. When the NRA set the wages
OF the textile industry at $12 in the
south and S13 in the north it made
a great mistake, as other industries
set that figure at S14.
2. How can man and family live
on Sl3 or S14 week, pay rent and
meet coal, gas and electric bills.
and have clothes and eat?. It can't
be done. Now what is the man 60
ig to do who makes rugs, furniture.
radios, pianos. autos and the thou
sands of other things that help to
make an American home when the
people. are not able to buy them?
We can't let the people that make
them starve.
8. Now it makes no difference to
the manufacturer whether he paws
81 a day or IS a day in wages. he
puts it on the cost Of production
as long as his competitor has to nav
the same wages.
I would suggest pay of so cents
an hour for common labor, rs cents
an hour for skilled labor and no
less than 81 an hour for mechanics
and a thirty-hour week for all in
dustrles. Let them put on two or
three shifts if they can not fill the
demand Of their products. For stores
thls could be modified to forty hours
week. Now, instead Of helping
the big fellow so much help the
buying power Of the masses and
nothing but good wages will do
that.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-23
PREDICTS WORKING HOURS
AS CAMPAIGN ISSUE

By F. E. VI.
Westbrook Pegler. speaking of 2
bill approved by the house labor
committee, March 8, which would
reduce the legal working hours TO
thirty a week, says: 1T seems
unlikly that they will ever be able
TO enforce such law"
OF course, it isn't right to ex-
pect the working man to bear everv-
thing. Argument is not necessary
10 show who should bear the brunt
OF the depression. Working men are
the most law-abiding people. The
best thing that could hanpan would
be the passage of some such law. a.
ready agitation is arising that when
industry revives there will not be
men enough.
When the newspaper. printers re-
duced their week, a year ago. 70
five days, they didn't consult the
proprietors and the propueeo-.
condemned them. There were twice
as many printers as could get work.
In 1925 agitation was begun for
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blame but our high-up rulers, officials at
Washington, who drooled along through the
last two decades to d state Of faineancy as TO
the country's protection that was match to
Methuselahs in his e69th year.
All this is not in excuse or defense of Mr..
Roosevelt. What he does, wen or poorly, he
makes public That he does not pose as a god
but as human animal is one reason why the
folks take to him.
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Editors Note-In 1893, the de-
partment of conservation began
the planting of food bearing trees
and shrubs and there is a nursery
at Brown county that was begun
late last spring. During the last
winter, authorities were searched
and food-tree and foOd-shrub
lists arranged, and a nursey now
is being opened at the Jasper
Pulaski game preserve near Me-
daryvilIe, to raise trees and shrubs
that win feed our wild birds and
animals.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-23
REWARD WOULD BRING
DILLINGER'S CAPTURE

BY Elmer stoddard.
Five thousand dollars dead or
alive. That will get him.
with my twenty-nire years with
the police department I know that
we may make mistakes. I believe
our Governor should offer a reward
Tor the information leading to the
arrest OF Dlllinger. Let's tell others
mat we will do our part to place
him behind the bars.
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The proposal has been made for the adj
dition of a course in our public schools in
which the children will be taught how to vote.
So that they then can teach their parents,
perhaps
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

planes or personnel, it is apparent that
Japan's flying corps is in even worse shape.
The American air force at least is able to
carry on its regular war-training maneuv-
ers without wholesale tragedies.
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Women, says Broadway night club owner,
applaud the nude dancers, more than men.
The men dare not applaud!
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A Salvation Army official credits Mae West
for the rise in employment Well, yes, if
you've noticed the pronounced curve in bust
ness.