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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-24
SANDING

GENERAL AUGUSTA SANDING, rather
~ mysteriously assassinated by members of
the Nicaraguan national guard, was neither
saint nor devil.
He did not measure up to his own picture
of himself as the Latin Lincoln" sent by fate
to rid Central and South America of the
despoiler from the north. Much less was he
the cut-throat bandit painted in lurid colors
by American officers and diplomats forced to
Justify our imperalstc Intervention.
He was. apparently a sincere patriot I'M
compromising and courageous to the point of
folly. yet in him was some of the ruthlesSness
of his jungles. Certainly he was very diff
ferent type from that other Nicaraguan pa
triot DR. Sacasa. the liberal president.
SANDING did not lick the mated '"Yanquis,"
but he helped to educate us in foreign policy.
The Monroe doctrine is no sanction for the
United States single-handedly to intervene in
or police the territory of any other American
republic Reversal of the interventionist pol
icy by the Hoover and Roosevelt administra-
tons was influenced in part by the fact that
our undeclared war against SANDING cost the
lives of $50 American marines and many mil
lions of dollars, besides undermining our pres
tige and honor in Latin America.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-24
ESSENTIAL PRACTICE

A GAIN the United States feet INDUCES in
war games Some ninety warships and
300 airplanes enter complicated and difficult
maneuvers of the lower California coast,
and stories about the attacking force" and
defending force" get into the papers once
more.
We landsmen, who hardly see warship
from one years end to another, seldom pay
much attention to these maneuvers-except
that we may, in our Ignorance, wonder &C.
casionally If they are really necessary.
And it is not bad thing for us to remem-
Der that these war games are just about the
most important of the navys many peace
time functions.
They are to a fighting feet what daily
scrimmage is to football team. A football
team that never practiced would stand little
chance of winning its games; a navy that
ignored its war games would not be likely
to have much luck in actual war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-24
"OUR GANG"

TT might be interesting to take a glance
Il back at something The Indianapolis Times
is quite proud. This newspaper recently con-
Guided a series of articles about members of
its editorial staff. The series took the staff
members one by one. from the editor down
to the newest cub" reporter. told who they
were and how they acted.
The series seemed to click" Many Of our
readers wrote to tell us how much they liked
the series. But we went little further. We
checked and balanced our figures for our own
satisfaction.
Here's what we found: The average In
dianapolis Times man is 81, married and was
born in Indianapolis He went to school
either IN Indianapolis. or in small Indiana
community He attended an Indiana college
and ne has been working for this newspaper
for four years.
To US. that sort of tabulation is inter-
esting. While we knew that almost every one
of our staff members was an Indiana product,
we wanted to know just what sort of train
ing our men had.
For instance We had only one man who
was not born in the United States He was
born in England but he went to school in In
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-24
A Woman's Viewpoint
. By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

ton of babies. We've seen
scrawny weaklings gasp few
months or a few years and then
die, and have remained compare
lively unmoved. Some of them
we're such frightful specimens of
the race that death was a release
for them and a boon to society.
A great deal of our agitation
about the value of human life is
sadly overdone. AS a matter Of
fact, even the most violent oppo-
nents of birth control do not care
so much about life. else they
would direct some Of their ener-
gies to conserving that which al
ready exists. Surely the child who
is alive is as important in the
sight Of God as the one not yet
born.
If we really cared about life
We would try to make a decent
world for living children. We
would suppress our fears over the
immortality of controlling birth
and think more about the wicked
ness Of slaughtering boys in war,
about the misery of millions of
babies in overcrowded cities, about
the horrors Of breeding among
weaklings, syphiletics, morons and
criminals.
AS children improve in health,
beauty and happiness you may
be sure they will become even more
desirable Possessions,
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A CORRESPONDENT wonders
N whether, if birth control is
legalized, there might not be a
bitter reaction against the gov
eminent from those who have
postponed having families so long
that they never have them at all.
That, it seems to me, is hardly
likely. If the time ever comes
when all men and women can
plan for their children and pre-
pare for their advent with fore
sight and caution, their desire for
babies will increase, especially
among the class which now has
few.
Undoubtedly many people are
reluctant to bring children into
the world, not so much because of
the state of their pocketbooks but
because of the sorry state Of the
world.
We value children so lightly be-
cause we always have had too
many of them. The prolific breed
ing of the uneducated has re-
strained the thoughtful person
from wastage of life. For
wastage it assuedly is.
WE have looked complacently
WON while little children were
starved and overworked and con-
taminated by vice. No matter
how many other crops failed us,
there was always an oyerproduc-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-24
AN ORCHID TO THE MUSEUM

INDIANAPOLIS seems to be paying too lit
l. tie attention to one Of its most valuable as
sets 1t is not an asset which can be figured
in dollars and cents value, but something
which will bring to this city's next generation
of citizens its full share of culture and
knowledge of this strange world of ours.
That asset is the Childrens Museum at
1850 North Meridian street, and it is pity
that hundreds upon hundreds of persons who
were born in indianapolis have not yet visited
that great little institution.
And the truth of the matter is that we
grown-ups can enjoy the exhibits at the Chill
drens Museum perhaps even more than our
children.
All of us, at some time or another, should
visit the Museum. Take your child on an out
ing Show him the armor that QUILTED the
warriors of the Round Table" the curious,
odd-shaped shells from the bottom of the
sea, the scenes in which dinosaurs romped in
prehistoric days. 1t will be an outing for
you, too.
Don't pass Up the Museum.
It's too important.
May it keep growing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-24
CHARLES DICKENS

reprint Bloomington Evening World
THE curtains of the past will open for low
ers of good literature as the last unpub-
nshed work of Charles Dickens begins appear
ing in serial form in a number Of the nations
leading newspapers. The Life of Our Lord"
perhaps the most intimate revelation Of the
great writer's real self, should be one of the
epochal newspaper publications of the time.
However, it will not be the first outstand-
ing classic to appear in this form. The prom
inent esSayists of the last century employed
their journals, the equivalent of the news
paper, to publish their works in, and many
novels, plays and poems of distinction have
appeared in this form. 1t is refreshing to
find the newspapers at last ceasing to I'M
derestimate the intelligence of their readers.
The day when spot news was the lone func-
ton of the newspaper is gone with the radio
and leased wires. Now the newspapers can
turn to the activity they were intended for
in the first place-interpretation of the news
and the creation of a record worth preserving.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-24
RED MOON
BY VIRGINIA KIDWELL

BY VIRGINIA KIDWELL
Alone were we in the black of the
night
When down at the foot Of the sky
Rose the edge Of large RED moon
in sight
And we watched it climbing high.
Closely and tenderly held to you,
Cheek pressed to mine you said,
Want it? I'll go get it now for
you"
But I smiled and shook my head.
you are my moon and my stars"
said I,
"You are the world to me-"
And the wise old moon found q
cloud in the sky
And your lips IN the dark found
me,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-24
BUSINESS MEN SCORED
FOR WORKERS TREATMENT
By Henry E. Hall.

By Henry E. Hall.
Perhaps some one can aid me re-
garding this code which most Of our
business men have pledged to abide
by, and are so eager to display to
prospective customers; leading that
unsuspecting victim to unravel this
mess, when in reality they are only
using his banner to increase their
sales, and the slaves who are be-
hind the scenes are not even taken
into consideration.
In every case I have In mind the
men are working longer hours and
receiving less money than they did
before the NRA was inaugurated
The reason they don't squawk is be-
cause they have families depending
upon that measly pittance to keep
them from starving to death. Con-
Sequently, these INSCRIPTIONS leech-
es, who by no stretch of the imagi-
nation can be put on level with the
Dillinger gang, go unexposed.
Dilllinger and Pierpont are Sun
day school teachers in comparison
to these vultures, who wait until a
man is at the very portals of star
Walton, then hire him for starvation
wages to put their rotten business in
the big profit class.
Let's hear from some Of these
NRA violators, if they have the
nerve to protest an expose.
May I add, in conclusion, that
Mr. Webster has no words that de-
scribe this particular type of snake.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-24
CLEAR OUT MISFITS

A WASHINGTON publisher recently called
L n for the formation of a new political
party in the United States, with opposition
to the general trend of the new deal as its
main platform plank.
Such a party ne says, might be called
1.-THE Constitution Democratic Party" and
would replace the existing G. o. P. The
present Democratic party he would rename
1.-The Socialist Democratic Party"
The reshuffing he advocates thus would
give us two brand-new national parties to
take the place of the ones we have.
1t has been one of the axoms of American
politics for a good many years that there is
little real difference between the two major
parties. 1t has been equally clear that
neither party has been homogeneous, and
that each one contains stable groups sadly out
of harmony with the majority opinion of
their fellows.
To put through a general shifting of per-
sonnet and principles that would give us two
big parties, each one more or less united from
top to bottom, based on widely different con-
ceptionS of the function of government in
the modern world might be an exceedingly
healthy development.
1t is hard to escape the feeling that the
actual trend of things today is in that direc-
ton.
We have the western progressives" in
the Republican party, who are far closer to
the administration than they are to such
leaders in their own party as Mr.. Hoover or
Mr.. Mills
On the other hand, it is pretty obvious
that men like Senator Glass and Ex-Governor
Smith are not exactly the same kind of Dem
ocrats as President Roosevelt
Continuance of this trend can do one of
two things. 1t can give us two new major
parties to replace The old ones, or it can split
both our parties and give us group of half
a dozen or more blocs. creating condition
in which no administration ever could have
a majority in congress and in which COM
promise and multiplicity of deals would
be the order of the day.
The recent experience of France is enough
argument against the latter possibility.
republican government works best on a
straight two-party system with the two par
ties Numerically opposed. as a matter of
principle, on most major issues
If We are to have that in the future. 1t
might be a very good thing for us to pro-
mote some sort of reshuf1ing like the one this
Washington publisher advocates.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-24
II PROMISE TO

ONE of the odd things about statements
~ of current political candidates is the con-
tinued reiterations of support for President
Roosevelts policies It is wonderful that our
chief executive should receive such whole
hearted support, but
Would it not be better for some candidate
to step forth and say:
Il am an honest man. 1 want this office
to serve the people. I am a supporter Of
President Roosevelt, but do not tell you that
I will vote for everything President Roosevelt
wants. I shall have to be honest with my vote
and honest with you"
And it is ten-to-One that mythical candi-
date would draw the cheers of President
Roosevelt himself.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-24
THE COWBOY

CENTENCE of Roger Touhy and two of his
- desperadoes to ninty-nine years each for
the Factor kidnapping ends the career of
another master criminal Of the new American
school. The Terrible Touhys" were guilty
of a long series of kidnspngs, robberies, ex-
tortions and other crimes in Chicago suburbs.
Certain arrest and swift punishment, such
as moved down on the Touhy mob will dis
courage kidnapers.
AS in most of the big kidnapping trials the
federal government had hand in this Chi
cago affair. Although Touhy was arrested by
a Wisconsin policeman, the United States di-
vision of Investigations gathered most of the
evidence that convicted him.
According to this division, there have been
twenty-four kidnapings since the Lindbergh
act was passed by congress last June. Today
all but two, the Bremen and Hamm cases,
have been solved. There have been fifty con-
victions. Sentences totslng TIA years have
been imposed, eleven kidnapers have been SEN
fenced to life. two to death, one has committed
suicide in his cell.
But for the shameful California double
lynchng the record has been unusually good
The handsome Roger Touhy was known to
the underworld as the cowboy because he rode
down his enemies. From the records of the
department of justice it looks as if Uncle Sam
is due to inherit his title
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-24
DEMANDS TO KNOW
ABOUT DEMAND CHARGE

BY Times Reader.
read letter written by A. L. S.
about the 63-cent light company de-
mand charge and would like to add
my bit to having this demand charge
investigated.
I live between two families. One
has lived there two years and didn't
pay the demand charge, the other
four years and has been paying SO
cents ever since it came into effect.
The light company told me that
old residents who lived here before
they started this demand charge
didn't have to pay it. Seemingly,
the light company doesn't live up
to its own rules, because both par
ties lived here before it started. I
thinf if one has to pay all should,
but why should any of us have to
pay that demand charge? Only the
light company charges it.
I don't care whether this is print
ed or not. All I want to know is
why the demand charge to some and
not to others, and why demand
charge at all?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-24
HE BLAMES SHREWD
FRENCH CAPITALISTS

By t. NJ. Squswky.
ShreWd French bankers legally
rob French citizens of $4,000, 900
Notorious Stavisky bank scandal
Police protect legal robbers. Police
kill French citizens who have been
robbed, and wound 1900 more
French citizens tried to peacefully
protect themselves from legal rob-
bers by mass demonstrations, but
we're fired on by the police. Citizens
did not fire a single shot.
ShreWd bankers caused sixteen
citizens to be killed and 1000 citi-
zens to be wounded. Can anything
be done with the shrewd bankers?
No, they are too smooth. If the 1000
citizens are all the French citizens
who have been robbed, the citizens
were legally robbed of 1866 each.
The shrewd bankers should have
robbed more citizens, so each citizen
would have only been robbed legally
of one penny. Perhaps the citizens
would not have minded this.
Next time the Shrewd bankers
must rob four billion citizens, then
they won't mind.
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LII Arthur Regardless

nominate him; and I think you
are.
We Democrats admit we are
ashamed of our Louisiana King
fish, but you Republicans seem
proud of the exploits Of your
Kluxer, Lii Arthur.
I also will admit I pay no in
come tax, for the past Hoover
administration made a tramp out
of me, and twelve million others;
and, from your roar, you must be
one of them, but you will have to
admit that the present admins
tration is so far accomplishing
wonders and will succeed, in the
course of time, regardless of your
friend, Lii Arthur.
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I want to thank the ex-service
man on enlightening my misguid-
ed views in regard to his friend,
Senator Robinson, I also believe
every ex-service man who has a
service connected disability should
receive a pension in accordance
with his disabilities.
I also believe that those entitled
to a pension will get one later, but
Lii Arthur would get us all a pen
sion if we would vote for him, if
he could. He always is throwing
a monkey wrench in the Roose-
welt recovery program, but we will
send him to the sticks this COM
ing November, providing you Re
publicans are dumb enough to re-
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SATURDAY. FEB. "a. 1874.
AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT

IT would be well for us in Indiana to watch
l. the moves Of Senator George w. Norris for
a unicameral legislature in Nebraska.
Senator Norris, famed for his Progressive
Leadership, thinks his plan should be tried
He proposes that Nebraska elect single
legislative body of from 30 to so members to
serve two years.
He declares that every state in the union
is not ready for unicameral legislative bodies
but he does think that the Nebraska people
are ready for it. We in Indiana should watch
History may be in the making in Nebraska
and we might want to follow suit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-24
MISPLACED TALENT

4 16-YEAR- OLD schoolboy in Saskatche-
n wan recently was sentenced to two years
Imprisonment because he had spent his spare
time forging IS bills.
Using a box of school paints, home
made die and some bits of linen paper, this
youngster turned out imitation bank notes
which astounded The Saskatchewan authori-
ties by their close resemblance to the real
thing.
And it is good to note that the judge who
sentenced him said that a parole would be
recommended if a training school could be
persuaded to make place for him.
A 16-year-old who can use such crude
tools to turn out such excellent work-ex-
cellent, of course, from a purely technical
standpoint-must have a lot of genuine talent
in him somewhere.
Given the right kind of handling, such
lad ought to become most serviceable mem
Der of society. 1t would be tragic if such
exceptional ability were permitted to become
perverted permanently.
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I achoLy disapprove of uhat you sag and t0iU
defend to the death your right to sag itVoltaire.

in a strange country where the
measurements of their home country
are not understood. In the very
early settlement of our own coun-
try coonSkins and tobacco each were
used as mediums of exchange. The
Indians understood those and could
use them. Many large transfers of
value here in the United States are
made by mere words, the telegraph,
telephone or cable being used. It
all depends on the intelligence and
stability of the users as to the
form of their money.
A country like ours, which pro-
duces all things needed for human
comfort within its domain, can use
medium of exchange as best
suits it,
I am very sure the time is here
to put on our thinking caps as to
what is money. We must choose
between controlling the form and
quantity of money we need, or Just
go on being controlled by those who
corner our money supply and die
tate its value.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-24
WHAT'S WRONG; THIS
READER WANTS TO KNOW

By John H. BurIask.
On the strength that writer's to
the Message Center "show ignor-
ance of the subject mentioned" Mr..
Frank Young wants this department
abolished"
just what great store of fact have
you got to offer on any of the fol-
lowing questions Mr.. Young: The
NRA. CWA, CCC the PWA and
AAA? Don't stall. You know next
to nothing and you've plenty
of company.
The wrathful comments you call
insulting and unnecessary come
from a patient public-the common
people, people tired of having their
opinions smothered and twisted by
a minority of professional liars and
take" men miSnamed public serv-
ants.
It's housekeeping time Mr..
Young. And that's what free speech
is going to give this country, a good
housekeeping. I, for one, am sick
of cringing beneath the fellows who
run the machinery of this country.
It's time they were being educated
to the idea of being employees, not
employers. There's no reason at all
why the garden variety of man
should not have access to the rec
ords of this city.
There's no reason why he should
not be treated with courtesy whether
in the courthouse, police headquar-
tiers, or the Governors Office. But
this isn't true. A common laborer
with the CRIME of honest toll on his
face can't get to first base in these
sanctuaries. What's wrong with the
balance of things?
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VALUE OF MONEY
IMPORTANT IN u. S.

By A. j. Kinnear (Martinsville)
Money is a measure of value the
same as is a bushel basket, a car
penter's or lumberman's rule, a pint
or quart. Money is the one thing
which does no good until we part
with it. Children alone understand
money. Hand them pennies, nickels
Or dimes and they start at once to
exchange them at the nearest store
for candy or toys which they can
use.
Money, like a bushel measure,
may be made of any material which
is most suitable as to convenience.
Paper money has been found much
more convenient than silver and
gold for measuring all transactions
above ST. in volume. A bank draft
or check is preferable for large
transactions.
The only ones who need a me-
dunn of exchange which is Of itself
valuable are primitive or unedu-
Gated peoples, or people travelling
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dianapOlIs and he is the next thing to native

dianapolis and he is the next thing to q native
Hoosier.
We had q few New Workers, but so few
that when We checked our figures the totals
showed almost 90 per cent Indiana. The man
aging editor was born in Indianapolis he went
to Butler and Indiana university. The city
editor was born in Columbus, Ind; the assist
ant city editor in Marion, Ind; the state edi-
tor in Clinton, Ind; and dozen of our work
ers were born right here.
We're proud to say that we're almost 100
per cent Hoosier.
It proves substantially that Indiana doesn't
have to go outside for its man-power.
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SUGGESTS CONDITIONS OF
CASES BE CHECKED
BY James r. HeIton.

By James r. Helton.
In regard to the statement plead
ing for the release of a prisoner
that was made by Orrie j. Sim
mons.
Mr.. Simmons, your statement in
The Times was very poor one.
For one thing, you said that Mr..
Baker is the judge. 1t seems as
though you are the judge, or want
to be. For another thing, you do
not know the conditions of this
man as 1 happen to know him and
know his condition, also. I am not
related to this man. MY plea is for
a chance to see this man released
as Mr.. Coleman understands his sit
uation.
Mr.. Simmons, look into some of
these cases and you will learn the
causes of some of these cases.