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Evening star., 1934-02-16
SPACE ALLOTMENT
IN i. S. BUILDINGS
UNDER ONE HEAD
National Parks Office Is
Assigned to End Fu-
ture Disputes.
ICKES WILL BECOME
SUPREME ARBITER
Capitol, Senate and House Quar-
ters Excepted Under New
Executive Order.

With a view to ending existing dis
putes President Roosevelt has issued
an executive order giving absolute
control over the allotment of space
In Government-owned and leased
buildings in the District of Columbia
to the ONCE of National Parks, Build
ings and Reservations in the Interior
Department.
A division of Government space
control is set up in the Office OF Ma
tional Capital Parks under Harry A
Candland for the purpose of obtain
ing and keeping an accurate record
Of available space in such buildings.
ICkes Sole Arbiter.
The executive order, signed by the
President yesterday, makes Secretary
of the Interior Ickes the supreme
srbiter in all disputes over the allot-
ments of space in Government build
ings, a question which now involves
the entire downtown triangle.
The only buildings excepted IN the
executive order are the White House
and executive offices. the Capitol,
Senate and House Office Buildings,
Library of Congress and the build
ings under the jurisdiction OF the
Smithsonian Institution.
AS head Of the Interior Department
ell plans drawn up for space allot-
ment are subject to the approval OF
Director Arno B. Cammerer of the
National Parks, Buildings and Res
ervations Office, and Secretary Ickes
Mr.. Candland, as chief of the division
of Government space control will work
directly under Associate Director A
E. Demaray.
Plan Worked Out.
For some weeks, Mr.. Derlaray has
been working out a plan for space
allotment in the new Post Office
Building which should have been COM
pleted for occupancy yesterday but is
delayed for minor details. Space
allotment in the old Post ONCE
Building and other structures in the
downtown triangle also are under con-
sideration. Due to the many requests
from various bureaus wishing space
in these buildings, Mr.. Demaray has
kept his plans secret until they have
been given approval by Secretary
Ickes.
Under the executive order, the Ma
tional Parks Bureau likewise will be
given full control over space allot-
ments in all future buildings con-
structed in the Government program
This authority is designed to end
such disputes as exist over buildings,
for instance, like the Interstate Com
merce Building. which that agency
believes it should have full control
over. Under its wide authority, space
can be allotted in any building in
which Secretary Ickes desires.
Evening star., 1934-02-16

This is the "diGTy' OF mem
Der of The Star stat Uho spent
hours and IS minutes on the cars
OF the Capital Transit Co. last
night en- route from Fifteenth and
NeU York cUenue to Chery Chase,
Nd, q distance OF some 712 miles.
In justice to the traction system
traffic accident Which derdiled one
OF the street cars UaS responsible
for the tie-up.
A House subcommittee t0iH hear
complaints tonight to determine
uhether recent delays in service
are due to negligence or ctrcum-
stances Which should hare been
toreseen and provided against.
~ BOARDED Chevy Chase
S Lake car at Fifteenth street
and New York avenue about
Il 6 pm.
Looking up from my eve
ming paper some time later, dis
covered the car had pulled into the
semi-circular siding at the east end
of Calvert Street Bridge. Five other
cars pulled in and discharged their
passengers before We moved. Most
of them got on my car. and, by the
time it resumed its run toward Chevy
Chase. hardly anybody knew whether
they were standing on their own feet
or on somebody else's. The passengers
were packed in so tightly, in fact,
that some wisecracker remerked-loud
enough for everybody to hear-that it
was about time the conductor started
passing out can openers.
Hit Another Snag.
"As the car crossed the bridge and
turned into Connecticut avenue, ]
turned back TO my paper. Pretty
soon, I became conscious of another
long halt I looked up to find we
were at Tilden street, and both the
conductor and the motorman had
stepped off, leaving the doors open.
1t was cold.
After a while, people began getting
off, and I followed suit. Everybody
was walking up and down beside the
car. There was another car a short
distance ahead.
Evening star., 1934-02-16
RACE HEARING PLANNED

Commission to Hold Sessions on
Bill Sponsored by Black.
A public hearing will be held by
the District Commissioners on the
measure sponsored by Representative
Black of New York TO license horse
and dog races in the District, with
pari-mutuel betting.
The hearing will be held before the
Commissioners prepare report on
their attitude on the matter. to be
sent to the House District Committee.
Evening star., 1934-02-16
QUIZ M0RGENTHAU
Business Paper Editors Seek U. S.
Financing Views.

Fifty members of the National Con-
ference of Business Paper Editors
today had an off the record inter-
view with Secretary Morgenthau
The editors called at the Treasury
to meet Morgenthau and ask a few
questions. The queries were under
stood to deal with Government budg-
cts and financing.
Evening star., 1934-02-16
PROPERTY OWNERS
|PLAN COURT FIGHT
ON zON|NG CHANGE
Petition Granted for Stores
on Connecticut Near
Morrison Street.
PRESENTATIONS" HELD
TO EXCEED AUTHORITY
Residents Cite Covenants in
Deeds Restricting Lots for
Homes Only.

Defeated in their first move to pre-
vent rezoning Of the east side of Con-
necticut avenue between Morrison and
Mckinley streets for the erection of
park and shop" stores, some Of the
adjoining property owners today were
planning to carry their fight to the
District courts.
The Zoning Commission yesterday
granted a petition for commercial
zoning on the disputed frontage after
one Of the bitterest fights among
adjoining property owners ever to
come before it. The protestants op-
posed the petition because of cove
nants in deeds to the property re-
strlcting its use to residential pur-
poses.
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
were such frightful specimens Of
the race that death was 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.
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 imperialistic 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 hated '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
CLEAR OUT MISFITS

A WASHINGTON publisher recently called
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
"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 reshuff1ing 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 aXioms 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
lle ulOueIA NOI4U, 4IIlS44G NC oil SACeeuu4Sly
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 car do one of
two things. It can give us two new major
parties to replace The old ones. or it can split
both our parties and give us a group of half
a dozen or more blocS, creating a condition
in which no administration ever coulo have
q 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. A
republican government works best on a
straight two-party system. with the two par
ties diametrically opposed, as a matter of
principle. on most ajor issues.
If We are to have that in the future, it
might be a very good thing for US to pro-
mote some sort of reshufhing like the one this
Washington publisher advocates
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-24
CHARLES DICKENS

reprint Bloomington Evening World)
TINE curtains of the past will open for low
L ers of good literature as the last unpub-
lished 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 neutrality-suspicious. of the news
and the creation of record worth preserving.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-24
OUR GANG"

IT might be interesting to take a glance
l. back at something of which The Indian
apolis Times is quite proud. This newspaper
recently concluded 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 a small Indiana
community He attended an Indiana college
and he has been working for this newspaper
for four years.
To us. that sort Of a 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
: THE INDIANAPOLIS MINES
ESSENTIAL PRACTICE

A GAIN the United States feet INDUCES in
L war games. Some ninety warships and
300 airplanes enter complicated and difficult
maneuvers off the lower California coast,
and stories about the attacking force" anG
defending force" get into the papers once
more.
We landsmen, who hardly see a warship
from one years end to another, seldom pay
much attention to these maneuvers-except
that we may, in our ignorance. wonder oc-
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 navy's many peace
time functions.
They are to fighting feet what daily
scrirnmage is to a football team. A football
team that never practiced would stand little
chance Of winning its games; 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
AN ORCHID TO THE MUSEUM

INDIANAPOLIS seems to be paying too lit
l. tie attention to one of its most valuable as
sets It 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 Children's Museum at
1l50 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
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 Tounys" were guilty
of a long series of kidnapings, 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 a 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 totaling TIA years have
been imposed, eleven kidnapers have been sem
fenced to life, two to death, one has committed
suicide in his cell.
But for the shameful California double
lynching 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
MISPLACED TALENT

A 16-YEAR-OLD schoolboy in Saskatche-
y wan recently was sentenced to two years
Imprisonment because he had spent his spare
time forging SIS 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 men,
Der of society. 1t would be tragic if such
exceptional ability were permitted to become
perverted permanently.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-24
HE BLAMES SHREWD
FRENCH CAPITALISTS
BY T. NJ. Squawky.

BY T. NJ. Sauawky.
Shrewd French bankers legally
rob French citizens of $40,000000.
Notorious StaviSky bank scandal.
Police protect legal robbers. Police
kill French citizens who have been
robbed, and wound 1000 more.
French citizens tried to peacefully
protect themselves from legal rob-
bers by mass demonstrations, but
were 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.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-24

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 q wastage Of life. For
wastage it assuredly 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 overproduc-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-24
WHAT'S WRONG; THIS
READER WANTS TO KNOW

By John H. Burlask.
On the strength that writers 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 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, 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
rot 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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s0holEy diSapprove of 10hat you sag and a0iU
defend to the death your right to sag it-VoItajre.

I 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. 1t
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 lust
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
VALUE OF MONEY
IMPORTANT IN u. S.

By A. J. Kinnear (Martinsville).
Money is a measure Of value the
same as is bushel basket, a car
penter's or lurnberman'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 81 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
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-24
81 PROMISE To"

ONE of the odd things about statements
~ of current political candidates is the con-
tinued reiterations of support for President
Roosevelts policies. 1t 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
It am an honest man. I want this office
to serve the people. am a supporter Of
President Roosevelt but I Go 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"
date would draw the cheers of President
Roosevelt himself.