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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
HEBREW GROUP WILL
HOLD STATE SESSION
Union Congregations to Discuss
Problems Here Sunday.

Union Congregations to Discuss
Problems Here Sunday.
First state meeting of Union He
brew congregations in Indiana will
be held Sunday in the Indianapolis
Hebrew Congregation, Tenth and
Delaware streets.
Problems facing officers of each
congregation will be discussed at the
sessions which will start, at 10.
Hosts for the meeting will be the
Temple Sisterhood and Brotherhood.
The Union of American Hebrew
Congregations is sponsor.
Invitations for the convention
were extended by Louis j. Borin-
stein, indianapolis Hebrew Congre-
cation president, and Rabbi Morris
M. Feuerlicht.
Rabbi Philip W. Jaffa, Cincinnati,
union regional director, is arrang-
ing the meeting, assisted by G.. A.
Efroymson and Isidore Feibleman.
who will be chairman of the ses-
Sions.
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The Theatrical World
-The Theatrical WOrld----
$50 Falls o. Week.
That's o. job for You
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN

DY taking 290 falls week and
ID by destroying twenty eight
straw hats, Roy Cummings, &c
centric comedian now at the
Lyric. is able to keep the big bad
wolf away from his door.
For nearly eighteen years, Mr..
Cummings has been riding seem
enry, falling with it to the stage,
jumping and falling into the Or
chestra pit and sliding over the
stage.
Such comedy work leaves him
black and blue after his days
work. These days with four shows
a day. it is necessary for him to
destroy four perfectly good hats a
day. and as he takes a minimum
of ten falls a performance, he
stages forty of those in a days
time.
He also tears up one white shirt
every performance, as we'll as a
tie.
Il buy my hats in dozen lots,
generally buying as high as four
dozen in every city I play" Mr..
Cummings said as a new supply
arrived in his dressing room here.
And l pay for them ALL" he
said. My wardrobe has cost me
a fortune since I have been doing
this act"
With sly wink. he added that
liniment. both external and in
ternal. has cost him a pretty
penny.
MIR. CUMMINGS has been in
WI several editions or The
Passing Show" and other big
revues of the Shuberts and he
always has had to ride the
scenery. take his falls and destroy
his wardrobe.
u just don't seem to be able
to get away from doing those
things" he said. The people ex-
pect. to do it. they laugh. and
laughs are what we are all out to
get.
When an audience stops laugh
ing at comedian, he is done, all
washed up"
1t was the need of making peo-
pie laugh that caused the
comedian to introduce the fall for
comedy relief.
The people just didn't laugh at
my clean jokes and in despair
told them they were killing me
and I jumped into the orchestra
pit" he said. when I got back
on the stage pretty much cut up
the audience was screaming.
Then we trie dout and added
other hits such riding the
scenery, going UP in it and then
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17

dropping to the stage with the
drop.
I tore my tie quite by accident
to keep from getting bad fall
and the people howled.'
Year after Year, Roy Cummings
has been taking his falls, getting
blacker and bluer every season.
And on top of it. all, he is SUI
premely happy because he still is
able to make people laugh.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
In City Theaters

NTHER theaters today offer:
~ Century of Progress Revue"
on the stage and Fugitive Lovers"
on the screen at the Palace;
Lets Fall in Love" at the Circle:
Frontier Marshall" at the Apollo;
The House on 56th Street" at
the Indiana, and. burlesque at the
Mutual and Colonial.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17

met on the WIlIe H1Ouoe lawn
for exercise and when Mr.. Sui
Ivan threw the medicine ball at
the President he was not called
upon to aim at a moving target.
Herbert Hoover. there he stood
the same on Monday as on
Wednesday. He was no foot
ball quarter back like Franklin
d. Roosevelt. No indeed, he was
one of the goal posts merely
waiting stolidly for somebody to
tear him down.
gather from the jeremiads OF
Mark Sullivan that most of the
dirty work is done at night. 1t
is then that Guy Tugwell sneaks
out armed with chalk and writes
Capitalism Must Be Destroyed"
- 81 tIa
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
1t Seems TO Ne
By
Heywood Broun

MARK SULLIVAN suffers from insomnia. And
WI when he drops of into htful slumber by
counting administration measures jumping over the
Constitution he is tormented by bad dreams The
very milk wagons on Pennsylvania avenue become
tumbrils calling at the homes Of those who refuse
TO accept the new deal
In the old days things were very different Marx
slept Mellon slept and the President slept very well
indeed. In the morning everybody but Mr. Mellon
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
MISSION HEAD SPEAKER
The. Rev. Eberhardt to Talk at
Northwood Christian Church.

Soap. Soup and Salvation" will
be the subject Of an address by the
Rev. H. E. Eberhardt, Wheeler City
Rescue Mission superintendent, at
the Northwood Christian church
fellowship dinner tomorrow night.
The annual meeting of the
church will follow the dinner. Re-
ports will be made by c. H. Becker.
c. E. Price. Wallace o. Lee. DR..
T. w. Grafton, Don Wilson, C. G..
Dunphy, c. F. McDaniels, M. L.
Sutton and Mrs. George Hargitt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
Commodity Prices on Up
Grade, According to
u. S, SURVEY,
u. S. Survey.

Commodity prices, pushed up by
unemployment and government
schedules, raised the cost of living
for December At per cent more
than in June, 1898, in Indianapolis,
it was revealed today by federal de-
partment of labor statistics. This
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
BY NORMAN e. ISAACS
Times News Editor

Time News
deadlock hreshed
wildly He gasped groaned pounded
could nothing agonizng
gasped at the referee
the referee.
up rassng!
chokin'!"
roared with the referee
pressbe Clark police
Mr.. Clark Times readers
pots the have made him
throughout the Mr.. police
that he has to look like policeman than
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17

anteed the interest on his Specu-
lative mortgages. He has
squawked the government into
purchasing his excess pigs and
cattle and he will continue to
squawk until the end Of time be-
cause the squawk is the natural
cry of the honest hay-shaker.
Always in the honest hay
shakers shrill, demanding
squawk there is the note of
sinister threat. 1t is taken to
imply that, unless the govern
ment gives him that which he
asks for, he will quit hay shak-
ing and that all the vast remain
DER of the race will starve to
death. Governments always are
afraid to take a sporting chance
IN tho bi1y1ah tbot inst &c tho
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
Remedy for His Insomnia

rs it unreasonable to ask inquiries Mr. Sullivan
Il that we have an opportunity to debate the new
system and that the outcome of this debate deter
mine whether adopt the new?"
And that reminds me that should in all kind
ness suggest a remedy to Mark Sullivan for his
insomnia I think he ought to read himself to sleep
fear that his wild words suggest an unfamiharity
with what is going in the newspapers of America
No debate indeed The careless Mr.. Sullivan must
have shaped endless columns of pros and cons within
the last three or four months. 1t seems to me that
every editorial page is filled with violent denuncia-
ton Of Rexford Guy Tugwell signed Intrepid Home
Owner" Original Settler or Indignant Member of
the Sixth Grade"
To be specific might I ask the Republican Revere
whether or not he has famiarized himself with the
writing of Mark Sullivan upon this very theme?
I think that with glass of warm milk and two
Sullivan columns the sufferer will soon find his lids
nodding as in the days when Pippa passed and
Hoover said, I've got nothing either"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
Fair ENOUGH
By
Westbrook PeqIer

THE voice with the squawk wins and there is
L doubt that the honest hay-shaker is the cham
pion squawker of them all. He squawked until the
government bought up his surplus crops and put
them in storage to remove them from the market
SO that the city people would have to pay higher
prices for the food which remained in circulation.
He continued to squawk until the government hired
him to sit on his overalls and do nothing and guar
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
Arrested After Car Crash

After he is alleged to have smashed
into car parked in front of $3.50
North Illinois street last night, Gill
bert Moffitt, SIS, New Palestine,
special delivery mail messenger, was
arrested on charges of drunkenness
and operating a motor vehicle I'M
der the influence Of liquor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17

G | ark S only
sign of the re-
lentlesS march
of the years is
a craving of the
hair at his tenn
pies. And, too,
he dons glasses
when he scans
closely written
police notes.
H re Clark,
the police re-
porter, has a
vice-or an as
set W h C h
makes him the
sworn enemy of
all rewrite men.
For when Mr..
Clark covers a
story, he gets
the details all
of them.
Yes" sweetly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
DENIES WEDDING GARBO
Director Spikes RumOrs That He
Eloped With Star.
By United Press

By United Press
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 17-Greta
Carlo and Reuben Mamoulian re-
turned to their homes early today,
ending a chase through the south
west where pursuers wanted to
question them about rumors they
were clipping.
You can say definitely we were
not married" the film director said
after he and Miss Carlo arrived
at their respective homes.
Miss Carlo and Mr.. Mamoulian
long have been fast friends and
frequently are seen dining together.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17

Mr. Sullivan is convinced that the revolution Is not
only here but almost conSummated. And as under
stand it he has two major complaints He main
tains that the upheava is being carried secretly
and that is practically painless. When he shakes
his head at night and finds that it doesn't roll on
the floor you can bet that he is pretty about it,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
SIS in Cigarets Stolen

Breaking the glass in side win
dow. thieves last night entered
store at $3.50 West Sixteenth street,
taking cigarets valued at SIS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
WE MAKE YOUR NEWSPAPER
Meet HeSe Czark-Are There Any Details You Need?

Of o star
dy. artcI. of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17

Short. squat and with the
powerful shoulders that are
Of the days when he
crashed the line for Indiana, Heze
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17

wood chuck must chuck wood and the bookkeeper
must keep books because nature made them
The honest hay-shaker, on his part, must shake
hay. If it to test time, under scien-
tific conditions in laboratory at the depart
ment of agriculture, it might be found that the
farmer no more resist the temptation of hay
fork and mess of new-mown hay than natural
born spellbinder resist the suggestion of pine
table and water pitcher
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17

Copyright. 1884, by United Feature
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-15
independence Bill To Die

On Wednesday the Hawes-Cuttlng Dill
guaranteeing independence to the Phlllp7
mines will die natural death. There IS
no likelihood of the Filipino Legislature
acting on the measure before then, SO the
hill simply lapses from want of action.
Advices from Washington late last week
were to the effect that Senator Bronson
Cutting. republican, of New Mexico,
would not make an attempt to prolong
the bill further than the 18th. All OF
which indicates that the battle for Fill
pino independence must begin all over
again.
The bill, which caused considerable
furore year ago, would have guaranteed
independence to the islanders in about
fifteen years provided their Legislature
first approved of it. There was no hearty
response from the Filipinos and the Leg
islature even refused to call session TO
take action on the bill before it auto
matically lapsed Perhaps there's just a
few too many covetous glances being cast
their way from the west. Perhaps the
military precision with which Japan
carved juicy slice out Of Mongolia causes
a bit of unrest in Filipinos' breasts. AT
any rate independence and Uncle Sans
sheltering arms are far apart right now.
We freely predict that it may be some
years before the Philippines will be as
near to independence as they have been
in the last twelve months. Our legisla-
tors aren't going to point to the oppressed
~ Filipinos as they did for so many
years. The unfavorable reaction to the
Hawes-C Cutting measure is going to set
up an undercurrent of feeling that Will be
hard to down. Even the fact that many
Americans opposed the bill will not carry
weight. And the fact that right now the
Philippines enjoy as much independence
as do the residents of the state is going
to gain ground And we can't pass by the
topic without referring to the favorable
trade relations. You wouldn't like to lose
them, would you, Mr. Filipino?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-15

ally, our government was supposed to do
little in time of depression except keep
the tracks clear for such revival as pri-
vate industry might be able to bring
about. Now its responsibility is almost
infinitely greater. If great numbers of
Americans who are able and anxious to
work can't find jobs, it is up to the gov
eminent to provide jobs for them - no
matter what the obstacles or what the
cost.
You don't have to think about this
very long to discover that it could contain
the seeds of changes as sweeping as any
the country ever has seen. Yet there is
no reason for us to be afraid of what this
new attitude may bring us. 1t is drastic
and unprecedented to be sure; but it
also is a very great step forward along
the difficult road which democracy must
travel in this industrialized era, and as
such it is worth all the risks. For de-
mocracy is a mockery unless the right Of
self-government is accompanied by the
right to work. A government which
guarantees the one must guarantee the
other. To this guarantee 1888 brought
us; and the date will loom large in the
history books.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-15

The misunderstanding in Waterbury has
resolved itself into a rather complicated
mess. Acting Postmaster James Kelley
may be forced from his present position
after all. If this should happen there will
be universal regret in Waterbury, for his
promotion from the ranks to the head of
the department in Waterbury has evoked
more praise than any appointment we
know of in recent years. While it is diff
ficult thing for us to divorce politics from
such jobs as postmastershlps, we 40 feel
encouraged every so often when there IS
a promotion like Mr. Kelley's and man
from the ranks wins his way to the top.
No one can criticize any OF the candl-
dates who are preparing to take civil
service examinations for the postmaster
ship. They are actuated no doubt by the
feeling that if there is likelihood of the
present chief of our postoffice not win.
ming Senate ratification they are entitled
to consideration. 1t will be hard to con-
vince the majority of 'Waterburians,
though, that politics has not reared its
ugly head bit too high in this particular
instance. Better by far would it have
been to have had examinations called last
summer when there was much cogltatlon
on the democratic appointee.
AS it stands now bad feelings are al
ready apparent. We don't know what the
outcome of the tangle will be, but what
ever it is the memory is going to linger
long. 1t would have been far better that
Mr. Kelley were never named were we
conscious of the fact that civil service ex-
aminations would be called and the ap-
pointee forced to take his chances once
again. Our sole criticism of the distribu-
ton of patronage under the Roosevelt
administration has been the tendency to
delay appointments. Nothing is more con-
ducive to a disturbed group of constitu-
ents than procrastination. 1t never pays.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-15
Reward Is Due

Most Americans will agree that there is
substantial justice in the plan to grant
Finland material reduction in it's debt to
the United States. Finland, in case you
have forgotten, is the one European ma
ton which has been paying it's debt to this
country punctually and fully. Finland is
a small nation and poor one; but while
such great powers as France and England
have found their debt payments too irk-
some to meet, Finland has paid one hum
dred cents on the dollar whenever note
fell due.
Now the State Department is negotiat-
ing with the Finnish government for
substantial reduction in the debt. Con-
gress will have to approve any such settle
ment, of course, to make it binding; but
there is little doubt that Congress will do
it without delay. A European debtor that
actually pays it's debts is a rare enough
phenomenon to deserve special treatment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-15
Achievement In 1888

1t is little more profitable right now
to look back at 1888 than to look ahead to
1884. What the coming year may hold
for us, the good Lord only knows; what
1888 brought us is matter of record, the
significance of which begins to be fully
apparent as the year ends. A lot of
things happened, a lot of changes
were made, and a lot nof expert
ments were begun in the last year; but in
some ways the biggest development of all
was the change that came over our un-
employment relief policy.
Starting with the forestry corps, con-
tinuing through the NRA codes, and
winding up with the $400,000,000 Public
Works Administration, we set out for the
first time in our history TO make jobs for
our citizens. We shifted that is TO say
20 an entirely new attitude. We accepted
as part of our social philosophy the prop
ogition that society owes each individual;
mot merely living, but the chance to
earn living.
Here Is q change OF the most profound
significance. The Declaration OF indie
DenAeRce itself Is hardly more packed with
Consequences. For this change implies an
entirely new concept Of the function and
the duty OF government itself. Traditions
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-15
IN TO-DAY'S NAIL
opinions TO
o kind


employed in our midst, but what
assurance is there of this? 1t Is not
true that the number of hands
on the waiting lists in Waterbury
and other industrial centers In
Connecticut at the present time is
In excess of what would be needed
In case every factory in the state
should start running full time, a
prospect greatly to be desired but
not likely to happen In the near
future.
am of the opinion that the
president will not stop at providing
temporary relief for the great ar.
my OF unemployed workmen all
over the country, but that as soon
as he can get to II he will propose
and put into practical operation q
back to the land movement. which
will take thousands OF families out
OF the cities onto farms. ! am con.
vinced that II In the only practical
way to guard AGAINST q repetition
OF tho condition that confronts the
country at the present time.
The farmer may complain that
he IL not making any money. This
may be true, but isn't II a fact that
Ne II getting q ilvlnR out % Ms
labor. something which - not true
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-15
Know Your Waterbury
It's History, Facts and General Information
HISTORY

HAS1Oh1
The road bed was kept dry on
the north side of the Green by a
two foot drain that was built. 1t
was begun by Colonel William
Leavenworth. Previous to the
building Of this the road, as We
mentioned before, was corduroy.
About 1928 or 1880 another drain
was built in the locality OF the
hollow mentioned, extending from
somewhere near this point to the
brook near st Johns church. The
job was O. poor one, and at this
time cows were allowed to Craze
there. Later the ground was pretty
we'll drained and O fair gravel road
took the place of the corduroy
road. The stage coach from New
Haven to Litchfield passed over the
new road.
The First Congregational church
during its early history always &C.
cupied about the same locality.
This building was always spoken
| of in early days as the meeting
house" and the Episcopal church
at the south end of the Green as
the Church. In 1889 the lot on
which the First church later stood
was bought from DR. Frederick
Leavenworth; the old church was
also purchased and fitted up for a
public hall and called Gothic
Halp Following the removal of the
old meeting house in 1885 the east
end of the Green was graded and a
few trees planted, but there was
through the center of 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-15
A: Book a Day
by BRUCE CATION
Fur Traders Role
Studied In New Book

Who opened up the American
continent to civilization?
Well, lot of people had q hand
in it-soldiers, adventurers, gould
hunters, farmers, missionaries and
religious refugees; but when you
are making up your list, suggests
Constance Lindsay Skinner, you
must not leave out the humble fur
trader. His job was as big and as
important as any.
She presents this point of view
in Beaver, Kings and Cabins"
which studies American history in
the terms of the fur traders activ-
tiles; and 1t Is romantic and en-
crossing sort of book that she has
made out of it all.
Europeans began trading for furs
way back at the dawn of the 10th
century, when French fishermen
came to Newfoundland for cod
traded their knives to the natives
for beaver pelts. Champlain, who
did so mcuh to open up the st
Lawrence country, was interested
In beaver as much as anything
it was indeed, largely the fur trade
which first convinced Euhope that
the American continent might be
worth something even If it didn't
contain a gold mine Under every
bush.
So, presently, there was deve1-
oped the "voyageur," the wilder
ness half-breed who roamed an
entire continent, who paddlel the
great lakes while the Dutch still
held Manhattan and saw the great
northwest a century before Lewis
and Clark. He paved the way, de-
veloped the trails, established the
outposts; civilization followed in his
footsteps.
Miss Skinner has an exciting
story to tell and she tells it ex-
ceedingly well. Beaver, Kings and
Cabins" is swell book for winter
nights by the Preside. :. Published
by Macmillan, it sells for $3.50.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-15
70 the Editor of the Democrat.

To the Editor of the Democrat.
know you are very much in
favor of what President Roosevelt
Is doing to tide the nation through
the duh period, a legacy bequeathed
to him by his predecessor, but what
/ want to ask is do you believe the
president should allow all the funds
being raised for this purpose to be
spent In the cities? What would
you say to q suggestion that an ef-
fort be made to place as many
families as possible on the aban-
doned farms In New England?
have a special reference to our own
state. Owing TO the high wages
during the war, thousands left tho
farms and crowded into the factory
districts. This worked well enough
until the depression set In which
resulted In leaving large numbers
unemployed, many OF whom had
no place 10 turn. They had given
up farming for factory Jobs and
apparently never bestowed n
thought on the fact that some day
there would be a slump In business
ana they might feel that they had
made a mistake In giving up the
may be told that there win be
enenlnas "a due season Tor the uil-