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The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-24

THE Importance of music in
Il the church was vividly illus
trated again last night as VOL
unteer choir with four soloists
sang the Manzoni Requiem, as
composed by Guieseppi Verdi in
memory of AlesSandro Manzoni.
This ambitious undertaking was
directed by Fred Newell Morris,
conductor of music at the Taber-
nacle Presbyterian church.
The presentation was in keeping
with the Lenten spirit and proved
the value of inspiring music for
an entire service in the church.
Heavy demands in this work are
made upon a choir of fifty-four
voices in addition to solo quar-
tet, singing together and in solo.
1t is to the credit of Mr.. Morris
and those singing for him that
the Verdi opus was done in rev.
erence and with fine feeling.
The work starts with quartet
and chorus singing Requiem and
Kyrie," in which the Lord is asked
to grant rest eternal to the dead.
This is followed by Day of
Anger" with four solo parts and
chorus, depicting hearts beating
with terror when the judge comes.
The chorus and bass then carry
ing the theme of "earthS sepul-
tured dead upcalling; round the
Lords throne PROSTATE falling.
Following this, the contralto and
chorus present Nov the Record"
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-24
Today's Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

TIVE tiny female figures Of baked clay, almost
L five thousand years old, have been unearthed by
the Harvard university archaeological expedition to
Yugoslavia The figures two to five inches in height
are crudely but realistically executed. Their exact
significance is not yet known but they are thought
to have been religious objects They the work
of the Stone Age people Of 5000 B. G.
The figures were found in Macedonia upon the
site of habitation mound of the Neolithic or New
Stone Age Fragments of painted pottery also were
found on the same site
The Harvard expedition, under the direction OF
Dr. Vladimir j. FeWkes recorded 738 prehistoric
sites in a 35OO-mile survey of eastern Yugoslavia
the same time least known areas from the stand
point of prehistoric and classical civilizations.
Major finds of the expedition include Roman
military road and a string of Roman forts built by
the Emperor Trajan the first decade of the second
century A. D.
TT is a curious fact that the terrific fighting the
Il Salonika front in Macedonia during the World
war turned out to be a major help to the Harvard
archeologists. Shell holes and trenches revealed
archaeological deposits that otherwise might have
been long concealed.
Another curious fact is that strategic positions
used as gun emplacements and staff headquarters
during the World often turned out to be sizes
used for camps and forts in early days.
This is an interesting commentary upon how the
world changes and yet stands still Mankind in his
making has progressed from stone hatchets to
long-range guns and yet here is testimony to the
fact that the fundamentals of the art of haven't
chanred very much.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-24

Hello, Joe! Pretty cold day,
isn't it?"
Glassy-eyed but unseeing, Joe
replied:
adjournment :. 18th Of May"
More than a dozen bills have
been added to the Robinson list
since it was drawn up, but Joe
still mouths the old formula.
Funny part is, he doesn't believe
it himself.
CMARTLY dressed in a tailored
- tweed suit designed by her
self and with a rakish brown felt
hat thrust over one ear, Mrs.
Amelia Earhart Putnam, only wo-
man to make solo flight across
the Atlantic, faced members of the
house postofice committee.
An eager group of women ad-
mirers (mostly secretaries of con-
gressmen) waited in the corridor
outside to greet Amelia. Occa-
sionally, they peered into the
room to hear Mrs. Putnam urge
speedy enactment of the proposed
air mail bill, as an aid in stabiliz-
ing aviation conditions.
Finally, Amelia departed. AS
she left, one of the waiting young
secretaries bashfully came for
ward, stammeringly introduced
herself.
Amelia smiled, exchanged a few
words.
A friend, mindful that Amelia
is now the head of a gown shop
known as Amelia Earhart, Inc"
asked the young woman secretary:
Are you anxious to meet Mrs.
Putnam as stylist or as a f1ier?"
She replied:
AS a f1ier."
(Which shows that all women
are not interested in clothes-or
does it? And was the answer a
truthful one?)
VOUNG Theodore (Ted to his
Il friends) Mariner is back
from Moscow, looking as sleek as
a trained seal and very enthusiast
tic about the possibilities of a
beautiful U. S. embassy in that
city.
just now, however, embassy
conditions in Moscow are some
what unsettled, according to Ted.
The building occupied by Ambas-
sador Bullitt is merely tempor-
ary halting place and the idea is
to find suitable and permanent
quarters.
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most of criminals. Social
conscience is not bred in dark Railways and filthy
inner rooms.
And even if I admit some room for debate as to
the function of the tenement the feeding school
for reformatores and penitentares the relationship
between housing and disease be traced accurately
enough tuberculosis takes its percentage from the
hudded and harassed with the same certainty as
the wheel at Monte Carlo hicks into the bets of
players Given a set cubic content of space and an
antthenia number of tenants and the resultant hos
ptalizaton can be predicted with a very small
margin of
In other words, New York like other large cities,
has gone along for years saying: I'VE can't afford
to tear these down. and has blinked at the fact that
even less can afford to have them stand.
There is potentially humanitarian instinct in
the average community which can be aroused after
repeated appeals But there should be even more
immediate action when a decent regard for the
welfare of mankind is backed up by demonstrable
self-interest. The groSSest extravaganza of which
any great city is capable is the liberation OF those
incubators which fill ailS and clinics and wards
and morgueS.
We stand by and let human material dlslntegrate
into ambulance cases before there is any suggestion
of a helping hand. Just how many women and chill
dren and men must burn before we recognize these
sinister puebos as dangerous to us than any
plane or Zeppelin?
Even yet there powerfully organized bodies
which fight tooth and nail against the razng OF Jhe
fretraps Possibly it is delicate work to apportlon
dishonor among the varied interests to whom proht
is a god And yet think that there are few aSSocl-
ations more stubborny and brazeny selfish than
some of the real estate organizations OF New York
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the same Reds plays outfeld on the senate pages
ball club and does little boxing at his weight,
which is 100 pounds He is alleged to have been the
editor of the first and only issue of a magazine
published by his select corps some time ago. This
publication might have enjoyed a national circula-
ton if it had not been suppressed because it con-
tanned innocent but very interesting references to the
social life of elderly statesman who is fond OF
dancing with attractive young women
But Reds is not much interested in journalism,
anyway. Like many other pages, he aims to con-
tinue his education as a protege of the government
at the United States Military Academy Kids in the
corps of pages, associating with politicians all the
time very precOcious in the tricks and angles OF
patronage and know how to get appointments to
the military and naval academies.
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outrageous fortune, or to take
arms against a sea of troubles and
by opposing end them?"
TO each man in the course of
Il his life has come this same
perplexing problem. And as
Shakespeare points out, the trou-
BILE is never really conquered
only bravely put aside for the
moment.
With an almost crazy cunning,
so audacious is it, Hamlet tests
his fathers sepulchral charge that
he was poisoned by Claudius. BY
choosing the path of action Ham,
let has allied himself against the
world and the whole existing
order.
Hamlet instructs a band of
travelling actors to enact the mur-
der of his father. The king and
queen are distracted by the grow
ing black madness of Hamlet and
humor his moods. AS the queen
objects to the play, Hamlet, cyni-
cal and disgusted with the world,
cries out, "Methinks, my lady pro-
tests too much" The king re-
veals his guilt as the court
watches the play and the plot is
a success.
The prince kills Polonius, father
of his beloved Ophelia, but it
matters little to him. He is so
far plunged into revenge that he
may look back only with nostal-
gia, but may never retrace his
steps. He denies his friends.
When Ophelia, oppressed by her
lovers actions, becomes mad and
dies, Hamlet filings himself upon
the grave in bitter sadness. Her
death reveals to him that he him
self is doomed, life is an agonizing
farce, and murder begets murder.
THE last scene is a deluge Of
Il death as Hamlet and Laer-
tes, son of Polonius, kill each
other in duel; the queen dies of
poison intended for the king; and
the king dies by Hamlet's mur-
derous stabs. Yet, as in Greek
tragedy, when a king is wiped
out by an initial sin and the air
is filled with the groan of the
dying, there comes a moment of
resurrection. In his dying breath
Hamlet DrOcIainS the rise of a
new order
Pathetic and delicate is the
beautiful Ophelia, whom Hamlet
loved But when Hamlet suffered
the shock of his fathers death,
the world and all in it turned
black and conspiring. His ideal
of womanhood was twisted and
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-24
The End of an Era

IF private capital proves to be incompetent to han
i die the problem of municipal housing then pri-
vate capital will have to go. And 1 apologize for
that eff" Rugged individualism is papably guilty
of these CHASTITY bonfires.
The police have reported that some OF these
recent fires were suspicious" 1t may be that the
match was touched by some crank criminal, but
that does not absolve the profteers who laid out
sticks of kindling and said Come live with me-.
We are facing emergency. 1t is as real rs
dangerous and as acute as ever came to us in con-
hict We can not afford to haggle costs. have
never BEEN and am not now in favor of what IS
called summary justice" But I would lynch the
property or income of any man during an emergency
We are faced with an emergency now. I think we
have been living under an emergency for at least
half a century.
We should rise to fight against the challenge OF
realtors and rat-trapS The issue is life or DEATH
The sum is at the gate.
Copyright. 1884. by The Times
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-24
ROUNDING ROUND
THEATERS y! DiTH H1cAMAE A1TEE

in which the record is cited when
to judgment all are bidden, moth
ing longer shall be hidden, not
treSpaSS go unSmitten."
NNE of the most beautiful and
" effective parts was King of
Glories," as done by the quartet
and chorus. The singers under
Mr.. Morris direction reached the
high peak of their achievement
in this part of the Requiem.
The soloistS were Mrs. Walter F.
Wallace, soprano; Miss Patra M.
Kennedy, contralto; Perry M.
Rush, tenor, and Vaughn Cornish,
bass.
never have heard Mr.. Cornish
sing to better advantage, both as
to voice as we'll as in capturing
the spirit of the message in From
the Accused"
The work of the soprano and
contralto together in several parts
were excellent.
Tremendous demands were made
of Mrs. Wallace. soprano in the
last part, Lord, Deliver My Soul. 4"
She met the demands with ease.
Paul R. Matthews was at the
pipe organ.
Mazonis requiem" will stand as
an impressive monument of ac-
complishment for Mr.. Norris, his
choir and the soloists.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-24
Fair Enough
By
Westbrook PeqIer

WIASHINGTON, March 24.-Reds McLeland Of
w Camden Ark is a page in the United States
senate with about two years to before he must
be retired automatically under the age limit of 16
he began his career as a statesman in 1881 stump
ing his own home county for two rival candidates
1or the office of encouragement. He got 81 a
speech from his two principals and delivered prac-
tlcaly the same speeches for both of them, just
changing the name
In reward for political services of this kind he
was appointed page in the Arkansas state senate in
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-24

A S the Bard of Avon grew into
L N manhood a magnificent fatal
ism invaded his writing, which no
longer showed signs of imitation.
Impelled by smoldering rage
against society, coupled with a
comprehensive philoSophic nature,
he wrote the sublime and power
full tragedies, Hamlet" "Othello,"
king Lear" and Macbeth
There is an evenness about
Shakespeare's writings. His fools,
his villains, his women and his
heroes are logical and Sympa-
thetic. Iago is the master of vii
lainy. Falstaff is the prince of
rowdy fools. He draws from the
lofty heights of the Greeks and
the bawdy intrigue of the Eliza
bethans. But, unlike the Greeks,
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-24
The Personal Equation

GONE little time ago I heard a man say at party:
- Yes | licked that last model-housing PROPOSE
tion and I'll fight and win against any other. After
all they were promising flats at So room, and
have building only two blocks away where nave
to charge $12 in order to make a fair profit. Do
YOU expect me to consent to being driven out OF
business without struggle?"
I think there will have to be a struggle, but l do
expect Mr. A. and MeSsrs X, Y and 2. to go down
under mass protest against monstrous practice And
I am not speaking of day" or lin due course "
or "as soon as possible" 1t will have to be great
deal quicker than that.
Men and women may be content to starve placidly,
hut people can not be expected to burn to death
without outcry Even the most loyal friends OF
things as they are must wrthe under the touch Of
the flame.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-24

his characters become possessed
of human frailties, fear, doubt
and lust.
His women are vivid characters,
unrelenting and emotionally un-
stable. He both tramples and
ennobles women. Lady Macbeth
and the flattering daughters of
King Lear are scheming and
ruthless. Ophelia is frail, pa
thetic character. Cordelia is the
ideal of womanhood.
Other great Elizabethan dra-
matists, even the roaring Mar
lowe, have been relegated to the
school boys textbooks. Shake
speare is eternal as a portrayer
of all the frailties and nobility
that enrage and redeem the soul
of man.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-24

So absorbed has the Arkansas
legislator become in the fixed idea
of early adjournment that he re-
iterates it on every occasion.
A friend encountered the sena-
tor in the corridor outside the sem
ate chamber and remarked:
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-24

distorted by his mothers example.
Hamlet insults Ophelia-all wo-
men are strumpets to him. One
of the most tense and painful,
yet beautiful, scenes in all liter
ature is when Ophelia dances on
to the stage, singing in a light
voice the incoherent words of her
mad tunes. No part OF. the plot,
she is its most cruel victim. Fate,
to Hamlet, is Indifferent of per-
sons and virtues.
Shakespeare bowed to "the
strumpet goddess, Venus" accord
ing to Taine, when early in his
creative career he wrote comedy
and historical drama. These
early works represent the furious
adolescence when he was Swayed
by tempestuous emotions. They
are, as youth, somewhat initiative.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-24

Taine, the great French liter
ary historian, speaks of the char
acter Hamlet as: He is not the
master of his acts; opportunity
dictates them. He can not plan
a murder, but must improviSe it.
A too lively imagination exhausts
the will, by the strength OF
images which it heaps up, and by
the fury of intentness which alb
serbs it. You recognize in him a
poets soul, made not to act but
to dream . an artist whom evil
chance has made a prince, whom
worse fortune has made an aven-
ger of crime, and who, destined
by nature for genius, is con-
demned by fortune to- madness
and unhappiness.
CHAKESPEARE, master of the
~ sublime and the ridiculous,
the beautiful and the ugly, is, in
the mind of this writer, the
greatest literary artist that the
world has ever known. Other
writer's have written as we'll as
Shakespeare, none as completely.
He is bombastic, vulgar, atheis-
tic, humorous, passionate, crude,
tender, senSitive-and so is life.
No aspect of human behavior
escaped him. Every literary Wea-
pom was in his command-powerful
poetry, bitter satire, broad farce,
sublime tragedy and high comedy.
Taine says: HE needs no praise,
but comprehension merely
The most creative mind that ever
engaged in the exact copy of de-
tails of actual existence; a nature
poetical, immoral inspired, SUI
perior to reason by the sudden
revelation of its seer's madness;
so extreme in joy and grief, SO
abrupt of gait, so agitated and so
impetuous in its transports that
this great age the English
renaissance could have Graded
such a child"
4AdllIlCG 10 Vic AlOob CyPlSdl VI
Shakespeare in the whole supreme
galaxy of works. Mystery, more
sinister than the most blood
thirsty of thrillers; human con-
duct ranging from worldly advice
to mad mutterings.
The dark workings of Hamlet's
mind as he changes from a dream
er to a cold, calm murderer, un-
perturbed by moral issues shows
the slow tortuous path of madness
and hate. In that superb moment
of indecision, the soliloquy, is the
most human philosophic problem
ever presented man. ITO be or
not to be; that is the question.
Whether It's nobler in the mind
to suffer the slings and arrows of
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-24

1881 and served until 1888 when
q Senator Joe Robinson brought
him down to the big house. Reds
is one of the most active spirits
among the corps of pages or the
senate side at the national
Capitol.
There are twenty-three pages
in the senate and about forty
in the house, most of them sons
of widows. The senate pages
get $3.40 a day, every day of the
month under the present reduced
scale and most of the bills which
they offer during their occa-
Sional mock sessions call for
the immediate increase to $500
a month.
1 do not know how much the
hOitco YNonoc cof htft II ie about
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-24

this total of little more than
ten weeks does not in any way
represent adequately the toll Of
the tenements. 1 venture the
assertion that in any recent
twelve months the slums of
America have inflicted upon this
nation a greater loss than was
ever exacted by any war in a
like period of time.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-24
1T Seems TO Ne
By
Heywood Broun

IF an enemy plane had flown over New York in
Il 1917 and dropped bomb killing five persons
there would have been commotion. New York would
have demanded snti-aircraft guns and ample planes
for protection Gentlemen with pencils who insisted
on figuring costs and limited dividends would have
been roughly pushed aside avarcious academcians
who stood in the way of necessary program.
Since the first of January fortyfour persons have
been burned to death in New York tenements. This
is so staggering a total that it should the instant
change slum clearance from theory into fact. But
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-24
C. OF C. VOTES HELP
TO DEFENSE PROGRAM
Backs National Group in Approving
Adequate Navy.

Adequate Navy.
Support of an adequate national
defense program was promised in a
resolution adopted Thursday by the
directors of the Indianapolis Cham
Der of Commerc. Louis j. Borinstein
president, announced.
The directors voted to affirm the
referendum by the United States
Chamber Of Commerce in which the
building up of our fleet to the ratio
of other nations is advocated.
Maintenance of an American
owned merchant marine suitable as
a naval auxiliary in the event of war
was supported also.
The directors affirmed the ap-
pointment of A. L. Taylor as general
manager and secretary of the
Chamber Of Commerce.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-24
WHERE DO WE EAT?
INDIANAPOLIS A. c.,
SAY CAPITOL WOMEN

That old army question, when
do We eat?" was revised to
Where do we eat?" and asked
of all members of the Statehouse
Womens Democratic Club in a
QUESTIONABLE sent out by Miss
sMadelon Abel from the Cover
nor's office recently.
1t was explained to members
that the NRA code has made
prices high at hotels and that the
indianapolis Athletic Club would
serve the monthly dinner for
rs cents plate if guaranteed all
dinners will be held there.
Most members already knew
that the club took on a new lease
of life with the advent of the
McNutt administration and that
Bowman Elder, McNutt adviser, is
secretary treasurer of the club.
The question was put, Shall
We eat there?" and Miss Abel re-
ports that the answer is yes"
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-24
That Which Is Certain

1T might be hard to prove the
i point up to the hilt statisti-
cally. I would include those
ravages of crime which are in
my opinion directly connected
with the early environment of
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-24
Times staff Writer

the canking grim ghost father the king
distraction he hurls epithes at the world
Denmark in has been poisoned. His
the throne marrying Queen Gertrude
The and binds Hamlet to oath
courty broodng poet Hamlet feels only futile fury
responsibility Hamlet feigning madness to carry
absenty out into Hams
startling truth Behind the ncherence his
mocng the words and actions of
Shakespeare the author through the words OF
when Hamlet vigorously and often coarse
magnificent faaism Hamlet
BETRAYED Shakespeare betrayed violent
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-24
Capital C0pers-
Congress in No Hurry
Joe Robinson Goes About Mumbling for a
May Is Adjournment Futile Hope.
BY GEORGE ABELL
Times staff Writer

WASHINGTON of Arkansas
w about the cloak these
days mumbling:
Adjournment 18th of May Adjournment 18th day
Of May"
Joe repeating he drew
of
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-24
EgyptoIogist to Assist De Mile

Ralph Jester, noted Egyptologist,
has arrived in Hollywood to assist
Cecil B. De Mile at the Paramount
studios IN the production of Cleo
patra." Jester viii pass on all set
tings used in the production.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-24
They're High Toned

II ME senate pages inclined to regard the house
Il pages as members of an inferior order just as
the elevator operators and scrubbing and sweeping
staff the senate side look down upon their oppo
site numbers in the lower house.
When Tom Marshall was Vice-Presdent he de-
cided one year to give a Christmas dinner for the
kids who the errands tidy up the desks, dust
off the gavelblock before the throne, and otherwise
make themselves helpful to the statesmen in various
little ways. He did not attend his first dinner him.
SELF but thereafter he always present and
listened Soberly to after-dinher oratiOns by his
guests, some of them dealing very seriously with
important issues Of the hour
Mr. Coolidge continued the custom when he be-
came cePreSident and once said to a friend,
You know, these pretty bright boys they really
ought to amount to something. 1 born
farm so far from the railroad that you could only
hear the whistle blow on days when the wind
favorable" He went to suggest, without false
modesty that if he from this beginning could be-
come VcePresident of the United States, the pages,
with the advantage of intimate association with the
great of their time should go far in the world.
Mr. Coolidge traced the career of the typical states
man-sherff member of the state legislature, county
judge, county prosecutor, congressman, senator.
That was his idea of wonderful career.
Some pages have returned to the halls of con-
gross as members, among them Senator German OF
M , yland and Congressman Mclean of New Jersey.
One at least, f1unked in this life if Mr.. Coodges
idea of great career be accepted This was the late
Big Tim Murphy of Chicago, who became a labor
hoodlum and was taken off abruptly one pleasant
afternoon as he was watering his lawn. An auto
mobile drove by with a machne-gun suffering
through the curtains, and Mr.. Murphy ceased