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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-05
House Set to Speed
Vote on Tariff Bill
INV International News serHice

by International News Service
Speedy final passage of the Ad-
miniStration's tariff bargaining
bill was presaged today when
Chairman Doughton CD of
North Carolina, of the Ways and
Means Committee, indicated the
House will accept Senate amend
ments.
BY taking this course instead
of sending the bill to conference,
final enactment could be fastened.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-05
Shakespeare Flight
To Be Made In Dakota

RAPID CITY, S. D., June s..
Scientists here are preparing for
a second attempt to pierce the up
per regions of the stratosphere
with Lieut.. Orvil A. Anderson
chosen as pilot for the venture.
The flight will be made as soon as
the huge bag and metal gondola
can be thoroughly inspected.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-05
Nudist COMPLETION
In Michigan Upheld

LANSING, Mich, June 5
GN.SO The State supreme court
today upheld the conviction of
Fred Ring, kalamazoo dancing
master and operator of Michigan'S
first nudist colony, who was
found guilty of indecent expose
last January.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-05

WASHINGTON FORECAST.
Generally fair tonight; Wednesday mostly
thundershowers; continued moderately warm.
Full Weather Report on Page 49,
MEAN TEMPERATURES
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-05

TEMPERATURES
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-21
DOCTOR ROOSEVELT

DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT today is Dr.
Roosevelt of Yale. We should like to con-
graduate him, but it's too early This is only
his seventh honorary. degree, whereas Hoover
of Stanford quit four years of preSidentng
with twenty-six degrees, three of them from
foreign lands. DR.. Roosevelt, however, is a
young man, just starting his second year in
the White House, and probably has great flu
ture as a degree collector.
In the old days degrees, like other things,
came harder. Andrew Johnson, who signed
the bill creating the Office of education, got no
honorarium, nor did Jackson or Lincoln JEFF
ferson, father of~the common school SYSTEM"
received one. Today it's different. The fresh
men who sing cts no easy matter to get de-
gree" are wrong. It's as easy as becoming a
Kentucky colonel.
All of which doesn't detract from the occa-
sion. President Roosevelt has done well by his
people and by education, both high and low,
and in any case the ceremony at New Haven
yesterday gave him an opportunity once more
to promote the use of brains in government.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-21
A REMARKABLE CASE

MEDICAL science in Indianapolis will find
NA itself thrust suddenly into the niche of
fame if the predictions of physicians that
north-old Caroline Ruby Mercer will live to
be normal child come true.
Little Caroline Mercer was born with a
series of broken bones. Although she and her
mother apparently are well supplied with CAL
ciun, there is faulty bone structure some
where which cost the baby f1rst-month agonies
which she probably would not have been able
to endure had she been several months, or a
few years, older.
The case might have gone unnoticed in this
city and nation had it not been for the efforts
of a friend to aid the family. This friend
wanted to see the child given more than an
equal break Consequently he called his clos
est source of aid-an Indianapolis newspaper.
Immediately the newspaper went to work to
aid this child. However, in the interim, ply
sician and other interested persons had taken
over the case. They were making most sin
cers efforts Every attempt at remedying the
condition was being placed into service.
No one is more interested in this child
than her parents. the physicians who have at
tended her, and the staff of The Indianapolis
: Times. Every mother and woman in the city
since has added her interest to this amazing
case.
Let us all hope that little Caroline Ruby
Mercer turns the tables against her fate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-21
THE LABOR FRONT

president ROOSEVELTS appointment
l. Sof his labor secretary to represent him in
the steel dispute negotiations may move Amer
lea step nearer the goal of labor peace.
Secretary Perkins is capable, expert, and
tactful, and will have the confidence of the
workers as we'll as employers. Armed as she is
with the power to create mediation boards
and hold elections for collective bargaining
under the new labor settlement act she may be
able to guide both disputants to the amicable
agreement they both now seem eager to reach.
Their failure to reach such an agreement
could mean a national calamity.
Passage of the rail labor act on congress
last day is another step toward industrial
anlity. This measure is quite as far-reaching
and definite as the original Wagner labor
disputes bill in spelling out the workers
rights, preventing interference, influence and
coercion" and setting up modern mediation
and adjustment mechanism.
There is scant doubt that its passage will
forestall trouble brewing among some Of the
railroad workers this summer. One might well
wish for all of the nations 100000 wage
earners such an arrangement as congress has
provided for the 100000 rail workers
II the President continues the national
labor board, and mans it with nonpartisan
membership and strong chairman to sue
coed the retiring Senator Wagner. we believe
be win have effective labGr peace machinery,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-21
ABOVE THE LAW

TINE other day the editor of The Indian
apolis Times went up to Gary to arrange
for. covering that sector of the impending steel
strike. 1t was his business as a newspaper
man to do this, but the United States Steel
Corporation did not think So
Therefore, as he stood that evening making
notes in front of the great mills, but on the
city side of deadline that separates company
property from the rest of the United States,
he was seized by three company bluecoats and
hustled into the plants private police station.
There his notes were taken and preparations
made to lock him up for the night Eventually,
on orders of an unknown higher-up, he was
released with a reprimand and warning.
The incident is of more than local signifi-
canoe. For it reveals strange anachronism
in the midst of a modern, democratic state
remnant of feudalism The barons of steel
should be reminded that they are living in
1884 A. D., and that Gary, Ind.-including that
griny, embattled community they have fenced
off as their owns part of the land of law
we call the United States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-21
WHO'S WHO ABRIDGED

IF it be true that the New York City police
u are building a campaign against the Reds
on the basis of book published by an OBJ
Scure Illinois woman, it is clear that Mayor
La Guardia retains his rare sense of humor
The mayor himself is listed in the book of
revolutionaries, along with Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Secretaries Wallace and Ickes
Senators Norris and Borah, Rabbi Wise,
Father John A. Ryan, ct al, ct al The list
even includes-of all persons--H. L. Mencken
who mas become the common scold of the
New Deal.
Like such brain baiters as Ham Fish and
DR.. Writ, the Illinois woman employed the
one sure-f1re trick OF crashing the front
pages. Red hunting is Americas favorite in
door sport.
But, perhaps, the author OF this new list
of radicals has unknowingly done a public
service. Who's Who is a bulky volume and
there is need for a pocket edition containing
the names of persons who have been caught
in the act of thinking.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-21
WALKERS WAISTLINE

THERE were lot of things about former
Mayor Jimmy Walker that you couldn't
admire. His retirement from public life was
met with signs of relief in a great many
quarters.
But there was one thing which many
man envied the debonair Jimmy That was
the trim, athletic waistline to which he chung
way past the time when the average man
begins to show signs of thickness about the
midSection.
All idols fall in time and now Walkers
former valet is back from visit to Walker
in England telling how genial Jimmy is get
ting larger around the waist. His shirts
pinch him at the neck.
Too badl Oh, Jimmy. they took away your
job, your prestige, your wisecracks-must that
trim, dapper figure also be taken from you?
If you ever come home again, New York may
not eyea know you, your last claim to dis
tinctionN finally taken by the toll Of times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-21
CORRECT THIS
VERA HELLMAN is a woman without a

XTERA HELLMAN is a woman without a
country.
Unlike the Man Without a Country of
Edward Everett Hale's famous tale, Vera
Holman is in no way responsible for her
plight. She is one of 4O5 unoffending aliens
whose cases are on, record in the department
of labor.
They have done nothing out of the way,
nothing illegal, but they face deportation,
separation from their families and friends,
and in some cases loss of their means of
livelihood because of our tangled immigra-
ton laws.
Miss Hellman lives in New York She is
unable to leave the United States, although,
under the law, she can not remain here.
Born in Russia, she and her parents went to
Berlin to escape the revolution.
In 1882 she came to the United States,
using League of Nations passport Since
she is Jewish, she can not return to Ger
many, and there is no other country to
which she can go.
She has made every effort to obey the law
by leaving the United States, but she can not
leave and she can not stay legally, although
her sister, naturalzed citizen, has given her
a home.
In every large community in the country
there are cases which are similar-husbands
and wives separated, children banished to
countries they have never seen and where
they know not living soul, because of legal
complications
The Ellis Island committee and labor de-
partment workers have investigated the 4O5
unotfendlng aliens. At the same time thew
have unearthed records in New York and
Chicago showing 235 criminal aliens who are
not deportable because of loopholes in the
law.
On the basis of information they collected,
five bills have been drawn and presented to
congress by Labor Secretary Frances E. Perk-
ms and Colonel Daniel W. MacCormack. COM
missioner of immigration and naturalization.
calling for changes in existing immigration
statutes.
One OF the remedies proposed in these bills
is the giving of limited discretion to authori-
ties to avert deportation of certain aliens of
good character who have not been convicted
versive political agitation.
II the discretionary powers bill is passed
Vera Hellman need no longer be woman
without country. Scores of home-loving.
law-abiding men and women, cruelty sepa-
rated from their loved ones. can look forward
to reunion with their families and return to
their homes
The most casual study of the immigration
situation shows how crying is the need for
this new legislation
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-21
URGES CLOSE STUDY
OF SOCIALISM
BY w. H. Richards.

BY w. H. Richards.
The rapidly spreading doctrine of
Socialism is viewed with alarm by
some and for others it is a cause
for rejoicing This is according to
the viewpoint, and the knowledge
the individual has of what would
be the result of change from the
system of individual capitalist own
ership to Specialization of industry,
with mines, railroads, factories and
stores owned by the government
and operated solely for the purpose
of supplying the needs of the peo-
pie at cost, without profit to any
individual or corporation
OF one thing we all are certain,
and that is that Socialism is either
a good or bad thing. Every citizen
is interested, for all will be affected
by such change.
Any radical change of such mag
nitude is not to be undertaken rash
ly without careful study and weigh
ing all the ifs and ands to determine
if it is right or wrong. 1t is there
fore the duty of every loyal Ameri-
can to investigate thoroughly this
subject, to form an intelligent opin-
ion of its merits or faults.
An intelligent opinion can not be
formed by hearing only one side of
any subject, especially when it is
the side Of those whose interest is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-21

present system, of the good and
bad points of capitalism?
Which of them welcomes a free
and open discussion of the good and
bad points of Socialism, Com
muniSm, FaScism and the many
other ''iSnnS''?
Why does not some great news
paper system like the Scripps- How
ard inaugurate public discussion
of these subjects of vital interest
and at the conclusion take nation
wide straw vote to learn the Senti-
ment of the people?
Why should we in America be
asked to continue rendering verdicts
on one-sided testimony? We are
entitled to all of the evidence.
Why should such organizations
as the American Legion, and the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton be satisfied in giving a decision
against Socialism, Fascism and
Communism, without all the facts,
except that they have been i'm
pressed with the idea that the con-
sideration of the merits of anything
pertaining to government developed
outside the United States is treason.
believe that a free discussion
from the platform, the radio, and
the press, of any and all forms of
government, as long as they do not
necessarily advocate bloodshed and
destruction, would enable America
to adopt compromise system that
would combine the good points of
all systems.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-21
THURSDAY. JUNE 81. 1884.
LOUIS HAMILTON

Under ruling Of the Indiana supreme
court yesterday Louis Hamilton, con-
victed of the murder of Lafayette A. Jackson,
Standard Grocery Company proprietor. must
die in the electric chair. Aug. 3.
He and Charles Vernon Witt, who already
has paid with his life were tried for shooting
Mr.. Jackson in the Standard company's main
store on East Washington street, but a short
distance from police headquarters
Both men apparently had fair breaks in
their brushes with the law. Both men were
tried and convicted outside Marion county,
without the cast of local prejudice overshadow-
ing them.
1t is to be regretted that, in this day and
age, the state must demand life for life.
Apparently, though, it appears that this is
one manner of setting examples to other
criminals and it also is the written letter of
the law.
With this case almost off the records of
the state of Indiana, it now is time for prose-
cutien officials to turn to unfinished business.
There are numerous cases in Marion county
and Indiana still awaiting clearance. Dillin-
ger, of course, is one. The Staying of Police
Sergeant Lester Jones has to be cleared.
Commentator on one case, however, does
not excuse law enforcement agents from carry
ing on their work until Indiana stands clear
of its present criminal blot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-21

destroyed just so the remainder
are Communists.
Jesus said: Beware of wolves
who come to you in sleeps cloth
ing"
Communists belong in this
class.
Communism is on the march
and is leaving a trail of lies,
hatred, murder, atheism, civil war
and death in it's wake. When will
the American people awake to
their danger?
The red star of Communism
may have appeared in the east
and it may have a brilliant luster
for unbelievers, but the flaming
cross of Christ heckons to all
Christians and cheers them on to
the battle with this motto, I'm hoe
sigma VinaS!"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-21
PETERS-FOR- SENATOR
BOOSTER WRITES

BY Central Indiana Taxpayer.
I want to say, the fiasco or
Democratic convention was not just
as wanted it either. I was for R.
Earl Peters, and he would do for
the people, just as he has done for
the party, his very best for the bene-
fit of US all.
But, bear in mind what my good
friend, Mr.. Minton, has done for
us by the utility route. He has cut
off our utility hogs heads. He will
keep on cutting, steamroller rolled
by McNutt or not. If by McNutt,
I glory in it also for it is time some
one had the wheel who can drive
Indiana back into a decent state,
financially, religiously, and political
ly, and Paul ", will have it just
about complete by the end of his
term as Governor.
In fact, we won't have but very
little taxes on real and personal
property, but funds will be derived
from our income and sales taxes,
then the more our income, or sales,
the less our personal and real tax,
and along with it all, Indiana is 60
ing to keep her schools open and
educating children.
Our own happiness ought not, of
course, to be our main object. So
let's forget self-happiness and try
to share, and by the help of each
other and the help of God we all
will be happy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-21

even under the compromise measure passed in
the closing days of congress.
There remain plenty of irritants and dam
ger spots Among the former must be recorded
General Johnson's custer of John Donovan,
president of the MIRA Employees Union. When
the administrator avowed his sympathy with
the NRA union and then hot-headedly fired
its president. he did not help his reputation in
the field of labor relations
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-21
Brands Communism as Ch11stianity's Foe

BY E. F.. Maddox.
Paul Wysong errs when he says
that this nation is bereft of it's
God. I am glad that Mr.. Wysong
has made a religious issue of the
Communist fight against our es-
tablished institutions.
I thank God that there still are
many millions of patriotic Ameri-
cans who have not bowed the
knee to either Marx, Lenin, or any
other infidel.
The reason I oppose Communism
is because its main purpose is the
destruction of Christianity. AS a
follower Of Jesus Christ I intend
to do all in my power to expose
the vile doctrines of Communism.
Marx said: Religion is opium
for the people"
Len1n said: "It doesn't matter
if two-thirds of the people are
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-21
l aOhoEty disapprove of aOhat yom sag and will
defend to the death your right to sag it.-V0Gire.

served by creating prejudice against
the proposition.
To broadcast information or mis-
information costs money, and the
Socialist party, being the party OF the
poor and middle class, has not the
means of reaching the public as
have the plutocrats who control
press, radio and motion pictures.
But there are hundreds of books,
pamphlets and leaflets published by
the Socialists that give full informal
ton to those who want to hear both
sides.
1 am not asking any one to be-
come Socialist, but do say that it
is duty that you owe to your coun-
Try, to your family and to yourself,
to honestly inquire so that you may
cast an intelligent vote either for
the continuation of the system that
has made you almost, if not quite,
a pauper. or for a new system that
will forever end depressions and
poverty, with their natural offspring,
disease and crime.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-21
PROPOSES 5O-CENT
CITY DOG TAX

BY Doggie.
This drive against unlicensed dogs
is just another city farce. The drive
is not to prevent persons from being
bitten by dogs, but gesture to
force citizens to pay an exorbitant
dog tax.
If the city would make a reason
able license fee-50 cents a year
the income for the city would be
far greater than by charging ST for
a 2-cent tag, and 81 for registration,
a total of 81.
A So city dog tax is about as
comical and outrageous as the
county tax which goes in fund
to pay farmers for sheep killed by
dogs. How many sheep has your
dog killed?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-21
DEPLORES STATE OF
NONUNION WORKERS

Be- c. ].
What a sweet time the major oil
companies are having in Indianap-
olies under the much boasted non
union conditions. I have just re-
turned from an enforced trip to the
Atlantic states. Everywhere east of
Indiana filling station attendants
for major oil companies receive, aft
er one years service, one weeks va
cation with pay and after two years,
two weeks with pay. Here in our
no mean city, we. service station OPP
orators day dream Of a vacation
with pay like an old maid dreams of
a happy home.
When will Indianapolis wake up?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-21
POETS LIFE
BY POLLY LOIS NORTON


A poets life must be Joseph's coat
Each tiny happening a glowing dye
Enriching with its hue the sombre
cloth
That forms the usual garment.
Further like. he wears it on the out
side,
So all may see and revel in its
glory;
That they who weave but plainly
may enjoy
Each brilliant clear-hued color.
These make the wool,
But what then of the warp,
The golden thread the weaving's
done upon?
Words are the warp upon which the
poet
Weaves forth his life,
His multi-tinted mantle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-21
MUZZLES FOR DOGS,
NOT CHILDREN

By An Ex-police Officer.
This is an answer to the letter of
M. G.. w. in regard to muzzling
children instead of dogs. This per-
son M. G. w. certainly has no res
spect for our children and lots Of
love for cur dog.
If the police force under our brave
mayor, as M. G. w. states, would en-
force the law against persons har-
boring a vicious dog and convict a
few of them, there would not be
so many bitten by dogs.
Does NJ. G. w. know more adults
are bitten than children and has
he experienced the horrible death of
a child of rabies? If he has, I am
sure he would not have such great
love for our mongrel dogs. Keep
muzzles on dogs, not children.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-21
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
10, THE POOR INDIAN!

1T is 300 years and more since the Pilgrims
landed in Massachusetts, and met the
Wampanoags, native Indians of the Martha's
Vineyard region
No better reminder of their complete sub
mergence under the tide of white invasion
could be had than the news that the Rev.
Leroy Perry of Gay Head, Mass, is teaching
to the few surviving Wampanoags their own
tribal language.
Forgotten by the tribesmen themselves, it
has been preserved in white mems collected
lore of the Indians, and now few struggling
braves are to learn from white teacher the
language of their fathers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-21
in the dictionary to get the straight

OF 1t.
There would not be SO much by
drophobia if the humane society
and the police force and others who
complain would get busy and pro-
vide some drinking places for the
animals.
I agree with M. G.. w. about muz-
zling children. When they want
water they cry. I suppose if you
didn't give it to them they also
would go mad. There are lots of
mothers who let their children run
the streets worse than dogs. I have
a family of my own and am lover
Of dogs and children. I teach my
children to be good to dogs and not
to tease them, and so far they have
not been bitten.
If mothers would teach their
children more kindness there would
not be so many mad dogs.