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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
EUeH in City Rooms

MY personal experience in craftsmanship is
WI limited 10 something less than Zero but have
lived under the dead hand of the departed great
and found it rksome Upon at least two papers
which had the good fortune to employ me we were
tormented by tradition.
- P would not have had It thus" IF w. E
were still alive he'd never stand for that headline
which you've written"
These points were always raised by some old
fossil around the shop who rated pension and did
not have one. We who never knew u. P" or wv. E..
could only growl ungratefully and labor to get on
with the task in spite of the criticism of those who
felt that they maintained direct phone connection
with the spirit world.
once the initials and the fame and Of
AZ P" were pressed upon me a couple Of times too
often. and bridled. I was young tmorous and
engaged only upon a single months trial, and even
so I spoke I'D and said: If you get j. P. TO
write this head that's swell by But he's been
dead these fifteen years I don't expect to see him
around. haven't seen him around, and to be per-
fectly frank don't want TO see him around Accord
ingy. this Job have in hand is up to me and can't
be bothered with what a dead pioneer may have
thought about it. Let alone!"
OF course in those days when I expected to die
a sensational and brilliant death at 40 had the
hope that after I gone my fellow craftsmen
might tptoe softly and say: H. B. would have
taken this attitude upon that question"
Long before this delusion OF grandeur became set
In my mind I became aware Of the fact that did
not rate place among the immortals 1t was quite
evident to me that nobody would speak OF Dana,
Greedy Brisbane and Broun am omlttlng sew
eral way stations.
And even so I will contend that there are several
newspaper contingencies in which might very well
be more capable than any of the famous men, living
or dead whom I have mentioned. For instance,
would take Horace Greeley any october after
to write better story about the world series ball
game.
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Your Health
by DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN=

"TATCH yoIr children, especially when they are
w between and years, for any sign OF infection
of their Joints. And while you're watching them De
on guard against use Of infected milk, because thaV
the medium through which the youngsters are most
likely to become infected with the disease called
tuberculosis of the joints
In fact tuberculosis of the bones and joints more
frequently follows infection through mix imam does
tuberculosis of the lungs.
This tyre of tuberculosis is one Of the most diff
cult diseases for medical treatment, largely because
Of the way in which 1t is associated with TUBERCULOSIS
elsewhere in the body.
If your doctor could treat this disease alone, and
ignore the rest of the body. he could do much more
than is possible today, TO cure the stricken child
Usually one one joint is affected, but sometimes
several Joints become diseased. You tell 1t by
swelling of the joint rise in temperature PAIN IN
motion, and then disability and STIFFNESS OF the
The child will be disturbed during sleep and will
let YOU know about by crying out during the night
BECAUSE the disease generally affects the whole
D body. the child will get scker lose weight, and
become inactive.
IN tell how far destruction of the bone has gone,
and he takes the skin test for tuberculosis.
he also tan Withdraw material from the injected
area inject it into guinea pig. and discover Whether
tuberculosis develops in this test animal
Today. treatment begun early and carefully con-
trolled will bring about successful results In great
many cases. The first thing the doctor does Is 70
"lmmOblllZe the JOINT oy putting ~ lliVO SPINS
prevent muscle spaSms. which tend to produce de-
formities, and 10 prevent pain
TN the case of ankle, plaster OF paris cast IS
Il put on to keep the foot at the proper angie WITH
the leg At the same time, the joint is treateo WIN
ultraviolet rays.
While such treatment occasionally may be done
AT home il best applied in institutions especially
equipped for this purpose
Direct sun treatment is particularly beneficial,
because il provides an outdoor atmosphere.
This type Of treatment is not matter OF days
or weeks but OF months. In case, this treatment
lasted three years.
The child should be protected from over-exposure
TO sun treatment. II the sun is very hot, there
should be less exposure, and II the weather Is too
cold, the treatment may be omitted rather than
have the cid suffer from chill.
Sometimes operation is necessary to remove
assesses.
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At Ladoga, they halted to get
married. At Charlottesville, they
paused to celebrate the wedding
with a luncheon. They were on
time for the game, although
neither admits remembering much
about it.
The schemers decided to keep
things quiet for a while, but the
Danville weekly paper published
the license notice the following
Saturday. The Danville weekly
had more circulation than they
had imagined. Every one of their
friends and acquaintance claimed
to have read the license notice.
That ended that secret.
Mr.. and Mrs. Denny, by the
way, have one son. His name is
Christopher and he is twenty-one
months old. Don't ask George
about him. For George will bore
you to death telling about his
infant. Some fathers are that
way, you know.
In the middle of last year,
George joined The Times. He
was placed on the copy desk, told
how many units went into such4
and-such a head and was handed
a story.
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PLAN CHARITY Bazaar
TO AID MILK FUND
Party Will Be Held ir
K, of C, Auditorium.

A three day milk fund party and
bazar will be held at the Knights of
Columbus auditorium, Thirteenth
and Delaware streets, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, Feb. 8, and
10. The affair is sponsored by the
Daughters of Isabella and the
knights of Columbus local council.
Mrs. Catherine Mailman is general
chairman, assisted by Miss Hannah
Dugan.
Committee chairmen are Mrs.
John Clancy, card party; Miss Agnes
Mahoney, children's party; Mrs.
James Recap, Halls of Monte Carlo;
Mrs. Robert Fessler, ticket chair
man; Miss Edna Buennagel, Bingo
palace; Mrs. B. T. Jones and Mrs.
Costello, corner grocery; Miss En-
lila Vanier, parcel post headquar-
tiers; Mrs. Arthur j. Schulmeyer
and Mrs. Edward Meunier, avenue
of pleasure; Mrs. Frank Kirkhoff,
coffee shoppe; Mrs. w. w. Drake,
German village; Miss Mary M.
Ryan, baby land, and Miss Louise
Obergfell, finance.
Card playing is scheduled for
Thursday and Friday afternoons
with children's party Saturday
afternoon.
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sive in the true sense Of the word.
He thinks there should be five or
six political parties in the nation
so mo one party should ever have
a preponderance of power"
Intensely interested in politics,
he is by nature a crusader. Moth
ing satisfies him and his idea Of
the scheme of life is that every
thing could be just a little bit
better.
Frank and affable, he is mild
hammered young fellow who hates
any sport in which he can not
take part himself.
eff I can't play, I'd sooner fish
all day and not catch thing, is
the way he puts it.
His ambition is to live in the
country "out of the smoke" and
his hobby is teaching Christopher
K. Denny, 81 months, new tricks.
The other day George walked
in, a bump behind his ear.
He admitted his infant had
hurled the talcum powder can at
papa-and had landed.
Well" said George. II wanted
him to have a pretty good wing,
but I guess he took me too serious
ly."
Next-Jane Jordan.
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Yale Might Haze Been PadLOcked

7 OOKING back now, it is wonder to that
~ the authorities didn't paddock Yale, and it is
wonder at all that so many of the Yales after
their training amid such goings-on at school, head
straight for Wall Street upon their graduation.
One school, am certain, gave ale beer
to an athlete when prohibition the law and will
not That would be Southern Methodist uni
versity.
At Southern Methodist the custom originated OF
giving the athletes from to a half-dOzen Jumps
of sugar before during football game practice
which could attack moral legal
grounds They gave the players sugar because sugar
they said quickly converted into alcohol within
the body and impaired the same flip that might be
received from a hooker of bourbon. If an athlete
seemed a little further down than the others they
gave him the sugar equivalent to two hookerS Of
bourbon and brought him back up, quite sober, you
may be sure, within the meaning of the act but in
a frame of mind and body equivalent to that con-
dition which is known fighting drunk.
don't think they will bother with beer at
Southern Methodist 1t doesn't pack the kick
Copyright. 1884. by Unite Feature Syndicate. Incl
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Need Better Connection

IT is a pity. In desperate times there is confu-
sion when people cry that We should be gov
erned by dead hand another. Mr.. Mills
speaks Of Mckinley. Mr.. Lppmann of Thomas
jefferson and stanch old Carter Glass harks back
to George Washington whom he knew dimly as
boy.
I think the ought to be that dead
hand will do II any of the elder statesmen are
competent TO cOnjure up the dead in the garb,
speech and psychology which they wore in life l.
for one, will be attentive. But if the best which
they can offer is some little of state paper
or paragraph from a personal letter I am not i'm
pressed. In their own day these gentlemen changed
their minds. They might do so again if they
still functioning I reject the notion that their
thoughts we're frozen simply because the wind
switched from west to east.
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Russell Boardman, famed trans
Atlantic flier, was Georges boss
and while George denies vehem-
emily that he ever was cowboy,
the fact remains that he rode a
horse and did all cowboys work
except round up cows-and there
were no cows on that ranch.
After leaving the ranch, George
worked on all sorts of odd jobs in
Arizona and Colorado, coming
back home to indianapolis for
Christmas, 1923. He decided he
liked the hometown hearthstore,
so he got himself a job in a furni-
ture factory.
He claims he put chair legs to-
gether.
COR anyway" he explains, II put
together the things that make
chairs later on"
THEN our Mr.. Denny started
l. to be a park policeman. 1t
was at Pleasant Run, and he was
a ranger, keeping 'em in line"
One day at a far end OF the
course, he sighted three Negroes
searching for balls. HIT ordered
them off. All three charged him.
George sized up the situation
magnifcently. He took to his
heels. the trio behind him. Across
a narrow, one-man bridge he fled.
He pulled up at the end Of the
bridge and smiled as the pursu-
ing trio came on, single file, across
the bridge.
Mr.. Denny took a firm grip on
the niblick in his hand and took
a few practice swings.
All three stopped in the middle
of the bridge. They eyed George
anxiously. That gentleman meas
ured his swing and took a par
ticularly vicious cut at nothing in
particular. The three on the bridge
conferred. A fourSome hove into
view and the trio disappeared,
swiftly.
Il n
TT was about that time that
Il George went into the insur-
ance business. Mr.. Denny and
Miss Mary Lois Ketcham, a
charming and witty young lady
of this city, decided to get mar
ried. Parents objected. They
were too young, they were told.
So George and Mary Lois made,
a date" to see the Wabash
homecoming football game on
Nov %, 1929. A couple joined
them. At Danville, Ind, the party
halted and Mary Lois and George
procured a license to wed.
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grounds at Cambridge following contest there, and
I only hope that A. A. Stage out in California will
not hear of this because Mr. Stagg might feel pretty
badly upset about it all Mr.. Stage established
famous good example for the Yales when,
undergraduate many years ago. he clamped his teeth
and showed a glass of beer away after the boys had
carried him on their shoulders all the way from the
ball-yard down to the saloon to celebrate a vic
tory over Harvard. For an instant he tempted,
not by desire, to be but by curiosity to know
what beer might taste like and reckless impulse to
see whether false step might lead him to the
brink of drunkard's grave,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
MOuthfu1
Soup to Nuts in Three
States.

TNDIANA'S gross income and
= sales tax has railroad officials
worried.
One of them has appealed to
Clarence E. Jackson, director of
the income tax department, for
solution of the following problem:
A passenger boarded the train
in Illinois and Immediately went
into the diner and ordered meal.
It was served as the train entered
Indiana. Eating leisurely, Mr..
Passenger didn't get around to
paying for the meal until the train
was in Ohio.
In such case, does the rail-
road owe a sales tax here?
Mr.. Jackson admitted that he
didn't know either. .-..
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Connolly. who lives in poverty,
but in the imagination OF the
splendor when Connolly Hall was
the center of the south. Her son,
PLAYED by Robert Young, goes
ga-ga in the right way over dear
little Janet. His proud ana
naughty mother, played IN a
splendid vinegar way by Henrietta
Crosman, makes a mess out OF
the love affair until Robert kicks
over the traces. Then peace,
prosperity and love come TO
troubled Connolly Hall.
I haven't told you yet that
Lionel Barrymore, made up as a
proud but poverty stricken Uncle
Connolly, who even mooches four
bits for his cigars, is magnlh-
cent.
Here is Barrymore acting which
will nestle in your memory box
for months and months to come.
Here is character work that
stacks up not only as individual
but as grand acting Of the OLD
school. Barrymore's voice has
been magnifcently recorded this
time.
His death is a tragic one as it
is suicide when he realizes that
the love life Of Janet and Rob-
ert is being ruined by false fam
lily pride. just as his was forty
years ago. The suicide has been
cleverly indicated. The director
was most wise in that.
MIR. MONTGOMERY makes a
WI good-looking and an unaf-
fected romantic lover for Miss
Gaynor. Many of their love
scenes come under the head Of
just being too sweet for words.
Those scenes make Carolina" a
fine date night movie.
Miss Gaynor always appeals
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03

bigger than the man himself in
all respects save thickness. And
there is nothing left of the tex
ture OF this one who was a
human being.
The man sparkled when the
sunlight was on him and he was
rufiled by the winds. God com-
pounded him out of good and
evil and gave him wit and folly.
Memory re-creates him into a
silhouette, smooth of surface as
the pages Of a school-book his
tory. In the magnification the
shears have gone awry here and
there, and false contours billow
from the outline.
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when she is wearing cheap little
gingham dresses, and she is in
such attire most of the time.
In several of the dream flash
backs she wears some old-fash-
toned gowns that make her a reg
ular darling.
Now, do not get the wrong i'm
preston that this is a Civil war
costume picture. 1t isn't, because
the war is indicated by one blast
of the cannon. I wish all real
wars could be started and fin
ished as rapidly.
Carolina" has a beautiful, mu-
steal background, with the Ne
groeS singing their plantation
songs in their own way.
There is a lot of natural COM
edy along with the drama, the
melodrama and the romance in
Carolina"
I sincerely believe thai If you
are a Janet Gaynor fan this is
the movie you have been waiting
for.
Now at the Apollo.
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Fair Enough
BY
Westbrook PegIer

MUST make it point to poke my beaming coun-
i tenance into the eating quarters Of some OF the
major league football teams and boat crews within
the next year to ascertain whether the wlde-eyeo
innocence of 100 pounds and up who are Just the
type to go out shooting people and vice versa IN
the wars, being corrupted in their morals ana
stmted in their growth by pnts OF ale now that
prohibition is of and the President has sold out to
satan This is one of the dreadful possibilities Of
repeal and person of my morbid and doeful dis
noSton naturally would be happy to know the worst
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
Greeleg Couldn't Keep Score

~REELEY was and is likely to remain journalist
" far above my most optimistic dream OF stature
Just the same. the old gentleman did not know the
difference between a sacrifice hit and fielder S
choice. And whenever he chooses to walk the earth
I will explain to him in great detail this fine point
of our national recreation.
am lust little bit afraid that are stray
ing but my point goes about like this: Let the
dead bury their dead and let the living make our
laws and write our newspaper columns The ghosts
won't mind. They had their chance.
Copyright. 1884. by The Times
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ENOul4Q eyes oIdl Gu dC OCOA &C.
Where do you work?" came the
surprising question.
THE Indianapolis Times" smiled
George.
"Ah-Yes, sir. We will attend
TO it, sir. Good-by."
George went out. He stopped
and looked back.
Now, I wonder" he said aloud,
IF I'll get that special billing. 1
wonder"
FORGE DENNY is just like
" his stories-dry humor. His
face rarely changes expression,
but the homely humor of philos-
opher passes off his tongue con-
tinually.
His biggest fault is that he's an
incorrible punster. He simply
can't be cured and some day, he
is going to be swatted on the head
with a typeWriter-probably a
typewriter from The Times Office.
For George spares none. His
puns are good-if puns ever can
be good.
A tall, rangy young fellow,
pion. He shoots in the seventies
and he's won several club cham
pionships-notably at Woodstock.
He also is the office champion
outdoor sportsman. He loves the
outdoors and he admits he fires
pretty good shot.
And he'll walk four miles to
catch one fish," chimed in one Of
the office pals.
dorm in indianapolis on April
- 5, 1905, George Denny-son
of George L. Denny, local attor-
ney-has been variously a pro
fessional cowboy on dude
ranch, a furniture aSsembler,
park policeman, insurance agent
and newspaper man.
Fairly lazy, he managed to
produce enough occasional spurtS
of energy to graduate from Tech
nical high school in 1923, and
then go to Wabash, from which
he was graduated in 1927. At
Wabash he studied zoology,
played tennis and golf, and
helped organize the Wabash golf
team, which claimed the state
championship its first year. The
team defeated every opponent,
but failed to meet Purdue. The
Purdue team, however, was beaten
by a team Wabash had defeated.
Thus the claim.
From Wabash, George went to
Arizona, where he helped to build
a dude ranch" He stayed after
it was finished, washing dishes,
making beds, cooking, and guild
ing dudes"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
COUNTY AUTOMOBILE
SALES SHOW INCREASE

Ford Leads Procession in Price
Field.
Sale of automobiles in Marion
county for January, 1884, showed
a marked improvement over the
sales for the same period a year
ago. Several makes Of cars doubled
or trebled in sales this year.
In the low price field, Ford was
in the vanguard with 40 cars sold
in the county for the month. Plym-
out was next with "a and Chevro-
let third with II. There were few
sales in the high-price range.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
SENATOR
DIES IN WASHINGTON
Heart Disease Is Fatal to
Gilbert Hitchcock.
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-Former
United States Senator Gilbert M.
Hitchcock, IA, of Nebraska, publisher
of the Omaha World Herald, died
today. He had been suffering from
heart disease.
A member of congress for eighteen
years, Mr.. Hitchcock waged the un-
successful fight for ratification Of
the Versailles treaty during the Will
son administration when he was
chairman of the senate foreign re-
lations committee.
Tests indicate that high frequency
electricity may be used to kill weev-
lis and other pests stored in grain.
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result of that
war upon fam
lily pride and
even upon Cupid
in high and low
places. Miss
Gaynor is a
poor little Or
phan trying to
bring up two
little brothers
by raising to-
bacco on part
of the great, but
poverty stricken
estate Of the
house of Con-
nelly. Janet is
lust wv hit e
ira Sh" to Mrs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
ALLEGES NEGRO BOY
ATTEMPTED ATTACK
Police Seek 13-Year- Old Who Re-
portedly Accosted Girl.

Police today were seeking Negro
youth, about Is, followed by a white
dog, who last night grabbed Miss
Iris LeFever, 10, Of 1923 Dawson
street, and attempted to attack her.
The incident occurred at Villa
avenue and Pleasant Run boulevard.
Struggling with the youth, Miss Le-
Fever was knocked to the pavement,
the assailant fleeing when she
screamed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
LAW SCHOOL ANNUAL
ANNOUNCES NEW STAFF
Arthur X. Group Named Editor of
1894 Demurrer

staff which will publish the De-
murrer, annual of the Benjamin
Harrison law school, was announced
today.
1t includes Arthur K. Group, edi-
tor: Miss Lucille Smith, Harold
Hansen and Horace NJ. Goats, as
sociate editors: Richard G.. Stew
art. business manager; George Ober
art editor; Faris Deputy, treasurer
John NJ. Burke, subscriptions; Mis-
Mary Lou Patterson and Miss Bon
ME L. Miller, photography.
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and blab it around and about. 1
am just optimistic enough, in
my brooding way, to anticipate
some grade-A debauchery at the
training tables, with walters
passing along behind the places
and setting down a pint from
the devils cauldron at each
adolescent's plate and some of
the weaker characters clamoring
for seconds and the whole pack
of them finally lurching off TO
fall stupefied upon their hunks.
The situation gives promise of
some revolving scenes.
In fact, I am given to UNDER
stand that even as early as this
the Yales of the Hockey team
have been piled with as many as
two pintS of ale on college
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II Seems TO Me
By
Haywood Broun

L WAS speaking. I think only the other day about
Il the past and Of the illustrious names in our
history. It seemed 10 me that would be not pos
or dead. great dies deeply. His spirit does
no, walk through the land where he lived for soon
the path Is blotted out by a shadow. Even the
earth is turned legend IS loosed
At first this legend may be very like, but soon
It wakes into something taller and monstrous.
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that sort of a movie.

Now I am telling you that
Carolina" is in town and that
Janet Gaynor is in the cast. Here
is a sweet moonlight little story
which goes back to memories of
the Civil war, and then shows the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
CITY GENERAL FUND
INCREASED BY $4,000
Bonding Companies of Defunct
Firm Pay Deposit.

Firm Pay Deposit.
Increase of SIS, 900 in the city gen.
eral fund was shown yesterday fol-
lowing payment of checks by two
bonding companies of the defunct
Aetna Savings and Trust Company
The United States Fidelity and
Guaranty Company gave a $4,000
check and the Union Insurance
Company of Indiana gave $4,000
check, representing the portion of a
s97,721 deposit which they guaran-
teed.