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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-16

Slf.OU 70 S40 month.
Norris was not laid out in the
usual way of taking plot of
ground and cutting il up into
squares. with criss-cross of
streets at right angles to each
other.
The IVA town planners marked
of boundary and then inn
mediately threw around it a pro-
tective belt to keep cheap de-
Velopments from springlng up
next to the town.
THE site was rolling land, and
Il the engineers built the streets
according to the slopes rather
than cut through the high places
and filling in the low.
Most of the tract was in woods,
and the next Job was to leave as
many trees standing as possible.
If a large tree stood on a house
site. the site was changed. Pur-
posely the houses we're set back
irregularly from the street.
Before any houses we're de-
signed the iva architects studied
the type of architecture found in
the valley so that the houses at
Norris would not seem out of
place.
The first group consisted of 152
houses of twenty-six major des-
signs, enough to avoid monotony.
They ranged from three to five
rooms and had at least one large
screened-in porch. Because Of the
mild climate, q porch can be used
like a room eight months of the
year.
These houses were of wood and
brick. Steel easement windows
ran to within an inch or two of
the top to eliminate the usual
dead air space near the ceiling.
Interior walls we're finished with
wide-bosrd wainscoting up to the
level of the window stills and
veneer wall board above. Ceilings
also we're of wall board. No
moulding was used, to make clean
ing easier. Kitchens we're equipped
with electrical appliances; walls
we're heavily insulated; hand
split shingles we're used for the
roofs.
And all houses in this group
were heated by electricity. though
TO add to their INABILITY an open
fireplace was built in each home.
THESE houses we're 10 cost
Il around $500 to $4,000. But
soon after work began building
material prices shot up and the
IVA established a wage schedule
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-16
BY JOHN r. MOCTOUX
Written for MA Service

NOXVILLE, 16Vitors Tennessee Valley and
N
they
itself That's
place where I've always dreamed of living
hills miles from
the iva
a
plans
much and build town"
workngmens like
housing experts country
Scarcely 2500acre wooded
Today a completion
renting
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-16

The Presidents advisory coun-
Gil on economic security may be
split similarly. Closed sessions,
beginning today. at which their
recommendations to the President
are TO be whipped into shape,
promise to be turbulent.
The Presidents statement on
old age pensions took the advisory
council by surprise. His message
10 congress last spring said: Il
am looking for a sound means
which 1 can recommend to pro-
vide at once security against sew
ersl of the great disturbing
factors in Unexpectedly those
which relate TO unemployment
and old age"
To the council he said: Il do
not know whether this is the time
for any federal legislation on old
age security.
Sentiment in favor of the Dill
Connery old age pension bill-pro-
viding federal aid to states with
old age pension laws-waS strong
in the last congress. The bill
passed the senate once but was re-
called on the plea that the Presl-
dent was working on a general
security program. Since then or
carnations supporting the Town
send plan and other pension
measures have stirred up pubic
feeling TO a high pitch.
TWENTY EIGHT states nov
Il have old age pension laws,
some of them much more liberal
than others. Under all of them
the states supply the pension
funds. President Roosevelt told
the council that full solution of
this problem Is possible only on
insurance principles.
His decision TO divorce unem-
ployment insurance from rellef.
making it apply only TO those
persons who now have jobs, also
will precipitate a fight.
Various speakers at Wednes-
DAYS conference on economic
security. including Thomas Ken
nedv. Lieutenant Governor-Elect
Of Pennsylvania. urged that the
federal government contribute
funds to make possible trans
formation of relief payments into
unemployment insurance pay
ments. Kennedy argued that such
a course would add 10 the self
respect and morale of unemployed
industrial workers"
President RooSevelt's decision
that unemployment insurance
must be financed by contributions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-16

genulty and the discipline of Senator Long AS state
senator, Mr. MCkal the football player, would have
been able to support himself IN luxury through the
remainder of his college career. lodge all his
employed relatives and friends on the state pay
roll, subject TO the customary kick-back to him.
self as their sponsor. and introduce any number
of wolf bills threatening punitive taxes against
various Louisiana industries
The wolf bill phase of a state legislators work
in Louisiana is an important source of private
revenue these bills generally bring the lobbyists
representing the affected industries around to the
member at his hotel or boarding house or even in
the legislative chambers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-16
CITY MAN OFFERED
ILLINOIS SCOUT POST
Leader of Largest State Troop May
Accept Position.

Leader of Largest State Troop May
Accept Position.
Leroy E. Allen, 1854 Cornelius
avenue, will accept a contract as
Boy Scout executive for the Arrow
Head council, Urbana and Cham
paign, to succeed Don Higgins, :e-
Gently appointed to a post in Gran
lite City, if he is admitted to the
national training camp in New York,
work in which begins Nov q.
Enrolment in the camp its linz
tied. and Mr.. Allen says he has not
been advised whether he will be
permitted to enter.
Mr.. Allen has been in Boy Scout
work twelve years, for three years
scoutmaSter of Troop Y, largest
troop in Indiana, with headquarters
in the Tabernacle Presbyterian
church.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-16
Just n Bad Habit

NF course. its bad habit but I'm afraid it's IN
~ The blood stream ana can't be eraolcated- more
than trst some Of the younger fellows encourage
lis qaifers Only the other day one OF the recruit
reporters said "a me in all seriousness. what was
ola Neu York like. Heywood?" had 70 make MN
,ID q story about how l shot Indians on the site
where the public library still STANDS.
The third indictment Is more or less blanket
accusation There customers 'Slnce TINS is con-
HdentiaD Who think that the column not or cold
personal OF impcrsOnal, Is Just pretty terrible Wnen
that comes mp don't know what TO 90 except 70
leave the room IN a dudgeon.
Have YOU ever had any experience in selling PIC
tureS7 Would you consider any arrangement. unoer
very liberal commission. OF handling early Brouns
and letting the column racket Just hang? A lew
weeks ago I sold landscape for $40. l think can
40 ten or eight in a day II might run into money
for us both Incidentally. I have more bad news
for YOU just the day before yesterday hao
letter from one Of the big bosses saying that ne
liked A column wrote recently and wouldn't come
around and see HIM. II / know my big boss that
means that there we're ten or twelve ne hateo IKE
poison.
The trip 10 Cleveland was no dice because wnen
] got there ! found that there already is a paper
which uses the column. That Is they PRINT the nrSt
paragraph the fifth and half of the final one IL
READS pretty cockeyed but sometimes the plan brings
about very amusing results and 1 understand the
cryptOgram fans are crazy about 1t.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-16

heating by electricity will cost,
but it has been estimated that the
electric bill for all services, in
Guiding heating, will be around $40
a month.
The towns water and electric
departments are taxed and the
money is used in helping to pay
for the school and other municipal
services. The school, from the
primary through the twelfth
grade, is run by the IVA. No tut
ton is charged.
The future of Norris is, OF
course. uncertain Between new
and the completion of the dam
early in 1896, the IVA will try
to build up co-operatives and
bring small industries to Knox
vile so that the houses will be
occupied after the dam workers
leave
Copyright. 1884. NEA Service. Incl
Next-The Tennessee valleys
future, if the entire New Deal
program is carried to completion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-16

But with the big growers and
exporters bitterly agitating against
continuance of production con-
troll. there is considerable doubt
whether two-thirds majority
can be obtained.
SO in order to avoid putting the
President on a hot spot should
the referendum fail, AAA strate-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-16
He Got Rercnqe

n DID get some revenge in Cleveland for the short
/ columns I vas out there to make a speech ana
the other fellow didn't show up. He was Roger
Baldwin and he going TO fly Only tnat Gay
the blizzard came Sometimes the tortoise beats the
hare" l said To myself 1 lay IN my BERTH
Even before / went l was scared OF the date'
They told me thev had hired hall holding twenty
hve hundred people. Quick as flash repieo Ohe
Of Us will have N be good" Well, boss, there was
plenty Of room 10 swing couple OF elephants In
that hall when the gong rang out they ola nave
twelve or thirteen hundred FISH at 50 cents a heao
and outside the storm raging II was tne SorC
Of night YOU wouldn't want TO turn dog out, let
alone a cash customer
So I talked for hours and ten minutes which
Is nv record and don't ever mean 10 beat H. during
the last half hour l had an uneasy feeling Haven't
7 noavbe said all this before and here in this same
hall on this same night" l wouldn't be surprised
During the last fifteen twenty minutes was oown
IN a point where I was Just about to use the mule
story compromised on To Seville or back 10 the
frog pond" and let It 60 al that
Incidentally boss. If you're going TO CleVelano uy
the Lake Shore limited ana go INTO the lounge car
called Irwood Club or something like that the porter
makes the best gin uckey you can set anywhere tnis
side Of New Orleans
Would YOU mind very much II l don't raVel any
more for 4 while II doesn't do any good Let's Just
nrint the column on yellum for poSterity- I'm In
frame Of mind where I'm about ready 10 break INTO
tears the next time anybody leads me TO lower.
And are Won sure travel broadenS columnlst! L
moan Spirirus lIv Of course All can remember OF
Cleveland Is n oratorica ordeal hamburger sand
Uich two labor leaders and red-hesded girl.
sConvrsht 1874 The Times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-16
DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
BY Drew Pearson and Robert S. Alien

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16--Where there's will there's
w production control provides
applied the 1895 tUo-thirds
of growers approval Such of
opnion is a referendum ballot.
a he
proclamation likely exist this commodity
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-16

uItIonS Whlch gave nm no chance
10 defend himself Returning to
Baton Rouge with the football
team, the young man declined to
attend the ceremonies.
Mr. Michal undoubtedly de-
serves some commentator for his
refusal but not TOO much. The
Office of state senator in Louisiana
pays nominal wage of $40 a day
during the legislative sessions, plus
mileage and the customary small
pickings. The stated pay, mileage
and pickings, however, are merely
the nominal remuneration The
real rewards are limited only by
the individual members own in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-16
THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP
By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON Nov 6Presiden RooSevelS
w the
presented
old attempt
mnemploymnt
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-16

heads Inc nrSt Is mat me cOlumn
has grown TOO radical. What shall
ne do about II? NV suggestion Is
that Ne don't do anything. After
the last election the country seems
10 be swinging 10 the left so fast
that in another coupe of weeks the
customers are going 10 mistake my
stuff for that of Herbert Hoover OF
Henry Menoken.
The second holler which ! en-
countcred while ont on the road was
that write too much about myself
One client had ringed all the Is
IN a single column and ne saws that
ne counted up to Sixty-eight. And
Vet people saw there Is no leisure
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-16
EWZnough
BY
WESIBROOK PEGLER

NEW YORK, Nov. 16.-Abe Mckal Syrian inn
migrant boy and star of the Louisiana State
university football team, has refused to accept seat
in the Louisiana state senate Mr.. Mickal was
elected unanimously by Huey P Long last week
but the election held in his absence under con-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-16
Questions and Answers

Q-what proportion of the population of Pales-
tine are JevS7
A-The estimated population OF Palestine June 80.
ie57 i.O5S3ss. Of whom lso7e3 we're Jews.
-Q-Where was Doak Carter born?
Ain south Russia. Of Irish English parents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-16
SeIf-Respect-NO Less

CTILL, in Mickal's case, it took 2 sturdy sort OF
- self-respect to decline the opportunity because
propinuuity has had an unfortunate effect on the
student body of the state university, considered as
whole The young and women go to Baton
Rouge as high -principled any average group OF
students and in their young innocence look to their
legislature as aggregation Of the best citizenship.
AS the seasons pass and they rub elbows with their
state government they have means OF COM
parson by which to inform themselves that brawl-
ing, drunkenness ignorance undisguised graft and
tyranny are incompatible with the ideal.
They get practical lessons watching their own
state government at close quarters and many Of
them emerge from college so we'll grounded in the
which pass for public service in Louisiana that
it is a natural step down from the campus to the
statehouse The rest return to their homes taught
what TO expect from their government and there
after give their votes to the lowest members OF their
community as being naturally qualified for the jobs.
It seems a great mistake to plant state uni
versity and a legislature in the same town anyway.
Even the best state legislature can have no other
effect the students than to impair their morals
except to such case that Of Abe Mckal
who is a foreigner anyway and obviously not yet
ready to be finally Americanized.
Copyright 1894 Feature SYNDICATE Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-16
THE NEW DEAL AT TOP SPEED
Finest Workers To7c in America Norris Built for Dam Staff

. = I he
What
n o
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-16

class in America.
Wei. boss. 1 don't tninB We can do much about
this either Along about nv time Of lie every one
begins 70 write. i remember when
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-16
II Seems nM
BY
Haywood BROIjN

nEAR SYNDICATE MAHAGER-I haven't writ
- ton N YOU since my ranscontinentsl tour ended
m Minnesota I hope YOU still care. Possibly YOU
viii % pleased n hear that my efforts al salesman
ship still are going on The last effort TO get IN
touch with the trade included Wernersve, Bslti
more Washington and Cleveland took my sample
case along and ! still all the samples.
Boss. n seems the customers kicking. As far
/ can fnd out the complaints fall under three
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-16

Progress Is taking heavy toll of
the picturesque in the New Deal
development of the Tennessee val
ley, but it is bringing comfort that
natives of the hills never dreamed
of possessing. Above is shown a
typical habitation of family near
the Norris dam site, one of many
which will pass when the reser-
vOir is flooded. Left is one of the
modern stone and hand-hewn
timber homes erected under the
New Deal raise the living stand
ard" program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-12

The Army is especially acJlyo in its
recruiting drive. A Forthcoming R. K.
o. Radio film, Rodney" bears the i'm
print Of the War Department. The
entire production was made at Fort
Myers, N. Y, with the approval of the
Secretary Of War and the cooperation
Of officers and men of the 18th Field
Artillery and Third Cavalry and is
chmaxed by a spectacular Section
Artillery race with csissons, horse and
men" and ell the accompanying hero
les Of the game.
Fox Films, we understand, is pre-
pairing a feature length picture II
conjunction with the japanese Gov
eminent, depicting the recent fight
ing in Manchuria and Shanghai.
While most of the film has been
edited from newsreels, it is obvious
since the film is being put together
in Japan, that it will carry an over
load OF propaganda against the Sow
let Union and Soviet China.
Countless other examples dealing
with the movie in particular could
be exhibited to prove that the Roose-
welt Administration is taking over the
film industry hook, line and sinker.
Films like "NIidshipman Jack" eson
Of Sailor" Hell and High Water"
Come on Marines" West Point Of
Air. "Mandalay," Hell Below"
Shanghai Madness" "F1edglings, /"
entertaining as they may be, are es-
sentially educations in the language
Of war, and it is easier for the war
mongers to get their propaganda
across when comedians like Joe E..
Brown, Wallace Berry or SchnozzIe
Duranty are used as foils
Finally the pressing question Of pro-
war films brings up the problem
Of what action to take against re-
dictionary films when they appear in
neighborhood and other movie houses
and palaces.
The Film and Photo Leagues sue
cessful demonstrations against
Thunder Over Mexico where they
succeeded in shortening the run of
the picture, proved the effectiveness
Of mass actions within and without
theatres against films of this kind.
That these protest demonstrations
should be carried on against other re-
dictionary films cannot be emphasized
enough.
1t is necessary for all Film and
Photo Leagues, theatre and other cul-
5ural groups and individuals to attend
these in large bodies and if possible
turn the theatre into a forum against
the film, with militant comment &C.
companying iingoistic and national
istic" scenes as they appear on the
screen, explaining and clarifying the
insidious nature of the movie. Also
leaflets adequately reviewing the pic
ture in question could be prepared and
distributed outside and inside the
theatre.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-12
''Our Lenin,'' Book
For Children, Out

At last boys and girls of all aoes
can read of Lenin's life and yorI, in
Our Lenin," by Ruth Shaw and
Harry Alan Potamkin, released to-.
day by International Publishers.
Vivid and understandable, the text
is enlivened by IS drawings bv william
Siegel at his best.
Outstanding events in Ienin,s life
are interviewer into the life Of Ivan.
the peasant boy, and Vera, child of
city textile worker. Step BY step
they follow Lenin's activity among
the students, the hanging of Lenin's
brother, Sasha, for attempted assas-
slnation Of the Tsar. They are in
spired by Lenin's bold stand before
the Tsarist court when he Is arrested
for revolutionary activities. They
meet him as a teacher, organizer,
revolutionary leader of the poor of
town and country.
With an attractive two-color cover.
the book sells for 95 cents. There is
also a cloth edition for $1.95. Both
may be ordered from Workers
Bookshops or direct from Interna-
tional Publishers, 3S1 Fourth Ave,
New York.
Our Lenin" is based on recollec-
lions of Lenin's childhood written
some years ago by his sister and on
Krupskaya's "R e miniscences of
Lenin." The text was revised by
Harry Alan Potamkin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-12
The Wrong Kind of Hrmor

CCNlRADE TONY NINERIcH
organizing the and daugh
standing part comrade the Importance Of
women in the class struggle.
rhn something happened that telling you
what you in your column of 1884 You said:
IT trust few Of the women will sit down Comrsde
Stanley letter you quoted
about the matter'-of housewives and their husbands
Tony day.
Industrial Union
you they they said
in the tone of their voices
"'W1y Tony, you've writing the
telling it, Tony apoiogeucaly
you
article that subject
Now along comes the resolution of the Executive Committee of
important organize
another impest already
world and is spreading FAST men workers viii be drafted for the armies
and workers will be sent in numbers into the
tries to take the places IS
I you Mike going organize
she and daughters sisters
take attitude something disgrace
man to talk or write about organizing women?
international womn Day is coming aongAach Literature
for distribution Lens statements
King wildly zekn PAM
ph the subject workers the United States
the CLASS Ana 25 called
Who Work international Publishers
3d. ready United States to treat of
the subject from the Marxst viewpoint.
like those marine Tony
will find themselves described in the follows
GAS ruling propaganda among some OF the
workers who should chat their strength working class
solidarity there still exists attitude superiority women
And there's the book
Now Comrade Mike pitch tell the to help
distribute literature for international Day
ashamed speak and the subject organizing the women
"Comradey
5f1 GRACE HuTCHrNs~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-12
By DAVID PLATT

THE U. s. Government is using every
known vehicle at its disposal for
war preparation. Remembering the
effectiveness of the movies in 1917. the
government is turning to them again.
Marie Dressler, favorite Of millions
has been lobbying over the radio and
in the press for support of the Big
Bankers and other Bad Wolves, WHO
are trying so hard" to pull the coun-
try out Of the crisis, and calling upon
those faithful maviegoers who saw
and liked her performance. in 'Pros-
perity" and other New Deal pictures
to support President Roosevelt with
some Of that good old spirit that
sold Liberty Bonds, cut down on sugar
and bread and made the days and
nights of 1917 so memorable and en-
chanting.
Not long ago First National Warner
Brothers studio put on a swanSy feed
and entertainment for large group
OF high government, naval, air and
navy officials including Secretary OF
Navy Swanson and all the gold braid
available on the Psciflc Coast. Later
it was officially announced that Sec
rotary Swanson was to have a small
part in a Forthcoming production
dealing with naval naneuvers Off the
Pacific, and shortly afterwards Wsr-
ner Bros. produced and released "Son
Of a Sailor" starring the wide
mouthed comic Joe E. Brown and an
army Of battleships, aeroplanes, sail
ors, flrst lieutenants, admirals and
their wives and daughters.
When this carefully designed re-
cruiting picture which shows common
sailors hobnobbing with rear admirals
and their daughters at Long Beach
mansions and discussing current
events including the next war to-
gether at dinner-thc producers joint
ly with naval officials organized pa
rades Of several hundred sailors from
the U. S. s. Nevada and Lexington
stationed on the coast, who marched
twice day from the ships to the
theatre, as another unique method O.
drawing recruits into the service.