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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-02
Today's Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

1T seems almost impossible these days to discuss
/ any topic without the subject OF prohibition re-
peal cropping in. So, perhaps we may De pe'nlCCeo
to remark that according TO old LEGENDS, the man III
the moon was prohibiCionist.
According to the folio collection OF the bag1oro
Ballads at the British Museum one old ballad Gin
its original spelling) states:
"Our man in the moon drinks clarret,
With powder-beef, turnep and carret
If he doth so, why should not you
Drink until the sky looks bew?"
Milton, the great English poet, pictured the moon
as shining serenely:
above the smoke and stir OF this dim Spot
Which call EARTH
But many of the old legends picture the man in
the moon as inveterate smoker. An ola Snop
BILL" several centuries old, pictures the man IN the
moon as a fashionable dandy with tankard Of ale
in one hand and long clay pipe in the other. His
hunting dog stands nearby.
TINE trick of imagining that the spots to be
i noticed orf>the moon form some sort of figure is
as old as me- nknd But the figure has not always
been imagined to be that Of Sometimes it
was imagined to be that Of woman and at other
times that Of various animals, including hare and
frog.
According to Greek LEGEND, the man in the moon
was the Shepherd EndynliCn, the beloved Of Diana,
the goddess of the moon.
According to an old German legend the in
the moon is an old man VINO bears great bundle
Of frewood upon his shoulders. This legend says
that he is an old wood-cutter who was transported
to the moon for desecratng the Sabbath by cutting
wood on the day.
TINE idea that the man in the moon had been
l. banished there for theft and that he carried a
bush of thorns his shoulder is met with repeat
edly in old English literature.
seal found on a legal document OF the four
tenth century bears picture Of the crescent moon
within which there stands man carrying thorn
bush over his shoulder The man Is accompanies
By dog. ------a A~4aAsunAzaa
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1t Really Is Opposition.

THINK that anybody who says: We'll, I'd be for
Il the amendment but with certain reservations"
is in the enemys camp and knows just where he's
sitting.
And when people rise up with piety and legals-
tic pleas to argue that they hate child labor much
as anybody else but that they can't abide to the
invasion of states rights I do not think they are
telling the truth I class them too, with those who
seeking perpetuate child labor. He who is not
with is against
Let them stand up and be counted if they dare.
Let them come out from behind the hedges and the
strips Of camOufage. I'm fanatic on this subject,
and I'm glad of it. And I'm not laughing.
Copyright 1894 BY The Times
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are trying to find out whether this government
means to keep its promises.
The national industrial recovery act says that
workers will be protected in their right of collective
bargaining It does not limit the nature of that
setup. It does not say whether the union shall be
right, left. or sidewise. Indeed, General johnson
once stated that if the mine workers wanted to
appoint the Devil himself as their spokesman under
the law the mine owners would be compelled to
deal with him.
And the hotel men have refused to deal with
the strikers on the feeble excuse that the organiza
ton represents left wing elements 1t seems to me
that the issue involved concerns the honor of the
government under which we live. I not laugh
at a story about a walters coat not fitting Mr..
Woollcott or Mr. Benchleys failure to get hot soup
down his neck As a matter of fact, would much
rather that he had
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Trester, commissioner

Dick Arnett Of the Central Aero
nautical Corporation, toured the
state in two days, visiting the
home town of every regional win
ner, and leaving the opposition
miles behind.
With the sanction of the H.
S A. A., Dick Miller each year Sc
lects the state champion football
team and presents the trophy in
behalf of The Times. He referees
forty to fifty games each fall and
starts getting in trim for the
heavy football season in early
spring.
TIE selects the sectional and
IL state final tourney teams and
for years off1ciated in basketball
games. He is a former president
of the Indiana Officials ASsoci-
alton.
And in the summer time Dick
covers every golf event for The
Times, in addition to writing his
daily golf column. He's been
covering golf for years and he
knows almost all the answers,
even though himself is not crack
golfer.
He founded The Times school,
boy tournament-the ninth an
nual is coming up-and out of
that grew the official state high
school tournament
Mr.. and Mrs. Miller recently
celebrated their sixteenth wedding
anniversary. They have three boys
Richard Jr., II; Eugene, 8, and
Billy, 2.
His proudest boast is that he's
never given an incorrect name or
address on any story he's ever
handled.
And if that's isn't enough for
you, he's a crack photographer,
and for a time served as the
staff photographer.
He still takes all his own pic
lures of stories he covers.
Wait till we get this phone call,
won't you?
Train wreck? Train wreck, did
you say? Hey, Dick, get going
Train wreck! And take a camera!"
Next-GeOrge Denny.
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political crusader, is in the middle
thirties now; he's a little bulkier,
a little ruddier of complexion; but
he's still the same old Dick Miller,
the Dick and the late Chief Jerry
Kinney loved TO call Richard the
lion-hearted."
Dick Miller stands about five
feet nine inches tall and he
weighs variouSly between ITS and
1875 pounds-depending on how
he's making out with his dieting.
He goes about life with a chip
on his shoulder. He's willing to
make friend and just as willing
to make an enemy. He figures
that everything ,equalizes itself
and that for every friend he has,
he has an enemy.
He loves to talk and if you give
him a chance he'll talk you to
sleep.
He has been with The Times
for fourteen years and he's COW
cred every outside beat on the
paper and is the outstanding
crusader" of the staff. Few of
his campaigns have failed.
TICK spent his summers work.
- ing for a bridge company.
His ambition then was to become
an engineer and he obtained one
job as a draughtsman. One of his
jobs was placing spindles in what
later became the Washington
street bridge swept out by the
1913 flood.
He ran transit while stakes
were laid out for streets in Mars
Hill.
II may not be a native Hoo
sier," says Dick, but I'm the next
thing to it. I helped lay out this
town."
The World war broke out two
months after Dick was out of
SOllOO4 c1lO 1lC WC11U W ANOOA
Dame university to join the re-
serve corps. He played football
there short while before leaving
and coming. home to enlist in the
army. He was placed in the ord
nance division and first sent to
Peoria, later being transferred
here to the Allison Engineering
Company, where he worked de-
signing tanks and artillery trac-
tors.
He coached the football team of
his division and played end, quar-
ter back and half back on it at
various times.
He was released from the army
in February, 1919, and worked a
short time for the Star in the
sports department, drifting to De-
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Fair Enough
By
Westbrook PeqIer

r MUST make it point to poke my beaming coun-
l. tenance into the eating quarters of some of the
ajor league football teams and boat crews within
the next year to ascertain whether the wde-eyed
innocence of $50 pounds and up who are just the
type to go out shooting people and vice versa in
the wars, are being corrupted in their morals and
Stunted in their growth by pintS Of ale now that
prohibition is off and the President has sold out to
satan This is one of the dreadful possibilities OF
repeal and person of my morbid and doleful dis
position naturally would be happy to know the worst
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He was right on the heels of the
flying Negro in minute.
Stop" he shouted, "or I'll blow
your brains out"
The thug stopped. The news
paper man disarmed his quarry,
turned him around and marched
him off in front of him, arms up
stretched. Another squad car was
pulling up in front of the house
as the pair marched forward.
Captain Ralph Dean stared anC
blinked his eyes. Then he broke
out into peals of daughters.
'Well, I'll be -," he roared.
The captured man turned and
looked intently at the weapon in
the hands of the man who had
taken him. Slowly his eyes raised.
big boy" he said slowly, IF I'd
known that I'd sure finished you
up
But, still, there's a doubt about
that. For the newspaper man was
Dick Miller of The Indianapolis
Times, hero of many such events,
and fighting Irishman if ever
there was one.
dorm in BucyruS, o., and
~ christened Richard Edward
Miller, he came to Indianapolis
before he was 4 with his family.
They settled on the west side, on
old Germania sSzeet-now Belle
Vieu place.
He carried papers on the west
side to help pay his way through
grade school and Manual. While
in high school he carried one of
the largest newspaper routes ever
listed in Indianapolis.
Manual had no football in Dick
Miler'S day, so he found his foot
ball in amateur circles. He played
baseball at the south side school
and later developed into a semi
pro and professional footballer.
He learned his politics early,
reading the political stories of the
day to his blind grandfather,
dyed-in-the-wool Democrat.
Dick helped organize the Bel
mont A. c., serving as coach, man
ager. ETC., for several years. He
developed a state championship
football team, and piloted a crack
baseball team boasting such talent
as Jack Hendricks Jr., William
(Curly) Ash, brother of Eddie,
Times sports editor; Dr. Tom
Quill, Everett Dean, now Indiana
university basketball coach; Ken
ny Glidewell, Cal Roberts and
Gerald Mahalowitz.
DICK MILLER of The Times,
~ police reporter, sports writer,
sports official, political writer, and
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In City TheaterS

Today the Indiana theater
offers a new policy by presenting
two fulllength features insteadeo
one and short subjects. The fea-
lures are Wheeler and Woolsey
in Hips, Hips, Hooray" and
Eight Girls in a Boat" with a
Dorothy Wilson and Douglas
Montgomery.
Other theaters today offer:
'The Passing Parade" on the
stage and Madame Spy" with
Fay Wray on the screen, at the
Lyric; Janet Gaynor and Lionel
Barrymore in Carolina" at the
Apollo; Lum and Abner on the
stage, and Convention City" on
the screen, at the Circle; Ann
Harding in Gallant Lady" at the
Palace, and burlesque at the Mu-
tual and Colonial.
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BY NORMAN E. ISAACS
Times News Editor

bandits had been
becoming exaspeaed at their
night the youngsters stole
jumped curb and killed pedestrian Officers care
traced rufans.
morning bell Changed
police headquarters call ThySecond street and Mar
tracked down.
Policemen newspaper leaped into the
north 1t skdded to
ThtSecond Marndae and just
the
directions.
Jumping Colder stumbled and landed
in fellow aid
IN and spread after the fleeing
rudy just turned
thugs racing field Unarned the
fugitive
sitting
with rusty useless old shotgun
the ling lad and started he
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troit, where he obtained news
paper job, but didn't stick.
DACK to Indianapolis came
D Dick and up to Eddie Ash,
Times sports editor. Dick had
seen all of the state basket
ball tournaments at Bloomington
and he asked Eddie if he could
cover the one coming up.
o. X" said Eddie.
Dick covered that tourney for
The Times in 1920 and a group of
other Journeys after that for
Eddie. The Times sports editor
recommended him to Felix Bru-
ner, then city editor of The Times,
who called Dick over one morn
ing.
How would you like to cover
police?" he asked.
I'm hired" said Miller.
And for ten years, Dick Miller
covered police. He gained repu-
tation as a fighter and a reporter.
IlG 1dUG N1nCL I&4l1AlCV WoAAbNA
Dick to be his secretary.
One of the first stories Dick re-
members is when an iron worker
fell to his death from the frame
work of the indianapolis Athletic
Club then in construction. By
some queer twist, Dick discovered
the Inflated iron worker had two
wives. He went to cover the
funeral. He arrived back in the
Office and Mr.. Bruner looked at
him appealingly.
What did those wives say?"
asked Felix.
Well" said Dick, "the preach
er's sermon was Whatsoever a
man sowest, so shall he reap"
DICK saw D. G. Stevenson ar
- rested at the Washington.
I'll never forget" he says, "the
way Steve pulled off that Shout
der holster, tossed his horsethief
detective badge into the grip and
said: Boys, I'm ready. Let's co."
Dick worked on the murder of
Helen Welchel, the Staying for
which John Thomas Shaw was
convicted and later escaped only
to meet the electric chair in Ten
nessee for a similar crime.
He waged a crusade for the es-
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Show for the Children

A new movie craze in screen
cartoons is sweeping the country
with the elders joining hands with
the children in enjoying them.
The Alamo theater manage
ment is offering these fans a spe-
cial treat known as The Cartoon
Land Screen Circus"
1t requires sixty minutes to
show this circus which has such
wen-known characters as Betty
Boop, Mickey Mouse, and Minnie
Mouse, Pop-Eye, the sailor man;
Oswald, the Pup; Flip the Frog;
Krazy Kat, and Tom and Jerry.
The circus will be given at a
special show at $50 tomorrow
morning at the Alamo and those
attending viii be invited to re-
main for the regular attraction.
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Gershwin Concert at EngIsh's Is Tremendous Success;
Capacu Audience Tears DOWn the House With Applause

"Swanee," do 1t Again." Lady
Be Good" and Strike Up the
Band" Each one of these was a
baby masterpiece in arrangement.
VXTHEN James Melton walked
w upon the stage to sing his
first group with the orchestra, it
seemed that tWo-thirdS of the
audience let out a yell of approval.
Before he had uttered line,
Mr.. Melton had triumphed with
his personality. He has person.
atty and stage presence which
reminds me of John Mccormack.
His voice is pleasing, but it is
his personality and Showmanship
which endearS him to his audi
enceS.
His first group was composed of
modern cowboy SongS-"Home On
the Range" and Garry Me Back
to the Lone Prairie" His Hills of
Home" was gem of melody and
easy showmanShip in the art of
singing.
His Last Roundup" was greeted
with one of the loudest roars of
applause ever heard at English's.
Mr.. Melton's second group had
the spiritual swing, but it was
"Shortin' Bread" which took the
cake with the audience.
After Mr.. GershWin, Mr.. Melton
and the orchestra had finished,
the composer and the soloist re-
appeared and gave the audience
"Of Thee I sing" "S-Wonderful"
and Maybe" all GerShwin hits.
The audience went wild.
This triumph was brought here
by Mrs. Nancy Martens.
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tablishment of the psychopathic
ward at city hospital, enlisting
the aid of Laurel Thayer, secre-
tary to Judge Wilmeth. Dick con-
tended that many persons men
tally i'll were thrown into Jail cells
on complaints of disgruntled rela-
tives, there often to be driven vio-
lently insane.
He fought for protection of all
grade crossings and helped force
the time-limit on grade crossing
stops after boy, injured in
traffic accident, died in an ambu-
lance delayed at a crossing by a
slowly passing train.
He carried on crusade against
bondsmen. shyster lawyers and
their hookup with the police and
the series of stories led to a gen.
eral cleanup Of police headquar-
tiers.
He fought for a cleanup of the
fire department after the Ameri-
can Foundry fire, in which the
loss was said to have been aggra-
waited by slow answer of the fire
trucks.
He conducted The Times fight
against Coroner Fred Vehling and
that series Of stories led to the
Indictment and conviction of the
coroner.
IN 1927 he was stabbed by a girl
4 who was riding in the police
car. The girl was Mabel Clark,
who came into the news recently
as the common-law wife of Willie
Mason, gangster. Her identity
was revealed when she said the
only trouble she ever was in was
when she stabbed a policeman"
in indianapolis.
In 1880 he left police to work
directly out of the Office. He
hasn't missed basketball tourney
since its start and is regarded US
one Of the states best basketball
writer's He assisted the Hendricks
brothers-Blythe and 1'ommy-in
putting on The Times broadcast
of the state tourney, the first time
any sports event was placed on
the air.
Never satisfied to be second,
Dick stepped out few years ago,
and in an airplane piloted by
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ADD Huey
Long Fails to Show Up
for 'ThraShing.'

By United Press
VXTASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-Sen-
wv ator Huey Long dis
appointed a select gathering in the
Mayf1owec hotel main dining room
last night.
In glittering array and antici-
patton, the great and near-great
gathered in the dining room after
Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley of
the King Fish appeared he would
dine there at p. m. and that if
the King Fish appeared he
thrash the daylights out of
him" The men are political
enemies.
Senator Hastings (Rep., Del.)
obtained seat of vantage in the
dining room early. Former SEN
ator James E. Watson of Indiana
donned tails, and braved the perils
Of slippery Connecticut avenue to
motor to the hotel and dine in
state in honor of the occasion.
The setting was perfect. The
orchestra played. Mayor Walms-
ley entered on schedule.
But Huey didn't appear.
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NEW music with new rhythm.
IN Sweet, swinging and swaylng
melodies. Noise and strange
sounds giving way to haunting
rhythm.
All that and more was found in
the program offered last night at
English'S by George Gershwin,
composer pianist; James Melton,
tenor, and the Reisman SYM
phonic orchestra under the direc-
ton of Charles Previn.
Before an audience that occu-
pied every seat and overlooked
into the orchestra pit and with
many people standing in the rear
of the theater, this program
caused a roar of approval seldom
ecualed in the last ten years in
indianapolis.
Mr.. Gershwin is accepted as the
real pioneer in modern blues. His
major compositions demand an
unusually arranged orchestra, and
that orchestra was present last
night.
Interest in the Gershwin writ
ten and played numbers centered
mostly upon Rhapsody in Blue"
and AN American in Paris
I consider AN American in
Paris" a rhythmic headache, and
I mean that in no sense of adj
verse criticism. Even strange
noises have charm and fascina-
ton.
"An American in Paris"
Such qualities are found in
Honks of taxi cab horns, the
strange and diScordant noises of
Paris at night, even the tantaliz-
ing invitation of the creatures of
the night life of that city, the
soothing effect that wine some
times has when people go on
jamboree-all are present.
Sometimes these sounds are as
harsh when encountered unrelat-
ed in real life. Then the COM
poser gathers up all of these
sounds and weaves them into an
understandable pattern of an
American going on bust in
Paris.
This number was intelllgently
directed by Mr.. Previn and skill
fully played by the orchestra.
A S usual, the majority Of the
N audience went TO English's
last night to hear Mr.. Gershwin
play his own Rhapsody in Blue"
Years ago when I heard the
composer play it, with the Paul
Whiteman orchestra 7 was
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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, as an
and showed a glass of beer away after the boys had
carried him their shoulders all the way from the
ball-yard down to the saloon to celebrate 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 one false step might lead him to the
brink of drunkard's grave.
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and blab it around and about. L
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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BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

1 can not say the same for Il
Got Rhythm Variations" To me
this was discord most of the time
with no definite pattern appear
ing.
And yet his Concerto in F" is
just the opposite and has a great
deal of the stirring grandeur Of
the rhapsody.
The orchestra threw the
audience into an uproar when it
played such Gershwin favorites as
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Ii Seems TO Ne
By
Heywood Broun

T SWORE of nothing at New Years, but I'm
Il swearing of something now. Until Jan. l, 1880
III have nothing TO do with a sense OF humor. m
referring TO my own il any, and that OF everybody
else In the last few days I've read so much which
was supposed to be funny and which did not amuSe
me at all that I've decided to get out Of the game
altogether.
Nav I quote briefly from a news story about now
the walters strike came 10 the Hotel Algonquin
The customers came to the rescue. Elsie jams
acted as head waiter and Alexander Woolcott, Ina
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stunned at times, but last night
the chaos was missing, and a def
mite new musical form and ex-
preston was discovered.
Rhythm was present even in an
unusual sound pattern. Here was
haunting. tantalizing motion of
melody, instead of discord.
The way it was played by Mr..
GershWin and the orchestra,
Rhapsody in Blue" now is a mas
terpiece.
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Claire. Colin Give, LOUIS Brom-
field and Mrs. Charles Eastmond
helped TO wait on table Mr..
WoOllcOtt tried to don a wait
er's jacket, but the sleeves came
only to there. and the garment
would not button across the
chest. He tried, too, to spill a
plate of soup down Robert
Benchley neck, but was
thWarted."
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I Am Not in the Mood.

IT may be that this is awfully,
l. awfully funny, but I can't
see it. The hotel workers OF
New York are fighting for a
right which is written plainly
s,,ao 49,, four 90 thfc 1oY7d Thou
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A bronze statue to David Living
stone is to be placed in Victoria
Falls park in southern Rhodesia, by
the waterfall he discovered IN 1855.
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WE MAKE YOUR NEWSPAPER
Dick lile,-Pozitics Sports Polce-Or What Haze You?

o wenty-hrs
Of
who rite aboutyo
Smyrna times., 1934-12-06
18th Wedding Anniyerssr,

About so relatives and fris1
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Cros
gathered at their home near
Monday evening, and ted
them a surprise" in celess
of their 18th wedding annirs.
A very pleasant time was |
and at a late hour refresh
were served. Mr.. and Mrs. d
land received many lovely Il
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