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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-28
PLEADS BREAK BE
GIVEN PEDESTRIANS
BY Helen KAY Young.

By Helen Kay Young.
Perhaps I am dumb! If am, 1
stand convicted, but it seems to me
that a pedestrian hasn't a China
mans chance in this city. He
stands on downtown corner wait
ing patiently for the red light, but
when it appears does he get across
the street? Indeed, he does not.
For around the corner come fleet
of taxis, trucks or what have you,
and by the time he has dashed back
and forth a dozen times in mad
effort to save his life the green light
is on again, and the entire proceed
ure is repeated.
The other day after I had hoped
back and forth like a frantic toad,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-28
TUEsDAY. &c. d. -
THEY'RE BACK AGAIN
ID STRAIGHTFORWARD NEWsPAPERl

D ECENTLY this newspaper pledged its news
II and editorial columns to aid in Kidding
the county and city Of those cheating mechan-
ical devices known as slot machines.
Last night reporters for The Times went out
IN Marion county and learned one important
fact-the law is NOT being enforced.
II il we're not for the seriousness Of the sit
uation and the loss Of thousands and thou
sands Of dollars annually by men. women and
children n these gambling devices. the slot
machine situation in this county would be
pure and simple comedy.
About two weeks ago SOME county officials
annSunced they would rid the areas outside
the city limits of the MACHINES Instead of
Kidding the beer joints. restaurants and road
side hsngouts of these devices. the officials
found that within an hour after the announce
ment Of the impending drive, the machines
had been hidden.
But the time has come now for the real
drive. Times reporters discovered more than
a score Of machines in operation last night
and they also discovered the hiding places of
many more.
If the officials Of this county who an
nounced they would rid the county of the de-
vices we're sincere in their promises. they
should act now. Other county officials have
made no move to enforce the law.
Delay in this matter may prove rather en-
barrassing. Law enforcement agents who
won't or can't enforce the law are of no use
to the taxpayers and residents of this or any
other county.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-28
PREDICTS UNION
NEAR VICTORY
Rv r. 6. Gantz

BY B. S. Gantz
THE Waterloo of labor is Indian
apolis." How often in the last few
months have I heard that remark
My honest conviction is that with
sufficient organization and sense
of seeing two sides of an equation
at one time that we, the service sta
ton statesmen of indianapolis, are
about to efface some part Of that
stigma.
Loyalty to stockholders is heard
from the oil executives whenever
we ask for higher pay scale, and
to be allowed to check our sales by
meters, thus arriving at actual sales
and not to use the antique stick
measurements that leave us at the
mercy of temperature changes over
which we have no control, and va
cations with pay that any one work.
ing for a living is entitled.
If the holder of oil stock could
see the low level to which the mo-
rale of the men whose services con-
troll in large measure the value of
his holdings, think that he would
be one of the first to insist that the
company do everything in its power
to raise that morale-unquestion-
ably a discouraged man is the very
worst sort of salesman material.
The success Of Filling Stations
Employees Union No. 1890 in its
demand for recognition will, in my
opinion be triumph of good judg-
ment on the part Of the oil COM
panies involved.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-28
THE STATE FAIR

A NY resident of Indiana who prides him
self on keeping abreast of the affairs of
his HON state should avail himself of the OPP
portunity to visit the state fair next week.
The fair will open Saturday at the Indiana
state Playground.
On the ground, Hoosiers will find every
thing of interest to them, ranging from the
daily job of home making to the latest de-
velopments in agriculture and science.
The state fair in years past, always has
been worth a day of any ones time and this
year. according to state officials, it will be out
standing in achievement and progress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-28
ADMINISTRATION OF
PENSIONS ASSAILED

BY Mrs. Alice Beecher.
Is the pension a joke?
Yes. Mr.. Humanitarian, 10 years
graveyard AGES right. l read
that in one county more than ninety
applicants died before they received
the pension. I think the commits
sioners were waiting for us all to
die so they will have more money to
build golf courses, etc.
We expected, and should have had
SIS a month Jan. /, but didn't get
anything in Montgomery county
until April. I am IS. get IS a
month. My home, if paid for, would
be worth $780, In 1929 it was in
good repair and I got loan of s7O0.
My monthly expenses are, on an
average:
Loan, $3.50; taxes, $3.50; water,
81; fuel, So; clothing, 81; light, so
cents; medical attention, 81. total,
SIS.
rent part of my house for SIS. If
I can keep it rented and can get the
rent I have $40 when I need $50 for
utilities and to have anything to
eat. have little garden.
The commissioners are not fair
They allow one old man $3.50. He
lives with his daughter and has no
rent, water or light bills or taxes to
pay. He works in the garden and
with chickens and pigs. He does
enough to more than pay for mis-
keep.
Another couple provides an ex-
ample. The wife is the pensloner;
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-28
R,OESR1-

1 watched with growing admiration
a middle-aged woman of no unCer-
tain girth take matters grimly into
her own hands.
She had the red light and the
look of determination on her face
was absolutely inspiring. She
barged right out into the street.
Horns were honking, brakes sud-
denly applied, drivers scowled at
her from sundry cars, but she went
right through as serene and UNI
disturbed as a mother cat deposit
ing her kittens in new and safer
place. 1 envied her, but was too
Cowardly to follow her example.
can't for the life of me see any
sense in giving the right of way
and then permitting half of In
dianapolis to come around the
corner and appropriate it.
Some persons are obliged to walk
and are obliged also to get to places
without taking half the day to do it.
Isn't there some way to have a
third signal to insure the safety of
the walking crowds without the old
and short-lived system that sent
us scurrying in herd formation like
flock Of sheep? That Inundated
us.
Some of you with minds less
obtuse than mine should be able to
offer a solution. And now you mo-
florists give me the works. There is
nothing like good, clean fight to
clear the air
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-28
FIREMAN COMPLAINS
OF CONTRIBUTION
BY a Fireman.

BY a Fireman.
In regard to the Republicans and
Democratic campaign funds, this is
one for the book.
When the Democrats took of
flee about seven years ago, they said
that the fireman and policeman
must not have anything to do with
politics or they would be fired. You
can find this in the book of rules.
Now they have demanded that every
private give $50 to the campaign
fund if ne is q Democrat or they
will see why.
The Republicans never have asked
that much and we had our pay
raised under the Republican ad-
ministration and the Democrats
took it away from us.
We also have been assessed s24
more on the year for our pension
fund and are about to lose our pen
sions.
If the Democrats are elected for
four more years the firemen and
policemen will be paying the poll
ticians to work for the city of IN
dianapolis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-28
SOCIAL INSURANCE

NEXT month. Great Britain Will extend
~ her unemployment insurance system.
bringing thousands Of additional workers I'M
der its protection. increasing the size Of the
benefits and the period over which they are
paid.
II n significant that these things are being
done by . Tory-controlled government. Con-
servatives in this country harp continually on
the economic recovery that Great Britain has
enjoyed without any New Deal" They ig
more the fact that many of the innovations
OF the New Deal are old reforms that have
been long in force in England. Because. in
part. of unemployment insurance and other
protective social measures Britain's depression
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-28
CONSUMER AS PICKET

IT is interesting to note that New York
supreme court judge has upheld the right
of the citizen to picket business house in his
capacity as consumer.
Bronx neighborhood organization felt
that prices charged for bread were too high.
So they began TO picket stores and bakeries.
demanding price reductions. The bakers
asked a restraining order to make them stop,
and the court refused TO grant it.
The right to picket usually is associated
with labor disputes. Here it enters a new
field. end the field is one in which it might
prove useful. If a man can picket because
he feels that he is underpaid. he also can do
it If he feels that he is being overcharged.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-28

the country would have been on the
brink of dissolution and past re-
demption.
Consider the program passed by
this administration in providing en-
ployment for millions of young men
in reforeStation work, reServing a
certain amount of their wages to
send home for the support of their
parents? Do you know of anything
more humane than that?
To enumerate the many acts OF
meritorious results, we call attention
to the newspapers of the country in
which all reports show wonderful
gains in business Of the country in
all departments.
Do you remember any President
who took management of affairs un-
der such discouraging conditions as
prevailed on all sides fifteen months
ago? Yet under such conditions,
discouraging as they were, we find
employment much on the increase
with millions fully employed.
Radio reports tell us Of benefits to
the farmer and increased prices Of
all farm products. And why all the
cry of running the government in
debt, when 95 per cent Of the ex-
penditures are backed by securities
as good as gold? The per cent is
feeding the starving millions, made
so by three successive Republican
terms.
The writer can not imagine why
even good Republicans would dare
to ask for a change after so recent
an experience when they held full
sway.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-28
Never a Poet
BY LAURENCE E. SCOTT

b1 LA OhENCE T.. SUIT
A poet could never be;
I can't describe a lovely tree
Nor paint with words a sky so blue
That you could vision it's azure hue.
The rose would wither and lament
Should try I to tell of its perfumed
scent
And surely must need despair
Of telling Of fields and streams so
fair.
But oft try to fashion a poem
OF the love and care I've had al
home,
Of children's laughter and pattering
feet,
OF mothers IuIabies. soft and sweet.
I sing the praises. now and then,
OF those who love their fellow-men.
I write of the toiler's JOY and strife
And the little worthwhile things OF
life.
I can't describe lovely tree
But a poet I could never be;
Nor tell in true poetic style
OF things that fantasy beguile.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-28
Capital CaperS
BY GEORGE ABELL

CLANC1 in all categories is the object today OF
y widespread study. book has just been pup
lished which lists college slang, English unoer-
world slang. golfng slang, sea fishing slang, rail-
road slang, newspaper slang, etc."
Here are some examples of diplomatic par
lance as heard about Washington
To pull a Michel: To get bitten (Mlchel,
Swiss charge d'affaires, having been nlpped by
an alligator at the Spanish embassy.
Mona Lisa of the Pampas: The Argentine
ambassador, Fihpe Espil, who smiles like the
famous painting
The Dovden: Sir Ronald Lindsay, British
ambassador and dean of the diplomatic corps
To be dollygannish: To insist on precedence
at diplomatic parties.
Persona non grata Newspaper men who
arouse diplomats before 1890 a. m.
Rain check: The farewell card left by
diplomat which bears the letters p. p. c. (pour
prende conge), often enormously translated as
please postpone calling"
OOURTOISIE: Slightly stilted courtesy, such
~ as the frigid bows exchanged by ministers
of Bolivia and Paraguay when they meet at the
Pan-American Union.
White spatters: Members of the protocol
division of the state department. Oddly enough,
none of them now wears white spats except at
weddings.
Aide memoire: The final whisky and soda
at an embassy tea.
Congress: A conference. In Washington
diplomatic circles, the word congress" is usually
taken to refer to the congress of Vienna in 1915.
Demarche: Energetic step, like that OF Per-
sian Minister Djalal, who phoned police about
the loss of his wifes spitz, Piggy"
Dutch Treat: Party at the Netherlands lega-
ton
Elm Konferenz: What German Ambassador
Luther is always engaged in when visitors call
before noon.
Modus vivendi: Agreement reached over a
bottle of Irish whisky.
French leave: Newport visits of M Jules
Henry, French charge daffaires.
Hungarian rhapsody: The ecstacy OF Hun
garian Counselor Balasy over the United States.
DEY: A title formerly used by the Turkish
ID ambassador, but dropped by him because so
many persons insisted on writing 20 Mr.. Bey."
Casus belh: A cause for warrior instance.
inviting two hostile diplomats to the same table.
Ultimatum: The last word. such as that
uttered by Paraguayan Minister Bordenave in a
hotel here when he asked for Yerba Mate and
found they didn't serve it.
Letters of credence: Letters which are hard
to believe. They. are presented by accredited
diplomats to the President.
Sterling diplomacy: Protracted interview. of
the type INDUCED in by Ambassador Marquee
Sterling of Cuba.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-28
DOING OUR PART

INDIANAPOLIS is taking the lead again. this
= time as the city in which the nations
largest work relief slaughter house will be 10
Gated.
Ohicials of the Governors commission on
unemployment relief announced yesterday
that the former plant of the Indianapolis
Abattoir Company will be acquired for the
work, with more than 1000 city workers to get
jobs
When a city and state moves in on a
project Of this type it is evidence that the
residents of Indiana intend to battle hard
times to the last ditch.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-28

By a Reader
I read your article about the
Federal Emergency Relief Admin
istration Workers Union and I
am not a bit surprised, because
everything is run by Republicans
appointed by Bill Book. The
whole crowd in Room 40l, city
hall, are Republicans, and, believe
me, if you are a Democrat you
can not get job.
The township trustees are so
careful about giving any one a
job, and really are doing things
right, but there is a chiseler
somewhere in Books organization
who is changing rates and quail
fications of workers to suit any
condition.
The government rules classify
workers according to their ability,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-28
DECLARES REPUBLICANS
ARGUE FUTILELY
Rx G. B. Watkins.

By G. B. watkins.
From the attitude the Republicans
are taking, brazenly speaking Of
mistakes they think the admins
tration is making, it really is pitiful.
They want to get in so badly. But
on what grounds can they base
their argument: We remember it
has been but little more than one
year ago when they had full sway,
and we all remember the condition
in which after twelve years Of Re-
publican management, we found the
business of the country.
1t is plain that if the same man
agement had been extended four
years longer, the natural conclusion
would have been, and Is now, that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-28

she draws $40 month. They have
a large garden, some chickens, all
their wood for cutting, and pasture
for a COW. They have no rent to
pay.
Why do I who have so much ex-
pense, get only SIS? The SIS wouldn't
go as far with me as the $3.50 does
for the old man who has no ex-
pense. I am not Directing to what
any one gets but I think I ought to
have more. I told the commissioners
so, and they said that if we didn't
quit complaining we might not get
anything.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-28
BELIEVES OFFICIALS SHOULD
GIVE TIME TO JOB

Limit them to $50 t1oFds or tess.)
BELIEVES OFFICIALS SHOULD
GIVE TIME TO JOB
By James NeIler.
noticed your editorial, How to
Get a job" and I was very much
impressed as to what was said. There
is a lot being said about lowering
taxes and I have often wondered
why more has not been said about
officials that do not attend to their
duties. I am referring specifically to
the treasurer of Marion county
whose salary and fees net him more
than any official or judge is receiv-
ing in the courthouse and yet he
spends practically no time in his
Office in the courthouse but the work
is done by the chief deputy.
The treasurer says he can make
more money in his beer office than
as treasurer.
I venture to say that he has not
spent two whole days in the treas
urer's office since he became treas
urer, Jan. 1, 1884. Occasionally he
will spend fifteen or twenty minutes
in the office and then you will not
see him again for days. In May he
spent some time when the board of
review met but he did not attend all
the meetings, / am told. Mr.. Sexton,
treasurer in 1882 and 1888 spent a
great deal of his time in his office.
Why do we elect a man to office
and then allow him to hardly go
around the office? think it is time
that we call halt to this kind of
business, and tell him to step down
and out if he does not look after
the affairs of the office. This is an
important office and if the treasurer
looks after it, he can, to some ex-
tent, help lower the taxes.
Publicity will go long way and
I am hoping, after you have investi-
gated, that something will be said
about this. I do not believe there
is another official in Indiana who
devotes so little of his time to the
duties of the Office to which he was
elected. He may say that he looks
after the affairs from his beer office
but the treasurer's office is in the
courthouse and that is where per-
sons expect to find him.
I am a taxpayer and daily reader
of your paper.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-28
Complains Republicans Rule Relief Work

but if you would check up, you
would find evidence otherwise.
1 hope the men behind the
movement do take the thing to
Washington and get it straight
ened out. Bill Book and his Re-
publican appointees certainly
have revised things in this city,
and I don't see why the Governor
allowed such thing to happen.
Something drastic has to be
done by the Governor because
things as they are now surely
will wreck the Democratic party
and Indiana will go back to the
old deal.
William II. Book no longer is
connected with the relief admin
istration. He now is on official
of the Indianapolis Chamber of
Commerce.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-28

The real test will face Chancellor Schusch-
nigg of Austria after the hay fever season.
Almost any one can pronounce his name now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-28

No wonder certain movie actress has let
out a terrific beef. A western farmer wrote
her that he had named his favorite COW after
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-28
The Message Center

(Ttmes readers are tnvtted to cypress
their Utetos in these columns. Make your
letters short, so az can have q chance.
Limit them to $50 t1ords or iess.J
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-28
Daily Thought

But he forsook the counsel Of the
old men, which they had given him,
and consulted with the young men
that were grown up with him, and
which stood before him.-I Kings,
1878.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-28

ACH succeeding day is the schol-
T. ar of that which preceded
Puhlius Syrus.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-07-14
CHURCHES SUSPEND
MID-WEEK MEETS FOR
OXFORD BENEFIT

Children from the Masonic or
phanage at Oxford will make their
annual visit to Hendersonville
next Wednesday night when they
will give a program at the First
Baptist church.
The program will consist Of
drills, recitations, music and other
features, for which the children
have been trained by Mrs. Saidc
T. Hutchinson, who will be n
charge of the program as direc-
tress and matron. L. w. Alder
man, travelling manager, will be
with the party, which uses their
own bus for transportation to the
various points they visit over
North Carolina.
1t has been announced that
some of the churches in the city
will suspend their services We'd
nesday night so as to give their
congregations the advantage Of
hearing the program by the chill
dren. An audience, which fillei
the First Baptist church auditO.
rum, greeted the visitors last
year.
The program will start at 8
o'clock. There will be no admis-
sion charge but a free-will offer
ing will be made for the benefit
of the orphanage.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-07-14
ASSOCIATION
MEETING near
Forms for Annual Reports
of Church to Association
Are Distributed

The annual meeting of the Car
DINA Baptist association will be
held at East Flat Rock Baptist
church for two full days, Tues
day, August 7, and Wednesday,
August 8.
At the semi-annual meeting of
the Carolina Baptist Sunday
School association, held at the
First Baptist church at HendeT-
sonville, July 8, many pastors
and church clerks received their
letters from the moderator of the
association and the blanks on
which to send their letters to the
association, and this week the
clerk of the association is mail
ing out to pastors and church
clerks the packages not delivered
at the Sunday school meeting, 50
that by this time every church
will have had its papers complete.
If by chance any of these pack
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-07-14
WEEKLY SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
COD CARES FOR ELIJAH

JAN" A great name is a great
asset. There is inspiration in it.
The greatest name is a good
name. Elijah means "my God is
Jehovah" Never would God for
sake his servant.
(2) The Judgment of God.
"There shall not be dew nor
rain" The court was corrupt.
The country was badly wrong.
The stroke of justice was neces-
sary to bring a hayward nation
to its senses. The long drouth
could be felt by everyone from
the capital out to the confines of
the kingdom. They must know
that God is just.
60 The Providence of God.
Ravens brought bread and
flesh. The uninhab;ted wilds are
not without nutriment if God
leads. He will not feed the birds
and starve his babes. The ravens
will be more hospitable than
kings and queens.
(4) The Resources of God.
Brook dried up" The parched
earth cried in vain to a sky of
brass. The waters of Cherith
evaporated. What now Of the
prophet in hiding? God has plen-
ty. His servants shall not starve.
(5) The Denials of God. went
for his life requested for
himself that he might die" The
prophet wanted to reform his
country. He conceived it to be
the will of God. But the people
were not ready. So the reformer
became a fugitive. God was deny
ing what was nearest his heart.
And when in his dark depression
he prayed for death, the Lord de-
MED him. Are not the denials of
God a part of his guidance and
blessing?
CO. The Messenger of God.
can angel touched him." The
ravens had come to the prophet
by the brook. The widows home
had been his refuge in foreign
land. In the ascending scale, a
ministering angel now leaps to
the nrophet's side in the desert.
Does not God send to us wher-
ever we are his own chosen mes
sengers?
(7) The Strength of God. "He
went in the strength of that food