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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-17
He's Il Good LdWyer

TTUEY is recognized even in Washington as one OF
i the smartest-sleeve statesmen this country has
developed and first-class lawyer. He has low
down familiar way of Grating to the ordinary, folksy
type of citizen who is fattered easily and he some
times goes off into the far country Of his state anu
sleeps in his Clothes right on the cabin floor with
the humbest families to demonstrate his humility.
Arising in the morning, all rumpled and toWseled
and bleary-eyed to water his face and eyes under
the pump and partake of whatever there is for
breakfast, he sells himself beyond challenge as the
friend of the people in the vicinity.
Moreover he has bribed them with concrete roads
all over the state free bridges instead of toll ferries
and free text books for the schools. Like Bill
Thompson, in Chicago, although he has taken care
of his friends out of the public funds he has de-
livered certain appreciable results which help to
explain his complete command of the state depart
ment
1t would be much more easy to denounce and
scold der King1sh if his political opponents were in
position to peer down their noses at him. but they
aren't He can show the roads and bridges and
school books and in the present fight against the
city administration of New Orleans he has adroity
put the city fathers in a position of defending or
apologizng for the notorious existence Of brothels
and gambling joints They existed when he was
Governor to be sure and of they always have
paid graft to the local political administration But
Huey crates about the purity of young girlhood and
that gets them
Well this story is just getting under way. There
will be tomorrow and for some time to come.
Copyright. 1884. by Unite Feature Syndicate
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-17
BOdyguardS Are Cheap

THE Kingf1sh is only 40 and is about as we'll off
Il physically as most men of his age, but does not
think advisable to engage personally persons who
desire to pop him the eye He has discovered that
merCena1ieS can be hired for moderate sums and at
the expense of the taxpayers to represent him in
such contests and therefore refers such ChalengerS
to his bodyguards. He calls them his thug men.
Huey owns the state legislature and the Cover
nor but the city of New Orleans and practically
all the daily newspapers of the state have been
bit fractions. Therefore, through his Governor, o.
K. Allen, Huey called the statesmen in from the
swampS and forests to ratify his ambitions by legis
latve enactment. His program. when adopted, will
deliver New orleans to the state administration and
Huey, of course, controls the state 1t also will inn
pose punitive taxes on the papers.
Incidental to this program is a Seabury inveSt-
cation of the city administration of New Orleans
which will be very embarrassing if not politically
fatal to the city administration New Orleans always
has been famous as a center of gaiety which is a
euphemiStic way of describing wicked city. There
were public brothelS and gambling houses which
could not have existed without the tolerance of the
city officials, and when Huey wished to move in and
seize the voting machinery of the city by force Of
arms all he had to offer by way of preteXt was
scandalized discovery that Infamous condition had
been allowed to develop.
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TUO Shots Are Fired

LIS troops, ordered out by his Governor, Mr..
H. Allen we're to close these resorts and seize the
election book so that der Kingfsh in an impartial
investigation of his own, might cross of all names
which did not rightfully belong there.
The soldiers have LACED around for a few weeks
instead of drilling as they are supposed to during
their annual boy-scoung season and fired two shots
in the course of the entire war to date. The first
one was accidental A soldiers muSket slipped out
of his hand and went bang. The other shell was
exploded Tuesday evening when a sergeant, grown
weary of it all, walked into hot tamale resort and
fired one round with his pistol to see if it would
work. 1t worked short time later when a re-
porter and photographer from the hostile press ar
rived to check up on the accident they were con-
quered by the military forces. The casualties Wer
pair of pants, the photographers, torn IN Tie
course of duty The action is described in detail.
in the expense of the owner of the wounded pants
Der Kingfsh's war is long and complex story
but it might surprise you to learn that the ordinary
citizens such as you meet on trains and just any
where do not share that loathing for him which is
expressed by people at distance who form their
opinions from reading of the newspapers and po-
ltcal reviews.
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STATE EXAMINATIONS
FOR JOBS TO BEGIN
Vacancies Will Be Filled in
Employment Service.

Competitive examinations to fill
future vacancies in the Indiana
state employment service will be
held Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday in indianapolis, Gary, FIT.
Wayne, South Bend, Evansville and
New Albany. w
Positions for which examinations
will be conducted include state di-
rector, manager and supervisor and
their assistants, interviewerS, sta
tisticians and clerks. Salaries range
from 1886 to $4,000 a year.
AS vacancies occur in the employ
ment service they will be filled from
persons who qualify on these exam
nations. Application blanks or
further information may be OBJ
tanned from Ford P. Hall, depart
ment of government, Indiana uni
versity, Bloomington, Ind. Professor
Hall is state representative of the
United States employment service
of the department of labor.
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which had been her life-blood
since the Crusades.
Conflict with the Turks, espe-
cially during the time OF their
military greatness under Sultan
Suleiman, was continual. Again
Austria was the buffer that pro-
tected western Europe from the
east.
The Mohammedan invasions
were repeatedly halted at the
gates of Vienna. Belgrade and
Budapest, now capitals of the new
nations of Yugoslavia and the
Hungarian Republic, fell to the
Turks, and we're for years under
their domination. But not Vienna.
Vienna remained western.
Gradually Austria, expanding its
territory, was becoming a leading
factor in the Holy Roman Empire
and the councils of western Eur
ope. It's period of greatness was
opening before it.
NEXT-A war that lasted thirty
years, and how a great empire
was built up out of separate
peoples who disliked each other.
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Your Health
by DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN =

COME people have the vague notion that there are
~ special diets for every disease that aflictS man
kind and that good many diseases can be cured
by diet alone This impression arises, no doubt,
simply because the satisfaction Of hunger is one OF
the fundamental disorders of mankind.
Actually, there are few major diseases in which
the prescription Of specific diet is absolutely essen
tia In the ma jority of diseases however. general
diets are prescribed such soft diets rough diets.
high protein and low protein, high carbohydrate and
low carbohydrate or high fat and low fat diets.
1t is also possible to increase the amounts Of CAL
cium or of iron of other mineral salts by selection
Of certain food substances Any good diet must.
however. have suitable amounts of mineral salts and
vitamins.
THE main diseases in which doctors find 1t neces-
sary to prescribe diets are diabetes, overweight
and underweight. infammations of the kidney and.
more recently epilepsy.
There are, of course, some cases in which 1t IS
believed that the restriction of salt may be Of value
and there some who place great deal OF en-
phasis having diets that are very low IN acid
forming substances.
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The Judge Is a Prophet

A CCORDINGLY. it shocked me when the jury
n was sent out of the room and the judge denied
a motion TO dismiss the indictment for first degree
murder. And 1 had a right to be shocked because
a few minutes later met the judge in his chambers
and he said of course this isn't first degree case,
but III charge the jury carefully to that they
don't arrive at any such verdict"
You see Mr.. Broun." he continued. "a lot Of the
penalties set by law are too severe. You can't get
conviction because the average jury doesn't want to
send man 10 the chair even put him in a posi-
ton where ne can get forty sixty years I'm al
WAYS accepting lesser pleas because I'm afraid that
holding 10 the major ones may mean having guilty
men walk free without the penalty whatsoever.
The Judge turned out to be a prophet because my
friend the crapshooter eventually was acquitted by
the verdict of the twelve good and true. think
il would have been mOnstrOus and fantastic to have
sent him to the electric chair but am not so sentl-
mental about violent losers that 1t seemed TO me
reasonable that he should go scot free
I cite the episode as evidence IN favor OF one OF
nv favorte contentious which is that America Is
adopting precisely the wrong tactics in its effort 10
combat the crime wave. 1 read speeches and ser
mons and leaflets all of which begin by crying out
that conditions are terrible and that the only remeoy
lies in sterner judges and sitter sentences.
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Again Austria was German and
about 976 was first named "Ostar-
rich" or THE Eastern Realm"
The present name Austria comes
down from this and even down
through very recent history Aus
tria has been thought of as the
easternmost outpost of the world
Of western Europe.
The pre-war Viennese had
saying that Asia begins at the
Ringstrasse" (Vienna's most beau
tiful boulevard.
~
THE Austrian kings of these
Il times were the Babenbergs,
a house that ruled for many
years, strongly supported by the
German states to the west, be-
cause they were the best barrier
against Hungarian and Magyar
invasion.
Regensburg, PasSau, Salzburg,
Vienna, we're all important towns
then, and today you find them
still in the news of the Austrian
conflict.
And the Starhemberg family
had fortressed castles in Austria
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lot more. We must increase con-
sumption.
How? BY bringing in big in
dustry? No, that would make
trouble in competing sections. BY
increasing domestic consump-
ton? Yes. But look at some of
these shacks. If you put an cleo
trio washer in there you'll never
get your money out"
HENCE IVA is faced with a
II problem of long range social
planning to increase living stand
ards. The Tennessee valley has the
people. And IVA teaches radio to
Art Lipscomb so that when he goes
home he can make living for
himself on a higher scale and be
a good customer for IVA power.
That is an oversimplif1ed state
ment of what is really very
diverse and complex program, a
program involving social expert
ments rather far removed from
business eXpediency.
Copyright. 1884. by United Featur
Syndicate Incl
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South of the Danube the Ro-
mans settled and colonized their
provinces of Raetia, Noricum and
Pannonia (now parts of Yugo-
slavia, Hungary and Rumania).
But north of the Danube they
could not conquer. Austria was
the border ground.
WHEN the Roman empire fell
w apart, the Austrian terri
tory was held by the German
tribes, dominated by the western
Frankish empire established by
Charlemagne. But Immediately it
became the battle-ground of a
thrust from the east.
In the year GOT fierce hordes OF
Magyars from what is now Hun
gary overran the country and
swept out the German rulers.
Not until 955 was King Otto the
Great able to drive them back to
the eastward, and again Austria
was the battle-ground. Today an
other King Otto, pretender to the
throne, is being sought by one
faction to rule Austria.
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b repTmanded severely and then turned loose % 40
as he pieases. But there are many cases in which
u is quite evident that the defendant Is by
an habitually antsoCal person. I have no right TO
speak with authority for any one else in the hall.
but I gravelv suspect that old friend the av-
crage citizen is quite capable Of killing somebody
given the proper provocative set of circumstances.
I have no criminal record as yet and I would just
as soon not begin now but must freely admit that
on several occasions I quite possibly might have
killed some friend casual acquaintance if only
deadly weapon had been handy I don't shoot dice
but II YOU substitute poker must admit that but for
the absence Of a convenient section of lead pipe
might have been sitting in the spot occupied by the
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fair Enough
WESTbROOK PEGLER

DATON ROUGE, La. Aug 17.-Under command
ID of Huey Long, the Louisiana state legislature is
meeting in special session at this time TO pass such
laws as may be necessary to deliver to the dictator
the municipal government of the city Of New Or
leans. HueyS tired of Washington and the United
States senate and is coming back home to elect him.
self Governor again in the next holding of the SOL
emn referendum. which, doubt. he can do very
easily God Sparing him. He has not had drink
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since the adjournment of con-
greSS in Washington. DRAINS
never did him any good. He
often overspoke himself when
he was looking through the
bottom of a glass and on one
memorable occasion about a
year ago in a dresSy but neces-
Sarily exclusive club on Long
island. he was popped in the
eye by one of the members for
a breach of manners.
The senator went on to Mil
waukee, where he appeared the
next day wearing a Shanty on
his eye, claiming that he had
been ganged by crowd of low
characters. But it never was
Y,oOoceo,x- - conc IJ,rav. 7, n
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-17
1000 TROOPS READY
FOR ANNUAL REVIEW
Indiana Kentucky Guardsmen to
Take Part in Event.

BIZ Times Special
CAMP KNOX. KY, Aug. 1.-THE
full strength of the Thirty-eighth
division, national guard, more than
1000 in number, will march in an
nual review here tomorrow before
Major General Albert J. Bowler,
Fifth corps area commander.
Major General Robert H. Tyndall.
division commander, will lead the
maneuver.
A feature of the review will be the
First cavalry, mechanical, the only
regiment of its kind in the United
States. Many visitors from Indiana
and Kentucky are arriving at the
fort for the division ceremony,
which viii include national guard
units from both states.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-17
$4,000 DAMAGES ARE
ASKED IN CAR DEATHS
City Railways Sued by Administra-
tors of Three Estates.

City Railways Sued by Administra-
tors of Three Estates.
Three suits demanding damages
of $4,000 each for wrongful death,
were on file today in county courts
against Indianapolis Railways, Inc.
Plaintiffs are Edward Davis, adj
ministrator of the estate of John
Davis; Philip Davis, administrator
of the estate of Lena Davis. and
Margaret Sherman, administrative
Of the estate of William Sherman.
The complaints allege that John
and Lena Davis and William Sher-
man were injured fatally June 81
when an automobile driven by John
Davis was in collision with street
car at Washington and Blackford
streets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-17
TO EUROPE'S PUZZLE
Fate of Continent Again Rests VIII OBesieged Nation

This is the first Of four stories that
tell in brief the history of Austria from
its beginnings in the days of Rome
through the centuries of its rise to great
power. and then its crash in World war
defeat. background study which VIII
aid in understanding the critical situa-
ton in central Europe today.
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
he
By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

TORRIS Tenn acun folk OF the Tennessee
~ valley being laboratory They want to be let
ndiv1duast
BooneKled Bar But the cards are
there's nothing to do but submit 10 courses
n and parliamentary law.
little opposition In crossroads
which will be under sixty feet
dam the stoekeepe drawled:
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THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP
By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON Aug be reorganized IN the same
w There two reasons Tor
of 1aH
other the short Tune
recovery expires
So far opponents directed most of their campaign
fire against AAA drougts dramatic poSsloeS ou
the administration this continue 1t realizes that
administration
make start correcting obvious faults before the
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testimony. The defendant as
serted that he was attacked by
the other two players and
struck in self-defense. Con-
corning any such hareup the
precise truth Is difficult to de-
termine. but it seemed to me
quite obvious that the jury was
not called uSOn to deal with a
hardened criminal who would
always be a potential danger to
society. As a matter Of fact
murder. although listed as a
capital crime. Is not necessar-
lis the most important trans
gressIon from a social point Of
view.
OF course. I am not contend
inc that every murderer should
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BY WILLIS THORNTON
NUa Ee-vfra StaH Writer

TODAY Austria holds the key
Il to the fate of Europe.
It has held it for 1000 years.
And though the hands are weak
ened and feeble now. the key re-
mains in them. Because Austria
is where it is, it must remain
what it is and always has heen
the fellow who is in the mid
die" between opposing forces
greater than he.
Austria sits at the crossroads OF
Europe. The best route from
north to south, from the Baltic to
the Mediterranean, always has
been that through the Bremen
pass of the Alps-directly through
Austria. The best route from west
to east. from Europe to Asia, al
ways has been that down the
valley of the Danube-directly
through Austria.
So when Germanlc tribes of the
north pressed south in their great
invasions, it was usually in Aus
tria that they did their bitterest
fighting.
And when Turk or Magyar came
pressing westward toward Europe,
it was in Austria that the issue
was decided. So 1t has been for
1000 years-so it is today.
IT is this same squeeze between
Il a restless, thwarted Germany
on the north and a reinvigorated,
expanding Italy on the south that
has Austria in so terrible posi-
ton today. and makes her once
again the key country Of Europe.
1t was much the same 1000
years ago. when the Roman le-
gions we're campaigning farther
and farther from Rome and
throwing up their armed camps
in the distant wilderness of Eng
land, Germany, Asia Minor,
Spain.
Hardy legionnaires plunged
northvard into the forests along
the Danube, but there they were
halted by the wild Germanic
tribes north of that river.
one of the strongest Roman
camps was built on the Danube,
and called Vindobona. Today that
camp is the great city of Vienna,
shaken by the shock of arms as
Italian and German glover at
each other across tAe Danube as
they did 1000 years ago.
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H.JeemC bM
b.
Haywood BROUN

NEW YORK. Aug. III was in court week or
so ago while young man was being tried for
MS life. The nature Of the case was best described
by an attendant who said. This is of those
misdemeaor murders" The defendant drove trucks
vhen ne could get a job. which was only occasion
ally. and he vent into a dice game with two friends
Of approximately his own economic status. They were
playing for the highest stakes in the world. Each
came 10 the point where he was willing to risk
all he had And with $3.50 lying on the cellar floor
a dispute arose as 10 whether the dice had been
thrown properly Somebody picked up a length Of
lead pipe and when the police arrived they found
dead man to deal with. I heard only part Of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-17
LUDLOW OBJECTS TO
OUTSIDE PWA BOSSES
States Own Engineers Qualified to
Supervise, He Says.
By Times Special

SUPERVISE E1c says
BIZ Times Special
WASHINGTON, Aug. ia pro-
test against the assignment of out
side engineers and inspectors TO In
diana projects was lodged today
with the public works administration
by Representative Louis Ludlow.
In writing to E. K. Burlew, head
of the PWA personnel, Mr.. Ludlow
stated: Il will be most appreciative
if you viii look into this matter
and advise me what the facts are.
We have a considerable list of ap-
proved inspectors and engineers who
are Indiana citizens. 1t is my belief
that they should be employed on
these Indiana projects"
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mo, the IVA amt stirred up
much trouble here. We've got to
move out. but they amt morn a
small majority of two or three
in this town what's agin it"
The reason for acquiescence IS
two-fold
l. IVA talks with money, both
in buying properties in the res
ervoir areas. and in employing
thousands of valley men on the
two dam construction jobs-at
Norris near Knoxville and at
Wheeler near Muscle Shoals.
?. TWAS prophets are soft-ped-
aling the laboratory talk, urging
a policy of self-determination.
IN the early days, Director A. E.
Il Morgan and his staff of col
lege trained. energetic young men
got themselves labeled as dam
yankees with fancy notions"
The amazing thing is that the
epithet has disappeared. They
have not evaporated in the face OF
the pressing need of finishing a
big engineering job. In fact, the
biggest construction job that is
going on here is social. 1t may
have come out of a textbook on
sociology. but it has come out.
It is a going concern.
IVA crusaders get in their best
cracks in the brand-new town of
Norris. two miles from the dam.
where the workers live. Here it is
easier to sell the idea of broader
life" than in the homes scattered
about in the valley corn fields.
Take the case of Art Lipscomb,
who operates a "bulldozer" on the
morning shift. For five and a
half hours he and his machine
Scrape stone from handy piles for
the big jaw of the electric shovel.
Quitting at u, he rides to Norris,
takes a shower bath, puts on fresh
clothes in his dormitory room that
is equipped with an electric cool
air vent, and Strolls over TO the
cafeteria.
A QUARTER buys him a meal
N fixed price paid in ad-
vance for a generous trayful. He
sits with his hat on his head and
has no cOmpunctions about the
toothpick at the end of the meal.
Strolling out he stops at the
bulletin board. Notices invite him
to attend courses in radio. short
hand. bee culture. poultry farm
ing. English. His work is over for
the day. he has earned five dol
lars and a half. there is nothing
else going on. He decides to take
up something.
Shying at English and short
hand. he thinks radio might be
worth while. 1t doesn't cost any
thing. He signs up.
IVA policy is full of the mis-
sionary spirit. But it is justified
as a practical, hard-headed pol
icy.
officials reason this way: Here
is the Tennessee valley using
only two-thirds of the electric
power which existing private
plants can generate. We are COM
ing in to generate a whale Of a
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physical fight conducted according to the American
tradition he could not lick hen butterfly with a
fit gun, and the accepted explanation of the famous
battle of the gents room is that he spoke out Of
turn at a moment when he did not have his body
guard at his elbow, and Socked in the eye,
as any one else