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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
FILLING STATIONS
WORKER COMPLAINS
BY A Reader

BY Reader
I wish to bring to light, as serv-
ice station operator for a large pc
troleum company the unfair stand
the various companies have taken
on gasoline shortages.
To explain to those unfamiliar
with the term shortage, gasoline. be
ing very volatile, responds readily to
heat and cold.
Hot gasoline taken from above
ground storage tanks and hauled TO
service stations and placed in cool,
below ground storage, contracts or
shrinks, causing a loss to the oper-
ator who pays not the company
cost on the product but list price
plus the state tax.
Is it fair, We ask, TO continue
with such practice when according
to state records all petroleum COM
panies are allowed 3 per cent by
the state for evaporation.
When the state acknowledges and
gives this allowance to the petrol
cum companies, We, as service men,
feel that it is very unfair that a
portion Of this allowance is not
passed on TO US.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
HITLER'S RETREAT

Mussolini is beng cheered as the interna-
tional hero in the Austrian crisis He deserves
credit for acting quickly to warn Germany
that Austrian independence is inviolate. Italv,s
selfish interest in retaining a buffer Austria
between herself and encroaching Germany
happened in this instance to jibe with the
larger interest of world peace
But we are inclined to think that Hitler
should share the peace laurels with MussoIini
Sometimes a retreat requires more courage
than an advance. And Hitler certainly has
been running backward very fast during the
last two days
Whether Hitler had any direct connection
with the Austrian Nszi rising perhaps NAV
never be known. but his indirect responsibility
was clear When Hitler's minister in Vienna
tried to help the Dollfuss assaSsins escape
safely into Germany. the danger of allied in
tervention in defense of Austria and against
Germany became immediate.
Faced by the united powers of Europe and
hostile world opinion. a quick Hitler retreat
was in order. Although that seems obvious
from distance it could not have been easv
Tor Hitler. Because he was letting down not
only his Austrian followers. but also the Ger
man Nazis. To retreat. Hitler had to breast
the Nazi fanaticiSm which he himself had
evoked. This will not increase his popularity
in his own party.
Even so. Hitler is not vet in the clear in the
Austria crisis. Several hasty gestures of pro
fesSed neutrality by the Berlin government
have helped to preserve European peace during
the last forty-eight hours. but that neutrality
will not be taken seriously for long if Hitler
persists in allowing his armed Austrian Nazis
10 use Germany as a military base for Austrian
invaSions
Hitlers retreat is not finished.
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S. Houston at an expense of half a
million dollars to the taxpayers. On
previous fishing trips he has been
the guest aboard the Aston yacht,
thus saving any expense 10 the gov
eminent.
The First Lady is sightseeing
over the land on her way to visit
her daughter, Anna Roosevelt Dali,
who with Sistie and Buzzie, is es-
tablishing a residence at Reno for
the purpose of emulating her
brother, Elliott, by getting a di-
Vorce
The Presidents mother, Mrs
James Roosevelt, is enjoying teas
and parties in England, some at
Buckingham Palace, with the king
and queen of Britain.
Two of the Roosevelt boys dropped
into Washington a few days ago
and found the White House closed.
The princelings of Americas royal
family did not know of the pres
ence in the capital of each other
until they met in fashionable
hotel.
Many Hoosiers sweltering at home
no doubt would like to follow the
example of the first family in the
matter of vacations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
Capital Capers
by GEORGE ABEL =

CHORT, Stocky Ambassador Alexander Troya-
~ novsky of Soviet Russia Thursday called at
the state department to open negotiations for
the settlement of American debt and damage
claims against his country.
Promptly at 10 o'clock Envoy Troyanovsky,
wearing a light brown suit, brown shoes and
black and white tie emerged from the elevator
en- route to the office of Judge R. Walton Moore,
assistant secretary of state.
Il am very optimistic of reaching an amicable
accord" he said briefly.
Lanky, amiable Judge Moore greeted his
visitor with typical Virginia cordially.
How are yo' Mr.. Ambassadors" he beamed
The judge looked unusually Swank in dark
gray coat white f1annelS black and white shoes
and blue and white tie.
There seemed to be a black and white motif
about the entire assemblage, perhaps I'M
conscious reflection of the shadows and lighter
aspects of the situation. Secretary Hula
symphony of light gray-had also donned black
and white shoes and polka-dotted tie.
The conference between Troyanovsky, Hull
and Moore, lasted almost two hours.
A photographer, taking pictures of the trio,
said to Secretary Hull:
Make out like you're talking, Mr.. Secretary"
We'll, there's plenty to talk about" retorted
Hull smiling
Later, an official communique was issued:
The conversations were conducted in thor
oughly friendly atmosphere and with a sincere
disposition to reach an agreement. There will
be another meeting next week"
A RGENTINE AMBASSADOR FELIPE ESPIL
IA has been spending so much time at the
Oxon Hill estate Of Mr.. Sumner Welles, assistant
secretary of state that the diplomatic corps is
gnawing its respective mustaches cor lips) with
sheer envy.
Last week the shrewd Argentine envoy (soli-
citous about Argentine trade motored up from
Hot Springs to see the elegant Sumner who now
definitely controls the United States Latin
American policy.
Diplomats buzzed, gossiped, limited Won
dered what Espil was trying to put across"
I love the country" replied astute Felipe
Again this week, Felipe was guest at the
OXon Hill manor.
Sumner Welles is a delightful host" purred
clever Felipe.
Diplomats visioned prophetic tea leaves float
ing on Host Summers swimming pool.
TINE Austrian troubles brought quick roper
l. cussion in Washington. Minister Prochnik,
monocled envoy of Chancellor DolfuSs, read the
bulletins forwarded from his legation to his
cottage at Rehoboth Beach, Del. He issued no
statement. but was said to be returning post
haste to Washington.
Reports that Italian troops were being
modified along the Austrian frontier caused
black mustached Signor Giuseppe Tommasi,
charge daffares of Italy, TO leap in his roadster
and spaed to the state department.
Whats the news? What's the news?" asked
Giuseppe. evidently much excited.
He was told all the Developments, including
the Italian mobilization order.
Struggling eloquently. Giuseppe exclaimed:
NO no, no, mol That must be great exag-
seration."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28

BY the Scribbler.
I have wondered often that in
an age when there are literally
thousands of intellectual, we'll
bred citizens of marked ability
and apparently reasonable judg-
ment in assessing values, they
should at the same time accept
with such ravenous gullibility the
utterances of a certain daily syn
dictate column.
Watson in his Meanings of
Liberal Education" warns that
this distorted sense of values"
is the greatest shortcoming of our
civilization.
Arthur Brisbane, author of the
column in question, receives some
$4,000 a year through his pot
boiling methods. With this COM
Portable revenue assured, the
author of the column is quite con-
tent to spend $50 worth of mental
energy on a scent issue and vice.
versa.
I have long proceeded along the
theory that every written or ut
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
JUSTICE AND CASE
OF DILLTNGER

BY Mrs. J. F. Brengle.
Since the general public has
evinced so much interest in the Dill
linger case, I can not let it pass
without expressing my opinion on
some of the high lights.
Now that he is dead and the pub
lies idea of justice surfeited, per-
haps it is well to ask ourselves, was
justice really done?
Some of the morbid curiosity
seekers who dipped handkerchiefs in
the slain mans blood, others with
out consent of his family holding an
autopsy and mutilating his body,
and still others who stampeded his
relatives home to get glimpse of
him, do not seem to be in keeping
with civilized country or necessary
to melting out justice.
If we are so anxious to see justice
done, let us see it done in all walks
of life. We are a peculiar people.
We over dramatic the depredations
of a Dillinger while we wink at the
nefarious practices of so-called bust
ness men, who probably do just as
much harm, but who through legal
counsel and technicalities of law,
manage to escape punishment.
There is nothing commendable in
Dillinger's career. He was bank
bandit and possibly murderer. He
held up banks at the point of gun,
but he didn't stand behind a win
dow and blandly smile while taking
your money like some of our bank
ers did when they knew their banks
were insolvent, and through aSinine
court rulings and decisions, escape
without punishment.
Strip Dillinger of all the glamour
and drama, and we have left about
the same kind of a man our re-
spected bankers and insults are.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
CAN'T SEE BENEFIT IN
PROHIBITION REPEAL
BY Still Hlusloned.

BY Still Illusioned
The public was bamboozled into
expecting that prohibition repeal
would bring undreamed of pros
perity, putting all the idle city work.
ers to work, finding glorious mar
ket for farm SURPRISES, raising farm
product prices and annihilating the
bootleg business.
Speakeasies were to be no more.
The federal budget was to be bal
anced by liquor revenue, the ex-
pense of liquor violation trials
would stay in the treasury, and
everybody would again be safe on
the highways.
No more nip pocket TASKS or high
school boy and girl drinkers; the
liquor dispensers would be "regulat-
ed" and moonshine would be only
for lovers lane.
1t just takes a subservient press
and plenty Of boloney to keep us
smiling. We are drinking our way
to prosperity, while bootleggers sell
two-thirds Of the liquor.
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er's retreat is not finished.
CONSIDER THE CAUSE

y INNING down the big-time crooks and
putting them behind the bars or under
the sod is an important Job, and We seem to
be doing well at IL Of late.
An equally important Job. which. so far.
We have hardly so much as thought about
is finding out how the big-time crooks get
that way
What happens. along the line between
babyhood and adulthood. 70 turn a man into
an enemy OF society? Why does one man
grow UP into useful citizen and another into
a CANISTER? Is there any way in which We
can develop more Of the first kind and fewer
Of the second?
When YOU get 10 wondering along these
lines, its often useful to have look at juve-
nile court records.
These Will show you some rather surprising
things.
They show. for one thing, that the great
cause OF crime is-poverty.
Not the poverty that makes a man steal
70 get bread for his family. but the poverty
that condemns a child 10 be brought up in
oongested Stun. with the street for his play
ground and his whole environment a subtle
but powerful force to teach him that organ
lied society is his enemy.
Look AZ these figures from the juvenile
court Of a representative city such as Cleve-
land
There are two comparable congosted areas
in that city. each Inhabited by people of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
Mr.. Brisbane's Parachute Jumper Scare

tered word should exhibit some
degree of penetration and weigh
with consideration both the pro
and con.
Too often I believe that the
penetration of Mr.. Brisbane is
overshadoWed if not totally OBJ
scured. Ultra-modernism unres-
strained is not seldom the diStort-
ing factor.
The columnist has observed re-
Gently that Russia is training
some million parachute jumpers
this year.
Mr.. Brisbane does not exactly
prescribe that we emulate the
action of the Communist repup-
lie but has seen fit to comment
that Russia is doing things" and
infers that we are not above the
danger of being caught behind the
times.
True, Russia is doing things;
still my conservatism induces me
to believe that a nation of para
chute jumpers will gain but little
aScendancy over those who re-
main on terra firma.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
EXPANSION OR CHAOS
DECLARED INEVITABLE
BY a Radical.

BY Radical
The Presidents query as to
whether we are better off than a
year ago is construed to mean that
we are on the right track to find
employment for the 100000 per-
sons still unemployed. If that is
true, how much will government
spending have to be multiplied be-
fore those now idle can become
contributors to the wealth of the
nation, instead of forced parasites
on existing wealth?
If capitalism could restore nor
NAL balance without using public
credit for pump printing, it had
plenty OF time to demonstrate it.
1t is extremely doubtful whether
capitalism can ever be revived.
even with the clutches of federal
credit, props to business, and re
lief doles" to victims of our anti
quated system of distribution and
production.
II our hopes are based on false
premises, the resulting disaster will
bring the temporarily fortunate and
the unfortunate down together in
common chaos.
The life of capitalism is predi-
Gated on continuous expansion. N
which the profits of capitalism are
invested in new enterprise.
If expansion fails to absorb profits,
these profits strangle consumer pur-
chasing power, and 50 spell death
to the capitalistic system.
New developments have not taken
place IN five years, and are not in
sight at present.
Why keep kidding ourselves about
restoring prosperity through codes
and doles? The handwriting is on
the wall unless capitalism develops
immediate new avenues for invest
ment Of profits" taken from con-
sumers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
DIDN'T LIKE EDITORIAL
ABOUT DILLINGER

By c. w.
The person who wrote the edi-
toriaI entitled Sleep, Little Man"
must be jealous because his con-
science wouldn't let him do the
things Dillinger did. AT least, the
editorial leads one to believe that.
This person calls Dillinger cheap.
He isn't half as cheap as crooked
banker or a crooked politician be-
cause he did give the bankers
chance to fight, and they never gave
the people a chance.
Dillinger never had the nerve to
go straight, but he did have the
nerve to fight for the things he
missed IN the years he was locked
in prison.
Why not show mercy to Dillinger?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
l aOhOty dasapprove Of whGt yoW sag and wiU
defend to the death your right to sag it.-Votaire

remember, the radio started about
that time on it's great progress in
building powerful stations and burn
ing up the air.
Station WLW has completed the
most powerful station in the world
and it is said that if bird should
fly within six or seven feet of this
tower, it would burn.
Without doubt these stations over
the country are taking the moisture
out of the air.
In your paper several days ago
there was an article about an cleo
trical invention that would destroy
million men.
1 think it would be a good thing
to close all broadcasting stations
in the United States for a period
of sixty to ninety days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
GOVERNMENT
KEEPS MOVING

BY Mrs. Nora z. Wills.
We in Indiana have been treated
TO a new style administration. We
have so far progressed from OK cart
days until I'VE are used to a tourist
government with our governor fly
ing, yachting or motoring to the
four corners of the nation on the
slightest provocation.
However. the Washington admin
istration has broken all records
with the cabinet and new dealers on
vacations or travelling at Uncle
Sans expense.
The President heads the list with
an excursion to Hawaii on the U. S.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

or revolvers, all in the hands of one or more
government agents. The agents are to be
highly commended for their efficient partici-
patton in the occurrence"
In its laconic brevity and salty expressive
ness. this verdict has a tang not unlike those
which used to be recorded in the wild west
Of frontier days. 1t tells the whole story in
two sentences. Short and grim, it is a fit
ting eptaph for a gunman.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
OPPOSES GAS PLANT
BUYING BY CITY

By Gas Consumer
There ought to be rush to get
the city to buy the gas plant, be-
cause, if the city don't take The
lemon off the hands of the owners,
the stockholders will have to suck
that lemon themselves.
With electricity available for
cooking at 21a cents a kilowatt, the
line of gas customers will dwindle
rapidly.
In some cities in the country the
gas plants have been dismantled.
Hurry, you politicians, and dump
this sweet morsel into the tax
payers lap.
Electricity can be made for less
than q cent kilowatt. So why
bother with gas?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
DECLARES SELF FOR
JOHN DHLINGER

BY NJ z. B.
I am for John Dillinger. Not that
I am unfolding him in any of his
crimes; that is, if he did any.
Why should the law have wanted
John Dillinger for bank robberies?
He wasn't any worse than bankers
and politicians who took the poor
peoples money.
Dillinger did not rob poor people.
He robbed those who became rich
by robbing the poor. I'm for john
ME and I have sympathy for John
DiIlinger ST..
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
OUTLAWS FAREWELL

before the case Of John Dillinger lapses
- into final obscurity. it is worth while to
have a glance at the verdict of the coroners
jury which examined into his death The
verdict reads as follows:
John Dillinger came to his death from
the wounds Of bullets fired from a revolver
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
Daily Thought

Weakness, temperance: against
such there is no laW.-GaIatians
5:23.
MEEKNESS is the grace which,
AVA from beneath Gods footstool,
hts up a candid and conhding eye,
accepting Gods smile of fatherly af-
lection, and adoring those perfec-
lions which it can not comprehend.
james Hamilton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
BLAMES RADIO
FOR DROUGHT
By H. c. 1.

By H. c. 1.
The United States and Canada
are suffering from the worst
drought in history. The droughts
have been getting worse for the
last eight or nine years and as I
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
The Message Center

(Ttmes readers are tnvtted to cypress
their Vietos in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all con have O chance.
Limit them to ESQ s0ords or tess.J
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28

Was he not human like you or l.?
He had a soul and a heart. Every
body has a right to express his
thoughts, but admired him be-
cause he had enough nerve to carry
him through as long as it did.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
FREEDOM
BY ALGs WACHsTETTER

BY ALGS WACHSTETTER
Quietly 1 leave you
Ny going makes no sound,
I am just a brown leaf
Fallen to the ground.
I was a leaf in summer
Clinging to you, a tree,
Now it is October ~.
I am fallen, but am free.
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ALcOTT POWELL
EARL y. BAKER
Phoue Riley 555i
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Give Ltghf ana the
People WGl FtHa
Thew Otrn Way
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-22
Pebbles Brought Word Calculate

ALCUATE developed from the counting stones OF the Romans
~ the little The Latin
this calculus dninute
Calculus verb calcUare
parcpe "cacuauS the immediate origin
o Calculate"
Cfew brings the minds of students of ancient customs the life
middle
their The time announced by the ringing of bell called
medieval curfu it has
o modern English "curfew."
In the AngoSaXon language neah meant nigh or near
dweLer combined
with broadened
the modern world
broker according the information provided this word
The old
"oer dialectal of brocher"
liquor"
pedder
beginning
dignity.
display throughout this week.
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which does not understand and
pardon is not love at all, you
wouldn't be losing any thing really
worth having.
A marriage which is to represent
a close union of two spirits can not
succeed when one of the partners
hides an important secret. Even if
your husband never discovered the
truth, the fear that ne might would
be with you always to corrode and
poison your happiness. Thus do the
shadows of the past often cast their
dark forms over the happiness of
the present.
If the man has any Judgment at
all, he will admire your courage and
honor your honesty. These qualities
are more valuable in a wife than
the strictest adherence to the
purity ideal" Start your marriage
on the foundation of truth and be
free from harassing fears of dis
covery. And remember that a sharp
break, if 1t comes, is preferable to
years Of secret torment.
Dear Jane Jordan-Why do so
many decent women have chasers
for husbands, and why do so
many chasing women marry de-
cent men? In our neigllborhood
there is woman of this kind. Her
first man died and now she has
another decent man, but she
hasn't changed her ways any.
PUZZLED,
Answer-This particular type of
nliSmating is no more frequent than
other marital diSharmonieS. Ac-
cording to one student of the sub
ject, the ominous type of our times
is the person who is unable to love
with his soul and his body at the
same time Thus it happens that
people are divided into soul types
and body types.
When the soul man mates with
the body woman, or the body man
with the soul woman, we have the
cleareSt expression of an unhappy
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-22
ELWOOD MAN HEADS
INDIANA PATRIARCHS
Elmo GuStin is New Teacher
of |. o. o. r. Group.

In an election conducted by mail,
Elmo Gustin, ElwoOd, was reelected
for a three-year term to the Office
of brigadier- general and comman-
der of the Indiana department Of
the PatriarchS Militant, Indepen-
dent Order of Odd Fellows.
Other officers elected for three
year terms we're colonel, first regi-
ment, Henry ROeSener, Indianap-
oils; neutenant-co colonel. first regi-
ment. r. B. Kolthoff, Lafayette;
major. second battalion, first regi-
ment, w. E. Hiatt. indianapolis. and
major, third battalion. first regi-
ment, Walter incl. Anderson.
Colonel. second regiment. Earl
Clinton, East Chicago: lieutenant
colonel, second regiment, Charles
CriSt, Hammond; major, second
battalion. second regiment. Elmer
Brattin, KokomO: major, third bat
talon, second regiment, James En-
yer, Marion, and major. fourth bat
talon, second regiment, A. w.
Schuyler. East Chicago.