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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-07
No European Sabbath There

I NJ afraid roulette won't make the grade Contract
bridge certainly belongs in the cooperative state.
II Karl Marx failed to mention it, that can be at
tributed TO the fact that it not devised until
after his death The Socialist party always has had
a great many good pinochle players among its men,
berS. And l certainly reason why horse rae
ing should not be preserved after the captains
and the kings have departed.
1t never really the sport of kings. 1t is prob
people yelling:
Come on. you Hope Eternal! Ride im!"
L think that a prOletarian culture should
include both bread and circuSeS. The world
could be lot more fun than the old one because.
for one thing it could Danish silly, Sanctimonious
hypocrsies
Somebody woke up with O'Clock tele-
phone call the other morning and asked if I would
not like to contribute some small amount to news
paper advertisement mentioning all the churches in
Miami. I puzzled and asked, "Why?" The
voice replied:
Well. you see. the ministers feel they're not get
ting a fair break in the publicity along with the
night clubs and the race track"
think they get very good break. Miami may
be city of the frontier. far as gambling goes but
It never will countenance the wicked European Sab
bath. Accordingly. the track and all the dog
tracks we're shut up tight yesterday. All the fororn
visitor do is play faro. chemin-de-fer. chuck-a-
luck roulette birdcage hazard wheel of fortune anG
dice. And I'm bad at all Of them
Copyright. 1884. by The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-07
When Man Is Migratory

I TALKED about the matter with Barney Gallant
who is very wise since he is both revolutionst and
restaurateur well. Haywood, you make me tired
he said. Just because you can't win at roulette it
Immediately becomes immoral for anybody else to
clean up at the game. You radicals, half-radicals
and old pretenders have one thing in common. Be-
cause this is an unhappy world in which the good
things are cOrnered by a few, you Immediately be-
gin to attack pleasure as a principle.
L have known you Haywood Broun, as boy and
adolescent for these thirty years and I never ex-
pected to see you turn Puritan But you in
grave danger. 1t is vital of course that nobody
should starve. 1t is also important that nobody
should die of dry rot. Luxury isn't wrong. And
neither is gayety, or even plain foolshneSs, pro-
vided that every one has equal crack at these
essentials of a full life
I think that probably Mr.. Gallant is right In
the almost perfect state there would not be less of
night life and high jnkS but a great deal more.
The coast of Florida in the cooperative state could
be the playground of the millions. OF everybody,
in fact except people living in California. There
is enough to go around and plenty of water,
and the fish draw neither class nor distinctions.
Man has bad habit. When he anything
very lively he straightway builds around it a fence
with gate and then he locks the gate When the
work of the world is properly divided up and amounts
to ten or fifteen hours a week. man can become
migratory again. nature always intended him
be Like the birds of the field he follow the
Each winter it would be necessary to leave no more
than a corporals guard in New York in order to
hold the franchise.
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times in his writing he hewed
thus with a broadaX:
ut behooves every journalist to
warn his readers, whatsoever be
their ranks and conditions, that
unless they set themselves in
earnest to improve the towns in
which they live, and to amend
the dwellings of the poor, they
are guilty before God of wholesale
murder"
The readings, the editing of his
journal and his continued writing
of fiction broke his constitution.
But almost to the last hour of
his life he had a pen in hand.
The reception given the read
ingS on four great tours of Eng
land, Ireland and Scotland and
one of the United States hardly
can be understood today. In
Chautauqua's heyday, in the time
of Acres Of Diamonds" maybe
they could have been. But con-
slider:
Dickens, writing August 5, 1853:
eve had a wonderful night at
Exeter. 1t was a prodigious crowd
and we turned away no end of
people"
August 20, 1858, in Liverpool:
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boy in order to watch capitalism with its hair down
The work is hard, the hours long and the risks
are many In order to worm myself into the
hdenCe OF the ruling class have found it necessary
to play roulette bet the horse races and spend my
mornings in a cabana. When the Socialist republic
has been achieved 1 intend to apply for a couple
Of wound stripes No. just won't ever come up.
The very rich, the pretty rich and those who are
pretending to be rich do not exactly put their best
foot forward when they knuckle down to frivoty.
The sight of stout blond lady smearing twenty five
dollar stacks all over every number in the first and
second dozens is not exactly to make the spec
tatOr agree with the recent statement of John w
Davis in which he held that property rights
sacred things not to be jostled by government
exigencieS
The worst of it was that the large lady with the
very big diamonds was cleaning up on every turn
of the wheel OF the hundred who watched I think
at least three or four must have gone away saying:
I wonder if this actually is the almost perfect
state and whether Thomas Jefferson really meant
that one mans rent should be another mans flier
single O."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-07
Ndnd Starring Anna Sten Soviet Russian Beauty Opens Fdau
at Palace Film Proves Faith of Samuel Goldwy Justified

ON Friday indianapolis movie
~ fans will have their first op-
portunity to see the latest movie
star-Anna Sten-in her first
American-made movie.
Mana" the title of the movie
starring the Soviet Russia beauty.
was made in Hollywood by Sam
uel Goldwyn. who brought Miss
Stem to Hollywood eighteen
months ago because of her world
wide reputation made in the Ger
man film, Brothers Karamazov."
Her work in the film attracted
Mr.. Goldwyn and he sent scouts
to Paris to interview Miss Stem.
AT that time. neither the actress
nor her husband. DR.. Eugene
Frenke, who is skilled in jurispru-
dence and architecture, could
speak either English or French
beyond the memorized lines of
Brothers Karamazov.
1t was necessary to use an in
terpreter. She asked as many
questions regarding Hollywood
and the American method of max
ing movies as the representative
of Mr.. Goldwyn asked her about
her film experience.
1t required eighteen months to
teach her English and to coach
her in the many scenes she has
in Mana" She studied and
worked until she was able to play
scene after scene in Mana" with
Lionel Atwill. Richard Bennett,
Mae Clarke. Phillips Holmes and
Muriel Kirkland.
The tremendous receptions that
Mana" has received in New York
and Chicago in the face of the
serious opposition Of Greta Gar
DO in Queen Christina" proves
that the faith Mr.. Goldwyn had
in Miss Stem was justified.
Mana is the story of the rise
and fall OF a lady of the boule-
wards and the music halls of
gas-lit Paris in 1870.
It is one Of the big movies of
the year and serves -splendidly as
an Introductory vehicle for Miss
Sten as a Hollywood star.
Mana opens Friday az Loew's
Palace.
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much that did not wish to deceive the readers
On the contrary afraid they might not be de-
ceived.
Still, the photographer hated to give up on these
two He said Dempsey always posed with an apron
making beds and doing Dishes even at the Murray
Hill hotel
But along in the afternoon I said, Lets you go
down somewhere and catch a fish" and the Babe
said, All right"
So went down to a pier on the Hudson and
borrowed a fish pole from a and the Babe sat
on pile in his sulpher- colored flannel pants and
grinned and fShed He didn't catch any fish, though,
and we had to have one, so said I would grab a !
cab and go across Broadway and be right back with
fish.
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journal, Household Words" later
called "All the Year Round" were
based upon disclosures that condi-
tons such as these were allowed
to exist:
Houses and lanes so mean and
desolate and rotten that one
might reasonably suppose them to
be bred, as men once said of croco-
dileS, in all their loathsomeneSS
from the surrounding filth
He wrote of a dead child he saw
on a shelf, waiting for its father
to earn the coffin" He wrote of
a slum landlord who lived in
understanding eerie on a high
hill, fattening on the rents of
Slaughterhouse Court" which
even the Starlings skirted.
People read to him. To the
last, almost every word he wrote
had prodigious circulation. At his
public readings, to which in his
later years he gave increasing in
terest, the houses were packed.
COMETIMES in the readings he
- suggested reforms merely
through quoting from David
Copperfield' or "Pickwick." Some
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-07
Just an Old, Dry Fish

A that, the man who owned the pole said he
N would lend us a fish, too, and opened a news
paper lying there in the sun and unrolled a dry,
rigid fish about eight inches long which he had
caught many hours before. 1t the only fish
caught the pier all day and in return for the
loans took picture of the gazing, enviousy,
the outlines said when the picture came out in
the paper, at the Babe.
I suppose this man his heirs have the clipping
yet.
Mr. Al Smith struck a blow at photo journalism
when he called that kind of pictures "booney pic
lures" but do not think the harm permanent
for am beginning to see more of the same coming
up out of the south just now There was one show
ing Bill Terry, the manager Of the Giants pushing
lawn roller and am just shrewd enough to suspect
that the manager of the New York Giants has too
much professional pride and too much to do to go
showing lawn roller around the ball park in person.
The booney picture does not seriously deceive
anybody but provides harmless entertainment and
fills in the periods between billiards. in the north,
hurricanes in Florida and earthquakes in Los
Angeles.
I notice though that whether, because of Mr.
Smiths remark or for other very few
booney pictures have been coming out of the White
House run. There was one recently of Mr. Roose-
velts new dog. a setter, cleaning plate following
the story of the dogs having eaten up twenty
portions of ham and eggs but dog pictures and most
other animal pictures legitimate human interest
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-07
MULLEN OFFERS TO
QUIT POLITICAL JOB
White House Pressure on
Lawyer Gets Results.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, March 7. - The
administrations drive to divorce
party politics and legal fees today
netted the proffered resignation o.
Arthur Mullen Sr. of Omaha, Neb.,
as chairman of the Democratic
national committee.
Mr.. Mullen, an original Roosevelt
man in the 1882 Chicago convention
and an ardent campaigner, stub
bornly resisted pressure that saw
other committeeman lawyers quit
their posts. 1t was generally as
sumed the White House finally &C
complished what even Postmaster
General James A. Farley appeared
unable to bring about.
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by sewing serSelf a hat. She
didn't really sew any hat She
got out an old birds nest and
posed with it in her lap as the
Babe ogled the needles eye I'M
til the photographer said,
"Okay." When he said "Okay"
that closed the hat scene.
1t was an off-day fol- some
reason and we thought of many
homely activities for the Babe
and the late Mrs. Ruth. The
photographer kept on suggesting
that he borrow an apron from
some one in the kitchen and
pretend to be making a bed with
Mrs. Ruth or helping her wipe
dishes. But they were living in
a big hotel at the time and that
-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-07

Smith on the stage, and I've Got
Your Number" on the screen at
the Indiana; Bottoms Up on
the stage. and The Poor Rich"
on the screen at the Lyric; 1T
Happened One Night" at the
Circle; David Harum," at the
Apollo, and burlesque at the Mu-
tual and Rialto.
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Fair Enough
By
Westbrook PeqIer

nNE day when Babe Ruth celebrity
" was assigned to go around with him and do a
living, human document a day in the life of
great man. We made photographs of the highspotS,
including a study of the Babe answering imagi-
nary phone call with one finger holding down the
hook and another of the Babe biting his tongue and
squirting at the eye of needle he went through
the motions Of threading the same so that Mrs.
Ruth, the first, could strut her frugal domesticity
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-07

ant evening of music presented
under the direction of Ferdinand
Schaefer in the Murat theater
last night.
Drawing upon the works of
composers of four different ma
tionalities, the orchestra COM
bined them into a well-rounded
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-07
BY WILLIAM ENGLE
Times Special Writer


IN the library at Tavistock house,
= in London, three-quarters of
a century ago, aging Dickens
wrote something on a bitter moot
matter which remains a concern
so contemporary and bedeviling
that within the last month New
York has empowered a commits
sion to look into it and spend
100000.
This, in his characteristic angu-
lar handwriting, is what he wrote:
THE reform of the peoples
habitations must precede all other
reforms; without it all other re-.
forms must fail.
Neither religion nor education
will make any way until a gov
eminent shall have discharged its
first obligation and secured to the
people homes instead Of polluted
dens."
He wrote "a government He
recognized the states obligation
to do precisely what the municipal
housing authority Of New York
now proposes to undertake-sub-
sidize housing.
ENGLAND since his day has
Il gone long way in meeting
his demands. The drain that
meandered from Kensington Gar
dens and then, open, ran into the
slums of Chelsea, is there no more.
The 'insanitary abuses" he fought
have been abated. Town plan
ming has become a custom. Gar
den cities have been plotted. Eng
land for years has been far ahead
of the United States in it's ef-
fort to solve the problem of shell
tering the poor in an industrial
civilization.
Now, in the same month that
Dickens story of the New Tesla
ment is to be published in New
York, New Workers are address,
ing themselves to one of the hui
manitarian projects to which, in
his last decade, he gave his most
ardent enthusiasm.
1t is true that Chelsea prob
ably in his time was even less
habitable than New York's lower
east side now; he had to call for
common decency to prevent a
recurrence of cholera or a vista
ton of plague; but sociologists
say that at this moment there are
no more dreadful SlumS in Bonn
bay or Port Said, or anywhere.
than in New York.
Through all of the last decade
of Dickens life, his passion was
reform. All kinds of social re-
form. His critics point out that
he had no program; his defenders
point out that he turned so bright
a light upon injustices that they.
themselves, commanded programs.
lie had a fine taste in hor-
Z a rors," says Stephen Leacock
in his new biography AS England
entered its era of naturalization
its heyday of ruggedly individual
istic landlords and boards of di-
rectors, he had plenty of them to
choose from. And this is what w.
Walter Crotch says of his revela-
ton of them:
Whatever the housing acts
have accomplished toward mitiga-
ton Of this crying social question,
Dickens is entitled to the credit;
for though his was not the hand
to draw up their provisions, with
out his pleadings they would never
have been passed
His pleadingS. as he edited his
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-07
TWO HELD IN ROBBERY
One Admits A. g. P. Theft During
Night, Police Say.

Following a report of a burglary
at the A. & P. grocery at 129 North
Delaware street last night, police
arrested Wilbur E Smith, 1S, Flag
staff, Ariz., Salvation Army hotel,
and George Knapp. %, Of 222 East
Wabash street. They are held on
charges of vagrancy under high
bond. Smith is said by police to
have admitted the burglary.
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y that I tnOugn ne I'D not de-
serve the full and complete ex-
PLANTATION. But I will be glad to
give it in confidence in this
column. Three or four clients
have written here TO ask why I
went away when so many con-
tentious issues were still upper
most in the news. It would be
easy to say that they still will
be uppermost when I get back
and that my absence at most
will only delay the revolution
for another ten days. But the
truth is that I'm a spy.
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IT Seems to Ne
By
Haywood Broun

MIAMI BEACH. Fla, March 7.-As I emerged
WI through the portals of palatial night club
I ran into a rival newspaper commentator who
greeted me cautiously so here's Broun. the re-
former and the radical" he said. Down with the
idle rich in Miami playing roulette!" I answered
Jelly that had not been playing roulette but merely
a little birdcage and that in any case 1 was in
Florida for my health which latterly had been pre-
carious. The attitude of the fellow unfriend
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-07
Drug Store Loot Is s312

Thieves entered a drug store at
1901 North Pennsylvania street,
operated by Walter Stedfeld, 5615
North Pennsylvania street, some
time last night and stole cigarets
and cash with a total value of
1912, Mr.. Stedfeld reported to police.
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Back in England, fighting for
reform with "All the Year Round"
continuing his public readings,
writing the never finished "Mys-
terry Of Edwin Brood" he kept
on draining his strength. Why,
it is hard to tell. His friends
said he wanted to provide for his
children; but he already had
$500,000 and large income; and
most Of the children we're out in
the world. Anyway, he never let
down.
IT seems more likely that he
Il worked on because work was
his life than because he wanted
more income. His determination
to present in the most forceful
way in a reading the murder
scene in which Bill Skies kills
Nancy in OLIVER Twist" indicated
that. How forceful the way was
may be guessed from what hap
pened one time when he rendered
it at Clifton.
Twenty women tainted and were
carried out.
Undoubtedly, too, he wanted to
wrench his mind away from per-
sonal bereavement.
He had separated from his
. wife, and he had written to his
friend, John Forster, says Forster
in the story of his life:
Poor Catherine and I are not
made for each other, and there is
no help for it. 1t is not only that
she makes me uneasy and I'M
happy but that I make her so,
too, and much more So"
Thackeray, his old intimate,
after the happy end of long,
unjustified arrangement, had
died on Christmas eve, 1868, and
that had been a blow to Dickens.
A harder blow had been the death
on the same day of Walter, his
soldier son, of the Forty Second
Highlanders, in India. There was
not so much laughter in the last
years in the big Georgian house
on Gad's Hill.
DICKENS wrote on against the
~ glowering hours. He kept
returning to the platform anG he
spoke on. He did so until
March night in 1870, and then he
said his brief farewell to the
public.
To the throng that night he
read from "Pickwick" and "a
Christmas Carol" and he said:
From these garish lights, I
vanish now forevermore, with a
heartfelt, grateful, respectful, af-
fectionate farewell"
Within three months Leacock
recalls an American visitor in
London wrote:
'The crowds seemed to walk the
streets with muffled feet"
And the London Times said:
Charles Dickens is no more.
The loss Of such man makes the
ordinary expression of regret seem
cold and conventional. It will be
felt by millions as nothing else
than a personal bereavement"
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DEMOCRATIC Rally Arranged

A Democratic rally will be held at
62l Massachusetts, avenue at 8 to-
morrow night under the auspices Of
the Eleventh Ward Democratic Club.
The public is invited.
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IN the Theatrical World
BY WALTER D. HICKMAN
Symphony in Fine Concert

OyITIPIIUTTy TIT TIC OUIIOOI
ITO say repeatedly that "the
Il indianapolis Symphony Or
chestra is playing better and bet
ter" soon will make that state
ment a cliche.
But that it is true was evil
denced by the exceptionally pleas
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-07
IMMORTAL DICKENS MARCHES ON
His C1sades gaist Ss Has Counterpart in Ne70 York To

This is the concluding article of a
series describing the life. personality
and career Of Charles Dickens, whose
posthumous work, The Life Of Our
Lord" is being published seriaIly in The
Times.
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Now in City TheaterS

INDIANAPOLIS theaters today
Il offer: The Cat and the Fid-
de" at Loew's Palace; Kate
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Freak Potatoes, Too

IN fact, when Mr.. Smith was Governor of New
York every who managed to catch possum,
fox owl would send it to the Governor for his
kids, who pretty soon found themselves with fair
sort OF minor league their hands. The papers
did not neglect the Governors kids ZOO If such are
boloney, then Mr.. Smith has sliced his share.
The Presidents also used to be the targets for a
great cargo Of tWoheaded calves and freak potatoes
which happened to grow into remote human like
nesses Of Abe Lincoln but Mr.. Roosevelt seems to
have discouraged his loving and publicity loving
friends in various parts of the country who other
wise might send him all such trash.
Mr.. Harding victim Of some exceedingly
booney pictures notably one showing a reception
for a stout female in Oriental costume claiming to
be an Egyptian princess whose encourage when the
police got look at the rotogravures was seen to
include two Of the most notorious picture crashers
in the country. They were boys whose only weakness
was gaudy uniforms and newspaper photographs.
one pants presser and the other clerk by trade
and they had shown up the White House lawn
wearing masquerade suits and claiming to be
Egyptian admirals
But very strangely the boloniest presidential
picture OF them all caught very sharp President
Mr. Coolidge, in the act of shaking few sprigs of
clover off hayfork on his fathers acres in YER
mont attred in presidential business suit and
wearing high, stiff linen collar. After that I
thought maybe it had been mistake not to take
one of the Babe doing dishes in his swell New
York hotel.
Copyright. 1884 by United Feature Syndicate 1nc)
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A DOubt-Inspiring Sight

I AM a proletarian who has
nut nr, Tho mia nf a r,1nr-
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1934-09-20
$5,54z A MAHONINC
MECYEI FARMEREKNEK

Amig orszagszerte a kormany
nehez szazmilliokat oszt XII q
farmerek kozt azert, inert nerl
neveltek bizonyos szamu diszn6-
kat es inert korlatoztak kukorica
tcrmesuket, Mahoning megye
farmerjeinek csak $5,542-t osz.
tottak XII napokban es Trum-
bull megye farmerjei csak $419-t
kaptak.
A farmer, aki disznot nevelt,
az rosszul jart, inert mire levag-
ia disznajat es ait eladta es meg
fizette az adot, alig maradt neki
belole valami. A varosi munkas
pedig, akinek disznohus egyik
f6taplaleka, dacara, hogy kerese-
te mem legjobb, kenytelen sok-
kal dragabban vasarolni a disz-
nohust, zsirt, szalonnat, stb.
Hat bizony ez is egyike az
"okos" demokrata tudosok csuda
bogarainak.