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Evening star., 1934-02-08
Case of the Poor Indian
Now Arrives in the Movies
Richard Barthelmess, as Joe Thunder Horse
Tells Troubles in Washinston-Week's
New Pictures. Two Opening Today.
BY E. de S. MELCHER.

~HE Warner to the defense Of the Indian in
their latest propaganda fm Massacre" which opened
yesterday at the Metropolitan. Pointing stern finger
governmental atrocities out in the reservations they
imply that well in the land OF the subdued tomaawk
Indian is getting badly gypped certain
more raucauS revolutiOniStS across the seas
Evening star., 1934-02-08
New Seaport Busy.

In its first year as a seaport, due to
the dredging Of deep water channel,
Stockton. Calf, handled 3Oe, 262 tons
of freight
Evening star., 1934-02-08
Forest Area Treated.

Civilian Conservation Corps workers
treated $1,000 acres in Sequoia Ma
rodents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-20

are sapping the very life out Of hu-
mainly just for the almighty dol
lar that they can grasp, it is a
shame that will take them to their
graves.
In the last three years I have been
forced to lose my home, just as
many Of you have experienced. I
placed a loan on my home with a
big insurance company, that has a
branch here. I invested several
thousands of my own money in the
building of my home and as the
conditions got worse instead of bet
ter foreclosure proceedings took
place My date of redemption ran
out and Immediately I was served
with notice from Remy, Harris &
Remy, attorneys, for the Prudential
that 1 must vacate or be put out.
Now in the name of justice, I
went to the home loan and filed an
application for a loan. the loan was
duly taken care of and offered to
the Prudential and the company
refused fatty the home loan offer.
so justice, brotherhood and the gen
eral welfare Of man did not count
for anything, yet they insist in liv-
ing their lives without respect to
common justice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-20
PRICES OUTRUN WAGES

DR1CES are running away from wages, the
American Federation of Labor reveals
through its monthly survey of business
Workers buying power, taken as a whole,
has advanced Al per cent since March, 1888 A
gain of $1,784 900 900, due to CWA. PWA and
unemployment by private industry, is sub
stantial enough, but it is offset by price in
creases in the same time of % per cent.
1t is the lag of individual workers buying
power that is serious. Since March, 1888, the
average workers pay envelope increased from
$1951 to $2124 week This is a gain of 89
per cent. AS against this gain food prices rose
20 per cent and clothing and furnishings 284
per cent in the same period.
If wage increases are more than eaten up
by raises in the cost of necessities, where will
the workers find funds with which to buy new
houses, radios, automobiles and other comforts
of life?
There is no justification for the large
price increases which have been made in many
products" says the federation. Code mechan-
isms have been used for price profteering.
This is contrary to the purpose of the recovery
act Price control is one of the chief prob
lens before us. 1t is of prime interest to labor,
for wage increases have been completely can
called by rising costs of living. The individual
workers real wage is no higher than it was a
year ago, in spite of all efforts to raise it,"
Greed can kill the benefits of the new
DEAL and profteers can halt recovery Bust
ness can not have its cake and eat it, too.
Either it must raise wages faster or curb
prices.
There is work ahead for the new consumer
councils being established throughout the
country by the national emergency council
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-20
TODAY'S EMOTIONS

THERE isn't any doubt about it. Men and
women, quite often do not speak the
same language. Or maybe we do but we
react differently. Our emotional responses are
not alike.
We aren't speaking. you understand, about
the acrobatic chills that the Manhattan sky
line can send up your spinal column as the
tall lights begin to climb the dark. We are
talking about words
For man will say what he means He
will think his words mean the out-and-out
truth, anyway. But a woman will read into
them what she hopes they mean or what she
doesn't want them to mean.
She swings off at tangents and one is as
bad as the other After all-why should any
one worry about what they mean? Things
always straighten themselves out and become
clear-and usually harmless-day after to-
morrow.
Men take it for granted that women under
stand that if they approved of them last night
in the town movies darkest corner, they still
retain the approval
But a girls wants to be told-told-told.
That is, unless they are managing, distorted
females who read what they want to read into
nothing, and broadcast imaginary love lyrics.
Listen to any group in any tearoom. If they
are young enough-if they are romantic
enough-somebody will say: Just what did
he mean by that?"
The chances are that he didn't mean any
thing-that he didn't even know that he said
it. He might swear-and believe it. too-that
he said he would see you the day he got back
since that is what he meant.
So wait till the train gets in!
It's a shame-a great crying shame-that
now that we have social ard economic equality
with men something can't be done about emo
tional parity
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-20
LAUDS THE TINES
FOR STRIKE COURSE

BY Former Knitter.
Another Times reader wishes to
congratulate The Times in regard
to the Real Silk strike. 1t was a
great pleasure to read your editorial
of April II. Now the people of IN
dianapolis will know some facts
about the differences existing and
the causes of the strike.
1t has been my opinion that this
town has slept entirely too long. 1t
is about time for the working class
to realize that only afnnation with
the Federation of Labor can bring
about better living conditions and
an honest-to-goodness wage.
I have been an employe at the
Real Silk and know what E. NJ. B.
A. stands Ifor I worked for Real
Silk four years. During this time I
had several occasions to complain
about matters unfavorable to the
employe. 1t was impossible to even
get as much as consideration from
the officers Of the E. NJ. B. A. COM
pany union.
A little more than a year ago the
Fulton Mills started operation, pay
ing knitters from S. to $40 week
OF this I have definite proof. I sure
would like to see j. A. Goodman try
to live on such wages.
Hoping for 100 per cent victory,
and let's all boost The Times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-20
Friday. APRIL 20. 1879.
NOT ENOUGH

y EPORTs that the administration will ask
N congress for no more than $500, 5000 to
carry public works through the next fiscal
year are disquieting. It is not enough money.
Recovery awaits an awakened activity in
the heavy goods industries. Consumer goods
are within IS per cent Of the 1929 level and
have absorbed all but 100000 of the wage
earners they required in that year. Heavy
goods industries. where unemployment has
been greatest, still are IS per cent below 1929.
What little recovery there has been in the
heavy goods industries is practically all trace
able to government credit and initiative.
Although private bank reserves are around
81 800 100000 bank credit lies almost dormant.
It is clear that the unemployment of the
100000 jobless and the restoration of their
buying power to keep up the recovery tempo
depend for a while upon continued public
works
Particularly is credit needed to stimulate
construction. Before the depression America
was spending in public and private building
more than s11,OOOOOOOOO a year We are
down to 25 per cent of that, and normal
It should be recalled that of the SO, 10000
900 voted last summer under Title 2 of the
recovery act more than a third went into
naval construction, CCC, CWA and other
works that required little construction. The
rest went into long term works whose max
imum effects Will not be felt for some time.
There is needed now big-scale, mobile
credit for such things as outlined in the
La Toilette bill-low-cost rehousing, grade
crossing elimination, schools and nonfederal
projects under liberal loan terms. The de-
mard for federal aid is shown by the fact
that pending before PWA now are SO, 400 OO0
900 in applications sound enough to have been
passed by state boards.
OF the s500000OOO mentioned as the White
House figure. some 100000 900 already is ear
marked for projects now under way The
s300OOOOOO left for new projects can prime
no pump of private industry. can start no
symphony of saws, hammers and factory
whistles
The s1OOOOOOO,OOO asked for in the La Fol-
lette bill may be too much. The S500,000,00O
alternative is not enough.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-20
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS

CITY dwellers are bound to take a good
- deal of interest in that recent decision
OF the United States circuit court of appeals
in Chicago, in which it was ordered that the
top twelve floors of a twenty-story apartment
building be removed so neighboring residents
can have little sunlight and fresh air.
In the fight for better living conditions in
large cities" says the courts decision, in the
contest for more light and air, more health
and comfort-the scales are not we'll bal
anced if dividends to the individual out
weigh health and happiness to the commu-
nifty"
Here's a point that often got lost in the
shuttle, during the skyscraper building boom
of the COS. The decision may have a marked
effect on the future course of building in our
large cities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-20
TRUCKS, NARROW ROADS

MAT traffic accident in Ohio where a pas
senger bus sidewiped a heavy truck
parked along country road, caroned off and
collided with an approaching truck and trail
er, killing six people outright and iniuring
fourteen more, is a fine example of the dan
gers inherent in the steady traffic of large
vehicles over heavily-traveled highways.
The average highway was built to accom-
modate ordinary cars. Buses and trucks are
bulky; they need more room than the ordi-
nary car, and when they come to tight
place in the road there's always a chance
that this needed room won't be available
Motorists who drive frequently on roads
infested by trucks and BUSES are probably in
chned to wonder that these juggernauts aren't
more frequently involved in accidents like this
one in Ohio.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-20
PASSING OF OLD IDEALS

A N interesting landmark in the evolution of
L social ideals in America is furnished by
the recent action of trustees of Muskingum
college, in Ohio. as a result of which Mus
kingum students are going to be allowed to
dance and to play cards.
Muskingum is United Presbyterian COL
lege. founded ninety-seven years ago. Until
just now, it always has banned those two di-
versions, in Difference to the opinions of the
people from whom it has drawn students and
financial support
Now it has polled the parents of its stu
dents, and has learned that IA per cent of
them DO not oppose dancing and that 6S per
cent do not oppose card playing.
Opposition to dancing and card playing was
once fundamental tenet of the evangelical
denominations. Now it has just about
vanished, This Muskingum action marks the
passing Of one of the final barriers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-20
TAXPAYERS AROUSED

MOE violence is a thing nobody can con-
IVA done. of course. Yet that incident at
Pottsville Pa. where more than a thousand
irate taxpayers stormed the courthouse,
dragged two county commissioners out by
force, and demanded explanations of recent
county tax increases, is a thing which one
could deplore altogether too much.
The taxpayer is ordinarily a pretty docile
sort of specimen. He pays and pays and
pays, and his elected officials squander his
money for him and boost his tax rates, and
he gees on paying and never whimpers.
And that docility when you get right
down to it, is one reason he continues to get
misused
If elected officials everywhere knew that
taxpayers would come down to the Office with
blood in their eyes, demanding explanations,
when the tax rates went up we might have
little more care and economy in the spend
ing Of public funds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-20

is correct in stating that were such
a great one alive today, policies and
utterances would often differ.
But there were two WaShingtons.
just as there were two Lincolns and
two Jeffersons. 1t is with the Dr.
Jekyll I am concerned; let the mod
ern critic belabor the Mr.. Hyde as
he will. Not George Washington
the man, but the very essence of i'm
mortal genius, penned The Fare
we'll Address" That Washington
had he lived too long, might have
reverted to clay, is obviously beside
the point.
Christ is our master, neither be-
cause nor in spite of such frail and
human attributes as were his as
man. When man becomes great,
the. responsibilities Of his task ele-
vate him closer to his Maker; and
such a man cares not for the Opin-
ion of the rabble, but only for right
as it is given him to see.
BY such a test, few leaders today
are great. We despise the senator
who is swayed by our selfish letters
and kilograms, even while we vote
him back to office for our own sor-
did purposes.
Our dead heroes must remain both
dead and heroes. Our live states
men should rise above the next cleo
ton: should rise to the level die
tated by conscience, God and coun-
try. We have endured too long gov
eminent by undertaking and pop
ular acclaim.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-20
HOME GROUNDS

FORECASTS for the coming spring and
summer are usually concerned with bust
ness conditions. But there's one field that
has been overlooked in most of the prophecies
so far and we might as we'll get in on it right
now. It looks as if it ought to be a great year
for vacations.
More people are at work, incomes are
higher, business firms are doing better, and
there is lot more leisure time. Add all this
together, stir in a dash of hot weather, and
you get booming vacation season.
And in that connection it's worth pointing
out that the people of the United States and
Canada are exceedingly lucky. when it comes
to holidays They have so many places to go.
and the ways of getting there are so pleasant.
If you take your vacation in your own car.
YOU have the worlds finest network of smooth.
yel-cared-for highways. studded with hotels,
camping sites, garages, and service stations.
If you go by rail, you have an almost linn
itless selection of fine trains and special va
cation fares.
If you like to go on the water. there's a
whole feet OF steamship lines travelling over
an INFINITE variety of fresh and salt water
ways.
But all this deals only with the mechanics
of travel It's where you go that counts most;
and the North American continent seems to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-20
REAL SILK STRIKER
GIVES HIS VIEWS
BY r. F.. Davidson.

BY r. F.. Davidson.
1 am a knitter at Real Silk and
also a striker.
Why are the employees constantly
listening to the salve and soft soap
promoted by the company? Work
ers are made to think they are be-
ing given something. Real Silk does
pay, as an average. the best wages
in town but in this town all wages
are very low and one is expected to
exist instead of live.
The average empIoye at Real Silk
is in the prime Of life and is able
to work at top speed, but as we all
know the time comes when age
slows us all down and then is when
We wonder why we worked for a
bare existence and have nothing
left.
We know why we are parading. We
do need a union at Real Silk, for as
it is now we have no representa-
ton. Our dues go to send the rub
Der stamp to Washington to assure
the firing of our fellow employees.
Let A. G. Houghland compare Real
Silk wages with the wages paid by
union mills. Practically all large
mills in the United States are or
ganized. If all of us would work as
he suggests and used his common
sense" to hold a job our wages
would be $40 week with the in
PRODUCTION of the new ringless ma
chimes.
All we strikers and working peo-
pie should appreciate the co-opera-
ton Of The indianapolis Times.
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More AbOMt DiLLlnQer
By Elizabeth Burrows.

BY Elizabeth Burrows.
An article was printed asking
why the letters written in favor
of John Dillinger had no names
signed to them.
do not think that he is Won
derful, as you put it, but I do
think he is a better man than a
lot of men 1 know who claim to
be big men.
I would rather have Johnnie in
office than some who are in now
I don't think Johnnie is a public
enemy. No one knows whether or
not Johnnie killed any one.
AS for taking automobiles, that
is done every day, and as to the
money he took from the banks,
that isn't as bad as the banker
who took the money. Johnnie took
a chance with his life and what
chance did the banker take?
"A Times Reader" you were for
having people sign their names.
Why didn't you sign yours?
Ashamed of it? 1 am as honor
able a citizen as you are and 1
think if the law was enforced
properly and square and if we let
justice act quickly. I'm afraid
some of our Office seats would be
empty today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-20
Capital Capers
BY GEORGE ABELL.

CUTTING amid Ophella roses and brilliant COL
~ ored snapdragon President Stenio Vincent
Of Haiti smiled his way through f1ve-course
luncheon given by President Roosevelt at the
White House.
The luncheon was formal but not heavy
Vincent is a witty conversationalist, his flow of
eloquence only slightly impeded by his limited
knowledge of English. His morning coat, cut il
Port-auPrince, looked like Bond street He
shook hands with each guest standing beside his
host, uttering a pleasant word to each.
Sumner Welles, assistant secretary of state
always we'll dressed-wore a morning coat that
fitted like a glove.
Norman Armour, American minister to Haiti
talked animatedly to Vincent in French giving
him the lowdoWn on everything.
Senator Bill Borah breezed in with an affable
smile and sided over to quiz Vincent about the
financial situation in Haiti
Popular Judge Walton Moore, assistant sec
rotary of state, looked magisteral but benevolent
in his tail coat as he ambled from group to
group, shaking hands.
Representative Ham Fish of New Yory found
not single red" note among the assemblage,
except the roses.
Jim Farley was very much of the party and
in banning good humOr. He talked to one of
the guests about Haitian air mail stamps
Secretary Of the Treasury Morgenthau dis
cussed everything but the vital question of flnan-
cial administration in Haiti with Monster Lucen
HILBERT, that countrys dapper minister of
finance
Secretary of Commerce Roper was much
ogled by the Haitians. They want a commercial
treaty with the United States
NEWTON D. BAKER, former secretary of
y war, delivered brief talk at the first SEES
sion of the committee investigating the army
air corps.
Precise, bespectacled Mr.. Baker, dressed in
conspicuously in dark clothes, replied to an ad-
dress by Secretary of War Dern, in clipped, we'll
chosen phrases.
Mr.. Secretary" he said, my associates and
are happy to accept your invitation (to survey
the army air corps.
Photographers crowded about, adjusted the
lenses Of their cameras.
Some of us have had little recent contact
with the subject you asked us to survey -. :"
Click Clickety-click! went the cameras.
And none of us has any preconceived opin-
ions or prejudices"
Photographers started taking pictures from
a new angle.
Mildly, Mr.. Baker lifted his bespectacled eyes,
inquired gently:
What is the reason for this shifting Of
cameras?"
The Hollywood technique Of taking pictures
from various angles, so as not to bore the audi
ence, was explained to him.
oh, very good" said mild Mr.. Baker and he
continued his address without further comment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-20
DILLINGER is NOT TO
BLAME SAYS FRIEND
49,


By Joe Jackson.
1 am well acquainted with John
DilInger, and I am sure that he
was very respectable before he was
sent to prison.
There was no justice in his case,
as his partner in crime received a
sentence of two to fourteen years
for the same crime for which Dill
linger was sentenced ten to twenty
one years.
I see that our brave state police
captain is looking for John Dillin-
ger now, as he is almost sure that
J. D. is in another state. Why
didn't Matt look for him the day
after the police station was robbed,
instead Of directing the search from
his office? \
Leach also stated that he hasn't
slept peacefully since ]. D. es-
capped from Crown Point jail The
reason he hasn't is because he is
afraid John will pay him a visit and
probably take him for a ride.
Well, Matt, don't be afraid, as I
am certain you received Johnny's
pistol through the Governor office
and he hasn't had time yet to whit
tie out another. So, just take
things easy and sleep well at night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-20
CRITICAL OF LEADERS
IN RELIEF WORK
BY B. G. d.

BY B. G. d.
I note Fred Hoke and certain
insurance officials state from time
to time that everything in Indian
apolis is rosy. I often wonder
why such sthatement is made-if
it is to make some one IN Washing
ton think they are big men. 1 know
Mr.. Hoke is a rich man and does
not need such a position. He allowed
a high-class project, trat en-
ployed 100 engineers and draughts-
men, to die a natural death. His
entire FERA personnel is wrong,
particularly the man in charge of
projects, who only a few years ago
was graduated from the Office boy
class, and I know he doesn't know
anything about engineering. An
other Of the personnel is a product
Of the Real Silk hosiery mills. No
body can blame the national gov
eminent if the recovery act fails.
The blame will belong to our local
Chamber of Commerce. After the
election they all will be out. We
can't be fooled all of the time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-20

By Frank Young.
I would like to suggest a solu-
ton of the inconvenience and eX-
pense of our state police regard
ing the elusive John Dillinger. I
propose that Dillinger be en-
ployed to advise and train our
state police in such matters in
which he has proved to be an
expert.
Some readers may object, but
I am sure Dillinger could be
classed with the ones mentioned
in the Bible when it claims "the
bigger the sinner, the bigger the
saint"
Dillinger's method of accumu-
lating may not be strictly ethical,
but he seems to be very efficient.
He probably believes the Lord
helps those who help themselves"
1t appears to me useless to de-
tain Dillinger against his will, so
I think his employment as expert
adviser to our state police would
mean that said state police would
be instructed by one who is thor
oughly capable with past expert
ence and not book learning to go
when, where and how he chooses.
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have beeen designed especially as vacation

have beeen designed especially as vacation
ground.
Whatever direction you choose-whether
you turn east. north, west, or south, or stay
right in the middleton can find pleasant
scenery, good accommodations, and hospitable
people
You can take the Maine coast or the rolling
Ozarks the Delaware Water Gap or the Can
adam Rockies, California or the Great Lakes
region, the Black Hills or Long Island-it
doesn't matter, they're all good, and no matter
where you live one vacation spot or another
is bound to be accessible to you.
The old slogan, See America First" is
about as sound bit of advice as you could
get.
Every summer We turn into nation of
nomads. It's a fine, healthy tendency.
One Of the best things about our return
ing prosperity is the fact that it will set an
increasing number of us wandering about our
country this summer.