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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-05
A COMPLICATED TASK

GETTING Bill Smith through the depres-
" sion does more than any other single
government undertaking to reveal the as
founding and perplexing contradictions in
volved in our effort to get back to good times
Bill Smith. let us say. is an Arkansas cot
ton grower; a tenant farmer who has al
WAYS rented his land. Last year the depres-
sion got him right down to the bottom of the
barrel He couldn't rent his farm any more
and he couldn't get job.
He had wife and five children. The sum
total OF his worldly goods was a flock Of sew
enteen chickens.
Like others in such circumstances. he went
on relief. The other day. his family was one
OF a number Of families established on tract
Of 1880 acres Of government land in north
east Arkansas.
There was a house all ready for Bill
Smith: a nice. attractive little cottage, with
electric lights. running water. and so on.
Back OF il and the other houses stretched the
1880 acres of government land, all grown
UP with trees.
The scheme is this: Thirty acres are al
lotted TO Bill Smith. He will clear them this
winter. with the relief administration fur
nishinr him with anything he lacks. Some
Of this he Will pay for with his labor. help
ing to grade the roads. build a community
house. erect bridges, etc.
He spent the summer on tract the gov
eminent rented to him. and raised enough
foodstufs TO live on all winter until he gets
his new land cleared and planted.
He also earned enough 10 buy mule. q
COW. some more chickens. and few other
things he needed
Now consider what is being done here.
A very worthy end is being attained Bill
Smith. together with hundreds like him, is
being made self-supporting. He is regain
ing his hope and happiness.
There may be some victims OF the depres-
sion who would like to see our government
torn down and replaced by some ism or
other. but he isn't one Of them.
But look at the contradictions At q time
when the government pays men TO reduce
cotton production, here is new land being
nut into the growing Of cotton. Marginal
farm land is being retired-and here is a
new stretch being opened. Forest conserva-
ton is being streSSed-and here q forest is
being cut down.
What's the answer? Heaven only knows.
It is contradictory and illogical-and We
can't help doing it.
We must get Bill Smith through the de-
pression-even IT, by doing so. we raise ques-
tons for which We have not the shadow OF
an answer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-05
CAUSE OF SEA DISASTER

A excellent follow-up of such sea disas-
n tiers as the burning of the Moro Castle
is to be found in a survey made recently by
government marine experts and submitted
to the National Labor Relations Board.
The agents who made this survey find that
American steamship lines are consistently
underpaying and overworking their crews.
The "turn-around" is so short that the men
get very little time in port.
In many cases even the food-for years
the big talking point Of the American mer-
chant marine-is below standard.
Such things can have a direct connection
with tragedies at sea. They make it hard for
a ship TO keep a seasoned crew. They keep
crews efficiency below par.
Result-when trouble comes, the ships
company does not function as skillfuly.
promptly, and obediently as it should.
ANY program to make sea travel safer
must include some consideration of the sailors
working conditions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-05
MONDAY. NOVEMBER S isss.
A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE

lust as the 1892 election was decided on
~ the unpopularity Of a President. so the
election tomorrow viii be decided on the
popularity Of a President.
Mr.. Roosevelt richly deserves approval Of
the broad. humanitarian purposes Of the New
Deal Tomorrow's vote should demonstrate
TO the Presidents reactionary critics that
they can not beat something with nothing.
II may cause them thereafter to substitute
positive program Of action for their negative
course Of recent months.
Republican leadership in this campaign
has been even more bankrupt than expected.
only in such rOck-bound Republican states
as Vermont Delaware and Pennsylvania are
their candidates for the United States senate
given even a chance TO win. In at least five
other normally Republican states. Democrats
Will win handily.
This impotence Of the G. o. P. opposi-
ton can not be other than cause for re-
gret to all who like to see democracy func-
ton. There are clear state issues, but in
most Of the congressional contests there will
be no decision on definite national problems.
In some states, the voters will choose be-
tween what the Roosevelt administration has
done or hopes to do. on one side. and nothing
on the other side. While in other states
Democratic and Republican candidates for
congress are equally pro-Roosevet.
Thus the election is apt to serve as gen.
eraI tribute to the Presidents intentions
rather than as a popular mandate for speci-
hc recovery and reform measures.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-05
OBJECTS TO FREQUENT
M'NUTT PICTURES
BY George Gould Hine.

BY George Gould Hine.
If Marion county goes Republican,
1t will be due to the photographers.
They have exposed McNutt.
No homely herman can look at
those pictures without boiling. We
say, with increasing nausea, it
makes no difference whether this
man is Democrat or Republican,
doer or a drifter, there stands our
natural enemy, we don't like him;
down with him and all his works.
Whence comes this feeling? Why
boys, that the instinct that causes
every male animal to stiffen and
growl at the sight of a better-look-
ing one. The G. o. P. knows that
slogans and catch-words have
bounced off. So they just point at
Paul. And we froth at the mouth.
AS Charlie Dawes says, take a
look at that man Arthur, laughing
up his sleeve. He gave the whole
wide world an attack of nausea.
When the country was in desperate
straits, he was the only man in con-
gress to stand up and villify the
President. If there a man with soul
so dead, with brain so ossihed that
he couldn't understand that here
was a demonstration that democracy
itself mot the Democratic partly
was incapable of united and prompt
action in an emergency. Mussolini
must have laughed-he said democ-
racy could do nothing but talk.
A curious thing to appear in a
Republican newspaper, was in the
indianapolis Star the other day.
William Feather quoted from Paul
Warburg, as follows: How long
will the memory of painful expert
ence prevent human greed from re-
gaining control?" Feather guessed
four years. We guess two years, in
Marion county, unless we quit look
ing at Paul.
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Supporters Outline Rays Record

upon the medical officers to per-
NIT him to remain in active SerV-
ice.
Following his dicharge from the
army, this injury caused him to
be a patient in the Methodist hos
pital in indianapolis, and for your
information Mr.. $50 -calle ID
Foreign Service Man, he never has
drawn one cent of compensation,
pension or remuneration from the
United States government. He has
in his possession today an adj
justed service certificate, No.
A4O68249 for $1,255, payable in
1945.
Now as to the charge of Ray
using the veterans or any one else
for his own political advancement,
let the following record speak for
itself: Ray, as district commander,
conducted the American Legion
air circus and races July 1915,
1888, at the municipal airport.
This affair Melted the legion So
901.16, for the legion'S welfare and
relief fund and to entertain the
American war mothers in their
national convention in Indianapo-
lis.
Ray was chairman of the Hell
Drivers" show held this summer
at the Playground, which netted
the Legion more than 5000.
Over his own protest, he was
selected general chairman of the
Legion committees in charge of
the rodeo. recently held here. He
gave up three weeks of his time
and the affair brought the Legion
more than $4,000.
Ray was chairman of the Mar
ion county committee that at
tended the state Legion conven-
ton at Gary and brought back the
bacon in the. form Of the Legion
convention for indianapolis in
1885. Ask the newspaper men and
Legionnaires who we're there
what they think of Ray. This con-
vention will bring not less than
fifteen thousand visitors to Indi-
annapolis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-05
Capital Capers
BY GEORGE ABEL

THE capitals younger diplomatic set had Gas
u one envoy putt "a hell of good time" over
Halloween. One of the most amusing and sue
cessful parties of the season was given, with
every nationality contributing a clever idea.
In the course of merry evening, which be-
gan with dinner parties and ended when the
music stopped at about Cor was it laterO,
everything was imbibed in the way Of drinks
from Spanish sherry to champagne
A young rooster tied with pink ribbons was
brought on the dance floor by tall blond Carl
Borgenstierna of the Swedish legation, who ar
rived dressed as a farmer in overalls and broad
brimmed straw hat
Handsome Louis Michel of the Swiss lega-
ton was another farmer, blue bandana hand
kerchief around his neck With few flowers
sewed on his coat, an alpenStock, an eidelweiSs
and yodel, he would have been success fou"
as Swiss mountaineer.
The very enhancing Socha MoSccka, wife
of Polish secretary Joseph MoScicka ca son Of
Poland's PreSdent), appeared as a little girl, a
bright ribbon in her blond, bobbed hair. wearing
socks and a gngham dress.
Sidney Gest, admirer of Mexico and formerly
stationed at the American embassy in Cuba,
wore his famous "traje de Charro" including
huge horse pistol silver spurs leather jacket
and silver-buckled belt. It was las Sidney as
sured his friendS) "the genuine thing, not at all
overdone."
NTARUJA and Gerald Walravens of the Bel
1V1 gan embassy wore nautical costumes
Gerard in a sailor suit and Maruja in yachting
toys. with Chilean sailor hat adorned by a red
pom-pom.
Andrew Wylie (who has just returned from
a two years voyage through Siberia, China, ia
pan, Arabia and nearly every exotic place one
can imagine) chose 70 come attired as New
Jersey farmer who has never gone farther than
Trenton
A Russian peasant girl with a red kerchief
wrapped around her black hair and strings Of
multi-colored beads turned out to be Larissa de
Echegaray, Russian wife Of Don Miguel Eche-
garay Romea. Spanish diplomat.
Don Miguel himself declined to wear a fac
cy costume at first but friends forcibly arrayed
him in checkered trousers velvet coat and Wind
Sor tie a Transformation which made him re-
! senble daguerreotype of General Beauregard
In 1852
Explorers outfits were popular. Among those
who favored them was the attractive Marjorie
Talman, in khaki shorts and helmet: Don Mario
Rodrigues, Chilean diplomat and world traveller,
and Lieutenant Colonel Paolo Sbernadori Of the
Italian embassy, who carried mouse trap with
the legend Bring em Back Alive"
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less they are commonly accepted as straws in
the national political wind.
Incomplete returns gave Labor a gain OF
1870 seats at the expense of the conservatives
liberals and Independents. Labor was espe-
cially strong in the industrial areas.
One of the surprising features of the cam
paign was the failure of the Tories to frighten
away Labor votes with the threat of higher
taxes. The English people. already highly
taxed, seem to be willing to pay for wide
spread government and social services pro-
vided they get something for their money.
Doubtless the British swing to the left is to
be explained in part by the same popular dis
content with depression conditions also indi-
Gated in this country. In the recent American
primaries voters tended to choose the most
radical candidate offered, and-with the ex-
ception Of Sinclair who has made himself
rather a laughing stock in California-they
apparently intend to continue their swing to
the left in the elections tomorrow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-05
SUGGEST VOTERS THINK
ABOUT CANDIDATES

BY Fred Deal.
Why is it that we are hearing so
much about Coffin and McNutt,
when neither of them are running
for office?
Is it to keep the voters from find
ing out about the men that really
are running for office?
There is one man that I think
every taxpayer III Marion county
should vote for and that is Frank
Cones for treasurer. He is not a
machine man and he is running on
a platform that We all have advo-.
Gated. If you are sincere, you will
back him. The fees and costs will
go into a general fund for the bene-
fit Of the taxpayers instead of his
own pocket. He is man that will
keep his word If you are man
voting for your own good instead OF
the party, think this over.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-05
BEER is GARNERING
VOTES, READER SAYS
By a Times Reader

DIV q II IIItb IrduNEs
AS a Times Reader I would like
space in your Message Center with
lust a few words about Walter
Pritchard. In The Times a few days
ago it said Mr.. Pritchard had prom
ised several men jobs on the police
force if he were elected. I, for one,
don't think Mr.. Pritchard did any,
thing of the kind and even if he
did, he isn't buying their votes with
beer and a sandwich. You can go
to a Republican meeting and enjoy
it without having DRINKS talking all
the time. At the Democratic meet
ings, they serve you beer and half
the people wouldn't so to these
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-05
/ 10hoHy disapprove of what yom sag and wlu
defend to the death your right to sag it-VOltaire.

ton. There is a possibility that you
are innocent of your mistake be-
cause when the Democratic worker
saw you took exception to the ques-
ton he probably told you he was
the Republican worker. I believe
in putting the blame where it is
due and the Republicans have been
accused so wrongly in the last few
weeks that am forced to support
them in the coming election.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-05
SOCIALISM COMING
IS HIS THEORY
BY Noah Little.

BY Noah Little.
In reply to Times Reader Of oct.
"a, when q man comes to the place
where his mind is a single track,
and can not or will not read a sub
ject with an open mind, he is be-
yond hope.
Everything we have today was at
one time theory-then entered ex-
perimental stages later to be per-
fected.
No one can say our present sys-
tenn is perfect, when 100000 peo-
pie are pauperized without hope for
anything but dole.
In Lincoln's first inaugural ad-
dress, 1861, he said, This country.
with its institutions, belong to the
people who inhabit it. Whenever
they shall grow weary Of existing
government. they may exercise their
constitutional right Of amending it
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limit them to ESQ words OF tess.J
letters short, so all oar have chance.
HE WANTS TO KNOW
WHERE THAT CORNER" is
BY Roy Brown.
May I reply to a Times reader
who wrote on Oct. "a? He'd outlaw
Socialism and Communism.
In the first place, Mr.. Reader,
please be fair with us. And
when you try to quote such au-
thority as Webster, quote it as it is
written, and don't leave the parts
out that you don't like. 1t makes
us think you aim to leave a bad i'm
preston. I am going to watch to
see if you have the nerve to quote
the full definition of Socialism as 1t
is given in Webster's dictionary.
Such attacks on Socialism re-
mind me of a Republican making
speech a few days ago, and, after
telling everything he knew on the
Democratic party, he closed his talk
and sat down without telling us
what he or his party were going to
do about the situation.
AS for your advice to us to read
up on the Russian experiment in So
icaliSm, will say that if the Rus
sian can come out of the mess that
the old car left them in, and can
save half Of their people, they will do
we'll. I wonder if Mr.. Times Reader
would advise the Russian people to
go back to the old system under the
car. Do you know the history Of
that old system and the conditions
that the people of Russia were in
under the car? If you do, GER
tainly you will have to give them
credit for having brains enough to
shake off their shackles and try a
new system.
Many more things could be said
on the question of outlawing Social
ism and Communism, but on account
Of space I will close by asking Mr..
Times Reader one question: If we
outlaw Socialism and Communism
and depend on the Democratic or
Republican party to lift us out of
this mess, just when can we expect
good times? When Hoover was
elected good times were just around
the corner-siXty days and every
thing would be o. K, and when Mr.
Roosevelt took his seat, it just was
six months. Now, just when will
it be?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-05
RADIO SPEECH is
BRANDED SILLY"

BY H. C. Thorpe.
1 heard William A. Huff Of Green
field give little bedtime story of
Paul and the Bear" on the radio.
Had all the children of Marion
county been listening and could
vote probably his talk would not
have been wasted but, as it is, I be-
lieve that he did the Republican
cause more harm than good.
I have heard many silly things
said during campaign but this was
undoubtedly the worst of all.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-05

Democratic meetings, but they
know they are going to get beer.
You can stand outside the Demo-
cratic meetings and hear some Of
the Democrats say, We'll, the Re-
publicans never gave us this beer to
drink" The reason is the Repub-
licans didn't have to have beer to
go to these meetings. They went
without because they were good
Republicans.
You can go up to some of the
Democrats and ask them who they
want for mayor and they can't tell
you. The Democrats even sent word
out to the city employees if they
weren't at the meetings and didn't
march in the parade, they would
lose their Jobs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-05
OH WOMAN!
BY PALLY LOIS MARION

BY PALLY LOIS MARION
Pray do not set me down as always
lachrymose
Because you see these tears upon
my face,
Sometimes, though. life is such
poison dose
It is antidote enough to weep
space;
And then again, when Joy Is over
tasking,
weep-begrudge it not, love 1T
How tell these two apart, you're
asking?
You can't; and that's the woman
Of itI
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-05

INFORMATION OBTAINED BY
DEMOCRATS UNDER FIRE
By a New Dealer.

BY a New Dealer.
There are persons who cause the
differences between good govern
ment and bad government by put
ting out the incorrect information.
They accuse the Republicans Of ask
ing where your husband was en-
ployed but the truth is that Demo-
crat asked that question when the
poll was taken. I'll give you two
guesses as to why the question was
asked and your first answer prob
ably will be right. I was a Demo-
cratic worker myself and had the
poll book in my hands so am in a
position to know that the red-cover-
ed book labeled Democratic Poll had
a space provided for the informa-
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Daily Thought

For we being many are one
bread, and one body: for We are all
partakers of that one bread.-I
Corinthians 10:17.
THE multitude which does not re-
4 duce itself to unity Is confusion.
Pascal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-05

A wealthy woman. who has been appearing
in shorts around Reno. couldn't get her d.
vorce until she dressed as a woman. But it
would have been too much to ask her to act
like one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-05
BRITAIN SWINGS LEFT

4 ABORlS victory in the British elections
II indicates another swing to the left. They
were municipal elections with no direct rela-
ton to the national government Neverths-
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The Message Center

(14mcs readers are invited to cypress
their Ufetos In these columns. Make your
limit them to ESQ words or tess.J
letters short. so all oar have a chance.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-04-17
Mrs, SidWell.

Frances Haldeman Sidwell was
seventy-two years of age when she
died, but the first reaction to the
news Of her passing was that her
work was far from done. So active
and enthusiastic was her mind that
no one ever thought of her as being
tired. To the very end she kept the
wonderful zest in life which was her
principal capital and the source Of
the strength which she needed for the
multiplicity of helpful interests to
which she was devoted.
BY profession teacher, nature gave
her peculiar power to influence all
with whom she came in contact 1t
was her privilege to guide hundreds
Of boys through periods when they
needed supplementary mothers" A
few months ago she was collecting
material for history of the first half
century Of the Friends School, and
the task was made easy by reason of
the fact that she had not lost touch
with the alumni nor they with her.
But her concern for education went
far beyond the normal boundaries Of
the institution with which she was
particularly identified. She cherished
an ardent affection for progressive
ideals of instruction and her contri-
button to that cause was exceedingly
important and valuable.
1t was in her more casual, less
formal relations with people that
she had her greatest happiness.
Friendship was trust which she
held with reverence. a spiritual jewel
which she kept ever bright. The
bond which linked her to her pupils
remained unbroken as these pupils
attained manhood and womanhood
and went out into the world. 1t is
far-fiung community that mourns
her passing.