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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-11
Tap Dancers Unemployed

THE government authorities realize of course
that there will be considerable waste art on their
hands by the time they get through improving the
cultural tone of the nation because there is no law
to compel any municipality to accept some of the
pictures which will be turned out. The excess or
surplus, art will be collected and brought to Wash
1ngton where building will be erected in which to
store It, thus providing employment for a certain
number of architects and laborers and thus promot-
ing the recovery still further
The way of benevolent administration is hard
and already the suggestion is heard that Mr. Roose-
VetS administration has no right to discriminate in
favor of one type of artist leaving those who work
in other mediate Starve in their garrets
Nobody has undertaken to do anything for unem-
ployed poets and there great numbers of unem-
poyed tap dancers calling themselves artists whose
claim on the government would seem to be at least
as strong as that of the art artists
The new deal probably will get around to them
in time, however. The deal is peculiar that
way. Somebody suggests something just as a silly
joke such as hiring $500 artists to paint pictures of
cows and apples and pansies And the first thing
anybody knows the government decides that this is a
grand idea which will do somebody some good, and
pretty soon $500 artists painting pictures of
COWS and apples and pansies for the government
Copyright 1894 by United Feature
Syndicate
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and that he surely would have
supported O'Brien for re-elec-
ton. I even have heard alder
men at street corner meetings
who insisted that jefferson
would take it amiss is they
failed to get back to city hall.
And at the moment there is
quite movement going on
among Republicans to let by
cones be bygones and take over
the author of the Declaration
of Independence as part of the
apostolic succession which in
cluded Harding and Coolidge
and Hoover. The notion has been
loosed that Thomas Jefferson,
when confronted by any ques-
ton of recovery legislation,
would arch his eyebrows and
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was put on the police run, the
city court, and the coroner's Of
fee. Finally walter was broken
in" on city hall and then on the
board Of education.
In 1913 when the flood and
tornado hit Indiana, Walter was
in bed with a vaccinated arm. He
got up anyhow and covered the
Wreckage for two days and two
nights. He remembers that a
threshing machine engine gen.
Grated the power for the printing
presses.
NTALTER HICKMAN got his
w raise" and moved into the
field of politics and the under
world. He was the big shot" in
the Terrible Hut" He covered
everything, from the movies I'D.
Covering federal court cases,
Walter moved up to Indianapolis
when Judge Anderson still was on
the bench here. Mr.. Hickman
looks back today on his "swad-
ding years" and opines that he
got his best training from Mique
OBrien, veteran theater critic of
the Terre Haute Tribune.
Walter received his first Gin
sight" into the temperament of
movie and stage stars when Eva
Tanguay decided he'd been "im-
pertinent in a review. She kicked
him in the trousers. Years late~.
she gave Walter that famous in
terview on Finding God" for The
Times.
On Aug. IS, 1919, Mr.. Hickman
came to Indianapolis to work for
the Indiana Daily Times. He was
to do theaters, movies, books, and
all the rest he could find time for.
He started out by covering the
courthouse and then switched to
the 4 o'clock trick at police head
quarters. He wrote features and
at times doubled-up on the
United Mine Workers and the
federal building.
Walter started covering the
miners back in Terre Haute and
to this day when perplexing
point comes up in stories about
the miners, Walter is called upon
to solve the riddle. He does.
QACK in Terre Haute, too, he
~ was an intimate of the late
Eugene V. Debs. He covered the
political revolution" when
Teddy" Roosevelt, Robert La
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that Mary Garden had cheated"
Indianapolis by giving one of her
brief concerts.
Challenged by David Warf1eld to
debate on English's stage the
merits and dement's of Warheld's
"Shylock," Hickman refused.
Nov, Walter Hickman practic-
~ ally has forgotten what the
inside of the courthouse and the
federal building and the police
station look like.
He knows, though, every seat in
every theater in town. He covers
'em all, from start to finish.
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TOR instance, people who take
Il themselves seriously have no
sense Of humor. That's generally
why they take themselves so
grimly.
Walter Hickman takes not only
himself but his work with deadly
earnestneSs. To him the the
alter" is the worlds only place.
And, yet, on top If it all, he has
a grand sense of humor. He'll
laugh at anything, any time, bar
ring one exception. He won't
laugh when he's in a tantrum.
And every once in a while he goes
into the SWEETEST tantrumS you
ever saw. He's a temperamental
cuss, and he doesn't mind admit
ting it,
He's as skinny as a rail-" and
he's been that way for years. He
smokes the biggest and blacklist
cigars in town. Never accept one
They'd asphyXiate anybody but a
dramatic critic.
He hates daylight and would
rather work at night. And he
does. Most of his writing is done
in the wee hours of the mornings.
He talks so fast that when you
don't know him you don't know
what he's talking about. He's as
honest as they make 'em, and he
believes in calling spade spade,
even if it hurts.
NTALTER HICKMAN was born
w in WayneSville, Ill. in 1890.
He was graduated from Clinton
high school in 1909 and went to
Illinois college at Jacksonville, Ill,
and then followed with "a year
and summer at De PAW uni
versity.
On Labor day, 1911, he went to
work for the Terre Haute Post
not as a reporter, but as a house
toulouse circulation salesman.
Evidently young Mr.. Hickman
was a high-poWered salesman. He
made so much on percentage that
they moved him into the editorial
room at half his percentage salary.
He couldn't use a typewriter, so
he wrote his copy in long-hand.
He covered the police "blotter"
and his first week he wrote his
first review Of movie. Mary
Pickford was in the cast.
When he finally learned to use
two fingers on the typewriter. he
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Toilette Sr. and Albert Beveridge
rose up in arms.
In his Terre Haute days, Hick-
man ate with President Taft when
the Presidents train broke down
near Paris, Ill. Walter and Taft
ate cold boiled meat in the Terre
Haute depot. Both ate with their
fingers.
Yes, Walter Hickman has had
colorful career.
He played bell-boy to the Duse
five days before she died. e.
Walter Damrosch kissed him on
both cheeks after Hickman wrote
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And he's seldom wrong.
When Walter Hickman says it's
good" it's almost invariably
good. And when he says it's rot
ten" the same thing applies.
Actors and playwrights have
hated and loved Walter Hickman.
Il guess we're about even," says
Walter.
P. S.-There's one more thing.
We all call him "Hick." That's
another Jekyll-Hyde twist for you.
NEXT: 81 Cover the State
house."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-11
The Theatrical World
Stage and Screen TO Mix Again at
Palace for First Time in Manu- Years
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN

BY WALTER ID. HICKMAN -
"FadS and Fancies" on the stage
and Lady Killer" on the screen
at the Lyric, 1.-The Private Life of
Henry VIII at the Circle, "Coun-
sellor at Law" at the Apollo, and
burleSque at the Mutual and Co.
lonial. 3
Red Hufford and his Or
chestra are playing nightly in the
Tally-Ho room at the Hotel
Antlers.
Friday night McKinney's Cot
ton Pickers will be at the Indiana
roof ballroom.
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depict them as they choose be-
cause art to be art must be free.
This is bound to mean that some
of the pictures which will be
offered for hanging in the
schools, court houses and post
offices will be pictures of ladies
without any clothes on as ladies
undoubtedly are an important
bit of scenery in any country
and certain artists do not seem
to know how to paint clothes.
Or perhaps it is just because
their minds run that way. This
will create difficulty wherever
such pictures are offered to the
local authorities because there
hardly is a town in the United
States which does not have its
committee of determined women
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-11
Fair Enough
By
Westbrook PeqIer

THE government has hired about 1900 artists
Il and expects to employ about 1900 more to paint
pictures of the American part of the recov
cry program When the pictures are finished they
will be hung in public buildings such as schools
county court houses and postofices throughout the
country and it is expected that this will tend to i'm
prove the cultural tone of the nation.
The artists will be at liberty. of course to select
their own subjects from the American scene and to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-11
CWA Officer to Speak

William H. Book. state civil works
administration director, will speak
on What Is Being Done for the
Unemployed" at the praise service
and fellowship supper tonight at the
Third Christian church, Seven
tenth and Broadway. The Rev.
William Rothenburger will preside.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-11
1t Seems TO Ne
By
Haywood Broun

IF at any spirtualistc seance ever am asked with
Il which of the shades I wish to talk I'm going to
ask the medium to page Thomas Jefferson. In fact,
I'll be willing to let him do the talking and confne
myself 70 listening.
The reason for my curiosity to his point of
view hes the extent to which people have been
undertaking to speak for him in recent months I've
read that Jefferson certainly would be against NRA
that he wouldn't like President Roosevelt's budget
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-11
PLAY Due at Church

Am I Intruding," a three-act
play, will be presented by the
Young Peoples Drama League of
the Tabernacle Presbyterian
church tomorrow night in the
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who object to pictures and statues Of this type.
There great controversy in Indianapolis
few years ago when the chairman of the local COM
mittee of determined women visited art gallery
and went into court for legal writ of kind to
compel the management to put boxing trunks on a
pair of wreStlerS in bronze statue
The management pleaded that this would be
impracticabe the wrestlers inextricably were
tangled up in the coils of half Nelson and body
scissors and that to separate them it would be
necessary to blast.
The court decided in favor of the wrestlers,
decision which was denounced by the committee Of
determined women as body blow to the very we'll
springs of American decency.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-11
BUTLER ANNOUNCES
COURSE IN SPEAKING
Extension Division Adds New Class
for Business Men.

Tor Business Men.
A new class, speech for business
and professional men" has been
added to the curricula of the ButleT
university evening and extension al
VISION beginning Feb. 5. Dean Al
pert E. Bailey, head of the division
has announced.
The class will be taught by Paul
Duncan, Butler graduate and win
ner of the state oratorical contest
and Butler peace contest in 1880
Aside from his oratorical record
Mr.. Duncan has had his orations
reprinted for use in several text
books and journals of speech. He
was member of the Butler debate
team three years and served as de-
pate Judge for Indiana high schools
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-11
A ShadOLU in the Dark

L N fest the figure of the man CARRIED in. the day
he walked the earth one might say, Mr.. President
may L ask question:" Suppose Jefferson nodded
grave assent and it said do you still believe
in state sovereignty now that you know it
the enSlavement of young children in the factories
and the millS?' How could the idealiSt who spoke
of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness re-
affirm his ancient belief in parttoned authority?
And would the Virginia gentleman who stepped
himself in the writings of Rousseau argue that even
the millions must go cold and hungry rather than
stretch or strain single comma of the Consttu-
ton?
I have my doubts. I believe that if an appari-
ton walks the corridors of the White House late at
night the figure dimly can be framed in a bed
room door And II think he says. seeking across the
years to counsel his successor: I'VE wrote upon the
page and signed our in peril of our lives, All
men are created equal. Heed nothing else but
bend your way and will to make those words come
true"
Copyright. 1884 by The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-11
HEAR ROAD REQUESTS

SIX Delegations Appear Before
Highway Commission.
SIX delegations asking for state
road adoptions or improvements
were heard today by the state high
way commission.
An indianapolis delegation ap-
peared to six the commission to n
clue the MattSville road, from Road
81 to Road Is through Carmel, in
tn state system.
Members of the delegation were
j, Perry Meek, Charles Meek, fred
E. Barrett and Fred Dickson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-11
Optinist
Most Elusive Outlaw Is
Sued by Grocer.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
TULSA, Okla, Jan. 11.-Lonnie
l. Brown, grocer, today sued
one of his old customers for a
$500 bill, but wasn't sure how
he would collect the amount if
awarded a judgment.
The ex-customer was Charles
pretty Boy Floyd, most elusive
outlaw of the southwest. He and
his wife consumed the groceries
early last year, it was charged.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-11
Courts Are Liberal

ME courts however generally have been liberal
Il toward art 1t learned judge in Chicago
who remarked last summer in one of the trials of
Miss Sally Rand the fan dancer that some people
would wish to put pants on horse, adding quickly
however and with reaSSuring smile to Miss Rand
THE court means nothing personal by that
in hiring artists by the hundred, it is inevitable
that the government will employ whose pic
lures will not make sense to the average citizen
There is no fixed rule by which the administration
can determine whether applicant is an artist or
not if he claims to be and no standard by which to
decide whether picture is any good
The artist may paint something which is not
recognizable anything ever seen on the North
American continent anywhere else for that mat
ter and defend it as sunset on the Erie canal on
the ground that that is the way it looks to him. He
also may select for his subject a prominent local
character, even a Republican, or a group of cows
eating grass and dandeons and the treasury will
have to pay him from S25 to $40 week for improv-
ing the cultural tone of the nation.
Rather oddly, the artistic plan does not contem-
plate the employment of any comic artists whose art
popular art of the American scene at the present
time. But this exclusion is not due entirely to a
feeling that the art artist the esthetic superior
of the comic artist.
1t also is due to the fact that the comic artists
as class are among the most prosperous citizens
in the United States who ordinarily pay their chauf-
feurS and forgers they call the Sub-artists who
do their drawing for them, much more than the
government wage of from $25 to $40 a week
In fact, the comic artists through their great in
come tax payments will be some of the most i'm
portant contributors to the wages of the art artists
who will depict the American scene.
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FORT COMMANDMENT TO
BE RESERVES GUEST

General NaylOr Will Address Off
GERS at Dinner.
Brigadier- w. K Naylor,
Fl. Benjamin Harrison COM
mandant, will be the guest of honor
and principal speaker at a meeting
Of reserve officers at $50 next
Wednesday night on the seventh
floor of the Board of Trade build
ing. General Naylor, a student Of
far eastern affairs, will speak on
Japan and Manchuria.
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BY NORMAN E. ISAACS
Times News Editor.


Bermuda vacation
led by there making Quarantine
a
most of the group Walter
handkerchief
When the Walter Hickman,
annapolis hurried the film
as a
And that the prize
o Indianapolis
Probably readers of The Times curious about Walter
Hickman other
who him frankly They don't
to
Jekyu Mr. Hyde" than person
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Michigan is expected to yield its
position of first rank in bean pro-
duction to California this year,
since her production has dropped
IS per cent.
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In CITY Theaters

THE Indiana today starts a
l. three-day engagement of
Havana Widows" a rough and
rowdy comedy, with Joan Blon-
dell, Glenda Farrell, Guy Kibbee,
Lyle Talbot and Frank McHugh
in the cast.
Other theaterS today offer:
Dinner at Eight" at the Palace,
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The Need of Change


ATOW, long before get to the end of this column
' 1 probably will fall into the common practice
and say, If Thomas Jefferson alive today he
would most certainy"-Iu try to resist that temp
tation But 1 think 1 have right to point out
that Jefferson is not chosen justly a base
which to argue the notion that it is fatal to make
any changes in our existing political and economic
systems. In fact he once made the suggestion that
it might be wise to change the Constitution of the
United States every twenty years, so that future
generations should not be bound by the dead hand
of the past.
Moreover the Constitution as adopted in his own
day by no means represented the complete ideals
of Jefferson He not a signer In very many
respects he was forced to compromise his own views
because of the power and responsiveness of Alex
ander Hamilton. The Constitution is not by any
means a complete expression of the Declaration of
Independence. In the process of codfcation the
assertion that "all men created equal" was
tainly subjected to very serious modification.
1t would surprise me very much if Jefferson
materalized at a seance and declared, Il still
Jeffersonian Democrat" If the apparation said
Il in complete accord with the editorial attitude
of the New York Herald Tribune" I would be in
clned to turn the lights to ascertain whether
the medium still bound hand and foot
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Jefferson Us. Jefferson

IF Jefferson is still the man he was from i743 to
Il 1926 he would be among the first to denounce
many of the JefferSonian utterances of the third
President of the United States. Please note that
this is just guess l not authorized to make the
statement. But it ought to be pretty good guess
If there thing which marked Jefferson
from his colonial associates 1t was his recepvity to
international thought His debt to the writings of
European philosophers who made the French revo-
luton possible has always been acknowledged.
And if his spirit broodS somewhere above the face
Of the world today it safe to assume that he
has observed with the greatest all the changes
in political and economic thought which are agitat-
ing the nations Much has happened calculated to
disturb the faith which Jefferson undoubtedly felt
for the theory of states rights But this was never
the corner stone of his philosophy It was merely a
way of government which seemed to him expedient
more than century ago. 1t was only means to
end, and obviously the end which animated him
the growth and sanctity of human liberty.
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WE MAKE YOUR NEWSPAPER
Ne7p1; Neue, Take a Cigar From Waller d. Hickman

n o
dianapo of
and
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say, But does the Constitution permit it?" Indeed
some of the present interpreters of the Sage o.
Monticello would have believe that he was known
in his own day the Virginia Bill Borah."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-26
JAILED THUGS
BRIDE To TALK

NEW YORK, Feb. 26 G.NSO.
I'm the shelter of her clergyman
fathers arms, Norma Millen, 49,
year-old runaway bride of a man
accused of bank robbery and
murder, today sought refuge from
the nightmare of gunplay, arrest,
and imprisonment that suddenly
descended upon her.
While her husband, Merton
Millen, and his brother, Irving.
sat in guarded cells in police
headquarters, awaiting extradition
to Massachusetts to face charges
of the murder of two policemen
during the hold-up of the Need.
ham Trust Company, Norma lay
sobbing in her fathers arms, the
picture of contrition. She wept:
Daddy, 1 knew you would
come! l knew it. need you
SO.".
The reproaches he had recently
uttered when his beautiful daugh-
ter eloped from her fashionable
home with a man whom police
now describe as one of the most
cold-blooded desperadoes in the
East were suddenly silenced as the
Rev. Norman Brighton, pastor of
the Church of Christian Disciples
at Natick. Mass. clasped Norma
to him. She said:
"I'II tell everything! Take
me home"
With her husband and his
brother she came to New York
during the weekend, to register at
the Lincoln Hotel.
There, in a lobby crowded with
guests, she saw her honeymoon
jaunt end in the sensational arrest
Of the two men-an arrest pune
tuated with a revolver shot and
the failing nightstick of a police
officer. No one was wounded.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-26
DEAN DEFENSE
W|N5SUPPORT

GREENWOOD. Miss, Feb. 26
GN.SD.-The defense of DR.. Sara
Ruth Dean, on trial for the al
legged murder of DR.. J. Preston
Kennedy, her sweetheart associate,
was further bolstered today by
medical testimony offsetting the
prosecutions contention that the
surgeon died of mercury poison
ing, allegedly administered by the
young woman child specialist in a
whisky highball.
DR.. Lewis Leroy, noted physi-
clan and sportsman, testified that
DR.. Kennedy could not have been
suffering from mercury poisoning
on the basis of an analysis of secre-
tons by a technician in the Jack
son Hospital, where the surgeon
died,
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g PERSONS DIE
IN TORNADOES

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Feb. 26
GN.SO Blasted by madcap tor
nadoes that ripped through the
South Sunday, three States today
counted their dead at %, with
hundreds injured and property
damage running into the millions.
At least 10 were dead in Ala
bama, eight in Mississippi, and
two in Georgia. With commune
cation lines down, incomplete
reports from rural communities
shattered by the devastating
whirlwinds brought fears that
the death toll might run higher.
The lethal winds struck in the
midst of heavy rain that
blanketed most of Dixie. Six mem
bers of the family of Mr.. and Mrs.
Carl Calvert, at Center Hill, Miss,
died under falling timbers as the
storm, first striking in Central
Mississippi near the Alabama
line, tore their home to bits.
Two others we're killed at Ke-
vance, Miss, two miles from Cen
ter Hill.
Leaping across the State line
the storm swept up Alabama's
tornado belt" leaving death and
destruction in it's path.
At Ashland. Ala, the Sheriff's
office reported IL dead. Another
victim, Mrs. Mamie Kaizziah. Sc,
was killed al Calera, Ala.
Thence, the tornado skipped
across the State into north cen
trial Georgia, where two were
killed. Mr.. and Mrs. Will Phillips
died in the wreckage Of their home