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Evening star., 1934-11-25

Another proposition which was made to the
elder Temple recently came from a weI-known
theatrical producer. He offered $4,000 week
for Shirey'S exclusive services for the next two
years and was prepared to pay $4,000 the
moment the contract was signed. Even the
fact that the child already is under longterm
contract to the Fox studio made no difference to
him. It did to Temple, however and the offer
was Immediately rejected without further con-
sideration.
Even if we hadn't already had contract
the activities he proposed were too strenuous
for any child of Shirley's age he declares.
At least until she Is considerably older, there
is no chance of the young actress doing anything
but screen work regardless Of the amount OF
money offered. Both her parents and studio
executives believe that is all she can stand. The
decision is undoubtedly a wise one.
Naturally, Shirley Is never overworked, four
hours day before the cameras being her limit.
California laws are very strict on that point.
Consequently there is no such thing as this
youngster fitting her time to suit production
schedules the way even the biggest stars like
Greta Garbo, Mae West, Will Rogers and Clark
Gable must do. When Shirley is in picture all
schedules are drawn up to conform to her time.
When she works she works hard, though.
During the past year she has learned great
deal about the art of acting. Before that the
whole business was just game to her and she
enjoyed the fuss every one made over her.
She still thinks acting is fun and she still
does plenty of playing between scenes. But she
figure in a cast. And she has discovered that
If she does certain things all eyes will be on
her rather than on other players in the scene.
Strangely enough, long scenes with one
or more other players are her meat. 1t Is
not at all uncommon for her to do the wrong
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and pampered around her home. But as
matter of fact this new Americas sweetheart"
of the screen lives under just the opposite con-
ditionS. She takes orders from everybody
mother, father and two brothers.
From the time she was baby these four
have told Shirley what she could and could
not do. And the fact that she suddenly has
become a $100O-a-week screen star hasn't al
tered that situation in the least. If she hap
pens to rub a pair of dirty hands against big
brother Jacks clean white fannels, it means
spanking not very hard, but at least
sufficient to teach her not to do it again. Or
If brother George finds Shirley playing with
his new hat, it Immediately is taken from her.
No, Shirley doesn't rule the Temple house,
hold, except in matters where her health Is
concerned. Everything else is of secondary i'm
portance to that Thousand-dollar-a-we week
movie stars don't spring up in every family and
when one does her welfare should be guarded
most carefully.
Among her relatives however, this curly
headed blond youngster is regarded somewhat
as goddess and those relatives" number lit
orally in the hundreds. year ago the Temple
family was rather small. Shirley having only
the usual number of uncleS and auntS.
THEN she started to become famous Almost
Immediately the list of persons claiming
relationship started to grow, until now it has
reached amazing proportions. In fact, Shirley's
father, George F. Temple, says that he never
realized there were so many Temples in the
world And the name Shirley Temple, has in
the last year, become almost common.
Not week passes but what Shirley or her
parents receive at least one letter from person
claiming direct relationship. Needless to say,
most of these claims without foundation,
although a few genuine relatives have been
found in this manner. Most of the writer's,
however, simply are persons who believe that
because of their relationship" they should
share in the child stars recently acquired
success.
One man recently claimed to be so certain
that he was directly related that he was willing
to accept loan of $500 until the depression
lifted.
Father Temple takes care Of all letters Of
this nature answering them not he deems
fit. And it hardly is necessary to say that
checks are never inclosed with the replies He
has been banker for too many years to fall
for such a racket. ,e .s.sss,-.4,...
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of her time playing in her own backyard. One
of her favorite pastmes is to give an afternoon
tea party, to which other youngsters In her
neighborhood are invited. Cheap toy dishes
she hasn't any expensive toys-are used and the
victuals are largely imaginary. It's fun, though.
THE height of everything, as far as Shirley
! is concerned, however, is when she is taken
to a friends farm for the day. There she has
ali sorts of animals with which to play, a large
goose and some chickens capturing her fancy
the most.
1.-The trouble with taking her to the country
Is that she never wants to come home" says
Mrs Temple, who is her young daughters con-
slant guardian, receiving $3.50 week from the
studio for her duties. Every time we have gone
out to the farm she has had so much fun that
she has come home and asked her father to quit
the bank and buy farm"
Until couple of years ago the Temples never
even dreamed that their blond, curly headed
youngster would some day be screen actress.
let alone the cinema sensation Of 1884.
Even If I had wanted to put Shirley into
pictures I wouldn't have known how to go
about it. You know how it is sitting around
casting Offices with youngsters. You get no
more attention than a last years hat says
Mrs Temple.
Judging from the terrific hit this little girl
has made one might think that Mrs. Temple
would have had to take her into only one
studio.
That wouldn't have been the case though.
Proof of that is that Shirley worked for nearly
two years. earning $40 or SIS day, before she
suddenly became a very valuable property.
Executives at the Paramount Studio still
kicking themselves for letting her go when
they had her right their lot-working in a
Western ITO the Last Man." for SIS day.
At that time Mr.. and Mrs Temple probably
would have jumped at a $75-a-week contract.
Then Shirley went over to Fox to play in
sStand Up and Cheer" For this her salary
was raised to $25 day, for each day she act
ually worked. Before the picture was finished.
however, Studio Boss Winfield Sheehan decided
that Shirley might develop into a good child
actress. So he decided to gamble $3.50 a week
of the studios money-and signed her to q
seven-year contract.
Two months later Shirley was the toast OF the
Nation Paramount wanted her Tor another
picture, Little Miss Marker" So Sheehan
obligingly loaned her-for enough money to pay
her entire seven years salary.
It was only a few weeks later, after he had
been besieged with innumerable offers at un-
dreamed-of figures. that Temple demanded
new deal for his daughter. After considerable
wrangling salary of $1,000 a week for Shirley
and $3.50 a week for her mother was fixed.
Shirley, Of course, doesn't know that she Is
earning 81 900 week. And if she did it would
make no difference to her. nice shiny dime
would look more attractive to her than
81 Geo bill She knows that she can buy an
ice cream cone with the former.
She is, however, learning that she IS quite
q famous little girl-or at least a curiosity.
Wherever she is taken she finds people turnin' 4
to look at her. And not a few stop her mo-
on the street so that they may admire her my
Evening star., 1934-11-25
BY DAN THOMAS.

T THE age Of 5 she earns more
money in a month than her father
does in a year.
One would think such a situation
would make little Shirley Temple
pretty much the boss, to be petted
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-02
UNTAMED ICEFIELDS

A DMIRAL BYRD'S difficulties with the
"A disintegrating ice shelves at his pro-
jected landing spot in Antarcticas famous Bay
of Whales emphasizes one of the peculiar
hazards which that spot presents to ex-
plorers.
That hazard arises from the fact that no
ship actually can get very close to the Ant
arctic continent itself in that particular re-
gion. A ship can not be moored in an actual
harbor; a base camp can not be established
on terra frma.
The mainland must be approached across
this vast ice barrier, and while the ice ordi-
narily is as stable as solid rock it neverthe-
less is subject to all the changes which a
sheet of ice anywhere else might display.
1t is partly for this reason that Antarc-
tic exploration still is a dangerous and un-
certain pastime, in spite of the modern
equipment and elaborate organization of up
to-date expeditions.
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REGULATION NEEDED

CONGRESS is expected to act soon on
~ report from Commerce Secretary Daniel
Roper discussing the various proposals for
regulation Of stock exchanges. Observers at
Washington predict that some kind Of legisla-
ton regulating the activities Of these money
markets will be passed at this session.
The ordinary citizen probably has only the
haziest notion about the form that such legs-
lation should take, operations OF the securities
markets being more or less Of mystery to all
but the initiated
But it doubtless is equally true that the
ordinary citizen feels quite strongly that regu-
lattion of one variety or another is needed
badly
There have been too many revelations of
the tricks frenzied finance pulled in the last
half dozen years to permit the man in the
street to feel that the spectators can be ex-
pected to regulate themselves.
1t is not surprising that congress is pre-
pairing to insist on a new deal
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in the money and fame his writing win

solely in the money and fame his writing VIII
bring him.
BY this contrast. Mr.. Lewis says bluntly
that the American business man often has
much more Of the artistic spirit" than the
artist himself.
Now this seems to have the critics running
around in circles. Their comments have been
varied. but mostly they agree that Mr.. Lewis
himself is, at bottom, Rabbit; that this
latest effort is simply pot-boier, in which
he has got down of his artistic pedestal and
has given way to his old admiration for the
successful money-getter.
In other words, they have been very busy
explaining how writer of Mr.. Lewis caliber
could make such an odd mistake.
The one thing that seems not to have oc-
CURED to them is that Mr. Lewis thesis might
be quite correct
There has grown up in American artistic
circles in the last decade a queer and illogi-
cal notion, to wit: That even the most medi
OGRE and talentiess of writing persons is en-
titled, by the very nature of things. to look
down with contempt on the most able and
devoted of business men.
follows one of the arts, even if he does it
without skill and without spirit, is a more
admirable and valuable chap than the man
who puts in his ticks in the marts Of trade.
All that Mr.. Lewis has done, in this new
novel Of his is to bestow hearty razzberry
on this queer notion and demonstrate that
there is nothing in it,
A Shakespeare, to be sure, is worth more
to the race than a Rockefeller. But does it
follow that every fourth-rate scribbler is
bascally a finer and nobler chap than the
man who is out on the firing line in the world
Of business, working his heart out on job
whose rewards won't be anywhere near COM
mensurate with the effort he puts forth?
The business man has been a target for
the scribblers almost long enough. 1t is good
thing to see Mr.. Lewis breaking lance in his
behalf.
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I a0hogy disapproUe of ,0hat you sag and u0iu
defend to the death your right to sag jt-VoItGire
Rejoices Over Housing Plan Failure

they should have cost even had
they been built right, and with a
living wage paid, which was not
done.
There will be no shortage Of
homes in indianapolis as long as
our employers go elsewhere for
their employees, hire married
women who do not need the work,
and thereby forcing the taxpayer
with grown children to lose his
home by not receiving employ
ment.
I can not understand why the
above mentioned individuals do
not stay in their place and leave
the building game to the man who
knows how a home should be
built and who is only interested
in making a living for himself and
family by the trade he has spent
all his life on.
If these individuals have the
future welfare of our city at
heart, why not advocate some plan
0IldoIlIlg OUI lOdH COiIlpdIl1eS W
pay their depositors who would
gladly spend this money on their
homes which are badly in need of
repair, and why not advocate the
elevation of tn Belt railroad,
which would increase the value of
real estate, not decrease it.
But the elevation would help
the south side, which does not
belong to indianapolis except at
tax paying time.
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XXTHAT a pity this is! It's a
w pity because we can so cas-
lily manufacture all these items.
We can carry electric light and
running water into every home in
the nation. We can produce BEAU
tifully colored tiles, substantial
bricks, shining plumbing, paint to
brighten walls.
We can-and we would so much
like to - make everything that
every one needs. Factories cry for
business, the individual cries for
the goods, but somehow we don't
seem able to manage what sounds
like a very simple economic feat.
If we made only the things that
millions Of citizens so desperately
need there would be such an inn
provement in business that the
financiers who, I suspect, are the
stumbling blocks to such efforts,
would themselves be amazed.
It seems a very stupid thing,
does it not? That the rich city
woman who lives around the cor
ner from a hundred restaurants,
who dimes out often, and even
if she doesn't dine out never has
to do a turn at the sink, should
have all the beauty and labor
saving gadgets, while the country
wife who spends two-thirds Of her
life in the kitchen, must put up
with colonial inconvenience.
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DANGEROUS PRECEDENT

THE Philadelphia judge who imposed fines
on jurors who acquitted a defendant in a
racketeering case undoubtedly touched a
popular chord The public has grown weary
of seeing criminals win acquittals; this Judge,
asserting bluntly that the verdict was mis-
carriage of justice, deprived the jurors OF their
fees-amounting TO $21 apiece-and dismissed
them from further service.
Salutary as this action may seem, however,
it sets a bad precedent
The jury system may be clumsy and Woe
fully inefficient, sometimes, but 1t still repre-
sents bulwark of popular liberties You
don't have to think long to see that it would
be weakened very seriously If jurors gener-
ally knew that the court might fine them If
they failed to return verdicts of guilty.
Whatever it does, the jury is supposed to
function on its own, and not be rubber
stamp for the judge.
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A DOUBLE BOON

ID ELIEF for unemployed musicians, coupled
N with a boon for musc-lovers-this ap-
parently, will be one of the fruits of the CWA
work in Pittsburgh.
Plans are being made in that city for a
municipal symphony orchestra, to be sup
ported by CWA funds which have been al
Iotted for employment of idle musicians.
If the plans go through, nearly 100 must
clans will get full-time employment, and con-
certs will be given throughout Pennsylvania
as well as in Pittsburgh
Here is a cultural gain worth copying else
where and it is the sort of scheme that kills
two birds with one stone. 1t would make
the best kind of music available to people who
have not been able to hear such music before
Furthermore such an orchestra, once
launched, might easily be made self-support-
ing if the right kind of handling were avail
able. In any case, the project is a praise
worthy one.
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FRIDAY. FEB. ?. 1924.
4 BETTER DOLLAR

ST~HE increased confidence here ana ABROAD
Il which seems to have resulted from dollar
devaIuation is understandable
For several months there was complete I'M
certainty as to the fate Of the dollar. AS a
result We we're pretty much at the mercy OF
SPECTATORS, foreign and domestic. Indeed
almost every business transaction partook OF
the nature of speculation because of the in
stability of the medium Of exchange.
Nov We have a modernized gold bullion
base and have stabilized within ten-point
range. between 50 and so cents Of the old gold
dollar-with the figure Of 59O6 cents to start
with. of course that does not satisfy those
who want absolute and immediate stabiliza-
ton at a fixed point, never to change, world
without end. But the realists understand that
final sterilization is impossible until We are
more certain of the price level at home and
the value Of foreign money.
To find the most efficient value Of the dol
lar in terms Of purchasing power We shall
have 10 experiment a while longer. There Is
really no reason why this should terrify any
one. The range of experiment is small and
carefully limited. The will Of the administra-
ton TO move moderately instead Of running
of on a printing press spree has been suf-
fciently demonstrated to merit future con-
fdence.
And the very idea Of managing currency
should seem natural enough to this country,
where we have had system Of managed
credit under the federal reserve system for
so long. The problem is at bottom the same.
The significance of the new monetary law
and the Presidents latest gold proclamation is
that now for the first time we have the
wherewithal to carry out this policy. For
the first time there is full legal authority to
operate. and for the first time there is a suf-
fcient reserve fund with which to operate.
The 81. 1872. 600, 900 profit taken by the govern
ment through devaluation and naturalization
Of the gold supply has made possible two
billion dollar sterilization fund, with an adj
ditional three-quarters of a billion for gen.
eraI reserve. Thus the government now has
the freedom and the tools with which to work
I'm its efforts to create and maintain an honest
dollar.
BY removing much Of the monetary uncer-
tainty which retarded recovery the admins
tration, in effect invites private capital to
come out of hiding and go back to work max
ing investments and making jobs. The in
vitation should be accepted.
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A Woman'S Viewpoint
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON .

TINE other day saw in the
4 paper a picture of a beau
tiful kitchen. 1t illustrated story
which described the improvement
in domestic conveniences for wom-
en- and was called THE Spirit Of
1884"
And I thought how wonderful it
would be if every woman could
have such a kitchen-just as the
story seemed to suppose.
Yet nearly all the really lovely
kitchens are built these days for
women who never go into them.
They belong, usually, to those who
can afford servants. The house
wife who is obliged to do all her
own work still tolls in less pleas
ant places and possesses fewer
labor saving devices.
Statistics show that the vast
number of American women cook
in rooms and live in houses that
are but a slight improvement over
those their grandmother had.
Tumble-down shacks they are
sometimes, with lean-to kitchen,
rooms that are drab, dark and
ugly, drains that are foul and
sanitation that is but little bet
ter than in Revolutionary days.
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self evident lies. His stuff is for
the consumption of the gullible.
No half-educated person ever saw
any danger in the beliefs Of H. G.
Wells, Bishop John Haynes Holmes,
John Dewey, Sherwood Eddy, Ar
thur Henderson, British foreign
minister, Norman Thomas, George
Bernard Shaw, Eugene Debs, Daniel
Hoan, Francis Willard, and count
less other first class minds and So
cialists who have led in world
thought; and your library shelves
are loaded with their works.
If Mr.. Edward Franklin Kimmer-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. thinks there
is scintilla Of truth in what he
says, local Socialists will gladly ar
range a debate with some party
member for him. The party will
pay all expenses and advertise the
meeting. If he refuses to debate,
then he admits he is guilty of in
tellectual dishonesty.
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BY Edward Kirch.
1t may be too early to rejoice,
but it is encouraging to the per-
son having the future welfare of
Indianapolis at heart that the
proposed housing project was
turned down
Well, anyway, we learned who
is in the woodpile. Hearing all of
the opposition against this prof.
ect convinces me that there are
some indianapolis citizens who
have not forgotten what these
same individuals doctors, lawyers,
school teachers, real estate deal
ers, and what not) have done to
our banks and loan companies of
indianapolis, thereby forcing the
experienced builder to accept en-
ployment under the CWA, and
forcing a great many rental prop
erty holders to apply for charity.
Having MIXED Indianapolis dry,
they see some easy money at
Washington. Then when the
federal taxes increase they have
the nerve to complain, which they
are doing here now, although our
high taxes were caused by them.
Mr.. M. M. Miller claims there
is a shortage of homes in In
dianapolis. I wonder whether he
thinks people can be SO easily
fooled as they we're when the
building and loan companies
loaned more money on hundreds
of homes in Indianapolis than
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HOT ON TRAIL OF
MIR. MADDOX.

BY Forrest S. Rogers.
Some one posing as Rev Walter
E. Bailey writes in defense of E. F.
Maddox. The local Church Fedora
ton states that there is no Rev. E.
F. Bailey.
No doubt, then, Mr.. Maddox, I'M
der the name Of Bailey, defends and
lauds himself. Such modesty!
Under the name of Kimmerling,
Maddox debates with himself. Such
brass In the light of the state
ments against Socialism that Mad
dox makes, this is entirely consist
ent. Using the typical methods of
the propaganda, he tries to con-
fuse Communism, as represented by
the proletarian dictatorship Of Rus
STA with Socialism, and the Social
lists, as represented by the govern
ment of Norway, Denmark, the La
Dor Party of England, with the So
cialist Party Of the U. S. A.
His statements of Atheism and
violence and nconstitutionality are
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ARTHUR, YOU'RE NEXT
ON SPOT, HE SAYS.
Br Paul F. MiIIspaugh

By Paul F. MiIIspaugh.
Senator Robinson's attack upon
the Roosevelt administration re-
ceived more laughs than circus
clown. 1t was most evident that he
had given up all hope of reelection
when he made his absurd state
mentS.
Trying to deceive the public in
this manner, he hurt no one but
himself, and the Republican party
in general. Poor craftsmanship was
displayed in a very rude manner.
1t is hard to believe that any man
possessed enough brass to attack the
Roosevelt administration, consider
ing its many accomplishments
since last March. An attempt to
turn the people against their Presi-
dent now is as useless as to try to
move the rock of Gibraltar.
If our people were the least BIT
skeptical about the future success CT
our present administration, Mr..
Robinson erased all doubt from
their minds when he made his be-
lated attack. A mans record speaks
for itself. 1t appears that our sena-
tor, and his colleagues, overlooked
this point completely.
The kind of men our government
needs are not misbranders Of justice,
but honest men.
We put jim Watson on the spot,
didn' we? Now, little Arthur,
you're next.