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Evening star., 1934-05-28
SWINDLE VICTIM DIES
John H. Callahan, Retired Hotel
Man, Succumbs in Hospital.


Man, Succumbs in Hospital.
ROCHESTER, N. Y, May 28 Cp.-
John H. Callahan, retired hotel man
and victim of a sl41 900 swindle that
attracted Nationwide attention. died
in hospital here early yesterday. He
had been i'll for several weeks.
Callahan and his wife lost their life
savings in December, 1890. through a
horse-race betting swindle at Los
Angeles, Calf, where they were visit
ing.
Callahan pressed Nation wide
search for the swindlers during the
last 3la years and as result several
men have been convicted and jailed as
members of the gang and 20 others
have been indicted,
Evening star., 1934-05-28

that others had been sent to Argen-
tina from Spain.
Evening star., 1934-05-28
Bicycle Licenses Urged.

Because of the growing number Of
bicycle riders on British roads. an ef-
fort is being made to have them reg
istered and licensed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28
WHERE THE MONEY GOES

CENATOR REED SMOOT once dryly re-
~ marked that in his three decades of public
life he had observed that each year the cost
of government was higher than the year be-
fore ana it mattered not whether Democrats
or Republicans were in power
Certain cynical commentators labeled this
the "Smoot law of government" and held it
to be as irrevocable as Newton's law Of gravi-
tation.
We do not subscribe to this fatalistic phi
losophy, nor do we join in the blind assaults
on bureaucracy" that have become so popu-
lar We hold that a large-scale bureaucracy
is indispensable to adequate government in
this modern era, and that taxpayers should
be concerned not so much with the cost of
bureaucracy as with the services it performs.
Efficiency is the vital test.
The number of employees of our federal
state and local governments according to
new national industrial conference board
study, increased from 2,618000 in 1922 to
1922, 900 in 1882, rise of 1913 per cent, about
one and one-half times the population in
crease for the same ten-year period. In 1882,
there were 952,419 on the federal pay roll.
in the services performed by the bureaucracy
our taxpayers received insufficient returns for
their money.
Since the advent of the new deal there has
been no diminution in the size of the federal
bureaucracy. But there has been tremen-
dous increase in its efficiency, due to the
abolition of useless offices and functions, and
the creation of new agencies, supplying needed
services. Yet there remains in many of the
older agencies opportunity for more economies.
The Roosevelt administration stopped too
soon its organization reforms.
In 1892 our federal state and local govern
ments spent $6,9000OO 000-about $9O0000,000
more than the total income that year of all
manufacturing of the country; about three
times the income OF all agriculture; about
one and a half billion more than the income
of all trade
State and local governments spend the
bulk of tax money and it is from them that
the people must exact more economies and
more efficiency Multiple tax districts should
be abolished. Counties, laid out to accommo-
date a horse and-wagon civilization, should be
consolidated to serve our automobile civiliza-
ton. In many states, all county governments
might well be abolished, and their functions
performed by the states with more efficiency
and at less cost.
Our costly and inefficient school system
needs to be overhauled and centralized, not
only to save taxes, but to provide more ade-
quate training to handicapped rural students.
A wholesale reorganization is long overdue.
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jority and minority unions and of craft and
industrial unions, according to the merits Of
individual cases.
But that is not enough. Amendments are
needed. At least four are essential in our
judgment:
l. Make the new board entirely independent
of the labor department and all other political
agencies and influences.
O. Make the personnel of the new board
entirely nonpartisan and representative of the
public, like other independent governmental
agencies, instead of partly representative of
capital and labor.
g. Limit the period in which the board may
hold up decisions, thus preventing long delay
as a method of strike-breaking.
4. Give the new board jurisdiction-which
the President gave to the old board-over all
industrial disputes and all conflicts threaten
ing the industrial peace of the country.
Compulsory arbitration is desired by neither
capital nor labor, and is properly avoided by
the bill But at least compulsory hearings by
a national labor tribunal are essential to air
Just grievances, and nonpartisan findings as to
facts by such a tribunal are required before
the public and the government can fix re-
sponsibility. The present bill would not permit
this. 1t would limit the boards jurisdiction to
cases involving collective bargaining disputes
and unfair labor practices, except when both
parties requested arbitration. Thus in the vast
majority of disputes and strikes-those over
wages, hours and working conditions-the
board would be completely useless.
1t is time the anti-labor employers, the A.
F. of L.. Administrator Johnson, Secretary
Perkins and others stop trying to curtail the
freedom and power of the proposed labor tri-
bunal. Secretary Perkins department concili-
ators and General Johnson's compliance and
industrial boards have been unable to preserve
industrial peace. That job can be done only
by an independent board with complete juris-
diction and unquestioned prestige. And unless
that job of preserving fair and orderly labor
relations is done; the chances for American
prosperity are very slight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28
DELAYING JUSTICE

ENEMIES of the Wheeler Howard Indian
II rights bill apparently hope to win by
delaying action in the house committee Every
days respite they win jeopardizes its passage
by the present congress.
The original bill has. been re-drafted to
meet reasonable objections The plan for
special court of Indian affairs has been
dropped; so has that for compulsory tribal
inheritance of forest and grazing lands.
1t is still fine measure and one gathering
increasing support in the Indian country. The
measure as it stands would stop the legal loot
ing of the Indian nation by hating further
allotments, forbidding the sale of Indian lands
to whites appropriating $2,000,000 year for
new land purchases, providing a $10000000
loan fund to finance Indian farmers.
Indians would be permitted to organize for
corporate action An Indian civil service would
be set up, and $250,000 would be appropriated
to educate young Indians along special lines.
Sustained yield practices in Indian forests
would be made mandatory. The two main
principles of the original measure-the con-
servation of Indian wealth and Indian self
help-are intact
President Roosevelt, Secretary Ickes, In
dian Commissioner Collier and the chairmen
of both Indian affairs committees are eager to
offer this legal lifeline to a desperate, ex-
plotted race. Congress should act.
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DEAD OR ALIVE"
ARTICLES LAUDED.

BY c. E, A.
I wish to thank you for the
articles that have appeared in your
paper recently giving the stories of
the lives and unhappy endings OF
some of our most dangerous GRIM
inalS.
These articles will, no doubt, have
a great influence on the lives of
many who have been thinking about
becoming Dillingers, particularly the
younger generation.
Unfortunately, these younger per-
sons have grown up in an unusual
era of war and crime and their
thoughts have been greatly in
f1uenced in the wrong direction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28
VOICES PRAISE
OF DIR. GOUTHEY

By One of Gods Children.
I get slightly mad" every time 1
hear a sarcastic remark concerning
DR.. Gouthey now speaking at Cadle
tabernacle.
Just few words to offset the
devil. I hate the devil, and any
time [ can fight him, find a real
blessing.
L would rather be "cussed" now
and take heed than suffer worse
later.
try my best and stand pat with
DR.. Gouthey in trying to kill the
poisonous doctrines of our time.
"Cussing" is mild to what is ahead.
DR.. Gouthey is strong in the faith,
courageous enough to dig to the core
and if I may say so, feel as II 1t
will be more tolerable for the
"cussing preacher" if this is sin,
than for the atheists and bias
phemers he curses, in that last day.
The Bible tells me that whosoever
hath not believed is damned already.
Is it too far-reaching to say that
perhaps God has sent His last warm
ing? This man. so bold, SO hard
against sin, and yet so soft 30 sin
ners who have gone astray; this
man who weeps with young people
who weep, is it too much to say he
is Gods last warning?
1t won't harm any one to hear DR..
| GoutheY.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28
ODD JOBS KEEP
THIS MAN GOING

friedrich o. Rusher
What is going to become of the
young men of today? Many thou
sands of them are out of work.
Their minds and bodies are idle.
Charity is doing all it can for their
families. What they want is a
chance to earn a living. Our noble
President has provided a means for
men with families-a small salary,
but better than none at all.
Young men are lOaf1ng. Some OF
them are scheming to get money,
no matter how.
Some of them are turning crimi-
nal. We read about it frequently
in papers.
I am one of the unemployed. I
am doing odd jobs for a living.
Some days are good and others bad,
but am holding my own, just the
same. I have great many friends
whom work for occasionally I am
thankful for all the odd work that
has been given me. Very few young
men have nerve enough to canvass,
hut I feel it is better to do that
than depend on charity, or go hun
CRY. 1t keeps the nina clear and
the thoughts pure. No crime can
enter therein. I am not the type
of man who wants to be idle.
am too ambitious to loaf. AS long
as 1 can find temporary employ
ment will try to make myself
worthy of my hire.
My sympathy goes out to the
young men who are not working. 1
wish they had the courage that I
have, and don't think I am boast
ing. I have made many friends,
and I hope to hold them. My ad-
vice to the young men is make up
your mind to find odd jobs, and
help our President fight this de-
preston. If I can do it, you can
do it. Help life the burden of char
ity; let it become more available
to families with small children.
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REPLIES TO CRITICS OF
MOTION PICTURES
BY a Reader.

BY a Reader.
This is in reply to contributor
to the Message Center who writes
that he is ashamed to be seen at
the movies. He need not be If he
will but exercise a little common
sense and select a picture that
might possibly come up to his ex-
pectations.
Surely, if this person wished to
read a book he would not just read
any book but would select one to his
liking. This is not by any means
a defense of course, vulgar or in
ferior pictures, but a plea for
stronger support of clean, whole
some and elevating screen enter
tainment.
Unless it is the purpose of this
man to find fault he should not go
to a movie "as a good American see
ing Paris" in other words, just to
any old picture and then condemn
them all to the lower regions, but
look for one such as the beautiful
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28
THE STRIKE BILL

ME rewritten Wagner labor disputes bill is
weak. The avowsd purpose was to clarity
the labor provisions of MIRA and to increase
the powers of the temporary national labor
board. The new bill does neither. In fact it
limits Section IA of the MIRA and it very
seriously reduces the powers granted to the
existing labor board by the President in his
executive orders.
Doubtless it would be going too far at this
time to say that the bill would be better dead
than enacted into law-there is still opportu-
nifty to amend and strengthen it, But in it's
present form the measure is wholly made
quate to preserve industrial peace between the
warning factions Of capital and labor Any
attempt to gloss over the disappointing fact
would be disservice to all concerned-which
means the entire nation
+ Senator Wagner is not to blame. He fought
ably over a period of many months for
strong measure. But he and his bill from the
beginning were caught between opposing
camps. On one side have been the anti-labor
employers, trying to destroy existing legal
rights of workers. On another side has been
short-sighted labor leadership trying to create
a vested interest for the American Federation
of Labor And adding to the confusion has
been the effort of Secretary Perkins to tie the
new labor board to the labor Departmental
department which has been misused for par
stisan political purposes too often in the past
About the only merits of the present bill
are its enforcement provisions when specified
unfair labor practices are involved and its
grant Of discriminatory power to the board of
determine conflicting claims of so-called ma
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28

By W. Williams.
With all the wonderful progress
in the art of obtaining life from
nature, what do We find? We
have three classes-the lower
class, the middle class, and then
comes big business.
We find in the lower class ten
or twelve millions of persons will
ing and able to feed twice the
population of the country living
in daily fear of losing home, rarm
and everything, because Mother
Nature is too kind.
Just above the lower class we
find a mass of harried business
and professional persons fighting
a losing battle hurled in ever
swelling numbers into the Welter
of lost hope and poverty below.
In big business We find a bunch
of takers, takers, gamblers, spec
ulators, holdup men, kept women,
preachers of Mammon, teachers
of tripe, sellers of stolen goods,
and politicians, robbing, cheating,
lying, embarrassing whoever
they may, including each other,
fighting like demons over stolen
goods, selling body and soul, mail
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PLEA FOR AID
OF GENIUSES
BY Hiram LackeY.

BY Hiram Lackey.
To Paul Wysong, my friend and
collaboration, I wish to express my
thanks for many helpful suggestions
and criticisms. I do not wish tO
offer to the world any thoughts
which have not been subjected to
the acid tests of logic and truth.
I have a profound admiration for
master of English and the bril-
liant mind of a genius. 1t is nat
ural for us to admire in others
those qualities which we do not
possess in ourselves.
When a lover of the finer things
reflects on the life of literary
genius, such as Riley, Poe or Shelly
his sense of gratitude will cause
him to wish that it had been his
privilege to have made the pathway
of life a little more pleasant for
our great public benefactors who
have so guilelessly striven to arouse
latent artistic appreciation.
Is there a more noble way to
express this longing than to search
for the geniuSeS Of our own times,
protect them from their weaknesses,
and encourage them to give their
corresponding strength to the world?
For wherever we find great strength
in man, we are apt to find a
corresponding weakness. Here is
where Christian charity is needed.
Shall we allow these "besetting
sins to ruin our geniuses and thus
rob the world of the things that are
fine and worthwhile? Is our mad
rush after wealth and pleasure
worthy of all of our time?
What we accomplish in life is not
measured so much by the degree OF
our activity as it is by the radiat-
ing betterment of the objects upon
which our activity is centered. Let
us forsake the petty things.
1t is a sublime privilege to know
a poetical genius and to make an
intimate study of his strength and
weakness; to watch him pierce the
mystic screen and catch music and
poetry from the other world, and
to study that modesty of true
greatness which results from con-
tacting this unseen, immeasurable
power which works through but is
apart from ourselves.
Considering how artistic genius
has blest the world, it is no stretch
of imagination to call such interest
our duty. How easy it is for the
foolish among us to re-enact the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28
SONG
BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLINIC

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICH
My love was shining gold today.
1t choked my throat and stabbed
my heart.
1t gave me hands tuned to your
touch,
Gave you my soul to rend apart.
My love was loath to let you know
Its anguish and its muted pain.
1 gave you glances, shy and swift,
And held loves music close in rein.
I spoke of violets, far blue sky;
Remarked the passing of the time.
Said spring was lovelier this year;
I told you where I wished to dine.
And then you took my hands in
yours
With quiet ease; my chatter died.
A heart can be a leaping fame,
And love can open portals wide.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28
DECLARES CONDITIONS
GOOD AT REAL SILK

BY Real Silk Former Employe.
I was at one time an employe at
Real Silk and 1 never before or since
have found better working condi-
lions than I had there. There never
was a time that a cross word was
spoken to me by any one in author
ity.
There is not a more sanitary mill
to be found.
Regarding the E. M. B. A. of
which 1 was a member and proud
to say 1.-THE hospital department
where first aid was given the sick
and injured was surely worth the
small amount paid.
Each E. M. B. A. member was
given free medical attention for
himself and family. I know, be-
cause members of my family re-
ceived medical attention free of
charge.
am not opposed to union labor,
but I am certainly opposed to agl-
tators and destroyers of property.
I have often times remarked, III
not satisfied with working condl-
tons, quit"
Since leaving the Real Silk, 1 have
engaged in business for myself and
have had my share of grief with
troublesome help.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28
ASSERTS CRITICISM OF
REAL SILK TRUE
By an Ex-Seamer

By an Ex-Seamer
I was employed at Real Silk more
than six years and although
haven't worked there for three years
I still keep in contact with many
friends employed there. I was in a
position to observe closely and 1
wish to state that all of the letters
telling of the unfairneSs of the
E. M. B. A. the high penalty on de-
fective work, low wages, the par
TALLY and littleness shown by de-
partment heads are absolutely true.
I observed much unfairneSS and 1
want to cite one case in particular
and this is only one of many. A girl
handicapped by deafness was dis
charged after six years at Real Silk.
The employees representative in
the E. M. B. A. knew quite we'll that
the girl was not to blame but could
he keep her from being discharged?
No. That shows that company
union is for the protection Of the
employer and not the employe.
The woman employe on the eXecu-
tive board knows quite as well as
the employees representative that
they can do very little for the en-
ployes but their jobs would be gone
if they dared breathe it.
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Emissions D0u of PLENTY for All

hood and God-given brain for the
leayingS from the tables of dives
above.
We have mountains of food we
can noC eat, and mountains OF
clothes we can not wear and also
mountains of homes we can not
live in.
Awake! Shake off the Stupor
of the OK cart age. Brush away
ancient cobwebs that blind your
vision. Break the mental chains
that bind you to the past. High
on the horizon stands the sun of
the new day-the day of plenty
for all, joy for all, beauty for all,
security for all.
Don't stand like gibbering fools
before the very gates of paradise
begging Gabriel for a chance to
earn the core of Ewes apple.
Enter boldly; it is yours. You
reared it with the tools born in
your brain. Now have brains
enough to make it yours, so that
man, woman and child may spend
their allotted years eating their
meat, bread and honey, drinking
milk and wine in peace, security
and contentment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28
| aOhOly disapprove of aUhat yOm sag and will
defend to the death your right to sag i-VoLtatre.

Little Women" then go and see it.
This is the only way to better
things in this world of ours. Too
many who view with alarm are I'M
willing to encourage good entertain
ment by their support when it is
offered them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-28
So They Say

There is no waste in the world
comparable to the waste of human
effort and human experience
President Nicholas Murray Butler of
Columbia university.
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Uncle Sam hasn't mailed out his bills yet
for payments on the war debts Probably
thinking how to word his apology first.
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The Message Center

(1tmes readers are HUited to cypress
their Uiet0s in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all ca, hare a chance.
Limit them to ESQ 40ords or teSs.J
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Detroit police. orders their chief, may
chew tobacco while on duty, but not gum.
Gum chewing is unbecoming an officer.
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tragedy of Emerson's mistake when
he called the immortal Poe, his con-
temporary, the Jingle man"
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nYNAMIC Doris. Stevens, noted "women's
- rights" leader, gave cocktail party the
other day at the Maydower
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-12

The farmer sitting the wheel of this tractor Mrs Lucy ONeal
isn't all pillow
pulled by a
She the indianapolis which this week
distributing approximately
o
Professor Purdue university, the picture,
director of the
by the
providing additional
Of reducing the poor picture
eighyacre
cultivate
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

brand of beer served may be pro-
vided by the brewers, but in each
instance they must not represent ali
investment Of more than 81 under
the agreement.
The dealer himself can provide
what signs he likes. but brand
names can not be used. Breweries
can use electrical signs and bill
board advertising as much as they
like so long as it isn't directly con-
nected with retail beer establish
ment. the agreement sets out.
Similar agreements have been
made by the beer men in New York
New Jersey, Michigan. Oregon, Ohio,
Iowa, Delaware, Massachusetts. Min
nesota and Montana, it was said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-12
Mrs. Florence Bray Is Dead

Mrs. Florence O. Bray, SO, died
yesterday in her home, 1901 Carroll
ton avenue. She had been i'll for
three years. Mrs. Bray was the
widow of Edward S. Bray, captain
of detectives in the indianapolis
police department at the time of his
death in 1909. She was a member
of Queen Esther chapter of the
Order of the Eastern Star, the Oh
i've Branch Rebekah lodge and the
Pythian Sisters.
Funeral services will be held in
the home. The time has not been
announced.
Surviving Mrs Bray are three
sons-John, Indianapolis; Walker
Detroit, and Henry, Atlanta, Ca
and a brother, Raymond Walk
er, Clayton.