The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-26
u. 5. STAIN
MYSTERY MAN,
WRIT ASSERTS
1t May or 1t May Not Be
Paul McNutt; Gary Man
Is Keeping Secret
CRUSADER is EVASIVE
And SteePS His Boss, They
Say in Some Quarters
Around Gary.
BY ARCH STEINEL
Times staff Writer

1ACO 1llO., N1dICIl AO.-SdIy lids
a Paul Revere, who, riding a hob
by horse"-some say of steel design
is sounding the tocSin against the
B. It's (brain-truSterS)
With metaphorical lantern in
hand, he searched out for The In
dianapolis Times today the man
who is to be Stain to President
Roosevelt's 'Kerensky"-and it may
or may not be Governor Paul v.
McNutt.
Indiana's crier is William Writ,
superintendent of schools of Gary,
and he admits that his present eX-
posures as well as his study of
economics are a hobby"
And in almost the same breath
in the parlor of his old English
style hong in Gary he refuses to
reveal his politics.
Il wouldn't quote any politics. I
have kept it out of the Gary school
system"
Gets $4,000 a Year
Mr.. Writ admitted that he re-
ceives $4,000 yearly as head of the
school system. Sixty per cent of
the taxes of Gary are paid by sub
salaries of the United Steel Corpo-
ration, arch foe of the MIRA. Mr..
Wirt's boss, Peter Seyle, president
of the board of education, is man
ager of the American Bridge Com
pany, United States Steel affiliate.
Mrs. Writ also is employed in the
Gary schools as director of audi
forums and during the summer
season is professor at North
western university.
The man who has crashed many
newspapers in the country with his
charges of a revolution and traitor
ship in the ranks Of President
Roosevelt, talks glibly of economics.
Nobody Knows" His Answer
He is mild-mannered but evasive
as he is questioned, Did you refer
to, Governor McNutt as the Stain
in your brief against the brain
truSters?"
Nobody knows who it is" was
his retort.
Then, agilely, he led into the Sc
cret hauntS of the country's prom
ised Stain"
He's probably very Democratic,
very modest. One who says to him
self as he watches, I'll follow their
moves. And at the proper time
I'll capture their fancy You know
'"Thrice did the great Caesar refuse
the CROWN" he added as he eX-
planned what in his minds eye the
B. rs injected in his brain as their
picture of their Stain"
He denied the possibility that he
could have talked to a group of
men in Washington who merely
we're feeding him the well-known
bologna with the knowledge that he
was an extreme conservative.
Another Ogre for Labor
He brought out another ogre for
labor to chew upon by declaring
that the kind Of union the B. rs
seek is a vertical union" zone of
all industries organized individually
as of industry and not of craftO
His prophets in his writing are
David Lawrence and Mark Sullivan,
columnists and torch bearers for the
G. o. P.
He, gives the country but two
months to decide in congress
whether NRA and it's alphabetical
family is to be permanent or tenn
porary.
But wouldn't the ballot box in
the fall be time enough?" he was
asked.
No! 1t must be done within the
next two months he says, without
heat.
Not an armed Revolt"
When it was suggested that his
charges, coming during the present
off-election year, will be termed
politics" he said:
Il don't think I would have
opened my mouth if I had thought
it would have been taken in that
way"
He declared that if this construc-
ton were put upon his charges, that
1t would be a smoke screen"
will the revolt, led by Stain,
be an armed revolt?" he was asked.
No; it will be a social revolu-
ton, although the emotional fer
vor of the mob must be counted
upon" he said.
Gary is a house divided on Mr..
Wirt's statements.
The labor element is strong.
'Piffle," is their comment as they
carry well-flled dinner pals, or
the pertinent suggestion to ques-
tioners to look around and see
where all the smoke comes from and
the type of factories"
steel Heard on All Sides
While others say he should be
made to prove his charges and at
the same time declare Mr.. Writ is
Of unquestioned veracity.
Steel is heard on every side.
Mr.. Wirt's quotations of economic
points were interlarded with the
price Of steel before the depression
and during it. He is opposed to the
closed shop.
No political candidate, no bond
issue, no public activity, can begin
in Gary without the customary
question:
How do the steel companies
stand on it?"
Mr.. Writ came to Gary at its
first eye-washing under Judge FL
bert Gary, of the United States
Steel Corporation, twenty-five years
ago.