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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02
ACTION IN
CLOSED BANK CASES
BY a Deposition.

By a Deposition.
Will injustice ever cease?
People placed their hard-earned
savings in financial institutions
which circulated reports showing
solvency and then closed their doors
without giving the depositors any
warning.
A court granted the officials per-
mission to continue in charge for
two years, spending the assets and
also drawing large salaries for that
period. .
Finally, the depositors organized
and had the court appoint a re-
ceiver; then came a trial of the
liquidating agents and official in
vestigations of their banking and
liquidating affairs, which revealed
alleged unlawful handling of the
trust.
Many of the depositors have been
forced to call on the county for
help and all Of them have been un-
able to do things that would have
given employment to many who are
out of work.
Why not get busy and bring mat
tiers to a climax?
Recent legislation provides pro-
lection for depositors in banks; it
surely behooves those in charge OF
defunct banks to recover all avail
able property belonging to the de-
faulters and convert it into cash and
pay on their debts, and then i'm
prison the guilty.
We feel that if this is not done
soon they, too, have failed in their
duty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02
LAUDS STATE POLICE
RADIO S T PLAN

BY A. NJ. Sweeney.
1t is welcome news to hear that
about $4,000 has been subscribed
toward a statewide police radio,
which finally will link all parts of
our state to help enmesh those
lodging human gadflies that are so
persistently and venomously sting
ing and preying upon the body
physical and corporate.
There is a crying need for such
relief and prayers, therefore, are
daily going heavenward from myr-
lads anxious mothers hearts.
This radio system will be the laws
rapid transit to contact. These
heinouS crimes are extremely baf-
fling to u best police powers, due
to their ubiquity and to the laws
unavoidable lack Of personal ON
nipresence.
kidnapping is becoming the most
menacing and terrible crime prob
lem confronting us today. It is
appalling to contemplate it in all
its turpitude, enormity and growing
extent. 1t is now called the Snatch
racket"
1t is a challenge to all order,
law and life. Prompted solely by
cupidity, its minions use the most
narrowing and horrifying methods,
rending home ties, tearing heart
strings, threatening murder - all
done to gain sudden wealth.
What is the remedy? Order is
heavens first law" Justice must
prevail though the heavens fall.
Justice is an attribute of the Al
mighty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02
DOUBTS BIRTH CONTROL
WILL LIFE

By Hiram Lackey.
Your editorial in The Times Of
May 81 paints a pleasingly restful
picture of our declining birth rate
and is truly excellent in that it
reveals the weakness of the argu-
ment, from which you quote that Of
DR.. w. S. Thompson, director Of
the ScrippS Foundation for Research
in Population.
The learned doctor would do well
to sink his research shafts deeper
into the social strata left by dead
ages. His argument that, with a
decreased population, life will
move along more evenly and with
fewer disturbances" is alluring but
not at all in keeping with Gods x
press command for individual null
~tiplication.
If the purpose of the creation
were to deliver a numerically weak
and unresisting mankind into the
greedy arms of a capitalistic Moloch,
his argument would be conclusive
and final.
Birth control as a remedy for
economic stress, treats the effect
but fails at healing the cause.
When We look upon the. ruins OF
ancient civilizations, such as those
of Petra, we see what happens when
the human race fails to give eco
nomic cause its proper significance.
Where once was Petra With ap-
proximately one million inhabi-
tants, now are ruins, few and scat
tered families and beasts of the
wild. Naturally, here the tenor OF
life runs more evenly and there are
fewer disturbances.
Old mother earth, pregnant with
life and willingly provident for her
children, can are for a family OF
almost unlimited number.
Some day, when the accursed
sleeping potion administered by Jul
soup kitchens and almshouses un-
der the guise of sweet charity shall
have lost its effectiveness, men will
assert the qualities of manhood and
protect their common mother and
common heritage from the throt-
Ting and stealing hands of profit.
We like the editorial page of The
Times. God knows it is the one
light piercing the gloom of our
city's political darkness. We have
no doubt that as the precepts Of
the Golden Rule are more and more
forgotten and mans inhumanity to
man becomes more apparent, its
flame will brighten and in the end
reveal nothing but Gods eternal
truth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02
By a Disgusted Democrat

By a Disguised Democrat
May I add a few lines to your
ever just column? 1t happened
at the Speedway after the race.
The grounds were practically
deserted with the exception of
a few onlookers and national
guardsmen. We approached
grand stand A.
A patron was asleep in one OF
the boxes. A guardsman ap-
preached and shook him. The
young man was under the inf1u-
ence of liquor, but far from drunk.
We watched the guard search
him, take a bottle two-thirds full
Of whisky away from him, go
through every pocket, then place
the young mans wallet in his
own pocket. He saw us watching
him.
Then he placed the boy in his
car and drove him to the gate to
check him out, as he called it.
The fellow laughed and joked,
didn't resist or stagger, but GER
tainly was embarrassed.
We followed, intending to in
terview the young man just to see
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02
JUNE 2, 1884.
THEY HIRED THE MONEY-BUT

TT has been necessary for President Roose-
welt to add to the words on war debt, which
if laid end to end would carry 5he dispute to
the farthest reaches of the stratosphere and
dump it there, where it belongs.
Everything Mr.. Roosevelt says repeats what
all our postwar Presidents have said, and
what innumerable congressional orators and
editorials have said. It is all very logical and
legally 'unanswerable. In the immortal words
of Mr.. Coolidge: They hired the money.
didn't they?"
So what?
So did the American banks that failed, and
the horde of domestic debtors that will never
pay. The claims are good-but they are not
worth anything.
The President speaks of "the s~acredness OF
the obligation" That is the way a great many
Americans feel about the American govern
ment's broken pledge to pay gold.
The crisis, the economic necessity, is simply
greater than the arguments. So the gold
clause went overheard, as did many domestic
debts. And so have the war debts gone over
board-we need not kid ourselves about that
fact.
A year ago even though LIE Wal ueUUo WcA0
worthless as cash, they had some value as bar
gaining tokens in the international game of
Grade, tariffs, disarmament and the like. The
Roosevelt administration-partly because it
was too busy with problems closer home
failed to take advantage of that opportunity.
Now it probably is too late. The President
in his message to congress yesterday limited
that we might use the debts to trade for dis
armament on the very fair principle that any
nation which can afford to increase arms ex-
penditures can afford to pay its debts.
But we fear that will not work now that
all of the nations, our own included, are en-
barked on a vast armament race. Indeed in
the present tense atmosphere of suspicion
there is danger that such bargaining would
be resented by the peoples abroad as a blow
below the belt.
The war debts have value now only as
t~roublemakers. Since congress will not adj
nit the fact that they will never be paid and
therefore attempt a low settlement, probably
the less said about them the better for a while.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02
Capital Capers
BY GEORGE ABELL-

THE celebrated Pace. valet for twenty years
- 10 Ambassador Cardenas of Spain and
known as the dean of major domos in Washing
ton, was the guest of honor at a large recep-
ton and dance sponsored by the servants of
the Spanish embassy.
Nearly all the Spanish colony in the capital
attended the event. 1t was a gala affair, given
IN the cloak rooms Of the embassy, with music.
merriment, Japanese lanterns and Spanish
claret and sherry from the best cellars in An
dalusia.
Pace was magnificent, dressed in a smartly
tailored black coat and white trousers. He
stood at the head of the receiving line, greet
ing guests under a large, illuminated sign which
read lin SPANISH:
"a GRAND FIESTA IN HONOR OF PACO,
PRINCE OF MAJOR DOMOS."
All the young Spanish diplomats came in
during the course of the evening to shake Paco's
hand. He is a favorite with all who know him.
The highlight of the evening was Paco's
rendition Of an old-fashioned Spanish quadrille
in the grand manner. He did it better than
any ambassador-and it was freely admitted,
the admirable Pace looked more ambassadorial
than most foreign ENJOYS.
THE Cuban embassy the other day celebrated
Il a victory which is not yet listed in the his
tory books.
A solemn ceremony took place at the state
department, as the United States formally re-
0NANOO S"O - ANN 0AAA
it's right of armed intervention in Cuban affairs
by signing a treaty with the island government.
Cuban Ambassador Marquee Sterling arrived
in a morning coat and delivered a dramatic
speech, repeating the words of General Leon
ard Wood:
ut is better that the stars and stripes should
be indelibly impressed upon our hearts than
that they should float above our heads!"
The only one surviving witnesses of the sign
ing of the treaty Of 1903, which brought the
Plat amendment to Cuba, were present at the
ceremony. They are elderly, bald-headed Sid
ney (Uncle Sidney Smith, veteran state de-
%partment official, and John Barrett, first direc-
tor-general of the Pan-American Union.
Uncle Sidney gravely affixed the great red
seal of the United States to the new treaty,
made no comment.
Rarely does Uncle Sidney mmen During
his seventy-six years he had seen many treaties
and many men. He calmly affixes seals to
the treaties and treats men and events philoso-
phically.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02
A KISS FOR THE WIFE

MUSE Oklahoma City husbands who
formed a Husbands Gratitude Club"
seem to have struck upon a pretty sound idea
Tor promoting happy marriages.
Each member took this pledge:
L solemnly pledge myself daily to embrace
my wife, kiss her, and tell her I love her.
I promise to compliment her at least once
eacn day on some particular part of the menu
she prepares.
I promise to perform at least one kind
and unexpected deed for her daily"
Reducing it all to a formal pledge may
sound a bit odd, of course. But it does set
forth a course of action which points, most
decidedly, in the direction of a successful
marriage.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02
/ Uholly disapprove of Vhot you sag and wiu
defend to the death your right to say it-VoLtaire.
Condemns Act of Guard at Speedway

if his wallet really was returned
to him.
The guard, a man of short,
stocky build, about As and very
coarse, had deposited the boy in
a cab at the gate and met us on
the way back, going north to the
stands. He hailed the four of us,
passed us, parked and walked
back to where we were walking.
We had truly given him a good
razzing for searching the boy
when he had no right to, and
the man was a stranger in our
midst. He approached and (here
is his story:) "You seen me
search that guy didn't you?"
showing us a $40 bill. boy, was
he heeled. He forced me to take
this $40 tip. Can you imagine
that?"
Then my husband asked him
what authority he had to pocket
the wallet and take the whisky.
Then this from the guardsman:
why, he even had $40 bills in
his shoes. He showed this (the
ten) at me. Why, he forced me
to accept it,"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02
he whole world and lose his own

the whole world and lose his own
soul?
Can our government be any bet
ter than the people who govern?
When organizations are formed you
will find crooks get into them. If
an organization is controlled by
crooks or selfish interests it is no
good to the country.
When we find crookednesS, forg-
cry, juggling, twisting and lies, how
can you expect the people to be any
better? What they SOW that will
they reap.
The President in his acceptance
speech said the money changers
should be driven out. The Lord
drove the money changers out of
the temple. If we want to follow
this example, should they not be
driven out of the church?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02
ARKANSAS AND SUPREME COURT

THE supreme courts unanimous decision
against validity of the Arkansas law
which exempted insurance payments from
garnishment, and other legal attachments
for debt. contains no menace for national re-
covery legislation.
The case was decided under the contract
clause of the Constitution, which forbids states
to impair contracts. This limitation does not
apply to the federal government, Most OF
the recovery legislation avoids interference
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02
QUARREL
BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICH

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICH
Love is so bitter when it turns;
It's teeth so sharp, its tongue so
cruel.
Its mind alive with serpent words
For rasping, angry fuel.
Love is so bitter when it turns;
So sharp with ice to spurn defeat.
I wonder in this chaos
How I even found love sweet. 3
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02
HE'D DRIVE MONEY
CHANGERS OUT

By Fl. H.
Having read Secretary Wallace's
articles on Craftsmanship and Re-
ligion," I agree with Mr.. Wallace
that we need some Moses or Jere-
miah to lead us out of the wilder
ness of depression, both spiritual
and financial. Is not the spiritual
depression worse than the financial?
What profit it a man if he gained
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02

School children at Wheaton, Pa, went on
strike when their principal and four teachers
we're fired. In the old days we didn't look for
an excuse to play hockey.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02
LOOKS FORWARD TO
REAL SILK VOTE

By a Boarder.
/ just read about the striker who
seems just a little tickle. Somehow
I believe it is a girl who wrote. She
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02

A German scientist says we have fifteen
senses, instead Of only five. Still, how many
people do you know without any sense at all?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02
The Message Center

Times readers are fnDited to erpreSs
their Uietos In these columns. Make your
letters short, so all ca, hare a chance.
Limit them to ESQ toords or less.)
= q
ANOTHER HOLIDAY
is COMING
By a Reader.
The Roosevelt revolution is being
taken in tow by the invisible gov
eminent which always has been the
power behind the throne. The
NRA's licensing clause is not to be
extended after July 1, thus taking
the teeth out of the blue eagle. A
hot air pipe is to replace the screech
horn after that date. And the mas
ter of flag waving is to be no less
a parsonage than the son of the
late Hartman of railroad renown.
w. A. Hartman with his great rail-
road fortune, is just the right per-
son to put the ice bags on the re-
covery program, and of keeping
Section IA relating to organized la
Dor smothered.
Anyway a good time was had by
all, while we watched the hocus
pocus. Wall Street with its highly
organized lobby of stockholders"
has taken all the color out of the
Fletcher Rayburn exchange regula-
ton bill, so the kitty can take in
the sucker again. The CWA pump
has been dismantled and FERA
labor dole has supplanted it, with
that high purchasing power of $40
a week. The revolutionary banking
reform measure is shelved so we
car wait for banking reform until
the next holiday. Well the counter
revolution of Wall Street is winning
the day now, but wait! Another
holiday is comingl We will need
it to keep the kettle boiling for
twelve million.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02

Perhaps what piques Barbara Hutton is
that her Prince Alexis might have gone to
another five-and-ten.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02

The international debts shouldn't be can-
celed; neither should they be paid. How
else are we to be reminded there was once a
war?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02
Daily Thought

The just man walketh in his in
tegrity; his children are blessed
after him.-Proverbs 20:7.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02

FOLLOW your honest convictions
= and be strong-Thackeray.
The nation must stand ready, not
to prepare for war, but to guard
against war.-Henry Horner, Cover
of Illinois.
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Phone RI ley 5551
The Washington times., 1934-05-04
ORCANDY
plain, printed
or embroidered

Frothy young dance frocks with lot of "come-
hither" in their begung ruffles pastel coloring or
white for graduation! Snug hiplines, but full
swishing skirts clear to the floor! There's one
sophisticated one with tucked blouse. We've
sketched only two of radiant collection-11 to IT,
SECOND FLOOR-JUNIOR SHOP
Evening star., 1934-11-25

Their little cabins were there on a mar
row strip Of cultivated land between sea
and wilderness, true enough; the In
dians might at any moment come down
in a flood with knife and firebrand and
far to the north, was a menace never to
be forgotten.
But the Pilgrims appointed a feast
day, offered reverent thanks to God, en-
joyed the bounty that they we're COM
pelling the rugged land to surrender to
them-and paved the way for mans
greatest triumph over hostile nature
All the future was there, in that day
of ThankSgiving-the future of q viii
derness tanned and made fertile. of hos
tile tribes routed and made harmless, of
busy cities and pleasant farms and COM
Portable homes and broad highways,
reaching to the west beyond imagining.
a great land where the human spirit
could be free and triumphant. All OF
that was implicit in the first ThankSgiv-
ing day; it became possible, that is, be-
cause those early settlers were tough
enough to count the blessings they had,
rather than frighten themselves into de-
feat by gazing too long at the surround
ing dangers.
co MUCH for the Pilgrim fathers, back
- in 1921 Now let's bring things
down to the year 1884.
Like the Pilgrims, we are between a
wilderness and an ocean these days. We
find ourselves in a position where we
must go forward or give up. conquer or
die. The ashes of the dead years are
Continued on Third Page
Evening star., 1934-11-25
BY BRUCE CATION.


q /OU wouldn't think they had
" much to be thankful for-those
early Puritans who set aside a
day for prayer and feasting to
express their thanks to God for
His mercies.
To be sure, they had come through
q horribly difficult year, and they were
beginning to see that the worst was over.
They had found that the weather was
not going to kill all of them in the cold
Winter months, that the Indians were
not going to swoop down and drive them
into the sea, that they could really tame
this wild new land and make 1t produce
food, clothing and shelter.
They had found, in other words, that
they could build new homeland for
themselves in America if they were brave
and enduring enough-and so, being de-
vout folk, they offered their thanks to
Heaven for it, and began a GUS
tom which is followed to this day.
But when you look
back you can see
Evening star., 1934-11-25

that there were plenty Of things there
to frighten and discourage them, II they
had stopped to think about them.
They occupied little fringe of land
on the very edge Of one Of the greatest
continents. At their backs was the sea
-wide stormy, menacing. Before them
was the wilderness-one of the most
tremendous reaches of wild land that
ever existed.
Dense forests stretched away to the
west, for league on league. In the Sum-
for lurking Indians; in the Winter it
was frost-bound desolation, swept by
freezing gales, very Siberia Of lifelesS
emptiness, lying just beyond their little
farms.
A ND all of this, to the men Of those
days, must have seemed infinite. No
man knew what lay beyond the wilder
ness. It was a perpetual menace. an
enormous shadowland that dwarfed
their tiny settlement to pigmy dimen-
sions. Any thinking man, surveying the
state of things in the early 1600'S, must
have concluded at once that the task
impoSsible-a hopeless endeavor that
could only result in
defeat and death for
those fool enough TO
try it.
49, But the
cOIOniSfS nc
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-03
STRANGERS
EYES GIVE HIM
MUCH TROUBLE
Indian Chic +
Picked on Weakness

Indianapolis, Ind -(UP)- Ed
(Strangler) Lewis has wrestled "a
years and twice been the world
champion, but still has only one
real weakness-his eyes.
The weakness was admitted af-
ter he had throgn Chief Chewchki
of Oklahoma In O. recent match
here.
'"rhls chief is the craziest guy
I ever met" said Lewis. "I'd get
q hold on him, and he'd bite or 20
for my eyes,"
II don't mind the biting, but
when they go for my eyes-tha' 8
out. I've had trouble with my eyes
and was laid up for a while on ac-
count of them"
Lewis, AZ, said he wrestles five
nights q week and has engaged in
more than $500 matches.
Lost Some Zip
NATURALLY I've lost some Of the
zip l once had. But don't let this
spare tire around my middle fool
you" he warned. tits been there
a long time. l want 1t there"
The soft-voiced STRANGER" who
In the days when there was sc
time limit on matches sometimes
wrestled until 2 or 3 q. M, ad.
mitted most athletes don't stay in
the pink of condition long.
"Tm always near the top of con.
dition," he declared.
Il like to show up these young
bucks who think they can take ole
Ed. fool around and let ZEN
take passes at this Che patted hi.
middle): then turn 'em over"
Started ut IS
"You know, started when I wa.
is. I've been champion twice, ant
I've seen this game progress from
where we had to get down to bust
ness to this showmanship the boys
use now"
He estimated he has appeared
before more than 100000 people
who have paid on an average OF
81 each to sec him.
There's not man wrestling
today that I'm afraid Of" he con-
cluded.