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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26
In Clover
BY POLLY LOIS NORTON

BY FULLY LUIS NORION
White clover blooms bring back to
me
The days, my childhood friend,
When, barefoot in the poisoning
fields,
We plucked the flower the clover
yields
For hours upon end.
Remember how at last we'd come
Sweet-laden from the lea
And in some shady breeze swept
spot
Decked out with rose, for-get-ms-
not,
We'd leave our jewelry?
Many the crown and veil We wove.
Many the ring with perishable
pearl
Of sweet perfume we spun just so
The handsomest Of brides trousseau
That ever decked a girl.
Long years have passed since those
brave days,
Since many the wedding day,
And all the knights and ladies fair
Have vanished into empty air,
And the clovers faded away.
Yet faintest smell Of clover bloom
Borne by on zephyrs wing
Titillates the nostrils so
And makes one always long to go
With you. friend. clovering.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26
SAFETY FIRST

EFFORTS to make political capital out of
the unfortunate deaths Of army air mail
hiers are malicious. A fantastic propaganda
myth is in the making. 1t is that an arbitrary
administration in Washington without suf-
fcient cause Cancelled the commercial air
mail contracts and then grinlIy sent army
filters to their death This is a distortion of
the facts.
The administration ended the commercial
contracts only after much evidence tending to
show that most of the contracts had been
entered into illegally and as a result of alleged
favoritism and collision Under the circum-
stances this administration could not con-
tinue the contracts in force without itself be-
ing liable for connivance.
That the commercial pilots ground men,
engineers and others who have given such
heroic service in developing American avia-
ton were innocent victims of this situation
was not the fault of the government but of
those financial interests who saw in aviation
and mail contracts money making game.
During the emergency period the President
was then left with the alternative of using the
army to fly the mail or to postpone air mail
service. After consultation with army chiefs,
he did the former.
Contrary to the first wild reports, the army
chiefs at once instituted a safety first" rule.
Every effort has been made to restrain young
fliers with the mistaken idea that the mail
must go through at any and all cost.
The unprecedented storms are doubtless
the chief cause of the accidents. The fact
that a large commercial plane has crashed in
the Rockies. killing eight indicates that army
fiers are not the only ones in trouble.
1t is true, however, that the training and
experience of army and commercial fiers are
so different and that their equipment is so
different. the hazard Of flying is increased
when either tries to do the work of the other.
Therefore, early last week the government
announced that many of the commercial fiiers
would be taken over for the mail routes This
can not be done until funds are provided by
a bill which has passed the house and which
is expected to pass the senate this week.
There remains the important matter of in
struments. especially radio and blind-hylng
instruments Apparently it is not possible to
equip army planes for mail flying adequately
on short notice If this is true, the govern
nent NAV well consider reducing the mall
routes to fit its safe equipment for a few
weeks until a permanent policy for the air
mail is determined.
Meanwhile the public is not apt to sWal-
low whole the propaganda stories inspired by
selfish political and commercial sources.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26
A Woman's Viewpoint
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON :

DERHAPS total abstinence and
l. crochet, which the prince of
Wales is taking up, We hear, and
violet perfume will distinguish the
big strong herman in the future
from his weak, smoking, gin
guzzling, sissifed brother.
The idea is intriguing at least.
Because as everything stands the
modern man is a pitiabie object.
literally drowning in an ocean Of
femininity. All occupations, all
pleasures which were once sacred to
his sex, are now the property Of
every female. His whisky, his ciga-
ret, his golf, his big game hunting,
everything he has ever done or tried
to do, has been taken over by eX-
perimenting, meddlesome girls. And
the sad thing is they can Guido him.
They smoke more, drink more, cut
their hair as often, shoot as straight
and succeed as consistently as he
does. Therefore, unless man wants
to be exactly like his women-and
therefore a regular siSSy-heu have
to become straight-laced. A teeto-
taller, a disciple Of physical chastity.
a non-smoker-in short a completely
virtuouS being-thus only can he
establish a new masculinity and, it
may be, change the morals Of a
world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26
WAR BUSINESS RISES!

CTRANGE, how the rumors of coming war
~ can be felt in far-of places and in the
most peaceful of pursuits
Steamship traffic through the Panama
canal is heavy, these days-and the imminence
OF war is largely responsible.
During the first three weeks of February,
for instance, twelve steamers passed through
the canal bound for Europe with Chilean nj
trates-nitrates, from which high explosives
are made.
At the same time, many ships are going
through the canal in the other direction,
bound from the east coast of the United States
for Japan with scrap iron, lead, and cotton
commodities which also are destined to be
transformed into the munitions of war.
Rusty steamers, deeply laden, busy on the
most peaceful of errards . but grirnIy fore
shadowing the fear of war which grips the
world!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26
THE NEW DEAL

THE finest expression We have yet seen of
the spirit of the new deal is the follow
ing from Agriculture Secretary Henry A.
Wallace:
Enduring social transformation such as
our new deal seeks is impossible of realization
without changed human hearts. The classical
economists, most orthodox scientists, and the
majority of practical business men question
whether human nature can be changed. I
think it can be changed, because it has been
changed many times in the past
1T is a belief often expressed nowadays
that men are born greedy, with a strong self
seeking strain of meanness inherent in their
makeup: and that you can't change human
nature can not believe it. 1t sounds TO me
like a sheltering modern naturalization built
from the despised and all but forgotten Puri-
tan concept that only man is vile
The real need now is not to change hui
man nature but 10 give it a new chance And
in trying to simplify to myself the change Of
ways by which we may all, as a people. come
in time to personal freedom, personal security
and TO the sort Of self-respect which makes
life worth living. keep coming back to the
question Of fear.
IF we could rid the general mass Of our
people Of that paralyxing fear which breeds
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26
BETTER THAN BEGGING

A HUNDRED or so aged and shabby men
and women presented themselves before
q committee of the West Virginia legislature
asking for a state old-age pension system.
i've passed my three score and ten" said
,penniless Jesse Robinson and 1 need help.
For Gods sake don't send me and the others
like me begging into The streets or to the poor
house"
The crv of this old West Virginian should
be heard in washington. The Dill-Connery
hill for federal aid to pension states awaits
only some sign from the administration to in
sure its passage at the present session OF
congress
The better-to-do states, twenty-seven OF
them. have enacted old-age pension laws
Some of these measures are adequate some
are not: but all of them are cheaper and bet
ter than the old poorhouse systems they sup
planted
West Virginia. Mississippi and Washington
through their legislatures have petitioneo con-
gress for the Dill-Connery measure. This
would help states up to ore-third of the cost
of pensions standardize state plans at decent
level and insure a nationwide old-age pen
sion system. 1t would cost the government
only $4,000 900 or s12OOO,OOO for the next few
years. and ultimately not more than s44,0OO,OO0
a year.
For Jesse Robinson and a half million
other aged poor, It would mean a secure and
honorable old age instead Of the hard pros
poets of begging or disgrace in a county poor
farm.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26

A YOUNG Princeton freshman
IA writes to his mother: None
of the boys on my floor is smok-
ing now. They think it's just too
sissy"
Which, when you come to think
of it, is exactly the way morals
are made. 1t should not surprise
us to find boys shying away, more
and more, from all the erstwhile
masculine vices since the girls
have adopted them so whole
heartedly.
Mans chief horror always has
been that he will become like
woman. And modern woman's
chief ambition, it seems, is to be
as much like a man as possible,
so there's nothing left for the
boys except to turn their backs
on the vices, and hence make vir-
tue popular once more.
It's pretty tough going for them
these days. They have to keep on
the hop, skip and jump to find
anything the girls do not imme-
diately initiate.
So it may be possible-indeed,
consider it probable-that our
small lads may, in time, revert to
strict puritanical behavior in
sheer self-defense. It's just about
the only thing they can dc to es-
tablish that distinct maleness on
which they so pride themselves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26

young man apologize-for what?
Because he was judged by the way
times were fifty years ago? This
fellow stated plain facts that he
learned from experience with pres
ent conditions not concerning
things that happened before his
time.
Mr.. Hurd used his son as an eX-
ample in his absurd statements. 1t
seems he worked for 81 day. What
fellow wouldn't accept that kind Of
Job now? If his son didn't look for
the jobs he obtained at different
times, why he must have had help
of some sort.
Show me the man who stays at
home waiting for some one to come
and offer him a job. People call
that kind of man lazy. Produce an
employer who will visit the parks
and homes to offer fellows a job.
He said that man shouldn't walk
the streets to find job and that
he should get busy and support
himself. Now, will Mr.. Hurd be so
kind as to tell all the young men
how to support themselves and at
the same time not look for job?
MIR. Hurd, you have not felt the
weight of hardship and have not
had to experience actual contact
with present conditions, or your
words would be different.
You may be older than the PreSi-
dent, but it easily can be seen why
he is President and you are not.
If he did not have any more fore
sight, judgment or knowledge of
present conditions than you have,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26
SERVING TWO MASTERS

livery bar association recognized the
- ethical principle that lawyer can not
at the same time serve two clients whose in
terests conflict.
The halls of congress abound with lawyers
The same is true of all state legislatures AS
lawmakers, their clients are the people Yet,
down through the years, our national legis-
lature and our state legislatures have been
packed with attorneys who apparently have
felt no conjunction in accepting fees and re-
tainers from persons and corporations whose
interests often conflict with the interests of the
people.
Private employment of lawyer-legislators
has been. since the beginning of the republic,
a favorite instrument for perpetuating invisi-
bic government.
If offered q cash bride most lawyer-legiSla-
tors would become indignant. Offer the same
lawyer Legislator a fee for legal service and
you appeal both to his vanity and to his
pocketbook Then it, month later, you speak
to him about legislation in which you happen
to be interested. will what you have to say
have somewhat more weight with him than
the words of an ordinary citizen?
At last there is an attempt to do something
about this inSidious practice in the national
legislature. The judiciary committee has voted
favorably on Senator Borah's eleven-year-ol
bill forbidding members of congress from serv-
ing as attorneys in cases where the United
States is a party, or for clients engaged in
interstate commerce subject to the regulatory
powers of congress
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26
Defends Unemployed Son

a chance of getting work and get
ting the job he did. That's fine,
Mr.. Hurd, but my boy hasn't even
had a chance. We live in a rural
community, and he can't even get
farm work.
Mr.. Hurd, you say you are a
carpenter by trade. Didn't you
have to look for that to get start
ed, or did you have pull? We
all have to learn our trades.
In closing, I want to say that
I don't think my boy has to
apologize for his letter, and 1
think he will continue walking the
streets of the city, if he wants to
find work. 1t won't come to him.
If your birthday comes on the
same day as the Presidents, why
can't you be broad-minded man
like he is?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26
READER WANTS MIR. HURD
TO APOLOGIZE NOW.
By An Observer

BY An Observer
If what I am about to say seems
rude or insulting. I offer my
apologies to the Message Center.
Please try and include this article,
because it seems there is some one
who needs an eye-opener to the
condition of modern times! If these
words fail to make him see clearly
why I shall consider him very much
blind!
Friday evening there appeared
the Answer to a Young Man Out
of Work" by H. Hurd. I'm not
that young man, but I am one OF
the hundreds just like him! Mr..
Hurd's answer" was an insult to
the young man, to me and many
other fellows!
May I suggest that Mr.. Hurd re-
frain from submitting articles to
this column until he can learn that
this is the year of 1934-and not the
gay nineties. He suggested that the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26

By Mrs. G. H.
In answer to H. Hurd's message
in this column, as w. H. HIS
mother, I want to write him a few
things about my son.
He was graduated from Warren
Central high school in June, 1888,
end has tried ever since to get
work. He is not what you call
Communist. His family are Cod
fearing people, and he is a Sun
day school teacher, and is one of
the finest boys in his community.
When ne has walked the streets
of indianapolis for work he also
has walked in to Indianapolis to
look for work. It is a distance
of nine miles. AS for being a
street cleaner, he would be glad to
do it. 1t would be work, and that
is what he wants.
You talk of your stepson taking
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26
CARDS OF LIFE ARE
"STACKED," HE ASSERTS
Ru larry Richardson

BY Jerry Richardson
I have been HooSier for twelve
years, disabled in army in 1918, and
have been out of a job since May "a,
1880. have a wife and five
children who depend upon me for
support. did get $18 month from
a pension until Feb. %, 1888, but
was cut off completely. At the date
my claim was cut off I was under
physicians care.
I registered Jan. 5, 1884, for CWA
work and have made several calls
at the CWA office, but never got
one minute of time on any pay roll.
1 have little roof for my family,
but I don't like to start eating wood
and bricks. I try to vote progress
sive. If that is a crime I ask to
be forgiven, but why should the
children suffer for the sin. Let me
cut the deck for another deal. The
cards were stacked for lots of us.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26

come in contact with the pavement
at all.
In some mysterious manner the
necessities of life materialize for
the poor and righteous.
Perhaps it is accomplished
through matrimony. A prosperous
farmers daughter for instance. I
confess I do not know the answer.
H. Hurd from his years of know
ledge and wisdom will have to en-
tighten you.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26

why he'd never even been con-
sidered a Democrat. 1t seems to
me that if an apology is in order.
it should come from you, Mr. Hurd.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26

These reputed kidnapers are smart They
beat the rap every time, even if they have to
commit suicide in jail
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26
READERS GIVE SEVERAL
ANSWERS TO MIR. HURD

BY o. y. H.
This is in answer to H. Hurd, who
came back at the boy who walked
the streets looking for work.
The boy is right; he hasn't a
chance. It might be he doesn't live
in indianapolis long enough to vote
when he has job, so that his BOSS
could tell him how.
And, if he did take a mans job
at ST day, as your boy did, he
wouldn't want to give half of it to
buy cigars for the boss for a year.
You and your boys go ahead and
work for year at ST day. You
are old enough to know better. You
said you were a carpenter. I pre-
sumo when carpenters were making
ST. an hour you worked for 40 cents.
That is all right for man that
can live on a bowl Of soup and do
a days work. You look out for the
boss, and we always shall have such
times as we have now.
We have some men like you on the
CWA projects. They give 81 to join
the Old Hickory Club, and to buy
cigars for the boss. They get to
stay on the job and think it is be-
cause they are good men and
smarter than those who get laid off.
You will make a big mark in the
world at 81 day while living ex-
penses are as high as they are now.
The public was interested to learn
that your birthday came on the
same day as the Presidents.
Generally, the old men on the
CWA work are laid off first with the
idea that they obtain work in
factories. They should know that a
man more than 40 can't get a JOB
any place, while the young man
can get work if there is any.
We can't all be bosses over a
chicken ranch. or carrying out ashes
for the man who pays dollar a
day, as a good citizen like you and
your boys. You are just like some
of the people who advertise for a.
girl to do houseWork who needs a
home more than wages.
am a reader of The Times.
=
By G. W. Fear.
I see in your Message Center some
scribe has broken into print in an
swer to an earlier article signed
w. H. H. I would like for some one
to explain what Mr.. Hurd is talk
ing about. This worthy man of Sc
years says in part, II suppose you
arrived in this world with a long
gray beard" Mr.. Hurd goes on to
state: 81 never have seen the poor
forsaken or the righteous begging
bread"
Pray tell me, when have the poor
even been anything else but for
saken? Does the gentleman mean
to say the thousands Of people who
are compelled to exist on charity
are not righteous? Are the thou
sands of unemployed men and
women human leeches, grafters and
would-be criminals?
Mr.. Hurd would have you believe
so. This carpenter goes on to tell
W. H. H. "Quit walking the streets.
Get busy and support yourself" At
what, may I ask?
Will some one please inform me
the means by which persons goes
about to earn the necessary coin Of
the realm to buy ones daily bread
and butter?
1t isn't by visiting employment
bureaus. 1t isn't by calling at
offices where they might need a
bookkeeper or a clerk. You don't
go to factories or shops and ask the
employment manager for a job.
That would be expecting some one
to give you something.
In fact, you don't walk the streets
IN search of a livelihood. As mat
ter Of fact. your shoeleather Doesn't
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26

Scientists in Washington are weighing the
earth again, having found it wanting these
last few years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26

A New Yorker who bathed in the ocean
daily, through winter and summer. died at
the age Of 49, The cold got him, at last.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26
The Message Center

(Ttmes readers are fnvtted to cypress
their vie10s in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to ESQ 40ords or IeSs.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26

The reason why the nations are so slow
disarming is that the talk is less convincing
than the arms.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26

Napoleon wouldn't have rated much in
Biblical history, says professor of the Bible.
But we can't say he wouldn't have tried.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26

Even the Germans believe Schmeling Is
through as fighter. The best he can do now
Is become good Nax.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-26

a0holIy disapprove of aOhat you sag and will
defend to the death your right to sag it-Votaire
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-04
Society
Clubs
STOCK COMPANY
TO OPEN HERE
IN TEN DAYS

FL Centre is TO have a new stock
company this year, the Edith
Amber Stock Co. which will open
this week, Saturday, October l3.
A cast of 25 people will put on
a new play each week for the en-
tertainment of valley audiences.
The performances will be given in
the finest tent theatre in America,
according to the management, and
this theatre will be set up in the
old Brunk's show lot, back Of the
City Limits cafe, corner of Impe-
rial and San Diego highways.
The Amber Co. has Just COM
pleted so successful weeks in San
Bernardino and this week is busy
moving equipment to the valley.
The theatre has three stages,
splendid lighting effects and in ad-
dition to the plays features Malt
by's Black Hills Gypsy orchestra
and vaudeville numbers which Will
be given between acts.
A new play will be given each
week, the change being made each
Saturday evening.
The grand opening is Saturday,
October Is, when the doors viii
open at 7:30 p. m. The orchestra
concert will begin at s and the
show will open at 8:l5.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-04
FIVE STRIKES
HIT PACIFIC
COAST AREA
BY United Press

While President Roosevelt was
advancing his plans for industrial
peace, labor disturbances spread to.
day in the troubled Pacific coast
area, where five strikes are in pro
greSs.
Truck drivers and meat packers at
Portland, Ore, radio operators on
two Pacific Steamship company lin
ers, gold miners in the California
Mother Lode country, and furni-
ture upholsterers in major coast ci-
ties are on strike.
The Portland strike appeared in
terconnected. The meat workers
have been on strike for more than
a week with the union truck driv-
erS protesting continually that they
were being forced to handle goods
from the affected packing plant.
Last night 500 truck drivers aban-
doned their trucks.
The mine strike involves 500 hard
rock workers in the Argonaut, Ken
nedy, Central Eureka and Little
Amador mines. They are seeking
wage increases as their share of the
higher prices being paid for gold.
Approximately 5000 upholstery
workers employed by wholesale
firms walked out in demanding
wage adjustments. Union radio op-
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-04
STATE TO END
CASE AGAINST
ACCUSED MAN

WILKES BARRE, Pa, Oct. 4.
UP)-The prosecution was to close
its case today against Robert Allan
Edwards, whom it seeks to send to
the electric chair for the Staying
of Freda McKechnie in an alleged
duplication of the plot of the Gel
ebrated novel. "An American
Tragedy
The final triangular web the 81
year-old mine surveyor spun around
himself came through 172 amor
Gus letters he wrote to Margaret
Grain, East Aurora, N. Y, music
teacher" the other girl'
Prosecutor Thomas M. Lewis con-
tends these epistles of love, all
written to Margaret" by Bob
bic" will show the motive for kill
ing the McKechnie girl, who was
Edwards ncighbor sweetheart and
a church worker.
Objection to admission of the
letters, intimated as being some
what salacious, was raised by
Frank A. MacGuigan, defense coun-
sci.
Margaret Grain, according to
Lewis, was the Gmotive for the
Staying of Freda. Bobbie planned
the killing so he would be rid OF
Miss McKechnie. an expectant
mother. to be free to marry the
music teacher