davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-26
The Message Center

(Times readers are invited to cypress
their Viea0s in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare q chance.
Limit them to $50 aoords or Iess.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-26

A Harvard professor says Americas contri-
buttons to civilization have been dentists.
plumbers, and collar buttons. And what about
chewing gum, subway guards, and traffic
lights?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-26

The emperor of Manchoukuo is ANSWER
able only to heaven" but since he's married
We'll bet he can't stay out late at night with
out bringing home pretty good excuse.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-26

Columbia professor prefers "Anerica the
Beautlful' as our national anthem But not
before all the highway posters are taken down.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-26

For all Greece has done about InsuII the
United States would still be glad to return all
its wrestlers on demand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-26

long before he did. When there
is a woman in the case, it always
causes one to Inger longer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-26

1t cost $40 each for the CWA to get rid of
some rats in Brooklyn, N. Y They must have
used rare imported cheese.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-26

Never againl" says Aimee Semple Nc
Pherson Hutton, about marrying. Shed bet
ter guard against kidnapping, too.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-26

SO ANAa@g w.
Members Of United Press.
scripps Howard Newspaper
Alliance, Newspaper Enter
prise Association, Newspaper
Information Service and Au-
dit Bureau Of Calculations.
Owned and published daily
Except Sunday by The IN
dianapolis Times Publishing
Company. 214-22O West Mary
land street. Indianapolis, Ind.
Price in Marion county, 2
cents a copy; elsewhere, 3
cents-delivered by carrier. II
cents a week. Mail subscrip-
ton rates in Indiana. s.
year; outside Of Indiana, o5
cents a month.
CT
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-26

Phone-RIley 551
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-07
PAST THE CORNER

a EJACULATION recently made by the
4 National City bank of New York shows
in black and white just how the revival of
the last twelve months has improved the
status of American industries
This tabulation studied some $40 corpora
lions divided among thirty-seven industrial
groups. In 1882 the operations of these $40
corporations showed net deficit of 46,O0O,-
900. In 1888 they had net profits of $40 900 000
Similarly, in 1882 only 40 per cent of these
firms operated at profit. Last year the per-
centags rose to g..
Figures like these indicate that the i'm
provement of the last year is very real and
substantial. 1t becomes more and more evil
dent that the long-awaited corner actually
was turned some time ago. We can look for
ward to the future with great deal of con-
fidence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-07
STRAYING CHILD NEEDS

THE 100000 fire which destroyed the ILL
l. nois state arsenal at Springfield the state
capital, a few weeks ago, was all the work
of a 1O-year- old boy who liked to see the
flames.
It was the Governor of Illinois himself who
verified this amazing fact. The youngster
readily confessed everything. He told how
he had set the blaze, had scampered home
to read school text book entitled-of all
things-"Good Citizenship" and then had re-
turned to watch the disastrous confagration
he had caused.
AS soon as he had made this bizarre con-
fession the LAD was lodged in detention nome
to await the arrival of learned pSychlatrists
who were to question him in an effort to find
out what on earth possessed him.
In a case like this, we bump against one
Of the most tragic and pulling riddles that
life can offer An old-time theologian prob
ably would explain 1t on the basis Of original
sin or demoniac possession and a modern
psychiatrist probably will have something
equally pat to say about completes, inhibi-
tions and whatnot.
But in either case, we face one OF those
queer, incomprehensible qrirks that crop out
every now and then to bewilder and disnay us.
Such things remind us that we do not
know nearly as much about the mainsprings
Of human behavior as we think we do. Why
should an intelligent pleasant-faced child give
way to an insane impulse like this, anyway
How could the adults who have charge Of his
training have foreseen such a thing?
What can be done, now that the catas-
trophe has taken place, TO keep the lads life
from being wrecked, and make it possible for
him to develop into a happy and useful
member of society?
We know the answers to none of those
questions But out of the general bewilder-
ment We can, perhaps, draw a new under
standing of the obligation that lies upon all
adults in respect to children; the obligation
to try to understand, to syn1pathize to be as
wise and helpful as our limitations permit
The world of childhood is strange place.
and it can be peopled by queer grisly shadows
We can not know all that goes on in it, nor
can we understand all that we do know But
we at least can be forever alert to help, to
advise, to comfort, and to warn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-07
LIFE OF OUR LORD

MOT only will the nation be refreshed in
Y Christian spirit by the unfolding of
Charles Dickens lovely chiid's story OF the
Life of Our Lord" told simply in crystal pure
English but the principle of syndicatlon is
conspicuously indicated on the flftietr ami
versary of its founding by S. S Mcclure.
Over the sordid world. at a time WHEN in
spiration is sorely needed, comes this binding
fash Of light from an unsuspecting source.
fountain of glorious thought which, we hao be-
neved. was stilled nearly sixty-hve years ago.
The good man Dickens lives again for the
reading world returning to preach IN a new
form his world-famous gospel of charity. truth.
hope and love- essence of the immense store
of literature which flowed from his gifted
hand until the day Of mis- death. aged So
The new treasure comes to us in newspa-
per form. illustrated by the vibrant etching
of GUstave Dore. through brilliant newspaper
enterprise The descendants OF Charles Dick
ems have received for the manuscript the I'M
precedented sum OF SIS word a figure which
no single newspaper could sensibly negotiate.
Just half century ago S. S. Mcclure devised
the newspaper syndicate to make possible for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-07
MYTHS FOR FARMERS

~REDULOUS souls who have been sincerely
~ worried by propaganda alleging that
children can no longer do chores at home and
on the farm if the child labor amendment
passes have Henry Wallace's word for it that
such an allegation is nonsense.
The secretary of agriculture who knows his
farms if any one in the country does. knows
also "the attempts of opponents of the amend
ment to arouse farmers against it,"
The amendment is directed at protecting
children from industrialzed and commercial
lied employment which endangers their health
and interferes with their schooling" he says.
Farm chores done outside of school hours
and suited to the age and physical capacity of
the youngsters certainly do not come under
the heading of industrialized and commercial
lied employment. The amendment ought to
be adopted and I am sure that the overwhelm-
ing ma jority of farm folks are in complete
sympathy with it
Yet in spite of this reinsurance, and SINH
lar ones given by Labor Secretary Frances
Perkins, legislatures are tagging in ratifying.
The Virginia senate last week rejected the
amendment and Kentucky's senate rules
committee voted to table ratification for the
remainder of the session.
Where does opposition powerful enough to
secure delays come from?
Obviously it does not come from the people
of the country. for child labor has been abol-
ished temporarily under NRA. in exactly the
way it will be abolished permanently if the
amendment carries and the people of the
country are enthusiastic about this accom-
plishment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-07
aOhoIIy disapprove of a0hat you sag and o0iH
defend to the death your right to sag it-VoLtGire.

1900, Is to l; in 1910, to 1; in 1920,
8 to l. japanese population in Cali
fornia alone increased from ASS in
1908 to 5,275 in 1921.
Passports for picture brides were
not issued after 1920, and their sue
cessors, 'kankodan" brides, were
barred by the 1924 act. Japanese
births in California then decreased
steadily and in 1888 were less than
1,7OO. 1t is estimated there are in
continental United States, Hawaii
and Japan 100000 American citizens
of japanese ancestry, A large
number of the adult males remain
unmarried because most of the
available manageable Japanese
girls have been reared in American
standards.
If quota were granted to Japan
all these second generation Japanese
men would be at liberty to import
alien japanese wives, and most OF
them, with the assistance of the.
japanese governments emigration
bureau, would probably do so. The
efforts made by Japan unofficially
after passage Of the 1924 act to.
secure special arrangement for
sending other wives from Japan
for unmarried Japanese here, and
recent official declaration of the,
Japanese American Citizen League,
representing the second generation
Of japanese of California, Oregon
and Washington, furnish sufficient
grounds for that statement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-07
AN ECHO OF WAR

VOU could draw two or three rather OBJ
L vious morals probably from that sad
little accident in Poland where ten school
children lost their lives, when an old World
war shell which they found in field sudden
ly exploded.
To most people, probably, the most OBJ
vious point will be that what happened to
these school children was not after all, very
unlike what happened to Europe as whole
in 1914
The children found a nice, attractive shell,
they started monkeying with it, and it sud-
denly blew up and destroyed them.
Europe, half a generation ago. in an al
most equally carefree and ignorant manner,
likewise was playing with a shell-with
whole arsenal full of shells, to be exact
Suddenly without warning. the arsenal
exploded. Maybe Europe wasn't exactly de-
stroyed, but the result wasn't far short of it.
And the moral-almost too obvious to be
worth repeating-is that if you play around
with high explosives you're apt to get hurt
1t applies to nations as well as to children.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-07
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
URGENT SCHOOL NEEDS

MEMBERS of the house education COM
IVA mittee have been told by school authori-
ties from various parts of the nation that at
least 500 100000 in federal money must be
appropriated If public schools are to function
properly in the 1s34-35 session.
There certainly have been enough calls
on Uncle Sans purse in the last year to
Justify one in subjecting any new call to the
most strict scrutiny.
But it does not take very long to demon
strate that this plea for money for the schools
is one which thoroughly is justified.
The full effects Of the depression have been
slow in hitting the schools Whereas the
worst of the depression now is past, its full
force just Is beginning to hit the school sys-
TEN. School revenues this year are lower
than they were last year; next year they will
be lower still.
We can not permit our school system to
collapse If federal funds are needed to
carry the system federal funds must be voted
generously.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-07
CONDEMNS PUBLIC'S
ATTITUDE ON DILLINGER
By Merrill z. Rockefeller

BY Merrill F. Rockefeller.
The ro-Worshipping American
public should set March as an
other national holiday, the ami
versary Of the escape Of the great
John Dillinger, "cop-killer," muir
derer, hero, etc. A restaurant own
er, who ought to know, since the big
bad, brave bank bandit was digested
along with every luncheon Saturday,
agreed with me that the majority of
our patriotic citizens were glad
that Dillinger had escaped" They
must like to dig into their pockets
and provide police protection, then
spur their favorite murderer on to
greater laurels.
The attitude of the public con-
corning law and order is deplorable.
I am but II and, having analysed
myself and other young people, I
know how the youth Of today re-
spends to attitudes Of his elders. If
we are TO have a safe country in
the future, this menace, public
opinion and attitude must be
righted now.
With such public attitude, no
wonder we have such crime condi-
tons in the United States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-07
RAILROAD INCOME AND WAGES

MO better argument against the demand of
the railroads for another wage sacrifice
by their workers has been presented than the
railroads own figures on income.
Returns to date for Class railroads
indicate that their net operating income
increased 100 per cent in January over
last year, and 161 per cent over the year be-
fore. But. not content with the present agree
ment which reduced railroad workers wages
by 10 per cent. the homogeneous nave asked
for an additional per cent deduction
1t becomes ever more clearer that Presi-
dent Roosevelt had justice on his side when
he requested the homogeneous to postpone
any action on railroad wages for at least six
months.
II the Presidents program works out as
all hope it will. the railroads might just as we'll
forget all about more wage deductions, and be-
gin to think seriously of restoring the 10 per
cent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-07

leader of the party. Hoover was
surrounded by such self seeking
party leaders and followers that if
he had even had sound political
judgment it would have taken much
courage out of him to throw down
the gauntlet as a Theodore ROose-
Welt would have done. Failing his
ability to do that, he relegated him
self to the lowest class Of American
Presidents and left his country in
chaos. By the good judgment Of
the American people, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, the Democrat, was swept
into power.
Roosevelt has to disorganize be-
fore he can organize. He is dis
organizing the grafters, the specu-
lators, the vicious hnanciers. In do
ing that, he has surrounded himself
with forceful and formidable enc
mics, who are working with might
and main to discredit him, but the
world is watching Franklin D. Roose-
welt, the honest Democrat. He is to-
day the important leader of democ-
racy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-07
Platform for Candidates

! the exclusive benefit of the citizens.
Progressive changes and idealiSm
is vital in our city government.
Our President has started the ball
rolling by taking air mail contracts
out of the hands Of self-aggrandiSers
let's give the ball another push.
I therefore take the liberty of
suggesting the following, which
should be included in some ones
platform:
Indianapolis will own and operate
its public utilities. Immediate action
will be taken under the law to
bring this about.
All public works should be done
by time and material under the
direct supervision of public works
director appointed by the mayor,
and not by contract. No employe to
be hired for such works unless such
employe belongs to a union afflli-
ated with the American Federation
of Labor.
A thirty-hour week should apply
to all jobs.
Points two and three, I feel will
be helping the President to carry
out the spirit of the national re-
covery act. Workers should be Or
gained under Section Ia of said
act and the hours of work must be
shortened to give more employment.
This letter is not to be repre-
sented as being the voice Of the peo-
ple-I have no authority to speak
as such. 1t is, however, my honest
sentiment and believe also the
sentiment of thousands of others.
A copy Of this letter is being sent
to each Of the announced candidates
for mayor for what it is worth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-07
PEGLER STILL TRUE TO
OLD ALLEGIANCE, IS CHARGE

By R. E. B.
Westbrook Pegler, the drug store
cynic, again haulS off on the NRA.
He stands shoulder to shoulder with
Colonel Robert Mccormick in de-
Tense of a free and untrammeled
press"
The trouble is that under
former Presidents Washington
journalists were put under such re-
straints that celebrated states
men were getting away with ma
ior jobs of larceny" comes from the
pen of a man who during all the
brave attempts of Senators Walsh,
the elder La Toilette and Norris to
uncover the oil scandals Of the
Harding administration, was at
tached devoutly to a sheet which
not only suppressed or distorted the
evidence brought forward by the
senators in the preliminary stages of
the Investigations, but hurled libel
GUS columns against the trouble
making demagogues who were trying
to undermine the confidence of the
people in great Republican adj
ministration solely for personal
lf-glorification
The restraints" that Pegler re-
fers to were imposed upon Wash
ington correspondents by the noble
publishers and newspaper owners
now fighting so valiantly for free
dom Of the press" During the last
twelve years in Washington CORE
spondents who endeavored to give
their readers honest news Of events
that led to major jobs of larceny"
we're out in the cold without jobs.
Of those correspondents who collab-
GRATED in writing Washington
Merry Go Round" only Paul Y.
Anderson kept his job. All the 9TH
ers were fired by the staunch de-
tenders of a free press"
Pegler's statement that Mr.. Hoo
yer was the victim of a campaign
of "keyhole and rurnor journalism"
Is not based on facts. Hoover
started his administration with the
newspaper publishers of the whole
nation singing loud hosannahs for
the great engineer and the greatest
secretary of the treasury since Ham
ilton. They knew what was ex-
pected of them in order to share in
the treasury gifts that were doled
out as income tax reductions and
rebates.
Pegler may be a satirist in a class
with Swift to sophomore htera-
teur, but to those of US who have
followed his career on the worlds
Greatest Newspaper, he is nothing
but a news reporter who was the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-07
POINTS TO POSSIBLE
JAPANESE INCREASE.
By V. S. McClatchy.

BY V. S. McClatchy.
immigration quota for Japan has
been mentioned favorably in the
columns of The Times partly be-
cause Japan's annual quota under
the present national origins plan
would be only 1876; but sight has
been lost of the fact that quota once
granted to Japan, any American
citizen could then import wife
from Japan, "none-quota," under
subdivision (a) Of Section 4 Of the
1924 act. The result would be a
food Of picture brides, rapidly in
creasing our japanese population
and adding a new generation reared
under the alien mothers TO Jap
anese ideals, the males Of which
would in time import Japanese
brides to found a fourth generation.
A glance at the past will outline the
probable future picture under that
plan.
Japan defeated the two-fold pur-
pose of the gentlemen's agreement
by first sending over many thou
ands of adult male laborers and fol-
lowing them later with thousands
of picture brides. The proportion
Of japanese males to females in
continental United States was in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-07
WEDNESDAY. MARCH :. 1894.
INVESTIGATE MUNITIONS

ME senate should not permit mere tech
nicalities to stop investigation of the
munitions trust.
The question of jurisdiction already has
delayed the Nye resolution authorizing this
inquiry. It has been transferred from the
foreign relations committee to the military
affairs committee. 1t is not unlikely that the
latter committee. also, is without full jurisdic-
ton. It probably would be better to have
special committee created and armed with
money to hire investigators.
The means of carrying on the inquiry are
not important. The investigation itself is
Senator Borah castigated the international
munitions makers in a speech on the floor this
week He got to the heart Of the matter when
he said:
q have reached the conclusion that it
would be about as absurd to turn the war de-
partment or the navy department over to
private interests as it is to leave the manu-
facture and sale of the instrumentalities Of
warfare in the hands of private interests. The
influence of these interests is so very great
that they can directly shape and dominate
the policy Of a nation toward war and away
from peace"
To determine just what influence the mu-
nitions makers of America have here; to
get the facts upon which the government can
move toward control of munitions manufac-
ture-these are the aims of the Nye resolu-
ton.
1t should be passed soon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-07

BY Fred w. Hoffmark.
DiSregarding all lines OF party
politics I labor under the firm
conviction that no man could be
brazen enough to seek the mayor
ship of indianapolis, unless he is
in step with the progressive
march of the President of these
United States.
ACTIONS cut deeper than words"
and for that reason mere pub
lie statement that one favorS the
program of President Roosevelt is
vague and lacks constructive
backing.
The hands of the President
should be upheld by every intel
ligent citizen from the nation on
down to the smallest hamlet, in
Guiding, of course, our own NUM-
cipality.
In conformity therefore, it be-
comes the duty of the citizens of
indianapolis to adopt such con-
structive and progressive changes
so as to carry forward the pur-
poses and ideals rededicated by
our great President. We must
help him to drive the money
changes from the temple.
Huge profits now flowing into
the Golfers of an individual few
should be jingling in the pockets
of every member of society.
Money now being paid as a
tribute to a few utility magnates
should be returning dividends to
every member of the public by
paying more than the expenses of
city government.
Taxes now being paid to enrich
contractors should go to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-07
ROOSEVELT is LEADER
OF DEMOCRACY
By B. A. Osborne.

By B. A. Osborne.
Whatsoever might have happened
in American history to make the
events outstanding and the charac-
tiers involved exceptional, there is
nothing in the history of the United
States that stands parallel with the
present state of affairs. No Presi-
dent ever has faced such a chaotic
crisis as that presented Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
When Washington made the ma
ton, he had but a small number
of people to deal with, and the in
telligence of those people had not
risen as high as to make his con-
troll of them and government diff
f1cult. This also is true in the his
tory of the country for many dec
AIDES, but suddenly America became
the melting pot of the world, and
to it gravitated the acute, as we'll
as ambitious and aspiring brains Of
the world.
In two generations they have con-
stituted themselves a formidable
conglomeration of intellectual, scien-
tific, financial and political powers.
Even the Negro, who during the
time of Washington and Lincoln was
considered a nonentity, today is a
formidable intellectual force. 1t is
such a combination of forces that
President Roosevelt has to deal with
today; therefore, the task of gov
eminent is much greater than that
which faced any other President
since the independence of the coun-
try. 1t becomes even more difficult
because of the peculiar economic
and financial conditions in which
the country has found itself and
to which he succeeded.
The task of readjusting the
American life to a state of political
and economic normally was too
great FOR the political wit Of Her
bert Hoover, who, as leader Of a
pampered, kept, and in many re-
spects, INSCRIPTIONS political party,
could not act independently, if he
were to maintain his position as