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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
PRESIDENT AND WIFE
SHOULD BE HONORED

BY Roosevelt Follower.
When the United States elected
Franklin D. Roosevelt as their
leader in 1882 they really did some
thing toward ending this nation
wide depression Not only has our
President shown intelligence, but
also a great willingness. I person
ally think there is no one who could
have filled his place as capably as
he is filling it.
Mrs. Roosevelt also should receive
great honorS for what she is doing
every day for our nation. One sell
dom picks up a paper but what they
cad about the Presidents wife help
ing some, charity organization, hav-
ing little children cared for, and a
number of other similar deeds. She
certainly does fit right into the posi-
ton as First lady of the Land" Not
only that, but she is the first
thought-of lady when speaking OF
charity and unemployment. She,
like the President, shows such a
great willingness to render aid to
the needy.
Hats off to the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt! The United States great
ly honors them, and why not?--
they have more than won this great
honor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
NO COMIC OPERA IN WAR

WARS in Latin America are popularity
w supposed to be comic opera affairs. The
memoirs of soldiers of fortune, and innumer-
able romantic-a adventure novels, have sold us
on the idea that such campaigns are usually
very picturesque, enlivened by the presence Of
one eold-braided general for every three bare
foot privates, but not very bloody.
Recent summaries of the fighting between
Bolivia and Paraguay in the Gran Chaco
region show that in this case. at least, the
nonrlar idea is all wrong.
Latest figures show that fully 10000 SOL
diers have been killed IN that war; $4,000
Bolivians and $4,000 Paraguayans. When
casualties are recorded on that scale-for
the populations of the two countries are not
1aroe-it is no comic opera war that is being
fought.
It is the real thing; as grim, tragic and
bloody. on a small scale, as any wars that
have ever been fought anywhere.
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ext: The Constitution: Birth.
MOUNTAIN AND MOUSE

a ANTICIPATED completion of trade treat
les between the United States and the
three coffee countries of Haiti, Brazil and Co.
lombia would be great news if it did not en-
phasize the snail-lke progress of the admins
tration's reciprocal tariff policy.
Almost two years have passed since the
Democrats were given the task of repairing
our shattered foreign trade by this means.
The last Congress, in response to his request
authorized President Roosevelt to lower tariffs
by as much as so per cent in negotiating re-
ciprocal trade pacts
Yet to date only one such treaty is in Of
fect-the one with Cuba, which received much
advance preparation. Preparation of the Co.
lombia treaty also had long been under wav.
and required only revision in terms of the
new act.
We are told that negotiations are in PROC
esS with Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain
and five Latin American republics.
In view of the fact that the making of such
agreements is in the hands of Secretary Hull
and backed by Secretary of Agriculture Wal
lace, the slowness of action is hard to UNDER
stand, both officials being vigorous tariff re-
formers
The Republicans left the, Democrats no
harder task than to rebuild p thriving foreign
trade on the wreckage of Stnoot- Hawley blum
ders. The technical details and political OBJ
stacles involved in making reciprocal trade
treaties consume time and patience But, even
after such allowances the New peal's effort at
foreign trade and exchange restoration has
been disappointing. So far mountain of
hope has delivered itself of mouse of reality.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
MESSAGE CENTER SHOULD
BE HAVEN FOR TRUTH

By Times Reader.
"The trouble with the world is
that its owners are not interested in
changing it,"
In this exaggerated statement,
Clarence Darrow embodies the great
truth of our age. How thankful we
should be to this virile, original old
veteran who has intelligence and
experience, but no earthly treasures
which he holds as too dear to lose
when the truth needs to be spoken!
Let us remember that this own
ership Of the capitalists includes
their ownership of the minds of the
vast majority of American voters.
This mental slavery Of voters is just
as real, and more pathetic, than was
the physical slavery of thousands of
non-voting Negroes of 1860.
May we, the poor of Indiana, be
thankful to The Times for The
Message Center. 1t is the one place
in Indiana where such truth as
that of the above paragraph is
given the consideration it deserves
The Message Center is lone voice
of the prophet crying in the wilder
ness. Let us write only the truth
and hold its standards high.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
CcC GOES MARCHING ON

CONGRESS will be asked to continue the
~ Civilian Conservation Corps for at least
two years more. This statement is made by
director Robert Fechner, on the basis of a
talk with President Roosevelt.
It is very doubtful if Congress will show
any reluctance to follow this recommended
tion Whatever may be said about other New
Deal policies. this one, at least, seems to have
sold itself to the country at large pretty thor
oughly.
To begin WITH we have reached new
realization of the need for work OF the kind
the CCC is doing. Beyond that there is the
fact that the corps has saved heaven knows
how MANY young men for good citizenship.
In hundreds upon hundreds Of cases 1t
has been, quite literally, lfe-saver. The
zpense may be high, but there is little douEt
al the money is very well spent.
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over go years their monthly pen
sion of $500 each. Ahal Core
spondent Netrie Cook will cry,
have you there, brother, because
the money changing hands in one
year in this country is 1900 billions.
Well friends, there is only one
answer, then. 1t merely means
that the $1,000 spent each year by
every man, woman and child was
spent Immediately again by the
person who received it, and the
third person spent it again at
once, and so on until the
thousand had changed hands 100
times during the year. Each time
it changed hands, however, good
old Uncle Sam was there and
dipped in for 10 per cent, &C
cording to some, or 2 per cent, ac-
cording to others.
I'll leave it to you how long it
would be until the old boy had
every blessed red cent of $1,000,
taking 2 per cent each dip for 100
dips, or at least had made what
could be considered a stable con-
fscation Of money. Or, if you
like easier figuring, take 10 per
cent. Starting with $1,000, at the
end of only IL changes, the thou
sand has shrunk to $313.812, while
Uncle Sam would have $686.188.
There's the catch in a sales tax.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
CREDIT is EVIL
TO PROSPERITY
By John Kennedy.

I
During and after the war came
another period of credit expansion
and imitation. With it, as always,
came prosperity. Every industry
borrowed as much as possible to adj
vertise and expand their modern in
duStrieS. In fast, they over-bor-
rowed, which was an easy thing to
do from modern bankers whose only
purpose was to make commissions
from loaning other peoples money.
But there came the time when no
more money was to be loaned. Most
industries which seemed to exist
and grow on borrowed money had
to economic by retiring to the I'M
employed ranks millions of laborers
and even then running in the red.
Yet today we are trying to bring
back prosperity by expanding fur
Their the evil of credit.
Credit must be abolished. 1t can
not bring us prosperity, whether
controlled or not, for any definite
period. In fact, much of our mod
ern industries, which could not ex-
list if it were not for dishonest
money, must be abolished and the
millions Of unemployed must be in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
MR.. KATE TAKES
ANOTHER BUMP

By Times Reader
Thanks for the little article head
ed, "Objects to Proposed Pension
Plan," by Joe Katz in your Christ
mas Day Times.
I got the best laugh out of it I
have had for some time. had al
most forgotten that there are still
people like Mr.. Katz in the world.
1t would be a pleasure to get a
look at the man. I had not thought
much about the plan one way or
another, but if the Joe Katzes are
against it, I know one thing sure,
and that is that I am for the plan
tooth and toe-nail.
If William Green of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor and Mr..
Joe Katz will get Elmer zilch to
join them and hire Professor BATE
for brain trust, I'm sure they can
defeat Doc Townsend, especially with
the help they will get from an In
dianapoliS morning paper.
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dustrially reclaimed by a back to
the farm movement.
The Government must socialize the
farming industry and bring about
intensive farming, instead of extern
Sive farming and the silly program
of today. Modern manufacturers
who have become rich off idiotic I'M
productive products, must cease to
exist. We have been slaves to these
manufacturers of idiotic unproduc-
tive products and gadgets, thinking
we were doing it for progress be-
cause of their cheap propaganda.
Modern manufacturing has failed
us. It has made paupers of us. So
away with industries of unproduc-
tive goods and back to the only in
dustry that can bring national con-
tentment and security-farming.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
TOWNSEND PLAN SHOULD
BE PASSED. HE SAYS


By Andy ]. Suttles, ConnersvilIe.
The Townsend plan should be
passed. 1t is the greatest plan ever
proposed. 1t would start prosperity
in forty days. 1t wouldn't hurt to
let the old boys have a few years
of rest. Plenty of people spend that
much a week, and they don't get
down on their knees nor spend it
for whisky, either. Everybody doesn't
inherit $4,000 like Joe Katz. No
doubt he has tried to hire some
poor man for so cents a day and
then want him to take it in the
store. If everybody was like Joe
Katz the country would still be rid
ing the ship with hole in the bot
tom of it.
Katz belongs to the self-respect-
full, gripping gang and sees from
only one eye. He has no respect
for a man who has worked hard all
his life and spent all of his earn
ings for his family and had moth
ig extra to lay away. Mighty few
men that have only had their labor
for their living have saved up any
thing for old age. The employer
has taken too much for profit.
Yours for prosperity and the
Townsend plan.
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grab two little boys who were SELL
ing bags and hurry them down the
street.
1t might have been the only
money they would have for Christ
mas or maybe they we're helping
their parents in paying the home
expense. Who knows?
The few cents these boys make
don't amount to anything, but if
they were making several dollars a
day and didn't have a license, then
wouldn't blame the police for
chasing them away, but as it is, I
don't think it gives them fighting
chance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
MYSTERY
BY Fan BOYD HEINEY

BY Fan BOYD HEINEY
A ring of shining jinghng keys:
What use had he for all of these?
The labels tell: This ons unlockS
His precious store of bonds and
stocks;
And this one opens wide the hold
That guards his store of shining
gold;
Keys to his Office desk; the chest
That hides some trinkets; this 1.-THE
Nest
(EIis paramour's apartment) Keys
For all his life's dark mysteries
Except the most hewildring part.
The secrets of his lonely Aheart.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
So They Say

We Danubian states are so i'm
perishably bound together that the
misfortune of one destroys the hap
piness Of the others-Tibor Eek
hardt, Hungary's representative in
the League of Nations.
What impressed me most in Italy
was Mussolini's work with children.
What he is doing for their physical
welfare is simply amazing.-Thad-
deus Wronski, director Detroit
Civic Opera Society.
Our congressional committee has
proof that most of the howl about
Communism in this country today is
for the purpose of hampering Pres
ident Roosevelt. - Representative
Carl M. Weideman, Democrat,
Michigan.
Roosevelt knows his business. I'm
that way" about the Federal Gov
eminent. He's running it and I
haven't even bothered him in that.
Senator Huey P. Long, Democrat,
Louisiana.
Germany is the lovehest, clean
est, most comfortable prison in the
world. The whole population is in
priSon-Dorothy Thompson, author,
barred from Germany.
If I owned a circus, General Hugh
johnson is the first man I'd hire
for barker, but I'd be careful not
to let him train lions.-Norman
Thomas, Socialist leader.
In spite of everything, I still be-
lieve the tin can is an immortal
American institution.-Rear Adj
miral Richard E. Byrd.
Paris is no longer the fashion CEN
ter. The only well-dressed women
are in London.-Paul Poiret, one
time French fashion car.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
Daily Thought

And the king answered them
roughly; and King Rehobaom for
sock the counsel of the old men,
II Chronicles, 1913.
EACH succeeding day is the scholar
Z of that which went before it,
Puhlius Syrus.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
OBJECTS TO COPS
ATTITUDE ON BAG SELLERS

BY Bill Angelo.
I noticed an article in this section
the other day about some one seeing
a policeman chasing little child
off the street for selling paper bags
in front of the market place. 1t
didn't strike me in any way until
the day before Christmas when |
was shopping. / saw a policeman
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31

A newly discovered planet was named in
honor of vassar College, in an effort to get
the girls interested in other than young, hand
some satellites
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31

Before Leon Trotsky tries again to become
head of Russia, ex-President Hoover might
advise him how much more pleasant it is to
live in retirement
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31

Huey Long may be a great grand stand
quarter back for the Louisian State Univer-
sity team, but you'll notice he never offered
to buck the line himself.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
PROHIBITION AGAIN SHOULD
BE ON STATUTE BOOKS

BY a Subscriber.
have read the Message Center
of The Times for some time and
ponder over the different views of
current events, and I would like to
add g. word.
Some rap prohibition. They claim
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31

That new star in the sky is reported to
be getting brighter, but it will have to go
some yet to rival those in Hollywood
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31
The Message Center

(Times readers are inUited to cypress
their 0iea0s in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can have chance.
Limit them to $50 toords or Iess.J
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31

A canary given as Christmas gift to a
man in Nebraska turned out to be yellow
painted sparrow. after he heard the bird sing.
cheap. cheap
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31

This is the first of series of articles on
the Constitution of the United States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-31

If I owned a circus, General Hugh
johnson is the first man I'd hire
for barker, but I'd be careful not
to let him train honS.-Norman
Thomas. Socialist leader.
Evening star., 1934-06-21

The White House will be closed to
the public for the next four or five
months, while it is being used as an
Office for the President during the
enlargement of the executive Offices.
This is the first time since 1927.
when the White House itself was un-
dergoing extensive alterations, that
the White House has been closed to
visitors.
The closing order went into effect
yesterday and since then several Wis
itors have been turned away.
More than 1000 persons are re-
corded as visiting the White House
daily except Sunday, but 1t was de-
cided to eliminate this sightseeing be-
cause various rooms, hitherto open to
visitors, will be used by various Off
GERS and employees of the executive
staff.
Work was begun today on the
transferring of the large telephone
switchboard and the telegraph inStru-
ments and wires from the executive
office to the White House itself.
The new telephone and telegraph
room will be in working order by
the time President Roosevelt returns
to Washington next Tuesday from
his visit to New England and Hyde
Park, N. Y.
The moving of the various desks,
files and everything else in connec-
ton with the Presidents Office to the
White House will not be started until
he leaves the city about June 30
for his long cruise to Hawaii.
Evening star., 1934-06-21
BAPTIST SESSION
DRAWS HUNDREDS
CoIored Church Group Hears
Rev. w. H. Jernagin in
Annual Meeting.

Rev. w. H. Jernagin, president OF
the National Sunday School and B.
Y.P. u, colored Baptist organization,
delivered his annual message today to
the hundreds of delegates assembled
in the Metropolitan Baptist Church,
1900 block r street.
His address followed reports Of the
secretary. the treasurer auditor, stat
istician and corresponding secretary.
Election of officers took place after
DR.. Jernigan's address.
The organization opened its con-
vention in various churches and the
Washington Auditorium yesterday. 1t
will close Sunday evening.
The highlight of the sessions will
come tomorrow night when Senator
James j. Davis Of Pennsylvania and
DR.. Mordecai w. Johnson, president
of Howard University, are scheduled
to address delegates in the Washing
ton Auditorium. Also on the program
is a special song service by the Con-
gress Chorus. under the direction of
Ethel Gibbs of Washington.
Friday afternoon there will be a
parade and field day exercises at
Walker Stadium, First and o streets.
At yesterdays meeting a message
Evening star., 1934-06-21
CANDLES LIGHTED
IN 4-R CLUB CAMP
Impressive Ceremony Marks
Closing of Eight National
Sessions.

An impressive candle-lighting cere-
nlony at the camp grounds on the
Mall, at Seventh street, marked the
formal closing last night of the eighth
national All Club camp. Sessions be-
gan last Thursday morning.
Cooperation has been the keynote
of the camp programs. During the
weeks sessions, the group heard
speeches by several administration
officials.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace re-
lated the subject of cooperation to
the administrations agriculture pro-
gram. Undersecretary of Agriculture
Tugwell showed the delegates how
efficiency is compatible with co-opera-
ton in acreage reduction. Herbert N.
Wheeler of the Forest Service dis
cuSsed cooperation as 1t applies to
forestry and the use of our national
forests.
In a spirited junior conference in
the closing sessions yesterday, led by
Matte S. Bettersworth, KY, they
summed up the important points de-
veloped throughout the weeks discus
sions and expressed their own ideas
about the future of farming.
At the morning session yesterday
the delegates heard j. N. Darling,
chief of the Bureau of Biological
Survey, on the conservation of wild
life. Mr.. Darling brought out the
importance of wild life to the Nation.
In the junior conferences the idea
of cooperation was discussed by Mary
Rokahr, home management specialist
of the Extension Service, and DR.. T. B.
Nanny of the Bureau of Agriculture
Economics. The delegates themselves
took up the discussion of such forms
of family cooperation as budget
making, sharing of household tasks
and community cooperation.
Evening star., 1934-06-21
SHR|NERS COMING
TOD. c. NEXT YEAR
1885 Convention, Awarded
to Capital, Will Be Great
est of Order.

The 1885 convention of Ancient
Arabic Order Mobiles of the Mystic
Shrine will be held here June 10, IL
and IL, it was decided late yesterday
at the shrine convention at Minneap-
oils.
The invitation was extended by a
delegation from Washington, and news
of the decision, received from the As
ciated Press and E. Burkholder OF
the local delegation, was greeted with
enthusiasm by shriners here today.
E. c. Graham, president of the
Hamilton National Bank, has been
selected chairman of the Finance and
Budget. Committee for the convention,
it was learned this morning, and has
already laid preliminary plans for
raising a large fund to entertain roy
ally the visiting hordes.
Steuart to Head Order.
Leonard P. Steuart of this city. who
was potentate of Almas Temple when
the previous convention of 1928 was
held here, now has been elevated to
the post of deputy imperial potentate
and next year will become imperial
potentate, head of the order.
The invitation was understood to
have been extended in Minneapolis
by Robert P. Smith, chairman of the
1885 local Convention COMMITTEES
and chief rabban of Almas. His in
vitation was enthusiastically backed
by all members of the group from
Washington. headed by Steuart. Other
delegates from Washington at Mime
apolis include william c. Miller
potentate of Almas; Allen H. Potts
assistant rabban; F. Lawrence Walk
er, recorder, and Past Potentates
Warren w. Grimes and James G
Hoyle. Accompanying the officia
delegates were Otto B. Roepke. Mr.
Burkholder and William D. Skeen.
This will be the third time that
mobiles Of the Mystic Shrine have
brought their colorful and picturesque
conclave to the National Capital. II
was here in 1900 and 1928, but plans
already under way now point to the
most largely attended affair in the
history of the order.
President Is Member.
President Roosevelt, who Is q
Shriner. is expected to be given a
prominent role In the convention and
will receive signal honors from his
fellow Shriners. The Chief Executive
recently was officially notified of the
preliminary plans to bring the con-
clave here, when he was visited by
delegation consisting of John
N. Sebrell of Norfolk, Va. imperial
potentate; William c. Miller. Almas
potentate, and others. The President
was made an honorary member oi
Almas Temple.
The Presidents home temple Is
Cypress, at Albany. N. Y, and he has
membership in other Masonic bodies
| elsewhere. He was raised a master
Mason November %, 1911. as a men,
| Der Of Holland Lodge. No. 8, of New
York City He belongs to the Scot
tish Rite bodies in Albany, N. Y; the
Grotto in Poughkeepsie and the Tall
Cedars of Lebanon at Warwick, N. Y
While mobiles this year were to wind
up their sixtieth annual convention
in brilliant electrical pageant al
Minneapolis, plans already were under
way in the hands of the delegation
Evening star., 1934-06-21

of his boyhood days across the river
in Covington, KY. A great admirer of
Daniel Boone, there was little in the
outdoor life of his Kentucky hills
with which he was not familiar.
Though "a years young, Dan Beard
is today and always has been boy
at heart. He is never happier than
when group of boys sit wide-eyed
listening to his campfire stories of ad-
venture and achievement.
He is national Scout commission, as
well as honorary vice president of the
National Boy Scout Council.
Among the books which he has
written are: American Boy Handy
Book" Outdoor Handy Book" Jack
of All Trades" Boy Pioneers and
Sons Of Daniel Boone" THE Buck
skin Book and Buckskin Calendar" "
Boat Building and Boating" Shelters,
Shacks and Shanties,' Bugs, Butter
flies and Beetles" Signs. Signals and
Symbols" American Boys Book of
Wild Animals" american Boys Book
of Camp Lore and Woodcraft," The
Black Wolf Pack" DO 1t Yourself
and Dan Boards Buckskin Book"