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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-19
A Woman's Viewpoint
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

IT'S all ready to turn up a
= naughty nose at that poor but
useful conglomeration of liquids,
that friend in need with havors as
various as the sands Of the sea-
the bourgeois cocktail.
Not since bobbed hair came in
has there been such a surge of
excitement in feminine circles. To
find oneself as clumsy as a boor
is disconcerting for any Socialite,
say what you will. I predict a
distinct falling off in the sale Of
contract bridge books. The ladies
are going to get along for while
now with the old rules so they
can brush up on wine etiquette.
It's wonderful what snap has
come back into entertaining.
There is so much to do. One has
to find out the color, shape and
size of the glasses to be used,
what vintage goes with what
meat. and how TO pronounce the
names, to say nothing Of the ef-
fort It requires to wheedle enough
money out Of papa TO 60 on keep
ing up With the Joneses. Oh my
dearS, isn't life just toe eEeitaagR
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-19
AGING GRACEFULLY

DLENTY of US would cherish a ripe old
age such as the Bambinos.
Suppose We say that when we are ~olds
wed Stin be 40 and no more. and that when
we were slipping fast. on the way out and
have our pay taken away from us, still we'd
get $4,000 a year! And that when they
wrote Finished" over us every one would say
He was regular guy" and we'd be right
there to read it all in the papersl
That is the position Of Babe Ruth today
a most unusual character, as native of the
soil as Daniel Boone, man who fitted well
into his time He has had large rewards.
1t is his good fortune that scarcely any
one is so envious as to begrudge him Theren
be a big shouting crowd when he plays that
Tooth game
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-19
/ aOholIy disapprove of aOhat yom sag and will |
defend to the death your right to sag i-VoItaire.
Other Side of the Story

How many companies closed
their doors altogether, putting
thousands of old employees on city
and county relief rolls through no
fault of their own?
Have you failed to receive COM
pensation for any work you have
done for I. P. & L? If you have,
I assure you the proper thing to
do would be to see your foreman,
and I'd say it would be corrected.
And if were you, receiving your
wages every week from I. P. & L.,
1 think I would be man enough
to let the public or Statehouse
politicians do the squawking. AS
the IriShman said, "And, sure, you
ought to be ashamed of yourself"
I have been an employe for
twelve years, and I want you to
know I am a loyal employee. And
if I lose my job with the company,
it will be through some fault of
my own.
You had better get next to
yourself, big boy, and do your
part, because as far as their en-
ployes are concerned, they have
done theirs. I hope you will give
some very serious thinking.
1 don't dare you to print this,
because I believe your papers
principles call for a hearing from
both sides.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-19
WE CERTAINLY WILL
LOOK INTO THIS

BY Times Reader
The enclosed article is for the
Message Center. I want to remark
about the new arrangement of your
paper. like it. Only, I wish you
would not print the comic page on
the same sheet with the editorial
page. The children insist on the
comic page and at the same time
the grown ups want your editorial
page, and you can see that there is
no way to compromise.
And sometimes they drag the
funny page away and one can't find
it for hours. This upsets the morale
in the family. I know this hasn't
been brought to your attention be-
fore because you are too considerable
OF your public to want to cause them
troubles at their fireside.
I am not trying to be funny, but
I really believe our family comes
more nearly having trouble over
The indianapolis Times comic Sec
ton and editorial sheet than any
other one thing. I could almost
write a comic, strip over it every
day. Also, the comic page is out Of
place on the sheet that contains
the front page. haven't any furth-
er suggestions, however. I'll guess
this will give you one grin today.
Editors Note: Thanks. We are
cOnsidering.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-19
THE DANCE

THE dime-a-dance girl has an easy time
= compared to the -dollar-a-waltz coed.
The gentleman Of the street pays his 10 cents
because he wants to go into clinch with the
syncopated hostess. But the college youth
offers a greenback for release
Being s well-mannered iad-at least his
mother thinks he iS-he can't murmur: Oar
ling. a wall flower you'd have q place IN
anybody's garden. Let's Just not 90 into our
dance this EVENING""
When Arthur Murray. famous dancing
master. announced the other day that any
number Of girls go wrong merely because they
don't know how to dance. he wasn't exaggerat-
ing his theme in the least. It's Just a few steps
from the chairs where the chaperons sit with
the girls who aren't summoned to the row Of
automobiles outside the door.
When an inebriated lad suggests that a
girl park with him. in relief at escaping from
her humiliation, she may tell him TO step 10
the speedometer and get going.
And that, If you want to know, is why some
good girls go vrongl
According 70 Mr.. Murray. only ten out Of
every fifty girls at a dance are popular. Not
because the unSought quota are lacking in
charm. but because they don't know how 10
take their steps in the right direction
Life Is more cruel TO dancing women today
than it was to their mothers In the days be-
fore the eighteenth amendment every girl had
. dance program which was filed for her.
Whether or not she was relaxed or compressed,
abe had partners. But now. the cutting-in
method prevails. And there is nothing more
embarrassing than a girl Who finds herself
stranded with the same man as a fox trot
takes an encore and . waltz begins
She thinks OF Cinderella and envles the
cinder maiden her place by the hearth where
the fire-fsiries played. She wonders how the
pumpkin coach favorite could have thought
the music sweet as it drifted down the hin
from the palace where the princes fddlers
played
When an erring knight suggests . stsan
hsFoAd the garden walls sf oosEss. she soee
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-19

She isn't to be censured. She Is TO be pitied
And now and then congratulated
Life. which isn't bed Of roses at any time
for Ewes great-granddaughters. holds even
more thorns at the modern ball. The stag line
and the wall-hower row have nothing in COM
mon The black-trousered youths may dart
forth and capture their prey. The girls must
be as stationary as the bric-a-brac on nine
tenth century whatnot.
II somebody wanted to start a social
renaissance that would put Eve back in the
Garden Of Eden. it could be arranged by
bringing back the custom Of dance programs.
Or better still, teaching every girl who expects
to trip the light fantastic Just how it is done
For as It IS, when she misses stey she may
find herself outside the door. And when she
tries to come back the door may be locked.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-19
NEEDY UNEMPLOYED ARE
NOT GETTING JOBS

BY A. NJ. +.
I enclose a clipping from the
Indianapolis News Saturday, Jan.
stating that the civil works jobs are
exhausted with $4,000 men working
and $4,000 more applications. They
say they expect to keep the 10000
working until the first of May.
What are they going to do with the
$4,000, let them starve to death?
I am one of the 1900. 1t seems
to me if they wanted to do what
was fair, they would divide up this
thing and let another bunch work
a while, say two or three weeks,
then let the two punches take turn
working and laying off alternately,
say every two weeks, and in the
meantime weed out the ones who
are not eligible.
When you try to talk to them
about so many working who should
not be working such as young men
with no dependents or maybe two
or three from one family or men
that are financially able to live
without civil works jobs, they tell
you that they are doing all they can
to weed them out.
They say this civil works business
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-19
By Loyal Light Company EmpIOye.

BY Loyal Light Company EmpIoye.
I have taken your paper every
day for at least eight years and am
a constant reader of your Mes
sage Center. I admire your pa
triotic duty Of trying to straighten
out the dirty crookedneSS OF poll
ticians and undermining business
men. I would like to see this
printed in reply to article ap-
pearing in Jan. IL Times, written
by employee of Indianapolis Power
and Light Company.
I wear the company uniform
and am proud of it. The letter
writer asked how many men were
laid off and rehired at lower
wages? Not one thu know Of.
How many got their hours cut
with same hourly wages? Well, I
got mine cut from f1fty-six hours
a week to fOrty-eight hours, and
$2.40 more week than previously.
And I can point out a lot more
that received just as good &C
cordlngly.
He says to find out how many
loyal employees there are. You sure
do not work out of Morris street,
because I know of no one per-
sonally who is not loyal to I. P.
& L. Company in any kind of an
emergency and as far as vacations
are concerned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-19

TINE repeal Of prohibition leaves
i the younger generation in a
peculiar predicament, and are
their faces red! For the first time
since F. Scott Fitzgerald came
flaming and sizzling out OF OBJ
scurity, a callow John the Baptist
shouting the power and glory OF
a new god Of youth, Americans
under 80 find themselves standing
in ignorance before age. Expert
ence can afford its first smirk IN
many a day, and youth is helpless,
with its mouth open.
Smart as our young people are,
It seems they know nothing in
the world about wines. They can't
recognize the bouquets Of the vim
tages. They don't know how to
serve them, and, although this
may astonish them. it is limited
in many quarters that they don't
know how to drink them.
I'd be willing to wager any kind
of a sum, however, that they won't
be long finding out. Wine at last
is bidding adieu to its old pals
of the wilderness-"a loaf Of bread
and thou"-and from henceforth
VIII trot VITA the Jslicr LeaguerR.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-19
FAIRNESS is NEEDED
IN CWA EMPLOYMENT
Bv A Times Reader

By Times Reader
I agree with the man who asks
why not investigate those who are
working on The CWA projects. My
application also has been in since
early in November, but nothing has
come of it.
I know Of several cases where the
fathers of young single fellows are
working, making enough to provide
them with a motor car and a good
home. The persons I refer to never
have been on basket relief, nor did
they need help, yet their toys were
given work promptly.
There are many men with fanli-
lies who really should have these
Jobs who are not working at all
I am a young married man, able
and willing to work If I could find
something 70 do, and why not be
fair about dis thing9
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-19
CAPTAIN RAY CHARGED
WITH IMPROPER CONDUCT

BY Mrs. J. D.
wish to state that on the night
Of Jan. 4 I was one Of the many
persons who witnessed the one-act
play that Captain Otto Ray. staged
at the corner of Pennsylvania and
Market streets.
We were just getting ready 20
step into a taxi, which I had hailed,
when Captain Ray drove up and
swore at the driver and told him to
drive around on Pennsylvania street
and park. Captain Ray said he was
going to lock the driver up for park
ing in front of a theater.
Now it may be against the law
for taxiS to park in front Of a
theater but Captain Rays conduct
certainly was unbecoming an officer.
AS a taxpayer feel that we are
entitled to respect and courtesy
from an officer of the law.
also shall say I did not know
who this officer was until I was told
by another observer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-19
HERE'S SOME MORE
ABOUT MIR. MADDOX

By G. Fink
To the well-informed there Is
nothing more convincing of E. F.
MaddoX's absolute ignorance of Sci
entific Socialism or MARKHAM Social
ism, whichever is preferred, than
the product of his own pen.
His SenSeleSS and unfounded ar
ticles are the only thing by which
one, happily devoid Of greater init
macy with the man, can JUDGE
am wondering, therefore, if Kim
merling or any one else taking issue
with Mr.. Maddox would not do well
to bethink himself Of the futility
Of debating with a polly parrot.
In conclusion, then, and in your
own vernacular, Mr.. MaddoX-it's no
trouble at all to see through your
"windbagisml;;I"' and, to continue the
vogue, resolved, never again to waste
time reading letters to the Message
Center prefaced by the name Mr..
Maddox.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-19

is non-political. If SO, why not let
the two precinct committeeman do
the wedding out. Both Democrats
and Republicans could go together
to the polls or canvas their pre-
cincts and find out just who and
how many in each family are work
ing and where. I have pulled all
the strings that know how to pull
to get job. have a wife and one
child to support. I am forced to
borrow money on my furniture to
live so I thought maybe a little
publicity might help.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-19
Q 1884 NEA
CAN YOU ANSWER
THIS, MIR. ANDERSON?
A Wonderer

A Wonderer
Just word of praise for Allen
Alderson's reply of Jan. II to U. D.
Vincents message of Jan. 4 about
McNutt's terror gang"
Both messages are being pasted in
my scrap book, but with the blue
ribbon decorating the Anderson reply
as being excellent"
As to the Vincent message, I
never saw so many words put to-
gether and mean so little; in fact,
they were not understandable, and
I wonder what it attempted to
state.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-19
Snow
BY ALICE E. DYSON

BY ALICE L. DYSON
There is a poignancy in snow
That wells the grazing interlude
In times ong-shadowed ebb and
flow
Between life's spring and quietude.
That brings sharp remembering
OF broken peace, Of ancient pain,
The memory of will to sing
That Powered in a mute refrain.
There is a tenderness in snow,
Star-crowned with joys long Sped,
Rejecting a bright hearth-fire's
glow :
Whereby a thankless soul was fed.
A flame. that living, bore no healing
art,
But dead. now cheers lonely heass,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-19
PART OF HIS PRAISE
WAS OMITTED

By Tom Berling
In my letter of Jan. 9 you omit
ted some of the praise for the Light
Company.
I'm their building program, they
have been lenient."
1t should have been, as follows,
"In their building program they
have paid living wages. In the mat
ter of delinquent bills they have
been lenient. I claim no further
knowledge of their business"
Might I also suggest new city
slogan "Indianapolis-A Small Town
With A Big Light Co."
Thanking you in advance for the
correction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-19
PROTESTS AGAINST WAGES
PAID LAUNDRY GIRLS

BY Times Reader
Let us take up business affairs in
regard to our working people, say
Our laundries. The poor girls in the
laundries toll all day over presses
and boards. Libel, deleted) They
cut their girls to 5 cents and ex-
pect them to make their code aver
age up to Is cents an hour. If
they do not they put them out. We
can't see any change in our price.
We pay a good price for our work.
I am a reader of The Times and
have friends who work in a laundry.
Where is our NRA?
Help the girls.
Word this as you please. The
laundries are making slaves out of
the girls.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-19

China has prohibited the serving Of mon
key meat In restaurants, because monkeys
possess many traits Of men, including intelli-
gence" Any woman will admit that, when
she can make monkey out of the wisest of us.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-19
The Message Center

(TimeS readers are inUited to cypress
their Vietos in these columns. Make your
letters short, so Az can haze chance.
Limit them to ESQ 4oords or Iess.J
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-19

Coin collectors are exempt from the order
to turn in all gold coins to the United States
treasury. That should let us all out, except
those that still are unemployed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-19
Daily Thought

So, when they continued asking
him, he lifted up himself and said
unto them, He that is without sin
among you, let him cast a stone at
her.-St. John 81.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-19

A British pilos lost . wales containing
si.rvo. Perhaps through hole in one Of his
81 pesketz
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-19

COD'S mercy is a holy mercy,
" which knows how to pardon
sin, not to protect it; it is a sane
tuary for the penitent, not for the
presumptuous.-Bishop Reynolds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-19
Liberal Viewpoint
BY DIR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

labor in the United States
~ probably will stand or fall with its reac-
Evening star., 1934-08-25
CLEVER TALE
HAS RUGGLES
IN GOOD ROLE
Turning of Worm Seen
in ''Friersds of
Sweeney"

CHARLES RUGGLES was tight
again last night, and 1t looks as
If he'll continue through the week
in Friends of Mr.. Sweeney" at the
Metropolitan.
But, even If Charlie can't get away
from drunk roles, he's charming
souse, and as Eugene Palette and
Ann Dvorak are cast with him, the
picture Is a clever story Of the turn
ing of worm.
Charlie, Of course, Is the worm.
AS one Asaph Holiday, former all
American quarterback and charter
member Of the Elbow Benders, We
find him as an editorial writer for
a pusillanimously conservative" sheet,
owned by one Brumbaugh (Berton
ChurchilD. Charlie has become q
yes-man for Brumbaugh and has to
write editorials against his own con-
victions, but is too much Of a worm
to care a whole lot.
Comes to town his ex-college pal,
Rixey-in the rotund body of Mr..
Palette and insists they paint the
town red, like we used to-" Charlie,
in Mr. Milquetoast fashion, agrees,
and they're of to an exclusive club.
Mr.. Sweeney" is introduced when,
rebuffed at the club door, Ruggles
gets back some Of his confidence and
says members Of his party are friends
of that gentleman. He knows Mr..
Sweeney as well as we do, which is
not at all, for very little more is
said of him, but it gets them In and
gets them all kinds of service after
they get in.
Then the boys run up gambling
debt Of $4,000 and get out OF it by
doubled nothing turn of the cards,
and manage to slip lot of good gags
into the piece.
Palette, glowing under his alcoholic
attack, despises his erstwhile boon
companion as a "gimpus," with no
spine, no backbone, for his editorials,
and Charlie, also alcoholically rhetori-
cal, does what the worm of the
proverb is supposed to do. He goes to
his Office, finds the boss in COM
promising situation, tells him how he's
going to write certain articles from
now on, and gets by with it-strange
to say (but then it's only q picture,
after ALI.
His secretary, who Is Miss Dvorak,
and who doesn't add much to the
picture, Is delighted at his measures
and goes with him to settle some old
scores.
The picture ends in q lah-de-dah
fashion, but Charlie has crashed
through with another of the good per-
formances for which he has been
drawing pay a good while.
"The Camera Speaks" short sub
ject, is worth the time 1t takes on the
screen-which one can't say for good
many program lengtheners."
A Betty Boop cartoon, a dancing
short, starring Mit1 Mayfair, and
news complete the program. g. T. K.
Evening star., 1934-08-25
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time Of Showing.

Earie-"Ladies Should Listen" at
11:15 am, 1:50, 4:35, 7:20 and 10
pm. Stage shows at /, 3:45, 6:35
and 9:10 pm.
Loew's Fox-"Girl From Mis-
souri," at 1890 am, 1880, $40, 5:25,
7:45 and 1905 pm. Stage shows at
11:55 am, ais, 4:3o, $50 and
9:10 pm.
R-K-O-Keith's-"T Lady Is Will
ing" at 11:15 am, 1904, 1853, 4:42,
6:31, $40 and 1000 pm.
Metropolitan-"Friends of Mr..
Sweeney" at 11:10 am, 1:20,- 3:25,
5:35, TAO and S:45 pm.
Columbia-"Handy Andy" at 1850
am, 1850, 3:45, 5:45, 7:40 and $40
pm.
..Palace-"Treasure Island" at II
am. los, 3:15, $40, 1880 and $40
pm.
Tivoli-sI Am Suzanne" at 2, 4:05,
Sis, 9 and $50 pm.
Ambassador-"Dr. Bull" at 2, 4:05,
sos, 1855 and 9:45 pm.
Evening star., 1934-08-25
f0'R

any will Of its own to change the
course. he gravitated into music
store, got a job as q clerk. When
he had learned. the tricks OF his
clerkship routine, he began to lift
every available phonograph record
with banjo, guitar or ukelele instru-
mentation, disappear into booths and
practice-with q ukelele. He found
it possible to learn the pieces by ear.
His boss also found the wear and tear
on records terrific, and began de-
Quoting so much from Roy's salary
every week that on Saturdays the
uke student had more new numbers
than dollars.
Equipped with more virtuosity
than knowledge, Smeck found a place
in q stage orchestra. The boys all
around him read their notes, worked
arduously on elaborate arrangements
Of popular tunes, while he faxed"
along blithely and convincingly. Next
he drifted into the Paul Specht Band
when that maestro was In his hey
day, and thereafter into vaudeville.
One of the Warner brothers heard
him one night in New York house
and sent word he could be used in
q new-fangled stunt called talking
pictures. The Warmers were making
talkie with Martinelli, Marion Tai
ley. Mischa Elman, and thought they
might include Smeck to prove the
range of their sound recordings.
Smeck's part of the film was hit
He accumulated a great variety OF
instruments-the banjo, Hawaiian gull
tar (Which is quite a different propo-
sition from the usual type, requiring
one to manipulate single piece OF
steel in place of five f1ngers) and even
the harmonica. Smeck already knew
something about the harmonica. Once
when he was working with 1t he alb
sent mindedly picked up his ukelele,
played both at the same time. He has
been doing it ever since, but the har-
monica portion of his act is something
of a trial. Hard on the lungs and
diaphragm.
In later talking picture, there was
"Smeck Quartette He played har-
monized parts on four different mstru-
ments, and the technicians combined
them so that he appeared quardrupled