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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-30
1OhoLy disGpprove of what yoM sag and WW
defend to the death your right to sag it.-VoLtGjre

Robinson is the only senator since
IT'S doing the least, knowing the
least, and the least popular.
Well, as to No. /, 1 am quite sure
that a few months ago, 1 read an
article in one of the leading
magazines that there were in the
entire senate only five members
who had a record of always having
voted the right way on all bills
coming before the senate. 1 mean
by that, they always voted the way
that was right and just for the well
fare of the public at large. LII
Arthur" as you call him, was one of
those five.
AS to No. 2, if you would care to
listen to one of his speeches, you
would find that he knows a great
deal and isn't afraid to tell it.
Maybe that is what hurts. AS to
his popularity, he seems to draw a
fair sized crowd wherever he
speaks.
In another letter, A. L. C. wants
the police or some one to arrest
Robinson for melting riot. I at
tended a meeting at which he spoke
and the nearest thing to riot I
saw was when he referred to the
treatment the ex-soldiers are get
ting from the present Democratic
Raw Deal"
A. L. G. also refers to him as a
Radical or Communist. Well. all
care to say is that I wish We had
a lot more men like him, with the
intestinal fortitude to tell the peo-
pie what was being put over on
them.
I also would like to say that am
an ex-soldier and neither a Republic
can nor a Democrat and 1 can
easily prove that statement.
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Incompetency Blamed IN Jail Breaks

Chats a new alphabet gang, the
PPP) for the remainder Of the in
stitution's pay roll, so that we
have the natural results of such
criminal incompetency-wholesale
deliveries and escapes from our
institutions.
OF course, methods are chang
ing always and buildings and
equipment do grow old, and when
such methods, buildings and
equipment become antique to a
dangerous degree, they must be
replaced, but again I insist that
the public can not believe that
overnight 80 or 90 per cent Of the
detentional institutions of Indiana
are in a dangerous, antiquated
condition.
If previous administrations
could properly hold prisoners in
these same buildings and with
the same equipment, then they
were the most expert penologists
in history, and their removal and
replacement from the regiments
of the PIP, inaugurating the
New Deal parole system, was an
act such as should be more than
a justifable reason for the imme-
date removal of the one response
BILE, the present chief executive,
Governor McNutt.
Or else this overnight antiquat-
ed condition is only Coy-ly pre-
sented political smoke screen to
cover the present criminal in
competency of the majority Of
the heads and personnel Of our
institutions.
This is my opinion, and of many
others with whom I come in
contact and am associated with,
and is the only logical answer to
the existing conditions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-30
ROBINSON AND KHAN
DISCUSSION RENEWED

By ]. Beck.
Just a few lines to let Joe e. Ry-
den Of Medaryville know that he got
gypped out Of a brown derby by c.
P. A., who bet The Indianapolis
Times would be the first to inject
the Ku-KluX Khan into the fall
campaign.
Get Literary Digest dated July
81, Joe, and turn to Page 10, and
you will see an article headed, THE
Klan Rears It's Head Again"
The Times was beaten by thirty
days. If c. P. A. is a sport he will
give you back your derby.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-30
DEFENDS ROBINSON'S
SENATE RECORD

BY Carl C. Reeves.
Like Will Rogers, all I know is
just what I read in the papers, but
it seems to me that if I was to con-
fine myself to the articles in the
Message Center, would be cutting
out paper dolls before long.
Recently. I have noticed quite a
number of letters dealing with the
candidacy of one Arthur Robinson
for United States senator from this
state. 1t seems that Mr.. Robinson
has quite a few enemies. For in
stance, James z. Walker says that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-30
PRAISES WRITING OF
MRS. FERGUSON

By Hiram Lackey.
To Mrs. Walter Ferguson:
All Of us appreciated your cour-
age in telling the truth about COM
munism. The masculine editors
who are afraid to expose the truth
of communism should stay at home
and let the women curl their hair.
They might get hurt on the way to
the editorial rooms.
Of course, any of us can tell the
truth, but it hurts some Of us very
badly. 1t is a shame that you
married an otherwise splendid edi-
torial by those unnecessary exag-
gerations at the end of your dis
cussion of communism. True, your
desire to increase the effectiveness
of your essay is worthy. But the
truth is able to stand alone.
May We rejoice with you in your
success in making goodness attrac-
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BY Ed FeatheringiII.

BY Ed FeatheringilI.
If it weren't so disgusting and
costly, both in lives and money,
the overnight scrapping Of all
places of detention in Indiana
might be amusing.
I don't believe there are many
Hoosiers who will take such an
assertion seriously. The cause Of
the almost daily wholesale deliv-
cries from state, county and city
institutions might be the result Of
lack Of funds for proper number
of employees, criminal carelessness
or criminal incompetency.
The first possible reason isn't at
all logical, with budgets of all
public groups, local and national,
far in excess of any peace-time
expenses in the history of the ma
ton.
The second could be answered
only by a careful investigation of
each delivery, and, while a factor
In 1ndlana'S new deal parole SyS-
tenn, it is not the solution to the
problem.
Criminal incompetency must be
the answer. No organization, no
political party, can take charge of
a nation, state. county or city,
and overnight change the person.
mel and still maintain the degree
of efficiency to which the public,
the taxpayers, are accustomed.
All state institutions, from poor
farms and asylums to the prisons
have had the heads and person.
mel so changed by deserving DEM
ocrats that efficient operation is
an impossibility. Where there is
a competent head of an institu-
ton there is a group Of inexperi-
enced political plum pickers
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TRAFFIC COURT METHODS
DECLARED UNFAIR
BY Joe College.

BY Joe College.
The Thursday afternoon broad
cast of traffic court proceedings,
which was the subject Of a recent
letter to this column signed by "a
Radio Listener" was accurate and
interesting. However, al entirely
different set Of conclusions than
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The Message Center

(Times readers are invited to cypress
their Oiet0s in these columns. Mdke your
letters short, so az can have q chance.
Limit them to ESQ CORDS or less.)
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A booklet by an Englishman, 1.-THE Coming
American Boom" has created great stir. Just
so it's not another blank cartridge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-30

A correspondent writes in to ask where the
first windmill operated but investigation shows
that political records do not run that far back.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-30

The latest returns from the snake bite
front show that bourbon still is getting as
many votes as faith.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-30

Judging from the number of preachers who
are getting snake bites. it'll pay better to edu-
cate your boy in zoo If you're raising him
to be an evangelist.
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Daily Thought

And the prayer Of faith shall save
the sick, and the Lord shall raise
him up: and if he have committed
sins, they shall be forgiven hiyn.--
James, Sis.
TINE protection of God can not
4 without sacrilege, be invoked
but in behalf Of justice and right
KosSuth.
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Homer Van Meter, Dillinger gunman killed
by police. Another meter shut off without
quarter.
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Evening star., 1934-12-17

of Eritrea and Somaliland. In 1895
Italy made a disastrously unsuccessful
attempt to conquer Menelik's king
dom, suffering defeat at the battle OF
Adowa with tremendous loss of life.
That humiliating catastrophe rankles
in Italian bosoms and whets Mus
solini's thirst for vengeance on the
present occasion. Another factor in
Italy's calculations Is that Japan Is
reported to be sending military mis-
sion to Adds Ababa TO reorganize the
Abyssinian army.
Great Britain and France, with
adequate African colonial domains Of
their own, are said to look without
disfavor upon Italy's expansion at
Abyssinia's expense, but the Ethio-
plans are full-hedged members of the
League Of Nations and insist upon the
full consideration to which Geneva's
adherents are entitled. With Musso-
lini accusing Abyssinia of making un-
founded charges and replying to them
with virtual ultimatum, the League
is face to face with grave issue. It
may not prove as easily soluble as the
late YugoSlavian- Hungarian conflict,
because Abyssinia has no powerful
friends at court, as Belgrade and
Budapest had.
Evening star., 1934-12-17

vaded by racketeers the opposite reac-
ton necessarily occurs. There are
many, 1t would seem, who cheerfully
would undertake to forgive q fraud
In trade or commerce, but who find
it difficult to muster any sympathy
for an individual capable Of crime
against elemental truth as it tradi-
tionally is reflected in painting and
sculpture, literature and music. A
feeling Of disgust, then, is natural In
the heart Of q layman when such
news as that Of the expulsion of a
member Of the National Academy of
Design for unauthorized reproduction
of other painters works comes to his
attention. The current scandal, as
reported in the New York press, is
an ugly, a bitter and a discouraging
business.
The facts are simple. A theoret-
ically honorable individual. 1t has been
demonstrated, has achieved honor, If
not financial success, by the theft Of
the fruits of the genius of certain of
his contemporaries; has won prizes
by exhibiting copies as original COM
positions; and, when summoned to eX-
plain, has failed to enter a defense.
Obviously, the removal of his name
from the National Academy list is
imperative. But something much
more important than the academy
has been hurt-art itself has been be-
trayed and violated, and the faith Of
the public has been impaired.
Where, a puzzled philosopher may
ask, may people expect to find integ-
rity If not in art? In any other
arena of human enterprise dishon-
esty might be pardoned; but artists,
the masses have supposed, are divinely
endowed, and the mercy freely ac-
corded to lesser folk, therefore, is not
to be had by them for the asking.
Painters, as class, should be watch
full to protect themselves, their work
and their reputation. And the Ma
tional Academy, rightly and properly,
now is taking the lead in an endeavor
toward that end.
Evening star., 1934-12-17
Unemployment Insurance
From the Milwaukee Journal.

From the Milwaukee Journal.
As discussion Of unemployment in
surance progresses ct Washington and
elsewhere, it becomes clear that there
is much public misunderstanding of
what it means. Some workers seem
to think that unemployment insurance
will guarantee wages or else compar-
able insurance payments; that it will
mean a job or else generous insurance
payments in lieu of job.
Nothing in the. national proposals
or in Wisconsin's own experiment with
unemployment insurance justifies any
such conclusion. In fact, the more we
analyze the actual, measurable bene-
fits of such insurance the more they
dwindle.
Unemployment insurance may help
stabilize employment. If it does that,
1t will, of course, accomplish laudable
benefit. If it induces employers to
stabilize production more, and thus
their working forces. it will. perhaps.
justify itself.
But Immediately we must recognize
that stabilization in employment for
some men means stabilization in un.
employment for others. That is, III
employers must lay aside funds for
each permanent employe, they are
likely to reduce the numbers of SUCH
employees to the rigid minimum.
Evening star., 1934-12-17
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

purpose in crossing the Atlantic is to
visit Mrs. Gibson and to see their
son, who has been ill.,
Senator Borah has q definition Of
"a liberal" He sprang it in his
speech before New York County Re
publicans on December IS. "A lib
eral," he says, is not to be tested
by any particular remedy or plat
form. A liberal is one who rec
ognizes. in the language of the
philosopher of old, that the world
does move and that as it moves
1t constantly presents new problems,
and that political party must be
willing to meet these problems and
deal with them in the public interest.
In other words, the liberal is the
spirit of the pioneer. pushing back
the frontiers, economically and po-
litically, and opening up new areas
and opportunities"
Gen. Johnson's return to the New
Deal as a member of the Presidents
War Profit Committee betokens the
fondneSs and admiration which
F. D. r. and the former Blue Eagle
boss are well known to have for
each other. johnson took regular
occasion during his N. R. A. SPELL
binding activities to attest his af-
fection for the President, and Mr..
Roosevelt's esteem for johnson has
never been diSSembled. Although the
general is believed to have his I'LL
of public life and bankers to return
to private. business, his devotion to
the President is such that another
call to New Deal service commands
his whole-hearted and unheSitating
response.
In the old days, when tariff making
was the sole prerogative of Congress,
lobbyists and log-rollers used to con-
verge on the Capitol or the House
and Senate ONCE Buildings. Today,
with reciprocal tariff arrangements
in the hands of the State Depart
ment, that Staid and dignified es-
tablishment Is where men and in
terests in quest of tariff plums now
most do congregate. The practice of
the department., as soon as it decides
to open negotiations with some foreign
country, is to announce a date for
hearings, at which those interested
in exports to it or imports from it
have their day in court. for airing of
grievances or the preferring Of re-
quests.
Il II n
Among II candidates for the post
mastership Of New York City, who
have presented their claims to the
Civil Service Commission, is an in
vncible optimist-a Republican. His
name is Jacob Weissbaum, a former
G. o. P. assembly district leader in
Manhattan. He has had Is years
experience in the postal service, rising
from a junior clerk to the grade Of
assistant auditor. Mr.. Weissbaum has
filed no political references, because
he doubts whether they do Repub-
hcan much good just now, but Post
master General Jim Farley, he says,
"is q brother Elk" and that may help.
(Copyright. 1934)
Evening star., 1934-12-17

One Of the smallest possible water
decorations is the guppy jar.
This amazing little fish will get
along in q pint OF water.
Not only will he get along, but she
will get along, too, and pretty soon
there will be little guppies to grace
the bowl.
About this time people begin to call
up and ask, In excited tones:
what shall I do to keep the big
guppies from eating up the little
ones?"
1t is Just another instance Of what
Shakespeare said when some one
asked one of his characters how fishes
live in the sea.
Why" he had another character
answer, "just as men do ashore, the
big cnes eat up the. little ones"
X X 4 4
For all his wisdom, Shakespeare
had not heard of guppies.
If he had, no doubt he would have
written a comedy about them.
OF all the small bits Of exotic fish
life available for the modern home
ID oO easy "
handle as Lebistes reticulatuS the
scientific name).
Give it half a chance, 1t will live
and grow and produce young, born
alive, as every one knows.
The advent of these fully formed
fish, no more than a quarter OF an
inch long. counting an almost in
visible tiny tail, or caudal fin, is al
ways an event in the life OF the new
conner to the fish hobby.
Even the old-timers get kick out
of it, although they do not mind so
much If the older fishes eat up all or
most of the brood
They know there will be more.
The problem of disposing of sur
plus guppies becomes acute, after
awhile. The average amateur does
not raise good enough specimens for
ready sale, and in time he finds none
of his friends want to accept them
as gifts.
Then he feels sorry he went to
such lengths to save every last guppy
from the maternal maw-for 1t is
the mother fish which does most OF
the eating.
The newcomer, however, will want
to know how to save them all, so that
each one can grow up to be regu-
lar guppy.
There are two methods:
The first Is to spoon them all out,
and put them in jar of their own,
filled with water of the same tempera-
ture as the old.
The second is to have enough plants
in the bowl so that the little ones
can hide from the parents for two
or three weeks.
Give a baby guppy three weeks,
it can take care of itself out in the
open.
Up to that time it must have plenty
of plants to hide in. and even then
the parents will catch and eat some
of them.
Nature is very determined in such
| matters.
The older fishes need live food, for
one thing. And then there is the
matter of too many fishes per square
inch of water to be thought of. Maybe
Nature doesn't think of it, particu-
larly, she just urges the older fishes
on to eat up the newcomers. The
old ones, of course, do not know that
they are the parents of the new ones.
They see something swimming by,
! they make a grab for it, and down
it goes.
If that doesn't appeal to you, then
you don't understand Nature, because
that is the way the Universal Mother
does things. Let us not be too sure
she doesn't work much the same
scheme with us. Despite our hospitals,
| and universal care Of the sick and
the unfit, we have many and severe
wars, over the centuries. Maybe war
Evening star., 1934-12-17
War Clouds in Africa.

Having settled down, laurel-crowned,
for a merry Christmas after averting
war in Southeastern Europe, the
League of Nations is suddenly con-
fronted by crisis in Northern Africa
due to a bitter conflict between Italy
and Abyssinia over frontier incident
which has already led to bloodshed.
Abyssinia appealed to the League,
charging Italian aggression and asking
for arbitration.
On Sunday, wading personally into
the controversy with characteristic
vigor, Premier Mussolini fatty refused
arbitration and insisted upon an
apology from the Ethiopian govern
ment. He branded the frontier fracas
of December 5, in which 10 Abys-
sinians and thirty Italians were re-
ported killed, as an "unprovoked ag-
gression against Italys native garrison
at Ualual II Duce demands not only
apologies, but indemnities. Incidentally,
as on the occasion of the clash with
Greece over the Island of Corfu in
1928, it looks as if he were bent upon
denying the Leagues right to interfere
In the Abyssinian affair.
Abyssinia's contention is that italian
troops with tanks and military air
planes suddenly and without provoca-
ton attacked the Abyssinian escort Of
an Anglo -Abyssinian commission sur
veying pasture lands one hundred kilo-
meters inside the frontier between
Abyssinia and italian Somaliland. The
Italians claim that the incident oc-
CURED within Italian territory, where
the Abyssinian troops had no right
30 be.
Behind this specific episode along
their disputed border lies the nearly
forty-year feud between the Ital-
tans and the Christian tribesmen, who
were welded into an efficient fighting
race by the late Emperor Menelik.
The Italians have long had a covetous
eye on Abyssinia, with its wealth of
mineral and agricultural resources
which are far more valuable than
those Of Italy's neighboring territories
Evening star., 1934-12-17

It will be we'll to keep an eye peeled
on Senator Gerald P. Nye OF North
Dakota in Republican calculations for
1896. In an informal sort of way the
Nye presidential boom was launched
at the mass meeting of New York
Republicans on December 13, when
he and Senator Borah laid down the
law to the Old Guard and warned the
elephant that unless it mends its con-
servative way it might as well curl
up and quit. There was significant
ring about Mr.. Nye's suggestion that
Western Republicans Of his progress
sive hue will have to be taken into
consideration in future activities OF
the G. o. P. Neither Democrats nor
Republicans customarily pay much
attention to presidential timber rooted
in such a remote neck of the woods
as North Dakota, but Senator Nye
has challenged the country'S attention
with his munitions investigation and
holds the limelight at a moment when
Republican of his youth and politi-
cal philosophy makes timely appeal
in the midst of the party's reorgani-
zation plight. The stand-pat East of
Hilles, Roraback & Co. would. OF
course, not think much of the eligi-
bility of Nye. But as 1886 draws near
and the young Republicans assert
themselves more vehemently, the AZ
year-old WisconSin-born editor from
Cooperstown, N. Oak, is, by many
present indications, likely to be for
midable contender. Nye's new post
IL. &c la Dnntthliooy1 Cav
ate Committee on Committees will
add to the North Dakotans prestige
on Capitol Hill.
Midwinter finds something like
conclave Of our diplomats in Wash
ington for discussion Of the tangled
world situation with President Roose
welt and Secretary Hull. The list of
those already here, or due shortly,
includes Ambassadors Long from
Italy, Bingham from Great Britain,
Dodd from Germany and Bullitt from
the Soviet Union. Hugh r: Wilson,
Minister to Switzerland, is about to
report on late developments at the
League of Nations, including disarma-
ment and prospects for international
control of the arms traffic, as re-
Gently proposed by the United States.
Minister johnson from China has
brought up-to-date tidings of the Far
East. Ambassador Gibson from
Brazil and Ambassador Weddell from
Argentina are supplying the latest
news from South America. Conf
dental reports by these various ENJOYS
give the administration q complete
and accurate picture Of political and
economic conditions in practically all
strategic international areas. In
heart-to-heart talks at the desk Of
the President or the Secretary of
State or over their respective luncheon
tables our diplomats can furnish
more real information than they could
pack into a dozen formal dispatches
to the State Department.
There is no foundation, apparently,
for reports that Ambassador Dodd is
to retire from his post in Germany.
DR.. Dodd, University of Chicago pro-
fessor by occupation and Virginia
dairy farmer by prediction, has
made a splendid record at Berlin
under conditions that often have been
trying, and there is no desire in Wash
ington to replace him. Denial Is also
given to the suggestion that Ambas-
sador Gibson will 60 to Europe on
special mission before returning TO
his post in Rio de Janeiro. His sole