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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-03

an apprenticeship as a country
travelling salesman for nothing
Speeches, it is said, rarely
change votes in the United States
Senate. They do in Louisiana.
A homely, salty, well-turned
story on your opponent will be the
talk of small communities for
days and it will win votes. This
has been nearly the whole stock
in trade of some Southern po-
litical figures who have had their
day.
DUT not Huey Long. He has
- far more. He has a quick
mind, also sponge-like mind. He
has intellectual pace, just as the
athlete or the race-horse has
physical pace. He can drive di-
rectly to the heart of a subject.
He has spent the night studying
an intricate legal case involving a
problem with which he had no
previous acquaintance, and then
gone to court the next day with a
brilliant argument. Such men as
the late Chief Justice William
Howard Taft and Associate Justice
Louis D. Brandeis have paid trib-
ute to his mental processes.
But all these things would not
have put Louisiana in the palm of
his pudgy hand.
There is a boldness which is the
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They Shouldn't DEM Jr.

A MOTHER letter. written by one of the con-
= formist students complained only that the
criticism of the dictator in the public newspapers
had deprived the student body of an enjoyable trip
to Knoxville, Tenn. for the Tennessee-L s. u. game
ms young man did not forbid the use of his name
Huey had bribed the students with one football
trip to Nashville which he paid for out of his salary
OF $4,000 year as United States Senator. He was
planning to give them another installment on the
price OF their citizenship with trip to Knoxville
also payable out of his remarkably elastic salary
Accused of exploiting the football team and buying
the adherence of the youth of his university in this
manner he decided to call off the Knoxville expe-
dition.
Meanwhile youth, from whom such high prin-
c1ples always are expected, represented at Lou-
slana State University, is no different from the
other elements of Hueys political machine whose
regularity is renewed every pay day. Huey now
knows that youth has its price and bargain price
at that
Meanwhile also, the twenty-six striking Jour-
nalists stand suspended, accused by President Jim
Smith of gross disrespect" to himself in rebeing
against the dictators censorship They needn't
deny the charge. 1t is more citation than an
indictment.
Copyright. 1884. by Unite Feature Syndicate Incl
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Few lasting reforms have come
from his kind. They have not
brought forth, for instance, a
steady series of governmental, So
cial and economic reforms such as
the La Follettes, father and sons,
have accomplished in Wisconsin
over a period of years.
This is due, partly, to the one
party system of government in the
South. There is not the clash of
opposing forces which generates
progress. Reform movements rise
and fall without making any real
change iii the system. When times
get bad the demagog sweeps back
into the saddle.
Huey Long has been smarter,
bolder, than the usual run, and
has faced Intellectual foes.
n
A S a shoWman-and Snowman
N ship gets lots of votes still,
among a people to whom politics
is a drama and a speaking" is
something to travel miles to hear
he perhaps surpasses all who
have gone before him. He puts
on a show for the people in the
backwoods, along the forgotten
bayous, whose lives still are drab
despite automobiles and moving
pictures and radio-for they have
few of these.
He seems to speak frankly. He
knows the psychology of the man
with the hoe. He did not serve
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Expressions of Terror

THE public funds under Hueys firm dictatorship
thus become powerful sedative, calming the
normal resentment of the student body and deaden-
ing the nerves of their character
The terror at Huey Longs own state university is
expressed IN every letter which your correspondent
mas received from Baton Rouge with one exception
one student wrote Feel free to use the facts
which I have given you, but not my name or my
career at Louisiana State University would be mat
ter of minutes"
Another closed his letter with the line "I would
not be student very long ii my name were mem
toned"
An alumnus of the school who was captain of the
1ootoaIl team in his time writes, I'VE are in political
bondage, subject to Huey's dictatorship Therefore
the writer's name must not be made public on &C.
count of business and personal reasons"
The student body is interested in only one thing.
Iootba said one of the students. 1T does not dab
Die IN Journalism and expose.
/ was not ten feet from Huey the night he saw
the clipping. He said: Get me Jim Smith (the pres
ldent of the university. If any one saws ANYTHING
against me, I'll fire 'em. I'll fire thousand of the
little -- If want to. There's ten thousand bows
waiting to get into my school, That's my university
and III have new editor in the morning.
i nave been on the campus three years and
never nave seen the student body become more
aroused over any social injustice except the removal
OF the oVerstuffed lounges from the Huey P Long
neldhouse. They just don't agitate There are some
lew VINO do become aroused at times but when thew
appeal they either are thrown out or get the deaf
ear because every second person has job"
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KEENAN, HEADS STATE
HOTEL MEMS GROUP
Fl. Wayne Manager Succeeds Wells
as Association President.

James F. keenan,, FIT. Wayne, to-
day succeeded William H. Wells, Ho-
tel SEVERN manager, as president
of the Indiana Hotel Association,
following the election held at the
closing session Of the associations
convention Saturday in the Clay
pool.
Other officers named were Marsh
H. Jones, Charlottesville, vice -presi-
dent; George BippuS, Huntington,
secretary; L. C. Levering, Hotel
Antlers, treasurer, and Walter B..
Smith, of the Smith group, Indian
apolis, American Hotel Association
executive committee representative.
Directors named we're George A.
Cunningham, Claypool Hotel; A. G.
Weisburg and Jacob Hoffman, South
Bend; A. B. Jones, Charlottesville;
G. j. Scholtz and F. Harold Van Or
man, Evansville; A. U. Thornburg,
Marion; E. j. Harris, Elkhart; Har-
ry j. FaWcett, French Lick, and A.
G. Thornburgh, Muncie.
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INDIANA BAR TO HEAR
CAPONE PROSECUTOR
Lawyers Association to Meet in
CIaypOOl Dec. Is.

Lawyers Association to Meet in
ClaypOOl Dec. Is.
George E. @. Johnson, noted for
his successful prosecution of al Ca
pone and other notorious figures in
Chicago's crime world while he was
United States attorney there, will
address the Indiana State Bar As
ISOLATION at the Hotel Claypooi Sat-
urday, Dec. Is. His subject will be
Investigation and Detection of
Crime From the Prosecutors View
point"
Mr.. Johnson was Federal District
Attorney for northern Illinois six
years and, upon his resignation from
that office, was appointed to a fed
eral judgeship. He resigned from
the bench in 1888 to re-enter the
practice of law. He is member of
the Chicago Bar Association man.
ayers board and served on the Illi-
nois State Bar Association commit
tee which studied and revised that
states criminal code.
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TELEPHONE EXECUTIVE
MARKS ANNIVERSARY
Shelby j. Finch Celebrates Twenty
Fifth Year With Company.

Shelby j. Finch, 1866 Bowman-av
today was celebrating the twenty
fifth anniversary of his joining the
personnel of the Indiana Bell Tele-
phone Company's accounting de-
partment.
A member of the Telephone
Pioneers of America since 1880, Mr..
Finch has served II Of the Is years
as supervisor. He was promoted
to that position in 1917 after having
served eight years as clerk. From
July, 1917, to Jan. l he was toll
supervisor, but since Jan. l he has
been studies supervisor.
Mr.. Finch is married and has two
children.
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essence of his success. Coupled
with it is an aStuteness in prac-
teal politics. A keen business and
trading sense is part of his equip
nent.
Thus, step by step, by a favor
here, by force there, he has built
a machine that has few equals. 1t
is nourished, as all political ma
chimes are, on jobs. He distributes
them lavishly, but with a shrewd
economy of effect. He enforceS
strict discipline.
Gradually, through this process,
he and his men have acquired
control of the states machinery.
LIE is adept in the employment
i l. of persuasions of various
sorts. In its more elementary
form it appeared when he let the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-03
IN OLD NEW YORK
By Paul Harrison

NEW YORK, 3-On Amidst, be
most celebrated theatrical thooughfare
lights the lights spell "burlesque"
restaurants which the
there
roaring Barrel cabare
the glierng Gothams night Instead
and Sdeshow freaks entertain carnival crowds in the
cadeS
glory from the crossroads of the world but the
gIamor
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spot ever since 1776, when George
Washington stood on what is now
Times Square and watched his
tatterdemalion army retreat be-
fore the British. A plaque in the
Paramount Building marks the
vicinity where Gen. Putnam
checked the enemy advance while
most of the American army got
away.
Not until 1925 was a road built
there, and it wasn't called And
st in those days. The property
was sold to the city for $40 by
one John Norton, whose farm in
cluded most of the property that
now is Manhattan's gay rialto.
The first building, prophetically
enough, was a saloon.
On the site of the Times Build
ing a general store. Where the
Eltinge Theater now stands, were
erected private school and
stronghold of burly burlyque, the
boys used to whoop it up in Mol
ly Reardons place. Molly was the
first queen of the midtown hot
spots.
DY 1901 the brothers Considine
~ had opened their famous
Hotel Metropole, where was
served the biggest free lunch
north of the Bowery.
A couple of blocks up the street,
William Waldorf Aston built the
Astor Hotel in 1904. And his
cousin, John Jacob Aston, soon
put up the rival Knickerbocker.
About that time the subway bur-
rowed its way to Times Square,
and the boom was under way.
The New Amsterdam Theater
thirty-one years ago, starring Nat
Goodwin and dazzling the town
with its splendor. Seats in that
famous old ShoWhouse have sold
for as much as 5000 each.
There was Shanley's, to which
hansoms and victorias brought
the citys gourmets. And Muir
rays, farther down the block,
mirrored nightery with the first
revolving dance floor. Booth
Harrington and George AIDE were
familiar figures at the Knicker-
booker bar.
Barrel organs ground out Gee!
I Wish I Had a Girl Like the
Other Fellows Have" A few
blocks away, on the West Side,
the Gophers ruled Hell's Kitchen.
ELO ZIEGFELD, in his career
Il of Qualification, also glorified
Amidst. Glamorous names-Mae
Murray, Fannie Brice, Peggy
Joyce, Lillian Lorraine, Will Rog-
ers, Ann Pennington, and the
rest-twinkled on the fronts of
his showshops. And the smart
EST stay-up-laters attended his
Midnight Frolic on the New kul-
s1eldam Roof.
Ziegfeld is dead. Charles Dill
bingham is dead 4. H Woods,
Sam Harris, George Write and
ire rest have strayed from the
scene of former triumphs. Bur-
lesque has taken over the Re-
public, the Apollo and the FL
t:dge. Other theaters are Ravens
for second-run films. Shippers
soon may be working on the stage
of Wallach's. Only the New
Amsterdam remains faithful to
tradition. 1t has Libby Holman
in her new musical success.
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4 Real Ordeal

"ATATURALLY I'd read all the morning and the
~ afternoon papers. There had been big FIRE
and several people killed. That took up pretty
much all Of page one everywhere An ex-Cabinet
minister was dying and there were threats of big
strike in Chicago. But my job was to be funny.
flood in China and bad railway wreck in England
we're not in my alley. India had cholera and there
was a nasty famine somewhere in Asia Minor In
one hour and ten minutes my column was due
7 tried an old trick which had worked 5000
many times before. eft my desk and wandered
around the office trying to borrow a cigaret and
some matches. 1 let the deadline get closer. When
Just have to write this stuff of course will, said
to myself That always had been so. With forty
five minutes to go 1 came back to my machine. That
was all the pressure could afford I'm not fast like
some of the boys. Half hour is my record on any
column.
1T was a question Of now or never and another
ancient rule bobbed up in my memory You've
probably followed it yourself. Haywood. When in
doubt write about prohibition Naturally this was IN
the DAYS before repeal came along and hit every
funny columnist that foul blow way down below the
belt I did first paragraph and read 1t over to my
self I said That's too terrible for desperate
man. I tried three more leads and every one was
awful I looked at the clock and 1 looked at the
window.
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WESIBROOk

I'VE strike of the rs students of journalism at
= Huey Longs State University is not a serious
threat to the dictators plan for President of
the United States on the Youth ticket in 1886. The
truth is not very appetizng but the truth is
thelesS that in test at Louisiana State Univer-
sity youth. with Is exceptions has shown itself to
be as docle and venal the rest of the citizen
ship
The dictator suppressed the college paper when
he saw an advance copy containing letter CRITICS.
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=
policies is too great, the struggle
for power too tempting.
The cleavage in the Roosevelt
official family has increased ever
since its overwhelming vote of
confidence Nov. 6. 1t was brought
to public attention by the 1ckes-
Moffet row. Actually, it is more
ancient and deeper than this.
The battle is between the New
Dealers and the Old; the men
who favor long-term recor5Cruc-
ton and those who want i'm
mediate recovery even if ideals
are cast overheard in attaining
it; the men who feel that country
should come before party and
those who would build up Democ-
racy at the expense of the country.
=
ON these issues, the Cabinet
~ and those closest to the
President, divide themselves into
three groups.
There are the outright New
Dealers: Ickes, Wallace, Perkins,
and TO considerable extent,
Morgenthau, Tugwell and various
members of the Brain Trust.
There are the outright Old Deal
ers: Farley, Roper, MacIntyre,
Moffet, Hurja and Howe.
Then there is borderline group
of old-fashioned Democrats who
retain occasional streakS of lib
eraliSm, sometimes are found in
one category, sometimes in the
other. They include: Cummings,
Dern, Hull and Swanson.
Between the first two there is
bitter, poorly concealed and con-
tinual warfare. 1t is important
because it is symbolic of the forces
pulling rne Administration in two
directions. 1t will get lot
worse before it gets any better.
II EADER of the reactionaries is
IL Big Jim Farley. Jim is
proud of his conservatism. He
thinks the Government should
stay out of these new-fangled
ideas. unless it can make some
money for itself.
Perhaps even more potent in
the reactionary group is Marvin
MasIntyre, presidential secretary.
MacIntyre came to the White
House without definite convic-
lions, and if he has acquired any
@1R hnF
Louis XVI.
Nut ideas" is MacIntyre's de-
scription for a lot of the New
Deal program. Because of his
position in sorting out what and
who should come to the attention
of his chief, MacIntyre Yields al
most more influence than any one
in the Cabinet.
Old fashioned and reactionary
is Dan Roper. Secretary of Com
merce. Roper's influence was ap-
preaching the point of minus
zero when suddenly it became
fashionable for the New Deal to
play ball with business. Now he
sends out assuring prosperity
broadcaSts and is supremely
happy.
y o
OUTSTANDING leader OF the
~ New Deal group is Harold
Ickes, Secretary of the Interior.
Mr.. Ickes is a marvellous contro-
versialist and the President loves
him for it. He can make the Re-
publicans feel more uncomfort-
able than any one else in the Ad-
miniSuation.
More important, Mr.. Ickes is a
militant liberal, an excellent ex-
ecutive, and has vowed a ven-
delta against predatory interests.
He makes any corporation seek
ing to rob the public domain
even more uncomfortable than
the Republicans. AS long as Mr..
Ickes is in the New Deal. the
Farleys and the Hurjas and the
MacIntyres will have hard time
winning out.
Just as much New Dealer, but
not such a fighter. is Henry WAL
ace. He is good. but has lost IN
s,ro~&sr~. Iyf~ Awr4ns.1f.xrar IA
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for you guys Ihls is the comment
OF sheer ignorance. Not since
Prometheus was chained to rock
has any mortal so exposed his vitals
10 the vultures Of course. speak
not from actual experience. No
body ever expected me to be funny
six days in any week. Indeed I even
have had bosses who suggested that
I never should try at all.
But in the course of the years on
various papers have worked in close
contact with most Of the we'll
known columnar wits and remem-
Der in particular the story one man
told me of his own breakdown. And
this is mt intended 10 be humorous.
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JUNIOR C. OF C. WILL
AID BUTLER ACTIVITIES
Committee to Help Needy Students
Promote Athletic Events.

Educational activities on the cam
pus of Butler University will be
aided by a committee announced to-
day by Fred E. Schick, Junior Cham
Der of Commerce president.
Appointment of the committee is
in line with the Junior Chambers
program of aiding worthwhile In
dianapolis institutions. The group
will acquaint high school students
with Buffers facilities, help needy
students to obtain employment, and
promote athletic events on the cam
pus.
The committee includes Eural By
field, chairman; Gilbert C. Moore,
James Bennett, George Seidenstick-
er, j. H Smith, Byron Rogers,
Charles Ruth, Harold Norris, H. E.
Danner. J. A. Smith, Elmon Will
liams. Doyle zarin, Donald E. Schick
and Harold Smith.
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ing nm Tor exploiting the varsity
football team for political purposes.
He raided the plant personally, and
400 copies of the paper which had
been run off before his arrival were
confscated. Not only that but the
members of the student staff who
were present in the plant we're
searched So that they could not get
out of the building with copies of
the paper.
After week of indeciSion and
brooding, the staff finally summoned
the gumption to quit but they have
received no support from the mass
of the students because about half
the student body are in receipt of
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Questions and Answers

Odd Lewis Stone appear in the movie version
Of Beau Geste" or Beau Sabreur?"
A-Eo.
Q-Dc children whose fathers become naturalized
American citizens during their minority have the
privilege Of voting?
A-Miss5r children follow the citizenship of their
father and upon attaining their majority they have
the privileges Of American citizenship including the
right 10 vote.
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constantly about him which has
used rough tactics on newspaper
men and others who offend.
The State Police force is at his
command. So is the National
Guard, which he called out in the
recent election. Altogether he has
an army" of about 5000 men
who could be mustered quickly at
his bidding.
1t is more comfortable in
Louisiana now to be on Huey's
side.
Also it is more profitable.
NEXT-Enter Uncle Sam.
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INDIANA LIONS BAND
REFLECTS DIRECTOR
South Bend Man Trained Group
Which Won HOnOrS.

winch won HOnOrS.
I. G. Eberly, South Bend, was
reelected director of the Indiana
All-State Lions Band at the annual
meeting yesterday in the Hotel
Washington. 1t was Mr.. Eberly who
trained the band that won interna-
tional championship honors at Mon
treal, Canada, in 1888.
Fred Bait, Salem, was reelected
manager, and Walter L. Shirley, In
dianapolis, was elected secretary
treasurer. Directors named included
Fred Hoover, Salem; r. L. HOLDEN,
Auburn; A H. Smith, louisville;
Mr.. Shirley; Dewey Thatcher, Ko-
komo, and Gordon Butler, Crothers-
vile.
The band was rehearsed for a
series of state concerts to be played
this winter as campaign to be sent
to Mexico City for the international
convention next July.
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BY THOMAS L. STOKES
Times staff Writer

1TEW ORLEANS, 3-Why Huey Long?
question which prods national curiosity this
ambition presidency,
crusader redistribution wealth.
The that Huey Long merely exaggaon in black
the South Of the 20 30
aristocracy
been period which captivating guerilla captains could
play easily the passions and fancy Of the mob
The hoishes ignorance and the South still has
Of that.
The demagog the Southern
had them-spring mould.
Mississippi
to master the crowd
He Snowman craory large of his equipment He
appeals the shouts against the interests though
the nothing Importance they
his few battles battles.
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BOY, 5, HURT IN FALL
Suffers Skull Fracture in Tumble Il
Sidewalk.

veldia Mccoy Jr., 5, was in a
critical condition in City Hospital
today with q fractured skull he re-
ceived when he fell on the side
walk yesterday near his home at
1850 Gent-st.
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
By Dre0 Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON SIT is the fate of almost Admnra
w mbridgable splits within its
family This during the of Woodrow Wilson, of Taft
of the Administration of
Franklin Roosevelt.
within the Cabneta comparatively small supposedly
pulling party Countrywide personalities
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Pockets Picked on Bus

Clarence Newton, Ewing Hotel
Chicago. told police Sunday that
his pockets had been picked while
he was a passenged on q bus en-
route here. He missed forty 81
oils.
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ART EXPERT TO SPEAK
Alliance Franchise to Hear Nine
Adele Robert.

Nine. Adele Robert, in charge of
the Arthur Zinkin Galleries, 6 E
Market-st, will lecture before the
Alliance Franchise in the Hotel
Washington at 8 Thursday night
Nine. Robert, who came to Indian
apoliS recently from French
Switzerland, where she was born,
will discuss French Art and Civil
iZation."
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lotS 10 submit TO the dictatorship of Der Knghsh
Under ordinary circumstances, the money which
these students receive would be regarded as hush
money.
But in the peculiar conditions at Huey Longs own
stdte university the doleS which they receive from
the era and from the university pay roll for the per-
romance OF petty jobs become a form of blackmail
II these students were to join revolt against the
olctators own fiat declaration that the university
belongs to him and his threat fire anybody student
Or professor, who uttered a word against him thew
would lose their dole money
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81 came down to the office about the same time
as usual" said he land stuck sheet Of paper in my
typewriter I don't know whether hypnotized my
self by staring at it or dozed of. Anyhow care
TO with a start and found that twenty minutes had
passed without my writing line Just to get started
I typed out the name of the column and my sigma
ture and sat back waiting for idea.