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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-27
HOUSING HEAD QUITS
Ohio Regional Director Resigns to
Attend Other Duties.
By United Press

o DWfttu FFtso
CLEVELAND, Dec. 27.-Benedict
Crowell, state director of the Ma
tional Emergency Council and head
of the National Recovery Admins
tration's Ohio Compliance Board,
has resigned as regional director of
the Federal Housing Administra-
ton. The region headed by the
Cleveland Office includes Michigan
and West Virginia as well as Ohio
Press Of other duties was given by
Crowe1 as reason for his resigna-
ton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-27
Student Departs for Japan

bY tHtt6 SptCIUt
RICHMOND, Ind, Dec. 27-Shi-
geru Tadokoro, who was graduated
from Earlham College here at spe-
cial invocation last week, departed
last night on his long journey to
his native country, Japan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-27
PRIMARY LAW
REPEAL FACES
HARD SHEDDING
Administration Support to
Be in Nature of Gesture,
Is Indication.
Continued From Page One)

economy, but one of injured feel
ings.
Some of the ''old line Democrats"
have felt for some time they were
being pushed around" by the
younger and more progressive ele-
ment of the party. Deaf ears we're
turned to the counsel of the elders,
and the elders didn't like it.
They felt they'd manage the
party's affairs for years and hadn't
outlived their usefulness. Accord
ingly, the story goes, they conceived
the idea of junking the primary on
the theory that they could rear
rest themselves more successfully in
convention maneuvers.
That's one explanation of the pri-
mary repeal plank being in the
platform. The other one is advanced
by the anti-McNutt faction.
Its spokesman say the Governor
is drunk with power-that his van
ity was injured by the technical set
back he received in the White
House battle with the Indiana Con-
greSsmen, who had Senator Fred
erick Van Mugs backing.
Last Convention Cited
These spokesman say the Gov
ernor is determined to grab all the
power he can and intends to force
the primary repeal law through the
assembly so he can dominate the
congressional nominations.
Look at the way he controlled
the last senatorial convention" they
say.
And there isn't any answer to
that.
Regardless of the degree of sup
port which the state administration
intends to throw behind the pri-
mary repeal movement, the proposed
legislation will find at least two lob
bies aligned against it.
Mrs. S. N. Campbell, president of
the Indiana League of Women Vot-
ers, doesn't agree with Rep. Ludlow
that abolition of the primary would
diminish woman's voice in choosing
nominations.
Defects Are Recognized
However, her organization is OPP
posed to repeal. The league always
has supported the primary. 1t recog-
nizes its defects and seeks its i'm
provement, but feels it is the best
system available.
The very nature of it's ideals makes
the league a stanch believer in par
ticipation of the electorate to the
greatest possible degree.
Mrs. Campbell points out that in
yestigation shows that over a period
of years, voting on delegates to con-
ventions has been as low as 10 per
cent of the qualified vote. On the
other hand, participation in the
primary has been as high as 50 per
cent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-27
TAVERN Staying CASE
GOES TO GRAND JURY
Hyatt Admits Shooting, Says Vic
tim Tried to "CIean Out" Place.

Lawrence Hyatt, 80, operator of
the Boy HOWdy tavern on Madison
av. south of indianapolis, was held
to the grand jury late yesterday on
charges of having murdered Arthur
Damphier, %, South Side toughy,
after a preliminary hearing before
Municipal Judge Dewey Meyers.
Hyatt admitted shooting Dam
phier after the latter started to
"clean out the place on Dec. Is.
Mrs. Carrie Wilson, 1920 Madison
av, part owner of the tavern, testi-
fed that Damphier was a bad man"
and always caused trouble in his
visits to the tavern. She said that
on a former occasion Dahphier fired
two shots at her.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-27
Civic Club Session Delayed

A regular meetirT Of the Indian
apolis FederatiC of Community
Civic Clubs. scheo lied -Jr tomorrow
night. has been cancelled. The or
CARNATIONS next meeting will be
held Jan. 25.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-27
Daughters of Isabella to Meet

The Daughters of Isabella will pay
their annual Christmas visit to the
Little Sisters of the Poor at 2:30
Sunday afternoon. Miss Frances
Scherer is director of the program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-27
HUGE PLANE DESIGNED
36-Berth Air Liner to Be Built BY
Curtiss- Wright.
By United Press

WIVtU Ib65
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 27.-Designs fol-
a 36-berth transcontinental airliner
capable of a speed of 200 miles an
hour, are being drawn by the Cur
iss-Wright Airplane Co. Construc
ton, however, will await a sale.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-27
CITY MAN ARRESTED
FOR TUSCON POLICE
Garland Thompson, "a, Accused of
Committing Burglary.

Garland Thompson, "a, of 1850
w. Michigan-st, was arrested today
by detectives on fugitive charge
for Tuscon (Ariz) authorities
Thompson is said to be wanted in
Tuscon on a charge of "burglarzing
in the night time" The prisoner
has been arrested several times here
on larceny and vehicle taking
charges and served a sentence at
Latona Tex, for Dyer act violation,
according to police.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-27
MOTHER OF II FACES
TRIAL IN MATE KILLING
Jury to Weigh Fate Today; Claims
Self -DefenSe.
By United Press

bU JHfttu FFfAS
NEW YORK, Dec. pa jury will
weigh the fate of Mrs. Mary Co
lucci, mother of II children, today.
Tried on a charge of numbering her
husband, Joseph, she testified that
between beatings and childbirths she
worked in a box factory to support
him and her numerous brood.
Mrs. Colucci, A, shot her husband
on a Third-av elevated train, June
70.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-19
THURSDAY. APRIL 10. 1894.
THROUGH DUST

THE best news of week marked by lock-
u outs and strikes on the labor front is
President Roosevelt's determination to get
congress to act on the Wagner bill for a
permanent national labor board.
Today the President meets with Senator
Wagner, Labor Secretary Perkins and NRA
leaders to work out plan which will carry
out the bills principle to equalize bargaining
power between employees and employers. He
sees the need for this clearly, through the
great cloud Of dust raised by misrepresenta-
ton and false propaganda.
Employers and workers are misinformed If
they believe Senator Wagner or President
Roosevelt intends to turn over the whole labor
organization of the country to an all-inclusive
American Federation of Labor or any other
type Of union leadership. They do not. Both
have emphasized that workers are entitled to
the kind of union organization they want;
even more, that minority groups are entitled
to representation in collective bargaining.
In other words, they want to help workers
to develop democracy in organization and
power to take care of their own interests.
That aims is an absolute necessity in the
widespread organization of industry set up
under the recovery act, if workers ever are to
get enough of the wealth they produce to
maintain purchasing power for prosperity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-19
THE HERNDON CASE

TINE state of Georgia seems to have lost its
head and much of its dignity over 49,
year-old Negro coal miner.
In July, 1882, young Communist named
Angelo Herndon led peaceful demonstration
to the Atlanta courthouse demanding hunger
relief. He was arrested and lodged in Jail
without a charge. When a writ of habeas
corpus forced the state to act, it filed COM
plant under penal statute passed before the
Civil war, and amended in 1866.
This law, originally passed to prevent
treason and instruction among Negroes and
white abolitionists was amended to prevent
conspiracies between whites and freed slaves.
Under this forgotten act Herndon was SEN
fenced to eighteen years in the chain gang
for attempting to incite instruction" and
distributing insurrectionary literature"
Although the Communist party is legally
on the Georgia ballot and its literature avail
able in public libraries, Prosecutor Hudson
said he was trying Communism as well as
the Negro.
"As fast as Communists come here we shall
indict them" he said, land I shall demand
the death penalty in every case"
Now the national committee for the de-
tense of political prisoners charges that he
has been underfed, shackled beaten and sub
jected to the foulest types of maltreatment in
prison. The courts have held up an appeal
for more than year
1t is not pretty picture. Georgia should
know that by denying civil rights and justice
to the lowliest of it's citizens it is playing into
the hands of the very radicalism it fears
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-19
HAWAII AND SUGAR

EFFORTS of the President to deal with the
~ difficult sugar sterilization problem
through the pending bill deserve support
Granting that the various classes of pro-
ducers and their conflicting claims can not
all be satisfied and that compromise by all is
necessary, there nevertheless remains strong
argument made by the people of Hawaii.
They do not challenge their temporary
quota. But they do ask that it be fixed rather
than subject to future change.
IN support of this appeal they point out
that under the terms of annexation Hawaii is
as much part of the United States as any
state and therefore should receive the same
type of sugar quota treatment as mainland
beets and cane
Since two years are required for each crop
in Hawaii, there seems to be little doubt that
fiuctuating quota would add to the chaos
in the industry which the Roosevelt program
aims to cure. That would injure Hawaii.
which is so important in our Pacific affairs,
and in turn would strike at the important
mainland trade with Hawaii
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-19
SYMBOL OF THE HOUR

livery age has its symbols, and one of the
~ most revealing things about the present
moment in human affairs seems to be the
fact that the symbol of the hour is the good
DR.. Writ
The doctor could not have been taken
seriously at any other time than the present
The mere fact that he was able to get as
much public attention as he did get speaks
volumes on the state Of the public mind.
When the laughable aspects of this dinner
table gossip about radicalism in high places
are cleared away, it remains pretty evident
that the whole business managed to touch
responsive chord in the electorate simply be-
cause the electorate as a whole had already
been doing a good deal of cogitating along
the same general lines
We have, in other words come gradually
to the realization that something big and
far-reaching has been happening to us in
the last year, and we have been trying tc
figure out just what it is.
We have set to work to re-examine the
fundamentals of our national philosophy as
we have not done since the Civil war
Hardly any of the things that have been
done at Washington since March 4, 1888, are
lacking in significance We loosen our none
tary policy and find that we have lined the
HAYES and the have-nots up for a struggle;
we tackle our farm problem and discover
that our new policy may carry us far into
uncharted waters; we set to work to revive
industry and find ourselves engaged in an
experiment which has no precedent in all
American history.
The natural result of all this-undertaken,
as it was, in a hurry, without formulation
of q definite underlying philosophers that
we have at last reached the point where we
want, very greatly, to know just what is
ahead of U.s.
Maybe We'll be afraid of it and maybe we
won't; the point is, we want to know.
At this psychological moment, then, comes
the Hoosier schooimaster, with his hor-
rendous tales of communism among the
mighty The important thing about it was
not what he had to say, but the way we
listened to him.
In that fact--in the eager way we waited
for some new information about the course
that is being charted for us-lies the real
significance of the whole business.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-19
MORE MILK

Mrs. ROOSEVELT wants higher prices Tor
4VA milk to farmers, lower prices to con-
sumers and greater consumption of dairy
products. So do we all. The question Is:
How to attain these ends?
The agricultural adjustment administra-
ton has proposed way, campaign OF milk
control, that sounds intelligent And yet, from
within the dairy industry, the plan is meet
ing vigorous resistance. There are those who
question the motives of some of the opponents
of the plan; but we would like to believe that
the organized industry also seeks the same
aims as Mrs Roosevelt and triple A.
The whole question of milk control has
been discussed in a series of regional confer
ences. Those who went from Washington to
attend them are back in the capital now,
studying the pros and cons.
Out of this must come some milk plan, for
this industry can no longer hobble along with
out government aid.
1t may well be that the original plan will
have to be amended. Perhaps some greater
control over milk distributors profits viii be
needed.
In any event, it should have for its pur-
poses the three Mrs. Roosevelt pointed out.
Otherwise it will fail
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-19
BREAKING FAITH

NTHEN organized ninorities get busy on
w Capitol Hill, it is hard to find enough
brave men who will stand up and be counted
on the side of decency in government.
This explains why handful of lobbyists
posing as spokesman for the farmers, were
able by adept use of political pressure to in
sert in the revenue bill tax on cocoanut and
other vegetable oils produced outside CONT
mental United States.
Aimed primarily at cocoanut oil produced
in the Philippines, this tax, if it becomes law,
will rise to smite the American farmer It will
seriously curtail the purchasing power of Fill
Pine people who now buy large quantities of
our cotton goods, meat and dairy products.
Trade does not travel on a one-way street.
We must not go back on our solemn pledge
to subject people within a month after
passage of a law setting out an orderly process
by which the Philippines may achieve indie
pendence. 1t would be all the more indefensi-
BILE because the Philippines can not strike
back
1t now is apparently too late to take oils
tax out of the revenue bill. The only solu-
ton is joint resolution of congress reaffirm-
ing the tax-free cocoanut oil quota established
in the Philippine independence law.
President Roosevelt is said to favor such
resolution He might we'll refuse to sign the
revenue bill until congress adopts the resolu-
ton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-19
OUR TEACHERS

ME big worry of most school boards these
- days is the question of when and how they
are going to be able to pay their teachers.
There is an older worry, though, which
has exercised a good many school boards in
the past; and DR.. John Carr Duff of New
York university called attention to it the
other day by taking time of to denounce
"outmoded. Puritanical traditions" that re-
quire school teachers to be goody-goodies.
This older worry has to do with the way
the schoolma'am shall behave when she is
not in the classroom. In many localities, as
DR.. Duff points out, teachers "have to live up
to a moral standard that would put a strain
on thirty-second degree saint"
Dr.. Duff cites a pledge required of all
teachers in certain North Carolina town:
Il promise not to fall in love, to become en-
gagged, or secretly married"
In another case applicants for teaching
positions had to sign such promises as these:
II promise to abstain from all dancing, i'm
modest dressing and any other conduct I'M
becoming teacher and a lady"
Il promise not to go out with any young
man except in so far as it may be necessary
to stimulate Sunday school work.
Attempts to regulate the private lives of
school teachers in this way are not exactly
uncommon In the United States These are
towns where prim and priggish behavior
seems TO be valued even more highly than
teaching ability.
And 1t hardly Is surprising IL educators
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-19
PROTESTS POLICIES OF
LEGION'S BIG SHOTS"

BY Floyd Garner
Not long ago friend of mine
asked me why every ex-service man
did not belong to the American Le-
gion. Here is the answer I gave
him.
When the legion has a national
convention a bunch of "big shots"
always will be there two weeks in
advance. They always decide who
the national commander will be for
the following year and what the
yearly business will be.
Any resolutions which the rank
and file would like to have put over
are pigeon-holed at once.
The legion claims a million men,
bers, but have my doubts if their
membership will exceed 100000 paid
up as there were about four million
in the World war which would mean
about one seventh we're members.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-19
1T LOOKS AS THOUGH
COMMENCING is A HABIT

BY Cozy O'NeiI
I notice an article in The Times
commencing Walter Pritchard and
Captain Coffin and written by
Arthur G.. Gresham.
He says some disgruntled Demo-
crat must have written a previous
article condemning Pritchard and
Coffin. He also states that he per-
sonally recommends these two
worthless and says that he knows
them both to be gentlemen. Who is
this Gresham, that he should
recommend anybody? Who is going
to recommend him?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-19
I a0holy disapprove of q0hat you sag and aCiU |
defend to the death yomr right to sag it-Voaire.

truth of the prophecy. Twelve mil
lion people are living on bread.
water, fresh air and sunshine. They
have no hope for the future as the
sun rises each day. 1t takes the
NRA and the CWA to put shoes on
the feet of 100000 recruits for
Hoovervilles.
During 1910 there was money and
plenty for every one who was will
ing to work. A man who didn't
work was looked on as being lazy
or parasite. The police would say
to any loafer, Go to work, or I will
run you in, In 1884, if you can live
without toll, you are rated as being
smart Cfor standing aside with
money in your pocket and let some
unfortunate with twenty-three kids
use the pick and shovel 70 keep
starvation from the door.
If the country is piling up a ma
tional debt that runs into millions
in 1884 to take care of an excess
population, what will happen in
1850?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-19

of children are jeopardized in order
to protect property of corporations
which has not even been threatened.
I feel that the rank and file Of labor
generally bitterly resents the shift
ing of policemen from school zones
to strike zones.
Simply because workers are bar
gaining and negotiating for their
just rights is by no means indicative
of an existing emergency such as
would warrant the sacrifice of help
less children.
The men and women now on
strike in the hosiery mills are, as a
whole, upright, respectable and per-
manent citizens Of indianapolis.
They have the welfare of Indian
apolis as much at heart as some of
our police officials, if not more, and
there is no civic reason why they
should be harassed constantly and
confronted with riot clubs.
I believe, however, the public now
sees the inside of that whole affair
and for that The indianapolis
Times is to be commended.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-19
LAUNDRIES FAIL TO
AID VETERAN WORKERS

By An Ex-Slave.
Lincoln freed the Negro, now we
should have some one to free the
white industrial slaves which we
have in Indianapolis.
am an ex-laundry worker and
have worked in several Of Indian
apolis laundries.
State and city governments, along
with industries of Indianapolis, re-
spect and try to take care Of their
old employees. They either retire
them on pension or find some lighter
task for them to perform after they
have servede twenty-five to fifty
years.
Not so with the laundries. Old
employees are worked for all they
can get out Of them and then make
things bad for them to try to make
them quit.
I know personally several Gus
toners laundries have lost because
of their treatment to employees. It
seems as though they would take
care Of those who have given the
best part of their lives.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-19
Unfair Deal Is Charged

are through, you are advised to go
back to work and do the best you
can.
If the department head doesn't
like you he will frame you some
way and you are discharged.
The seamer VINO upheld the
E. M. B. A. in your Message Gen.
ter happened to be one Of those
that liked to cry on a department
heads shoulder and she saw to it
that she had everything she de-
sired.
Between the department head,
and the E. M. B. A. we certainly
get an unfair deal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-19
DISEASE PREVENTION
PRESENTS PROBLEM IN CITY

BY a Reader
Is it a wonder the city is not
swept by epidemic, if each case is
handled to be treated as the follow
ing was.
I live in the 1900 block, New Jer-
sey street, and there is a family in
which there are scarlet fever and
measles at the same time, The
father is permitted to go to work as
street car operator where he comes
in contact with the public. None Of
the family is quarantined.
1t seems as if they could be more
strict in these cases. Every one
should join in a city-wide cam
paign to check such epidemics. What
does the public think?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-19
like DR.. Dun demand that halt be called.

The request that a school teacher lead q
model life arises naturally enough, of course
If parents want to be sure that their chill
dren are intrusted only to young women OF
high moral character, that is easily under
stood.
The point is that in many cases the school
board does not stop there. 1t goes on and
erects standards Of conduct which, as DR..
Duff complains. turn the teacher either into
hypocrite or goody-goody.
Compared with the issues of the day. all
this is minor matter of course. But our
school system as a whole will be lot sounder
when we give up some Of this unwarranted
meddling with the private lives of our school
ma ams.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-19

By a Real Silk Seamer.
I have been a seamer and a
member of the Real Silk E. M. B.
A. for seven years. We certainly
have not had square deal. We
have insurance at so per cent for
each $1,000, without sick benefits,
and credit union without any
dividends. The E. M. B. A. gives
no protection, and a penalty of
from SO to IS a week is assessed
for bad work, which the operator
can not avoid.
The E. M. B. A. gives you no
consideration whatever. 1t sends
you with your troubles to three or
four persons and by the time you
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-19
REAL SILK POLICE GUARD
NOT LIKED BY LABOR.

By Fred Hoffmark.
Allow me to express my apprecia-
ton for the wonderful response
that you made in behalf of the
youth Of our city.
Again The Indianapolis Times
leads the way in exposing frivolities
and abuses on the part Of public
officials.
personally deem it great
abuse Of public trust when the lives
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-19
FERGUSON ARTICLES ARE
ON SOCIETY PAGE

BY Melvin Osborne
May I ask, What has become of
the articles by Mrs. Ferguson?" I,
for one, considered them good and
miss seeing them on your editorial
page.
Also I wonder why The Times
does not refuse to publish unsigned
letters. 1t seems to me that the
writer of letter should have
enough faith in his letter to sign his
name. If he does not have how can
readers be expected to place any
confidence in the contents of such
letters.