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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-10
YOUTH ANSWER TO
PUBLIC OFFICE NEEDS
By Otto AdeIman

By Otto AdeIman.
When l read in the papers of the
happenings throughout the world,
mingled feeling Of horror, dis
gust and fear creeps over me. I
feel like shouting, ooh, Oh! Is the
world mad"
Can it really be true that the
men who have become, by popular
vote or otherwise, the leaders of
the people, are hopelessly mean and
greedy, destroying, if necessary, the
happiness and health of thousands
to gain their selfish ends? In one
column I read where research work
will result in the saving of many
lives from the ravages Of disease
germs, and in an adjacent column a
writer, greedily ignoring the harm
done by his article in conditioning
our minds to fall victims of war
hysteria, blandly informs US in a
very matter Of fact way of the hor-
rors Of the next war" and how
much more efficiently it will kill
men, women and children.
I read where the President is trv-
ing to help the people, and in an
other column political officeholders
are stealing the peoples money for
themselves. Expose after expose
appears in our newspapers with
discouraging frequency.
I read where we spend millions to
maintain courts Of justice and yet
the owner Of a ninble tongue or
fat purse can make laughing stock
of the whole affair.
The American people will stand
plenty for they have a great sense
Of humor Cor is it dull stupidity.
and furthermore, in the back of
their minds turks the unhealthy
thought that they, too, may some
day be in position to capitalize on
other peoples labor and become
rich. But it seems to me that the
youth of this country q am one Of
them) slowly is becoming more con-
scious Of the erookedneSs OF theix
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Immediately for the good of the
company.
That rates are too high seems
to be the main subject of all this
comment. I will venture to say
that these complaints do not come
from our big and small consumers,
but from the middle class. I am
speaking of those who have been
fortunate enough to own electric
ranges, irons, radios, sWeepers,
washing machines, pEcolatorS,
hot plates. coasters, stOkers, etc.
Yet, they want the use of all
these appliances for the minimum
or just little above. These peo-
pie are not satisfied and never will
be, until money comes easy again.
Come on, folks, be sports, don't
squawk. just consider electricity
and its many uses. Prosperity is
just around the corner, maybe.
Now, Mr.. Editor, you must re-
member the Indianapolis Power
and Light Company has some
eleven hundred employees, an {
some of them are subscribers to
your paper. 1t might pay to slip
in a boost along with your
knocks.
Now, print this, if your paper is
what it claims to be. I am not
afraid Or backward, so will sign
my name in full.
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SATURDAY MARCH 10 1881
OLD MAN INTEREST

OLD MAN INTEREST, unlike Old Man
- River. doesn't merely keep rolling along
He brushes US quickly and Will do il again if
not kept in reasonable check
II speculation is curbed-as the admins
tration is trying to do through the stock ex-
change biIl-there probably viii be enough
investment money in this rich country to sup
ply all that is needed, and more, to legitimate
business
This would tend to bring a lower interest
rate and save the country from debt that
mounts like a SNOWFALL rolling downhin
The old saw about the penny invested at
the time Of Christ. which would have mounted
to an astronomical figure by now if its interest
course were not interrupted, is another illus
tration Of the crushing effect Of debt. Presi-
dent Roosevelt saw this clearly when he char
acterized the alternative, in the case Of foreign
bonds held by Americans. as one Of collecting
the principal and cutting down the interest,
or trying to collect the interest at 8 per cent
and not doing 1t.
Two British investment experts, J. Maynard
Keynes and owen Hugh Smith, both speaking
before life insurance company meetings, fore
see low rates of interest IN the future. Mr..
Keynes, supporting that long-term, gilt-edge
securities probably will fall to 2ls per cent
or less. said:
With opportunities for safe and profitable
investment abroad greatly curtailed as much
by the unfortunate results of past investment
as by diminished opportunities for new invest
ment, Britain and the United States would,
if they were to return to full employment OF
their resources, save sums so vast that they
could not possibly be invested to yield any,
thing approaching 81 per cent"
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Will you please watch if he comes
by,
I will be glad to see that guy"
The gangSJer with a wooden gun,
Put all the guards into a run,
And then he stole the sheriff's car,
And all state cops both near and far
Are scourin' the country round
about
For the model prisoner Who did get
out.
I'm hoping that you folk won't
laugh,
I'm sending you his photograph.
The one embracing him amt his pa,
But one who represents the law.
On down the road, car open wide,
And with machine gun by his side,
He kept his boast as now you see,
That laws delay would set me free.
By c. S. G.
The other day the Chicago Trib-
une printed ar editorial taking the
hide off Indiana officials because of
the escape of John Dillinger from
the Crown Point jail, surrounded
as it was by guards.
The next day on Page l OF that
newspaper was the story Of the raid
of four gunner on the Chicago city
hall, in which a lawyer was slugged
as he entered the municipal bond
court, and the room held by the
bandits for fifteen minutes, or until
they found there was no money to
De had. The raid was made during
the busy part Of the day and while
hundreds of municipal court bailifs
Quoting the Tribune), clerks and
other attaches were in the build
ing. The raided room is only six
floors above the headquarters Of the
commissioner Of police.
A minute or two after the raid
detectives and uniformed police
guarded all exits and elevators in
the building, but no trace Of the
gunner were found. They had
vanished as easily as Dillinger, de-
spite the superintelligence Of Chi
cago cops and detectives. AL Of
which goes to show-but why NOR
alize? This piece ought to go into
the Ho Hum department Of The
Times.
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Sonnet
BY ARCHER SHIRLEY

BY ARCHER SHIRLEY
Without your voice there is no
harmony,
No music in the air; though birds
rejoice
In trlling notes they hold no charm
to me;
There are no words, no songs with
out your voice.
Without your smile where are the
stars, the moon?
What lights my path, what makes
my life worth while?
Without your face the light fades
all too soon
And darkness rushes In withoun
your smile.
without your hand care not where
I walk,
I wander on, I see not sky nor land.
Oh lead me on, can not hear or
talk,
Nor f1nd my way along without your
hand.
Loves, srailes and dreams the Soys
Of friendship true,
] dnd them al personif1ed Ia yoM
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elders. Our hope lies in these
young people, some of whom ac-
tually believe sincerely that so per
cent of men elected to public office
are grafters-with about 2 per cent
caught-and they may not be far
wrong.
I hope that history, instead of
repeating itself, as it does. will re-
verse itself and the young people
will say, An! The older generation.
Look what it came to. And look
what it has done to us.
Here we are in 1854 repaying the
debts contracted by our fathers in
1884, because the solution to their
problems was baked by certain men
to whom it would mean that they
would be able to afford only two
cars, no yacht and 100000 of in
surance instead of the more preten-
tiOus three cars, one yacht and
S1,OOO,000 Of insurance if the solu-
ton were applied"
Anyhow, you get the idea.
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TIMES READERS EXPRESS
SENTIMENTS ON DILLINGER

BY Mary Princell
Listen folks, and you shall hear, of
the ultra modern Jessie James.
They held him first in Lima jail,
then all the people who heard his
name
Were shocked to hear of his escape
made at the cost of Sarber's life.
He then proceeded banks to rob,
made life thing Of strife.
The law was helpless at his feet,
then Lady Luck did grin,
The Tucson cop got a lucky break
and they did lock him in.
"He's not so tough, we've handled
worse" these lucky cops did say,
"Send your killers to the west, with
us they're mere child's play"
They brought him back to Indiana,
shackled in the air,
A hundred cops they met him when
he landed there,
In escort they took him to the
''escape-proof Jail"
He was sure to stay there, for these
walls he could not scale,
So sure the law was of his staying
that they left a female guard,
Even though she was a woman, his
escape she could retard.
But it didn't axe long for the state to
learn the result of its folly
That policing isn't woman's job
EXample-Mrs. Holley.
For Johnny's flew the coop again,
they just can't keep him in,
Twenty thousand men just can't stop
his life of sin!
He fashioned him a wooden gun and
hid behind smile
And waited for the time to come
when he could leave in style.
He swiped the sheriffs newest car,
red light and siren, too,
A Negro chauffeur for to drive, the
guards around were few
When started out to play this catch
me if you can,"
In fact, the guards were snoozing
when he took it on the lam.
The cops, they say they'll get him,
that he won't get away
He's "headin' for the last round up"
with him they'll do away.
But I'll bet he sure is laughing at
their antics all the while
Cause he knows that talking doesn't
bring him closer to that last mile.
In the meantime cops can trail him,
a reign of terror he will spread
AS his trutsy tommy gun spits out
molten stream of lead.
Whats the use to catch him." say
the wise ones with a grin
For it doesn't seem that there's a
jail that the law can keep him in"
By NJ. z. Clark
A gangster went to jail one day
And heard the sheriff smile and say,
mo trouble do I contemplate,
For when this boy goes through the
gate,
A model prisoner you will see,
He never will ski jail on me-"
But Jacks half smile and half
sheer,
ct will get out II given a year,
My friends will come and rescue me
Just wait a while and you will see."
Alas, one day when the sheriff
awoke
And was informed the jail was
broke,
She cried, and then her hair she
tore.
The captain fumed and then he
swore,
He arched his brow and shook his
pate,
IT guess I will investigate"
And then he wired to Arizona
And saidi sIack Dillinger has flown,
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BY Francis Jones.

BY Francis Jones.
T am back again. Not on the
air, but expressing my sentiments
toward the indianapolis Power
and Light Company and your
paper.
am an employe of the light
company and want to say this:
The officials of our company are
as square and as good a bunch
Of fellows as can be found in any
company. This statement could
be verified by any employee who
is in good standing with this COM
pany.
I read the views of your readers
every night, but never have read
any articles thanking this COM
pany for what it has done. I'll
venture to say that if your paper
was in the red just small part
of what this company is, in
very short time, there would be
two indianapolis papers, instead
Of three.
Come on, employees, let's hear
something. What's the matter?
comment. I will venture to say
just this to you: Any employe
of a company that provides him
or her with living and does not,
at every opportune time, express
his thankfulness should resign
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away, that the government can
just as easily loan vast amounts
eighty million dollars in one single
case) to financial institutions, and
yet, when asked for a small loan Of
ten million dollars, secured by splen-
did collateral (Citizen's Gas Com
pany property with repayments
starting at once - a loan which
would be of benefit to upwards of
100000 people, the cry is raised
that it would be illegal without fur
Their legislation?
Can you blame any one for Won
dering?
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BY a Times Reader.
CHARGES GRAFT IN
JOB DISTRIBUTION

1 would like to write a few lines
to the Message Center about the
fellow who is handing out the Jobs.
He sure uses no Judgment taking
the names as they come in the al
phabet. Men with families, who
have done no work for two and
three years and who have been on
the basket lists with not dime in
come for several months are those
who need work.
My husband was out Of work two
years and four months, on the bas-
ket, with not a dime coming in.
He lost lot of life insurance, yet
they gave work to a neighbor man
a few days after they gave my
husband work. The neighbor was
idle a few weeks, and they have
son who has never lost a days work.
They also have a boarder. This
man is lazy. There is not days
work in him, and is not deserving
and he never. was on a basket. And
who says there is no graft?
There is another who is boot
logger and has a sister paying good
board He went to the relief COM
missioner one day, got a basket, and
a ton Of coal, and a job the next
day.
Il does not seem fair to the poor
devils still on the basket. May God
have mercy on them.
Now, you brought the electric
company to time, why don't you ex-
pose some of this graft? Now, this
is no spite work, but the solemn
truth
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CRITICIZES u. s. FOR
GAS co. REFUSAL
By W. A. Smith.

By ". A. Smith.
Strange, is it not, that our gov
eminent can expend, without the
culver of an eyelaSh. hundreds Of
millions Of dollars for the purchase
of cotton, wheat, hogs, ETC., which
subsequently, are DESTROYED a given
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President Roosevelt just has finished an
other book. BY Shis time We ought to know
whether, as an author, he makes a good
President.
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Magicians' organization has asked CWA
help to earn money-one thing they couldn't
pull out Ct theix hatS
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The Message Center

(Times readers are tnvited to cypress
their viesos in these columns. Make goWr
letters short, so all can have chance.
Limit them to ESQ cords or IeSs)
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There's no denying, General johnson has
put lot Of NRG into the NRA.
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-
GiUo Light and the
People WHl Find
Their Oicn Way
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DICKENS recognized that even if better con-
- ditionS existed in the factories the life of
the working masses would be that of beasts I'M
less the miserable teneInents could be torn down
and decent homes provided.
But Dickens gaze was not limited purely to
the cities. He recognized the miserieS which
had come to the English peaSantry as result
of wholesale evictions and the growing power of
the great landlords.
Today we find the prospects of the new deal
placed in jeopardy for the specter of war on the
European and Far Eastern horizons Dickens
showed himself sufficiently realist to recognize
that reforms at home were likely to be nullified
if the country became involved in foreign wars
Therefore he ever urged that the patriotism
necessary to promote reform at home should
never be allowed to develop into bellicose lingo
ism. In one of his best passages he said ut is
of paramount Importance to every nation that
its boastfulness should not generate perjudice.
and a chershing of unreasonable
ways of acting and thinking which have moth
ing in them deserving of respect, but are ridicu-
lous or wrong"
From even this necessarily brief and cursory
survey Of Dickens social idea it is easy to see
that he was as conscious of the necessity for a
new deal in England a century ago as are the
more alert American writers Of the need for a
new deal in our society in 1884.
We may we'll hope that their efforts will be
attended with the conspicuous success which
followed Dickens brave shafts against greed and
oppression in the Britain of the early Victorian
age.
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Jim came to the surface. with Charlie un
conscious and blue. They hoisted him int
the boat with dificulty and laid him dow
as far away from Chad as possible. Whit
Ellie started the motor, Jim tried to bring hin
back to consciousness. Finally he opened on
eye and smiled wanly at jim
GOOD fellow" he murmured, and the tirec
eyes closed again
Two people in our town are going to spend
the night away from home" said Jim, as TIN
coursing yellow craft sped toward the shore
lone in the hospital and the other in the jail =
THE END.
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SHAKESPEARE
Continued from Second Page.

bottom of the appendix, which will serv4
as an automatic safety valve to proven
bursting of the balloon.
The balloon will carry specially de |
signed radio equipment to permit two
way voice control with the ground at al |
times During flight Maj. Kepner and
Capt. Stevens will broadcast descriptions
of the flight for an interval each hou
and their voices will be rebroadcast, from
stations all over the country. Connec !
ton will be maintained throughout the
flight between the balloon and the ad
miniStration building of the Nationa
Geographic Society, at Sixteenth and NJ
streets, and with the War Department.
For this great aeronautical adventure
the War Department has chosen two Of
it's best officers. Maj. Kepner, the pilot
is the hero of many balloon flights Of
national and international famei Hid
has served as chief of the lighter than
air branch at Wright Field, the All 4
Corps main experimental and research
base, and has an international reputa
ton as a balloon and dirigible expert
He enlisted in the Marine Corps at tho
age of &c. serving from 1909 to 1918, and
then spent three years at the Naval All
Station, Lakehurst, N. j., home Of thd
Nays lighter than-air activities, wherd
he earned a naval certificate of training
as a rigid airship pilot. For six months
he served on the Los Angeles as assist \
ant navigator, and was one of those
trained by the German Zeppelin crew
which brought the Los Angeles to tho
United States.
Kepner went into the Army from tho
Indiana National Guard after serving on
the Mexican border In 1917. He OBJ \
tanned a commission early in the World
War, served in the Sd Division, and was
wounded three times m "a hours. Afte1
five months in an Army hospital nd
served with the Army of Occupation in
Germany until 1920. He was winner of
the 1928 national and international bali
loon races capturing the Gordon Benz
nett trophy, which he defended in 1929
Capt. Stevens has won his right to the
title of the Nations greatest aerial pho
tographer through number of exploits,
several of which have brought him into
close association with the National Geo.
graphic Society. He has contributed
largely to the science of aerial photog
raphy through development of long
range Photographic equipment, fog !
piercing lenses, night Photographic
equipment and other devices.
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Chad scrutinized the islands all around.
his eyes in narrow Sits Finally, he said:
Go to the right for three islands and then
keep straight ahead" He lay back down and
closed his eyes. Accordingly, they bore to the
right and went straight ahead. To both the
boy and the girl the islands were entirely I'M
recognizable. and it seemed hopeless job ever
to find anything in the swamps.
DO you see anything around here you've
ever seen before?" ventured Ellie. steering
around a bend.
I'm all mixed up" admitted Jim. Il don't
even know which way Is north"
CHAD looked up at them darkly, his mouth
~ CONCEALED in an ugly line. He seemed
to get vicious pleasure out of their feeble
efforts to locate the missing companion He
had ceased to struggle now. probably because
he was connecting some new way of escape.
sit up. Chad" commanded Jim again.
gruffy, where do We 60 now?" The man felt
the pistol prodding him again. He sat up.
gave one glance around and said,
We just passed Frog Island. Go down that
wide channel to the left" He spat the words
out unwillingly.
Following his directions, in about 20 min
utes they came to the place where they had
left Charlie. At least, Chad said it was the
place.
"I'n stop the motor and we'll CALL" suggested
Ellie They came to a standstill and yelled
as loudly as they could, but answer came.
Jims eyes narrowed. He looked at Chad
piciously.
Look here Chad Hurst" he cried, ARE
you sure this is the place where We left
Charlie?"
Sure it is" said Chad, smiling crookedly.
wouldn't doubt me, would ya?"
I'M held hurried consultation with Ellie.
- Then she left the wheel of the boat and
came close to Chads feet. With a pounce Jim
was holding the victim by the shoulders Ellie
caught the knot at his feet and twisted 1t
tighter and tighter. Chad began to vince.
Then he bit his lip in agony Finally he
cried out.
stop it, will you? Stop it, I sayi I swear
this is the place! I swear it! Owwwl Stop!"
Ellie loosened up on the knot as Jim nodded
to her.
Il think he's telling the truth. Ellie" he
said. If he was, the boat had probably drifted
away in the storm AS to Charlie they dared
not think of his fate. Completely disheartened.
they started the motor of their craft again.
Might well head for home. suppose"
murmured Jim sadly.
Let's circle this island, JIM" said Ellie.
The boat cut sweepingly through the water
as Ellie guided it around the island. AS they
were rounding the point Ellie screamed.
'Look!" she cried joyfully, pointing.
CLUTCHING one oarlock of the boat, his
~ face expressing anguish in every line, was
Charlie. All but his head and one arm were
hidden by the water. They could his grasp
was loosening, his strength exhausted. They
cut of the motor and glded to him with all
speed possible Just as they were within arms
reach of him, the tired fingers loosed their
hold completely and the body disappeared in
the water.
Without q word Jim dived overheard. clothes
and ALL while Ellie stood ready to lend what
aid she could from the boat. She could see
the two bodies thrashing about in the depths
of the brown water Finally, with q gasp