The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-05
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gave man feeling to come out of Colonel
- HuS place at o'clock of balmy morning in
the month OF March, forty or fifty dollars light per-
maps Dut with knowledge that he had done some
1rltterng common ground with a member of the
WoolWorth Clan recollect that casually Won
oered one morning on the way to the Grande Rovale
Bourbon Mansion hotel just how long one of the
HCCle girl clerks in the Wooworth branch in West
Palm Beach, Scant mile across the causewav
would have to stand on her burning feet and how
many dimes worth of sailed peanuts she would have
to sell to earn back much money as nv Woolworth
had trttered away that evening
This led into some involved mental arithmetic
and was up in the tens of generations of little girl
clerks on burning feet in the f1ve-and-ten by time
I got to the Grande Royae Mansion hotel or what
ever the name of the hotel was that season. and
gave it up. This sort of calculation is not good for
a persons peace of mind, anyway. 1t sets fellow
to wondering how many days you would have to lay
off a railroad brakeman, with family to support
and maybe wanting doctors, to save enough money
to operate the big Vanderbilt yacht one day on a
cruise IN the Mediterranean You don't want to get
into habits of thoughts like that 1t leads to bad
citizenship and eventually if you don't watch out,
to BolShevism and forfeiture of the precious priv-
ege of working on burning feet in the fve-and-ten
while Princess Barbara Mdivin tours the world with
half an ocean liner to herself
told that Colonel Bradley has been sub
penaed to Washington to testify before the statesmen
whether he was partner of New Orleans,
politician in the operation of chain of dives.
The AnSWer Is No
TTHEY could have saved the colonel time and
trouble if they had just called him up Iong-dis-
lance, collect and put the question to him because
the answer to that one is mo" Colonel Bradley has
been going about the country for years. repeating in
soft voice his rather diScouraging conclusion that
if arrives at the age of 70 years believing that
he has enjoyed the genuine friendship of five men
in that time then he probably has been fooled five
times.
believe he was fooled himself a time or two in
his growing years, but not since he came to Florida
thrty-nlne years ago and set up his store at St.
Augustine which then the end of the railroad
in frontier country.
But while they have Colonel Bradley on the seat
in Washington, do wish the statesmen would ask
him some biographical questions because the story of
his life is one that some of the greatest newspaper
and magazine reporters in this country have been
trying to elicit for dozen years with success
that you could notice. The statesmen with their
powers of subpoena and contempt have been among
our best reporters these last few years.
If reporter asks the colonel to tell about his old
gambling days in Arizona and Texas and the colonel
says Nope, thank you kindly for asking" reporter
can't slap him into some Jail for contempt but the
senate could. am just newspaper enough to
pine to read this piece though I never should
be the one to get it and write it.
And while they on the subject of gambling in
New Orleans the statesmen shouldn't fail to put
Senator Long himself on the witness stand and ask
him the how come of certain mysterious operations
in the gambling trade during his term as Governor
The militia raided the New Orleans gambling stores
during Senator Longs term and acquaintance of
mine among the CLANCY trade told me at the time
that the soldiers not only closed them up but con-
fscated all the taw In some resorts the taw was
supposed to run up into big figures and mem
bers of the gambling profession have wondered for
all these years whatever happened to all that taw
Senator Long might know
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