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a company of famous writer's and
artists into an amateur theatrical
troupe, playing with pomp and
circumstance in London and some
of the larger cities for worthy
charity.
Word came that this galaxy of
great names, on glorious tour,
was coming to play in the city
near where Maria's father was
living in retirement. and he, who
had rejected and elected Dickens
from his home, wrote inviting
him to spend a night with him
in remembrance of old acquaint-
ance.
In answer Dickens sent a cor
dial note declining on the grounds
OF time, but inviting Mr.. Bead
nell to visit the music hall.
3; And if the facts could be known
they probably would show that
Maria herself was then at her
fathers home awaiting Dickens
answer with no less eagerness and
excitement than he had felt when
waiting for her answer to his last
love message nineteen years be-
fore.
There is nothing to show that
Mr.. BeadneH accepted the invita-
ton to call at the music hall,
which lends color to the hint that
he wrote to Dickens at the behest
of Maria and not upon his own
initiative.
d ENGINEERING that Maria is
1A"Dora" and knowing some
thing of her whimsical nature
from the graphic pen portrait in
David Copperf1eld" it is a little
pathetic to realize that she was
trying in a childish way to be
good wife and mother, yet clinging
to g golden memory and finding a
little solace in a carefully pre-
served page wherein her "Doady"
had written so many years ago:
Nothing will ever afford me more
real delight than to hear that you,
the object of my first and last
love, are happy"
Even though this wish we're I'M
fulfilled, she must have felt bit
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-10
He Was an Eater

THAT was the how-come of the memorable
Il monkey trial at Dayton Tenn in which old
man Darrow made old man Bryan profess his be-
lief that Joshua made the sun stand still in the
heavens. "A few days later after Johnny Scopes had
been convicted of heresy and the theory of evolu-
ton had been rejected formally by a home folk
Judge, old man Bryan the strong of the tenn
perance movement in the United States lay down
to sleep off a browse induced by meal sufficient
for an entire family. and passed away.
l am assuming that this meal was of that suf-
fciency because journalists who attended the
trial used to watch Mr.. Bryan punish his vctuas in
the dining room of the hotel at Dayton where they
served nothing much but hot, fried fodder, as
though he was eating for two weeks in advance and
marvel that smart in so many ways could
have the gall to profess temperance.
In the presence of a platter OF fried ham and
chicken and grits and steaning in hot weather,
Mr.. Bryan no different way down deep. from
many unfortunate that had known in the
company of jug of
Late this afternoon there came a ring on the
phone and who it downstairs in the lobby Of
very good hotel called the Andrew Johnson but
Johnny Moutoux reporter who had been in Day.
ton in those days. I mention the name of the
hotel because this is the first time I ever have en-
countered anything named after Abraham Lin
coins ce-presdent. The south is full of hotels
called Farragut, Lee, Dixie, Andrew Jackson and
John Marshall, but Andrew johnson seems to have
received no honor, even in his land prior to
the publication of Claude Bowers book The Tragic
Era" which squared up many matters concerning
Andrew Johnson. Maybe. day, they will even
come along to name hotel or anyway filling
station after Eugene " Debs.
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done, all gone! So much was done
and gone, that when I went out at
the gate, the light of day seemed
of a darker color than when I
went in"
IF these portrayals of Dickens
\ love for Maria delighted the
reading public, what effect must
they have had on the woman who
saw herself playing the little
heroine in number after number
as they appeared, recognizing
episodes in her own love affair
with this man whose name was on
every tongue.
Married to q prosaic business
man and living a drab, colorless
existence, what must have been
her feelings, hidden in the back
ground, obscure and unknown,
viewing these enchanting pictures
of herself as the outstanding
sweetheart of the century, loved
by Pip, Headstone, David Copper
field and others in all of whom
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she easily recognized her old dis
carded lover.
The wonder is that she could
restrain herself from proclaiming
to all the world, II am Dora,
and Charles Dickens really loved
me just as he has written!"
The letters of 1888 must have
become infinitely more precious as
the story of David Copperf1eld
was unfolding in its monthly
parts; and it is not unreasonable
to suppose that she had some
difficulty in sitting the impulse to
write this Jealous lover and beg
him to forgive her former cruel
ties.
Lacking the courage to do this
she very likely persuaded her
father to make an effort to re-
establish communications with
him, as will appear from the let
ter next following.
DICKENS, in obedience to his
~ picturesque inspi r ito n of
splendid strolling," had formed
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Romantic and Beautiful
WHAT has GONE BEFORE


wento-do
objections
Mt
Of life that
in accurately reported
David" and Maria Is
Ito is in Copperfeld"
charmed millions OF readers OF DaVld
Copperfed to do until the END
touch of sweet humanity that not
inventive genius like Dickens could record
Mere even uperman does not know
They the surprises OF
luckily forgotten His portrait of Dora
is rich undoubtedly him every
Beadne had haunted him all through the
productive period his life Indeed it almost constant
obsession
plainly characters Copperfed Pip and
Esea that he will put her
out thoughts
part myself been every line
first here rough country boy whose
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This was strong talk in Ten
nessee at that time for it was
hard to find man in the state
who would admit the possibility
that any grand-pappy of his.
however far back in the line,
could have been a babboon much
less a lizard or a jelly-flSh.
But they were somewhat in
tellectual cowboys who used to
Irvine their feet through the
wire legs of the soda fountain
stools at Robinson's soda bar in
the drug store in Dayton. and
they let him say his say till he
was through.
Then some one among them
asked Johnny if he was teaching
such heretical knowing to the
pupils in his class at school and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-10
G. A. R. TO GIVE FLAG.

Presentation for Central State
Hospital Set for Friday.
The William H. Trulock circle of
the G. A. r. will give an American
flag to the Central State hospital
at exercises to be held at Friday.
Mrs. Melissa Lindsey will make the
presentation.
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TODAY AND TOMORROW
By Waller Lippmann

WHATEVER of the policy being
w formulated there there is to
be silver policy
In his message of Jan IS the President made quite plain
gold bill further which
ultimate solution and that he then Withholding
the
silver
agreement and out other monetarv
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There is nothing Roosevelt dis
likes so much as having his plans
published, and he called off the
trip.
However, he still wanted Sam
Untermyer, Wall streets most
ferocious batter, to help draft
controlling legislation, and Sam
was eager to do it. BY Inauguration
time, however, Sam had gone out
to Palm Springs, Cal, where he
insists on spending his winters,
and Roosevelt tried to reach him
while en- route east through the
Panama canal.
He wanted Sam to begin writing
ties bill for the special session of
congress, and instructed Charles
TausSig to get Untermyer to
Washington by an army plane
from Panama.
Sam will love that" smiled
TausSig.
Publicity, eh?" said the Presi-
dent. cooking his head on one
side. Well, let him come by
commercial plane, then"
GAM came. And despite being
~ splashed with mud and
grounded at Richmond by
storm he was his usual swagger-
ing, swearing self. Roosevelt
asked him first of all to see
Houston Thompson, formerly of
the federal trade commission,
who was writing the first draft of
the legislation.
Untermyer did so. The next day
he called the President on the
phone and nearly blew the re-
ceiver off telling him what he
thought of Thompson. Roosevelt
countered by asking both Inter
myer and Thompson to the White
House. With them came Profess
sors Moley and TauSsig. the lat
ter having been chief Stock Ex-
change adviser to the President.
Sam began the conference by
bridling up to Houston Thomp-
son.
I don't want to fight you," he
said, looking as if he did.
After which he began to lee
ture the President as if he was a
small boy whom Untermyer had
brought up. Professor Moley, who
usually helped out in situations
of this kind, went to sleep. What
made it worse, he snored.
FINALLY Roosevelt, seeing that
L it would be impossible to get
any cooperation between Inter
myer and Houston Thompson.
split the question into two parts.
What later became the securities
act was given TO Thompson. IN
termyer was to work out a bill to
control stock exchanges.
But what Sam really wanted
was a chance to examine j. p.
Morgan. due to appear before the
senate banking and currency
committee. In the famous Pujo
investigation Untermyer had ex-
amined the senior Morgan, and
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measures.
q But he left no doubt that he re-
garded silver as such a crucial
factor in much of the worlds in
--ternational trade that it can not
be neglected" e
Since that declaration it has
been certain there would be a sill
yer policy. There has been I'M
certainty as to what form it would
take, when it would be adopted,
how it would be applied. For there
are as many different theories
about silver as there are about
gold. What appears to have hap
pened in the past week is that
the President has succeeded in
formulating program which he
believes can be successfully adj
miniStered.
THE essential principle of the
Il program, as indicated by the
newspaper reports from Washing
ton, is that silver is to be trans
formed in the United States from
a commodity like coffee or zinc
into a monetary instrument like
gold.
This is not a mere matter of
raising the price of silver so that
silver miners will have more in
come 1t is not a price raising
scheme such as is being used to
help wheat, cotton or hogs. This
is change in the legal status of
silver which establishes it as basic
money in the United States.
For that reason it will, if
adopted, mark an epoch in the
history Of money. It's effects will
be worldwide. For it reverses
the course of monetary policy dur
ing the last 100 years.
1t is theoretically possible that
there is enough gold in the world
to sustain a tolerable price level,
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. his great ambition was to round
this out by taking on his son.
Ferdinand Pecora, however, al
ready had begun the banking in
vestigation and the senate COM
mittee was doubtful about
change. Wall street feared Inter
myer more than it did Pecora and
Wall street sentiment was reflect
ed by several committee members.
So Sam resorted to subtle stra-
tegy. He played up to Pecora.
And after a certain amount of
this, he suggested that Pecora be-
come his assistant.
Pecora. who by this time had
shown himself an able investiga-
tor, turned the proposal down
cold. And Untermyer. disguised,
threw up the whole thing.
The securities act, first drafted
by Houston Thompson, redrafted
by Jim Lands and others, passed
congress without opposition. The
stock market bill was not written.
Now a year later, it has created
the biggest congressional fight in
history-chief1y due to the whim
of one man.
DR. LEO WOLMAN, chairman
~ of the Presidents labor arbi-
tration board, is telling friends
that he does not expect to return.
:. Arthur j. Mellott, young Kan
sas City attorney, recently made
head of the governments new
consolidated liquor enforcement
agency, is the personal selection
of Internal Revenue Commissioner
Guy T. Helvering. :. The lat
ter, before Chicago" Roosevelt
lite. is a Farley appointee. For
a time he was in diSfavor with
Secretary Morgenthau, his imme-
diate superior, but in the last
two months has improved his
standing. +. Mellott is a per-
sonal dry and teetotaler. but says
he is not a fanatic Alex
ander G. Mcknight, white haired,
heavy-set head of the newly Gre
ated litigation division of the
NRA, was born in Ayrshire coun-
ty. Scotland, thirty miles from
the birthplace OF Robert Burns.
:. Forty-nine years old, Mrs.
Roosevelt's hair is untouched by
gray. 1t is light brown in color,
and unbobbed. Word reach
ing senate cloakrooms that Jim
Watson plans to place Senator
Little Artie" Robinson in nomi-
nation for reelection brought
chortles of laughter. s. A few
months ago Jim was considering
running against Robinson, whom
he privately dislikes. :. News of
Jim's change of heart brought
the comment from one we'll
known Republican: Apparently
Jim wants to make sure that Ar
thur gets licked"
Copyright. 1884. by United Featurs
Syndicate, Incl
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PIONEER HEIRLOOMS
WILL BE DISPLAYED
Indiana Society to Hold May Party
at Woodstock.

Heirlooms of members will be dis
played at the May party of the
Society of Indiana Pioneers in the
Woodstock Country Club Saturday.
Transportation will be furnished by
indianapolis Railways, Inc, the bus
leaving Monument circle at 2:45,
and returning at Sis. Mrs. Frank
B. Fowler is chairman of the meet
ing.
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
- Bv Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

TASHINGTON, May probably will
w chiefly the battle of
Bia battle which cost Wall
million the lobby
Capitol Hill.
amusing thing this bale-if somewhat
egocentrc o.
that gnarled thousand
battles big
His list of his battles takes entire column the
Who's Who Sam has fought Standard Oil
building trades the National
Transit the Equitable
the Puo Money Trust the Exchange
And in all these he has championed the the underdog
been
battler
big business its back with lifted
This Roosevelts original intention
A early as December 1932just after eeconhe
his plans He proposed bill
curles stock exchanges
Untermye to to Albany Sam delighted
lighted that he could resist letting the
American the evening before he
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Haywood BROUN

7 Uneasy lies the head that wears the laurel Of a
- Pulitzer Prize award. suppose it is inevitable
that no choice in any department can satisfy every
body, but it seems to that some Of the decisions
grow sctranger and still more strange.
have feeling that the Columbia committee
represents definite political point Of view in its
selections. and that the Judgment comes from
group Of gentlemen whose high chairs touch the
extreme right wall Of the room.
It is impossible to explain the selection of Her
bert Agars The Peoples Choice" and E. P. Chases
editorial Where Is Our Money!" under any other
theory.
Mr. Agar is admittedly commentator who be-
eves that leadership should be vested only in the
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Mr.. Chase finds among the cul-
prits who brought on the depres-
sion those working men who
wanted to raise their standard Of
living. His remedy for our ills is
return to the ancient ways of
public and private thrift. Mr..
Chase seems to be under the i'm
preston that in some way the
wealth of the nation was actually
consumed by an orgy of riotous
living upon the part of the
masses.
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fair Enough
bY
WESTBRO0K pEd[ER

II knoxville, Tenn, May lot will be nins
A years, come summer time since skinny, sandy
young high school teacher named Johnny Scopes,
settn on high wire stool with the rest of the drug
store cowboys at Robinson's pharmacy in Dayton,
Tenn. got to popping off the subject Of evolution.
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when he said yes. he was, the boys put up job.
They got to poking Johnny up and poked him ND
until he agreed to make definite point of advising
his students on a certain day and time that their
grand-pappies, way, way back. we're babboons, and
before that lizards, and before that jelly fish
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As E. p. Chase Sees 1t

"OODLES of people" he says
~ in the essay which knocked
The ittdnes for q pnal "Whn had
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In the next episode appears the first
of the Dickens letters in the amazing
Second Interlude." You will thrill to
every word of il.
q Copyright, 1884. John r. Ollie Coz
The Washington times., 1934-12-25
STORES
SEEK EARLY
CLOSING

Aroused by disturbances in
Prince Georges liquor places, open
after District closing time, mem
bers of the Prince George County
Liquor Dealers Association will
ask the Maryland legislature to
adopt a law closing their stores
at midnight.
And because the only death to
occur because of such revelries
was allegedly due to a beer ca
rousal. the association within a
few days will ask beer dealers to
meet and adopt the same pro-
poSal.
The new ruling would apply
both to on sale and to off sale
stores.
The county association will join
the State liquor dealers aSsocia'
ton in asking a cut in the State
liquor tax to meet the District
tax. The higher Maryland tax
has led to unfair competition in
nearby prices, it is said.
At present, the hard liquor on
sale dealers can dispense bever-
ages until two o'clock a. m.
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Distinctive Tags
To the Editor of The Times:

To the Editor of The Times:
Why isn't something done to
put a definite end to the con-
troversy which occurs every
now and then about the colors
OF automobile tags?
This writer believes that the
District officials could in one
stroke terminate the intermit-
tent arguments as far as this
city is concerned and at the
same time take a step in the
direction of making Washing
ton the distinctive city Of the
Nationals it should be.
This year the similarity Of
the Maryland and District auto
mobile tags is bound to cause
considerable confusion. Already
an incident has occurred which
has shown the desirability of
having the District, Maryland
and Virginia tags as different
as possible. That was when a
bank messenger was held up a
week or so ago and the bandits
escaped in a car which bore
tags of either Maryland or the
District, but persons who chased
the bandit could not distinguish
which they were.
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this be stopped. 1t is not hard
to be pleasant, even in the face
Of a mistake in a number.
BELLE WASHINGTON,
What Do You Think?

@As~S NV - ON \
To the Editor of The Times:
am going to make a proposal
that know will be scoffed at in
many quarters and ridiculed in
most. 1t is only in the columns
of such a liberal organ as The
Washington Times that I would
dare breathe such an idea. L
propose the abolition of the
Christmas season.
To my mind Christmas is the
most cruel Of all the seasons of
the year. 1t is at this time that
the poor and the homeless and
those who have no one to love
them realize more poignantly
than ever their condition. 1t Is
impossible for an intelligent per.
son to be happy Christmas Day,
when there is so much depriva-
ton, misery and sorrow all
about us. True enough there
seems to be an abundance of
happiness, but it appears to be
of a formal and synthetic ma
ture.
Instead of having one day in
the year set aside in which
everybody smiles, and is gra-
cious to a point that is not even
natural-why not instead of all
this sham and affectation have
every day in the year one of joy
and good feeling.
Many persons have come to
me Christmas Eve and unfolded
their misery. They explained it
was merely because a special
day had been set aside by So
ciety to celebrate that they felt
keenly their own wants anG mis-
cry. I wonder what the readers
of The Washington Times think
about this? WORRY.
The Washington times., 1934-12-25

Greetings to "TOm."
To the Editor of The Times:
I read in your paper the very
interesting Christmas greet
ing" which that red-faced Con-
gresham from Tex s-Mr.
Thomas L. Blanton-dispatched
to Washingtonians.
1t seems to me he could have
saved his blast at the District
for another time of the year.
He certainly need not have
stormed at those people seeking
an equitable agreement with the
Federal Government, on the day
before Christmas. 1t was, need
less to say, both inappropriate
and in bad taste.
Mr.. Blanton has done so many
things to make himself disliked
by the District of Columbia, al
though he prides himself on be-
ing a friend" to us.
He certainly cannot honestly
feel that he is doing a good turn
for the District by demanding
such short rations for the city.
Whatever he does appears to
us, not so much in the interest
of the District of Columbia, but
a grand-stand play for the folks
back home in the seventeenth
congressional district of Texas.
BIN. T.
The Washington times., 1934-12-25
World Of Music
Capital YuIe Program
Broadcast Over
Big Network

Washington's greeting to the
glorious Christmas was broadcast
to the nation today.
On a network of 81 radio sta
tions, the splendid midnight mass
from the Church of the Immacu-
late Conception was broadcast.
Prior to the service there was a
program of carols sung by the
sanctuary choir. The mass was
Tozer's magnificent Christmas
music, with Silent Night" sung
as the professional and GLORY to
God" from Laudis Corona as the
receSSional.
Yesterday afternoon the nation
also heard music from Washing
ton, the Marine Band playing a
program of Christmas music at
the dedication of the National
Christmas tree in Lafayette
Square.
Many Washingtonians went to
New York over the weekend 70
attend the gala opening of the
Metropolitan.
Verdi's ever popular Aida" was
selected to open the fifty-second
season of this famous opera CON-
pany, and was enthusiastically re-
ceived.
After years of hard Shedding,
the Met" seems to be on a
stable keel. Every seat for the
opening was sold for weeks in
advance, and while the season
has Eeen shortened. gratifying
advance is reported.
The old opera house has been
done over for the new season.
All talk of a merger of the
opera and the New York Philhar.
monic Orchestra has been aban-
donec. and the opera is going
ahead with ambitious plans for
the future.
The Washington times., 1934-12-25
Modern Married Life?

To the Editor of The Times:
Although a single woman,
have many married friends and
often when I visit their homes
and see the quarreling and dis
cordant atmosphere and the
pickering and arguments be-
tween husbands, and wiveo over
money matters, and how 20 run
the home and how to raise the
children, return to the peace
and quietude of my own home,
glad I am single.
Modern homes seem so full Of
friction and are so different
from my childhood home. where
I never heard my mother or
father raise their voices in anger
and where love and harmony
reigned and where cooperation
and Christian ideals were the
foundations of the home.
1t seems such homes today
are almost extinct. I do not
find them in the homes of my
married friends. Somehow all
my friends seem to care for is
jazz and cigarette,smoking and
the latest movie and artificial
living in general. D. A. D.
The Washington times., 1934-12-25
Set
For Holly Ball

HEATHSVILLE, Va, Dec. Is
(SpeciaD The annual Holly Ball
will be held in Kilmarnock, De-
cember 26. The ball is the out
standing social event of the sea-
son in the Northern Neck.
Miss Sally Hart Hundley, Of
Dunneville, is the reigning queen,
and her maids are Miss Ella
Hundley and Miss Lucy Newton
Massey. R. B. Mercer. of White
Stone, is minister to the queen.