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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-16
Capital Capers
by GEORGE ABEL.

THE arrival in Washington of Colonel Fitz-
Il maurice, the Irish f1ier to buy American
airplanes is being heralded by luncheon today
at which Irish Minister Michael MacWhite will
be the host.
British officials have announced unofficially
that Colonel Fitzmaurice hasn't got bean and
the Irish Free State hasn't got a bean, so how
can he buy airplaneS?"
MacWhites reply to this is a twinkle of the
eye and the cryptic comment:
Not bean, Ell? Wait and see?"
CENATOR ARTHUR CAPPER of Kansas has
~ definitely become the barometer of diplo-
matte parties in the capital. If you see him at
a party, it's good.
The legislator shows much more restraint
about diplomatic parties than some of his COL
leagues. He only goes to the best-but he never
misses good one.
One finds a motley group of senator's at some
of the inferior teas and cocktail parties but
Capper usually blazes forth at night in all the
splendor of 1vory-white tie and glistening pumps.
During the days he works.
Where the music is gayest and the guests
merriest there is Arthur. At the Spanish en-
bassy party, Capper twirled delightedy to the
CaStlIan WaltzeS and even accomplished some
dance that looked like a mazurka.
IT is a coincidence that assistant secretaries of
state in charge Of Latin American affairs
invariably get something wrong with their
Threats
The lamented Francis White, who became
minister to Czechoslovakia (but later declined to
look at life through rose-tinted CzechoSlovakian
glaSses) had terrible experience.
One morning his secretary called to say that
Mr.. White couldn't report for work
He swallowed shad bone and 1t stuck in
his throat" he informed the alarmed state de-
partment.
The shad bone persisted for three days, de-
spite medical diagnosis and research. Finally it
was sklllfuly removed, and Francis appeared
again on the Latin American horizon. with a
beautiful lapis-lazuli muf1er around his throat.
This time the victim is the present assistant
secretary OF state for Latin America. Mr. Sum-
ner Welles. He is suffering from an infected
palate-but whether shad bone is responsible
no one knows. A semi-offlciaI bulletin has in
formed the faithful about Mr.. Welles' trouble,
but with no mention of particulars
On Saturday, the tall, distinguished diplomat
reported at his desk as usual-but he did not
discuss shad bones.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-16
WRITES exit" FOR
CAPITALISM

CAPITALISM
BY C. S. G.
The capitaliStic press did not car
ry anything concerning the red-hot
resolution adopted by Labors
Economic Conference held in Chi
cago, April %, and attended by
5000 delegates, representing some
1000 organized workers, members
of the American Federation of
Labor and the Chicago and Illinois
declarations of labor. The resolu-
ton denounced the Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Daily News, the Hearst
publications and various magazines
for attacks on President Roosevelt
and the NRA.
A gigantic drive to defeat the
aims and purposes Of the recovery
law is under way led by the above
named newspapers, aided by a bunch
of politicians and special privilege
seekers who are on the outside want
ing in, it was charged.
The forces arrayed against the act
do not wish it repealed; in fact,
they are taking all it offers in the
way of better business and improved
conditions, but the fly in the ONT
ment is the fact that they do not
want organized labor to become
real power and have a voice in the
conduct of industry in respect to
working hours, wages and condi-
tons.
The union busters are making
supreme effort to put labor in its
place"-and that place is merely
as a pawn in the big cut-throat
game of getting business and special
handouts from the politicians.
Well, this crowd will find it has
the biggest fight on hand it ever
had in trying to put the yoke on
labor, now that it is free. The reSo-
luton adopted at Chicago calls on
all organized and unorganized labor
to rally against this movement de-
signed to make it behave" and
take what the feudal lords offer.
After the November election just
watch what happens. No matter
who wins, or loses. Capitalism, as it
is now known, is on its way out.
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ADVICE
BY POLLY LOIS NORTON

BY POLLY LOIS NORTON
II you would be a rover
And sail the seven seas,
Just null this message over,
If you would be a rover,
Then do just as you please.
II you would be a rover.
There's just one thing to do.
Don't be a treasure trover,
If you would be a rover,
Keep your possessions few.
II you would be a rover,
And wander foreign lands;
just think this advice over,
If you would be a rover,
Beware domestic bands.
II you would be rover,
This one thing I can say.
Throw home. hoardings over,
II you would be a rover,
Or you'll never get awayl
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ly, hit or miss, trial and error,
through darkness, pestilence, war
and crime, depression. But why
continue to let it? Why not give
it as much of hand as our royalty
endowed schools give to stenogra-
ply, dressnaking. elocution, inter
ior decorating and the like?
There is not public school in
the land, not a single public school
room, that has civilization in its
curriculum. That's an absurdity
too; one several million times more
glaring than that of criminals raid
ing a police station.
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MORRISSEY'S ACTION
BRANDED UNFAIR
BY NJ. w. d.

BY NJ. w. d.
You probably would be interested
to know that while police officers
have been taken away from schools
to guard the Real Silk mills, which
Chief Morrissey claims is necessary,
he does assign an officer to guard
the children of the Catholic school
at Fourteenth and Pennsylvania
streets.
It is shame that other children
must take the penalty for this I'M
fairness.
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Daily Thought

For if I do this thing willingly, I
have a reward; but if against my
will. a dispensation of the gospel
is committed unto mel CORN
thians, GIT.
LIE who is firm in will molds the
l. l. world unto himself-Goethe.
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doctor reports he has been able to keep
keep dogs alive without their stomachs for as
long as ten years He couldn't do that with
children, who are all stomach.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-16

George Hobson of Blockow, Mo-, can tell
the weight of hog by its squeal. except when
the squeal comes from motor horn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-16

Five greyhounds, in Texas, dropped dead
chasing rabbit and they couldn't even
come back home to boast how the big fellow
got away from them
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So They Say

Life is a mixture of shadows and
light, and the straight mood of de-
spair can not include the whole
range of experimentation Erskine,
author.
Money we all desire, but are
ashamed to own it.-Dean Inge.
The hardest thing I ever had to
do was reduce wages. Now I am
mighty glad that wages are climbing
again.-Henry Ford.
The whole tone of many peoples
praying is, "Oh, God, get me what
I want. DIR. Harry Emerson Fos-
dick Of New York.
Some say environment, some say
heredity, some say economic rea-
sons create the criminal. I think
it is something deeper, something
that medical science alone can cure.
Captain John Siege. former Chi
cago chief of detectives.
To abolish the gold standard be-
cause there are money troubles is
as foolish as to abolish police be-
cause there is crime.-Dr. Melchior
Palyi, economist.
Neither Europe nor Asia will start
another war, unless they have gone
mad. And if they have, my advice
to our country is to keep our sanity
and stay out Of it.-World Court
Justice Frank B. Kellogg.
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The Message Center

(TimeS readers are inUited to cypress
their Uietos in these columns Make your
letters short, so all can hare a chance.
Limit them to $50 4oords or less.)
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I aOhouy disapprove of 10hat yOu sag and a0iH
defend to the death your right to sag it-Volajre.

I sparsely settled, but they should not
be entirely neglected.
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Money we all desire, but are
ashamed to own it.-Dean Inge.
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The indianapolis Times

mann - on AAp
GtUe Light ana the
People Wfu Find
Their 0ton Way
Evening star., 1934-02-18
Inventors i'm Britain
Prolific During 1888

ONDON.-Inventors were busy here
in 1898. The number of patents filed
up to the end of November was
1899. Twenty thousand of these in
ventions, however, were not granted
patents, owing largely to their utter
impracticability.
One of the great number rejected
was a window pane which, on being
broken by a burglar, creates an in
tense vacuum, drawing the hapless
intruded into the room and holding
him on the floor until captured. An
other. designed for the benefit of mo-
torists, was an anti-skid device, con-
sisting of trapdoor fitted in the bot
tom of the car, which, on application
of the brake pedal, automatically
opened and deposited large quantities
or SCOT and sand on the road.
Fantastic escape devices for sub
marines and aeroplanes are popular
subjects for inventors, and large
number of applications in connection
with small domestic articles and in
door games are filed. The majority
of modern inventions, however, deal
with important commercial products,
such as television and heavy oil or
Diesel engines. Every invention re-
ceived at the patent Office is carefully
tested before judgment is passed on it
Copyright, 1934)
Evening star., 1934-02-18

Cuban magnificos here, watchfllly
waiting, with a bit of scheming on
the side The Machadistas, for in
stance, have by no means given up
hope. They don't delude themselves
into believing that they can restore
their general to the throne. But
before long there is to be general
election on the island. 1t must be
remembered that Col. Mendieta is
only Provisional President-Some of
his followers deplore the fact that he
accepted the job, because it bars him
from running as a candidate to sue
ceed himself. The Machadistas will
be content if their partisans can Sc
cure enough seats in the Constituent
Assembly to establish a bloc which
will give them the balance of power
Thus they might obtain one or more
portfolios in the cabinet. This, at
any rate, is the story that comes
from the headquarters of the Ma
chadistas.
Then there is His Excellency M. St.
Koly at a hotel in the West Fifties.
Evening star., 1934-02-18

German party in Austria had been
conducting for a year or more in favor
of union with Germany was tempo
rarily halted.
With the success of the Nazi move
ment in Germany, however, the pan
German leaders in Austria, aided and
advised by German agents, turned
their energies toward building up a
powerful Nazi party in Austria. They
were greatly helped by radio broad
casts from adjacent German territory,
and within few months had pow
erful following, especially among the
younger people and among the un-
employed, who were many both in the
agricultural and urban regions CT
Austria last Summer. Chancellor
Dollfuss, bitterly opposed to the Nazls,
took drastic steps to suppress them
and was vested with virtual dictatorial
powers. Beginning in May, 1888, he
Waged a relentless warfare against the
Nazi party in Austria by, prohibiting
meetings, arresting leaders and other
arbitrary measures. He was unable,
however, to stem the rowing tide of
Nazi sentiment.
Openly supported by the Italians
and probably receiving encouragement
from the French, Chancellor Dollfuss
staked everything on his fight against
the Nazis. His appeal to the German
government last month to cease in
terfering in Austria's internal affairs
was met, as had been expected, by an
arrogant reply reafirming the deter
mination of the Nazis in Germany to
spread their views abroad, but deny
ing direct completely in the activities
OF the Austrian Nazi movement.
In a final act of desperation Chan
cellor Dollfuss, therefore, sought au-
thority TO appeal to the League Of
Nations. League supporters are dis
Evening star., 1934-02-18

bombarding the newspapers with
statements Of more or less vehement
nature about the Machado regime.
Actually, some revolutionary junta
or other from the Latin American
countries is always at work in New
York or Washington. Cubans, Vene-
zuelans, Nicaraguans. Hondurans
Peruvians, Chileans-the leaders of
those who are 'agin the government"
all come here for just one reason.
1t is the most cogent of all reasons
money. This does not mean that
the fighting expeditions start from
New York and Washington. For up
rising in Central America the princi-
pal port of embarkation is New
Orleans. The actual machinery of
the Cuban instructions is always as
sembled at Miami and other places
in Florida, which you can readily un-
derstand. But the wherewithal is
collected on Manhattan Island and
there you will find the big shots.
1t may astonish some people to
learn that even today there are
Evening star., 1934-02-18

mayed, as they fear that such an ap-
peal cannot but become new test of
the Leagues strength, owing to the
fact that the League for the last ten
years has supervised Austria's finances
and that Austria in a sense is one of
the Leagues special responsibilities
Thny fear the strain will break the
League.
Seek Control by Legal Means.
The mere threat of an appeal to
the League has been regarded as a
confession Of Dr.. DOllfusS' poVerleSS-
ness to hold out much longer against
the Nazis. This is another way of
saying that the success of the Nazi
party In Austria Is imminent. The
Importance of this success lies In the
fact that it creates a situation more
favorable to the actual union of Aus
tria and Germany than has ever yet
existed. The avowed policy of the
Austrian Nazis, under their German
leaders, has been to obtain control of
the Austrian machinery of government
through legal means, but once in con-
troll SO to shape Austria's policies as to
parallel the policies of Germany. 1t
should thus be a simple matter TO
bring about actual amalgamation of
the two countries as soon as the gen.
eral European situation permits: In
other words, if the French, Italian
and British cannot agree about Aus
tria's fate, Germany will be able, oy
simple joint declaration, to present
the world with the accomplished fact
of union with Austria.
In England, as well as in America,
the question has often been asked
why should Austria not unite with
Germany If she wants to?
The answer lies not in the realm oil
right and wrong, but in the compli-
Evening star., 1934-02-18
Chinese Citizens Scorn
High-Rate Electricity

SHANGHAI, China.-The city Of
Foochow, on the China coast south of
here, has hit upon a novel way Of
registering its objection TO an increase
in electric light ana power rares
Faced with an increase, the entire
population turned off its lights and
the city rested in darkness. The only
exception was that street lights re-
manned on.
Shops and residences closed their
doors at nightfall, residents scurried
of the streets and hid themselves
behind closed doors. Lamps and
candles were put into use.
The Bureau Of Public Safety ordered
that lights should be turned on. bui
the order met with no response. Extra
police were ordered to patrol the
streets, but no disorders have occurred.
Until the power company agrees to
rescind the order for increased rates
Foochow residents declare they will do
without electricity.
tCopyright, 1e34s
Evening star., 1934-02-18
Series of Clubs Begun
ForLondonUnemployed

LONDON.-At the suggestion Of the
Prince of Wales, we'll known people in
society are starting a series of small
clubs for the London unemployed.
They are called the Feathers Clubs
after the princes crest, and each, at
Ills special request, is attached to a
nursery school, in order to keep a
family group atmosphere.
H. r. H. has chosen color scheme
of red, white and blue for the clubs.
To the first club he presented an cleo
trio refrigerator and all the carpentry
and boot-mending tools, and for the
second his own furniture designer has
made scarlet benches which are also
lockers. The third club is not yet
ready,
The second club Is a stark white
building, reminiscent of small Greek
temple Bright blue gas radiators,
Irish crash curtains. bordered with
red and blue oil baiZe, and blue dais
for boot ot-mending and carpentry adorn
the long white club room, and the
kitchen has been equipped with the
latest coke cookers, refrigerators, gas
water heaters and so on, so that un-
employed women can practice econom-
ical cookery.
(Copyrisht, 1934J
Evening star., 1934-02-18
BY NICHOLAS ROOSEVELT,

Former United States Minister to Hungary
"O BE or not to be-that is the
question for Austria today. An
appeal to the League of Ma
Il tions by the Austrian govern
ment at the same time forces
the great powers to take active meas
ures in her behalf and raises an issue
which may be the death blow of the
League as well as of Austria.
The Austrian problem is basically
the old one-whether Austria can sur
vfve as an independent state, or
whether she must be united with Ger
many. 1t has become acute again as
result of internal political complica-
tions in Austria. Bitterly opposed to
the AnschluSS, as the union with Ger
many is commonly termed, Austria's
dynamic little chancellor, DR.. Engei-
bert Dollfuss, has been backed by
union of conservative Austrian peas
| ants and of radical Viennese Social
lists.
Working relentleSsly in favor of
union with Germany are the Austrian
Nazis, acting under the direct leader
emp III NCAA AAld11 dSCAoo. AAACh AiiOtbO
has been, Get Dollfuss!" Favoring
a Fascist state closely resembling Hit
ler's Germany is the Heimwehr group
led by Prince Ernst Ruediger Won
Stahremberg. He Is opposed to the
Anschluss. but is at the same time
unfriendly to DR.. Dollfuss. 1t is gen.
orally believed in Austria that he
would like to succeed Dollftlss as
chancellor, but that his organization
is so honeycombed with Nazi sympa-
thizers that his accession to power
would be merely a step in the direc-
ton Of complete Nazi domination of
| Austria
Union Barred by Treaty.
Ever since the dissolution of the old
Austro- Hungarian Empire in Novem-
Der, 1918, the question of the union
of Austria with Germany has been
present, occasionally actively in the
foreground and then again in the
background. The original arguments
put forward in favor of union with
Germany were based on the fact that
the little Austrian Republic, consisting
of the large world capital of Vienna,
with its surrounding industrial regions
and the small and unproductive Tyrol,
formed state which was so unbal-
anced economically that it could not
possibly survive. For political rea'
sons, however, the allied powers pro-
vided specifically in the peace treaties
| that Austria and Germany might not
be joined. This provision is still NOM
inally In force, but on q number OF
occasions plans to circumvent it have
nearly succeeded.
be eXaCt-Europe was shaken by the
announcement that tariff union be-
tween Austria and Germany had been
secretly planned. The project was
clearly the first step in the political
union of these two countries. Its
mere announcement created turmoil
in Europe, which hastened the hnan-
cial crisis of May, 1881. This, in turn,
marked the beginning of the world
wide banking panic which eliminated
in the closing of our own banks at
the time that President Roosevelt
took Office last year.
The project for the o-German
tariff union was declared by The
Hague Court to be counter to various
treaty stipulations. As result of this
declaration and of drastic pressure
brought by the French and the Ital-
ians on Germany and Austria. the
project was dropped. At the same
time the campaign which the PAN
Evening star., 1934-02-18
DUCE In CENTER OF STAGE
In AUSTRIAN CIVIL WAR
Mussolini's Decision Is Key to Interna-
tional Action i'm Crisis-Dollfuss Loses
Backing i'm Britain and France.

most serious of all. Mussolini would
have WEIGHED in the full sight of
Europe.
What can the dictator dop
Europe is divided. Some people,
apparently most of the British and
some American observers, with a
sprinkling of Germans, believe that
Mussolini will weaken at the last
moment and do nothing-trying to
save a blushing face behind a smoke
screen of rhetoric. Others, par
ticularly the French, Czechs and
Austrians, believe that he will have
to suit his actions to past words and
act.
Therefore Czech Foreign Minister
Eduard Benes told this correspondent
nine months ago in Prague that he
was not alarmed by Hitler's efforts
to provoke an anschluss, since Mus
solini will have to stop it,
At meetings Friday between DR..
Benes and French Foreign Minister
Jean Louis Barthou in Paris, 1t was
decided that neither country should
do anything but await Mussolini's
decision. Let him carry the re-
sponsibility of failing to save Austria, !"
they said to themselves.
The choice Is an unpleasant one.
For the first time Fascist Italy. which
arose as a promise to substitute deeds
for Democratic palaver, is on trial
under the world spotlight. Thanks
to this situation the French are able
hot offnrte
thwarting the British aim OF forcing
them into an unfavorable disarma-
ment agreement.
AS predicted in these dispatches, a
turn has taken place in French for
eign policy. After a year of stalling,
hesitation and closed eyes, the French
have suddenly awakened to note the
danger to which the entire postwar
regime in Europe was exposed owing
to the British desire to placate Ger
many.
Claim Rearming Proof.
The British do not want a military
alliance with France. Therefore they
are not able to threaten Hitler. So
there is nothing to do but let him reg
ularize the ornaments he has already
achieved illegally by general agree
ment and thus prevent an armament
race.
The French say that, since the Brit
ish will not promise military support,
they are obliged to take Independent
action They claim to have over
whelming proofs that Germany Is
again almost a fully rearmed giant.
The British Go not deny this fact,
but wish to accept it.
The French answer that, II they
must accept it, then goodby disarma-
ment, France RECEIVERS full liberty of
action and the future will decide the
outcome. Therefore, the French neg
ative answer to the German memo
randum in the disarmament colloquy
which has been proceeding since last
Autumn. ~as
Therefore, Barthou will tell, the
British representative, Capt. Anthony
Eden, that the British and Italian
plans for partial disarmament by
France and partial rearmament by
Germany are fundamentally unsatis-
factory.
The Disarmament Committee meets
again April TO- 1t can be pretty well
said that, if before that time some
new element has not entered the sit
uation, the prospect of planned dis
armament and the rest of the Mac
Donald plan for revising the peace
treaties will definitely expire shortly
after.
Evening star., 1934-02-18
" Rebels FSp D % HERE G sHE % Hhs2 THE

For more than 20 years he was Cuban
Minister and subsequently Ambassa-
dor at Madrid. He held Office under
one President after another BY dint
of keeping himself, through all those
years, aloof from party politics.
The consequence is that today he
stands almost alone in having the
confidence of all parties. But for an
illness at the most unfortunate mo-
ment he might be President of Cuba
today-and the feverish succession of
upheavals with accompanying blood
shed might have been avoided.
While Koly was still in Europe the
stage was reported all set for him.
Every party-except perhaps the Com
munists-had agreed to accept him
Everything had been arranged, includ-
ing the financing, for peaceful coup
detat. In short, it was in the bag. &"
Then, just as he was about to board
ship, he collapsed and was rushed
to hospital for an immediate opera
(C0nfinund IN Fourth pooaN