davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1934-07-01

over. I'll go to Frisco for big time Then
I'll maybe ship to Venezuela. That's a live
country. Hard rock jobs all over"
"A long way from home" Sadie glanced
out at the shadows, sighed, and her gaze
searched the kids gray eyes. you sort of get
me-say, what's your name?"
Johnny Sermon
That's a funny one-but never mind Lis
ten, Johnny Sermon I know my way around
here. know people. If you'll promise me
to go back to Clearwater with your thousand,
I'll make play to get it back for you. There
are ways, safer ways than gunplay."
What ways?" demanded Johnny. And
why you?"
"Oh-I dunno. Maybe it's you kinda seem
to need looking after much. And-I grew
up in a spot like you tell about-what did you
call it?-wild earth and lonesome land.
hated it once but it's all dream about now.
Only dream-but you wanted to know what
ways"
THE girls tone sharpened- Her dark eyes
gazed from a hard mask She said They're
my ways. You don't need to know EN- What
you do is go on to your f1ophouse now. stay
till midnight. then meet me here. Ill have
news for you, at the worst How about it?-
Where do you come in?" Johnny said.
I'm spoken for" Sadie laughed. 1t was
not a happy laugh "A good guy with a good
job. He's a sawmill boss down the river,
good guy even if his name is Borasek It's him
I'm waiting for tonight. How about it?"
"Yeh," said the kid duly. "An right"
Spot Evart snapped to halt before booth
in Chinese restaurant near Gunderson's.
II gotta get back" he said I'm winnin big
in a stud game, and it's soon cloSin' time.
Talk fast, Sadie. Havin trouble with your
Hunky boss?"
Its not Steve Borasek,' said Sadie. She
bit her lower lip nervously, her eyes were
haunted Listen, Spot" she went on. I've
line on a live one who'll be pie for me. He's
in Gunderson's now. Do me one last favor.
Spot. Steer him here"
The gambler sat down, across the table from
Sadie. His eyes cleaned.
"A live one eh? Double Steve huh2
Babe. you're not so simple as I thought"
Johnny SERMON tramped along the sad
~ street again. Sadie's door was dark.
FOOTBALLS sounded close Two figures emerged
in misty spot of light. Sadie Jones had roped
Ruck McGloin and was bringing him in.
Sadie Jones saw Johnny plunge from the
Continued on Fifteenth Page
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THE old, old mystery of life and death
4 how we hunt for an answer. in books
and IN poetry and IN long secret commun-
ings with our own hearts,
And how often do we run into insignih-
cant human incidents which CLEAN brightly
If We have eyes to see them-like beacon
lights briefly displayed in the limitless dark
ness.
Here, if YOU care 20 listen, is one such in
cident It is a thing hardly worth talking
about. perhaps: yet it does not take either
a poet or a visionary to read into it a hint
and a promise touching on this Oldest and
deepest of riddles.
a man we knew lay dying the other night;
a man in his COS. who had been a hard
working printer all MS life. who had set
some miles Of type and lived one of those
useful and unsung lives, and who now was
leaving the world. in a white hospital cot.
He had pneumonia. and an oxygen tent
had been put over him. The watchers at his
bedside saw his hands moving ftfully, and
lifted a flap to look and see if he wanted
anything.
He did not. he was delirious. and he
thought he was back on the job-and he was
setting type Deity his hands moved about
in the empty air. tapping invisible keys. Then,
a moment later. ne died. and went to find out
whatever it is that a human soul may learn
about this first and last OF mysteries.
Now. there is no logical reason why this
homely little happening should be SO moving.
And vet it is That tired veteran clinging
to his job even n MS last seconds on earth,
going out into the infinite with his hands still
working at the task to which he had given
himself-theres something about the picture
that makes all our wisdom seem futile and Of
no account.
For he stands somehow, for the whole race
of undistinguished and faithful men, those
men who work hard and steadily from youth
to the grave. never knowing precisely why
they are doing it. never reaping much of any
thing in the way Of a reward. being faithful
and patient simply because faith and patience
are put into the human heart-and going out.
at last. with their hands still moving on the
old job
It means nothing. perhaps-and perhaps it
means everything Perhaps faith and patience
weren't put into human hearts for nothing.
Perhaps there is. for long fidelity and toll
a reward We know nothing ola place in the
great scheme Of things bigger than We ever
dreamed for the worlds eternal workers.
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JUDGE FLORENCE E. ALLEN

IIER own state denied her a legal educa-
ton, but she is now to be a member of
the United States circuit court Of appeals.
She was not permitted to study law at
Western Reserve university because she was a
woman: but she was nominated by President
Roosevelt to the circuit court because after
all, she had become one of the country's out
standing members Of the judiciary.
Judge Aliens success. based as it is strictly
on her ability and achievement, can not fail
to crafty women who are seeking to DEM
onstrate in their own lives that intelligence
is not limited to one sex
But for the rest Of the country the ap-
pointment has a wider significance. Judge
Aliens service on the Ohio supreme court
showed that she was the kind Of person needed
on the federal bench. The law, as she sees
it. is not a dead hand grasping at life today
to stay its progress. She is able to see it as
living thing which must be interpreted by the
requirements of social and economic progress
Appointments of this kind hold real hope
for the future Of Americas law.
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sArrRDAY- 49, d II.


nLD MAN INTEREST, unlike Old Man
~ River, doesn't merely keep rolling along
He brushes US quickly and will do it again if
not kept in reasonable check
If speculation is curbed-as the admins
tration is trying 10 do through the stock ex-
change bnl-there probably will 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 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 per cent
and not doing it.
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 21z 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 ~ per cent"
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over THE HILL"

CORSE PAXTON matinee idol of genera
- ton ago, used to make thousands whoop
when he played lead role in the melodrama
over the Hill to the Poorhouse." The real
story Of his death the other day would make
more thousands weep if such little tragedies
were not commonplace in every city in the
United States. The once wealthy and pop
ular actor died at 81 in the charity ward of
Brooklyn hospital.
Congress can with little expense, write
happier endings TO the life dramas OF 100000
or SO aged poor OF this rich country. The
poorhouse way has been abandoned IN theory
by twenty-Seven states and two territories. BY
passing the D1l-Connery bill granting federal
aid to old age pension states, congress would
encourage all Of the forty-eight states to offer
small but honorable annuities to the poor who
have passed the age Of S. For the first year
or so this federal aid would cost no more than
Sl0000000 annually and never would it cost
more than the price of battleship.
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Power Company Boost

Immediately for the good of the
company.
That rates are too high seems
to be the main subject of all this
comment. l 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, percolators,
hot plates, coasters, stOkerS, etc.
Yet, they want the use of all
these appliances for the minimum
or Just a 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 it's 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, anc
some Of them are subscribers to
your paper. 1t might pay to slip
in 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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By Francis Jones.
I am back again. Not on the
air, but expressing my sentiments
toward the indianapolis Power
and Light Company and your
paper.
I 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
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 a small part
of what this company is, in a
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 employee
Of company that provides him
or her with living and does not,
at every opportune time, express
his thankfulneSs should resign
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Will you please watch if he comes
by,
will be glad to see that guy"
The gangSter 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 mis- boast as now you see,
That laws delay would set me free.
BY c. S. G.
The other day the Chicago Trib-
une printed an 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 baiIiffs
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. All of
which goes to show-but why NOR
alze? This piece ought to go into
the Ho Hum department Of The
Times.
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history Of literature when world Of readers
waited as impatiently as people did for the i'm
mortal monthly parts" that began with
"Pickwick?"
The second reason is even more pertinent
for newspaper men. Dickens began his career
as a reporter He worked in the press gal
lery Of parliament from his nineteenth to his
twenty-third year, until he set to work on
"Pickwick" He was one Of the best parlia-
mentary reporters Of his day with an extraor-
binary reputation for accuracy. He told the
New York editors In one Of his farewell
speeches:
TO the wholesome training of severe
newspaper work, when I was a very young
man, I constantly refer my first successes"
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YOUTH ANSWER TO
PUBLIC OFFICE NEEDS

By Otto Adelman.
When I 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, "Oh, OH Is the
world mad!"
Can it really be true that tie
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.
ICdO W44CAC bl4c AESlQCllL - u y
ing to help the people, and in an
other column political ofdceholders
are stealing the peoples money for
themselves. Expose after expose
appears in our newspapers with
discOuraging frequency.
read where We spend millions to
maintain courts Of justice and yet
the owner Of a nimble 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 a position to capitalize on
other peoples labor and become
rich. But it seems to me that the
youth Of this country Il am one Of
them slowly is becoming more con-
scious Of the crookedneSS Of their
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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 a 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 dime coming in.
He lost lot of life insurance, vet
they gave work to neighbor man
a few days after they gave my
husband work. The neighbor was
idle few weeks, and they have a
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 a boot
logger and has a sister paying good
board He went to the relief com
missioner one day, got a basket, and
ton Of coal, and a job the next
day.
1t does not seem fair to the poor
devils still or 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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DICKENS DEBUT

Can Editorial in The New York Tines
OUR neighbor the World-Telegram. IS for
~ tunate in having the opportunity to give
to the public the latest work from the pen
of a highly gifted writer named. Charles
Dickens. That he Is destined TO enjoy a long
period of fame may be argued from the fact
that he has already done so for very nearly a
century.
Charles Dickens first published piece ap-
peared in the Old Monthly Magazine for De-
oember. 1888 It ushered in the Sketches OF
Boz" although that signature did not appear
until August. 1884 It was called "A Dinner
at Poplar Walk" but readers Of the collected
Boz know it under the title Mr.. Minis and
His Cousin" The author was p when he
wrote 1t.
Critics presumably VIII wait until the
sterilization of The Life of Our Lord" is
completed before deciding whether it adds TO
or subtracts from the reputation OF Dickens.
The change in either case can not be very
noticeable. That reputation is so gigantic that
a little more or a little less can make no per-
ceptiDle difference.
new work by Dickens running serially in
a newspaper is appropriate for at least two
reasons. His genius first broke on the world
In instruments. Was there ever a time in the
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Sonnet
BY ARCHER SHIRLEY

BY ARCHkR SHIRLEY
Without yow voice there is no
harmony,
No music in the air; though birds
rejoice
In trilling notes they hold no charm
TO ne;
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
nv life worth while?
Without your face the light fades
all too soon
And darkness rushes in without
your smile.
without your hand 7 care not where
I walk,
I wander on, I see not sky nor land:
Oh lead me on, I can not hear or
talk,
Nor find my way along without yaur
hand.
Loves, smiles and dreams, the joys
Of friendship true,
I find them all personified in you.
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aOhoUy dj8approue of 1Ohat you sag and UjU
defend to the death your right to sag jt-VoItajre

elders. Our hope lies in these
young people, some of whom &C
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.
] hope that history, instead of
repeating itself as it does, will re-
verse itself and the young people
will say, All 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,O0O000 of insurance if the solu-
ton were applied"
Anyhow, you get the idea.
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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 Citizens Gas Com
pany property with repayments
starting at once - a loan which
would be Of benefit to upwards of
400 900 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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CRITICIZES L. s. FOR
GAS co. REFUSAL
BY W. A. Smith.

BY ". A. Smith.
Strange, is it not, that our co.
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 or given
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TIMES READERS EXPRESS
SENTIMENTS ON DILLINGER


n y
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 Sarbers 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 lucky break
and they did lock him in.
"Hes 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
p11dNh1CO All D11C oil
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 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 a 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 guy and
hid behind a smile
And waited for the time to come
when he could leave in style.
He swiped the sheriff's newest car
red light and siren, too,
A Negro chauffeur for to drive, the
guards around we're 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, y
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 a
molten stream of lead
What's 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. E. 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 a
sneer,
Il will get out if given year,
Ny friends will come and rescue me
Just wait 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 furned and then he
swore,
He arched his brow and shook his
pate,
Il guess I will investigate"
And then he wired to Arizona
And said: Jack Dilinger has flown,
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President Roosevelt just has finished an
other book BY his 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 Of their hats.
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The Message Center

(Times readers are inUtted to cypress
their Utesos in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to ESQ 4oords or IeSs.)
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There's no denying General Johnson has
put a lot of NRG into the NRA.
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Liberal Viewpoint
-Bv DIR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

This IS the second of two articles Dy Harry Elmer
Barnes. Phi D.. the ocia reform activities of
Charles Dickens, noted En- Elish author Interest in
Dickens being revived boauSe Of the fact that Dick
ems Life of Our Lord" is being published in The