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The Washington times., 1934-01-22
Maxine In Lights

Fredric March, arriving fresh
ON the Coast studios, tells this:
:jnder the revised censorship rules
lou can't rush on the scene and
ell "The Cops" But he can say
The Bulls" A fellow can no
longer sit on a bed lin a studio
a2t) with girl that is not his
Wife. These were points decided
1 his last picture. Maxine Doyle
ill get her name in lights when
Search for Beauty plays the
'arle unless Paramount'S cutting
oom eliminates her from the pic
lure. To all the girls who are
,,.ondering when John Boles will
j, ing again on the screen, the
answer is in Beloved" The girl
The Washington times., 1934-01-22
Wanted: Horse Meat

Wanted: Horse Meat
What does Captain Proske feed
his tigers that makes 'em so docile
during their Earle stage act? Just
plain raw meat. They prefer horse
meat, but you can't buy it in
Washington. The five big cats
eat 40 pounds of raw meat day.
It has to be good meat. They
sniff contemptously and pass up
the leavings of the butchers scrap
box. Speaking of animals, don't
. miss the fight between the weasel
and the rattlesnake on the Keith
screen. A pippin of a scrap, with
the rattler taking the count after
eight rounds. Best movie mix-up
since the cobra and the mongoose
set tongues wagging.
Fiji Says Ooh-La-La
Fiji D'Orsay's answer to the
New York columnists who re-
ported her ready for the first
crack-up with hubby Maurice Hill
was to pose with him at the
Ambassador pool. Were vairee
vairee hoppee" she says. 3,246
children and groWn-ups turned out
for the Micky Mouse-Silly Sym
phony special show Saturday
a. m. They had to open the
Columbia for the Palace Theater
overflow. Funny part of this is
that the special Walt Disney show
was the idea of New York
woman who knows absolutely
nothing about the amusement
business. She staged one herself
md made such a whopping sue
less of it theaters from coast to
coast nabbed the idea. Thank
you Bill Lynch for that bid to the
installation of officers and house
warming of the Musicians Union
the Sixteenth Street head
Iuarters last night.
Betty In Lingerie
Betty Byrne, Washington So
2iety girl, is one of the shapely
iamsels modelling underwear in
he Pathe News reel at Keith's
his week. Buddy Rogers felt so
bad Saturday afternoon he called
n DR.. George R. Huffman. Just
he after effects of the flu and
0verwork. Buddy, was advised to
lake it easy. Ralph w. CDoc)
Benton, Times news editor, was
mother victim of germs in the air.
Angry tonsils forced his first day
IF in nine years. His last 24-hour
racation was when his baby ar
lived on the scene. Robert Reud
and S. j. Kaufman have invited
Ill Washington dramatic critics
o come up to Broadway and be
yingSide guests at the new Casino
De Paree, the Bill Rose flossy
tight club.
The Washington times., 1934-01-22
PoIs Nesri Makes Her Peace With
The Shuberts---FiH D'Orssy
Denies Domestic Row
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

Monday grab bag of loose items As exclusively predicted
here month ago Lionel Barrymore will make personal ap-
pearance the Fox The time is the week of February 23
The vehicle oneact sketch by Edgar Allan Wolf Down
Ninth Street the Ralto talking terms with Mary Pckford
she has been than earning everywhere ese
sketch from "a Church Mouse is Mary footght vehicle
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
FRANCE SUSPICIOUS

A N American who observes recent events
N in France is likely to come to the con-
clusion that the French are a most eXcitable
and ehervescent race.
A political swindle which cost the French
some 25OOOOOOO francs is uncovered - and
what happens? The government falls. promi-
nent statesmen deyoutly refuse to accept the
membership royalists smash cafe windows
and throw chairs at policemen. and Paris in
dulges in a long weekend Of the most hectic
kind Of rioting.
In this country. where financial thimble-
rigging conducted at the publicS expense is
more common phenomenon. it is little bit
hard TO see lust why the French are so excited.
What have they got to kick about any
way? asks the average American. They lost
25OOOoOOO francs in a swindle? Well, that
comes 10 about s12.5OOOOO at par.
Suppose they had had an insult to build
M utilities investment companies for them;
or suppose that some foreign nation had Dor
rowed matter of s4,OOo.OOOOOO from them
and refused to pay.
What would they DO then-tear down Paris
en6 throw the Arc de Triouphe into the
Seine2
All of which is apt TO lead the average
American to suspect that the French don't
know when they are well OF.
The answer. Of course. is that the Stav'sKy
swindle is more than Just bit Of financial
,,,-ocv Il seems TO the French to Be synp-
tom Of some deeply-rooted and fundamental
fault in their organization of society.
It isn't. as the old saying goes so much
che money as the principle of the thing that
Is bothering them.
That is TO say that the ordinary French
man suspects that there is something radically
wrong with his form OF government. He
doesn't know Just what it IS, and he doesn't
k,,ow lust what ought to be done about it. but
he has an uneasy bunch that things aren't
inst right-and an affair like this swindle
simply confirms that bunch.
So he boots out his government. and starts
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
FOR PEACE IN THE PACIFIC
prom the San Francisco New

prom the San Francisco News)
MO sensible person can read the news
y papers these days without wishing that
all the lingo politicians, generals, admirals
and newspaper publishers of this country and
Japan could be armed with rifles and bombs
and set to fighting each other to extinction
in some remote Pacific isle.
Even the most belligerent of Americans in
sist that we in this country are not looking for
trouble and will avoid war if we honorably
can But, they add, the japanese are out to
make trouble and so we must get ready for
war in the Pacific if we want it or not.
In Japan the jingos are saying exactly the
same thing Yet there is as much evidence
that the japanese people as whole do not
want war as that the American people don't
want it. If anything the balance Of concili-
atory statements is in Japan's favor just now.
In the japanese diet on Monday, Count
Futaara, peer of the empire, rose and criti-
cised the government for permitting publica-
ton of infammatory statements and predic-
tions of war.
THE so-called national spirit fostered by
such incitations is not the true spirit Of Nip
pom, in which an international outlook is in
herent," he said. THE true Sammurai spirit
seeks to prevail without fighting
II quite agree" said Premier Saito. And
Home Minister Yamamoto announced that
the government is acting to control inf1am-
matory publications.
Until similarly conciliaUory and pacific
statements come from equally high quarters
in America we can not claim that our devo-
ton to peace is any greater than theirs. Ger
tainly no government spokesman in this
country has seen fit to rebuke, much less con-
troll, inflammatory publications in America.
And while we would be the first to protest any
effort at government control of the press,
rebuke from high quarters would be very
much in order
Jingoism in the one country promptly in
cites jingoism in the other, until voices of
moderation are drowned out and the certainty
of war becomes a fixed idea. Japan in recent
years has been the worse offender, and it is
the irony of this process of Indictment and
counter-incitement that resentment in this
country is reaching a crescendo just as the
reaction has come in Japan and the liberal,
sensible ma jority there is reasserting itself.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
STILL SHIPPING LIQUOR

THE little island of Miquelon, home port
for fleet of rum runners throughout the
prohibition era, is not yet finished with the
task of supplying liquor for thirsty American
citizens.
Examination of the liquor import figures
for December, recently released by the de-
partment of commerce, shows that this tiny
island in that month sent to the United
States distilled liquors worth $4,000 and
wines valued at $131,OO0
Since the island itself fernents no wine
and distills no liquor these stocks obviously
originated farther afeld; and one probably
is doing the islanders no injustice by sus-
pecting that to certain extent they repre-
sent stocks laid in IN the smuggling days
And one wonders: Will Miquelon cease
shipping liquor 10 the United States. once
these stocks are gone or will it continue to
maintain its place as a source of supply for
the American market making it's shipments
legally instead of sEreptitiously?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
A PRAISEWORTHY EFFORT

II REPRESENTATIVE JOHN F. DOCK
N WELLER of California is planning to
introduce in congress a bill which would
eliminate political postmasterships and put
all first, second and third-class postmasters
under civil service
1t is more or less doubtful whether any
such bill could get through congress; never
theless Mr. Dockweiler deserves credit for
making the attempt. His proposal is one OF
those reforms which would benefit the entire
public and would hurt no one but the poll
ticianS.
Taken by and large. the postofice renders
a remarkably efficient service. If the entire
organization could be removed, it would be-
come Just that much more efficient
Removing all postofice jobs from reach
of the spoilsmen would be long step in the
right direction. 1t will be enlightening to see
Just how congress receives Mr.. Dockweiler'S
proposal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
WARNING TO EXCAvATORS

some OF the statistics the regretted death
- of DR.. Albert NJ. Lythgoe of cerebral ar
teriosclerosis in Boston was the eighteenth
fatality in eleven years among those closely
associated with opening the tomb of King
Tut-ankh-Amen in Egypt BY other counts
it was the twenty-third fatality Industrious
search among the collateral associates should
greatly multiply the number.
Thus say the true believers, the King Tut
curse is verified and credibility is given the
tabled hieroglyphic inscription, Death shall
come with swift wings to him who toucheth
the tomb of a Pharaoh"
The curse, We believe, can be placed on a
scientific basis by literal study of the evil
dence. and several tentative conclusions ap-
pear thus far to be valid They are
Any tomb violator who jumps from
seventh-story window will be in great danger.
The funeral hearse of any tomb violator
will have positively lethal effect upon any
8-year-old child who gets under its wheels
Any tomb violator who exasperates his
wife beyond reasonable point should beware
of bullets
Any tomb violator above the age of SIS
may expect his risk as a life insurance pros
pect to be affected unfavorably during the
next decade.
In the spirit of science and logic, further
more. we submit one further bit of occult
data. Years before King Tuts sleep was dis
turbed. some German Psychologists took
home with them the terra Gotta bust Of Queen
Nefertiti, and it became the most adored art
treasure Of Berlin. The Egyptian government
& few years ago negotiated for her return. but
the Germans wouldn't give her up. The queen
was King Tut's mother-in-law.
And now the Germans have got Hitler!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
SATURDAY. FEB. ,. 1884.
THE BLUE EAGLE LABEL

MIRA can enforce its codes when it deter
mines to do 50. That is clear in two
recent cases IN which clothing manufacturers
defed the code and the code authority. thus
not only exploiting their workers and under
mining the general recovery program. but also
Threatening their business competitors. In both
cases the culprits were forced to surrender
because NRA withheld from them its blue
eagle insignia. making their products I'M
popular.
Wuh Brothers. Inc Of New York City and
Troy after holding out for some time. ended
by agreeing TO make restitution Of back wages
Tor the period of code violation and reimburs-
ing the code authority for the expense con-
nected with the enforcement proceedings. d.
Before any rugged individualist rises to
protest that NRA could not crack down on
willfm code violators. he should read the fol-
lowing letter from southern dress manufac-
turer who was compelled by local NRA COM
pllance board to give up his blue eagle and
who has since got it back:
We have found that since our operators
are getting 80 cents an hour and only work.
ing forty hours week, they are working with
more pep and some are producing from Is to
30 per cent more work. We feel that if there
are any industries in the United States that
do not work under the NFA, and who had our
experience, they would find not only a differ
ence but benefit in working under a code.
They would get better production and better
work"
Therein is the great hope of NRA. 1t is
something more than idealistic. 1t is prac-
tieal-and the old system of long hours and
low wages is not practical, for the worker, the
employer, or anybody.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
DANGEROUS COMMENTS

A LONDON newspaper asserts that careful
n negotiations are under way among the
United States. England and France, looking
toward the cession to this country by the
other two powers of certain South Seas islands
which might be used as aerial and naval bases
in the event of war in the Pacific.
According to this story, Washington tenta-
lively has offered partial cancellation of war
debts in return for such action And the idea
back of it, of course, is supposed to be prepa-
ration for that much talked-of war with
Japan
This story may be utterly without founda
ton; and, somehow, one may be forgiven for
hoping that is the case The dangerous ten
sion in relations between Japan and the
United States has slackened in recent months;
but action of this kind would be sure to re-
vive Japan's worst suspicious.
Prompt denial at Washington that any
move of this nature is contemplated would
be a step toward preservation of peace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
Another St0pch Roosevelt Man

for our bankers, they helped wreck
the country and then laid down on
the job. So, should some Of them
go to the wall, they can either
take the pick and shovel or the
short route, for the present adj
ministration believes in live and
let live.
And the wailing of "Lil Arthur"
is only for the ex-service mems
votes; and, as one Of the exs, it
has no appeal to me or to thou
sands of others, for I am able
bodied and able to earn my liv-
ing, provided I am given a chance
to do so.
When an overproduction causes
as much hunger and misery as it
has in the last five years, it was
the only thing any sane govern
ment could do to try and distrib-
ute our money so we could re-
vive our purchasing power and
strengthen our credit system.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
PROGRESS ON CANCER

THAT distinguished authority, DR.. Francis
Carter Wood, director of the Institute
for Cancer Research at Columbia university.
in his annual report was careful to guard
against the physicians traditional bogy of
arousIng false hopes The total number Of
patients cured" he said, lis small. and nothing
else is of value"
But another passage in DR.. Woods report
is so encouraging in the distant view as to
deserve setting in special frame. He has
been reviewing various studies, not all made
at Columbia, as to serums and the ways of
avoiding and inducing cancer. Then he says:
1T seems TO me that the last year has
seen the publication of four important
investigations more important for the future
study of that most difficult problem in nledi-
cine-cancer-than anything which has been
discovered. concerning the disease since man
began to observe it."
This does not mean cures for the imme-
date sufferer. but into the long procession of
humanity it injects a substantial hope that
was never there before. We all may feel in
debted for that.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
THE ALIENS, NEW DEAL

IRON precept and practice the United
Il States department Of labor indicates that
the new deal is to include the 100000 aliens in
this country as well as the rest of US. Its
policy will be to hold tight the gates against
any flood Of cheap foreign labor, to crack
down on invading criminal aliens, yet to
temper the general laws with moderate and
humane administration.
Few will find fault with a policy that pre-
vents the admission Of new jobleSs yet abates
some of the glazing injuStices that have grown
up in the past.
Secretary Perkins has abolished the corps
of free-lance Section "a Men" whose deporta-
ton practices were a scandal under the Hoo
yer regime, stopped fnger-printing of aliens.
modified the order relating to alien students
who work their way through college here,
made deportation procedure conforms to prin-
ciples of law.
Families need not be torn apart nor
worthy self-supporting political refugees re-
fused sanctuary With many more aliens
leaving than arriving, there is room for re-
uniting families and opening the gates to
those fleeing religious and political persecu-
ton, providing they will not become charges
on relief agencies
The oriental exclusion measure, passed in
a wave of hysteria in 1924 should not be al
lowed to stand and mar our relations with
Pacific neighbors. A regular quota under the
law applied to orientals would result in no
increase in the admission of alien workers.
probably would result in fewer being snug
gled in.
We can maintain the present restrictive
and selective principle and still do away with
useless cruelties and irritations. This calls
for just little kindness and common sense
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
ATTACKS MIR. COLEMAN
FOR HIS PLEAS
M. E. Tracy Says

the gold and convert the profit to
public use.
The fact that President Roosevelt
favors such a move hardly can be
interpreted otherwise than as fore
casting sterilization of the dollar.
To the extent that such action
would cheaper money and make is
suance Of more paper money posi-
BILE by raising the value of the gold
reserve, it must be regarded as in
flationary. At the same time it
precludes the hazards Of ordinary in
flation, since it rests on a fixed
standard and makes the dollar re-
deemable at a fixed price.
DUT, and this is the important
ID point, it presents every advan-
tage Of ordinary imitation by per-
hitting the issuance of more paper
money without over-reaching the
gold reserve and that, too, on a free
gold market.
A gold reserve Of $3.50, 900. 900 900,
WHICH Is ABOUT what we can claim
right now, automatically would oe-
come s7000,000O00 if the gold con-
tent Of the dollar were reduced TO
so per cent.
1t generally is agreed by econo-
mlsts and financiers that a govern
ment safely can issue paper money
to two and one-half times the
amount Of its gold reserve. In other
words, with a gold reserve Of
s7ooo.OOOOO0 the United States
would be in position to issue
SIT 500. 100000 in paper money 1t is
not conceivable that we shall iced
snOr.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
HER EMPLOYER IS A
REAL GENTLEMAN.

By Mary Lovelace.
As a reader of your paper for if
teen years, I want you to publish
this letter in your Message Center.
Recently I read an article about
slaves in the laundries and the girls
being told to make the NRA quota,
Is cents an hour, or get out.
If some Of the girls would stay
out of the ladies' restroom, setting
their permanents, penciling their
eyebrows. ETC., they could easily
make the quota with very little
trouble.
And, as to slaves being made out
of the employees, I do not know what
laundry her friend was employed in,
but, as an employe of the Sterling
Laundry for eight years, will say
we have no slaves. and our employer
is a gentleman respected by us all.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03

IF you had 500 in gold, now that
i the gold content of the dollar is
to be 50 per cent of its old value, you
could take your gold to the bank
and get S166.66 for it, thus making
a profit, without any effort on your
part, of nearly 81 per cent. If the
gold content Of the dollar were to be
reduced to so per cent. and Presi-
dent Roosevelt has the authority
to do it, you could double your
money as far as the number Of dol
lars is concerned.
That is one reason why you and
all the rest Of us have been forbid
den to possess any gold at all and
why the government is getting ready
to take over the gold now being held
by the Federal Reserve bank.
While the Federal Reserve bank
is a government institution in one
sense of the word, it is owned ori-
vately. Member banks own its stock
and ultimately would benefit by any
profit it might make.
The federal Reserve now has
$500, 100000 in gold on hand. With
the gold content Of the dollar re-
duced to so per cent of its old value,
that gold automatically becomes
worth $4,000 100000, which would
represent a profit of $4,000, 100000.
A NY such an enormous profit as
N that ought to be distributed as
widely and as equitably as is hu-
manly possible, especially since 1t
has been created by the government
for the benefit of the people.
The only way this can be done is
for the government t6 take over al
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
rioting. and chuckles gleefully while the

rioting, and chuckles gleefully while the
royalists assault the gendarmes.
And it makes an interesting and instruc
tive contrast with the situation in America
Financial losses suffered by American In
vestors make the Stavisky loss look unim-
portant; yet they have caused no riots, no
cabinet designations. no throwing Of restau-
rant chairs at innocent cops.
Why? Because we have a confidence in
our form Of government, our organization of
society, which the French lack.
Financially. We have lost far more than
the French; actually, we have lost far less.
We still have an mistaken faith in ourselves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
THE FUNNY PART IS-WE
THINK WE'RE RIGHT

POETRY AND TRUTH
By C. NJ. Hess
I have read your paper from early
youth
And have always depended on
morals and truth,
But of late I admit from your front
page view
I don't think as much of your paper
and you.
I don't want to go back to candles
and lamp,
And I don't belong to the nudist
camp.
Your paper of late devoteS its best
pace
That is detesting to the human
race
The woman you picture without any
clothes
You can't fool the people for any
one knows
They are out for one night or per-
hapS a week
Just for the pleasure and ambitions
they seek.
For the love of your paper and its
daily news
And the sake of humanity, please
change your views.
Editors Note: Above refers to
picture of Johnny Weismuller and
Lupe Velez not nude, but in bath
ing suits. We see nothing nasty n
the human body thus attired.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03

BY VIM. E. Lemon
We sometimes hear the remark
made, usually by the man in the
street, or by some dyed-in-the-
wool Republican who couldn't
make down payment on a pack
Of cigarets, that the huge gov
eminent expenditures at the pres
ent time will ruin, wreck finan-
cially and socially, our present
bankers and financiers, which in
time will ruin our country.
We, the middle and working
class, already have been taken to
the cleaners by these INSCRIPTIONS
money-mad gentlemen, and, as for
wrecking our country, the Hoover
wrecking crew did a complete job.
RooseveIt's constructive ideas, in
the course of time, will put our
ship of state on an even keel, and
she was listing a-plenty when he
took hold of the wheel. And, as