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Why Not Tell the Truth?

MY own son now is adult of sixteen and in
WI his frequent journeys to the cinema he seems
10 find much which is dull and very little Of a
shocking nature AS one who ventures into these
gded places quite infrequenty it may be that much
which he takes quite calmly would shock me to the
core.
And even so I am willing to be blasted for the
good Of the people I do not demand the protec-
ton of any sort of censorship
And if I had younger child who might be at
least as impreSsonabe myself do not think
that I would ask for him her picture ration
entirely snow white in its implications. This is a
serious world.
II isn't bad idea at all to begin telling the truth
to human beings when they very young. Deep
dish apple pie is not the final solution of crimi-
nality.
Copyright. 1884. The Timesl
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Johnnie and the boys had a code
which they used in communicating
with each other"
TITY, state and federal officers
- continue to keep watch over
Mary's home. The first raid was
made on the night following the
family's move from the DAILY
street apartment.
I'VE didn't even have all the
furniture in place" Mary says,
describing the raid. Il looked
down the street and saw them
coming. There must have been
fifteen cars loaded with officers
They surrounded the house, came
in, and searched.
"They tore open boxes and
trunks, took the backs off pictures,
and opened letters. 1 guess they
were looking for bonds. They
hunted carefully through those
things, but they didn't even ask
me to get up from my chair, so
that they could look under the
cushions. I could have had any,
thing hid under there, and they
wouldn't have found it"
Another raid, the last one, was
made a month ago, when Mary
and her sister, Margaret, enter
tanned thirty friends with birth
day party for a friend.
TOUR officers came that time"
Il Mary said. "They went
through the house, and asked
one of the men his name. I
guess they must have thought
he looked like Johnnie"
Mary Kinder is the only woman
connected with the Dillinger
gang who is not now in custody.
I've had letters from the
other girls" she says. lone OF
them asked me to see that her
jewelry was taken care Of until
she got out. No, they haven't got
me. because I haven't been doing
anything. I just stay at home.
And if Johnnie does try to free
Harry and Makley, I'll still be
satisfied to stay right here"
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sion. What they were after was
the establishment of the principle
and system. And for that they
were grimly prepared to fight.
The President knew this. So
that bill, too, received his sigma
ture.
In the great game of politics,
it pays to organize.
n
TTERE is a continuation of the
IL Merry Go-Round cross-sec-
ton poll on the effect and pop
ularity of the New Deal. The fol-
lowing interviews are with the
head of an oil company and
worker in the Texas oil fields:
Has the New Deal improved
your economic condition..
Oil Worker-Not much.
Oil Executive-Yes.
Should Roosevelt swing more to
the Right or Left?
Oil Worker-More to the Right.
Executive-To the Right.
Do you favor continuation of
the NRA?
Worker-Yes, so far. Give it
more of a chance.
Executive = Yes, universal en-
forcement.
What do you think of the
Presidents judgment in picking
his assistants and advisers?
Worker-Not the right type. Too
theoretical. They are not Coop
Grating with the President, but
working on theories of their own.
Executive-He has done a good
job with one exception; the job
giver, Farley.
What do you think of the
Brain Trust?
Worker-Not very damn much.
Executive-Brain trust is all
right.
Do you still have confidence in
the Presidents capacity TO bring
the country out OF the depression?
Worker-YeS, if he gets CO.
operation from all quarters.
Executive-Yes (reply made with
considerable heSitation)
If Roosevelt was up for re-elec-
ton this year, would you vote to
continue him in office?
-Emphatically, yes.
Executive-Yes.
Copyright, 1894, BY United Feature
Syndicate 1nc-l
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4 Lying Literature

I AM not a fanatic and hold that moderate adj
Il mixture Of clean plays in any given season does
no great amount of harm. But in all seriousness
I believe that any community stands a fine chance
to be corrupted If every story teller sits down TO
his typewriter under the injunction, BE clean, Har-
old Bell Wright. and let who will be clever"
In most of the attacks upon current entertain
ment find tendency to couple "sordid" with "sala-
ClOus." I assume that this means that stories con-
corning things which base and and de-
graded Will fall under the ban of decency leaguerS
Under the dispensatiOn everybody must be up
mis- toes in circumstances which prove that all
is right with the world. But if every writer is to
bend mis- efforts in this direction will produce
not only a limited literature but a lying one
No write a truthful story of poverty
without mentioning the horred consequences which
follow in the train of misery The greatest masters
have bent their best efforts to better the state of
the world by showing the evil consequences of a
maladjuSted mankind. There must be place
where a conscientious artist show the ills of
humankind. A steady diet of clean plays, in the
reornist of that word is healthy for neither
nor beast. boy girl.
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7 introduced il in order to spare the feelings of
those who might become afrghted by more familiar
tags.
Mr. Golden did very nicely in the theater with
the various simple entertainments which he pre-
sented He found his niche in putting stories of
the hearth and home And yet I feel that he would
be hideously embarrassed if the suggestion were
made that the American theater definitely be given
over exclusively TO the John Golden age. 1 gravely
suspect that he rather liked to be operating during
seasons in which some of the rival presentations
triple on the spicy side. After too much
sophsticaton it was pleasant to sit down and watch
the lights go up upon a scene in which good old
Auntie Caroline was converting hardboiled crooks by
serving them her deep-dished apple pie.
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Mr.. Harrison has, of course,
denied he was taking any such
step. The acting secretary of
the treasury, Mr.. Coolidge, has
' denied it.
Will Senator Thomas believe
these denials? Not, should sup
pose, unless the senator has in
the last twenty-four hours learned
something about the legislation
enacted by congress last winter.
For if the senator really under
stood the gold reserve bill he
would never have accused Gov
ernor Harrison of trying to sta
billie the dollar. He would know
that the dollar has been stabilized
on gold and in relation to the gold
standard currencieS since Jan. 81.
On that date the treasury an
nounced that until further notice
it also will sell gold for export
to foreign banks whenever our
exchange rates with gold stand
ard currencies reach the gold ex-
port point"
This was the sterilization of the
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Mary Kinder Spends Days Listening to CHIPPING of Baby Chicks
BY HELEN LINDSAY
Times STAFF Writer

lust speeding the
highways at the side of John Dnger and his gangers
listens chipng quacking Of baby
sic Luett
she lives with her mother Mrs Viola Patterson and her sister,
Margaret Behrens
girl probably about the of Americas
than other today knowledge Of Dngers
whereabouts.
Like other ordinary citizen she has her own ideas about
activities butsshe they only IDEAS
believe that he's alive but don't know Mary says cured in
like tired child 1T seems to me If
Johnnie had been killed of
haven't what the
about him"
Mary isn't hopes possible release OF her sweet
a break staged by DIinger
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While they were chatting, up
strolled James F. T. O'Connor,
rugged little controller of the
currency. Buckner, seeing him,
got up cordially and offered his
seat.
With ready Irish humor, O'Con-
nor turned to Farley:
This, jim, is an exhibition of
the perfect gentleman. He offers
his seat to a man who is suing
him for 100000"
Note-Controlle O'Conner re-
Gently filed suit against Buckner's
New York Clearing House for that
sum in connection with the Harri-
man bank case.
TINE all-powerful consideration
Il of campaign politics was the
real force impelling the presi-
Dental pen that signed the Fra
zier-Lemke farm mortgage mora
forum and railroad labor pension
acts. Privately the President
had strong misgivings about the
legality of both measures.
Attorney General Cummings
advised adversely against the
first. The farm credit admins
tration was noncommittal. Secre-
tary Wallace, long an advocate of
reducing farmer Indebtedness,
stanchly favored the bill.
But the President didn't ask his
opinion.
What cast the weight in the
balance against Cummings legal
ism and the Presidents own doubt
was the fact that this is con-
greSSional election year. And the
great farm belt, devastated by
drought and harried by low prices,
politically is too dynamite-loaded
TO be risked through inattention.
So the bill became law.
PRACTICALLY identical condi-
Il tons influenced the decision
on the pension measure. The
railroad brotherhoods, the real
sponsors of the bill, are extremely
potent organizations. They have
a virile and aggressive press of
their own.
They readily admit that the
measure is as the President de-
scribed it, "crudely and loosely
drawn"
But such weakness they con-
slider easily remedied next Ses-
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THE warden at Columbus is
afraid Johnnie will try to get him
out, but 1 don't believe he will"
she asserts. 1T would be useless,
I'm sure. They're too heavily
armed there.
Its like going into an army
camp. The outer office at the
prison is filled with armed guards,
and each of the boys has three or
four guards around him at all
times. If Johnnie we're to try to
make a prison break, it only would
mean that there would be plenty
of shooting, and they'd all be
killed"
So Mary is clinging to the vague
hope that the supreme court may
show leniency for Pierpont and
Charles Makley, following the
stay of execution obtained by Miss
Jessie Levy, indianapolis woman
attorney.
TIAKRY knows that johnnie
II can't do anything for him
there" she says. Zone by one,
they've killed members Off the
gang, and Johnnie can't do any
thing alone. Harry doesn't expect
Johnnie to try anything so fool
ish."
Mary laughs at the idea that
the South Bend bank holdup was
the work of Dillinger.
johnnie never held up a bank
in that way" she says. He and
his boys always were quiet. They
didn't go in shooting, sending bull
lets through ceilings and walls"
Until a month ago, Mary had
visited Pierpon5 several times a
week. Recently, these visits were
stopped when Indiana authorities
advised prison officials that they
believed she had been involved IN
the Michigan City prison break.
The warden didn't tell me I
couldn't come any more" she says.
But he did say that re would
rather I didn't, and as 1 didn't
want to make things any more off
ficult for the boys. 1 stopped 60
ing to Columbus. They won't even
let us write to each other any
more, since they learned that
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Fair Enough
GANG GIRL NOW FARM TASSTF E1Y'
KESTbRQQK PEG[ER

NEW YORK, July lit was all right to return
~ LafayetteS sword to France few weeks ago
and the Canadian parliamentary mace last week,
but it might be wise idea to decide how far this
fad to be allowed to go before it goes too far The
sword one that the marquis left sticking in an
umbrella stand night when he over here
running up the debt of gratitude which it seems
impossible for this country to pay off the
interest. The mace was a trifle Of loot which was
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HJeemC bM
R
Haywood BROUN

NEW YORK, July lit is difficult TO defend
the sedulously dirty play or book motion
picture. In fact want part Of the job But it
would be an equally harsh assignment to be named
rs the advocate Of offerings which too aggressive
in their note OF cheerful cleanliness. There ought
10 be some very pleasant meadows lying between up
in Mabels Room" and "Pollysnna" Unfortunately,
when refomers put their shoulders to the pendulum
there seldom is any stopping place this side Of
Little Eva's paradise.
When hear that organizations are bent on get
ting nothing but clean entertainment get a mild
revenge by hoping that they just what they are
after. Il Will teach them a lesson. In all such cam
paigns for purity the name of John Golden is taken
not in vain. Mr. Golden is a shrewd Snowman who
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has produced many comedies
not devoid Of merit. "Lightnin',
for instance, was on his list
and also Turn 10 the Right. -
He also was the inventor Of
the advertising phrase Clean
Plays for Clean People" Since
Mr.. Golden is a friend of mine
I would not strip the mantle
Of Sir Galahad from his shoul-
ders. In private speech have
at times found him robust. 1t
is not his custom to run Shrek
ing from the room when any,
body says, Have you heard the
one about the man on stills
and the piece of pumpkin pie?"
As far as I know there is no
- l. L
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rs This Thing YOurS?'

THEY went to rather elaborate extremes to re-
l. turn Lafayettes sword, sending a delegation of
American militia all the way to Paris in their full
dress uniforms at an expense which must have
amounted to something appreciate.
This must have puzzled the French who are
practical souls and who, if they across any
of John j. Pershings personal property in their
archives, either will sell it for storage or at best
ship it back in crate, charges collect.
The Canadian mace however was pure Doodle
and only the statue of limitations had served to
mitigate the act of larceny by which it came to be
present in the American garrett It's return seems
to have been effected with ceremonies of the type
called Simple but impressive.
The Americans said rs this yours by any
chance?" And the Canadians said, I'VE wondered
where it was" and that the of that. 1t was
nice way, both sides for, if the Canadians had
said, mo, licked you for it," and there would
have been another war.
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Questions and Answers

Q-who wrote the play Death Takes Holiday"
At was adapted by Walter Ferris from the
Italian book La Morte in Vacanza,' by Alberto
Casella.
C-Whst is the value of United States cent
piece, dated 1883 and without the word centS9
Att has no premium value.
o-when did Alexander Graham Bell invent the
telephone?
Asia
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
BIZ DreqO Pearson and Robert S. Allen

significant bennd-
w victory for Madame Senator Bob Wagner
When the executive order creating new
haymaker smack on the Jaw OF General
herdider against the continuance
O
He wanted handled the industrial relations
with the Wagner labor act
favored national labor board as
the permanent the President not only sided
their laureS
In setting independent status
of Perkins labor
technicaEy the labor
o regime
OF
the board accepted recommendations
A FTER ALL million dollars among friends?
n R. Rickner of the New York Clearing House
table
aster-C Farley Mcintyre.
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STATE COMMISSION TO
AID RELIEF GAMERS

Community Centers to Be Set for
Gardeners.
Supplies for canning produce of
relief gardens will be provided by
the Governors commission. on I'M
employment relief.
Adequate community canning
centers will be provided for indi-
viduals without home canning IA
cilities, and for mass production
gardens.
The garden and food conservation
division of the commission, which
will have charge of the vegetable
canning program, is under direction
of H. E. Young, Purdue university
agricultural extension.
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old iron, cheap ewelry olive dishes, candle sticks.
napkin rings and clocks taking up valuable room
in the cramped old quarters of the American state
department, awaiting the judgment day or, with
luck, some earlier disposition. 1t seems that many
American military officers and government officials
received such mementoes, including distinguished
ORDERS from foreign governments during the war to
end war and that much of this booty turned
over to the government national treasurer, or
nuisance. The officers permitted to accept
their foreign orders only by specific act of
greSs which congress, in most cases, did not have
the time to bother to enact The civil officers who
went traipSng through the European capitals, coll
lectng wedding presents, so to speak, along the
line of march, felt bound by an old and in the
light of recent developments, rather squeamish
tradition that these offerings were bestowed on
them in their Official rather than their private
capacity Therefore they dumped it all on the
state department to swell an accumulation of white
elephants already large and heterogeneous.
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seized by some American SOL
dierS in the War of 1912 and
had been kept in some attic or
closet in Washington ever
since. Nations get sentimental
now and again and start rum
maging through their CATCH
alls for articles of old trash to
be sent back, with love and
kisses, to the parties from
whom they were stolen as evil
dence of their current peace
and understanding, and re-
minders that they licked them
once and, if necessary, could
do it again.
Mr.. Lyle Wilson. the Wash
ington journalist, informs me
thot there iS q great ctOra Of
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Mayor to Address Celebration of
Civic Lean

Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan will
speak at the Sherman Emerson
Civic Leagues eighth annual Mardi
Gras Saturday night, July %. The
celebration will open July IS at
the grounds at East Tenth street
and Linwood avenue.
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THREATENING LETTERS
SENT TO CITY MAN
mysterious Friend" Warns Q
Dangers; Police Open Probe.

George Fuller, %, of 1902 College
avenue, has been receiving letters
postmarked Indianapolis, which
purport to be from a mysterious
friend in Newcastle.
They state that a Newcastle man
is threatening Fuller for alleged
offenses against him and that the
writer wishes Fuller to be fore
warned.
Fuller, who states that he has not
been in Newcastle in years, took the
letters to police headquarters yester-
DAY.
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TODAY AND TOMORROW
By Waller Lippmann

laundering attack
- bank York who
comforting bankers
that toward money
uspation the perogaves
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dollar at the rate of Is 5-21 grains
of gold nine-tenths fine; it was
sterilization of the rate of eX-
change with the French franc at
.066, with the Italian Ira at .089,
with the German reichsmark at
40, with the Dutch form at SO,
with the Swiss franc at 1926, with
the Belgian belga at .235.
IF Senator Thomas will examine
Il the figures for the exchange
rate of the dollar with other gold
standard currencies since Febru-
airy, he will see that sterilization
has been in effect since the pas
sage of the bill, which he, Senator
Thomas, had so considerable a
part in putting through congress.
What, then, is the point of de-
nouncing Governor Harrison and
of warning him not to do some
thing which (a) Mr.. Harrison has
no power to do, and (b) already
has been done by the President?
The dollar is today and has been
for nearly six months an intern
ally stabilized gold currency.
The fact that private citizen
can not convert a dollar into gold
has nothing to do with the mat
ter. The dollar has a gold con-
tent fixed by law, and our gold
reserves are available to keep it at
parity with all other currencies
that have a fixed gold content.
To be sure, the President has
legal power to reduce the gold
content to so per cent of the old
parity. Under the old gold STAN
dard congress had the power,
which it still has, of course, to re-
duce or raise the gold content any
amount.
From an international point of
view the difference between the
old gold standard and the present
one is that men had come to
believe that this power would
never be used. They regarded the
gold value OF the dollar, which
was fixed hundred years ago, as
fixed forever
n
THE power to change it has
i now been used once, and
some power to change it some
more delegated to the President.
The result is doubt as to whether
the present old parity will be
maintained. But while the pres
ent power, as fixed by proclama-
ton, remains 'our money" to fol-
low Senator Thomas language, is
tied" not ''in any way" but by
definite ration. not merely to any
foreign money" but to all foreign
money which has a fixed gold
content.
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THE power to change it has
MARDI GRAS SCHEDULED

Copyright. ls34)
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MONDAY

PM
Your Health (NBC) WIZ.
Dictators (CBSl WKRC.
3:15-Jackie Heller (NBC1 WIZ.
330-Ma Perkins (NBC) WENR.
Frank Merriwell Adventures (NBC)
3:45-Songs (NBC) WEAF.
Gordon. Dave and Bunny (CBS)
WABC
4:OO-yan steeden's orchestra NBc)
soioist (NBc) WIZ. wENR.
4:15-Bobby Benson aid Sunny jim
(CBS) WABC.
Organist (CBSl WBBM.
United States Army band NBC)
WIZ.
4:3o-Grandmother trunk (NBC) wEAF
Barnet's orchestra (CBSl WABO.
4:45-Loweu Thomas (NBCl WIZ.
Dixie Circus (CBS) WABC.
5:O0-Horsesense Philosophy (NBC).
5:15-Just Plain Bill (CBSl WABC:
Gene and Glenn (NBCl WEAF.
Baby Rose Marie tNBC) WIZ.
5:3O-Molle Show (NBCl WEAF.,
Buck Rogers (CBS) WBBM.
Music in the Air (CBS) WARC.
Interview of Race Drivers (NBCl
WIZ.
5:45-Boake Carter (CBSl WABC.
The Goldbergs (NBCl WEAF.
Max Baer sketch (NBC) WIZ.
6:0O-Mary Eastman and concert orches-
ira (CBS) WABC.
Dramatic sketch (NBCl WEAF.
CARRIERS orchestra (NBCl WIZ.
6:15-Edwin G. Hill (CBSl WABC.
(CBS) WABC.
M Noce Of fif Fir eG9F 'N MO- MWEAF.
6:45-Babe Ruth ,lNBC) VIZ, Wis.
7;oo-Rosa Ponselle and an =, Kostelanetz Or
a. GneS & ?. ' Gypsies wH oNBc, wEAF.
Minstrel show (NBC) WIZ.
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Choate Jr., federal alcohol control
administrator.
Karl A. Werneke, Terre Haute,
was named to the national board
for the wholesale wine and liquor
group and A. G. Derr, Boonville, for
beer.
Indiana was designated as region
nine in the regional control setup
and j. B. Cogan, Vincennes, was
made chairman of the regional beer
board. John A. Langan, Indianapo-
lis, was made chairman of the re-
gional wine and liquor board.
Other beer board members are
Mr.. Derr, John A. Mahoney, Column
bus; Sidwell Alden, Rockville; R. G.
Tapscott, Greenfield; Clarence
Mack, Indianapolis; w. w. Welsh,
Peru; w. Y. Brand, Columbia City;
Charles H. Bailey, Rochester, and
A. R. Exton-Porter, Whiting.
The wine and liquor board mem
bers are Mr.. Langan, Mr.. Werneke
and A. G.. w. Curdles, Ft. Wayne.