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He'd Change All That

ne u CHuhyt <ttt 4 NUS
OF course if I had everything to do with the run
~ ing Of the life force I'd change all that. In
principle and emotion I'm all for Emma and against
Charles Robert Darwin. The only trouble is that
he happens 10 hold all four aces. No political and
economic ideal has ever been pure as that which
Emma Goldman advocated. Every man in his in
most heart wants not liberty but license. We may
respect laws. tradition custom, but we do not
love them. However lightly worn, any restraint
constitutes a chain which may snap us up short
at the moment We least desire or expect 1t.
The human animal. at any rate, is by his very
nature anarchical. The life force gave us an in
stinct and then proceeded to hedge it around with
the high containing wall of circumstance. Emma
Goldman was always plump hausfrau type OF per-
SON but she for going up to every wall and over
But the best which could be written on her tomb
stone would be, 1T was a good try" She got no
where nor did she advance the fortunes of mankind
far as I can see.
Although of foreign birth. Miss Goldman's hap
piest days were in capitalistc America Here every
thing was wrong, and the light of battle shone in
her eyes continuously. Great wealth and abJect
poverty presented a situation in which Miss Gold
man could make many converts in her cry against
the RECOMMENDATION of the human spirit and the
human body.
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STEAL POOL BALL SETS
Youths Alleged to Have Tried to
Sell Loot.

Two youths today were being
sought for theft of three sets of pool
balls, valued at $25, from the garage
of John Sullivan, operator of pool
room at 818 Ft. Wayne avenue. Mr..
Sullivan told police last night he
learned the boys tried to sell the
balls to another youth for s cents.
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Soon after her graduation from
Butler, she joined The Times.
She works her head off when
she's enthusiastic about some
thing and JUST recently her en-
thusiasm and fervor in working
for the saddle horse roundup
brought her election as an
honorary vice president of Indiana
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Saddle Horse Association, and her
selection as associate editor of
the Hoosier Equestrian.
And the funny part is that she
hasn't been on a horse since she
was about IL, when she jumped
from a pony Of which she had lost
control.
A "Republican-by birth and he
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GOOd-by, Fire Year Plan

MY friends" Comrade Fish continued do you
1V1 realize that under the American system of
government the citizen is paid to refrain from ng
his fields? If a citizen, having been paid not to
work. shall cultivate those fields by stealth he is
deemed to have violated the law and may be sent
to prison.
'Oh, my friends" Comrade Fish exclaimed, Il
pray to Nicolai Lenin that may reconsider
foolish action and set our face once more against
this radical canker which is skulking about our
DOORS seeking to stie in its Shiny coils the flower
of our civilization.
DO you realize that if we welcome AnericaniSm
to our shores We shall have to say good-by to
fve-year plan and the ideal OF industrial efficiency
to which we have dedicated ourselves and embrace
a theory that the punk workman the lazy and in
competent hand, is the superior citizen because he
does not hog the work, but leaves some work for
others to do?
isn't it plain that, once this radical American
plan has been imported to fair country with its
pernicous and false theory that dearth makes pros
perity, but that plenty makes poverty and want,
shall find ourselves again reduced to the faminne
conditions which ravaged us in 1892"
At this point, Comrade Fish paused to fan dish
of tea and proceed to the subject of American
morals
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PROBE ASSAULT CASE
Victims Taken to City Hospital for
Treatment.

Complaint Of George Scanlon, 33,
Harbour hotel, that he was assaulted
by an unknown man as he walked
past an alley, today was being in
vestigated by police. Sixteen stitches
were taken in his neck and cheek at
city hospital. where he was taken by
Edward Steiner. 80, Of 511 North
Illinois street, also injured. Both
we're ordered held on vagrancy
charges.
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BY GEORGE ABEL
Times Special Writer

XXTASHINGTON, Jan. 2O.-Bill
w Bullitt, American ambaSsa-
dor to Soviet Russia, was sitting
quietly at home porting over plans
for his embassy in Moscow when
the bell rang.
A servant brought in magnifi-
cent basket of lavender orchids
and pink and white carnations,
tied with several yards of gold
ribbon.
Bullitt tore open the accompa-
nying card which inclosed the
message.
"Best wishes for your success"
He glanced at the signature,
scratched his head, shifted at the
flowers, puzzled.
who are they FROM" inquired
a visitor.
Il don't know" admitted Bullitt.
"I never heard of this person be-
fore
But I'm very appreciative," he
added.
Plans for the Moscow embassy
are temporarily relegated to the
background, while Bill Bullitt
muses. and ponders about the mys-
FERROUS gift of orchids and carna-
tionS.
TINE smile of Minister Michael
l. MacWhite of the Irish Free
State is growing broader each
day.
Reason: The Irish Free State is
completing plans to transfer the
bulk of its trade with Great Brit
ain to the United States.
This action is being taken part
ly out of gratitude for the gen.
erous whisky market this gov
eminent gave the Irish Free State
and partly because the Irish hope
for concessions on their goods.
An industrial trade totaling $22,-
100000 and most of the Irish coal
trade is being transferred across
the Atlantic.
Minister Michael next week well
comes to Washington John Ley
don, secretary of the department
of industrial commerce Of the
Irish Free State, who comes here
to talk turkey.
CUBA'S deposed provisional
~ president, Carlos Hevia, was
in washington last month study
ing sugar problems and calling on
old navy classmates. Incidentally,
he's the only Cuban to be gradu-
ated from the Annapolis Naval
academy.
In appearance, Carlos is short,
swarthy- complexioned, with coal
black hair, dark eyes and a tooth
brush mustache. Unlike many
Cubans, he is a careless dresser.
His trousers bag at the knees and
his business suits are not Of the
smartest cuts.
His smile flashes alert and
quick, as he talks rapidly in per-
feet English. At the Lafayette
hotel where he stopped his hos
pitality became proverbial.
"Have drink" was frequently
his opening remark.
And usually more than one
drink was consumed before the
caller departed.
n =
A LWAYS accompanying Carlos
IA is his fascinating, blond wife,
a capable and clever woman who
speaks English with slight and
becoming Spanish accent.
When Hevia Che pronounces 1t
like Heavier" without the "H')
spoke to American friends here he
minced no words but discussed the
political situation with apparent
frankness.
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-
His accompanies will be Miss
Rose Bein Lerner, well known in
Louisville music circles.
Among local entertainers TAX
ing part on the program will be
Libby Maurer, Louis Kaseff, Leila
Lepsky, Seymon Brodsky, Sid
Haase, Irving Arnold, Roy Kles-
mer, Joe Bernstein and others.
One of the features will be
Henry A. Arnold and his Russian
mandolin orchestra, singers and
dancers.
Dave Haase is general chairman
of the show. Sam Herwitz directed
and Henry A. Arnold and Dave
Klapper assisted. Mrs. jeanette
Herwitz is pianist for the show.
The proceeds from the show
will be given to the Jewish Or
CARNATIONS, including Beth Ell
Zedeck Temples, the Talmud
Torah, the Jewish Old Home, the
Jewish National Fund, GimileS
Chesed society and Kirshbaum
Center.
The entertainment committee
of the HooSier Athletic Club an
nounces that a ''Darktown Strut
tiers Ball" will be held tonight at
10 o'clock. Shorty Phillips and
his boys will furnish the music.
Dancing will be held nightly next
week in the Green Hat, except
Monday.
r EN- BOYD of Paramount's
l. publicity staff in New York
has sent me the following data of
local interest:
Russell Powell, actor-singer, who
once established a record at the
San Francisco opera house by
appearing in 800 consecutive per-
formances of THE Chocolate
Soldier" is well on his way to
piling up a similar record in
Hollywood films.
His assignment yesterday to the
cast of Paramount'S THE Man
Who Broke His Heart" marks his
twenty-Seventh film role within a
year. And that is a large record,
any screen actor will admit.
Son of the late General George
Powell, prominent Indiana politi-
cal figure, Russell Powell began
his stage career thirty years ago
in the city of his birth-Indian-
apolis Ind.
In Seattle, Washington, he was
established in stock companies for
several years, starring in one for
a period Of forty-seven weeks.
His greatest success, however, was
in Victor Herbert's 'Madcap
Duchess" produced on Broadway.
New York.
In The Man Who Broke His
Heart" Powell enacts the colorful
role of Greasy along with such
players as Victor McLaglen, Doro-
thy Dell, Preston Foster, Mischa
Auer and Alison Skipworth.
=
MO word has been received
~ from Arthur Oberfelder by
Vincent Burke. manager of Eng
hsh's, regarding the reopening Of
the Oberfelder circuit in this city,
Cincinnati. Louisville, st. Louis
and Kansas City.
Oberfelder suspended operation
of his circuit after presenting
eleven shows, most of them are
now or have been on Broadway
this season.
The plays did not have the at
tendance that they deserved.
Other cities seem to have acted
the same way.
When he closed his circuit, Mr..
Oberfelder stated that he hoped
m raorarn in fna F7oor ff1fa1rn
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aroused over the radicalism of
the American form of govern
ment, but he also is concerned
over the immortality of the
Americans in both their COM
mercial and private life. He
fCresees, with co sidera Bile
alarm, a time when, with free
intercourse between the two ma
tons, the Russian people will be
polluted and dragged down to
the level of the people of the
United States.
This is the time" Comrade
Fish said, ITO defend the Rus
sian ideal and the sacred heri-
tage, which all true Russians
hold dear, against the deadly
poison of that which the Ameri-
copS coll Thair. civilization OlIrc
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is a state in which the citizen works for the state.
In theirs the state undertakes to support the citizen
This dangerous, radical theory is inimica to Rus
sian institutions, and call upon our citizens to re-
port to the nearest policeman any American agent
who undertakes to spread American theories of
government and conduct and to inculcate in us the
loathscme American concept of morals.
The founding fathers of the Soviet Union will
have suffered and died in vain if betray the
sacred trust reposed in us by compromising with
the vicious ideas of America.
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new ELECTION IN
LOUISIANA PROBABLE
House Committee to Refuse
Candidates, Is Report.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20-House
Majority Leader Joseph w. Byrns
said today he had been Informed"
that the elections committee con-
sidering the Kemp-SRnders cleo
ton contest in Louisiana would
recommend seating of neither con-
testant and calling of a new cleo
ton.
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ROUNDING ROUND
TuE ATEDC WITH WALTER
i liza i ENO D. HICKMAN

TOMORROW night auditorium of on
North Meridian street. the Pals Club will
Shows"
visiting artist will Perlmutter
sicald director for in LOUSY XIV
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DEMOCRATIC WASTE
CHARGED BY MARTIN

AOA1ACI VuU66 IS DpCdhCI btIOTt
G. o. p. Veterans.
Waste of public funds by Demo
cratic state and county administra-
tons was charged by Clarence r.
Martin, Republican, former supreme
court justice, at a meeting of the
Marion county chapter, Republican
Veterans of Indiana, last night.
An appeal for harmony in Repub-
lican ranks was made by Raymond
S. Springer, Connersville, 1882
G. O. ?. candidate for Governor.
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II Seems TO Me
By
Haywood Broun
JAN. 20. 1891

EAlAIA GOLDMAN is coming home. The state
Il department, has agreed to admit the old
anarchist for three-rnonths visit the condition
thet she shall not engage in any political activity
This provision seems a little unnecessary, Tor
Emma Is So ana the cause which she espoused Is at
the moment dead beyond the hope Of resurrection.
Miss Goldman seems TO a very gallant figure but
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BY NORMAN E. ISAACs
Times News Editor

CLId the wondering
- when the city assignment
one the
first day at in the Office of Indianapolis
little disappointed glowing
adventure excitement that she
Finally city editor did degn notice her.
head specifically
he called "trot down to
and see if dig a few features"
Miss smiled sweetly and "roted"
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An Impatient ReUoIutiOniSt


DUT, as have said Emma was an anarchist not
D an evolutionist While there a soul IN jail
she was not free. An army was an army, though 1t
was now red instead of cossack gray. She never
one for sIoughing She wanted to go after the
economic order of the world much as Carrie Nation
attacked a saloon. You took ak and chopped the
world into the proper shape That was your revolu-
ton You didn't wait for things to drop of their
own weight You knocked them down.
And so Emma Goldman and the Communists
didn't hit it off She is an old woman without
country a party or a following Capitalism is wrong,
and so is Communism. The same goes for the RooSe-
Welt reimbursement and for the faSciSm OF Hitler or
Mussolni There is no regime to which Emma Gold
man can give approval. But she has her dream and
her integrity.
Radicalism in this country used to be far more
violent than it is today. And in addition to being
far more fierce I think it had, perhaps, greater
measure Of dignity. II Emma Goldman happened to
pick I'D the Daily Worker Of yesterday and CHANGED
TO see a dandy little essay on the second page en-
titled IN Defense of Ping Pong" it may have helped
10 console her a little for the fact that she didn't
compromise.
Copyright. 1884. The T1mes)
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4 Giant Turns OUer

THEN up rose Russia and destroyed private
Il capitalism. Emma Goldman applauded this
vast earthquake but she made the mistake Of visit
the land Of the SovietS She should have known
better Russian radical leaders did make rather
considerable compromises mere and there, but in
the main they were faithful to their program. The
only trouble was that their fundamental detectives
were not those of Emma.
When Emma Goldman spoke of revolution she
meant the changing of human organization utterly.
She meant the complete swing around the circle.
OF course. she found RECOMMENDATION in Russia She
found a highly centralized government which eX-
erted great pressure upon the individual His home
his job and even his life were at the disposal OF
the ruling class.
But don't you see suppose they told her,
that this is a different class which is doing the
reeimenting and exerting the pressure? The work
ers are in command. This is the dictatorship of the
proletariat We are in transitional stage. Before
we can abate restrictions and be done with courts
and jails and any sort of cOmpulsion must first
root out the OLD order and the old psychology
Restriction can cease only when the whole world
has become proletarian Then these things to which
YOU object will slough of"
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NAZI ACTIVITIES FLAYED
House Committee Scores Hitler for
Propaganda in q. S.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-Bitter
resentment against Nazi activities
in the United States was expressed
today in the majority report to the
house of the immigration subcom-
mittee.
The subcommittee charged the
Hitler regime in Germany was max
ing every effort to popularize its
program throughout America.
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EXCLAMATION CONTEST
DATES ARE ANNOUNCED
Church Federation Sponsoring the
Prince of Peace Tourney.

IAIACC u CaCC AUuIUCys
Regional contests in the Prince
Of Peace defamation contest of
the Church Federation of Indian
apolis will be held on or immediate
ly following Feb. IL. Congrega-
tional contests may be held at any
time prior to Feb. IL. The Rev.
Herbert F. Weckmueller is chair
man Of the committee of arrange
ments in charge of the congrega-
tional and regional contests.
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way Of antediluvian mammals. II
and have become extinct.
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We're a Bunch of Winners

WE are dealing" he said, with a lawless coun-
w try. over-run by brigands and abductors who
prowl the land in defiance of the police firing
chine-guns, bombing, abducting and robbing. It is
a land, my friends in which the artistic ideal is ex-
pressed by with the smile of a chipmunk
and the whining voice of a lovesick sophomore
whose sniveling about love captivates millions night
after night for years and who is regarded, ON the
basis of recognition and reward, as the greatest
artist that the United States of America has ever
produced
"It is land my comrades, in which, as you would
find if you could but interpret its songs, the whine
is the native cry of the people They whine that
nobody loves them they whine that they are all
alone by the telephone, they whine and sniffe and
moan that some lady forgot to remember or that
they otherwise have been unfortunate in affairs Of
the heart which to people would be regarded
as matters of the most intimate privacy and,
over of minor consequence.
And do you realize, oh, my comrades, that if we
do not repel this American civilization, may
day find ourselves compelled to live together,
and wife, by the requirements Of law, in state of
immortality most shocking to the Russian character,
unless wish to stoop to the degradation of per-
jury? Man, do you want your sister compelled to
live with against her will?"
Comrade Fish popularity is regarded as a bit Of
an alarmist, but many Russians believe there is
much in what he says.
Copyright. 1894, by United Feature
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Burgan Who Didn't Knozc the Way to Police Court

is articles indianapolis
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March. 1925. Van Meter sub

ty in March, 1925, Van Meter sub
sequcntly was released on parole.
Until his encounter with federal
agents in a st. Paul fiat from
which Dillinger and Evelyn Fre-
Ghetto escaped and in which Van
Meter shot it out with R. G.
Coulter, a federal agent, the
"hngerman" never had been wanted
for anything except technical viola
ton of parole.
Although he was believed to be
one of the men who robbed a bank
at Sioux Falls, S. D., on March
of $4,000, it had not been proved
definitely at the time of his death.
Police and federal agents never
theless regarded him as more of a
menace than some Of the sub
machine gun-toting members of the
gang because they knew that many
of the diabolical schemes executed
by Dillinger were Matched in the
cunning mind of the "fingerman."
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VAN meter DIES,
BRINGING END TO
SORDID CAREER
Finger Man of DilIinger Mob
Knew He Was Living on
Borrowed Time.

Continued from Page Onel
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MONEY OPERATORS
PUZZLED BY MOVES
Currency War Is Hinted in
Markets.

Operators in world currency mar
kets were spprehensive and puzzled
today by under-cover movements in
terms of francs.
Assurances by Treasury Secretary
Henry Morgenthau that no currency
war was contemplated apparently
eaSed the tension.
The British equalization fund,
after being imperative for two
days, interviewed to support the
pound with the purchase of sterling
and the decline in the pound value
was appreciably checked.
The dollar was fractionally stronger
in Paris, standing throughout the
trading day at 1874 1894 cents a
france.
The British gold price was raised
712 pence in terms of pounds, to
1879 shillings 3 pence-approaching
it's record high of 40 shillings of
last February. At this price. how
ever. with the pound at $5.0714 the
price per ounce was only IL cents
above yesterdays figure.
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ROOSEVELT AND
JOHNSON BEGIN
NRA DISCUSSION
President, Blue Eagle Head
Confer on Future
Course.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24-Presi-
dent Roosevelt discussed with Cen
eral Hugh S. johnson today reor-
ganization of the recovery admins
tration in the first of series of
conferences designed 70 end an
inter-a administration dispute over
the future NRA Setup.
General johnson went to the
hite House shortly after arriving By
sirplane from Bethany Beach, Del.
where he had been vacationing.
General Johnson refused to dis
cuss the controversy which has
arisen between himself, Labor Sec
rotary Frances Perkins and Donald
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ground and let the other mobsters
do the actual bank roobing and
take the lions share Of the loot.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Ricnlberg over reorganization Of the
recovery agency.
Il won't talk until we're through,
General johnson said as ne left his
NRA office. Similarly, at the White
House he strobe past newspapermen
without comment.
Before the day was over, the
President was expected to reach a
decision as to the future course to
be charted for the NRA, although it
was possible conferences might be
continued tomorrow.
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glary case. The policeman told his
story. went to his home with Van
Meter and returned with an arm
load Of photographs.
Bursting with pride he showed
the gangster around the police sta
ton, pointing proudly to the new
arsenal containing a fine supply OF
sub-machine guns, bullet-proof vests
and tear-gas bombs.
Arsenal Is Robbed
Van Meter thanked the policeman
and left, promising to send him
copy of the story" when it was
published.
The next night Dillinger and Pier
pont. armed to the teeth, walked
into the Peru police station at mid
night. Unceremoniously they routed
the few policemen, still on duty.
They demanded the guns.
When a trembling cop attempted
to hold out some of the weapons,
Pierpont consulted a small memo
randum in his hand. The memo
randum. showing the exact number
of guns in the arsenal, had been
given him by Van Meter.
Don't try to hold out on us" he
warned. You have eleven sub
machine guns in there and we want
EN- all"
Van Meter accompanied Dillinger
to the Warsaw police station and
helped to loot the arsenal there
shortly after Dillinger's escape from
Crown Point jail.
Plotted PierpOnt Rescue
Always he was ahead of the gang
ster chief and his mob spotting
banks to be robbed, helping gun
molls to rent apartments and plan
ming hideouts and getaways for the
gang.
Van Meter it was, according to
state police, who conceived the pre-
posterouS plot to free Harry Pier
pont. Charles Makley and Russell
Clark from the Lima 90 Jail by
Disgusting Dillinger gangsters as ma
tional guardSmen and boldly at
tempting to storm the closely
guarded courthouse where the mob
sters were on trial for the murder
of Sheriff Jess Sarber.
Dillinger discarded the plot as too
fantastic.
Sentenced to Michigan City pris-
on for train robbery in Lake coun-