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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-13
MY BOOKS.
BY EFFIE L. WORKMAN

BY EFFIE L. WORKMAN
They quietly stand
Side by side, in a row,
Dressed in various colored gowns:
Red and blue, yellow and green,
Here and there, dignified brown.
They never speak
Unless I ask
And then-what tales they tell.
You would never believe that the
yellow one
Could weave a mystery spell.
If my mood is low,
One dressed in red
Seems to slip into my hands
And before I know it, my spirit Is
free,
Soaring high over distant lands.
The brown can relate
A story of love,
ThaA brings hot tears to your eyes.
They are all such understanding
friends.
In silence. their wisdom lies.
Dressed in gay array,
They patiently wait -.
Side by side upon the shelf,
These books of mine, to which !
turn
When 7 grow weary Of 'nyself.p
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-13
sOholly disopprove of 10h0t yo~ sag and will
defend to the death yoar right to sag it-VoEtaire.
Urges Justice for Reformers

What have I done to make
goodness attractive? Reformers,
let's make this solution personal.
The problem of missing the
mark" is still with us, regardless
OF whether we call it sin or ami
malism. History assures us that
man has tried evil and as a source
of happiness it has failed. I have
tried it, and I know that it fails.
All of us have thorns in the
flesh. In the spot where am
weak, you may be exceedingly
strong. Is there a wiser or more
beautiful way than for the lovers
of goodness to welcome the help
of each other?
People are willing to do right if
they can but be conviced that
goodness pays. Here is the work
of the missionary lovers of good
ness and truth.
Remembering the fraility of
man and the infancy of our civil1-
cation, may we strive to be just in
our criticism of our numerous re-
formers. In the light of the Mas
ter's holy presence, who is not
more or less hypocrite?
What is finer and more worth
while than the unstained life?
Why weaken the human powers
that make for the spotless life?
Today, for very obvious reasons.
the most intelligent liberals are
emphasizing the worth and beauty
of the old reformer's granite-like
qualities of character.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-13
ANOTHER FOE
OF NUDISM

BY Times Reader.
To Merely Intelligent:
"And, behold, God made for Adam
and his wife coats of skins and
clothed them" Genesis 1921.
God is all intelligent, not merely
so, and if He saw fit to clothe man,
even if man was created in His i'm
age, don't you think He and all wise
purpose in it and knew what He
was doing?
1t profits us to follow God in His
acts rather than follow our own
ways, which lead to sin, or do you
cast God and His way behind your
Man after his fall in the Garden
of Eden, God clothed, and we'd bet
ter stay clothed.
The eighteenth chapter of Levitt
icus deals with uncovering naked
ness and God declared it was wick
edness and all wickedness will be
punished as Gods word will stand
forever, and we'd better take heed
to it.
Jesus, with the purest of minds
and who knew no sin, wore clothing
while here on earth and was seen,
still wearing garment, after He
arose from the dead. Read Revela-
tions 1:13. He is the pattern for
us all and following Him we can't go
wrong.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-13
HE'S SKINNY AND
| OPPOSES NUDISM
BY Anglo Saxon

BY AngIo-saxon
After reading the letter of Merely
Intelligent" in The Message Center
of June 9, wish to say the letter
should have been signed Merely
Dumb"
Those who wish to run around in
the nude should do so in the privacy
of their homes or the old family
bath tub.
Plenty of fun for them with no
harm to public morals.
I don't want to run around in the
raw myself for am too skinny and
am very certain that 1 don't be-
heve in any of my female relatives
appearing la mother Eve.
Those who believe in nudisrn
should buy one-way ticket to the
Sandwich islands.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-13

amongst all this welter of memorials, there
isn't a single one to Thomas Jefferson.
BoyIan wants the federal government to
spend 100000 for a pedestal on which some
nrivate association may later want to build
memorial to the sage of Monticello.
Now you might think 100000 is small
change these days, the way the government is
tossing billions about. And yet you might
paraphrase Poor Richard, and say that if you
watch the hundred thousands of dollars the
billions will take care of themselves. There
are lots of things we need more today than
100000 pedestals.
The best memorial we could build for JEFF
ferson today would be for few million OF us
to devote just one-tenth the thought, work
and zeal to democracy that Jefferson gave to
it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-13
BIG-AND MOVING FAST
tFrom the Memphis Press-scimitarl


DIG objects generally move slowly
= This is not true, however, of Tennessee
Valley Authority, one of the biggest things in
the nation today
In its first year it has saved the electric
light consumers of Tennessee, Mississippi, Ala
bama and Georgia $4,000 0O-but a mere drop
in the bucket to what the saving will be when
iva gets well under way.
Consumers of electricity in Tupelo, which
has iva power, are being served at rates so
per cent lower than those they formerly paid
IVA has entered into contract with eleven
other municipalities that soon will be reaping
benefits given to the Tupelo consumers.
These eleven cities are: Knoxville and Pu-
laski, Tenn; Armory and Corinth, Miss;
Muscle Shoals, Florence, Sheffield, Athens,
Tuscumbia, Decatur and Russelville, Ala.
Nine north Mississippi counties will get
IVA power Saturday.
More than 200 municipalities have applied
for IVA and others are making surveys to
see what it will cost to distribute this cheap
power to its citizens
Memphis Is one of the many cities that
has participated in the 100000 saving-a
saving IN lowered rates caused by the shadow
of IVA
Memphis has completed plans for a survey
preparatory to bringing IVA to Memphis.
IVA in single year has demonstrated that
it is one of the biggest forces set in motion
in this country for many years.
And IVA has Just begun.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-13
OIL UNION CONTRACT

CIGNING of an agreement between Harry
~ F. Sinclair's big oil companies and the
new A. F. of l.. industrial union known as the
Oil Field, Gas Well and Refinery Workers, is
a step toward labor peace.
Here, for the first time, major oil concern
premises to deal with its workers union in
contractual relation as an equal Aside from
the coal miners contracts this one is among
the first to carry out the spirit of NFA's Sec
ton 7-B, encouraging mutual agreements on
a nationwide scale. Unlike them it does not,
however, provide for the closed shop.
The improved wage and working condi-
lions provided for in the agreement are i'm
portant, but not so important as the peace
machinery it sets up.
There are, doubtless, troubles ahead for
the new union. 1t has grown in one year
from 5000 to an estimated 10000 membership.
There may be jurisdictional and other dis
putes. But the agreement is in the direction
of orderly labor relations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-13

and frequently compelled to indulge
in Whoopee parties all to prove to
the innocent world that all would be
well if it were not for the Com
muniSts.
men so abysmally ignorant of
American psychology can never con-
vert many Americans" the editorial
stated.
They also are ignorant enough to
believe the people of this country
are not poor because the country is
poor, or that it does not take twelve
years to determine the result of an
experiment; that the hundreds of
millions of dollars appropriated for
so-called relief projects are being
consumed in the form of nice
salaries for the chosen few.
That has a strong odor of politics
and the discarded factory workers
are not getting it.
They believe the housing PROPOSE
ton alone would keep everybody
busy for a generation if all were as
comfortably housed as editors; and
if editors were sincere, officials could
not be corrupt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-13
PROBATION'S GAINS

d EDUCTION of inmates in Indiana penal
~ institutions and reduction of the cost of
penal affairs administration are forecast under
the new state probation departments functions
by no less an authority than Charles L. Chute
New York executive director of the National
Probation Association.
If those forecasts prove true, no greater
advancement ever has been made in Indiana
penal activities.
Probation found one of its earliest followers
in James A. Collins, former judge of the Mar
ion county criminal court. Mr.. Collins, in his
many years on the bench, was convinced that
probation served chiefly to preserve the citi-
zenry from the stigma of prison life and also
savedsthe state money.
Naturally with the reduction of inmates,
the cost of prison and reformatory adrninistra-
ton will drop There can be no other answer
But far more important than that is the
possibility that many young men and women
who might spend years in prison for first
and minor offense. may have the opportunity
to make something of themselves.
The community suffers when first Of
fender is given long term for minor crime
and finds that his mind is occupied more seri-
ously with continuing to thumb his nose at
the law than in attempting to become de-
cent, law-abiding citizen.
Former Judge Collins found some cases
which turned out badly. The majority, how
ever, were successful, he discovered.
Probation always has been great theory.
If, when it operates in Indiana, it will save
people and money, no greater reward can be
reaped from any social measure
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-13
TRAFFIC SYSTEM OF
CITY CONDEMNED
By Clarence K. Throg

By Clarence X. Throg
As one who, in the normal course
of business and social pursuits, finds
1t necessary to drive an automobile
on city streets, may I venture to in
quire whoe fiendish ingenuity is be-
hind the system of traffic signals
IN the city of indianapolis?
In most of the larger metropolitan
centers of the country, it has been
realized that the best safeguard
against jammd thoroughfares is a
steady flow of traffic.
Here it seems that the greatest
ambition of the city fathers is not
to expedite traffic, but insure its re-
naming forever begged in mire
OF motors on some street.
You come to a stop for red light
and after a lengthy pause it shifts
and you proceed to the next crossing
where the green light turns to red
before you have shifted into high
gear after your preceding stop. And
so it goes. Why not some type of
stagger system or co-ordinated
traffic light system?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-13
CAPITALISTIC PRESS
GIVEN LAMBASTING
By Jack Dolan

By Jack DOlan
AS a subscriber to your paper I
would like space to take issue with
an editorial of June 5 stating a
group of Communists booed lone
Civil war veteran in a. Memorial
day parade.
Whatever else we can accuse the
capitalist press of, we must hand
it to you for your consistency in in
constituencies. We might accept this
as fact if we had not seen the press
forced to back up on million lies
it told about Communist Russia and
compelled to admit today it is the
best governed country of all time.
The millions of starving humanity
must get great kick out of reading
the articles of your faithful army of
high powered columnistS who are
assigned to the task of mingling
with aristocracy, forced to travel,
attend socialS and feasts of all
kinds, sports of every description.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-13
BANKERS LOT NOT
BED OF ROSES
BY Charles NJ. Bell

BY Charles NJ. Bell
Many of us often wish we were
bankers sc we could have opportuni-
ties to be 'in" on good things. But
I am not sure that the bankers po-
sition is so enyiable.
For every good thing" that
crosses his desk, probably eleven
lemons" pass over too. ANY one
who has the sagacity to analyze
twelve propositions and put his fin
ger on the one good one is entitled
to some reward. The man who
thinks this is easy has never in
vested much money.
The most difficult job in this world
is to invest money safely and pro-
ductively in enterprises in which
one is not an active executive off,
GER.
1 grant the banker his right to a
mahogany desk, thick carpet and
a hard crust. He needs them. If
his crust wasn't hard he wouldn't
have either the desk or the carpet
very long.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-13
SUGGESTS FENCES
AROUND GARDENS
By J. L.

By J. l..
Why don't owners of gardens put
fences around their prize vegetables
and stop squawking about dogs run
ming through them?
It is evident that G.. R. R. is no
great fancier of canine, who oc-
cupy the position of mans best
friend" Perhaps if the bearer of
these initials would stop worrying
about his or her garden long enough
to enjoy the love and faithfulness
of a dog, he or she might have a
different idea.
I advocate following the advice
of a subscriber, namely to put a
pan of water in the back yard and
thus eliminate the mad dog and
the dog catcher.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-13
MORE DISCUSSION OF
DOGS AND WATER
BY A Subscriber

By A Subscriber
I shall try to make myself more
clearly understood in what I believe
to be a blessing to humanity, and to
dumb beasts as well.
Another writer in The Message
Center said that he has known a
dog with rabies to swim river. The
dog may never have suffered from
lack of water.
1t is the thirst crazed dog that
goes into commissions at the sight of
water. A tongue dried to the ends of
its roots has good reason to be para
lyzed and a parched throat no doubt
has difficulty in swallowing.
Autopsy may prove dog to be
mad the day after it has been bit
ten or scratched by some rabid ami
NAL, yet, not until the ninth day
will there be any outward sign of
rabies.
am heartily in favor of vaccina-
ton and every other precaution
against rabies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-13
The Message Center

crimes readers are fnU1ted to cypress
their Viet0s in these columns. Make your
letters short. so all cGss haze chance.
Limit them to $50 4oords or Iess.J
EXPLANATION GIVEN
FOR RELIEF CENTER
BY ]. E. R.
Do you know that in the city of
Indianapolis is a home for so-called
homeless men" that is run by the
government and state combined,
where those aids are working on
the average of about 700 men a day
for the sum of so cents a week?
Does this come under Roosevelt's
recovery plan?
These men are stationed at A2
East Wabash street and 300 East
Ohio street. This is taking work
from 700 men in indianapolis who
could be working on these jobs.
Civil works administration men
were laid off and these men are
taking their places for the sum of
so cents week. That is worse than
the old slave days.
It is about time that the people
of this city know about it. I never
have seen a Write-up about it yet
in any paper. Do you, or the pub
lie, think that this is fair to- the
working men Of this city, or is it
even fair to the men at these homes
who do this work for the small sum
that they receive? I would like to
see some comment on this in your
paper in the near future.
Editors NOte-The home re-
ferred to is operated by the tran
sient bureau. These men, tram
sients, are given food and lodg-
ings with so cents a week for
spending money, and are given
light work to keep them occu-
pied, state officials said. They
explained that the work done by
the transients is work for which
no appropriation has been or
would be made, and that the inn
provements otherwise would not
be made.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-13
HONORING JEFFERSON

VX7AsHINGTON is full of statues and
monuments. some animate. some in
animate.
Nov Representative John ]. Boylan is
pretty excited about something that every
Washinsf0nian has known for .years-that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-13

The astronomer who discovered the planet
Pluto has taken bride. No sooner does a
man start star gazing than he finds woman
beside him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-13

Funny how the same people who object to
brain trusts in Washington would yell if there
were lack of any in their own businesses.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-13

Finland has paid in full again, on its debt
to the United States. But it has hopes of be-
coming first-class nation too, some day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-13
The Indianapolis Times

eeAtPPg. R0~ AAD
Gve Light and the
People WiLI Find
Their 0tOn WGy
Evening star., 1934-12-14
ROOSEVELT HOLDS
FAMILY TOGETHER.
Demonstrates Hold on OFF,
ciaIs by Return of John
son to Fold.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
With the return Of Hugh S. john
son to the administrations official
family, President Roosevelt again has
demonstrated his ability to keep in
his service men who have resigned
from their jobs because of internal
friction.
Only a short time ago, Gen. John
son quit as the head Of N. r. A.
after a controversy with Donald Rich
berg and Secretary Perkins over the
organizations policies.
Now he has joined with Bernard
Baruch and a special Roosevelt COM
mittee to study means of taking the
profit out of war.
Other examples of President Roose-
velt's knack Of holding his trusted ad-
visers in the service we're furnished
in the cases of George Peek, who left
the Agricultural Adjustment Admin
istration after disagreements with
Secretary Wallace and Rexford G.
Tugwell, but was prevailed upon to
become a special adviser on foreign
trade, and Raymond Moley, who re-
signed as Undersecretary of State
after differences with Secretary Hull,
but remains unofhcially close ad-
wiser to the Chief Executive.
In the financial departments, 1t Is
noted, those who break ranks usually
stay out. Three examples are Prof
c. M. w. Sprague, former special
adviser to the Treasury; Dean Ache
son, former Undersecretary Of the
Treasury, and Lewis Douglas, erst-
while budget director.
Evening star., 1934-12-14

STAN and his family had been cap
tured by bandits who demanded TO-
900 silver dollars ransom.
STAN asked Gibbs to pursue any
course he deemed advisable. He wrote
that TSingteh had been attacked sud-
denly, giving no time to evacuate. He
said the mission was completely looted
and everything of value carried of.
Word of the killing of Mr. and
Mrs. John c. STAN brought prompt
assertion from the United States
State Department in Washington that
every effort would be eXerted to bring
about the capture and execution of
the guilty bandits.
William Phillips, Undersecretary of
State, declined to say whether an
indemnity would be sought. He
pointed out that the Chinese govern
ment acted promptly after the recent
murder of DR.. James H. Ingram,
an American missionary slain near
Peiping.
STAN, whose parents live in Pater-
son, N j., met his wife, the former
Betty Scott of Holyoke, Mass, while
she was student at the Moody
Bible Institute in Chicago. They
we're married in Shanghai in Octo-
ber, 1888.
Mrs. STAN, 81 years old, was the
daughter of Dr. c. E. Scott and Mrs
Scott. DR.. Scott is missionary repre-
sentative of the Second Congrega-
tional Church at Holyoke and. with
his wife, is now stationed in China.
Evening star., 1934-12-14
HUSBAND IS HELD
AS TRUNK SLAYER
st. Louis Police Claim Cali.
fornian Has Confessed
Cutting Up Body.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, December 14.-Calm
and apparently without remorse. John
H. Happel, SO, was held here today for
word from Los Angeles, where he is
wanted for the trunk murder" of his
wife, Mrs. Rosabella Marie Happel.
Happel. arrested on a passenger bus
as it neared here late yesterday, was
reported by police tc have said he
was en- route to Los Angeles and sur
render on the charge. Chief of Police
John j. Mccarthy said the prisoner
admitted the murder and told how he
beat his wife to death because Of her
persistent nagging. "She was in the
bed room pulling on her stockings" T"
the officer quoted him. Il hit her in
the head with lead pipe"
The police chief said Happel then
told how he had dismembered the
body with a meat saw and placed the
remains in an old trunk. The trunk
was found in a shed back OF the
Happel home December 3.
Evening star., 1934-12-14
BERMUDA WOMEN LOSE
SUFFRAGE TAX FIGHT
Dues Paid in Face of Jail After
Hearing on Taxation With
out Representation"
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HAMILTON, Bermuda, December
14.-Two society suffragettes have lost
the first round of their fight against
taxation without representation"
Mrs w. E Tucker and her sister.
Mrs. Henry LockWard, refused TO pay
parish dues because. as women, they
did not have the right to vote.
Yesterday morning they were ar
raigned in Magistrates Court. Still
refusing to settle the tax bill, they
were given until noon to make pay
ment or be sentenced to one months
imprisonment for contempt of court.
At the last moment the Bishop Of
Bermuda, Right Rev. A. H. Browne,
came forward to pay Mrs. fuckers in
debtedness and DR.. w. E. Tucker paid
up for Mrs. Lockward.
Evening star., 1934-12-14
"WORTH FOUR BILLION"
DISPLAY FOOLS THIEF
Stolen Stamps Valued at $3.50
Were Copies of Collection
Most Costly in World.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, December IA thief
walked out of Horticultural Hall late
yesterday with a collection of stamps,
on display at the hobby show, which
was labelled, in large letters worth
four billion dollars" but the theft
caused no undue alarm.
In small letters, had the thief
taken time to read more carefully, was
the explanation that "the originals Of
this collection" were worth four billion
dollars. What he got were reproduc-
tions of the most valuable stamps in
the wordsworth $3.50.
Evening star., 1934-12-14
BIG MAN" SOUGHT
IN TULSA SLAy|NGS'
MYSTERIOUS Person in Black
Said to Have Been Seen
Leaving Born'S Car.
BY the Associated Press.

by Lne ASSOCidJcu FEcSS.
TULSA, Okla, December l4.-Of1-
GERS sifted rumors and hunted
big man" today, hoping to find new
clues in the mysterious killing OF
two prominent Tulsa youths.
After exhausting the possibilities
contained in long series Of tips,
rumors and reported threats which
followed the tragic deaths Of John
F. Gorrell, jr., and Sidney Born,
jr., Sheriff Charles Price today pressed
the search for big man in black
overcoat."
A man of that description was re-
portedly seen leaving Borns car
shortly before he was found fatally
wounded.
Hearing to Be Monday.
Meanwhile prosecution and defense
attorneys marshalled forces for the
first legal skirmish Monday-the pre-
liminary hearing OF Philip Kennamar,
19-year-old son of a Federal judge,
charged with the murder of Gorrell.
Gorrell, 23-year-old dental student.
was shot to death Thanksgiving night,
In rapid succession Kennamer sur
rendered and allegedly admitted the
Staying; witnesses told of threats;
prominent families sent their chill
dren into hiding, and then last SUM-
day, Born, l9-year-old son of a COL
lege professor. was found fatally shot
under circumstances similar in many
respects to the Gorrell shooting.
Extortion Plot Told.
Police said he committed suicide.
Sheriff Price and Born's father said
he was slain. Kennamer expressed
belief he was killed "for what he
knew" and told Of an extortion plot
against the family of Homer F. Will
cox. sr, wealthy oil man which, he
said, was engineered by Gorren with
him involved merely as friend de-
termined to protect the Wilcoxes by
pretending friendship with the con-
spirators.
Little sensation was expected to
come from the preliminary trial. It
was assumed that the Office of County
Attorney Holly Anderson will present
Kennamers alleged statement that
he killed Gorrel because I had to
do it." Kennamer pleaded not guilty
when arraigned.