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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-01
Some Forgotten HutS

DUT in the long history of Bethlehem Steel
- assume that it is entirely possible that there
have been other shacks where Charles M Schwab
neevr got around to pay visit. During the des
perate days of the depression I venture to assert
that thousands of iobless employees never
much as leaf of the Loretto lettuce.
Does this mean that Mr.. Schwab in his
person is some sort of exceptionally tight-fsted
villain? In my opinion it means nothing of the
sort. He is from all the accounts 1 ever heard,
kindly genial and reasonable. The hitch is sys-
tematic and not individual. The American tradi-
ton that we muddle through hard times by
dint of private charity individual benevolence and
voluntary giving has broken down completely. And
of course it deserved to break down.
When man asks for bread and receives stone
he has a right to be indignant but 1 hold that he
should not be satisfied when he asks for bread and
gets bread 1t is quite true that in the life know
there do arise situations desperate that private
charity must be called upon in lieu of better
devices and more rapid ones. But in the long
charity does desperate things to the donors 1t makes
SNUG prigs who go about saying that they would
like to give but that they afraid of pauperzing
people.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-01
DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
= BIZ DreU Pearson and Robert S. Allen

XXTASHINGTON, May 1Sgns of continued business uptTn
w everywhere Department store sales Employment has
increased Factory production keeps upgrade.
figures
food for thought They brought the
One that the relief rolls for April reached 47Ooooo families
the support all-tme
higher peak.
grocery
other words dollar
larger though dropped The
while
producing than people buying.
avoid of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-01

great fellow" He believes strong
ly in the NRA and the AAA, and
stoutly defends these economic
reforms against the criticisms of
his former associates in big bust
ness.
Farley has the appearance and
manner Of a successful business
man. He is of medium height,
stout build, a genial but reserved
IriShman. He is always we'll
dressed, and wears rimless spec
tacles. Politically and personally,
he is wet.
A THOUGH an aggreSSiv
l. n committee worker, Farley
shows little zest for the minor
duties of a congressman. He was
He was one of the first, and has
been the most consistent advocate
OF amending the R. F. c. law to
provide for direct loans to private
industry. He started the ball rool-
ing on this proposition at the
first meeting of his committee this
session.
Nothing could have demon
strated more clearly Farley's anna
teur standing as a politician than
what he did in the case of the
poStmastership at FIT. Wayne-the
best job in his district. Although
he knew several days in advance
that it was to happen, he per-
mitted the Republican postmaster
to resign without first deciding
and announcing what Democrat
he would recommend for the po-
Sition.
For three nights after the Re-
publican resigned, Farley got no
sleep. He had to hold on to the
hot end of a long-distance tele-
phone wire, while the different
factions of the party in Fit. Wayne
poured threats and demands into
his ear. Twenty candidates for
the job were in the field before
Farley brought. an end to the
controversy by selecting Lew FL
bingham, Ft. Wayne publisher.
But it seems that political mis-
step was not fatal. He is enter
ing the primary without an OPP
ponent. And he is not in the
least worried about being able to
win over the Republican nominee
in the fall.
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Farley would enjoy being a con-
gresham if some one else would
take over his worries about pa
tronage and the mail of demand
ing constituents.
Farley is a sound-money man.
He takes little stock in infla-
tionary proposals. He was the
only member of the Indiana dele
cation to vote against the Dies
silver bill, and he and Repre-
sentatives Pettingill and Boehne
were three of the nine Democrats
of the house who voted against
departure from the gold standard.
= n 4
DUT there is one black mark
- in Farley's sound-money rec
ord. He voted for cash payment
of the veterans bonus.
His explanation:
"I promised in the campaign to
vote for the bonus. If we are to
have imitation, the bonus will be
the best way to initiate"
Farley also voted to override
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jim Farley is accustomed to
making his own decisions. And
because he came to congress is,
in his opinion, no reason why ne
should allow himself to- be kicked
around by every faction and
group that has an ak to gind.
When the people of a dis
trict gives a man franchise to
represent them in congress" says
Farley, the only way he can JUS
tify their confidence is by using
his own judgment. There are not
a handful of men in any district
who follow legislation close enough
to have the knowledge that will
Justify them in telling a con-
gresham how he should vote on
a particular phase of a particular
bill at particular roll CALL
HARLEY is nearing the end OF
l. the first term of his first
public Office, with the realization
that being a congressman is not
as dignified and pleasant expe-
rience as he had thought it
would be.
Farley is a business man, who
is finding it is not easy to apply
business methods to political en-
deavor. For twenty-odd years ne
was in the automobile business,
starting with the Studebaker Cor
poration at South Bend, and after
eighteen months joining the Au-
burn Automobile Company of
Auburn, Ind, to be promoted
from salesman to Sales manager to
president and finally to presi-
dent, from which position he re-
signed in 1926, two years after E.
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President Roosevelt's veto of the
independent Offices appropriations
bill, a vote which in his case can
be credited partially to political
eXpediency, and partially to re-
sentiment due to his feeling that
he had been misled as to the adj
ministration's attitude.
On one type of "chores" for
constituents, Farley proved will
ing and effective worker. After
the banking holiday, when the
government was allowing banks
to reopen under restrictions, Far
ley worked long hours at the
treasury department negotiating
with officials for the reopening of
banks in his district. During that
period, his knowledge Of the in
tricacies of banking proved
valuable assets.
Outside of the instances listed
above, Farley has supported the
administration program. He
thinks President Roosevelt is a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-01

Until the World war Japan was
one among several powers which
had staked out spheres of influ-
ence in China. At the Washing
ton conference the assumption
was adopted that China was
gradually to achieve unity, indie
pendence and strength by being
allowed to work out her own
problems without interference
from the great powers. China's
freedom from outside interference
was declared in the Nine Power
treaty.
On the basis Of this view of
China's future, naval limitation
was agreed to in the Pacific. In
substance the Washington treaty
was an arrangement by which no
one of the three powers could
take aggressive action against an
other. Japan achieved a defensive
superiority in Asiatic waters; the
United States a defensive superb
GRITTY in the eastern Pacific.
This limitation of ornaments
reflected a limitation of political
purposes, as all treaties dealing
with ornaments must if they are
to mean anything at all. For no
two nations can or will limit their
weapons until they have defined
their aims. The treaties dealing
with China did define the aims
Of the powers and made possible
the limitation of ornaments.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-01

Today, however, this probably is
the NRA's greatest failure. In
come taxes and corporation re-
ports all show some people are
making more. Grocery sales show
other people are eating less. The
gap between the rich and the
poor apparently increases.
The Detroit auto manufacture
ers, the Wierton Company, the
iron and steel moguls exact more
or less their own terms from the
NRA.
Jacob Mayed, an immigrant
tailor in Jersey City who pressed
suits for IS cents instead of the
Accent code price, gets thirty
days in Jail and 500 f1ne-later
RENTED by a friendly judge.
All of which leads to this:
When the history of NRA finally
is told, the crack down" bombast
of General Hugh JuggernauO
Johnson will make pitiful reading.
DROBABLY the most uncom-
i municative member of the
new deal cabinet, so far as the
press is concerned. is Secretary of
War Dern. His press conferences
during the last eight or ten
months could be counted on the
fingers of one hand.
1t isn't because there isn't plen-
ty of newS-On the contrary. The
silence is due to the recommended
tionS of towering Mrs. Dern,
who didn't care much for the way
the secretary was publiciZed dur
ing the early days. She advises:
The less you talk to newspaper
men the better. Then you won't
be saying things you're sorry for
afterwards"
A LICE ROOSEVELT LONG
L n WORTHS tongue may not
always be merciful, but it fur
nishes Washington with many
laughs.
Mrs. Hugh Wallace, widow of
the former U. S. ambassador to
France and daughter of a once
member of the supreme court,
lives near Alice. Recently, she
was stricken with a sudden at
tack of acute indigestion. Alice,
who happened to be passing the
house. dropped in.
With her typical calmneSS of
manner. she diagnosed the trouble,
administered a mixed dose of
medicines which was a tradition
in the Roosevelt family. Mrs.
Wallace recovered quickly, Alice
went her way. Later, Alice told
about the incident at a tea.
I guess I'll have to call on
Mrs. Wallace now" she told her
friends. She's been inviting me
ever since 1 can remember, and
there's only one thing that wor-
ries me about it."
Whats that?" inquired the
hostess.
Il won't know whether to take
her a bunch of flowers or a bot
tie of indigestion tablets"
TOR months Little Artie"
Il Robinson, innuendo hurting
senator from Indiana. had been
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-01
BY WALKER STONE
Times staff Writer.

WASHINGTON May reads petition signed by
w constituents you for such-and-such bill"
mail to the building that
political thing
gresham to do-the dds write
assuring the eye to eye
with n legislation
petition of that character the desk OF Repre-
from ndiana Fourth dis
trcg runts aside.
he barks Farley They know much about that
egslat a does about war;
Farley whether petition from political
postmaster
petition who the government to pay
from the
characterization of silver
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-01
TO-DAY AND TOMORROW
By Waller Lippmann

handled the japanese declarations sincerely
i diplomacy, which
excited not to be drawn into discussion
able
without of face and the United States stands
ground rights under the existing treaties No
will
which lies within the
treaties.
doubt of that the Japanese policy is what the
undiplomac his
the far and
this the future no one
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-01

L. Cord gained control of the Au-
burn company.
The years he served on the
board of directors of the Auburn
company and as a director of
banks, Farley thought, fitted him
to come to Washington and sit
on the board of directors of the
national government. But he
has found that here a different
technique is practiced, that the
directors sometimes go into
neutrality-suspicious. commit
tee sessions-With their minds
up, and with their interests linn
tied to some particular phase of
proposed legislation, affecting some
particular group.
DUT it is committee work that
- Farley enjoys most, and it is
in committee sessions that he has
been most effective. He is
member Of the banking and cur
rency committee, the committee
that handles all measures affect
ing banking and monetary adj.
justments, such as the bank-de-
post guarantee law, federal re-
serve reform measures, RFC loans
and the hundreds of crack-pot
paper money bills.
Said a colleague on that COM
mittee:
Jim Farley always arrives on
time, sits and listens to the dis
cuSSion and then near the end
of the meeting tells us what he
thinks about the matter. The
committee knows him as man of
sound judgment"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-01
fair Enough
WESTBROOK PEdLER

ME boss pulled piece of mine out of the paper
4 the other day in which I undertook to say in
my own dumb crude way that William Randolph
Hearst was the best friend the American newspaper
reporter ever had This made me pretty sore at
first and I had a mind to go tearing down to
General johnson yelling Hey, what about the
freedom of the preSs?"
But then I got to thinking about the payments
on the car and decided that it had been Just punk
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-01

piece. There would have been
considerable precedent for that
and l must admit that the expe-
rience Of having a story pulled
or killed on the desk is not a
new one for me. I am always
getting into trouble that way.
One night in Florida a few
winters ago I wrote one which
contained a rather top-lofty
allusion to the type of society
leader who sold testimonials for
a mattress company which
were then published in maya
zine advertisements. About an
hour later a message bounced
in from a friend who was sit
ting on the desk in the home
office saying, KILLED your line
about mattress testimonials.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-01
NEW TRAINS ADDED TO
BIG FOUR RAILROAD

Improved Service to New York,
Chicago and st. Louis Included.
Improved service to New York,
Boston, Chicago and st. Louis, and
new trains to the last two, feature
the new schedules of the Big Four
route, which became effective Sun
day.
Five trains will run between Chi
cage and Indianapolis daily, in
cludieg the new Sycamore, which
will leave here at 4:4O p. m. and
arrive in Chicago at $50.
Another new train, the Mound
City Special, will leave Indianap-
oils at 1880 a. m. daily, arrive at
Terre Haute at 1903 and at St.
Louis at 4 D. m.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-01

down to visit them in their
homes. And I also called on
them many times. When We
had a surplus of produce from
our farm at Loretto, Pa, we
we're happy TO share it with
them. They had looked forward
TO staying there, I know, until
business improved. We shall
miss them. They we're not bad
neighbOrs at all"
This 1 have no doubt was the
sincere expression of kindly old
gentleman who worked himself
up from the bottom to the top of
the steel industry. He had a
neighbOrly feeling for men liv-
ing in plain sight of his turrets
who just didn't have the good
70
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-01
THEODORE DAMN DUE
TO HEAD |. u. CLUB
One Ticket in Field for Election on
Nav -

Theodore Damn. Indianapolis at
torney will head the Indiana Uni
versity Club, according to an an
nouncement yesterday by John F.
Lance, president.
Election will be held May 7. Only
one ticket is in the field.
Others nominated are Sherwood
Blue. vice-president; Paul E. Tom
baugh, secretary, and Leo w. Shu-
maker, treasurer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-01
ROAD GRANT Is SOUGHT
PWA Money Asked for Project to
Salvage Burned Timber.

BIZ United Press
TILLAMOOK, Ore, May 1.-The
county court will send TO Washing
ton, D. c., an application for s507,-
400 PWA grant to build a road up
the Wilson river to salvage fire
damaged timber where 100000 acres
were burned in a huge forest fire
last summer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-01
HJeemC tome
R
Haywood BROUN

CHARLES NJ. SCHWAB came back fom Europe
~ and expressed regret when ne heard that the
squatter colony of veterans along the Hudson OPP
poste his Riverside drive home had been ordered to
move along. He said that they had been good
neighbors.
we visited back and forth" he explained. They
had been up 70 my house and very kindly assisted
us around the grounds in getting rid Of the heavy
SHOWS last winter. Mrs. Schwab frequently drove
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-01
FOOD PRICE DECREASE
FOR CITY DISCLOSED
Drop of OF Shown From March 81
to April 10 by u. S.

DTOp VI w S0OWu FROM MdTCn II
to April 10 by U. S.
Retail food prices dropped or per
cent from March u to April 10 in
Indianapolis, according to labor de-
partment statistics issued today.
The national slump was 0.6 per cent.
The department reports that the
house furnishing goods group rose,
nationally, to the highest point
reached during the present year, in
the last two weeks. Advancing prices
in gasoline and bituminous coal
more than offset price declines in
fuel oil and anthracite and caused
the fuel and lighting materials
group to move upwards a slight frac-
ton.
The metals and products group
rose fractionally due to higher prices
for nonferrouS metals. The chem
icals and drugs group also showed
a fractional rise.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-01

look up page SO current issue of such and-such's
magazine"
So sent out for copy of the magazine and there
on page 98 was beautiful job of color press con-
tanning photo-portrait of the owners wife and her
personal testimonial for this mattress.
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sistance which he rendered quite in the Amer
lean tradition that the more fortunately situated
should help the stragglers in casual and friendly
fashion without any outside compulsion After ALL
what a couple Of heads of lettuce and bushel of
potatoes between friends?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-01
They Called Her Lady BOuntifuL

I USED to know, for my sins, lady who went
l. around Easter Christmas and Thanksgiving
leaving baskets Each basket contained one raw
turkey two baked beans jar cranberry jelly
two loaves whole wheat bread, one pound butter one
stick peppermint candy for the children.
I suppose this generous woman was one of the
most Objectionable persons have met She
would come back from her rounds of the
three feast days all pulled up with righteousness
L know it Is only little" she used to say but
one does the best they can Her grammar was
even worse than her personality.
One day a man at her house took her up her
favorite remark and answered, you're damn footing
1t is only little. Did you stop to figure what
any of those people lived on between turkeys? And
did YOU stop ask by what right you go around
and get yourself into glow of dissatisfaction by
distributing a little occasional delicatessen?"
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That Vas Some One Else

THAT was different boss This boss who pulled
the story about Mr., Hearst said he hadn't done
so because it auded Mr.. Hearst as friend of The
American newspaper reporter. He just didn't like
it as job of writing He beat me to that idea
but had saved sprint and pulled up even with
him during the argument. We finished i'll a dead
heat in unanimous agreement that better stories had
been written.
So here I am again thinking that the gents and
ladies of the newspaper guild, in which l held
members card, ought to poke up of the old
timers grizzled veterans of the newspaper busi-
ness for some "reminiscences on wages in this line
of work when they undertake to indict Mr. HerstS
outfit as an oppreSSor of the typewriter hands.
If anybody is going to draw up a list of Mr.
HearstS crimes against the Journalists however the
bill ought not to overlook the systematic degrada-
ton of the craft which he undertook back in the
early nineties when he came into New York and
completed in Chicago there in 1900
Mr.. Hearst corrupted the precious virtue of pow
erty which they had been receiving up to then He
destroyed the beautiful Darkroom Bohemiansm Of
the newspaper business and lured the reporters,
write people, copy hands and all out of their self
respecting poverty in the direction of the leafy
suburb.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-01
Mr.. Blanks Hat and Coat

THE young set down rude person
Il and never asked to lunch any more, but
think he right. I have known people 70 stop
and buy an apple on the corner and then walk away
if they had solved the whole unemployment prob
lem 1 think that people should make charitable
gifts but only their knees and with the deep
est apologies. The fact that such things are in
any way necessary constitutes an indictment OF
every one of us.
Copyright 1894 by The Tines
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He CHANGED Wage

He Changed Wage
LIE put into the heads of the newspaper mems
l. wives uppity ambition to send their children
to college and to live as comfortably as people of
equal rank in other lines of work and amid the
materiaSm
This was a sordd way of doing Up to that time
the newspaper man, whose mark of identity
fringe his cuffs, had enjoyed beautiful freedom.
He was a sort of artist A lovable, irresponsible,
busted artist whose condition of employment per-
mitted him the privilege Of mooching off the town
the difference between his wages and the cost of
living He wrote snake ads into his copy in return
for occasional suit of clothes load of coal or
case of beer.
He got free railroad mileage and theater tickets
which negotiable at discount for groceries,
drinks and, possibly the rent
When Hearst went into Chicago he poisoned the
craft with coveousness by raising the scale for good
journeymen hands from $35 to $70 This forced the
other publishers to raise wages, too and it just
Eugene Fields good luck to escape contamination.
At his maximum, Mr. Field got $50 week In
the syndicate business the profits of which Hearst
opened up to the writers and artists, he would be
worth from $4,000 to 100000 A lot OF them are
Watch Those Raids
NLD Charlie Ebbets, the late baseball magnate Of
" Brooklyn, had the right idea about such things.
He said big money was bad for ball players because
it set them to thinking of the homes they were going
to buy and automobiles and all such luXuries.
But Mr.. Hearst wasn't altogether vicious in this
respect. Many a time he would let his executives
load up the staff with contented hands and then
all of sudden send old Foster Coates, the raider,
round to knock them off. Dreadful spectacles are
to be seen outside the Hearst plants every now and
again as the raiders walk in and the employees go
diving out the windows. Not all of his victims stayed
corrupted by wealth. but the general level Of wages
in Hearst towns never did sag to its old level again.
He II Sunday and 1 hope he got lot Of
kilograms from the victims of his oppression de-
nouncing him in particular for introducing ma
teriastic ideas into craft which until his time
was free and busted and delightfully."- mental
Copyright 1894 by Syndicate 1nc)
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TOR months Little Artie"
IL Robinson, innuendo hurting
senator from Indiana, had ;,een