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Evening star., 1934-01-20


IL Which Is colder, the North
Pole or the South Pole?"
No year-around record of temperature
has been obtained for either the North
Pole or the South Pole; but such records
as we have indicate that the South Pole
is about 10 degrees colder on the aver
age. This must be due to the fact that
the South Pole is on a plateau about
5000 feet above sea level The North
Pole. on the other hand, is close to sea
level
1t has been estimated that the aver
age temperature of the South Pole is
nearly so degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
This estimate is obtained by making
allowance for difference in seasons. and
changes from Summer to Winter OBJ
served elsewhere in the Antarctic. Those
who have visited the South Pole have
reported temperaturs of from 20 to 80
below zero; but We must remember that
they went there during the Antarctic
Summer when 1t Is much warmer"
than in other seasons of the year
Temperatures Of from 60 to 10 degrees
below zero are fairly common during
Evening star., 1934-01-20
Opening Forcing Bids.

Wv YHY have I left till so late in
n this series of articles any
wv explanation of my opening
forcing bids? For two good
reasons:
Cd They are rare I wanted first to
tell you about the bidding procedure,
which you need constantly.
(2) It is easier for you to understand
Evening star., 1934-01-20
BEDTIME STORIES By Thornton g...,a..

He started to poke his head out, and
lodged back Just in time as q sharp,
stout bill was driven straight at him.
"Ohi" gasped T1mmy.
He was trapped. There was no doubt
about 1t. What to do? Nov, I am in
a mess" thought Tommy. However
am to get out OF here? And how
ever can stay here?"
As for Hairy the Woodpecker, he was
quite beside himself with anger. He
Evening star., 1934-01-20

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Evening star., 1934-01-20
Treating Rheumatism.

TINE teeth have been removed and
the patient still has the rheu-
matism, so what is the doctor
i going to advise now? This is
the question that is supposed to
be Joke. but, as a matter of fact, it is
not a joke to the patient nor to the
doctor. because with the removal of bad
teeth only the first step to remove rheu-
n1atism from the system has been taken
All over the world now, there are So
Evening star., 1934-01-20

TT IS said by one authority that "in
the whole range Of family nomen-
clature there Is perhaps no name
/ which admits Of more variety Of
origin or greater number Of differ
ing forms than the name Ellis"
There is little doubt that the sur
name Ellis had its beginning in the
Scripture name Elias. which does not
occur as an Anglo-Saxon name, but
which was in use in France as early as
the days of Charlemagne, as a bap-
tismal designation. 1t afterward took
OIL the form of Ellie as family name.
This name Elias as a Christian name,
Evening star., 1934-01-20
A Little Saturday Talk.

~ EFORE I started the series
- about South Pole adventure, a
| reader sent me this question:
- Which Is colder. the North
Pole or the South poleo"
Evening star., 1934-01-20
Chi|ds Frock Makes Picture-Book Illusion
Naive Charm Produced as
This Cotton Print Is Source
of Fresh Simplicity.
Ribbon Band Matches Her
Sash and Sash Suggests
Pastel Glow of Dress.
RY BARBARA BELL.

IF YOU have ever crossed the en-,
chanted threshold Of the Jack ana
Jill shop that stands on that quaint,
i winding lane, known as Church
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-07
CRIMINAL POLITICS

A NATIONWIDE drive to rid the country
Of racketeers and gangsters will be
launched by the national administration, ac-
cordng to dispatches from Washington, just
as soon as congress finishes action on certain
pending anh-crme bills.
These laws will give the federal government
new power to step into local situations and
deal with crooks who have not, so far, been
within reach of federal laws.
Significantly enough, it is stated at the
capital that federal agents will be enabled to
strike directly at gangsters now shielded by
crooked politicians or city officials"
It will be fine thing if the federal author
tiles actually do this; and it will be even finer
if by doing SO they force us to realize what the
real trouble with our police system has been.
Nothing could be much odder than the way
in which we berate the inefficiency of our po-
lice in dealing with organized crime, while we
simultaneously put up with the kind of
municipal politics which makes such inef1-
cheney inevitable.
How is the ordinary city police force adj
ministered, anyhow? Well, the voters in their
wisdom elect as mayor John Doe, who is
known to be hand in glove with the most I'M
savory political gang in town.
Mayor Doe appoints Lieutenant Hooziz
chief of police; Chief Hooziz Immediately
promotes all the officers who favored John
Does election and denotes those who did not
Hooziz knows he will stay chief of police
only as long as he keeps on the good side of
Mayor Doe and one of Mayor Does chief
allies is the high-powered lawyer whose clients
include the biggest racketeers in town.
Furthermore, Mayor Doe is busy selling
special favors to some of the towns best citi-
zens, so the general atmosphere is hardly con-
ducive to strict honesty.
AS result, Hooziz keeps his trap shut. does
as he's told, and makes hay while the sun
shines.
A couple of years later some other poll
tician beats Mayor Doe, a new chief is an
pointed, and the same routine is followed, with
new set of names.
Now this is the sort of thing that is put up
with in the great majority of our cities. The
wonder is that the racketeers and gangsters
haven't walked off bodily with most of our
city halls
II this federal campaign makes us realize
that the war on crime ultimately stands or
falls by local political conditions, it will be
worth all its costs.
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WHITE HOUSE IZAAKS

HE dynasty of angling Presidents that be-
gan with Calvin Coolidge and continued
through Herbert Hoover goes on with Frank
lin Delano Roosevelt
Strikingly different in many respects. all
three knew and know the lure of a tug on
the line.
Picture the three men at their sport;
Coolidge, calmly casting in a secluded brook,
silently smiling at the tricks Of little fish to
get away, allowing the secret service men to
take his prey from the hook and rebait the
same.
Hoover, a more elaborate sportsman. build
ing a summer camp for his headquarters. CO.
ing in for somewhat bigger fish, but never de-
parting from the hallowed traditions of the
inland angler.
Roosevelt, choosing the whole ocean for his
operations, travelling to the deep blue waters
with large company and considerable part
of the navy, anxious to tackle the biggest of
the fnny tribe.
In politics, as in angling, by their fish ye
shall know them.
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MAN OR ANIMAL?

A PET rabbit in Chicago fell into the hands
\ Of the police the other day because it bit
three children The coppers prepared to put
it to death; but Just in the nick. of time they
received an indignant telegram from some
anti-cruelty society in Iowa, so the execution
was deferred until the bunny could be tested
for rabies.
A thoughtful man is apt to wonder slightly
at the zeal which people can put into minor
causes at a time when stupendous events are
taking place. Cruelty to animals provided
that the killing of rabbit comes under that
heading is a sad thing to contemplate, to
be sure; but cruelty to human beings has not
exactly disappeared from this weary and sin
stained earth, and one would suppose that it
might make better goal for the efforts of the
humantarians.
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THE ENVIABLE LIFE

HERE are moments in which it would be
quite possible to feel envious of Rear
Admiral Richard E. Byrd
For the next seven months this man is
going to be just about the most isolated in
dividual on earth. He'll be all by himself
in little hut on Little America, and while
it'll be pretty lonely and desolate down there
he at least won't have anything to bother him.
He won't, for instance have to read articles
on the merits and dement's of the various
ramifications of the new deal That tea cup
tempest about Communism in the brain
trust won't touch him. He won't be bothered
by long Speculations about who is going to
fight whom, and where, for the heavyweight
championship.
He'll miss uncounted stories about flagpole
sitters, bathing beauty contests and political
campaigns. Door-to-door peddlers will never
be able to ring his bell; insurance agents
won't be able to open fire on him.
All in all, this man Byrd hasn't picked out
such bad spot.
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it took a horse almost a minute to
| trot or walk a city block and a
fairly long time to make a cross
ing, the people today step on the
gas and make four or five sema-
phores. Besides that, where there
were ten horses there are now a
thousand motor cars.
In those days a policeman's cor
ner was his own business and he
operated it in his own way; he did
not care what went on a block
away. Each corner was problem
in itself.
Today traffic demands semaphores
at every intersection in the mile
square. Every semaphore should
operate co-ordinately. Traffic should
be so organized that an automobile
entering at one end of the mile
square and wanting to emerge at
the other end could do SO without
stopping once. If the auto was
turned it would wait only on one
sign. Avenues could be worked into
this scheme.
Four years ago the writer ap-
preached the police with such a plan
and the gentleman in charge con-
sidered it huge joke and sent him
with it to the Negro garage operator
at headquarters. Recently he sug-
gested the same system, explaining
it in detail. There was no response.
1t remains for the public to see
what will be done.
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DR.. MGREGOR KERENSKY WRIT

GONE years ago, R. R. NIcGregor, then head
- of the National Electric Light Associa-
TONS Illinois branch, wrote letter outlining
methods to use in defeating candidates for
public office who favored government owner
ship of utilities.
My idea would be not to try logic or rea-
son. said Mr.. McGregor. but to try to pin
the Bolshevik idea on my opponent"
Recently another group became alarmed
about pending Roosevelt legislation. In Gary,
Ind. just across the line from the state where
Mr.. McGregor held forth, one of their num-
Der reached into the bag and pulled out the
same old trick.
The brain trust is Communistic, is foment-
ing revolution" wrote DR.. Writ to one of the
principal opponents of the stock market BILL
who promptly incorporated the letter in his
testimony against the measure.
Pinning the Bolshevik label has been
good, faithful old gag. But. like cheesecloth
drapery used for the ghost in Halloween revelS,
it is wearing thin and dirty.
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I 1oholy dtsapprove of aohat yom sag and t0iH
defend to the death yor right to sag it-Voltaire.

gained his conviction. Dillinger
pleaded at hearing that he wished
to go home to assist his aged father
and be at the bedside of his sick
stepmOther, who died shortly be-
fore he returned home. Dillinger
had served eight years when he was
paroled and was eligible for such
action.
Those who pleaded with the
clemency board for a parole were
sincere in their belief that their acts
were justified neither they nor the
clemency board had any way of
knowing they we're wrong. It was
shown that Dillinger was over
sentenced in comparison with his
parting in the crime which they
committed.
Dillinger then lost all respect for
law and the justice of his conf1ne-
ment.
Dillinger's mother died when he
was quite young and he grew I'D
without the influence of his mother.
He returned home to find his STEP
mother gone and the world gen.
orally cold to him. This and much
more is only history, and I pause
to ask: why. kick theA clemency
board and the GOVERNOR" For, as
the facts indicate, the pardon
board. together with the Governor.
have done nothing more than their
apparent duty. The average citizen
can not and will not be misled by
unjust criticism.
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HONOR-AT TWENTY PAGES!

ME ancient and honorable custom of duel
- ing is still observed in France; and one
reason that civilized people like the French
put up with it might be that the people who
take part in duels are such atrocious marks
men.
Roger de Tour, Royalist leader, fought
duel the other day with Deputy Jan Mister
former cabinet member. They met on a rife
range near Carcassone fired two shots apiece
at a distance of twenty PAGES - and missed
each other completely.
Honor, one gathers, was satisfied, and the
men left the field unscathed.
How even the rottenest shot could miss a
target the size of human body-and miss it
twice-at twenty PAGES is almost beyond COM
prehension. That two such miserable marks
men could be found at one time and place is
even more incomprehensible.
But it's probably all for the best. Given
such markSmen, the custom of dueling has
everything to recommend it, and not a single
observable drawback
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DiSagreeS With EinStein

cational system stresses the mob
psychology then one can justly
rise to arms and dispute any con-
tention that the system makes for
initiative and independence.
Our political encourage prevents
most of our educators from de-
veloping the minds of youth into
larger perspectiveS. We have fine
teachers who are thwarted in do
ing bigger things by the log cabin
minds of those who control mat
tiers of sociological and psycholo-
gical import.
Figuratively speaking, I believe
Einstein'S remarks were not di-
rected in applause Of our system,
but in anticipation of the capa-
bility of the average American
student to honest freedom and in
dividuality, if left, to the care Of
our competent teachers not en-
barrased by stingy budgets, pro-
duction methods and conformity
to opinions invented by a mixture
of reformers and dumb politicians
The European schools always
have stressed the cultural and
we go there or to- a pattern of
the European school to round out
a full cultural life. I did not do
this but as my complex failed to
allow for playing follow the lead
err" have been fortunate in re-
tanning a sense Of initiative and
independence.
Maybe Einstein agrees with
your editorial comment regarding
his remarks. Then 1 will have to
Disagree with him, too.
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SATURDAY. APRIL Z. 1893.
GALLOPING AMNESIA

OUR memories are short. The winter OF
~ suffering and discomfort is soon for
gotten in the Joy of spring. And sometimes
the religion we get under adversely brings
bscksliding on the morrow.
So perhaps it is not altogether surpris-
ing that many of our business leaders now
should be praying and working for the de-
struction OF MIRA, emasculation Of the truth
in-securities law, junking Of the stock eX-
change bill and postponement of basic bank
ing and tax reforms and general retreat
from the new deal.
The only surprise is that the winter is
forgotten before spring is fully here. With
many millions still unemployed in the cities
and most farmers on the poverty line, with
many industries and communities yet un-
touched by the beginning Of recovery, the
loss of memory is at least somewhat pre-
mature'
II we 90 back to the old ways in business
and finance it will be only question of time
probably short time-before we pitch into
another depression. This IS not matter of
guessing; it is cause and effect. The depres-
sion was not an act of God. Our system pro-
duced it and will produce another unless the
system is made more honest and more eff
cient.
Oar experience shows that each depres-
sion comes more quickly than the last and
each is more severe than the last. Not many
months ago a lot of frightened business
leaders were sure that the capitalist system
in America was done for. Their hysteria then
was as extreme as their loss of memory today.
But their hysteria, exaggerated as it was,
nevertheless grew out of the hard fact rec
ognized by them that the system not
survive many more such blows as the last.
The issue today is the same as the day
President Roosevelt took office. Shall we i'm
prove the system which failed, or shall we let
it go on and destroy itself?
The end is not in doubt-only the method
The old system with its inevitable depreSsions
and misery is going to be changed The
question is whether the change shall be or
derly or violent. The purpose of the Presi-
dent is to make the change slowly and or
derby. Business leaders who think they can
save their skins by turning back have for
gotten the lessons Of history, remote and re-
cent.
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countries for history of robbers and
killers.
Dillinger is a brave man and a
wise one. George Washington was
a revolutionist and a traitor to Eng
ish standards. Why?
DiIInger takes the same attitude
toward banks and insurance COM
panieS. -
Why did we go to the World war?
Our big money men had interests
over there that had to be protected.
Who were the killers in that case
Soldiers had lost nothing over there,
and what was their reward?
What about the bankers who have
ruined lives of the poor and even
have indirectly caused death. do
not have to leave my neigbhorhood
to see these facts.
What about the insurance COM
panies which put working age on
the factory man After he is As
he is cast aside. Yet he has to live
and pay taxes.
The law itself makes killers. Why?
Our lawmakers and officials are IN
cahoots to graft and appropriate
high salaries for themselves.
You can not make million COL
lars by honest labor. If you think
you can, just try it at 40 cents an
hours. I'll give you better chance,
figure it at 81 an hour and thirty
five hours a week and subtract your
expenses. How old would you be
when you got 100000? Don't you
think that we need more John Dill
fingers to make better times?
You can turn this over in your
mind and make your own con-
illusions.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
TARIFF SENSE

NN Thursday the house of congress con-
~ ferred upon Mr.. Roosevelt tremendous
power of tarif-naking and it was about the
first sensible attitude toward tariff on the
part of congress since tariff was first invented.
The power given Mr.. Roosevelt, if o. KID
by the senate, will enable him to take the
tariff out Of politics and hand it over to i'm
partial and judcious business MANAGEMENT,
where it belongs. To feather their own po-
itical nests congressman have been trading
back and forth their souls to secure per-
sonal advantage. Moreover, the congressional
habit of "tinkering with the tariff" I'D or
down. has meant thorns in the head and
heart Of every business concern interested in
or at all dependent upon foreign trade and
raw materials.
Tariff in politics has made tariff policy
and management disreputable, dishonorable
and inhumane patchwork Of regional greed
regardless Of the welfare of the country as a
whole Our great tariff walls, erected to pre-
vent the foreigner selling to us and thus en-
able him to pay what he owes, have become
a structure upon which perch the hawks of
monopoly and the owls of economic theory
And it is quite probable that a President
sweating and worrying to arrive at what iS
best for the country as whole will endeavor
to go far in making the tariff strictly mat
Ter OF business management, if given the
power,
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Reading your editorial quoting
Professor EinStein's reflection up
on our American school system
as tending to preserve ''the initia-
tive and independence of pupils
far more successfully than do the
schools in Europe" prompts this
letter to you.
I do not agree with the literal
Interpretation Of EinSteins obser-
walton. EinStein is a rebel in spirit
and action and this fact allows
me to assume that his comparison
of the American and European
schools was a f1gurative one pune
tuating a desire in his own mind
and not a wish that our methods
of educating be adopted as a
standard for the world.
Your analysis of Einstein's re-
marks fails to probe his acumen
in discussing the superf1ciality of
conduct and morality Astounding
in the American success version
so innocently CD fashioned by adj
vertised formulate and sponsored
by the various pep sessions of
Chambers of Commerce, luncheon
clubs and Christian advancerS.
Our school life is a mob move
ment. Its method induces a fol-
lower the-Ieader psychology. The
recent basketball tourney with its
attendance of hero worship in
fected students" demonstrates my
point of view. Now youth GER
tainly must have an abandon of
spirit and it is sign Of health
and vigor. But when our edu-
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RADIO SERMON SUGGESTED
FOR HOWARD GABLE
By T. F, L.

BY T. F. L.
If we all lined up with Mr.. Cadle,
as Mrs. Ridpath suggested, who
would send us the sausage for break
fast?
There is one. thing he always is
trying to impress people with in
his broadcasts, and that is how
great he is, how many worldly goods
he had accumulated, and how big
they are.
If you have a sick and hungry
child, you pray. If Professor Davis
played for you on the great $4,000
organ, it ought to make your child's
little stomach feel better, Mrs. Rid
path, or perhaps you can have the
honor of walking through one of
the nineteen doors. That would be
swell.
But don't fool yourself. God sends
some of his servants to sick child.
That's why we pray. That's why we
believe in prayer.
I would like to have Mr.. Cadle
forget his own greatness some
morning, and read over the radio
S. Matt, 25 Chapter, stirling with
the thirty-f1rst verse.
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Chance Glance

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICH
I saw you only for one night.
You said no word to me.
Our eyes met fire between their
depths.
We passed on carelessly.
And now I am faithful wife.
Cleave to my husbands side.
I have dropped girlhood willingly
That I might be his bride.
I know I must hold wickedneSs.
You have my mind enthralled.
And still I keep remembering
The night that ycur EYES called.
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So They Say

I reject the contention Of the
Austrian government that any in
tervention against the Austrian
state has been undertaken or
planned by the Reich.-Chanceuor
Hitler of Germany.
I do not think the federal gov
eminent should be encouraged to
stay in the relief pictures forever
Harry L. Hopkins, federal civil
works administrator.
1t is absurd to say that America
and Japan are now or ever will be
at erheads.-Hiroshi Haito. jap
anese ambassador to United States.
My ideas haven't changed in the
last fifteen years.-Emma Goldman,
famous anarchist.
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SENTENCE MADE DILLNGER
PUBLIC ENEMY NO. L
By r. r

By r. r.
The records show that John Dill
inger was sentenced to the state
reformatory on Sept. Is. 1924, for
ten to twenty years on charges Of
assault and battery with intend to
rob, and two to fourteen years on
charges Of conspiracy to commit
felony. He began serving his
sentence at the Indiana reforma-
tory. He was transferred to the state
prison at Michigan City, July Is.
1929. The date of Dillinger's pa
role was May %, 1888
Citizens and neighpors from Nor
gan county, where Dillinger lived,
approved the petition signed by
184 neighbors Of Dillinger's, includ-
ing the victim of the robbery and
the judge and prosecutor who