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know what it is for. That 1t is
theirs. That it will be a public
convenience. And what it will
cost. And so on. With a perfect
understanding of the situation,
they want to push the project
along.
In war, the Russian population
would behave exactly the same
way, says Radek. Being politically
minded, and individually inter-
eSted and concerned in the COL
lective fate, Russia's ITO, 900 900
would pitch in and help win the
conflict.
Even where armies r highly
mechanical, as is the case with
the Red army, he observed, UNI
less a war were won quickly, it
would develop into a struggle be-
tween masses. Manpower and
manpower discipline would be
vital.
Women, said Radek, are particu-
larly remarkable in Russia, bear
ing their full share of heavy work
along with the men. His former
secretary, a young woman, had
gone through a military academy
and now commands a regiment of
her own-of men, not of women.
Radek denied there are "women'S
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least Is per cent are women and
girls. Perhaps more. And they
are an efficient, jolly, cookbook
ing lot, dressed though they are
like codfishermen off the banks of
Newfoundland.
Quicksand and ooze are the
chief characteristics of the Mos
COW job and the tunnels keep up
a continuous downpour.
A T a narrow place in the I'M
IA finished tunnel we got in the
way of a gang of men and wom-
en- carrying a huge timber.
"Gangway!" the women fore
man shouted, and if we had not
instantly obeyed, the chief en-
gineer of the project, a United
States consul general, and this
correspondent would have suf-
fered a collision.
"You see," the chief explained,
as he ducked, "she commands a
workers shock brigade and holds
the record. She doesn't want to
lose it,"
Which is why Karl Radek
thinks Russia is now invincible.
(THE END
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nothing but bask in the sun and
cash royalty checks. 9
But the banks closed suddenly
and so did the theater which
housed Twentieth Century" Re-
alizing that I had no new play to
take its place, 1 hied me from
the house down to the rockbound
shores of Bermuda. There in a
coral cave, 1 began a new play
about our international relations.
"No sooner had I started World
Apartment than the banks re-
opened and so did Twentieth
Century.
1.-The day I arrived in New York
a motion picture contract arrived
from Hollywood for the Columbia
Pictures production of 'Twenti-
eth Century which had it's
World Premiere at the Radio
City Music Hall in New York
City May 3.
IT am glad that Twentieth
Century will be shown in Indi-
annapolis at the Circle theater be-
cause it was there that 1 received
my first experience in the theater
as an usher"
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go on to further recriminations I suggest that they
get together and decide whether or not they want
to save the small business man. This is said in all
seriousness, because it seems to me that upon the
answer depends the economic and political future
of America. In the supplementary report issued by
Mr.. barrow and MI. ompS it is stated:
ITO go back to unregulated competition, in which
the small man can gain his share of the market by
some special advantage of skill or other factor, is not
possible in a situation where chronological advance
has produced a surplus. so that unregulated COM
petition demoralizes both wages and prices and
brings on recurrent and increasingly severe indus
trial depression"
In other words. Mr.. Darrow is saying that the
small business man has no chance under NRA and
no chance without it. All that is left to the minor
entrepreneur is the choice between being beheaded
by a code or more slowly ground to death by the
force of a competition with which he can not cope.
MI. DarroW is a little less than candid when he
denies that the little fellows complaint against arbi-
trarily established wage scales, "can not be attrib-
uted to the mere desire to chisel wages" Inevitably
the little fellow must chisel both in price and wage
cutting and in the fight to prevent the shortening of
hours. He is neither a villain nor a hero, but an eco
nomic anachroniSm.
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success in solving the problem of
how to trap the two birds.
Probably not until he reads
this, will young Henry realize
that his woodpeckers are not still
drumming happily on a new
government supplied homestead.
n II
THE state and treasury de-
Il partments have received
some amazing reports on the
growth of the opium trade in
Manchuria since Japanese occu-
patton.
According to these reports, the
sale and use of narcotics has in
creased tremendously since the
Japanese took over this part of
China. No police restrictions are
placed against the drug, and most
of the opium dens are run by
Japanese.
One of the reasons for the
Japanese conquest of Jehol, adj
jacent to Manchuria, was to get
the revenue from its lucrative
opium trade.
Copyright, 1884, by United Featur
Syndicate. Inc
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10 III OO44O A1b4A4S 0SOANOJ
This again is one reason the
President is so tired. Enough de-
tail comes across his desk to
swamp any two men. He has not
delegated enough responsibility.
And when you look at some of the
men to whom he should delegate
it, you can understand why.
This also is one reason Roose-
velt has vacillated recently. He
is too tired, too rushed, to go into
everything carefully-and too
anxious to get congress off his
hands.
Sooner or later Roosevelt is
going to have to hire some new
help.
II REPRESENTATIVE CHARLES
N A. EATON, New Jersey Re-
publican: What size shoes does
the gentleman wear?"
Representative Marion A. Zion
check, youthful f1rst-termer from
the state of Washington: mo. 8,
and 1 am proud of it. 1t is a
plain answer. I do not try to
evade any question. What size
do you wear?"
Eaton: mo. 10, and 1 am proud
OF it. If the gentleman's head
was as big as his feet, he would
amount to something"
Il
T>HE national hot-Spot is going
j. to Mississippi in more ways
than the weather this summer.
During the month of August a
lot of political attention will be
focused on it.
At that time will be decided the
three-cornered race for the SEN
ate between Hubert Stephens, the
incumbent; Ex-Governor Theo-
dore A. Bilbo, and Representative
Ross Collins, n of the foremost
members of the house.
Stephens probably will be
counted out early, leaving the
chief race between Bilbo and
Collins.
Bilbo was for some time en-
ployed on a $4,000 a year job clip
ping papers for the AAA.
Ross Collins, as chairman of the
House Committee on War De-
partment Appropriations, runs the
army more than any other civil
ian, has forced the generals to
cast aside sabre and saddle and
adopt modern weapons of war.
His fight for the purchase of the
Gutenberg Bible and the cars
library was used against him in
the Mississippi Bible belt, but
eliminated in an important cul-
tural contribution to the library
of congress.
CECRETARY of the Treasury
~ Morgenthau is a country
gentleman and q nature lover.
He is particularly fond of birds.
But the two woodpeckers which
took to drumming each morning
just outside his window strained
even his patience with feathered
friends.
After putting up with them for
a while young Henry finally ap-
pealed to the agricultural depart
ment. Would the department.
please send around an expert to
look into the problem of wood
peckers at 5 a. M?
Morgenthau emphasized that he
did not want the birds shot. But
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Police Surrendered

QUITE recently, outside Chicago, a party of three
suburban policemen, all well armed and travel
ing IN a police car, gave up their guns to a party of
three bandits, one of whom was identified as John
Dllllnger. However, the suburbs of Chicago are not
the southwest and suburban or county cops generally
are political appointees, no better than the politi-
clans who appoint them, and inferior to the common
harness-cop of the big city.
In many of the communities which support them
the principal duty of the county cop is to prey on
the motorist from elsewhere and vital emergencies
may call for qualities which are not required in COL
Letting victims for the roadside Shakedown courts.
My puzzlement over the success of the new west
ern desperate prompted some informal inquiries in
Louisville and Memphis lately. In Louisville. two
distinguished operatives of the internal revenue de-
partment, moving through the crowd at the horse
park on Derby day looking for persons engaged in
the dope traffic, paused in their duty to ease their
feet and blame much of the trouble on some bad
Governors who had turned great numbers of des-
perate convicts out Of the prisons of Texas and
Oklahoma for political reasons.
These jail deliveries, they said. had turned loose
on the country some of the most undesirable parties
ever grown in that part of the world and had a
bad effect on the morale of the police who saw their
previous good work so ruthlessly undone and began
to ask themselves what was the use?
Moreover they knew how bad these bad men we're
and did not enjoy the idea of making them angry if
they were soon to be turned out of prison by a Gov
ernors order and go cruising around the country
paying of grudges in the dark.
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BLAND, RIGID, 1MpERTURBABLE. CALM

THE other day a wild-eyed, fire breathing radical
l. rushed up the steps of an aristocratic home in
one Of our big cities and furiously rang the bell.
The door was opened by the bland, rigid, impertura-
BILE family butler. Enraged anew at such a sight,
the radical beloved at the top of his voice, 1.-THE
revolution is here" But the butler was not dis
concerted in the least. He answered with the ut
most calm: All revolutions must be delivered at
the t~rsdesmen's entrance in the read.p-Repre-
sentative Alfred F. Beiten CDem, N. W.
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TO PASS ON Is
INDIANA P0STMASTERS
President Roosevelt Asks Confirma-
ton of Appointments.

By Times Special
WASHINGTON, May 26.-Names
of sixteen new postmasters for In
diana were sent to the Senate for
confirmation this week by Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
They were:
Grover G. Rainbolt, Corydon; Os-
car j. Sauerman, Crown Point; Will
liam w. McCleary, Elberfeld; Henry
M. Mayer, Evansville; William L.
Eastin, Ewing; Chester Wagner,
Flora; Joseph E. Mellon, Hobart;
Walter E. Wehmeyer, Kendallville;
Edwin w. Hanley, Michigan City;
William S. Darnell, New Albany;
Gordon B. Olvey, NobleSville; Will
liam N. Burns, Otterbein; Charles
O.. Hall, Sullivan; Henry Backes,
Washington; Oscar M. Shively,
Yorktown, and Bessie D. Perkins,
Whiteland.
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N1llO1l \ 6O06S WAN
On the stage, this play was a
great success and was written in
indianapolis.
Mr.. Millholland, who is now In
the east, at my request has sent
me his own story of how he hap
pened to write this great success.
His story, as written by himself,
is as follows:
81 wrote Napoleon of Broad
way my original play upon
which both the Broadway and
HOLLYWOOD versions of Twentieth
Century were based, in the home
of my mother in indianapolis in
1880.
when I returned to Indiana
after a winter in New York as
publicist for Oliver M. Sayber,
personal press agent for Morris
Gest. I had no intention of writ
ing a play about show business.
Much to my surprise, the fam
lily was so amused by the true
stories I related about the lido
syncrasies of famous producers
and their erratic methods, that
that one of my brothers suggested
that I put it all into a play. And
why not? 1t was such an obvious
idea that I had never thought Of
it myself.
THE play really wrote itself.
I retired to my room, recalled the
characters and types with which
I was familiar, plotted my play
and started writing. Doing the
dialogue for my central character
of producer I found it easier to
read the lines aloud to myself as
I wrote them.
st didn't realize how strange
this must have sounded to the
rest of the household until later
when my mother admitted that
hearing me humble to myself in
an unnatural voice had made her
wonder if I were in my right
mind.
"As soon as I had completed
and. copyrighted Napoleon of
Broadway I had a bunch that
Jed Harris would be interested
and wired him to that effect. Re
ceiving no answering wire, 1
mailed it to him and three other
producers. The following day I
received a letter from his gener-
al manager saying that Mr.. Har-
ris' plans were complete for the
season and that he would not be
interested.
w my bunch was
IL correct; and he was. I re-
ceived a wire from Jed Harris
saying that he would like to pro-
duce my play. AS I was unable to
come on to New York to make
the revisions which he required,
Mr.. Harris offered me collabora-
ton and a contract which I sub
quently accepted.
after Jed Harris had kept my
play a year and paid me $1,000,
he released Twentieth Century,
as he rechristened it, to George
Abbott and Phillip Dunning,
authors and directors of his first
hit, Broadway
'"They engaged Moffat Johnson
and Eugene Leontovich, star of
Grand HOTEL played the play in
rehearsal and opened it in New
York during the last days of 80.
The day after the opening, break
fasting at noon in a tuxedo in a
Childs restaurant, I read the New
York reviews.
They were so unanimously ia
vorable that I felt justified in
giving a New Years party to
about a hundred of my friends.
THE combination of play and
party were too much, and I
sailed for Bermuda to recuperate.
There I rented a cottage with an
acre of Easter lilies in the front
yard and a private beach and did
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BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Scripps- Howard Foreign Editor
Copyright, 1884 by NEA Service. Inc.)
MOSCOW, May 26. Soviet
Iva Russia, Karl Radek, famed
Russian publicist, told me, has
become invincible.
Russia, he said, as he paced the
floor of his penthouse study over
looking the Moskva river, and the
site IN the opposite bank where
the worlds tallest structure, the
monument to Lellin, is to rise,
does not want war.
She does not need more terri
tory. What she does need is
twenty more years of peace in
which to provide higher living
standards and better conditions
generally for the people of the
Soviet Union.
Radek has one of the keenest
minds in the country. He is one
of Communism's outstanding
philosophers. He looks like the
picture of Horace Greeley, large
and rather prominent blue eyes,
somewhat sparse brown hair, and
chin whiskers-the kind that pass
under the chin like a hairy strap
and look as if they we're tied to
the ears.
COVIET RUSSIA, he ~contended,
~ is invincible because the mass
es are politically minded. Not only
does this make Russian soldiers
better than other soldiers, man
for man, but it means that the
entire population of the country,
men and women, and even the
boys and girls, are in a sense SOL
diers, too.
He cited the work on the Mos
COW Motro, or subway, as an x
ample.
On Nov. 7 will fall the ami
verSary of the Red revolution. BY
that date, less than six months
distant, the engineers have prom
ised that the first train will carry
passengers along the first seven
mile section to be finished under
the heart of the city.
But much work remains to be
done and the IS 1000 workers are
racing against time. Accordingly,
a "subotnik," or unpaid labor
corps, has been formed, made up
of men, women, girls and boys,
who voluntarily give up their
weekly rest day to WELD pick and
, shovel in the subway.
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u. S. PAYS $1,282,45
TO INDIANA FARMERS

Wheat Adjustment Checks Are
Rushed to Drought Areas.
By Times Special
WASHINGTON, May 26.-Indiana
farmers have been paid 81 1882, ass
under their governmental wheat ad-
justment contracts up until May l,
it was reported today by AAA. The
new adjustment payments are be-
ing rushed through now, particularly
in the drought areas. Estimated
amount now due in Indiana is $780,
900.
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H0OSIER SALON GROUP
APPROVED BY C. OF C.
Directors Commend Help Given
Indiana Artists.

The Hoosier Salon Patrons AS
ISOLATION of Chicago was Endorsed
yesterday in a resolution adopted
by directors of the Indiana State
Chamber of Commerce. The board
met at the indianapolis Board of
Trade, with John E. Friedrich, Ko-
komo, presiding.
Acknowledgements of the sale of
more than 100000 worth of works
of Indiana artists was given in the
resolution, in addition to prizes
awarded to state artists by the
Hoosier Salon Patrons Association.
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Clarifying the Issue

r RECOMMEND a somewhat
4 similar procedure to Clarence
barrow and General Hugh john
son Naturally, I am not suggest
ing that either distinguished gen.
tleman fall from grace. 1t is an
economic analogy which I wish to
draw. The Darrow report asserts
that MIRA tends to obliterate the
small business man. This the
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
= By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON, May 26-Behind the Presidents desire to get con-
w gress off his hands early in June are-above al-two things.
One is the fact that he is tired.
The other is his belief that what the country needs is less uncer-
tainty regarding it's future course. With congress out OF the way,
Roosevelt feels that business, agriculture and his own administrators
can dig in at the job of putting into effect the mass of new congress
sional legislation.
This latter would be more easily possible were it not for the fact
that a lot of new deal administrators begin cropping in the dark the
minute the man at the helm is a stones throw away from Washington.
And this summer he will be en- route to Hawaii.
This situation remains the weakest link in the Roosevelt admins
tration. Without the man in the White House, the cabinet members
the recovery agencies and the other new dealers get out OF tune Ihere
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HJeemC TO Ne
h@
Haywood BROUN

TSLIP, L. I, May 26.-There is an anecdote about
i the Percy Williams Actors home here which
seems to me pertinent to some of our present prob
lens. I gravely fear that the story is apocryphal,
yet even out of myths wisdom may spring.
According to the story, an ancient leading man OF
rs stood accused of %licentious conduct within the
home itself. The case was referred to the conduct
committee, made up of the guests themselves. The
chairman was a famous juvenile, now nearing his
eightieth birthday. He opened the hearing by say
ing, Ladies and gentlemen, fellow artists, 1 think
that we may save a great deal of time ii, instead OF
proceeding to the taking of testimony, We first de-
eide whether or not our committee approves or dis
approves of l~icentiouS conduct"
BY a strict party vote of nine to three it was de-
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Eair Enough
BIZ
WESTbRO0K PEd[ER

NEW YORK, May 26.-It took a posse, hidden by
IN a roadside, to kill Clyde Barrow and Bonnie
Parker, a mischievous boy and girl who had been
shooting their way over the southwest and middle
west, but this score for the law still does not explain
how these two and others like them have been able
to get away with murder, abduction and robbery so
long in q part Of the country which always has
taken q rather boaStful pride in the tough character
of ifc ordinary nirizanr oc uron DC
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VI us OEOludIy aS z as
its police.
In Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas,
and parts of Missouri and Kan
sas, gun-toting is much more
common among the law-abiding
citizens than among the residents
of New York, Chicago and De-
troit. The sheriffs and conStables
also bear a reputation for firm
ness in their dealings with the
unruly and there was an illusion
until a couple of years ago that
an old-fashioned outlaw or a city
hoodlum would stand no chance
in that large territory.
If his victim didn't shoot it out
with him the posse would chase
him into the woods, and if he got
out of the woods by any chance
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AAA OFFICER TO SPEAK
Executive ce-President To Be
Guest of Rotary.

Ernest N. Smith, executive vice.
president of the American Automo-
bile Association, will be principal
speaker at the Rotary Club lunch
een Tuesday in the Claypool.
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LOCATION OF BURIED
VETERANS IS SOUGHT

Families Asked to Notify Head of
Soldiers Association.
Edward P. Cook, president of the
Marion county chapter of Rain
bow Division Veterans Association
has asked that families of soldiers
buried in Marion county commune
cate with him regarding the location
of the graves.
The association will decorate the
graves Memorial day.
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ROUNDING ROUND
D DiI H1cRMA

GENERAL indianapolis men have made good on the stage and in
- Hollywood in various fields.
The latest to bring fame to this city is Charles Bruce Millholand
of 517 Winthrop avenue, who wrote Napoleon of Broadway" upon
the stage and movie versions of Twentieth Century" were based.
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the law would be pretty sure to shell him to death
as he drove into the next town.
But unfortunately for the prestige of the western
Sheriff and the great six-gun tradition, there began
10 occur a series of miSdeeds in the course of which
sheriff and citizen were outshot by native badmen
and certain officers of the law, to their great en-
oarraSsment, they were not only disarmed but
abducted.
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THE WINNING OF THE EAST
E0Nood IT G Dri7o DnhLic0to1 nm H1St NcnLo bv NO7u0t

This is the last of six stories on ST.
IBERIA and the immense colonization plan
which the Soviet Union has launched
for this vast region. In this series.
William Philip Simms, now IN a world
tour for The Times, tells how this
winning of the east" duplicates Amer
ica's winning of the west"
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of the veterans of a great pro-
fession, and so it became quite
unnecessary to try the case
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The bidding:

No one can accuse North Of not
trying to play the hand in no
trumps. Six no-trumps cannot be
defeated South, however, belonged
to the school of thought which be-
lieves that it's always safer to play
a hand in a suit She said that she
visualized the North hand as con-
tanning the ace-jack Of spades four
times, the ace of hearts, the ace OF
clubs and the ace-queen OF dia-
monds.
If I'd had that hand" remarked
North, why wouldn't I have opened
with one no-trump?"
South then attacked from another
angle. North had the ace-queen OF
diamonds, the ace-king of spades,
the ace of hearts and two or three
small clubs.
why would I jump to three no
trumps without anything in an un-
bid Suit?" asked North.
You must have known that had
something in clubs from my free
overcan."
Possibly. But with that hand and
the lead coming up to my ace-queen
of diamonds, 1 can make six no
trumps as easily as six hearts, can't
I? Even if East doesn't lead dia-
monds"
South finally admitted that she
should have catered to her part
ner's whims and bid six no-trumps
over five no-trumps.
I am almost forgetting the play
of the hand-and the reason for the
title of this article. Both East and
South put up exceptionally fine
play on the first trick.