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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-13
A MUCH-NEEDED PURGE

ONE Of the next steps in the federal gov
~ ernment's war against gangsters, accord
ing to dispatches from Washington, will be
a drive on crooked lawyers. Department OF
justice officials are about to start sharp
campaign against the attorneys who use I'M
scrupulous methods to keep crooks out of
Jail, and the campaign has the hearty in
dorsement of the president of the American
Bar Association.
No big city gang is without its legal de-
partment." In many cases the lawyers who
serve in that capacity lose all thought of
their responsibility to the public, and actu-
ally connive at and abet illegal acts.
Every accused man has the right to be
represented by counsel, of course, and there
is no disposition to infringe on that right
But the lawyer who becomes regular ally
of the gangster is a menace to the public and
a campaign that will put him out of business
is very badly needed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-13
SAY IT ISN'T so. MRS. F

OUR Mrs. Walter Ferguson in her column
~ has cracked down on us detective-story
readers for making love of vicarious murder
a national virtue" She criticises Franklin
Roosevelt and the rest of us for seeking es-
cape from our prosaic lives in stories of grew
some bloodshed.
We submit that she has taken a sur
prisingly puritanical attitude. Her own
state. Oklahoma, was settled by adventure
lovers, and law and order was established by
rough and quick fingered gentry called, for
reason, peace officers"
Further, these light works of detective
story art, the good ones at least, pose definite
and intricate problems of human behavior in
finitely superior to crossword puzzles for
those with analytical or vacant minds. The
blood to which she objects is synthetic and
tastefully arranged, not the stain of true
tragedy.
Mrs. Ferguson, We suspect you OF knitting
when YOU seek surcease from a columnists
cares. Why can't We read mystery stories to
distract us from our troubles?
Take back them harsh words, Lucia Say
it isn't sol
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-13
FIGHT MISFORTUNE

IT Is a queer quirk Of fate that the worst
l. drought IN modern times should hit us
Just as we are trying to drag ourselves out Of
our worst depression.
And while there isn't much similarity be-
tween the two it Is interesting 10 note that
each is arousing IN Us the same sort Of re-
action.
Industry collapseS and what do We do?
We adopt action that We never had used be-
fore: We subject industry 10 government con-
troll. put millions Of people on federal pay
rolls. spend enormous sums on public works.
1evalue our currency. and make billions of
dollars In loans available from the public till.
We so farther; We begin great expert
rnents such as those IN the Tennessee valley,
We spend millions on subsistence homesteads.
we talk Of 6ecentralizng industry and NOV
ing workers out OF city slunS into senli-rural
surroundings-au in the hope that We shall
somehow reaUange our life together so that
We need not suffer this way again.
On the heels Of this. along comes terrific
drought. Dust clouds rise from the beds Of
water courses, broad lakes turn into dry
plsins. green fields turn brown. So We put
engineers 10 work building dams and I'M
pounding streams. We have our foresters begin
the creation of forest that VIII reach from
Canada 10 Mexico, We talk OF shifting hun
dreds Of thousands Of people from land that
never may be green again to regions which IL
rigation schemes viii turn from desert into
farmland.
Once again. We are trying to rearrange the
existing system so that a cataclysm ike this
need not happen again.
Now here is the most interesting part OF
Il al.
Both Of these disasters. drought and de-
preston. are the sort OF thing that used TO
be looked upon os acts OF God" pure and
simple-natural events which could neither be
prevented nor amehorated.
Now. however. we have begun to realize
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-13
THE WIND
BY RUTH PERKINS

The wind dips silver fingers in my
hair,
Clad in rustung gray she sweeps
along.
Her small feet whisper on the grass,
debonair
She sings ceasless minor ca
dence song.
met her by quivering aspen
grove,
Beside a sunken creek bed dried
and white,
I saw the trees leaves shiver and I
stroye
To catch her gown before she
passed from sight.
I saw her in a thousand different
moods,
But always she eluded my ems
brace,
She flew too far above me in the
woods,
And swept too fast before in open
space.
Oh. tickle fantasy, oh. haunting
sprite,
Increasingly l hear your restless
wings,
I loved the wind, thing beyond my
sight,
7 loved a VOICES that your voice
that sings?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-13
MONDAY. AUG y. 1884
THE ALUMINIUM STRIKE

THE aluminium strike partakes Of the drama
Il OF Dayids battle with Goliath One Of
the newest labor unions is challenging one Of
the worlds mightiest industries.
Labor has an undoubted right to bargain
collectively and to receive a decent wage con-
tract. Its demands for the check-of and that
the company make no contracts except through
this particular union are open to question.
No two sides to a conflict ever agree as to
the issues. Workers complain that the COM
pany will not sign contract with the alumni
mum Workers Council, an affiliate Of the
A. 2. of L.. though they say it represents 80
per cent Of the workers.
They complain that different wages are
paid at different company plants and that
work-sharIng schemes IN effect at the COM
pany's East St. Louis plant cut the mems
monthly income to less than that paid families
on relief.
The company says the union is demanding
a closed shop and that this is contrary to the
letter and spirit Of MIRA
Fortunately the country now has ma
tional labor relations board, created after
much bitter experience with industrial con-
flict to 60 into just such matters, weigh the
justice of each claim. and reach a fair de-
cision as to what should be done. The board
has sent an investigator to study the alumni
mum dispute and can be relied on to act as
umpire If its services are needed.
one thing is certain. If the Aluminium
Company of America, one Of the largest, rich
est and most unfettered by competition of all
American corporations, can not stand collec-
tive bargaining and fair wage contracts, then
our industrial system is indeed in a bad way.
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that we helped bring them on ourselves. We
invited the depression by unwise speculation.
by a poor distribution Of the fruits OF pros
perity, by imperfect alignment Of our economic
machinery.
We invited the drought by destroying our
timber. by exploiting virgin soil too extern
sively, by permitting erosion and stream de-
pletion to 20 on unchecked.
And Just as we helped cause these dlsas-
ters, We now have the idea that we can help
cure them. We are not sitting with folded
hands waiting for things to get better; we are
rolling up our sleeves and going out to make
them better.
We are refusing to accept our nisfortunes,
any longer, as unacceptable.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-13
PERSEVERANCE PLUS

THOUSANDS of families draw back from
Il abandoning their homes in the drought
stricken northwest and setting out to seek
new homes in friendlier surroundings.
Always they have been people who, gen.
Grafton after generation, rebuilt their homes
destroyed by floods. moved back up the sides
OF erupted volcanoes.
But perseverance alone has not enabled
man to survive in his fight with nature. He
has to use reason.
Nearly seven centuries ago, the great north
west suffered a drought of twenty-three years
duration. And that was the date the Pueblo
Indians migrated south and saved their civili-
zation.
Deep in the dry and sandy lands of the
northwest are imbedded the roots of the peo-
pie who today are reluctant to leave their
homes as desolate monuments to defeat. But
nature gives no quarter there. The soil is
gone. Thousands of farms never can yield
livelihood.
Here is a different problem Of social en-
gineering. and it is being approached in the
only humane and intelligent way-by a plan
of voluntary cooperation. 1t hardly was ne
cessary for the President 10 re-aSsure the
people. as he did in his speech Monday, that
the government viii not try to force any fam
ily to move against its will. But perhaps his
statement will silence those who have been
disappearing the governments plan.
Families wanting to stay on the barren
land and continue the unequal battle, may
do sO-and with society's blessings as well as
society's misgivings. But those who want to
move Will be helped TO start anew on more
fertile soil.
This voluntary tranSplanting of families
need not injure pride nor rob them Of perse-
verance. 1t only means that their heroic spirit
Will have a better chance to achieve happi-
ness and plenty where nature is kindlier.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-13
LINKED HANDS IN PACIFIC?

L UROPEAN diplomats are limiting these
II days that if the 1885 naval conference
fails there viii develop a new, far-reaching
understanding" between the United States
and Great Britain in the Pacific.
It is reported that the two nations would
discuss a joint naval defense plan, reaching
from Alaska to Australia. Plans for con-
Quoting joint operations against a common
foe would be devised; new British naval
bases would be constructed in Australia, and
would be available to American ships in case
Of need
All this of course, is on the supposition
that Japan viii insist on full naval equality
and thereby will precipitate a naval con-
struction race. 1t goes without saying that
there is not the slightest confirmation Of the
gossip at either Washington or London.
The development might be a logical one
at that. The nations do have common inter-
ests in the Pacific. 1t hardly would be sur
prising if they sought to find common means
Of defending them.
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1OhoIly diSapproUe of uhot yOM sag and a0iU
defend to the death your right to say it-VoItGjre.

department of the government to
provide an even more efficient type
of service, but the actual construc-
ton will furnish work for consid-
cradle number of men over an ex-
tended period, thus contributing in
no small measure to the alienation
of local, economic distress.
We also we're pleased to learn that
Indiana limestone is to be used in the
construction which will mean a
boon to the quarry industry of the
state, so that it appears this grant
should be cause for rejoicing not
only in this city but elsewhere in
the state as well.
What little opposition there has
been TO this improvement was con-
Cerned, as we recall it, with the ar
gument that rented quarters now
utilized by federal agencies in pri-
vate buildings, will be vacated with
consequent loss to property owners.
This in a sense is TO be regretted,
but if properly analysed is an argyll
ment that readily can be dissipated.
In the first place it is poor economy,
from the taxpayers viewpoint, to
permit a situation wherein public
affairs are administered in quarters
diffused and widely separated. 1t
is inconVenient to the public in the
first place and a handicap TO public
servants and efficient service.
Those who think these vacated
Offices will not be rented have little
faith in the future of their city.
Indianapolis and the state, as a
matter of fact, although they have
suffered during the last few years,
have not been as badly off as a
great many other communities and
states in this nation. There are
many indications, not the least Of
which is the proposed enlargement
of the postoffice, made necessary by
increased business, to demonstrate
adequately that this city and state
have come through the worst Of the
depression, that business generally
is picking up and that better times
are we'll on the way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-13
THINKS GAMBLING NO
WORSE THAN LIQUOR
BY Hardboiled Egg.

By Hardboiled Egg.
The Times has presented a strange
and pitiful sight this last week,
blabbing away at the top of its voice
about the evils of slot machines and
about gang warfare over what it
euphemistically calls these illegal
gambling devices"
Is not The Times a liberal news
paper, a great professor Of belief in
personal freedom? Well, then, why
not apply to the matter Of gambling
of all sorts, including that in slot
machines, the same specious philos-
ophy applied in pre-repeal Times
editorials against prohibition.
No, Mr.. Editor, slot machines are
no worse than liquor-really, not as
bad. If you encourage one, you
must expect the other. Be consist
ent, at least.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-13
SHOTGUN CLUB
CALLED NUISANCE

By A. E. NJ.
In watching the Message Center,
I see many subjects and many
views on each subject. Many are
old subjects, but here is new one.
The people living just outside the
city northwest are confronted with
a new kind of evil, namely a shot
gun club. Until recently this gun
club amused themselves on Tues
day afternoons only, but now besides
Tuesday, it is Thursday night till II
and often on ither nights also. If
you think that is funny, just try to
sleep while that is going on. The
floodlights which light the whole
neighborhood are bad enough, but
the shotguns at times are almost
unbearabIe. If this isn't public
nuisance, you name it.
But until the neighbors get riled
up enough, all that we can do is
pray for it to rain hard on Thursday
nights.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-13
REJOICES OVER
POSTOFFICE GRANT
By Times Reader.

By Times Reader.
Permit me to add word Of
praise to those officials, civic
minded citizens and groups whose
loyalty to the best interests Of the
city of indianapolis, after many
months of arduous labor, has been
rewarded at last by the postoffice
department approval Of a 100000
grant for the construction Of wing
to the Federal building.
Not only will this addition i'm
prove the appearance of the struc-
ture and make it possible for this
much-appreciated and hard working
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-13
SUGGESTS TIMING
ON TRAFFIC SIGNALS
BY PerpIexed.

By PerpleNed.
Just why is it that city officials
insist on keeping Indianapolis in
the small town class? I am the
owner Of an automobile and as such
have occasion a couple Of hundred
times a week to pass automatic
traffic signals.
Whenever I get the green signal
without first having to stop, I con-
slider it a red letter day. It. seems
the city does all it can to slow up
and snarl traffic. In most cities in
which I have been, every effort is
made to time traffic signals so that
a motorist can go at least a few
blocks without stopping.
North Capitol avenue is case in
point. The signals there are so
timed that a motoriSt who makes
two or more signals without having
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-13
Capital Capers
BY GEORGE ABELL

TT all began over the fondness of a Dachshund
puppy for diamondback rapin-that sue
culent Maryland delicacy so priced by gourmetS
The puppy used to belong to Sumner Welles,
assistant secretary of state About year ago.
Mr.. Welles presented the baby Dachshund to his
secretary Miss Anna CIarkson. She always had
wanted a dog. With due ceremony, it was
christened Wilhelmina, in honor Of the queen of
Holland.
Wilhemna since that day has prospered and
grown sleek in true Wilhelmna style. And what
an appetite! Wilhelmina would eat anything
dog biscuits bit of old shoe, newspapers and
T-bone steaks. All went well so long Miss
ClarksOn was there to watch But last week
Miss Clarkson went on her vacation
She returned to find that Wilhelmina had
just enjoyed few nips at diamondback terra
pin the pet of Miss Clarksons aunt.
'Awoo! A-Woo!" howled Wilhemna.
cts toothache," said Miss Clarkson, SYM
pathetically.
She sent for DR.. Irving Cashell, the veteri-
marian, who diagnosed the case. Wilhelmina
had bitten the shell of the terrapin little too
forcibly. The terrapin was easily patched up
with mercurochrome and a pat on the head
but Wilhelminas teeth still hurt.
A FABLE DR.. NIikas Bagdonas, charge daft
L n flares of Lithuania entertained a group of
Washington correspondents at supper in his
legation.
Most interesting was the liquid refreshment
at the party. 1t included Lithuanian vodka so
per cent triple distilled out of rye potatoes and
barley; Lithuanian Hquer named KiupnikaS
which tastes of vanilla, and is composed of tWen-
ty herbs, with honey alcohol as a base; some
excellent French sauterne; cocktails which are
not shaken but placed on ice twenty-siX hours
before the fiesta the essential whisky and Sodas
Officials of the division of eastern European
affairs of the state department, headed by Chs
Robert F. Kelley, discussed Lithuanian beverages
as they tested liqueurs in the rose-colored draw
ing room.
Next morning they were all wondering how
to spell "KiupnikaS!"
In the course of the evening arrived a wire
from jovial Albanian Minister Faik Konitza, now
basking on the North Shore. He sent regrets and
regards. He reliSheS Kiupnikas and vodka has
frequently slipped both at the home Of hospitable
Bagdonas.
CTATE DEPARTMENT minds must not be-
~ come hot or f1ustered over international af-
fairs. installation Of cooling system has been
started by the government.
The Office of Cordell Hull was the first one
thus honored.
Feels mighty nice" was Mr.. HuIIs comment
Department attaches thought So too They
fingered as long as possible on the threshold
when called on business. Undersecretary of
State Phillips Office also will be ice cooled.
An amusing contrast was noted in connec-
ton with the installation of the new device
Black mustached, slim, alert Edward T. Wales
graduate of Lawrenceville, Princeton, the Amer
lean Bankers Institute and Columbia law
school, IS acting as assistant to Secretary Hull
He will work in cool atmosphere while his
predecessor Harry Mcbride, trudges tropical
helmeted, through equatorial Africa on a special
diplomatic mission.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-13

but certainly believe that the sug-
gestion implied in the slot machine
cartoon is very timely and deserves
commentator.
The idea of the "big shot gambler"
looking with approval on the young
sters getting their start in vice is
worth pointing out, and I hope other
readers of The Times also will take
notice.
Another of Mr.. Berg's recent pic
lures also struck me as particularly
significant. I refer to 1.-THE End OF
the Trail" appearing July %, after
word of Dillinger'S death had been
heard around the world.
That cartoon was certainly a most
graphic illustration of the futility of
a life of crime.
Good work, Mr.. Berg. Keep it up!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-13
OBJECTS TO STENCIL
FROM PACKING PLANTS
By S. A. R

By S. A. R.
The meat packing concerns of the
city are growing fat on government
contracts for the slaughter of cattle
from the stricken drought areas.
Concurrent with this wholesale
killing campaign, the city is being
overpowered with the horrible
stencil emanating from these same
packing plants who are prof1ting by
the slaughter of cattle bought with
the taxpayers money. Why can't
these firms be made to take precau-
lions to prevent citizens Of Indian
apolis from being asphyxiated? This
deplorable condition does not exist
only in the downtown district sur
rounding the plants, but the stencil
spreads as far north as Forty-fourth
street on some days.
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themselves. This appears to be
such an innocent pastime that
many young boys and girls squan-
der the hard-earned money their
parents give them in this man
ner.
One step leads to another; there
fore, I consider these penny ma
chimes the most iniquitous Of all.
I hope the police will be sue
cessful in their efforts to stamp
out this "disease,' and that they
will not stop until every gambling
machine Of any kind is con-
fiscated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-13

BY Mrs. w. L. B.
Congratulations to The Times
for publishing the truth about
the slot machine setup in Indian
apolis and Marion county.
May I offer one suggestion? I
strongly recommend that not only
the nickel, dime and quarter ma
chimes be hunted down, but also
those insidious and apparently
harmless penny machines.
Some Of the penny machines re-
turn minis and candy as pre-
miums; others return the coins
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to stop is lucky. I have tried all
speeds from 20 to SO miles an hour
without success.
It seems to me that the city
should do everything possible to
speed up, and not tie-up, traffic.
Can't The Times get a little action
in this respect?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-13
TRAFFIC SIGNAL
CHANGE APPROVED
BY Automobile Owner.

BY Automobile Owner.
Please permit me to take a few
lines of your Message Center COL
umn to express my approval Of the
city's recent decision to remove all
automatic traffic signals from the
center of street intersections.
Fatalities and serious injuries re-
sulting from automobiles hitting
these signals, often through no fault
of the driver, have been far too
many.
Although it may cost more to
have two signals on the sidewalks,
instead of one in the middle Of the
street, the diminished accident risk
will more than compensate for
money thus spent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-13
GAMBLING EXPOSE
IS PRAISED
By Times Reader.

BY Times Reader.
Generalization to The Times for
its campaign against the slot
machine racket" in the city of In
dianapolis and in Marion county.
It is high time something construc-
tive was done to drive out these
gambling devices and, more impor-
tant, the men who stand behind
them accepting in their politically
creased hands the money derived
from the machines.
Most of us know who is behind
the local situation and how small
a part the Louisville element IS
playing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-13
READER Is THRILLED
BY BERG CARTOONS

By F. F. II.
The cartoon by Mr.. Berg in your
issue OF Aug, II prompts me to
write a word of praise for The Times
staff cartOOnist.
For many months I have admired
the cartoons appearing on your edi-
torial page, but with the cracking
down" on the slot machine racket
in your columns and the accom-
panying cartoon, I am moved to
voice my personal congratulations.
I am not a moralist by inclination,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-13
The Message Center

(Times readers are inUited to cypress
their Uiet0s in these columns. Make Your
letters short, so all can hare q chance.
Limit them to ESQ qoords or Iess.J
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So They Say

If women's hands were occupied.
they would smoke fewer cigarets and
be less nervous and neurasthenic-
Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, mother
of the President.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-13

Turkish newspapers are not allowed to print
pictures having sex appeal. &c. for all that,
Turkey might as well go back to the harem
and the VEIL