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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-10
Opposed to Superstition

A MOTHER fact, not generally appreciated about
Mather. is that he urged innoculation for small
poX in 1712. The Smithsonian authorities say of
him that The was earnest seeker after truth and
had little patience with the purely superstitous or
fanciful"
His book shows that he had relatively accurate
idea OF the immensities of the universe.
After stating that 'the learned HuygenS has
suspicion that every star may be a sun to other
worlds in their several vorces," he goes on to say
that the distance of the nearest fixed stars is at
least 24O4 $50 $4,000 miles, which is so great that
a cannon ball, going all The way with the same We
Ioclty 1t has when it parts from the mouth of the
gun, would scarce arrive there in 100000 years
Great God, what is Thy immensely"
co not know where Mather got his figure for
the distance to the nearest stars. The figure is
specific to an extent that leads believe that it
was the result Of some rather involved calculation
But the interesting thing about it is that 1t is of
the right order Of magnitude, being a figure in the
trillions 1t is however, more than ten times too
small the distance to the nearest star being approx
mately twenty-five trillion miles.
But let us not forget that the distance to the
nearest star was not measured until the beginning
OF the nineteenth century-in 1889 to be exact-and
that true appreciation of the size of the galaxy
did not come until the beginning of the present CEN
fury
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-10

says, smooth blue seas, one
whale, numerous porpoiSeS, Span
ish 'men-o'-war,' watermelons,
horse races, uniforms, foggy Lon
don, and very dead Portuguese
royalty lying fully bearded in
glaSs-covered collins in the cathe-
dral in Lisbon"
In January, 1924, Jack sailed to
the Mediterranean and spent sew
eral months darting back and
forth to Algiers, Egypt, Greece,
Italy. etc. From there he vent
to Paris and saw the Olympic
games at Paris that year.
He entered Phillips Exeter
Academy in the fall of 1924 and
was graduated in 1928 In 1926,
he spent the summer months in
Europe, with special emphasis on
France in 1928, got himself a job
on a liner and worked his way to
England, where he obtained a JOB
in the London bureau of the
United Press, working there until
the Olympic games at Amsterdam,
and then trotting over to that
Netherlands city to help cover the
games for the United Press.
In the fall of 1928, he entered
Yale university, with the idea Of
taking medicine. After two years,
he decided that he would sooner
be a newspaper man than a doc
tor, so he turned and majored in
history. He was graduated from
Yale in 1882.
IN 1881, he hurried back to
l. Europe, working in the United
Press bureau in Paris for three
months, and then going to Mos
COW, by way of Berlin. BY chance,
he happened to be on the same
train as George Bernard Shaw.
"And there went another illu-
sion," recalls Jack. He isn't
really God
Jack had a grand time in Mos
COW. The night he left the tenn
perature was about 102 degrees
above and he donned a Russian
shirt for comfort. In the party
were a group of American news
paper men and while they we're
waiting for the train, a heavily
laden Russian peasant approached
the group.
He surveyed the entire group
closely, then walked up to Jack
and poured out a flood Of fluent
Russian.
He wanted to know when a Ger
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-10

kuo fracas over the Chinese East
ern Railway was at its height.
From Hardin, Jack headed back
to Peiping, Shanghai, Hong Kong,
Manila, Singapore, Penang, Co.
lombo, Bombay, Port Said, Alex
andria, Naples, up to Paris, and
then back to the good old U. S. A.
Il Il II
TITO freshen Up on the old sod,
4 Jack spent six weeks in the
New York office of the United
Press, where he had served dur
ing the summer of 1880.
From New York, Jack headed
straight to Indianapolis, and
pumped himself into seat on the
copy desk of The Times, where he
has been ever since. He is in
charge of inside makeup and
spends half his working day in
the composing room watching
forms being pushed through into
the stereotype department.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-10


TACK was born in New York,
~ but he has Indianapolis to
thank for his name, and every
time he explains that his name
is not John, but plain Jack, he
has to dig into history.
When his father, Roy w. How
ard. spent his boyhood in Indian
apolis his nickname was Jack"
So when the stork dropped boy
in on the Roy w. HoWards On
Aug. 81, 1910, the name became
Jack in memory of the Indian
apoliS days.
Although the usual number Of
visiting ladies discovered that
Jack resembled his father tSrong-
ly, an equal amount found that
he also reSembled his mother.
Competent witnesses, however,
testify that Jack bears more than
slight resemblance to the male
size II MS pdrenCage.
Il remember" says Jack, "horse
cars in New York way downtown;
motoring in high, brass-bound
gasoline chariots, the tires of
which exploded frequently, and
required fourteen men to change;
the gentle Spanish padre who
lived in the same apartment
house, and hours spent in the
United Press Offices in the old
World building, drawing pictures
on copy paper with thick, black
copy pencils"
Jack moved to Larchmont, N.
Y, in 1915, and stayed there I'M
til 1913, when he weet to Los
Angles. In the far west, young
Mr.. Howard first felt the strong
arm Of the law.
His crime was emptying the
content of a water pistol into the
faces of passing motorists, women
preferred. Miraculously, Jack man
aged to escape arrest and a long
period in prison.
y .
Jack moved back to New York
y in the winter of 1918 and
when an attack of influenza laid
both Jack and hsi father law, the
pair made a three months trip to
South America. They voyaged
down the west coast, over the An
des, from the east coast to Europe
and from Europe home.
Jack remembers that trip well.
"BullfghtS, bright colors," he
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tain train left. And of the whole
group, the gentleman the peasant
selected as a Russian was the only
one not a fluent spieler of Rus
sian.
After his graduation from Yale,
Jack journeyed westward, paus-
ing in Hawaii, and then going to
Toxic, where he spent three
months working for the Japan
Advertiser. From there he went
to Shanghai, where he worked
four months on the Shanghai
Evening Post and Mercury before
packing his bags again and 60
ing north to Peiping, via Man.
churia.
Ate returning to Peiping, Mr..
Howard found himself at the
fringe of an excellent war between
Chinese and japanese. Jack re-
ceived an offer to go back to Har-
bin for the United Press.
! Jack flew back to that hotbed
at the time the Soviet-Manchuo-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-10

The main reason that the Splen-
did touring productions of Arthur
Oberfelder were withdrawn from
Indianapolis was that there We're
not enough people present to
make the season profitable. II
English's had broken even and
not made a cent profit, the sea-
son would have gone on.
Plans are being made by sew
eral important companies for
touring next fall. One of these
is the Abbey Theater Players
from the Abbey theater, Dublin,
Ireland.
Do We want to see these great
people in equally great plays? If
we do, then we had better get
busy.
Please write me and let me
know if you want indianapolis in
Guided on the tour. I will turn
those letters over to Vincent
Burke, manager of English'S.
Fred w. Jordan, representing
the Abbey Players, has sent me
the following letter:
ALDER & WickeS, Inc, who Spon-
sored the last two successful tours
Of the Abbey Theatre Players
from the Abbey theater, Dublin.
Ireland, now definitely announce
the return in the fall Of these ia
nous players who, with their bril-
liant repertoire and harmonized
beauty of acting, again left an
indelible impression on American
audiences last season.
They will arrive in Boston the
first week in october to start
their transcontinental tour, be-
ginning with three weeks in New
England, before they arrive at the
Martin Beck theater in New York
the latter part of the month. The
New York and Chicago engage
ments will be cut to three weeks
and Boston to two, so they will
be able to fulfill engagements that
other cities were clamoring Tor
last season, but could not be filed
on account Of the pronounced
success in these cities.
The tour next season will take
the company from coast to coast
and will constitute their longest
Americans stay which will, in all
probability, be their last visit for
some years to come. as it was only
because of the recent conference
between Lennox Robinson, the
managing director Of the Abbey
theater, and Ebert A. Wickes, that
the other directors of the theater
decided 10 let the players make
this tour
THE repertoire for next season
will contain a whole series of new
plays, famous in the Abbey roper
toire, including the stirring and
vital The Plough and the Stars,
for which American audiences
clamored last year.
They will also bring with them
such proved brilliant successes as:
The Playboy of the Western
World by ]. NJ. Synge; June and
the Paycock,' by Sean O'Casey:
The Whiteheaded Boy by Len
nox Robinson; The New Gossoon.'
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-10
POLICE QUESTION 4
IN ALLEGED HOLDUP
City Man Says He Was
Robbed of $50.

Police today held four men on
vagrancy charges for investigation,
following complaint last night by
Oscar Wolf, 80, of Ala South Gray
street, that two men picked him up
in a car and robbed him of $50 be-
fore throwing him from the car.
Wolf, slated on intoxication
charges, furnished police the license
number of the car. Later they ar
rested Raymond Morales, 25, Craig
hotel, and Robert Pike, 20, Of 3501A
East washington street, said to have
been identified by Wolf, and Joseph
Horger, So, of 1870 West Merrill
street, and Jesse Acres, 30, of 1704
East Tenth street.
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himself am waiting to hear him repeat this ad-
monition 70 the hotel owners. hotel is not Little
principally where anything goes according TO the
desire Of the management. I think guest within
lobby should be just safe as a lone pedestrian
late at night upon unfrequented alley. 1t is my
serious suggestion 10 the mayor that he place cops
in those corridors the hired thugs have shown
themselves more than bit too free with their
backjac
In fact, if I want to walk into any hostelry in
town and say in a loud voice L think the working
conditions here ntOleTable" believe that will
still remain within my legal privileges, and think
I would be justified in asking for police escort
to protect me in my rights. even within the Park
avenue jungles which lie somewhere east of Suez.
It may be that under the strictest sort OF legal
Interpretation young who starts to make
speech in the dining room is guilty OF disorderly
conduct. I wouldn't be too Of that, because
I've made lot Of speeches in hotel banquet rooms,
and nothing happened except that some Of the
listeners yawned and departed
But in addition TO law there is such thing as
custom and precedent. On numerous occasions
have seen well-to-do patrons make bowling nul-
sances of themselves and get from the hotel man
agement more than playful nod of Naughty!
Naughty" They were disturbing everybody but
they didn't happen to be touching on economic ques-
tions-and so they got by.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-10

In the other cell Irma May
Harding, Slight and rather pretty,
patiently awaits trial for the STAY
ing of an aged salesman in hotel
in East New York street, Nov. 8.
Police say that Irna May aided
her husband in the robbery Of the
salesman and then killed him with
a hammer.
Irma May is not a bad cell
mate at all. She has become re-
signed to her confinement, &C
cording to prison attaches, and
spends most of the day wistfully
contemplating the sunlight in the
little courtyard, over which the
machine-gunner presides so
grimly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-10

Jack is very fond of dogs and
he is a fishing and hunting de-
votee. He likes anything connected
with the sea. He likes Wagner,
little else in the way of classical
music.
His favorite authors are Conrad,
Somerset Vaughan, John Gals
worthy, j. B. Priestly, Ernest
Hemingway, Aldous Huxley, Toll
stoi, Faulkner and Voltaire.
He likes the theater, but goes to
few movies.
And he confesses to two am
billions. He wants to see some kid
carrying a base fiddle to music
lesson, and he would like to see
something like chop Suey in
China.
P. Sizes engaged and he gets
a letter day. 1t keeps him in
good hUnlor,
Next-S. ]. Doss.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-10

IN the mems section of the jail
Il Teddy" Mathers, the en-
balming student who has con-
fessed, according to police, that he
killed the Rev. Gaylord Saunders
"for $10," PAGES a cell, his curly,
dark hair rumpled and his eyes
heavy with sorrow and bewilder-
n1ent.
Masil Roe of Coalmont, bust
ness college student, held as an
accomplice in the Staying of the
Rev. Saunders, has been placed
in a cell considerable distance
from the one occupied by Mathers.
He, too, wears a bewildered ex-
preston as he moodily PAGES his
narrow compartment or sits, head
cupped in hand, on the edge of
his hard, prison cot. He has not
slept much since his arrest. Some
times he converses in low tones
with Edward Foggy) Dean,
charged with taking part in the
killing of Sergeant Lester Jones.
Four Negroes, Herbert. Johnson,
Thomas outlaw, Robert Coffey
and Harvey Highbaugh, all of In
dianapolis, are charged by the
police with violating the injunc-
ton, Thou Shalt Not Kill"
Still conscience stricken former
Sergeant Otis Edge Of Fl. Harri-
son, reads in his cell or walks up
and down like the other prisoners.
He confessed, police say, on Dec. 6,
that he murdered his wife, in
Lawrence, one year ago. The SER
geant, square jawed soldier, re-
turned to Indianapolis from
Brown county to give himself up
and confess to the crime which
the coroner believed a suicide.
~A@AGA anu 4O4C1Sll-lOOk11lS,
- Vasil Papas, who arrived in
Marion county jail on Christmas
day. charged with killing his
landlady, when she is alleged to
have turned off his gas in
rooming house in Northeast street
has little to say. Nor has Frank
Straudt, 1925 Deloss street, who
police say killed man in Septem-
Der by throwing a sickle at his
head during an argument.
The biggest little 'murderer's'
jail in the country" says Q deputy
sheriff in feeble effort to make
a joke.
But the machine gunner on
guard in the steel cage is a grim
fellow. All day he squints through
a portfolio in his little fort, across
at murders row." where signs
and the steady pacing of the
prisoners are almost the only
sounds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-10
M. Z. Tracy Says

A TRUCK DRIVER was shot to death in New
York the other day. He had load of
cgarets valued at $4,000. When gang of thugs
told him to scram and leave it for them he put lid
a fight I have heard at least dozen people saw
that this was foolish He didn't have a dogs
chance, in their opinion, and should have known
better than to throw away his life
Possibly he would have come to the same con-
clusion had he been given time enough to psyche
analyze himself. AS it was he had to act on i'm
pulse.
Impulse is largely matter of emotional train
ing. In one way or another, this truck driver had
acquired the belief that his duty to look after
whatever was put ip his charge. Such belief was
quite popular with our fathers and grandfathers
Quite few of them went down with their ships for
no better reason than to set the right kind Of ex-
ample
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-10
DECATUR'S LIGHT PLANT
RATE SLASH APPROVED
Consumers Saved $4,000 Annually
by Commission Ruling.

Rate reductions totaling about
$4,000 year for the Decatur mu-
nicipal electric plant were approved
yesterday by the public service COM
mission. The order is effective as OF
Feb. l.
The commission yesterday set
March as date for final hearings
on consolidated rate petitions Of
South Bend, Elkhart and Misha-
waka, against gas rates charged by
the Northern Indiana Public Serv-
ice Comp ary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-10
Battles We're for Ideals

A Woodrow Wilson said, there comes
L n time when you've simply got to fight, even
though the chance of winning may look slim and
even though you couldn't prove that winning was
worth the risk in material value.
Most of our truly constructive battles were waged
for ideals not possessions and best loved heroes
are those who sacrificed their lives for the sake Of
principle.
Modernism may have produced philosophy that
seems safe for the moment, but it survive the
ages?
1t is intriguing to dream that We have reached
point where resistance and risk are unnecessary,
where conduct is right if it pays and where we can
afford to determine what ought to be done in given
situation by merely asking ourselves whether it
means profit or loss.
1t is comforting to imagine that we have nothing
to worry about as far crime is concerned, after
We have hired so many cops and elected many
sheriffs. But unhappily 1t doesn't work out that
way. You just can't make government so strong
that the ordinary citizen doesn't have TO do his bit.
that the crowd can stand back and laugh while
policemen do the fighting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-10
1t Is the Wrong Theory

1T is more rational, perhaps, to let thugs and
l. thieves take what they want, but America never
could have been settled the United States estab-
lshed, on that theory.
Nor can the question be decided by trying to fig
ure out whether truck load of cigarets is worth
mans life
There are principles which it is impossible to
appraise in terms of money or explain by any known
mathematical formula They exercise a profound
influence on societys ability to maintain peace and
order.
The Russians, for instance, do not measure the
seriousness Of sabotage by the value Of what was
destroyed. 1t is the principle that worries them
1t was the principle that worried our forefathers
with reference to the stamp act tax on tea They
could have paid, but what would the theory have
cost had they not resisted it?
This truck driver stood for something around
which it is possible to create healthy social condi-
tons The gangsters who assailed him did not.
Live towards never have made politics honest,
government sound, law strong conscience i'm
portant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-10
NAME CADET OFFICERS
AT SHORTRIDGE HIGH
Eight Students Receive r. o. 7. C.
Appointments

Announcement of appointment Of
eight new cadet officers in the
Shortridge high school r. o. T. c.
department was made today by Ser
geant Melton Rhine.
They are Cadet Major James
Harris, Cadet Captain william Nc
Abee, and Walter Zeher; Cadet First
Lieutenants Foster Clippinger and
Murry Dulberger; Cadet Second
Lieutenants Arthur Aldous, Robert
Hollowell and Richard Ware.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-10
insult Fights Expulsion
BIZ United Press

By United Press
ATHENS, Feb. 10.-Friends Of
Samuel insult, Chicago utilities
magnate, fought today to obtain
postponement of the expulsion order
against him, under which he has
been ordered to leave the country
BY Tuesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-10
Signs and Silence
Largest Number of Slayer Suspects in Years Are
Confined in Marion County JAIL

gunner the steel of the Marion
county grim fellow. All day he squn through
his little fort at murdrer row. where signs and the
pacing prisoners almost the only sounds.
cells confined
murder than county has many year.
Saunders steaky and disheved
is cell between
They Matte Ritter Negro
celmate because she constantly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-10

maintaining law and order 1
have in mind the recent battle
az the Waldorf. If q striker so
much as booed outside that
august entrance he was set
down in the minds Of many as
a rufian. But when hotel dicks
slug guests for the sin CT walk
ing out there are those who ap-
plaud the hotels private strong
arm men as defenders Of the
Constitution and the bill OF
rights.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-10
II Seems TO Me
By
Haywood Broun

I USED to be a barroom brawler-and not so bad,
either-but that in my younger days. Prob
ably wasn't good enough. for have grown up with
a hatred and distrust Of violence. Recent events
have made 1t hard TO defend this position logically,
yet hope 70 hang for at least a while longer
which may be long enough.
But, at any rate, I never sufficiently llogi-
cal to froWn on one kind OF violence and applaud
another. which sometimes goes under the name Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-10
ROUNDING ROUND
THEATERS D. : H1cKM 1

D good time make arrangements for the legitimate
IN in this city.
problem this question-are
to legitimate starting next fall?
that question those who buy
tickets. That brutal but is the truth
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-10
The Sins of the Strong

A NYBODY with the slightest familiarity with
labor wars in America must realize that at
least 80 per cent of the violence has been intro
duced by the employers If worker throws rock
a hired guard responds with a machine gun. still
have no belief in violence, out to be rid Of
1t We ought to have mayors and Governors and
Presidents who just quick to restrain the
company gunman as the worker with a slingshot.
And there is, in addition, that slow and safe and
respectable sort Of violence which many employers
impose upon many hired hands I heard lady
from Larchmont once express high indignation be-
cause a striker carrying his small chilo with
him a picket line. 1t seemed to her heartless
and cruel that the child should be exposed to the
elements. But neither the lady from Larchmont
nor the employer had the slightest conjunction
against paying nOnlving wage under which that
same child could Starve quietly and sedatey at home
Most of us are peculiarly calm about the outrageS
and the suffering which go beyond our sight.
And we take precautions not to see too much
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-10
By NORMAN E. ISAACS
Times News Editor

argument going said
i 0 passed the
Up popped Howards head jerk wide
Argument" repeated softly "Ah"
could of to the
marched in whatever going And
be that Jack Howard doves argue-caly
and sncerely-about subject under the
young about life and
pull his confirmed wscracker but he de-
pun and Naturally slightly according to his
testimony, his
proudes boast that he acts according to MS pleasures
pipe addict and collects pipes by the dozens
travelled last
period working right
battling Chinese and japanese.