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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-27

Hal Kemp probably sent out the most unusual Christmas greetings in radio. He broad- cast a message i'm code set to music. The code consisted of staccato musical notes sound- ed by muted brass. with a melOdic accompaniment by the saxophoncs and clarincts. Translated the message read: Merry Christmas, Happy New Year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-27

Charles PreviHs musical hits-of-the-year selection in- clude Cocktails for TwO', ''SmOke Gets i'm Your Eyes,, "All I Do Is Dream of Your, ''TwO Cigarettes in the Dark", "Carioca". "Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?", and "Love in BloOm'.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-27

After a spell of the grippe which kept him off the air for a while, Ray Heatherton is back singing with the Jack Denny orchestra. .. Hal Kemp, the orchestra leader, had some bad moments last week when his two-year-old daughters temperature mounted to 1O4. -. Joy Lynne, Don Bestor's singing secretary, celebrated her goth birthday last Thursday, De- cember goth. Those chimes at NEG now strike automatically, re- lieving the announcers of a both- ersome chOre.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-27
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-22
CORRUPT POLITICS

TT is reported in Washington that federal
Il agents who investigated the famous Kansas
City Union Station massacre" have uncovered
a startling tie-up between gangsters and po-
Hcemen in that city
They have found so much evidence, it is
said, that federal grand jury is to be i'm
panelled to hear all about it.
Now the only really surprising thing about
this is the fact that such disclosure should
come as a surprise. AS a general rule you
may take it for granted that when any city
is plagued by gangsters, those gangsters have
some kind of understanding with some one
in the city's political life.
This does not refer to Kansas City alone,
nor does it refer to any particular group in
Kansas Citys politics. 1t is simply an axiom
of modern American life. and the way we
persistently shut out eyes to it is the chief
reason we continue to have gangs
There is nothing mysterious about modern
gangs. They aren't such excessively secret
organizations that honest, efficient and I'M
hampered police forces can not cope with
them. The cops almost invariably have
pretty fair idea who runs them how they
operate, what they do and when and why
they do it. And any city government that
honestly wants to do so can usually drive them
out of business in short order.
This is a statement that needs to be made
over and over again. GangSterism is part OF
the price we pay for rotten municipal politics.
This is truer now than ever before, since re-
peal has knocked out public support of the
mderworlds chief source of revenue.
To be sure, it remains perfectly true that
the roots of American crime go deep in the
social fabric. Sums have a part in it. and
faulty legal machinery helps it to sprout.
Our emphasis on money as the sole yard
stick to be used in measuring a mans success
or failure is a big factor. Our diversified pop
ulation, the absence of unifying national tradi-
ton, the lawlesS temper of the land generally
all these help gangSterism grow.
But in the last analysis the city gang is the
product of political corruption. No one need
be surprised to hear that this or that city is
afflicted by a gangster- politician alliance. If
the gangsters are present, such alliance may
be taken for granted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-22

There was need for hurry lest the war burst
upon mankind before it had been warned.
Forecasts Of early conflict in Europe and
the Orient are not exactly new. This and other
newspapers have had much to say about dam
gers of a conflict in both areas, if not this year
then the next. What gives The Second World
War" its unusually hectic atmosphere is that
the author makes no attempt to qualify; The
war will come in 1885" He not only goes out
on limb. He scampers all the way.
The volume appears to have been thrown
together hastily since the startling executions
in Germany and the subsequent Nazi uprising
in Austria. Despite the hurry, here is a book
containing much food for thought-whether
you be pacifst. munitions factory shareholder
or just an innocent bystander.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-22
OUR DEPRESSION, AND HISTORY

GREAT events are best understood when
~ time has created a perspective. 1t is diff
fcult to appraise today, as today relates to all
history. 1t is nevertheless interesting when
one attempts IT,
Are living in a time of such Importance
as John Flynn, in his Scripps- Howard series
on Wall Street and the Depression" says?
We Of the present generation probably will
not live to see the answer But, anyway, here
is Flynns size-up Of the importance Of our
time, speaking of New Years, 1880, what has
happened since and still is happening:
There was not the slightest notion that
we were entering one of the great remoulding
episodes OF history. an era which before it
ended would sweep into poverty or exile or
the discard most of the rulers who then sat
in the places of power in business and the
state; which would set conservative America
to questioning all its institutions, and which,
1 have no doubt will take a place in history
with the expulsion of Persia by the Greeks
the conquest of Rome; the rise Of Christian
ity, the reformation and the Renaissance, the
American and French revolution, the indus
trial revolution and the great war, as one OF
the great episode turning points in the long
history of civilization"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-22
CONVENIENT SCARE

TTOW much do the allen agitators" have
l. to do with our industrial disturbances?
Precious little. as a matter of fact-accord-
ing to figures unearthed in Washington re-
Gently by Rodney butcher.
Rhode Island police, for instance. rounded
up hfty-five "alien agitators" after bloodshed
in the last textile strike. OF these ffty-ive
torty-eight proved their citizenship. four
claimed naturalization, and only three turned
out to be aliens: and no evidence has been
produced to show these three deportable.
1t was the same in San Francisco. In the
famous red raids" after the general strike
1913 men we're rounded up. Only 1Ol were
non-citizens. only fourteen OF these were sub
ject to deportation on any conceivable grounds
and only one was shown to have advocated
violence or to have belonged to an organiza-
ton favoring violence.
This is pretty good evidence that the red
scare" in connection with strikes is just a
scare. and nothing more.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-22
RED IDEA. BUT GOOD!

IT seems to De hereSy OF the nlackest-or
l. reddest-sort to suggest that the Rus
sions ever have notion worth copying in
this country. Still, the land of the Soviets
does seem to sprout a bright idea once in a
while
Probably you read about the solemn trial
in which a pair Of galoshes was convicted
and found guilty of being OF inferior work
manship. The galoshes were formally ar
raigned before a Moscow court. Witnesses
testified that they just weren't good for any,
thing-they leaked. they fell apart. they didn't
fit. they looked like the dickens.
The result was a sentence ordering the
quality Of the galoShes to be improved at once.
Now this notion that it is a crime to in
fct shoddy goods on the public-weu. those
OF US who have occasionally paid good money
for articles that proved practically worthless
might easily feel that is a pretty sensible
sort Of idea
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-22
THE HEROIC CHURCH

IIERR HITLER'S overthrow has been pre-
dcted by wishful commentators outside
Germany. Now there is temptation to inter-
pref the latest defiance by the German
Protestant church as another beginning of the
end of Der Fuehrer.
The action of the oppositional synod in de-
claring the secession of 30 per cent of Protes-
tant churchgoers from the impossible
papacy" of Reichbishop Mueller's autocratic
regime is heroic and significant.
1t is heroic because it exhibits a courage
that no other group in Germany has dared to
show.
1t is significant because it dispels an illu-
sion of omnipotence which Hitler had foisted
on the German people.
Nevertheless. it is an incidental rather than
a basic challenge % Hitlers dictatorship.
Probably he can dispose of this defiance by
granting religious autonomy to the church in
exchange for its support. either active or
tacit of his economic and political overload
ship
The time doubtless will come when liberal
groups within the church will join with other
liberal groups in challenging the political die
tatorship itself. But, unfortunately, in the
present battle for Institutional rights of
ecclesiastical institutions. there are no i'm
mediate signs of lasting fight to regain the
larger liberties of the German people.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-22

he comes first always and right
fully so, labor will not confuse the
issue. A vote for Robinson is vote
against the President. No true
loyal federation unionist or rank
and file member of the railroad or
CARNATIONS, will be convinced, mis-
led or fooled by any Endorsements
by national executives Of the rail-
road brotherhoods which is con-
trary to the Endorsement of Frank
lin Delano Roosevelt and the sup
porters of his policies.
The railroad workers Of this state
will join with the rest of labor and
follow President Roosevelt and those
who uphold him in preference to
Lii Arthur Robinson who would re-
turn to the old order which existed
under Harding, Coolidge and Hoo
yer. The effects Of these three ad-
ministrations was devastating and
through the herculean efforts of the
President we are just about to
emerge from the terrible effects.
The answer to who labor will sup
port is President Roosevelt, and men
like Sherman Minton who has
pledged him his support in prefer
ence to the return of Senator Rob-
inson and the old reactionary ele-
ment within the Republican party
which was responsible for the
wrongs and suffering inflicted upon
the people Of this country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-22
THE big WAR" NEXT SUMMER

"' MERE Will be a war by the summer OF
1885.
War will come because neither of the two
powers that want war can afford to wait long
er than the summer of 1885 if they expect to
win. .
Since the sum total of the national life of
Germany and Japan consists today of nothing
else than the conscious preparation for a gi-
gantic war. these countries are bound to pro-
woke a conflict in time to give them a chance
OF victory"
Such is the theme of a new and sensational
volume. The Second World War" (Covici.
Friede). sizzling hot from the typewriter of
Johannes Steel. journalist and former men,
Der Of the German industrial intelligence
service.
On the economic war now raging. and ex-
pected soon to transform itself into war Of
blood and bullets the author purports to write
from the inside.
He admits having helped organize a gigan-
tic smuggling ring. the business Of which was
TO get German goods past the Polish frontier.
where they would normally meet up with diff
fculties due to the quota.
The money ordinarily expended upon Gus
toms" he writes, was TO be spent on brides
and to pay the smugglers" If eventually there
were losses, these were TO be paid from the
funds of the German department of eco
Monies"
In Toxic writes Steel. he and his aSsoci-
ateS caused to be broken off a virtually COM
pleted SlOO00OOO deal between the japanese
and a Swedish shipbuilding firm so that Ger
man shipbuilders might get the contract. A
bride OF $4,000 TO the right man did the
trick
One half the bride paid" he explains
came out Of the exchequer OF the German
ministry of economics, while the other half
was contributed by the Federation Of German
Industries"
That. says Steel. is the sort OF thing Ger
many and the other great industrial powers
are now engaged in as they struggle desperate
ly for trade.
Austria. he declares. is Europe's real trouble
center. But Germany Will precipitate the war
Hitler knows 1t is his only way out His only
hope is to bring on world chaos on the of
chance that a miracle will put Nazdom on top
In the far east. Japan has no option if she
wishes TO consolidate her far eastern hege-
mony. She must fight Russia in 1885 Other
wise Russia will be TOO strong.
Ths book orackles ike an exciting. hur-
riedly-written page-one story in newspaper.
The reader almost feels that the author wrote
It with his managing editor standing over him
grabbing the cOpNoq} paragraph at a time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-22
ASSAILS TEACHERS FOR
INDORSING M'NUTT

BY Taxpayer.
So the Indiana State Teachers
Association has approved of the
policies of King" Paul VIC
Mutt!
What is the state of Indiana COM
ing to when its very teaching staff
has become a political koW-toWer to
dictatorial Governor who has only
one idea-self aggrandizement.
We taxpayers. are footing the bills,
we're supporting the schools, but it
seems high time that at least one
branch of government-education-
should remain free from Democratic
politics and the hand of the Demo-
cratic party.
There was nothing nonpartiSan
about the resolution approving
King" Paul's acts. The teachers
f1at-footedly approved of his school
administration policies.
And yet a long time ago-aS far
back as Benjamin Harrison-state
support of schools was foStered.
That was a long time before the
Democratic party sucked the New
Deal and breathed it by radio and
newspaper as the sole reason for
the election of its Indiana candi-
dates.
Then along came King" Paul
with his taxing of the already over
burdened taxpayer to aid the
schools.
Don't the state teachers know that
they are being used by King" Paul
to further his own political ambi-
tions? Don't they know that he
has attended educational meetings
and teachers sessions throughout
the nation seeking to bolster his eff
forts to reach the big chair in the
White House?
The only saving grace of the con-
vention was that the King" him.
self, did not make a coronation
speech during the business sessions.
Where were Republican members
Of the teachers association when the
resolution was adopted? Where
were those nonpartisan slogans Of
all parties who cry Keep politics
out of the schools" when the reso-
luton was adopted?
Indiana, seemingly, is suffering
from an over-dosage of fawners who
will kneel at any throne that as
sures them bread and butter with
little heed for the welfare of tax
payers or their children.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-22
FAVORS GOVERNMENT
RULE OF BUSINESS
BY B. T.

By B. T.
Lately there has been a lot of talk
about government in business. OF
course. all So-called big business is
against it. believe it is time that
the government took some control.
Five years ago bank in my town
failed and my family lost about all
its money That was before the gov
eminent took active part in bust
ness. Today We can go to the bank.
deposit our money, and be sure we
can go get it any time we need it.
We have a business in this town
that, before the NRA came into
existence, paid to its employees a
wage Of $50 a week. Now. since
We have some government control,
it pays a wage of Sl2 a week. Is
that any better7
Insurance companies pay their
presidents $500, 900 a year. I had a
policy in an insurance company
that failed recently. When I took
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-22
JUST WHAT is
SOUND MONEY?
BY Ulysses Jr.

BY Ulysses Jr.
I note, Mr. Editor, with a great
deal of amusement and some exss-
peration the antics of a group Of
men who are interesting themselves
in what they mysteriously refer to
as sound money"
If you are so smart, and you must
be if you are an editor, just what
do these somewhat reactionary men
mean by sound money? The
phrase has a somewhat intriguing
sound mo pun intended but con-
fess am at a loss TO understand
just what the aforesaid reactionary
group is driving at.
To me, sound money" always has
meant any kind that isn't counter
felt. IN other words, If you can BUY
a drink with it, loaf Of bread or
pack Of cigarets it must be sound.
if you get what I mean. Am I right
or don't you think So George
mean Mr. Editor?
If I didn't know personally that
some Of these men are the forrest"
of Republicans and are ultra con
serYative, I'd suspect them Of some
mysterious communistic activities.
Why don't they explain what they
mean by sound money? Isn't any
money sound If you can spend il?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-22
Paper Sales By Schools Condemned

BY H. S. Osgood
The writer has again been re-
quested to present to public at
tention an abuse of privilege by
every teacher in the nearly one
hundred public schools of Indian
apolis.
It is the practice of instructing
the pupils of the grade schools to
bring in every available paper and
magazine for a general paper sale
about every other month and
which amounts to several hundred
tons during the school year. Older
boys are excused from classes to
assist in this collection.
There are hundreds of men who
buy city licenses as junk men who
depend upon this same source for
a livelihood and there are other
hundreds of poor persons who
make a house to house canvass for
the same commodity, plus rags,
bottles and iron, to sell to junk
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-22
MONDAY. OCT. y. 1884
"OTHER PATHS"

COMPLAINT is made frequently that gov
~ eminent is getting too complicated to
operate much less to be understood by the
voters.
1t Is a long distance from this to what We
regard admiringlY nowadays as the pioneer
spirit"-the frame of mind of men who took
events in their stride.
But they are both parts of wide and
common problem. education. President Roose-
welt showed the connection in his Williams
burg address on liberal education.
The pioneer does not call his life a failure
If he comes to the end of one path. He knows
that there are others. and with a sense of di
rection and will to persevere. his life can go
on with confidence into the uncertainties of
the future"
He stated the need in government for those
who know many things in broad principles
and understanding
Government indeed is field where more
than specialists are necessary 1t also is true
that something more than specialists are need
ed in business. professional life-no matter
how much special knowledge is needed-and
universities.
There may be something of a rebuke here
for the schools which have overdone one-job
training
Education never can be too broad if each
of us is to learn and do as much as he can
for himself and his fellow-uavelers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-22

men in order to exc out an ex-
iStence.
The public schools, supported by
taxes, pay nothing for the paper
privilege, while Systematically
harming the licensed junkman
and the multitude Of poor persons
who would get something out of
the source if they had the ghost
of chance after the public
schools and the Salvation Army
who cash in on everything get
through.
A very high authority once said,
THE poor We always have with
you and when We will We may do
them good" but the public schools,
the Salvation Army and the
churches, none of which pay
cent of taxes, graciouSly are per-
mitted and encouraged to snatch
a valuable source of income from
the host of poor persons who nave
to have relief basket in order to
keep from starving.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-22

the policy seven years ago l paid
for it by passing papers. Now who
paid the president of that insurance
company? Hundreds of others just
like me. I am against it and always
have been. I would be better off
now if the government would have
started regulating that company
about ten years ago.
Arthur Robinson is raving about
the President having dictatorial
powers. Who voted to give the
President these powers? Lii Arthur
voted yes on all major bills that
the President wanted passed. If Lii
Arthur did not know what he was
voting for then he has no business
in the senate.
Shay Minton spent a little more
than twelve months Of service IN the
World war. Who would know bet
ter the problems Of the soldier and
the bonus-Lil Arthur, who tries to
fool the veterans, or one who took
actual part in the great conflict?
LII Arthur LOW ID dIOdSh4A4S wv
ernor McNutt, accusing him OF
presidential ambitions in 1886. Is
Lii Arthur planning to run against
McNutt in 1886? If ne is not, then
why is he campaigning against the
Governor instead of Minton?
The government in this country
is far from perfect, but it surely is
a lot farther on the road to per-
lection than it was two years ago.
Can any man feel down deep in his
heart that it is all right for any one
to have in his possession s50,000,000
or 100000 900, while not more than
four or five miles away some man,
woman, or child is going without
food and clothing? I do not believe
every man has the same earning
power, but there has always been
too much difference between the
rich and the poor.
I am for Franklin Delano Roose-
welt first, last and always. We want
to send men to the congress Of this
nation in sympathy with his views.
We can do this by supporting Shay
Minton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-22
TOWNSEND PLAN FOR
PENSIONS UPHELD

By Mrs. Olive r. Forkes, Lafayette.
A question that is asked more
often than any other these days is.
Why do our local newspapers seem
so strangely silent in regard to the
movement for the Townsend plan Of
old age revolving pension. which
provides that every American who
has reached the age Of so shall be
pensioned?"
It naturally would appear that
any idea which has taken the entire
western coast by storm would merit
a certain amount of publicity in any
live publication.
The reason for the silence un-
doubtedly is, Of course. that the
proposition is strictly a poor man
project. without capitalistic thought
in a carload Of propaganda The
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-22

moneyed press would much rather
the whole idea were smothered in
blanket Of complete silence.
The excuse is advanced that the
whole scheme is too fantastic To
warrant consideration. Maybe so
but any scheme that presents
potential affluence to hundreds of
thousands of INDECENT and helpless
old persons, who have passed the
stage of active usefulness, is bound
to be discussed pro and con with
more than passing interest by many
millions of others directly or in-
directly affected.
After all, it is not so fantastic to
picture several millions of people In
United States now suffering perjury
in their declining years after having
devoted tWo-thirds of their lives to
the rearing of their families in
Christian and progressive manner,
finishing their span Of life in COM
fort and peace.
No one will deny that the aged de-
serve a better fate than the poor
house; no one may blame them IN
dividually because the life savings Of
many Of them were wiped out through
the chicanery of trusted executives
n industrial and banking institu-
lions.
No new plan or reform that has
yet been presented to the public has
aroused so much interest and caused
so much discussion as that known
as the Townsend plan.
We have $4,000, 100000 worth Of
idle gold in the treasury and untold
billions of idle bank deposits; va
also have a surplus of all commodi-
ties and 100000 persons hungry
and IN rags and yet some persons
refuse to discuss the plan.