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The Washington times., 1934-12-21
Awards
Up in Engineering
By International News Service

BY International News Service
High private awards increased
this weeks engineering construc-
ton total to $29,1SO,OOO, it was
reported by Engineering News -
record private work totaled $13,-
991 900, the highest since March
8.
Federal awards at $4,831, 900
were higher than last week, but
under the average.
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BUSINESS NEW
DEAL ACCORD
SECUTED
BY LEWIS HANEY,
professor of Economics, New York
TniversitY\

The business leaders of the
Nation have just reported the
results of joint conference for
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LONDON MARKET

LONDON, Dec. 81 GN.SD.-The stock
markets closed firm today foreign bonds.
Transatlantics and Kaffirs vera steady.
Oils and rubbers remained quiet.
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to consumers.
1t is stated that unemployment
reserves must be accumulated
before available, which takes time
and prevents such reserves from
helping in the present problem.
The immeasurable Importance
Of a standard dollar having a
fixed gold content, is stated, and
also that of a banking system
freed from political manipulation.
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Questions and Answers

Q-What are the dimensions of Boulder Dam?
Alt will be about 100 feet high and the crest will
be 1180 feet long and As feet wide and the bottom
width is $50 feet.
Q-Give the derivation and meaning of the name
Decker.
Alt is a German and Holland Dutch name derived
from occupation meaning a tiler roofer, thatcher
(Which species of birds make the longest annual
flights?
Arctic terms travel at least 1000 miles both
spring and autumn round trip of $4,000 miles year
They nest far north land has been discovered
and the trip south is commenced as soon as the young
are able to fly.
Q-How long has the census bureau been per-
manent organization, and in which government de-
partment is it?
A-The Constitution requires that population
census of the United States be taken decennally The
first census was taken in 1890. The census bureau
was made a permanent organization in 1902 and
since 1913 has been a branch of the United States
department of commerce.
(Which Presidents of the United States have
been UnitarianS?
A-John Adams John Quincy Adams Willard
Fillmore and William Howard Taft.
Q-Gve the date and place of the first Inaugural
ton of George Washington.
Anew York City, April so. 1879.
Q-What was the origin of the name Masons
and Dixons Line?
At was named for two English mathematician
and surveyors, Charles Mason and jeremiah Dixon.
who fixed the boundary line
Q-Who was war secretary under President Gar
field?
A-Robert T. Lincoln of Illinois
(Which state led the secession that brought on
the Civil war?
A-South Carolina on Dec. 90 1860
(Which is the first permanent tooth in human
beings?
A-The siX-year molar. which comes through lust
back of the last temporary TOOTH one on each side of
the Jaw, above and below.
Q-When the University of Copenhagen
Denmark founded?
A-l749
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-05
ECONOMIST ASSAILS
ROOSEVELT POLICIES
Could Recover Under Our
Own Steam, Club Told.

Policies of the Roosevelt admins
tration were criticised by Or.
George w. Starr, Indiana univer-
sity economics professor, in an ad-
dress before the Caravan Club yes
terday at the Scottish Rite cathe-
dral.
The way out of this depression, :"
he said, lis to call a halt on what
we are doing and bring about
situation whereby business can 1e-
cover under its own steam
The club nominating committee
submitted two states for club officers
to be elected next week. They are:
Regular ticket - Charles Hauck,
president; Roy Carson, vice-presi-
dent; Homer L. Cook, secretary;
William Rose, treasurer, and w. H
Marsh, ergeant-at-arms.
Anti-regular ticket-Isaac Riley,
president; Walter Geisel, -presi-
dent; Mr.. Cook, secretary; Mr.. Rose,
treasurer, and John Drummer,
Sergeant-at-arms.
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the United States supreme court
only two years ago.
There was in Minneapolis a pa
per called the Saturday Press.
And there was in Minnesota
law providing for the abatement
"aS public nuisance" of any
malicious, Scandalous, and de-
famatory newspaper" This law
had been sustained in all state
courts.
The Saturday Press had the
name of being a scandal Sheet"
and had aroused much comment.
1t launched a violent attack on a
set of city officials, making grave
charges against them.
The county attorney, now Gov
ernor Olson, got an injunction
against the Saturday Press and
stopped it's publication.
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DiefZ on Science

MODERN man buys his CIVILIZATION with a great
IVA price The business man who spends the ma
Jorty OF each day in his office has traded the SIN
ana the wind and the hills and the trees for his ma
cabinet. an" 44iiis
-. But the wise man makes an effort to recapture
CndC cIoSe communion with nature which was the
Tcn possession Of his ancestors who titled the farms
ana Saneo the vessels of pioneer America Particu-
larry; ne gets acquainted with the stars
Inc great thinker, Carlyle once exclaimed "yUt,,,
old no one teach me the CONSULTATIONS when ras
a child?" ~ was
Carlyle realized that he missed something in not
N no Ine stars and consultations by name Yet
tndV hhcWIeoge IS acquired easily and once acquired
II SooS new richness to the great outdoors N
makes lntlmate friends out of those twnkling dane
ing points OF light call stars
THE first complete description or catalog of the
- consultations which we know of was made nv a
Greek scientist who lived in the year $40 r z His
name was Eudoxus. He was one of the noost bril-
liant Of Greek scholars Besides being an astron-
onleI, ne was mathematician, physicist and a
student Of government affairs.
Eudoxus described forty-f1ve consultations in his
catalog We know this although the original cataog
was lost The reason know it is because lust 1o6
years later Greek physician who happened also N
De poet, wrote poem titled "Phainomena" This
Is Greek work which can be translated as IAN
pearanceS' or phenomena"
GONE questions also arose as to the exact boun
~ diaries between the consultations in the north
ern nemlspheres. These questions would be of little
concern to the layman but were important to the
astronomer who wished a uniform system for desig-
mating smaller stars which were visible only in the
telescope.
Finally in 1910, the British Association for the
Advancement Of Science appointed a committee
heaoeo by the great astronomer, Sir John Herschel
TO define the consultations and set their exact boun-
diaries. AS result of the committees recomemnda-
lions, eightyseven consultations now are officially
recognized in the northern and southern hemsphere
1t IS simple task to get acquainted with the
more important consultations Of the northern
hemisphere One needs only cloudleSs night ana
an hour Of leisure to make beginning. Books Civ
ing the CONGREGATIONS of the consultations are in
expensive. They are of course, available at the
public library.
Star maps can be purchased at prices ranging
from 81 to IS, depending upon their elaborateneSs
With book of consultations or a map the simpler
consultations are easily learned in an evening.
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Looking for Moral Lessons

OF course, even on a vacation trip keep both
~ eyes open for the presence of moral lessons
My education did not lag utterly while sat and
murmured "Hda, what big moon we've got!"
1t was a friend in the newspaper business who
set me to thinking Probably he did 1t on purpose
The first night downstairs to the dining salon
l found bottle of champagne at my table. Won
dered just which good deed of mine was coming
back to me in bubbles. Naturally, thought hard
and unsucceSsfUly. Finally I opened the note fas-
tened to the neck of the bottle. 1t turned out to
have nothing to do with any good deed 1t was just
a friendly gesture
In fact the note went to say, I've ordered
quart for you for every night of the trip. Never
have l started voyage auSpicouSly. But every
night there that bottle, rather its replica.
BY Thursday 1 began to wonder if there might
not be possibility of arranging big trade with
the wine steward 1 though of turning it in for two
bottles of beer and a lefthand pitcher. On Friday
l started pouring the stuff over my ice cream in
order to get a new flavor. The next day 1 sent
sour radio message to my friend in New York say
ing, Dear Joe-Thanks for the gift. 1t was little
flat last night Happy New Year!"
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It's editor carried an appeal to
the United States supreme court,
aided by other United States edit
orS, who were less enthusiastic
for the Press than the principle
involved.
n
THE supreme. court, by the mar
l. row margin of 5-4, ruled
the whole Minnesota gag law"
unconstitutional, basing it's deci-
sion not on the specific freedom
of the press" amendment, but on
the fourteenth, which provides
that mo state shall make or en-
force any law which shall abridge
the privileges or immunities of
citizens of the United States; nor
shall any state deprive any per-
son of life, liberty, or property
without due process of law >"
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sion and information, and yet
prevent libelous, scandalous, and
socially undesirable publications,
a legal balancing act has been go
ing on for $50 years, leaning now
this side, now that, of the wire.
TINE states, since congress ls
l. forbidden expressly by the
constitution to pass any law
atridging the freedom of the
press, have been the experimental
grounds for such attempts, There
have been many.
The city of Chicago, for instance,
sued the Chicago Tribune for $10,-
100000, alleging libel.
That was a new one, for Ameri-
can precedent always had 0een
that only persons could be libe!ed.
In England or in Canada, munic-
ipal agencies themselves can sue
publications for libel.
If this principle had been up
held, then such a government
agency as the Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation could sue a
publication for saying it was a
useless, inefficient and unneCeS-
sary organization, and collect,
even though no libelous allegations
had been made against the per-
sonnet of the corporation.
But the Illinois supreme court,
in the Tribune case, ruled That a
city can not sue for libel.
In 1913 a bill was introduced
into the U. S. senate which would
have made it unlawful to pub
liSh the details of crimes and acci-
dents in the District of Columbia.
Here is a further restriction on
what may be printed.
Indiana has such a law. It
makes unlawful the circulation Of
any publication the chief feature
or characteristic of which is the
record of commission Of crime.
y n
DUT the most sweeping effort
- to control the press came in
Minnesota, and was repealed by
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And that right is not a right
granted to a specific group, say
the newspapers. The right of
freedom to print and publish is
the right of every man. It is the
right of the little fellow who sets
up press in a back alley.
1t is not the right CT the big
city papers" alone, but of the
1900 wekles, the TOO religious
papers, the 2,744 class and trade
papers.
Today in Hillside, N. j., there is
case against an obscure agita-
tor charged with giving out rad
ical pamphlets without a per-
nit" that involves freedom of the
press of The Indianapolis Times.
1t is not question of the ma
ture Of the literature which An
tonic Gabriel and John GaSpe-
reitis gave out. 1t is the fact
that they were required to take
out a license to give it out at all.
Freedom Of the press involves
equally the right of Antonio
Gabriel to distribute pamphlets
printed in some obscure shop and
the right of the greatest news
papers to circulate.
y
CURBS on the freedom to ex-
" press and distribute thought
usually run in these channels:
l. Licensing-The position that
no one may print anything at all
unless it pleaSes the authorities.
2. TaXation-ImpoSing discrim-
inatory Or conflScatory taxes for
the express purpose of driving
certain publications out of bust
ness.
3. Restriction - Making success
Sive restrictions Oh what may be
printed, such as the device that a
government body itself may be
libeled, and suits for confiscatory
sums.
4. InjunctiOns Court orders
forbidding publications.
In the effort to preserve all The
liberty necessary to free discus
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-05
BYRD DISPROvES old
IDEAS ON ROSS SEA
Admiral Learns Supposed
Land Is Merely Ice.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
ON BOARD SIS. JACOB RUP-
PERT EN- ROUTE TO ANTARCTIC
(Via Mackay Radio, Jan. s.
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd ex-
pressed the opinion today that the
geographer's conception of Ross sea,
haven of South polar expeditions,
as inclosed on three sides must be
abandoned.
Admiral Byrd's flight yesterday
over the southern ice pack showed
many thousands of square miles
mapped as ice covered land really
was ice.
1T would now appear" the ex-
plorer said, that the bulge of white
unknown space on the map which
seemingly incloses. the Ross sea on
the east, is just water borne ice and
that no land exists hereabouts."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-05
Stage Shows at Palace

MYTH the Loew's theater cir
w cult observing it's thirtieth
anniversary this month. the local
theater of the organization. the
Palace, announces elaborate stage
shows for virtually every other
week, in addition to a feature pic
ture on the screen.
The first stage show will open
at the Palace on Friday, Jan. IL.
1t will be Century of Progress
Revue with Ripley's Odditorium
which was such a sensation at the
Worlds Fair.
Others to be present in the re-
vue will be the Mexican Rhumba
dancers from odd Mexico" ORR
entail dancing girls from the "Ori-
entail Village" models from THE
Streets Of Paris" and Miss
America" The company will num-
Der forty people
The second stage attraction to
be booked is Ted Lewis and his
band. Some of the biggest pic
lures of the industry also are on
the schedule Of the Palace, JAG
F'lex, manager announces.
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ANKLE BROKEN BY CAR
Driver Held Following Injury to
Mrs. Madge Caldwell.

hrs. Madge Caldwell. so, living in
the Y. w. c. A. Blue Triangle hall,
suffered a broken ankle when she
was struck by an automobile at
Twenty-second street and Central
avenue last night.
Henry I. Raymond, so, Of 1869
North Pennsylvania street, driver
Of the car, was arrested on charge
of assault and battery with an auto
mobile. Mrs. Caldwell was taken to
city hospital.
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The Theatrical World by Walter D. Hickman
B.
Charles LGughOn Acting Makes The Private Ii Heru WIZ
Mastepiece of Lusy and Delicious Screen Entertainment

of Cleves, who was forced to leave
her country and marry Henry.
Henry loved pretty faces, but
he didn't know that Ann was
spoofing him and making faces
because she was beautiful. Then
follows the funniest scene of the
movie-the famous card game
played in AIMS royal bedroom on
the day of the marriage between
Ann and the king.
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recall the scene near the end of
the movie when Henry was seat
ed before a huge fireplace, all
wrapped up in blankets. His last
wife really was too good and too
domestic for my royal belcher."
She wouldn't let him gorge him
self with food, but the second she
turned her back, he was eating
as usual
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-05
In City Theaters

THINNER AT EIGHT" starts
~ its second week at the Pal
ace today.
Other theaters today offer:
"Fads and Fancies" on the stage
and James Cagney in Lady Kill
ler' on the screen at the Lyric.
Sitting Pretty" at the Indiana.
John Barrymore in Counsellor
at Law" at the Apollo, Flying
Down to Rio" at the Circle, and.
burlesque at the Mutual and Co.
lonial.
Tomorrow afternoon at 2:15 at
English's, Walter Hampden will be
seen III Macbeth" and at night
in "Richelieu."
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Thus it is clear that the court
believed one of the rights of any
citizen to publish, and Chief JUS
tice Hughes wrote in his opinion,
The fact that the liberty of the
press may be abused by miscreant
purveyors of scandal does not
make any the less necessary the
immunity of the press from pre-
vious restraint in dealing with Off
cial misconduct.
Subsequent punishment for
such abuses as may exist is the
appropriate remedy, consistent
with constitutional privilege"
That is, government ought not
to prevent a citizen from printing,
but persons injured should sue
him after he has had his say.
That preserves everybodys rights.
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The king nearly loses the royal
linen to Ann, but her stake is a
divorce. And she wins. Here is
the most consistently funny scene
ever have seen on the screen.
1t is the grandest hokum of the
season.
1T was Henry'S last wife who
Il really made him believe that
he was an old man. I always will
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-05

gross handle. meaning all the
money that he ever put his fin
gers to in all the years of his
life, in Nome and Reno and the
Argentine and in connection
with all his prize fights in New
York, Jersey City. Philadelphia
and Chicago, hardly would buy
a rubber band big enough to go
around the American national
debt.
Mr.. Richard might have had
a rather casual acquaintance
with as much as 100000 in
his time and I will say that. al
though it is hard to realize now
that ever could have been i'm
pressed so easily by trifes. I
can remember when I regarded
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-05
A Dream Come True

VXTHEN was lad in college my dream of happi-
w ness to have much champagne as
could drink Since 1 working my way through
three four quarts the most could ever afford
out Of my meager savings. Now know that if it had
been possible for me to crafty my modest whim the
result would have been Disappointing Too much
champagne is exactly the same as too much corned
beef and cabbage.
And 1 back from the sea to the serenity
of Manhattan strife confirmed in my most radical
notions 1t is possible for the unduy rich to have
their cake and eat it, too. But after while they
won't like it.
And so even before the revolution comes it is not
impossible that may Barbara and Doris and
Andy rushing into the public square and scattering
to the winds bracelets, old ivory and tax exempt
bonds.
I'm not offering any guarantee. but the poor little
rich may come to the point where they will be moved
to cry out Mr.. Tax Collector, please come along
and swat me. Too much is as bad a hangover"
And yet we never learn. On that day suppose
it will be my bad luck to get right in the way of
couple of pendants and maybe necklace.
Copyright, 1894 Times)
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wheel of happenings always is wondering what por-
tends and performances he has left behind him over
the horizons rim. l never saw a sunset which L
would not have snapped for the sight OF i've star
final
The hills of Haiti make lovely line across
morning sky, but as I stood and watched them dance
like dOphins to the roll of the rail was thinking all
the time, I'D like to know how ReXford G. TugWell
is getting along against the fierce charge of the
Fuzzy WuZZies.'
Upon sober first thought I know perfectly well
that my absence from the fighting line is not vital
factor in the drive against the dervshes. 1t is not
within my power to give a shoulder sufficiently firm
to ease the elbow strain of any leader And yet
when l get down among the little islands feel that
I am A. w. O. L. at the very height of the engage
ment. 1t actually pains me to loll back and say,
Make it another rum cocktail steward when
ought to be denouncing somebody or pointing with
infectious pride
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might have lived in his day.
This conception may be historic
ally correct, or it may not be,
but in movie form it is grand
theater. In this picture, Mr..
Laughton produces the greatest
acting he has given the screen.
There are many highlights to
this movie, but the outstanding
accomplishments are Mr.. Laugh
tons conception Of King Henry,
the excellent type portrayal of at
least four of his wives; the at
mospheric background of the
IN which Henry VIII lived,
ABOVE all. the delicious and racy
comedy which runs mostly to
stomach laughs.
One Of the biggest laughs for
me came when Henry did his royal
belching. And this belching is a
masterpiece on the part Of Mr..
Laughton and from now on Henry
VIII will be the royal belcher" to
me.
MIR. LAUGHTON does not
1V1 make the king a stupid
monarch in any sense, although
he is continually stuffing his
stomach with food and his mind
with the images of very pleasing
ladies. Henry was no fool He
seems to definitely represent an
accurate period in England's his
tory.
In many respects, Mr.. Laughton
makes Henry VIII very old-fash-
Toned. In one scene, the king
goes stalking in barefoot to bed
room in the roy palace, clad
only in a long, i-faShioned
nightgown.
And then again. was
modern and very wise,
when he beheld the ugly-ou~
face Of the German duchess, Ann
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Watch the tremendous work of
Elsa Manchester as Ann of Cleves.
Hers is hokum acting placed in
a Tiffany setting.
II you see only one picture dur
ing the year. then don't fail to see
The Private Life of Henry VIII"
II you see a picture a week, see
this one. What a picture and
what theater
1t opens Sunday at the Circle.
saw it at preview some weeks
ago.
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Fair Enouqh
By
Westbrook PeqIer

+ THOUGHT back in the days when the late Tex
Il Richard was promoting his million dollar prize
fights that had some conception of the bigneSS of
big money, but have come to realize just this min
uate that the most he ever handled on any of his
productions hardly any money whatever. This
the sum of S2,500000 collected from the patrons
of the TunneyDempSey civic uplift spectacle, which
intended to make Chicago better place to live.
In Washington. in these times, Mr. Richards
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IT Seems TO Ne
By
Haywood Broun
e THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS

1T is neither the depth Of the nor the dis
Il lance to the nearest star which makes me feel
so lonely upon steamers deck. My sense of isola-
ton is built upon the fact that the only contact with
the outer world lies through the ships daily bulletin
of world events.
international News it said. I looked to see
how the Blue Eagle was faring and what was hap
pening under the rule of Fioreo. Perhaps king
dom or continent had quaked because of some old