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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-10
A BUDGET TO READ

a FEW years ago when the country he
came concerned with cutting expendi
lures young member of congress intrusted
with this duty came face to face with the
fact that convenient and adequate figures on
federal finance were not available anywhere.
Today that same young man is director of
the budget and he has remedied the condition
that was so irksome
Lewis Douglas has just sent to congress
the most comprehensive and intelIigible
budget in the history of federal budget
making.
1t compares expenditures for last year.
this year and next by departments, by or
ganizational units, by functions, and by char
acter and objects of expenditure. In other
words, If you wish to find out quickly the
total spent during year for printing, for
electric lights or for any other purpose, the
figure is ready for you. Mysteries of "unex-
pended balances" trust funds, transfers and
sinking funds all are clarified A record is
presented of all government obligations out
standing. Detail of all emergency expendi-
lures is told and retold.
At last it is possible to talk of federal
finance Understandings. Mr.. Douglas has eff
fected what should be a permanent reform.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-10
NONSENSE COURSES

IMPETUS has been added to the effort of
l. Governor Paul v. McNutt to end the mon
sense course" in educational technique in the
state-supported schools by the appointment of
Floyd L McMurray as superintendent of
public instruction.
Mr.. McMurray has placed himself square
ly behind the plan to begin at once a survey
of all educational courses This likely is to
result in wedding out the useless and in
changing the state board viewpoint on re-
quirements.
Nineteen hours credit in teaching teachers
to teach has been termed ridiculous waste of
time by nearly all professors of science and
cultural courses in the state of Indiana.
In a round robin petition to the state board
they ask that this teaching requirement be re-
duced to twelve hours and the embryo teacher
be required to know more about the subject
matter to be taught.
Having served as Boone county superin-
tendent of schools, Mr.. McNIurray has had
frst-hand contact with what happens when
teachers know all about methods and little
about matter.
His practical leadership may result in ref
ormation whereby culture will replace cult in
educational requirements
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-10
A FRIEND OF
DILLINGER WRITES
By willard Kelley.

By Willard Kelley.
I can't help from whiting this
after reading your article on John
Dillinger. My stamps are limited
and hard to get but if you dare
publish this I know the stamp is
we'll spent. What I have to say
should set the minds of Mooresville
citizens right, and ease the mind of
his father.
I know Dill well. I worked at his
side for six months in the shirt
shop. He was not tough prisoner
I never knew him to get in trouble
His packet is on record at Pendle-
ton and it will prove any day what
his record was.
Dillinger played second base on
the baseball team. He was a model
prisoner in every way. He was not
transferred from Pendleton to
Michigan City because he was too
tough. A. J. Warner, an officer with
thirty-two years service in the re-
formatory, will tell you Dill was
transferred to Michigan City be-
cause they needed ball players.
At the time Of his transfer they
sent a fellow by the name of Taylor,
catcher, and a fellow by the name
of Ellis, a pitcher, with Dillinger.
Don't you think that this bit of
information might bring a ray Of
comfort to his father?
The police and public are quick
to hang everything serious on Dis
shoulders. I'm not trying to class
myself as a judge, but don't you
think there are enough bum ramps
on the guy. Don't you think that
these things I write about should be
Strengthened out?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-10
WAR THAT PAYS

a NATION that is going ten billion dollars
4 into debt in one year certainly is going
somewhere at a prodigious rate. Some of the
people at Washington think we are heading
straight for recovery, and others think that
we are plunging down steep place into the
sea
Before the rest of us give way either to
encouragement or to fright, it would nav lis
to stop and figure just what the implications
Of this titanic spending may be-
The first thing one thinks of is the World
war. We spent at a greater rate than this
during the war; and we kept it I'D longer.
and We came out of it without cracking un-
der the strain.
Furthermore, there is not the slightest
doubt that, if We were at war today. sums
of this size would be voted without sny mis-
givings at all.
That being so, Why not compare our pres
ent situation TO wartime crisis? The COM
parison is perfectly proper one
What Is at stake in war? National ex
istence itself may be at stake-though that
was not the case with us in the World war
nor in the war with Spain.
MONEY national honor, national influence
certain intangible considerations that bulk
large or small depending on how you look
at them-these were the things that went into
the balance when We got into our last war.
What is at stake now?
Well-a lot Of things; our faith in our
form Of government and our social structure.
our belief in ourselves our dream of democ-
racy and our vision of destiny, the happiness
and comfort Of many millions of people; a
total far greater than anything We risked by
going to war with the German empire.
If it was proper to spend at an unheard-of
rate TO beat the kaiser, is it not infinitely
more proper to spend at an equal rate today
to save the things which all Americans hold
most deer?
There is still another angle to it.
The money We spent in 1917 and 1918 was
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-10
MORE ABOUT CWA,
RAIN AND DICE
BY A Times Reader.

By A Times Reader.
I am just another one of the
many CWA workers in Monroe
county. I noticed letter in your
Message Center Jan. 4 written by
a man who worked in the rain one
day. I didn't work in it and 1 didn't
shoot craps all day as he says. We
didn't want to get off the buses at
work time that morning on account
Of rain, but Mr.. Murphy said to wait
couple hours to see if it cleared
up.
We waited until 10 a. m. when it
was raining harder than ever and
Mr.. Murphy told us we either could
go to work or stay on the buses
until $3.50. Our regular quitting
time was 2:30 and our foreman got
fired for telling us that if we
wanted to work in the rain to start
down the road and he would follow
us. But he wouldn't lead us for he
wasn't going to be the cause Of any
man being sick.
We make So a day down there
and doctor charges me that every
time he comes to my house. And as
for the BUSES being on contract and
couldn't leave before quitting time,
why the very next week We quit
Saturday noon and the buses
brought us in at the time. The bus
contract calls for a round trip five
days a week, that's all.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-10
POSTAL WORKERS LOSE
MUCH IN SALARIES

By Ernest C. Mccoy.
The loss in wage of postofflce
clerks for the last six months of
1888 was approximately 20 to Is per
cent, according to grade, instead of
the usually quoted IS per cent re-
duction of the economy act, accord
ing to the January issue of The
Union Postal Clerk, official organ
of the National Federation of Post
Office Clerks. Another striking fact
is that the loss bore heaviest upon
the lowest salaried. For regular
clerks in the $1,700 per annum
group, the percentage of deductions
amounted to 25.86 per cent, while
for the highest grade of veteran and
expert special" clerks the loss was
1898 per cent.
In money, the $1,70O clerk lost
approximately $211 in the last six
months of 1888 and 1920 in the pre-
ceding twelve months. The largest
actual money loss was by clerks in
the junior Special grade who,
through payless furloughs, the Is
per cent wage cut, the estimated
loss in reduction of night work diff
ferential pay and discrimination of
promotions, found his income less by
$628.88 in the eighteen months pc
Rod.
These sums do not include the
regular deductions for retirement
funds which amount to 81 per cent.
Heavy as these losses appear, they
are, according to The Union Postal
Clerk, small compared to those suf-
fered by the some 10000 substitute
postal employees. These employees
are dependent in ordinary times
upon extra work of one kind or an
other. The door to regular appoint
ments, which is their goal, was
definitely barred by the suspension
Of appointments under the economy
act. At the same time, their earn
ings were cut to the bone by cur
tailment of their use as supple
mentary to the regular clerks dur
ing emergency periods. Earnings of
less than so cents for two weeks
period have been reported. Relief
agencies or emergency employment
plans refuse to assist them on the
ground that they are employed. In
some cases at least, they have been
refused employment under the G.
w. A. program on the ground that
they already had a government po-
sition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-10
One Dog With q Tory

his own product he can not I'M
derstand why any one should try
to sell him anything. Pressing a
button he calls his secretary who
reminds him of few things he
should remember really himself,
not being quite petrif1ed above the
neck.
Then he takes the MONDAY
meal at the club with his cronies,
leisurely and gaily. Although this
man normally is good hatured
there will be at least one loud
mouthed protector of the treas
ury present at dinner who will so
far forget himself as to develop
a case of bicarbonate of soda in
digestion over the rascality and
lazlness of the present-day work
man. Our man will make a men
tai note of the speech and resolve
to use it in the near future. Then
back to the office for a couple of
hours work if he must.
Then, he's off to horse. or golf. or
rod, or gun. Then comes the eve
ming meal, with all traces of toll
removed and clean clothes. Shar-
ing the best things market and
purse will afford, served in such
a way as to prolong the oppor-
tunlty for the interchange of wit
and banter, intelligent discussion
and compliments for the ladies.
He spends the evening in quiet
reading or entertainment and re-
tires to bed wondering why all
inns discussion is in the papers.
Where is the emergency, crisis or
fire? And to sleep.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-10
: THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
THAT DOLLAR SIGN

THE dollar sign on the divorce decree means
l. considerable more today, to large num-
Der of Ewes mercenarys granddaughter, than
the cupids on the marriage license. A bride
groom merely promises to love and cherish
But an ex-husband promises to payi
Because a woman o9ce stood by mans
side in front Of minister or somebody else
who said marrying words, and answered yes in
the right places, she has a right to demand
that she share in the mans financial fortune
though she drop her name from his calling
cards. But she forsakes the privilege of col
Iaborating in his Universities. He is supposed
to stay rich! If he can't, it is his hard luck
she seems to argue. just to show him, she
will send him to jail And she does.
The alimony jails of New York state where
the nonpaying husbands assemble to talk
about the women they used to love and wonder
how they never could have women entries
And yet, occasionally it is the woman who
has been blessed with the Midas touch, and
the man who convinces a judge that the love
he gave her was such that she should make
perennial payments. Yet if the woman comes
into lean season when she can't pay, she
never goes to jail. The man understands that
when woman can't she can'tl
The latent streak of chivalry-and it is
quite dormant we grant, in man who will
take alimony from COMMUNICATIONS SUI
fciently for him to refuse to confne her to
prison
But when it is the ex-husband who has
book of worthless checks, with f1endish glee
the woman makes him give his pound of flesh
Her psychology is difficult to understand If
it is merely money she wants, she is on the
wrong road Imprisoned men don't have in
comes. In fact, she admits openly that it is
a perverted dissatisfaction because she can
make the man uncomfortable that prompts
her action.
When woman has lived with man, toiled
for him and loved him. until she is too old
for further marriage or training for self-sup-
port, certainly she has a right to alimony-if
he can pay. But when he can't the issue
changes.
1t is odd, too, that so often the women who
ask the law to look after their husbands are
the ones who are managing fairly we'll Those
who are counting the fractions of every cent
are likely to understand that an empty pock-
etbook has possibilities and wait quietly for
better days.
Marriage is supposed to be founded on love.
Divorce is caused by the lack of it. Just where
the heart-stirring emotion goes mercenary no
one knows. But romance puts in a bill for
past embraces when summer ends and love
drifts out to sea.
1t isn't any wonder that large number
OF ex-huSbands wish that women who brag
OF their modern independence would stretch
it point and add financial independence to
the list of desirable qualities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-10

BY Tom Berling.
Let Us go around the clock with
a typical tory. After night of
sound sleep on a good bed under
silken covers, he greets the hour
of rousing with a cheerful Shout,
bounds into a Well-heated bath
room, and plunging into his pre-
pared bath, meets with gusto the
shock it gives and rejoiceS in the
exhilaration thereof.
BY this time the cook has his
breakfast on the table and with
a pleasant smile he greets the
family, if any, and peruses the
morning paper while slipping his
coffee. After which he PAGES I'D
and down the drive, breathing
deeply, while the chauffeur warns
the engine of his sixteen-cylinder
car. Then being ready to greet
his work at the office as some
thing to put forth his surplus
energy upon. he rolls quietly off.
reading the paper in the back
seat. But he needs a shave and a
manicure If the good looking
blond is there this morning. Hav-
ing received the shave and smiles
from the manicurist he proceeds
to the office.
True, it is close to 10 a. m. by
This time, but that makes it bet
ter as the clerical force will have
started something which he can
crltlclse and change. Also there
Will be couple of early bird
statesmen waiting. He will dis
miss them in short order. AL
though constantly trying to sell
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-10

lust what this all means I
y can't pretend to say. 1t looks
as if there might be a decided
trend back to the crossroads and
plain horse sense. The urban in
f1uence may be diminishing, since
the wisecrackers and jazz didn't
do so we'll.
To be sure, only very small
part of radio listeners voted at
all. But that part is numerous
enough to be given some favorable
attention by program directors.
Certainly a great deal of air
entertainment possibly could not
hold the attention of an intelli-
gent adult for long. Most of it
is too trivial and shoddy to merit
any consideration and must be
the poorest kind of advertising
medium. while at least 90 per cent
seems devised to make the average
listener even more stupid than he
already is.
Yet every individual recognizes
in the radio a very powerful force
for education. 1t is too bad that
such a force is utilized so fire.
quently for the dissemination of
subjects that are not worth talk
ing about, much less listening to.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-10
OUR STATESMAN

uOOSIERS scattered over the world must
= have hung their heads in shame as they
read in the newspapers the remarks of sena-
tor Arthur Robinson on the floor of the SEN
ate that President Roosevelt was "deceiving
the nation"
Pressed by Democrats for concrete state
ments against the President, our great In
diana statesman" tells the world he is against
the civilian conservation corps.
The wisest and best thing Indiana Re-
publicans can do for the nation is to nomi-
nate and elect man who is anxious to serve
his country and who is not intent only on
finding means of keeping good $4,000 a
year job.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-10
A WOman's Viewpoint
. By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

TINE year 1884 opens with sew
i eral good omens. The one I
liked best was the Literary Di-
gests poll of radio entertainers
popularity.
Would you believe it? Jazz,
crooners, cheap advertising, stale
jokes and smart aleck comedians
didn't run worth cent. Whether
the public is becoming more in
tellectual or only more bored with
these curses might be the subject
for endless debates.
But a fact to be remembered is
that the Literary Digest has a rec
ord nearly 100 per cent perfect on
its polls.
The last one showed thumbs
down on nonsense and tripe.
Crooners proved extremely unpop-
ular. with the hill billies winning
over them by an imposing ma
jority. I hate to disclose this, but
the poor female announcers didn't
get a single vote Only two people
enjoyed bridge lectures, while an
interesting feminine reaction was
disclosed by the fact that cooking
talks won over beauty hints in a
regular walk-away.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-10
HERE'S A CHALLENGE
FOR MIR. OUTSIDER


Here's to the resident of another
state who, in his letter to Message
Center, appended the name of out
slider"
When Mr.. Outsider called our
drivers licence law a fleece. J. quite
agreed with him. When he called
our indianapolis police force a
corpulent beef trust" I put down
my pipe and laughed. When he
told about an Indianapolis motor
man who stopped his street car in
the middle of the block in order to
get a hot dog, I wondered who it
was made hot dogs that good.
When he said we didn't clean I'D
our corners after accidents. that
our squad cars should carry brooms.
I thought it was so funny that I
read it aloud for all of my family
to hear.
But toward the end of his let
ter Mr.. Outsider got serious and
wrote that Indianapolis lacked civic
pride. He said that our city was
known the country over as "the
town in the cornheld." A bit of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-10

ciety. That doesn't say to capture
the present day Constitution but the
system that exists which has and
still does create present-day condi-
tions. This is the political machin-
cry of present day society.
And our beloved Constitution was
well meant, but the same was made
years and years ago in a period
where it was fitted to the time and
conditions. That doesn't mean that
our Constitution can't be improved.
This has been proved already and
the future will compel it to review
it now and then. Our President
has proved that Socialism means a
great factor to the Constitution and
civilization. 1t only was never
worked out to its perfect form.
Socialism fights system. rotten
system created through and by So
clety and is by no means continual
agitation, but firm striving for the
betterment of all the people
throughout the entire world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-10

travel beyond the periphery of our
cornheld, he inferred, would teach
us much about state and citv
management.
inns, together with the rest of his
Ietter' prompts me to make him a.
proposition: Show me, Mr.. Out
slder, better city or state for all
things concerned, in the United
States and Ill show you a thou
sand-legged humning bird.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-10
GIVE UNEMPLOYED
BRIDGE JOBS, PLEA
By H. NJ. Whiteford.

By H. NJ. WhitefOrd
have been a reader of your
valuable paper for a good many
years and find that you are reason
able and in sympathy with the la
boring people. Now there are still
a number of unemployed who are
not able to get on the CWA Jobs.
Why not have the state highway
commission stop contracting and
put some Of these men on this
bridge work.
There are several bridge exten-
slonS to be built in southern In
diana in United States Roads 81 and
80, and instead Of giving the con-
tractor the usual 25 per cent take
off, give at least a part of that to
the poor laborers who have been
out Of work so long.
Now please take this up with the
highway commission and stop this
contracting and graft.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-10
SOCIALISM SEEKS TO
BETTER THIS WORLD
BY Harry Bobbe

By Harry Bobbe
l was very much interested when
reading the article to Mr.. Kim
merling about Socialism.
You, I am sorry to say, have the
wrong conception of Socialism as
being unconstitutional.
Socialism is to render your serv-
Ice to and for the government for
the welfare and well-being of all the
people under the Constitution.
Sure enough, without any selfish
ness, Jack London's description was
right. To capture the political ma
chinery Of society, and by that ma
chinery to destroy present day So
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-10
Sunset

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK
The golden winter sunset holds a
flame
That for one fleeting hour burns
the west;
And filters through black agony Of
trees
Etched sharply clear against the
earth's white breast.
The sky is family coral; then is
dull.
A steel blue light enfolds the day
like smoke,
And night descends with vague, IN
certain steps
To gather all the world into his
cloak.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-10

Ohio State university threatened to expel
ten students for objecting to compulsory mill
tary training The university is quite liberal,
though, teaching its students to use their own
minds after they get out of school, not before.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-10

The original manuscript of "The STAR
Spangled Banner" was sold for $4,000, but
when it comes to singing it, we'll bet the
buyer won't know the words, anyway.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-10

We knew it. No sooner do we recognize
Russia than President Roosevelt gets the idea
of twenty-five to f1fty-year plan for public
works.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-10
The Message Center

(Times readers are inuited to cypress
their Ciet0s in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can have chance.
Limit them to $50 4oords or IeSs.J
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-10

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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-10-06
Marine News
Steamer Movements
NoRTHBoUND

. John C. kirkpatrick, enroute
to Nome, scheduled to ar
rive tonight or tomorrow.
. Zapora scheduled to arrive on
Monday.
. Evelyn Berg scheduled to ar
. rive Monday.
. SCHEDULED SAILINGS
. Alaska scheduled to sail from
Seattle at 6 O'Clock tonight.
. Northland scheduled to sail
q from Seattle October 8 at
. 8 pm.
. Princess Louise scheduled to
. sail from Vancouver, October
. 10 at 9 pm.
. SOUTHBOUND SAILINGS
8 Yukon scheduled southbound
October 8.
North Wind scheduled south
bound Monday evening.
o. LOCAL SAILINGS
. Kenai leaves every Wednes-
. day night at pm, for
Sitka and wayports.
. Estebeth leaves every Wednes-
day at 10 am. for Chicha-
gof and wayperts via Icy
Strait.
Dart leaves every Friday at
IL am. for Petersburg, Kake
and wayports.
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