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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06
FEDERAL MEDIATORS

GRADUALLY observation-disclosures are adjust
" ing the labor disputes that have caused
strikes and strife.
Sooner or later they will reach a settlement
in Minneapolis. And the sooner this peace
comes. the better it will be for the striking
truck drivers. for their obstinate employers
and for the community weary under the strain
Of martial law and bloodshed.
Peace came to the waterfront in San Fran
cisco and the stockyards in Chicago because,
in both instances. employers and employees
found compromise more profitable than bitter
end warfare.
Men usually do not risk their jobs for light
or fancied grievances. II takes the courage Of
desperation for men to sacrifice the means of
livelihood upon which their families depend.
Thus. it is seldom a simple matter to settle
a strike. Employers tend to resist bitterly what
they regard as usurpation of their rightfm
powers And the strikers. with their backs to
the wall. fight Just as bitterly for their eco
nomic lives settlement comes only when
the loss Of profits and the loss of wages and
public opinion-one or all-force a compro-
mise
u That is what happened in Chicago, where
General Johnson apparently found the key to
settlement after both employers and strikers
had paid the price Of stubbornness. In San
Francisco. both sides gave ground.
Federal mediators and arbitrators are the
chosen agents Of public opinion to settle dis
putes that can not be solved by bayonetS and
brickbats
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06
ROMANCE
BY RUTH PERKINS

Woman Of an unknown fantasy,
In odd time byWays you come back
to me
Out Of curled green mists and amber
lights,
And long and indolent soft summer
nights.
Your white face fingers through an
ancient dream.
Elusive memory twists-eyades my
scheme
To capture your ephemeral lovely
grace,
Hung poised and near, the paleness
OF your face.
Why seeking. never finding, some
mad time
Or place or thing, some far of
sweet sung cline,
Or such ethereal dreams as this Of
you
Which hovers wing-wise just above
the blue?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06
TECHNOCRACY'S LESSON

THERE was a melancholy little story in
Il the papers few days ago telling how
the little chemical factory at Pompton Lakes,
n J.. established several years ago by How
ard Scott TO experiment with his theories Of
technocracy. was sold at auction with all its
contents for a total Of SIS.
This low price on a building which once
was worth many times that much Is prob
ably a pretty accurate gauge Of the general
publcs present valuation Of the democratic
theory. But while democracy itself came
down out Of the stratosphere like an exploded
balloon. the way IN which We all reacted TO
it when it first appeared still is worth think
ing about.
This theory burst on us at time when
the bottom seemed 70 have fallen out Of
everything.
The wheels had al run down. Farmers.
industrialists. wage-earners. investors, sales
men. professional men-all classes and condi-
lions Of people were full Of gloom The ma
ton itself constituted the finest plant for pro-
ducing everything that mankind needed from
corn on the cob TO automobiles. that the world
had ever seen; but things had got out Of gear
somehow. and there seemed 10 be little chance
that they would get back into gear very soon.
Then. in the midst OF all this gloom. came
these technocrats. announcing blithely that
We need not starve in the middle Of plenty
after all telling US that our rich farms and
our magnificent factories could be kept 60
ing fun time with everybody getting more
than enough Of everything If We would only
make the right kind Of effort.
Welt sounded nice. and no wonder We
felt a great thrill. Il wasn't long before the
bubble exploded 70 be sure-that little sale
the other day indicates the extent OF its col
lapse-but for a little while We thought We
saw the dawn on the mountains. sure enough.
And The thing 10 remember now IS the
fact that these gentlemen. with al their mis-
takes, did put their finger on the central
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06
5000 -. 6. -
CONTAGIOUS ELECTRICITY

DRESIDENT ROOsEvELT'S faith in an
Il electrified America, as accomplished in
his speeches at dam sites of the northwest,
seems to be shared by a growing number Of
citizens. But there are strong interests pull
ing in the opposite direction. Today the
United States Chamber Of Commerce issued
a middle-of- the-road report on the domestic
use Of electricity. II states:
Even with substantial reductions in equip
ment cost and energy cost IL is doubtful
whether the economic status OF the potential
electrified home customers IS such that the
growth Of home electuhcauon can be acceler-
ated greatly. unless forced by some artificial
stimulus such as a government subsidy"
one group opposing the Roosevelt pro-
gram argues that other forms of energy at
lower cost viii block electrical development.
Similar objections were made when Henry
Ford started mass production Of low-priced
automobiles. offering men Of moderate means
the advantage of new and convenient form
Of transportation.
The capital cost and operating expenses OF
a horse and buggy we're somewhat less than
even the lowest priced gasoline carriages. But
America in 1888 had %, 10000 registered auto
mobiles. AS the President and many Of the
worlds leading engineers see in electricity the
basis for a new sort of civilization, Ford saw
the possibility Of revolutionizing transporta-
ton with a car to fit millions Of pocketbooks.
Doing it proved profitable.
Mass electrihcation of American homes is
on the way. It may hasten leisure, freedom
and an end to drudgery. congestion, noise.
smoke and filth"
The question today is whether private cap
ital Will sacrifice high unit profits for smaller
profits on great volume of appliances and
electricity. or President ROOsevelt's 'yardstick"
projects will be expanded to cover the nation.
Low rates and lOw-priced equipment have
lifted domestic consumption Of electricity in
Tupelo. Miss. 80 per cent in few months.
The Tennessee valley authority formula by
which this was done is not copyrighted.
But It is contagious.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06
CONDEMNS DILLINGER
STAGE APPEARANCE
Bv Theatergoer.

By TheatergOer.
I wish to express my admiration
for the restraint and yet force with
which The Times Walter Hickman
dealt with the Dillinger family act.
This is not theater," he wrote.
1t certainly is not theater and,
lacking the restraint of Mr.. Hick-
man, l add that it is not decency.
That John DiIlinger Sr., can go
on the stage and commercialize his
sons death is astounding. 1t is but
another sign that we live in de-
cadent age.
There is but one cheerful note in
the whole proceeding, and that IS
that attendance was not particu
larry good at the theater which ex-
hibited them here, and exhibited"
is a carefully chosen word.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06
National GudrdSnen and Strike Duty

we realize we would never be a
spanking good f1rst-class private.
We would be tempted by the
pleas of the strikers to cross the
chalk mark and say, Brother,
here it is-our last dime. But you
are welcome to it"
Instead the guardsmen prac-
ticalIy incinerate themselves with
their anger against their unem-
ployed fellows.
In those dreams which often
come to one after a few hours OF
insomnia we often dream of being
President, king or dictators, what
you may, of the United States,
and breaking up the national
guard and throwing the leaders
into nicely bubbling pots of
steaming oil.
The guardsmen are no good on
parade Cthey can't keep step, and
they behave like Boy Scouts OH
meeting nights. We believe it
would help the national budget
immeasurably to replace the ma
tional guard with the Boy Scouts
and possibly Wolf Cubs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06

problem. It is possible. physically. for US to
grow enough food and make enough things
TO Danish want from the land forever.
How that is to be done may be another
question. The central fact is still there, and
We ought not 70 forget it.
No plan for recovery, whether it be the
New Deal or something else, will be worth
much in the long run if it does not call on
our best efforts to take advantage of this
dazzling chance-which never was open TO
any other people before in all the history Of
the world
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06
URGES MORE LIBERAL
PENSIONS FOR AGED
BY Humanitarian.

by HUMANITARIAN
County budget making time IS
near and it is imperative that more
liberal application Of the old age
pension law be made.
The limit of SIS month is far
too low. but worse than that is the
fact that some counties in Indiana
pay far less. In fact, there are in
stances where pensioners are re-
ceiving as little as $3.50. and pay
ments Of 81 to Sc a month are
common.
Such niggardly action is wholly
out Of step with the spirit Of the
times and is reflection on the good
name Of Indiana.
Our next door neighbor, Ohio, has
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06
Capital Capers
BY GEORGE ABEL

A AMBASSADORS whiz to the state depart
n ment in limousines. Attaches usually arrive
in their roadsters. Harry Payer, the former as
sistant secretary of state, used to appear in a
black coupe with gold trimmings.
TIE other day a state department official
glanced from his office window and exclaimed:
"a visitor arriving by bicycle! Who can it
be?"
Lew Douglas" hazarded some one, without
looking up.
CThere is an unfounded report that the
director of the budget rides bicycle to work.
1t was not Lew Douglas but bearded Wilfred
Stevens former translator for the state depart
ment, who had bicycled into town from his 133-
acre farm in Maryland which he has named
"Pawpungle Wilds"
Stevens is one of WaShington's most amazing
personalities. He wears brown flannel shirts
and maroon silk ties, knows thirty foreign Ian
guages and has invented two more. He lives
largely on pawpaWs. One summer he lived in
tree
His linguistic accomplishments are fantastic.
Languages at his command include Slovenian.
Arabic, Slovak, Turkish japanese, Sioux Lat
Wan, Chinese, Finnish and Latin.
Once he was asked:
Don't you get the words of the different
tongues confused?"
oh" he replied negligently after learning
the first couple of dozen languages, sometimes
did"
Stevens spent fifteen years devising uni
versal language called Ufono Then he decided
it wasn't good enough and threw the whole
thing into the fire. More recently he has per-
fected another language called "zhoeylong.
That means Pretty Eye" in English, which is
the name of Stevens pet woodthrush
A PROPOS of ambassadOrial limOusines, AM
L n bassador Felipe Espil of Argentine has just
bought one, trading in his old roadster which
was too easily spotted" by keen newsnen.
The new car will have embossed upon it the
crest of Argentina Envoy Espil is only sorry he
miles an hour en- route back to Hot Springs and
threatened to rise early one morning and motor
around Washington most Of the day.
Z DUARDO VIVOT, crack pistol shot Of Argen-
Il tina, is something of a wit.
The other day Eduardo informed a newsman
at the embassy:
There has been a revolution in Argentina.
President Justo has been ousted and Vice-Pres-
ident Rocco has taken his place"
The newsman slipped a cocktail with AM
bassador EspI queried:
What about your revolution"
envoy.
"Why-I-er-just heard that Justo has been
supplanted by Rocco-and -. :"
ESpil relaxed into smile:
When the president goes away on his vaca-
ton" he explained. his place is taken by the
ice-president. Vivot was only joking.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06

in Berkeley during the recent
strike in San Francisco.
VIII capitalists never understand
that if they want to save them
selves and their system they Will
have to give their employees a de-
cent living wage; they will have to
recognize unions and the workers
right to have spokesman of their
own choosing?
One only has to study the causes
ofs the French and Russian revolu-
tons to realize that the masses can
tolerate only so much hunger and
so much suffering.
1 agree with George Allen OF
Washington relative to the "snoot-
mess" of those running the federal
employment agencies.
I had considerable experience with
social workers and federal employ
ment agencies before coming to this
city recently, and want to say this,
if there ever were .herdboiled, con-
temptible, inhuman beings, I have
found them in charge of these
agencies.
Nearly all of them look down
upon those applying for relief, as
if they were so much scum.
To them you are a failure, no.
good and a vagrant. Talk about
little Hitlers. And in this free
America!
To them you are a case with 3
number. They are taught never to
allow their emotions to run away
with them-the needy are where
they are because they didn't live
right-didn't have enough courage
and stamina to do the things neces-
sary to become honest and up
right citizens"-there are funda-
mental causes for their being where
they are.
Fundamental causes" on the part
Of the 100000 unemployed, my
eye!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06
VIOLENCE SUSTAINS
GOVERNMENT
BY Enid Fountain.

BY Enid Fountain.
DO violence to no man." was
not George Washington's advice to
his soldiers. Violence is anti
Christian and wrong, but it is not
un-American. The American gov
eminent was established and is
maintained by violence. American
ism and Communism have this evil
in common.
Freedom of speech is an American
principle. This liberty is demanded
by honesty and intelligence. No
friend of truth is opposed to free
dom of speech as long as both sides
of the argument are presented.
Those who love truth know that
truth will win against error if
given a fair chance. Those who
hate truth know this also.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06
DISCUSSES BETRAYAL
OF DILLINGER
IN Helen kaY Young


I was not a little amazed to find
find that my letter under the name
Of Kay had created mild contro-
Versy.
I believe, however, that if William
H. will read it more carefully he
will discover that my intention vas
not to laud Dillinger but TO criticise
the person or persons who. under
the false guise of friendship, de-
livered him to his captors in the
manner IN which they did.
You are exactly correct. Two
wrongs can not make a right. That
is precisely my argument. The very
word friendship implies deep re-
sponsibility and because one to
whom We have given it in all
sincerity fails to measure up IS no
adequate reason for our failing in
our duty toward him.
We like our friends in spite Of
their faults, not because of them,
and if we are fair in our judgment
of them, we'll hesitate a long time
before placing the lurid seal Of Ju-
Gas on our own conscience. That
can be applied to every act Of our
daily lives. Charity is the most
beautiful Of all virtues and Is life's
real religion.
Not one fof us conscientiously can
condone single criminal act Of
Dillinger, but we can look back and
realize that there was first offense
which might have, with judicious
and wise understanding, changed
the entire tenor Of his life. And I
reiterate that the casual and cruel
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06
qohoIly diSapprouo of a0hat yom sag and aoW
defend to the death yOur right to sag jt.-V0tolre

spreading Of gossip and scandal in
daily intercourse with our friends
and neighbors is as much betrayal
of trust as the tipping off, by Dill
fingers associates.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06

Norma Talmadge says she's too busy being
married to stay in films. That's funny, because
so many others are too busy acting in films to
stay married
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06
The Message Center

(Fimes readers are nUtted to cypress
their Uie10s in these columns. Make your
letters short, 50 all can hare q chance.
Limit them to ESQ toords or tess.I
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06

A recent survey shows boys get to know
more words than do girls, by the age OF 6.
But the girls know better how to use the few
words they do know.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06

New York state liquor commissioner says
gin parties have died out. OF course, since
Scotch and rye have become legal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06

On account of prolonged strike, it seems
the onion growers in Ohio. and not the onions.
this time are in a stew.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06

When the girlhood sweetheart OF FARO
Agha. late old man Of Turkey, learned OF his
death she died Of shock. She was only 40. so
she couldn't have died OF old age yet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06

By Tim.
The strange metamorphosis of
the hulking country lout into a
beet-faced bristling national
guardsman, always has been to
us one of those inexplicable para
dOXeS of nature.
In particular, it battles us just
when we had the theory of en-
vironment we'll planted in mind.
BY all respects these youthful rus
tics should be the ones who would
like to join in a good "jupe" with
police.
Being rather downtrodden folk
in their own way, it always has
seemed to be good logic to suppose
that guardsmen would be the first
to espouse the cause of free
speech, liberty and raise in pay.
Too sadly, these adolescent ideas
of environment and all other sci
entific theories have been knocked
into cooked hat by the alarming
conduct of the guardsmen IN the
various strike CenterS.
In the light of these new facts
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06

France reports that American tourists there
have been drinking less liquor than hereto
fore. Repeal in America has taken the JOY
out of it, so what's the use?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06

A gangster in Cleveland, o.. committed
suicide because Of i'll health although it wasn't
the police who made his life unhealthy for
him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06

a pension law which provides
maximum of S25 a month, and pay
ment begins at IS instead of the
graveyard age" Of 10 fixed by the
Indiana law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06

Philadelphia scientists have discovered a
new sun spot 1900 miles wide. Now what
can We use that for as an abb?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-07
CUBANS MOVE TO SUSPEND
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS

HAVANA, Cuba, March 7. =
(UP)-A decision to suspend
constitutional guarantees ito
break up communistic activity in
a drastic manner" was decided up
on by the cabinet last night as
the growing strike situation in the
island became more menacing.
Secretary of the Presidency
Santovenia, in making this an
nouncement to, the press outside
the chamber where the cabinet
was in session, indicated that
President Carlos Mendieta would
sign the decree shortly. The cabi-
net still was in session at late
hour.
Two DEGREES have been signed
to curb agitators, who are believ-
ed involved in the present labor
troubles which include strikes by
railroad, cigar, newspaper and
port workers and others. These
DEGREES impose penalties upon ma
tive agitators who foment strikes,
boycotts, and disorders between
capital and labor and provide ma
chinery and a,formula for ideport-
ing foreign agitators guilty of
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-07
Declare Airmail
'Spoils' Meetings
Were Improper

WASHINGTON. Mar. 7. (UP)
Former Postmaster General Wal
ter P. Browns conferences with
airline operators in May, 1880,
were Improper" Colonel Paul M.
Henderson, vice-president of the
United Aircraft and Transport
Co.. testified before the senate
airmail investigating committee
today.
Col Henderson said that he at
tempted to persuade former AS
sistant Secretary of Commerce
VIM. P. MacCracken, Jr,, chair
man of the alleged "spoils con-
ference" to adjourn the meeting,
but was told: you're crazy as
hell
Henderson later told the COM
mittee that he had paid a fee of
several thousand dollars to Lehr
Fess, son of Senator Simeon D.
Fess, Republican. of o., for two
days work in 1880 in "expedit-
ing" passage of the McNary-Wa-
tiers airmail act by the senate.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-07
similar offenses.

similar offenses.
A commission of port workers
visiting the secretary of labor yes
terday and presented nine de-
mands. Ten new labor groups
were known to have joined the
strike movement, but the strength
of the strikers was not known be-
cause no newspapers were being
published.
The strike movement gained
strength Sunday when the gov
eminent brought in outside labor
to load cigar shipments of two
factories which were being boy
cotted by their workers. This is
the first test for the recent decree
outlawing general strikes and re-
curing eight days notice and ar
bitration on other strikes.
Limited train service in Santa
Clara and Orienta provinces was
established today despite the
strike of railroad workers. Heavy
military guards were placed
aboard each train. Strike leaders
conferred with company. officials
at Camaguey in an effort. to set
tie the walkout. 80 ~ 300 r
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-07
BREVARD CASE.
STILL PENDING.
Plea for Relief Is Now Un-
der Consideration by Su-
preme Court

The case of four former Bre-
ward bankers and county officials
scheduled, to come again before
Judge T. B. Finley in superior
court here at noon today, went
over until tomorrow morning.
The four men. T. H. Shipman,
]. H. Pickelsimer. c. R. McNeely
and Ralph R. Fisher, will remain
in the technical custody Of Sher-
iff Tom Wood, in whose custody
they were placed by Judge Finley
on Monday after he had refused
to make permanent a writ IT
habeas corpus.
Advices from Raleigh today
were to the effect that the su-
preme courts decision on the
matter of writ of certiorari
would probably be handed down
this afternoon, possibly at 3 p. m.
but probably not until 5 p. m.