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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
AMERICAS ADVANTAGES

WHATEVER the calendar may say, or
w whatever the weather man may have
to add, spring is here. An unfailing harbinger
tells us so; the big league baseball clubs have
started their spring training seasons
Now we are beginning to get the annual
crop Of dope stories" telling how this rookie
is sure to be a sensation, how that veteran has
taken a new lease on life, how So-and-so
still is holding out for more money, how such
and-such a star is knocking the ball over the
fences OF the southland with renewed zest.
None Of It means very much, probably
but it stirs the citizens pulses, just the same.
It means that winter is over, and that a long
stretch Of nice weather is just ahead
Baseball remains the national game, In
that In all its aspects, it is characteristic Of
America and of no other land. How, one
wonders, do the benighted folk Of England,
or France or Russia, know when spring has
arrived, without the big leaguers TO tell themP
Do they have to depend on calendars?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
A PROBLEM IN CRIME

EVIDENTLY it is not enough, in this coun-
~ try, to catch an outlaw. After you have
caught him you have got to ind some way of
making him stay caught.
John Dllinger was known as one of the
most desperate men in America. He had
escaped from confinement BEFORE it was
known that he would stop at nothing to escape
again.
One would have thought that the officials
charged with his safekeeping would have
made doubly sure that this time his penchant
for breaking jail would not have chance to
be exercised.
The circumstances of his escape-his use
of a dummy revolver whitfield out of piece
of wood and covered with shoe-blacking-
would be laughable if the whole situation were
not so serious.
Clearly, the first job before the authorities
today is the job of laying hands on him and
bringing him back-and, when that is done,
of seeing to it that he doesn't get away again.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
HUMAN CONSERVATION

MUCH has been written of the forest-sav-
AVA ing work of the civilian conservation
corps. In five prize winning essays in con-
test conducted by the American Forestry As
ISOLATION, one gets an idea Of what the CCC
means to the 100000 young men, many re-
cruited from highways, breadlines, soup
kitchens and "jungles"
Typical Of these testimonials is the story
told by James Kidweu of Texas. Four years
of depression had turned him from normal
youth into "a homeless bum" hunted and
hungry A friend in an Illinois fophouse per-
suaded him to join the CCC. He writes:
"An eminent psychologist has stated that
the three things necessary to happiness are
a task, a plan and freedom. In the CCC I
have found all three. My troubles are drowned
by hard work. In forestry have, for the
first time, found a profession that appeals to
me. So far as freedom is concerned in what
place could hope to find more isolation from
the cares that imprison civilization than In
the endless solitudes Of the forest?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
WATERWAYS, NOT MOTORS,
NEED OF NATION
nv r. NJ. Souawkv.

BY T. NJ. Squawky.
was talking to Josiah Loots the
other day and he said there is lots
of difference in administrations. 1t
used to be if a man had a SIS gold
piece in his pocket he was a good
citizen, and if he had pint Of
whisky in his pocket he was a crimi-
nal, and now if man has SIS gold
piece in his pocket he is a criminal,
and if he has a pint Of whisky in
his pocket he is good citizen.
All we're planning to plant down
here is a big crop Of suckers; and,
if they grow good, they will be worth
million dollars.
If the government has plenty of
money to buy motor cars for the
army, they should use the moEey on
public works to aid the iobless.
Making the motor cars would en-
ploy some, but the money could be
used to employ more men in other
ways.
Josiah Loots told ne the actual
cost of making a car would be about
500, part Of that would go for labor.
The selling price is from $500 to
$500. Most of the motor car money
would not go for labor to relieve the
starving millions of laborers.
If Marmon-H Herring would like
the contract at cost, plus 10 per
cent, provided it was fully the equal
of other cars, very good and well,
but just what do we plan to do with
motorized army?
The army might as well be
Strengthening the rivers of the
United States as smoking their pipes
and wearing the seat Of their
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
DICKENS AND MATTHEW

IN reading the rewritten New Testament,
from the master pen Of Charles Dickens.
we are impressed by the widely varying styles
of Dickens and Matthew We see Dickens,
the literary man. compared with Matthew who
had flare for genealogy. And having such
a flare, Matthew must write:
Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat
Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his
brethren.
and Judas begat Phares and cara of
Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom! and Esrom
begat Aram" And so on through fourteen
generations until Mary was reached.
Genealogy was important to Matthew. But
to Dickens, the trained writer, the important
fact was
Jesus was born"
In this simplifed New Testament, you will
find the new deal which Mr.. Roosevelt talks
about-preached on the shores of the Jordan
1900 years ago.
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EDUCATION IS SOLUTION
OF WORLD PROBLEMS
By Herman Lackey.

BY Herman Lackey.
DR.. Samuel J. Holmes of the Uni
versity of California deserves praise
for his zeal in reminding us that
intelligent people must have more
children in order to maintain world
mentality. His wisdom patriotism,
and love for enlightenment help to
prepare us to plan and carry out eff
fective measures for racial improve
ment. I would like to see the de-
tails of his program in every news
paper.
Although heredity is an essential
factor, he has not laid enough stress
on the fact that, the chief differ
ence between the so-called desir-
able and undesirable people is often
not so much nthe quality Of their
brains as it is in the way that they
use them.
To improve the brains Of the world
by eugenics would require many years
But by the light Of great truths you
can change the thinking Of peo-
pie over night. This shows the ire
mendous pow,r which a true edu-
cation gives to a man.
If we will but open our minds and
hearts, and if necessary our pock-
etbookS, the world will educate us.
We need not worry about that. In
order to gain and use this power
for the greatest good in the cause
Of racial improvement, we must do
our best to understand such allied
subjects as the burning questions of
birth control, eugenicS, economics,
and religion. Then, if we have
learned to understand the mind and
heart of man, we can WELD power
that is measureless.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
q0hoHy disapprove of qOhat yom sag and a0iU
defend to the death your right to sag jt-VOItaire

I all tax goes to the government and
if the undeserving veterans were
cut off this amount Of money would
stay in the treasury and eventually
would benefit the little taxpayer be-
cause the income tag money could
be used for things that the little
man has been paying for.
The big mistake was in not cut
ting more from the pension list and
keeping them off, lot of them that
were cut off bounced back on like
rubber balls. The government eth
er should present a gold-plated key
to the treasury to the veterans or
make laws so strict that the I'M
worthy can not draw pensions, dis
solve veterans organizations and
keep politics out of it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
AL FEENEY'S NEW BADGE
COMES IN FOR SATIRE

Deer Mistur Editur-Ain't Mr.. Al
G. Feeney, famous Republican
Democrat job hunter, jist had a
perty, sidney, new badge pinned on
him fer maxim Indiana safe fer
bandits?
Ger is it fact that this was jist
a boost fer Mr.. McNutt (pretty-boy
Paul. and his administration for
the campaign this year?
st sent this here letter to the edl-
tur of the Star but knowing their
famous policy of straddling, and
also their more famous practice OF
getting on the bandwagon, know
that they won't print it.
why can't we have a nice, perty
pickshure of Mr.. Feeney, and below
it a pickshure of the medal, and
below that list Of the bandits he's
made Indiana safe fer?
"Er amt it fact that Mr.. Feeney
tried to get a job with both Demo-
Gratis and Republicans the last cam
paign. Yew might ask him-have
Dan Kidney try it; he's brave
man, and darned good reporter. 1
might even add that he's a gentle
man. And amt been subsidized,
Gather"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
BOOZE DELIVERIES AT
STATEHOUSE, CHARGED.
By An Administration Friend.

BY An Administration Friend.
Here's some dope: Your slogan.
cts smart to be legal" surely
doesn't mean thing at the state
house.
Recently, I saw bootlegger max
ing his deliveries, through the corri-
doris, and smelled this booze on
some of the employees breaths, and,
surely, some of these employees
were just a bit noisy.
Don't you think here is something
you should look into?
There is enough mud being
thrown at the present administra-
ton without "the hands it is feed
ing" doing any more to it.
Print this, if you want, but do a
bit CT investigating, anyway. There
surely is something rotten in
Denmark"
For lots of reasons, I am unable
to sign this.
P. S.-Perhaps the state police
could give a little thought to this2
Perhaps.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
DOCTORS ATTACKED FOR
COST OF SERVICES

By c. C. S., Lafayette
Ia great adnirer and supporter
of the square-shooting of The In
dianapolis Times-want my say in
your Message Center. Your sue
cessful subscription drive in La
fayette should show our local paper
what the people want and what
they are going to get, regardless OF
unfair and cowardly political propa-
ganda.
My subject is why the Doctor
and Prescription Racket" In these
DAYS of little work-little money
high taxes-rising prices and lots of
sickness. why are the doctors al
lowed to conspire to hold up their
outrageous charges for such services
as they render.
Their song and dance as an ex-
cuse is that they spent years and
money getting their education and
the cost of their equipment, which
in most cases consists mainly OF
manufacturers free samples. Like
thousands in my position (out OF
work. -spent as many years, and as
much money learning my profession
as mechanical draughtsman as most
doctors do. My outfit Of working
instruments cost me far more than
the outfit of the average doctor, and
I am glad to be working on the
CWA for so cents an hour.
I called a doctor for my sick
baby. He charged me Sc for two
visits totaling thirty-five minutes.
Three prescriptions cost me s1.85,
and I know enough about medicine
to know that the ingredients did
not amount to 20 cents. Is it 60
ing to be necessary for the people
to form boycott against these hu-
man leeches who proiteer on the
misery and sufferings of poorly paid
unfortunateS?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
DEMOCRACY TRIUMPHS

1T is an instructive coincidence that Frank
Il lin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler completed
their first year in Office almost on the same
day
America has had year of the new deal;
Germany has had a year Of Nazi control
It is worth while to contrast the state of things
in the two countries, as a means Of compar-
ing two utterly different ways of meeting ma
tional emergency.
In making such comparison there is no
need to contrast the personalities of the
American President and the German chan
cellor. What is important is the striking
way in which two diametrically opposite theo-
.ries of government have been put to work in
time of crisis
In each nation there was widespread con-
fusion. encouragement. and want year ago.
Many men were out of work, finance and in
dustrv we're nearly at a standstil the mass OF
mankind was ready to embrace almost any
kind of program that promised action
What have we today9
In Germany there is an era of suppression.
"A large section of the populace suffers from
.pitiless persecution Thousands upon thou
sands OF men IdlESOiiiS oCOtAoS "a $3.50
race. some because of their beliefs.
Freedom of the press and Of speech is no
more. No one dares criticise anything the
Government may DO. An iron discipline has
descended on the entire nation.
And over here? Nobody is in JAIL nobody
suffers persecution, nobody is under boycott.
A newspaper editor can say anything mis- heart
moves him to say; politician can denounce
the administration in the most violent terms
his vocabulary will permit.
In the fall we are to have q national cleo
ton IN which the voters. if they choose can
srepudiate their national administration COM
,pletely.
To put it more simply, the Germans have
sacrificed the last vestiges of their individual
liberty to meet great crisis. We have met
our crisis with our liberties unimpaired.
Now this is not to say that We are wiser
or better folk than the Germans We are
used to democracy. We had had a century
and a half OF experience in governing our
/, selves. The Germans were not used to de-.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
YOUTH, 10, SEEKS
WORK AND RIGHT

By William Corwin Taylor.
Please publish this letter for me
in the Message Center. I hope and
pray for some results from my plea.
am young man 10. I am five
feet four inches TALL weighing los.
was graduated from grade school
and have completed one year at
Technical high school, lacking
money to finish. Our home was
broken up last summer and I have
two brothers. I am staying with
a widow nurse who nursed my
mother in 1923. I am confidential
with my troubles to her.
would like to have a job to
earn money TO help her so my
mother and 7 can get somewhere
by doing right. I haven't any bad
habits. I do not smoke or drink
and am honest in all my dealings.
If there is any one who feels in
terested please get in touch with
the editor Of this paper. May God
bless the one who will answer this.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
Forever
BY VIRGINIA KIDWELL

BY VIRGINIA KIDWELL
There is no end to this-it goes for
ever,
We are today what we will al
ways re,
Hope is a cruel despair, a powerful
lever
To force emotions that are ruling
me.
But remain inert, though more
from bordering
Upon inscrutable Fate that rules
supreme
Than from suspicion or from doubt:
I'm wondering
If after all, your love is not some
dream.
If so then let me just keep on be-
lieving
That some day soon forever I win
be
All yours with no more hurting or
deceiving-
Let me dream on til Time
awakens me.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
HE HAS OWN VIEW
ON HITLER'S REIGN
BY a Good Christian.

BY Good Christian.
I have been surprised and dis
appointed at your continued out
spoken approval of Hitler and his
Goddess policies. The use he has
made of his power never has been
countenanced by the Father whose
word you have been teaching these
many years. If you believe that
the economic and social reconstruct
ton of a country should be at
tempted by the degradation and
determination of thousands of limo
cent men, women and children,
then you and I speak a different
language.
If it were your children who were
Inundated and scorned, if it were
your wife who was insulted and
Stunned, if it were you who were
denied the privilege of earning
money to feed and clothe your
loved ones, then I have no doubt
but that you would look with less
favor on the ruthless atrocities Of
Adolph Hitler. Coming from a
minister Of the gospel, such ideas
as yours are indeed strange.
Editors Note: We have per-
SonaIIy talked with DIR. Wicks
about Hitler and can assure Good
Christian" he has been misin-
formed concerning DIR. Wicks'
VieWs.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09

trousers thin. Spades can be used,
too. Dredges are not necessary. If
a woman can Straighten a creek
with a round pointed shovel, men
can do the same thing with spade,
if they know how. Engineering!
Bah! Sense. Water runs down hill
There is water power that could
be developed with the motor car
money, besides the st. Lawrence
WATERWAYS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
A Statement

arbitrary in this, but felt that no
public good was to be gained by
its continuation.
The editor wishes to state that
The Times will print anything of
general public interest in these
columns, but can not continue to
print letters on a question which
has run its course in public
interest.
The Times feels that such a
policy is necessary if its Message
Center is to be of any value as a
public forum. THE EDITOR.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
CRITICISES PAY, HOURS
AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS
BY a Subscriber

BY a Subscriber
The Times has my heartiest con-
graduation for the change in the
working conditions of certain
stenographers in the state house.
was wondering whether similar in
vestigationS could be made on the
working hours of the maids in the
University hospitals. My neighbor
works there at least sixty hours a
week and does not even draw NRA
va ooc
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09

On Feb. 9, 1884, The Times
printed the following foot-note in
it's Message Center: Editors
Note-This is the end of the Mad
dox Socialism Controversy"
Mr.. Maddox asks that the edi-
tor be fair-minded and print his
further letters in the Message
Center.
Mr.. Maddox feels that he has
been offended by the action of The
Times and has not been treated
fairly. If that be SO, we are
sorry.
The Times did not wish to be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
OBJECTS TO TAX
BURDEN ON LITTLE FELLOW
BY J. Brook.

By J. Brook.
Just a few words in defense Of the
overburdened taxpayer and to really
set the people straight on this vet
Grams argument, and also explain
the right to J. A. Perkins, who, in
his article to The Times plainly
states that he has not considered the
truth.
He states that money paid to the
veterans comes from income tax and
not from the taxpayers. What a
narrow minded view. What differ
ence does it make where the money
comes from? A certain per cent2of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
TEACHERS LAUD SERVICE
OF GEORGE S. WILSON
By Your Teachers

BY Your Teachers
Dear Mr.. Wilson-Desiring to
express our since appreciation and
gratitude for your wise and eff
Gent advice and help at all times
during the time Of our association
in this great work to which We are
all very devoted, we take this op-
portunity to thank you for your
many courtesies and kindneSses.
you have spent your best life
in this work. We know that you
have been devoted to your task. We
appreciate the fact that you have
al AL times zxied to be fair to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09

mocracy; when trouble came it was only ma
tural for them to turn to dictator for relief.
And it is precisely that which is the point
OF the comparison. Because we have been
able to make our democracy work, we are
a happier people than the Germans. who have
not been able to make theirs work.
If we wish to preserve our happiness, we
must preserve our democracy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09

teacher and pupil alike. You have
asked only for efficiency from us.
We are proud to have been associat-
ed with you in this great work. We
hope that your future will be full of
happiness and be crowned with full
reward for your splendid service"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09

A motorist in Massachusetts kissed his wife
while going 80 miles an hour, and was arrested
Caught between two fres-if he escapes con-
viction for one crime, he'll be tried for the
other.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
The Message Center

(Times readers are tnvited to cypress
their Utesos in these columns. Make yoHT
letters short, so all can hare a chance.
Limit them to $50 qoords or leSs.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09

An Australian radio amateur reports he
inst picked I'D a message from an Ohio sta
ton that had shut down year ago. MuS1
have come to him by slow wave, rather than
short wave.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09

Senate investigation reveals j. P. Morgan
unloaded his airplane stock two weeks before
the air mail contracts were Cancelled. And
they say that only woman is ruled by instinct.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09

If Greece keeps on worrying insult about
leaving, some day he's going to surprise that
country and quit. Then whatg
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09

Denver (Colo) county prisoners have petit
toned for knives and wood blocks to emulate
the great Dnlinger and carve their future out
of jail.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09

Amarillo celebrated day for mothers-in-
law, but in other cities the motherS-ln-4a"
have their days all year round
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-09
Liberal Viewpoint
=Bv DIR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

first Of two articles by asTTE Elmer ef
Charles Dickens noted English author Interest in
Dickens is being revived because of the fact that
Dickens Life of Our Lord" is being publlsned In
The Times.
The Washington times., 1934-11-06
Ken Murray
Says:
tx" MARKS THE SPOT

tx" MARKS THE SPOT
Today is Election Day for
most of the country, and many
States predict that more people
will vote than in 1882. Well,
naturally! Now they don't
have to worry about losing their
place in the breadline.
In previous years, it has been
necessary to take precautions to
prevent "stuffing" the ballot
box. but this year the Admin.
iStratiOn is more concerned In
preventing the voters from
"Stuffing" the Blue Eagle.
Regardless of its faults, our
system of marking ballot has
it all over most European
methods. Over there, if you
don't put a cross over the die
tatOr. the dictator puts a cross
over you.
so REMEMBER:
Truth is stranger than fic.
ton. but 1t doesn't get as
many votes.
The Washington times., 1934-11-06
Chevy Chase Burglar
Puts Police In Air

is receiving unearned laurels, for
the police believe him to be the
same man who has been entering
scores of residences through base
ment or rear window, turning off
the main electric light switch and
stuffing the keyhole with wax,
matches or toothpicks, so that the
owner of the house will have
trouble entering.
Takes His Time
He doesn't believe in hurrying
unnecessarily, as the stopped
hands of electric clocks which
stopped when he turned off the
main switch show that he has
stayed as long as three hours.
He stole $4,000 worth of jewelry
in a robbery in September and his
loot for the two years he has been
active totals almost $4,000.
The Washington times., 1934-11-06

Police are trying to close in on
a thief who has been breaking
into number of homes in the
Chevy Chase section for the past
several months, and they don't
even know whether he is white
or colored.
So cleverly has the man been
working that none has ever seen
him, although one man, awakened
from a nap by the robbers activl-
ties. grappled with him in the
dark. The only description he
could give was that his opponent
was of medium build.
Steals $3.50 Jewelry
Last night he stole $3.50 worth
of jewelry from the home of Good
win P: Graham, 5000 block of
Forty-fifth st. N. w.
If he isn't the same culprit, he