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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
THE TEACHERS FEAR

TTTERANCES against enemies OF the New Deal
~ which heard by the National Council of
Teachers of English here yesterday were echoes of
similar statements made by professors in all parts of
the country. Teachers afraid Of fascism nazism
communism and all forms of dictatorship which
are enemies of academic freedom
At the same time a number of teachers in leading
universities have been accused of teaching
munism. That brought a counter attack from the
forces whom the teachers consider reactionary.
The professors are not the only involved
The same warfare goes on among students many
campuses and number Of college presidents do
know what to do about it.
There is one point involved upon which all Anleri-
cans should agree That is the right of free speech
The friends Of the New Deal among the teachers
have right to say what they think at public meet
lngS. Its enemies have like right.
Whether teachers have right to impose their
opinions on the students is debatable Their chief
business is to teach facts and opinions are not facts
To mature students they might discuss any number
Of political theories without offense as long as they
did not become dogmatic
Teachers should be disturbed by reactonaries
They rightly fear that reaction might be fol-
lowed by dictatorship
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
GOOD FOR YOUNG MEN

WE nave been attracted by the interest in and
he large attendance at the games IF tho
Guys two amateur football leagues Plavino on
grounds furnished by the Park Board and finances
Tor equipment by collections taken among the snec-
tators the IA teams OF the leagues have had sue
cessful season.
Inc Em-Roe championship was won by the Eng
hsh Avenue Boys Club. While Fort Harrison is lead
ing the Capital City League
here are nearly 500 hundred young men with
wholesome organized outdoor recreation which makes
II necessary for them to keep in condition bv
avoiding dissipation. Interested in them are their
families and friends Looking up to them are
legion OF small boys in their neighborhoods. No
wonder the games draw well in spite of the lack of
seating.
The more city has of this sort of thing the
farther along it will be in reducing delinquency. We
were reading comment of New York investigator
OF delinquent boys recently which said that the chief
cause of them being what they were was the alb
sence of Fairgrounds and equipment
Development of parks and Fairgrounds is part
OF youth salvage. The many baseball diamonds and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
DISTURBING FIGURES

HNHE Kelley Institute reports IA per cent in
crease in women patients this year. go per cent
of whom married.
Prohibition removed drinking from the bar
room to the living room, where the wives learned
to drink Now that liquor is easy to get the ladies
are at the bar along with the men.
We are not suggesting remedy-simpy a de-
pofapie tact that is ominous. The remedy may be
suggested by the people Much of the heavy drink
ing by women is done in public places To cut a
woman customer off when she vsibly has had too
much will not cure alcoholism but at least it will
show that the trade desires to adhere to what has
always been good practice in respectable places
1t is observable that many drinking men encour-
age their wives to drink They think the fun of the
evening is increased if the wife joins in Besides if
the wife drinks she has no excuse for rebuking
her husband. Many husbands, doubt. the
day when they taught their wives to take liquor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
MARK TWAIN'S BIRTHDAY

T OOKING about US we are constrained to remark
~ as he did once, that the report of Mark Twain's
death is greatly exaggerated.
The Tooth anniversary of his birth today finds him
one of the livest Of Americans. In every city and
town his admirers are pausing to pay homage to
him and his immortal GRANDCHILDREN, Tom Sawyer
Huck Finn, Pudd'nhead Wilson and the rest
This is not because he either a master crafts
a profound philosopher. Poe was a greater
artist. Washington Irving and some of our contem-
poraries outrank him in finished writing. Certainly
Emerson was deeper thinker 1t is because he best
chronicled the robust culture of his America in its
usty, youthful years.
Often he was prolix and boresome and in some of
his lesser works he displayed bitter satirica strain
AS Christopher Morley says time already has blue
penciled half of his work out of existence. But
never, in describing the folks he knew-as pilot on
the Mississippi, newspaper man in CALIFORNIA;
Mother Lode or as world traveler-did he play off
key.
He was our greatest folk writer sort of Aner-
Dickens. He talked the language of river rats"
gamblers, miners, boys backwoodsmen and the rest.
And, like O. Henry and Will Rogers, he had the
sential of an authentic humorist, broad and deep
understanding of the foibles that make human be-
ings at once lovabe and ridiculous
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
A LITTLE URGING FOE
MUNICIPAL POWER

BY Walter Smith, Cambridge City
New York state has a law that
any county, city, town or village
can own its own light or telephone
plants. We need law like that in
Indiana. If the Mayor or other
authorized official, as the Mayor of
Huntington, in our state, is too per-
SiStent in his demands for munich
pal ownership, we put him IN jail
Indiana's present light and power
law, dated March g. 1888, says in
case city should lose its fight for
municipal ownership, two years
must pass before they can have an
other election. And if this act is re-
pealed or annulled, the plant stays
with the utility interests for at least
five years. You will find this on
Page 945 of the 1888 acts.
All municipality owned plants in
Indiana make their electricity for
less than l cent per kilowatt hour.
Last year Richmond paid 100000
into the city treasury to help light
en- taxes. The budget for 1886 calls
for rate of 5 cents and $4,000
to go to the city treasury. This is
a strong $40 per capita.
If the Governor of Indiana will
call a special session he can save
the people of this state between 40
and SO million dollars a year, and a
great deal of crime in the way of
grating officials.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
ONE CAMPAIGN BOON

A CURRENT magazine article on ghost writing
4 n makes one wonder who will be writing the
speeches for the leading candidates next year. The
campaign, with thousands of addresses and state
ments to be prepared, will be boon to many I'M
employed writers.
The number of able writer's on relief is not known
because writer's have habit of hiding their need
as long possible. 1t is known, however that many
have taken relief work under the Hopkins plan Some
OF those will be glad to ghost for candidates too busy
unable to roll their own.
Some candidate have one for the home office and
one to accompany them on tours
In politics few men are gifted in the literary way
the late Albert j. Beveridge Since cam
paigning involves literary work they have to hire
it done.
OF course a candidate reading a speech somebody
else has written should at least furnish the ideas or
be willing to adopt those given him
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
OTHER OPINION
Fort Wayne News Sentinel

Florida and California may tenn
porary benefit from an enlargement
of the Canadian market for citrus
fruits. But what is going to be the
final effect upon California and
Florida when the markets for citrus
fruits dWindle in a number Of
American states?
The imports of Canadian potatoes
will injure Idaho growers. The i'm
ports of Canadian lumber and tim
Der will seriously damage a great
industry in washington and Oregon.
Wisconsin will lose through lowered
duties on Canadian cheese and
cream. And so on.
Various American industries de-
pendent upon tariff protection for
their very existence have very much
more at stake in this matter than
the Canadian market. If they &C.
quiesce in reductions for other
products, they must remember that
it may be their turn next to take
a cut.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
SEES STUBBORN UNION
LEADERS AS ENEMIES
BY Tom Berling

BY Tom Berling
The local building trades are get
ting all hot and bothered about jur-
additional disputes. I would not
attempt to explain to anybody the
meaning of jurisdictional disputes.
It just can not be done. They are
wrong, silly, senseless, disgraceful
and nuisance all the way round.
1t is the one question about union
ism for which I have no eXplana-
ton and very little patience. These
disputes have been going on for 20
years and are further away from
any settlement based on reason and
justice than they ever were. I can
only take it for granted that some
where in the setup of international
officers of the building trade group
there must be one or two excep-
tionally bull-headed, blind, selfish,
egotistical, donineering men.
They must be men who could
perhaps serve their organizations
better if they would take a kit of
tools and go back TO work at their
trade. If any or all of these gentle
men have a feeling that they per-
sonally, or the craft they represent,
are more important than the well
fare of the building trades as a
whole, it is time for them to wake
up.
You international men are paid
good salaries and it is not too much
for your members to expect you to
make friends for the organizations
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Questions and Answers

A-Webster's dictionary defines it
as United States slang, meaning a
partner or assistant.
Q-What is the speed of the air.
craft carriers Lexington" and
"Saratoga?"
A-Thirty-three to thirty-fve
knots per hour.
Q-Is there any difference between
fish flesh and meat?
A-There is no characteristic diff
ference. The bulk Of both is protein
and water, and pound for pound
there is nearly, if not quite, as much
protein in fish meat as in beefsteak.
Q-What is a Novena?
A nine days devotion to any
religious object
Q-What is the area of Philadel-
phia?
Alt covers 1872 square miles
and extends about p miles north
and south, and from to 10 miles
east and west.
Q-Is there a maximum and mini
mum limit for salaries of major
league baseball players?
A--No. Each player is under con-
tract which names the amount Of his
salary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
ACTS TO HELP CONVICTED
"CURFEW GIRL"

By Josephine Fenberg
I wish to compliment Mrs. Helen
Lindsay on the article in The Times
of Nov. % regarding the "curfew
girl" I have been very much in
terested in this particular case;
have sympathy for the girl and the
life she led. She evidently is a
good girl in many ways or she could
not have been a school teacher.
I think the Governor of that
state should act, and feel if all Fed
Grafton Clubs of America would act
at once they could bring a square
deal for her.
AS business woman, l feel have
a right to write the Governor, which
I am doing today, asking him to
take little interest in this case. I
hope others will do the same, for l
really think the whole United States
is interested.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

where we have our ''forty-ninth
state" today A British-Japanese
war is on, and 240O miles of free
salt water lies between California
and the forty-ninth state. Didn't
my father warn about this way
back there in 1885?
He warned about the gang plank
into the British empire"-one
branch to China and the other to
Australia. He was for private in
itiative all right, but he warned
about Uncle Sans buying a lot so
miles out in the swamps and put
ting his nice 200-acre farm down
on a mortgage Now that it is too
late, I ask, why did the people of
those days allow that? To quote
my father, They didn't give a
damn"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

which you represent. You certainly
are failing in this.
Some of you perhaps might do
better in the political arena. I
would vote for you just to get rid
of you and have team work and
harmony on the job.
can not approve of jurisdic-
tional disputes tying up government
work and ruthlessly snatching the
comforts of life from the hands of
men, women and children. I resent
it when your bull-headed disputes
mar the good fellowship of crafts
men.
Certainly any man who, from the
refuge of his power and position,
refuses to submit these disputed
questions to a disinterested and fair
board of arbitration is an enemy of
organized labor and the craft he
represents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
A LOOK INTO THE FAR
DISTANT FUTURE?
BY a Richmond Rea der

BY a Richmond Reader
The air-torpedoing of the big
Pan-American Always liner early
Monday recalls warning gave SO
years ago. I was just entering high
school and what 1 knew of the
World War 1 had learned from my
father He wrote the article, and
I mailed it in away back in 1885.
I have other copies of The Times
of those days in which appeared
similar articles from my fathers
pen. If Times readers will visit the
library they can see for themselves
that what was foretold away back
there in 1885 has come to pass in
this year of grace, 1874
At that time the Ethiopian War
was kicking up little dust. Franklin
D. Roosevelt was President. One
Bruno Richard Hauptmann, con-
victed of numbering the baby of
Charles Lindbergh, the noted air
pilot Of those days, was still alive,
waiting to be electrocuteo.
But I'm getting away from my
story. And yet I'm not. In the
year I mention the President
started a new kind of neutrality"
policy. He was widely applauded
for it. AS my father explained it to
me, the United States had been
taken for ride" in 1917. The
European nations did everything
possible to get the United States
into their League of Nations" but
Congress refused to bite.
AS soon as the Italian Ethiopian
League scrap started, the President
announced a new neutrality.
Americans were warned that they
would travel at their own risk" 1t
was travelling at the risk of mil
lion lives" that got the United States
into the World War of 19141910.
So the people got the idea that
everything was well and swell.
But my father had taken a deep
interest in a new and rather strange
development in the Pacific. He
wrote article after article to The
Times in which he asked why the
United States was going 2400 miles
out OF it's way to look for trouble.
All sorts of stunt flights and naval
maneuvers and air-armada flights
were staged to make the nation
Pacific conscious" A private COM
mercial airline to China was put
through. A subtle campaign was
waged to make Hawaii the forty
ninth state in the Union" and look
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
GOOD CHRISTMAS NEWS

TINE number of men employed by private indus
try in the Pittsburgh district is the greatest
since May 1881. This cheering report is the result
of careful survey just concluded.
1t is of Importance to Indiana because it indicates
better times in the heavy industries where the turn
for the better has been slowest to come Operation
of the heavy industries creates orders for the light
er ones.
Recently similar came from the Calumet
region of Indiana the of heavy industries this
state. Together the reports give the approaching
Christmas glow like old times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

Times readers are nrtted to cypress
their Uiea0s in these columns. religious
controversies excluded. Make uour letters
short so oil can have chance. Limit
them to ESQ t0ords or less. Your letter
must be sidned, but names 11tu be
1Oithheld on re0HeSt.J
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THANKS, MR.. FOUST.
1T WAS A PLEASURE

BY Edmond C. Foust. Editor The Hooser
Farmer
This is to acknowledge the splen-
did cooperation given by your
paper in publicizing the Annual
Convention of the Indiana Farm
Bureau, Inc.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
THE SONG OF ALL POETS
BY DANIEL FRANCIS CLANCY

AS long as I manage to live,
My humble songs I will give,
And all that hope, is when I die,
One remembering heart-will sigh.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

football grounds which Cleveland has scattered along
its lake front are good example. So the public
golf links and game grounds in Chicago First the
place then the public interest supporting city youth
at play. Then we shall begin to see a drop in crime.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

The process ofEtrial should be search for truth
rather than a battle of wits in which the COM
pexities of the law too often used to free the
guilty and trap the innocent-A H. Mccormick
commissioner of correction, New York.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

They have been saying that opera should take off
the high hat We have done it, and We are going to
try to give the public what it wants in opera Opera
is not dead, it is being reborn.-Edward johnson,
general manager, Metropolitan Opera.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

NOTHING is SO credulous as
~ vanity, or so ignorant of what
becomes f-Shakespeare.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
DAILY THOUGHTS

Seeing there be many things that
increase vanity, what is man the
ter.-EcclesiaStes Gil.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

There is no danger of dictatorship from the
Left; the Right is too strong; it is from the Right
that the dictatorship is coming-Oswald Garrison
Willard noted liberal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

Q-What does the name Napier
mean?
At is British family name de-
rived from the French and Latin
languages, and means a custodian
of the table-linen in a palace or
feudal mansion.
Q-What is the source of the
verse that begins Give me men to
match my nountains?"
At is from The Coming Amer
lean" by Sam Walter Foss. The verse
reads:
Bring me men to match my noun
tainS.
Bting me men to match my
plains,
Men with empires in their purpose,
And new eras in their brains"
Q-Is side-kick legitimate word?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

know the working classes do not need big
navies 1t is their rulers who want them to protect
their lives their money and their pockets.-Oliver
Baldwin, son of BritainS prime minister.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

Low-brow arts" are genuine arts. They satisfy
ma I'VE needs in human nature.-John Dewey, philos-
opher and educator. C
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Inclose a Scent stamp for reply
when addressing any question of
fact or information to The Indiana polls
Times Washington Information Bureau.
Legal and medical advice can not be
given. nor can extended research be
undertaken. Be sure all mail is adj
dressed to The indianapolis Times Wash
ington Bureau. Frederick NJ. Kerby,
Director. 1913 Thirteenth-st. n. W.,
Washington, D. C.
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The HOOsier Forum

l aCholly dlsapprove Of aohat you say-and aUiU
defend to the death your right to sag it-Voltaire
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

Rugs make me think of the test
for compatibility betwiXt husband
and wife propounded by an old
indianapolis friend. If the twain
can set up bedstead without COM
ing to blows they are happily
married. In the times that I have
moved have found it prudent to
place in the contract a clause re-
quiring the moving men to set up
the beds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

TUST why the government could
~ not have telephoned downtown
to one of the qualified rug mer-
chants and had the job done in an
hour is oen of those secrets which
will be revealed only by historians
of this cock-eyed age.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

One of my friends turned up at
the Office after Thanksgiving all
dressed up in his best clothes. The
explanation was simple The
morning after holiday the natural
thing for a man to do is to reach
for the nearest clothes, which usual
ly are the ones he tossed off the
night before. Then there is the
thrifty fashion of wanting to get
two wearings out of a collar.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-21
1VAOO1
Trustee of Jackson School Town
NIIVII OUUIIV ]
william Freuchtenicht.
Attorney for Trustee.
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS

NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS
Notice is hereby given to taxpayers OF
the City of Indianapolis that the. Com
mon Council now has pending before it
81 OF 1885, appropriating moneys as fol-
lows:
Appropriation Ordinance No. SO, pro-
poses the appropriation of S4323, from
the anticipated unappropriated ard I'M
expended balance of the General Fund
lie Safety Office Administration budget,
Fund ll-Salaries and Wages, Regular
commissioners.
Appropriation Ordinance No. ga, pro-
poses the appropriation of $500 90. from
the anticipated unappropriated and I'M
expended balance of the Department of
Public Health and Charities General
Salaries and Wages. Regular-Dental
Clinicians. in the Child Hygiene division
of said department.
and fixing time when the same shall
take effect
The above described ordinances are due
lar meeting of the Council to be held or
tile 9th day of January, 1885.
After said appropriations have been de.
termined, any ten or more taxpayers feel
ing themselves aggrieved may appeal tc
the State Board of Tax Commissioners
for further and final action thereon by
filing petition therefor with the Marion
County Auditor not later than ten days
after said appropriations have been made
by said Common Council and the State
Board of Tax Commissioners will fix date
for hearing il this county.
witness my hand and the seal of the
City, of Indianapolis, this 10Th day of De-
DANIEL J. o'NEILL JR.
City Clerk
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TODAY'S
QUESTIONS
WINNERS ANNOUNCED DEC. "a
December Goth Questions
I What iS Tho ideal fot,,iI1 oift9


December goth Questions
1. What is the ideal family gift?
2. Where do you have three years to
pay if you have bathroom in
stalled?
3. For the best dry cleaning who do
you call?
4. What does DIR. Kernel suggest as
gift for Mother?
5. What does F. C. Bonnet suggest
as the appreciated gift?
6. Where can you get G. E. radio
evenings and Sundays?
I. What Minerals should you use for
Health?
8. What confectionery is located at
101 n. AIabama-s
9. Where can you get Norge Re-
frigerator and pay March LIST?
10. Where can you get end tables for
69c to S1.95?
Winners must cali at The Times Wan
for their tickets and certificates
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try. Nuts. Xmas Trees. Delivery. open
z days urtil midnight. ABE ROSE
MARKET, Bellefontaine and E 10th.
BOOTH FISHERIES, Willis Brarcb, 23a
NASSAU Fish. oysters, Sea Foods.
tables. fruits. Delivery. $3.50 Park-av
rh-2266.
NORTHWESTERN FISH MARKET-Fresh
fish and sea foods. 2727 Northwestern
TA-0893
Times Want Ads-Cost Less-produce Best,