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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10
BENEFIT IN FINANCE PROBE

GONE time this fall the Senate's Interstate
~ Commerce Committee will undertake an
exhaustive investigation of railroad financing.
Out of this should come much extremely val
liable information that will help the country
to determine what its future railroad policy
should be.
A recent development has given this inves-
tigation broader chances of success. A Treas
ury Department order. approved bv Presi-
dent Roosevelt. opens 10 the committee the
income. profits and capital stock returns of
firms and individuals involved.
This should make it certain that the COM
mittee Will be able 10 get an exact. detailed
picture Of railroad financing. In that way it
can determine whether abuses exist and. if
SO, how they should be remedied. The result
should in the long run be highly beneficial to
our entire rail transportation network.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10

conditions, when the civil authori-
ties have been set aside, in direct
opposition to the state constitution,
Hapgood has shown his sympathies
for the downtrodden and exploited
masses by his insistence on human
rights, and has twice been arrested
for no other crime than that he has
demonstrated against the unlawful
procedure.
If the writer had any influence
with the Socialist Party he would
suggest that they again nominate
this stalwart defender of labor's
rights, and possibly the masses
would recognize the value Of hav-
ing the state under control of one
who has their interests so much at
heart as to sacrifice his own COM
fort so far as to submit the impris-
onment and abuse for their sakes.
In the several strikes now going
on in Terre Haute, Powers Hapgood
and Leo Vernon have been largely
instrumental in the prevention Of
violence. They have counseled the
workers to avoid any semblance Of
violence and to peacefully and
silently picket the plants in an ef-
fort to shame the scabS, who enter
the works, though God knows they
have plenty Of incentive to resort
to violence against these fellow
workers who are willing to help the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10
The Book World

THE amazing nineteen-twenties, that scan
dalous decade which Indiana remembers
best for the mad rise to power Of the Ku-Klux
Khan and its subsequent death, come back to
US in the pages Of High Fever" a book written
by one OF our own" Melvin Lostutter Of Column
bus, Ind. (Harpers; 50
1t is distinctly a high-pressure tale that Mr.
Lostutter, editor Of the Columbus Evening Re-
publican, has unloosed upon us. 1t is a tabloid
style novel Of those outrageous 'tabloidish" days
of few years ago.
If this is what the Tories of America are try
ing to lead us back to- if those mad, frantic days
of the nineteen-twenties are the best we ever
had, we'll keep these depression years with all
their heartaches and sorrows.
Mr.. LoStutter is distinctly an artist Of the
melodrama. He has produced novel Of amaz-
ing vitality and more than a little power. In
short, it's like a Notre Dame football teams
power-house rush: Hit that line! First down!
On we go! Touchdown"
"TTIGH FEVER" is true to its title and when
Il i you are through you find yourself worked
up to quite temperature over those wild, tricky,
greedy days when everybody was trying to do
everybody else for something.
Back in 1919, after the war, Spruce Tucker,
travelling salesman and quite highlander, ran
across Calab Craig, hill-billy preacher, in Ten
nessee and brought the spellbinding nountaineer
north for a highly publlclzed eVangellStlc tour
saving souls the Aimee Mcpherson way.
Along with Craig came his wife Sophie, who
left the travelling evangelstS and stumbled into
a career Of sin on her own. Tucker tied his hill
billy preacher up to the Ku-KluX Klan and later
into the Florida boom market painful memories
those, into bootlegging, and sundry money-mak-
ing schemes
Those were insane days, the decade of Mr..
Lostutter's tale and he brings it through more
than 80 chapters of high-tenSion reading to
moving climax with the trial of Sophie for the
murder Of Chicago racketeer.
EOR first novel, Mr.. LoStutter has produced
l. an extremely credi6able piece of work. 1t
may be a little too high-powered for some read
ers, but as d matter of fact he pictures those
glorious" days Of prosperity in their true light.
Although he was born in Vevay, Mr. Lostutter
has spent most Of his life in Columbus. He
graduated from Columbus High School in 1912
and attended (erratically) Franklin College. He
worked around Indianapolis in a variety of jobs,
served with the Marines in France, and finally
took his degree at the University of Mexico
shrewd editor, Mr. Lostutter has watched
the world flying by through philosophical eyes
and his High Fever" is the result of that phi
losophizing.
Harper & Bros, 40 E. 33d-st, New York City.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10
BANDIT GANGS

INDIANAPOLIS again finds itself enmeshed
l. by a miniature crime wave. Last week
police were able to roundup the alleged gun
man who shot delivery messenger, but on
Sunday and yesterday bandits scored again
Sunday yeggs smashed a safe and yesterday
bandits snatcned $4,000 from the hanoS OF
the president of a Beech Grove bank.
Apparently, the lawless element still re-
tains the knack of outrunning and outguess-
ing the law.
Among other things needed in this COM
munity, is a closer working enforcement setup,
with city, county and state officers working
hand in hand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10
GRATIFIED AT ATTITUDE
OF CABELL IN SPEECH

By Reader
Criticism against the Roosevelt
Administration apparently emanateS
from only two sources. One of these
is the partisan politician; the other
the opponent of the governments
effort to curb the profiteering Of big
business.
Consequently it is highly crafty
ing to find an industrial leader who,
in realizing the President is doing
his best against tremendous obsta-
cles, criticises him with tolerance.
I refer to Robert H. Cabell, presi-
dent of Armour & Co. His recent
address before The indianapolis
Chamber Of Commerce reveals him
to be a New Deal critic of intelli-
gence and understanding.
AS the executive head Of one of
the country's largest packing con-
Germs, Mr.. Cabeu is in a position to
fully appreciate the governments
so-called "meddling" His atti-
tude, however, toward the Roosevelt
program is in striking contrast with
that Of many other business lead
ers.
The governments livestock reduc-
ton campaign, Mr.. Cabell stated,
resulted in higher consumer prices
and were rapidly becoming a men
ace to the packing industry"
Notwithstanding this fact, he went
on to say: ut is farthest from
nv mind to criticise the govern
ment's program It's objective was
to reduce supplies to a point where
livestock prices would be profitable
to the farmer, and certainly that IS
a goal to be desired"
Then, in all fairness, he added
that "the government used its best
Judgment under the most difficult
circumstances"
Mr.. Cabell is tolerant Of the gov
ernment's experiments. He knows
that only experimentation will pro-
duce a new cure for a new all
ment.
His attitude, we repeat, is most
gratifying.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10
Phone Riley 50l
yUEsDAY. SEPTEMBER 10. 1895.
CRIME AT BATON ROUGE
a sCRIPPs-HowARD NEWSPAPER

7 AW loving Americans are shocked at the
II assassination of Senator Long.
No measure Of desperation can justify this
mans enemies in taking up the weapons of
murder. Louisiana should not emulate Russia
or Germany; it should be a land of ballots,
not Of bullets.
Nor will it 90 merely to say that this assass-
ination was logical chapter in a strange and
turbulent career. on the surface it might
appear so. Senator Long had choked the
Democratic processes in Louisiana so COM
pletely that the majority appeared unable to
express its will at the polls. He boosted: L
can buy legislators like so many sacks of
potatoes"
He had built up a state machine more
powerful and arrogant than any this country
has ever seen. He welded his medieval power
not as wise dictators do. He wooed violence
and he expected it, for he travelled either fur
lively or lanked by armed bodyguards. 1t is
significant Of the passion he stirred that the
misguided young physician who took his life
was no mailman, but a respected citizen who
doubtless thought he was saving his state from
a public enemy and who certainly knew he
was committing suicide in the attempt.
But Huey Long was not only victimizer;
he was himself victim. He was the creature
f a state political system so decadent that it
could b. seized and owned and run by one
man. This system was ripe for the coming
of just such JacObin.
He was also victim of the American sue
cess preachers. The postwar years in which
he grew to maturity were marked by the
worst forms of cynical materalism. Small
wonder that young itinerant salesman step
ping forth on that scene should have told
himself that anything goes.
Louisiana and the United States must rid
themselves Of their Longs by lawful means
and to insure the future against Longism they
must revitalze their popular political systems
from the bottom up. The incipient FaSciSm
which this political dictator represented is
not confined to Louisiana.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10
LOUD SPEAKING FACTS

ID EPUBLICAN strategists may find the
IN treasury's new income tax returns highly
defationary to their dreams of 1886 victory.
For in tones louder than any partisan prophet
of disaster can wall these figures proclaim
the news that
l. The total income tax collections for the
united States in the 1885 fiscal year ending
June 80 last was IS per cent higher than for
1884:
.. Total collections for 1885 were S1,O99, $780,
sS2. compared with SSl7, 1888 for 1884.
3. Increases are higher than the average
in 81 preponderantly rural states indicating
success of the Administrations AAA control
and benefit program.
The treasury'S recorders must have en-
Joyed their work, for the new prosperity seems
particularly to favor those states busiest in
grooming favorite sons for the coming battle.
In Borah's Idaho general income tax re-
turns shot up n per cent, and personal in
come taxes we're 1l9 per cent higher than
year ago. In Col. Knoxs Illinois. where the
grass rooters met in conference, collections
were ~ per cent higher, and in the Southern
Illinois district they skyrocketed 70 per cent.
In Senator DickinSon'S Iowa returns are up
40 per cent.
In Gov. Gene Talmadge's Georgia they
are up Sc per cent.
And in Sen. Vandenbergs industrial
Michigan the automobile boom has shot up
income tax returns to a rs per cent increase.
Only in droughty Kansas may Gov ALT Lam
don find some crumb of comfort in the fact
that the increase of q per cent fell below the
national average.
And Herbert Hoover will not be able to
point with alarm at grass growing in Palo Alto
streets. For tax returns in California are up
q per cent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10
PAYS TRIBUTE TO ROGERS
AND HIS WORK

By w. H. Richards
There are no 10 men in the United
States whose taking off would cause
the amount of heartfelt grief that
the death of Will Rogers. has caused.
He was known and loved by the
whole country. His life work was
to bring cheer into sad hearts by
his ready wit and good, clean en-
tertainment.
1t is certain that if a poll were
taken of the theater-g going public
the great majority would vote that
his pictures continue to be shown
for years to come, and if Will Rog-
ers himself could be consulted I
am sure he would express the wish
that the good work he has done
be perpetuated in that way.
1t would be the greatest honor we
could confer in his memory, and
there are thousands who, am sure,
would join me in the wish that all
VIII Rogers pictures be continued.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10
SPUDS AND STATESMEN

EOR 80 years Idaho has luxuriated IN the
Il glory that is Senator Borah. Though I'M
developed and sparsely peopled, she figured
she could afford this one statesman as long
as she hitched him up with Woodworking,
go-getting, Idaho-minded Senator.
When the West went Democratic in 80 she
retired her G. o. P. Senator Thomas, and
sent down to Washington the New Deal DEM
ocrat, James Pinckney Pope. Like all OF
Idaho's other No. men, Senator Pope was
counted on to do the home state chores
while Borah made the headlines. Somebody
had to fetch and carry for dams and spudS
and sugar beets and copper. And now, Of
all things, Pope has turned out to be a states
man, tool
Even before Congress adjourned James
Pinckney Pope set out for Europe as a self
appointed ambassador at-large. En- route to
Geneva he gave out interviews on the Ethiop-
ian oil concession and other matters. News
papers quoted him on this and that, prem
iers and ambassadors gave him ear. Now he
has settled down to a ringsde seat as an
observer of the League Councils deliberations.
All Of a sudden he has taken over the foreign
situation, leaving ex-Chairman Borah Of the
Foreign Relations Committee to compose the
domestic issues.
We hope Idaho takes its sacrifices in the
right spirit. Spud-minded provincials may
think they've been cheated. But the real
patriots Of the Gem State of the Rockies will
weep because they have only two sons to
give to their country-and the world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10
ETpldins Guild and Circuit

will be organized later with a
school system designed to encour-
age and lead talent into the va
riouS educational institutions, a
fraternal system to help make bet
ter citizens, and a community cir
cult system to give to each COM
munity samples of the work of
others.
The organization itself is very
we'll made up. 1t has worked out
in every instance, and is the same
today as when originally designed.
1t has been accepted by every in
dividual and institution or or
ganization approached, and has
won many friends by its accom-
plishmentS.
Operating with a concrete set
Up of six sections, a board of
critics, and a cabinet, it is ca
pable. of handling everything from
entertainment at a club meeting
to city-wide or statewide
pageant. 1t can operate in one
room, a community. city, state or
the entire nation without change.
1t has experimental with an am
ateur circuit system, and has
found that by dividing the city
into communities, organizing each
community around a community
center and placing these on a cir
cult, speakers, plays, programs,
movies, musicians, puppets, in fact
anything can tour the entire city
by merely filling out a schedule,
thus encouraging and developing
talent, and in turn giving to the
city a well balanced, organized
cultural set-up.
Through this organization, the
various art, educational, civic or
CARNATIONS can be drawn to each
other, each contributing its share
and all benehting. Thus, for in
stance, a city-wide pageant would
draw its players from the dra-
matte groups, writer's from the
writing group, music from the mu-
sicians, and publicity from an al
ready organized and function
ing publicity department. The
usual labor Of getting every
thing together and going" would
not be needed.
If the designers of the 100000
community center will investigate
they will find. that the various
civic and art clubs of the city are
in as much need for a small audi
forum as the city is a large one.
If they should include small
hall seating about 200, and suit
able for meetings, dances, art ex-
hibits, movies, and lectures, they
will have given the city a nucleus
through which the whole city can
be tremendously benefited.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10
TAKING OVER THE REINS

TINE Citizens Gas Co., with its name
l. changed, today is a public utility-the
first in indianapolis.
Municipal ownership has proved valuable
to other cities and towns in the nation and
there is no reason why the city's operation of
the gas plant should not uphold such records.
The men who drew up the articles OF the
gas company 80 years ago were looking far
ahead. Indianapolis now must maintain an
even balance wheel of operation of the utility
to uphold the faith that was placed in the
city three decades ago.
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BY E. Pierre De Miller

ny lulu OC
After reading your editorial on
can Auditorium and Music" cit
ing the need for an all embracing
musical organization in connec-
ton with the new municipal audi
forum project, I wish to call your
attention to the fact that such an
organization does exist.
TIE organization is known as
the indianapolis Guild and Cir
cult, and has existed for two years,
quietly reaching its goals without
asking for more than civic CO.
operation.
This organization is even more
than "all embracing" in regard
to music. 1t also embraces art,
writing, dramatics, hobbies, and
civic clubs. 1t has a fundamental
plan but separate set-up for
each field with an ultimate goal
of a concrete, we'll balanced, well
organized cultural basis for the
city, and a slogan of Better
Homes and Citizens Through a
Better Appreciation Of the Arts"
That just about includes every
thing, doesn't it? 1t probably even
includes a smile and a side re-
mark about hitching wagons to
stars but, before you laugh out
right about young ambitions, let
us see how well organized this is.
Let us taste some of the broth.
Beginning as an idea among the
students of a dramatic class two
years ago, it now has 16 groups in
the city in its dramatic set-up
alone.
These groups exchange plays
with each other, hold a dramatic
play tournament, sponsor a play
cast from all the groups, and CHI
max their year with a dance. A
good development for a year, is it
not?
From that success came sue
cess in the art field with two ex-
hibits produced. The first for
finished artists only, was made
up of single pictures hung IN such
places as grocery stores, beauty
shops, department stores and even
the Office of the Mayor and Gov
ernor. The idea was to place good
art where the average person
would come in contact with it.
The second exhibit was a student
grouping and was open to schools,
libraries, churches and the like.
The music field now being
worked on, and probably the rea-
son you have not heard Of it, is
to include musicians, choirs, Or
chestras and such moving from
neighborhood to neighborhood
playing or singing in community
centers, churches and for clubs
or meetings.
Hobbies, writing and other fields
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10
BUSINESS NOT PRIVATE

IT IS often hard to draw the line between
private business and public business. But
when private enterprise sends a tentacle
halfway around the world and gives the
general public genuine res On to fear that
their country may be involved in a war, it
ought to be obvious that the whole affair has
become a public concern.
For this reason it is a little bit hard to be
patient about all the stern and dignihed
denials with which oil company officials sur
rounded that famous Ethiopian concession
up 70 the moment when it was Cancelled.
Let's get the record straight on this. First
news of the concession came through an an
nouncement by Halle SelaSSie that rights to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10
So They Say

Mussolini seems to think the best
way to civilize and educate is to kill
most of us.-Dr. Azat Wargmeh
Martin, Ethiopian minister to Lon
don.
Dramatic acting is a luxury
can't afford right now. No one who
is making the money I am has any
right to commit economic suicide
by indulging a lifelong ambition to
become an actress-Sally Rand.
Some persons seem to use alcohol
with no apparent harm, but no one
tested has ever been found to be
more skillful or to 90 better work
because of it. - Bertha Rachel
Palmer, Evanston, Ill, in w. c. T.
U. address.
The young flirts have the motions.
but real romance is to be found
among us girls who grew up in the
hustle and petticoat era.-Mrs. Nell
lie Brooke Stull, noted mail Or
der" matchmaker.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10
NIGHTFALL
BY POLLY LOIS NORTON

BY POLLY LOIS NORTON
Swiftly the night came on, on
padded feet,
Stealing along the wooded river
banks,
Stalking the ghosts Of trees where
land and water meet,
Eurdling the stream where multi
colored hanks
Of sunset colors were dipped to dye.
Time and again it sprang into our
path
And was pushed back by vigorous
padded stroke,
Until the boat, with one last rain
bow bath,
Into the wall Of deep still darkness
broke,
And all alone with night-aione
was I.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10
The Message Center

(Times readers are inuited to cypress
their vieloS in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can haze chance.
Limit them to ESQ 40ordS or less. Your
letter must be signed, but names 40iH
be 1cithheld at request OF the letter
lOriter.l
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bosses against the old hands whose
right to the jobs is one Of priority as
well as their membership in their
union.
One of the most aggravating Of
the opposition to the workers is the
attitude OF the police, themselves
working men, who not only arrest
peaceful citizens, but beat and abuse
them on the way to the police sta
ton if, offering no resistance, they
so much as say word in protest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10
PROTESTS ACTION OF
STATE IN VIGO COUNTY
By a Bystander

BY a ByStahutf
1t is being made very clear that
the masses of workers in Indiana
made a sad mistake in 1882 when
they cast their ballots for McNutt
for Governor instead of voting for
the Socialist candidate, Powers Hap
good.
Had Hapgood been seated in the
Governors chair, there would not
be the Fascist dictatorship that is
now depriving honest citizens Of
their rights in Vigo County. In this
time when labor is endeavoring to
get decent wages and decent living
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10
Daily Thought

He made pit. and digged it, and
is fallen into the ditch which he
made.-PSalms vii, Is.
EEW men are so clever as TO
Il know all the mischief they do.
-Rochefoucauld
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10
CONGRESS, SPUD-GROWING
DON'T CLICK, HE SAYS
By a Reader

By a Reader
The last Congress enacted as part
of the agricultural adjustment pro-
gram an amendment TO control the
growing and marketing Of potatoes.
Senators Borah and Vandenburg,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10

Anything goes" is soon to be made into
a movie. The censors. however. will see it
doesn't live up to its title.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10

New York cleaner can treat rugs so they
look like antiques. A far simpler method.
though, is to hang them on the line and wait
for hubby to beat them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10

Birds Go not need 70 be taught to sing. says
California professor. He evidently hasn't lis
tened to those birds on the radio.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10

The day of the spinning wheel is past, but
girls stin listen to the old winning spiel in the
parlor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10

Girls wear evening gowns in Atlantic City
beauty parade. 1t must have been chilly
day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10

Scientists praise doctor who let tsetse
fly bite him. Now let him try one of our do
nestle variety.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10

t0houy disapprove of aOhat yo~ sag and 10U |
defend to the death your right to sag i-VoItOire
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Harper & Bros, 40 E. s3d-st, New York City.