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Evening star., 1935-05-12

And 50 their success together was
ended and Payne too returned to
London. As he drew near the great
city that had welcomed him 50 well, he
remembered anew that most beautiful
little girl - Mary Goodwin. What had
become Of her7
Among the FIRST old friends he met
was the actor Yarnold. Cautiously he
asked # Yarnold had any news of her.
News Of her? She's all the news
there Is. She's the town scandal, the
fashionable horror of the hour. She's
made her scandalos,s mother respect
able by comparison She and her
Sf,5ky."
who's Shelley"
"A crazy young poet who was ex-
pelled from Oxford and would be ex-
pelled from London il he hadn't run
away with Mary Goodwin"
Hes married Mary Godwin"
''How could he. with wife al
ready!"
Its a pack of lies 81 won't
listen to gossipr'
Then you'll miss the best part of
life. And at that, the worst gossip's
always little better than the whole
truth, if it were known"
Yarnold was horribly right. The
gossips did not know the half of it.
The widest of them dared not predict
the long serial Of sensations that the
brief life of Mary and Shelley would
lay:.--h on their contemporaries. and on
posterity.
But a lovers heart is like pos
terity's; it gives harsh deeds the misty
beauty distance bestows. Besides.
Payne was schooled in the theatre
and versed in situations" - those
'cross-footlight tensions In which the
audience always knows more than the
actors and watches them floundering
in Misunderstanding. To Payne the
theatre was life, and lite but series of
situations in a bungled drama, with
the angels of mercy and pity for audi
ence; they alone understood what the
bewildered human actors were blum
dering through. 1t was Payne's gentle
heart that played angel for Mary
Goodwin, though he abhogred Shelley.
Even in his ignorance he gave Mary
his trust. Long afterward he told her
so, but they had both to 60 through
appalling heils before they should
meet.
Doubtless it was only coincidence
that Payne, having heard that Mary
was in France, went to France. Every
body was going to Paris, now that
Napoleon was defeated and exiled to
his islet Empire of Elba. Payne did
not find Mary or Shelley in Paris.
They had run out Of money and sold
Shelley's watch and borrowed enough
to buy a pair OF jackasses and walk
and ride to Switzerland. Even Paris
was gossiping about them.
But Payne was swept into the
theatrical world OF France. He was
hailed as the British Talma and be-
came the close friend Of that greatest
of French actors, Talma himself. To
perfect his French he translated a
French play. When he went back to
London. he sold his version for
hundred pounds
This opened new world to him,
ali escape from the strolling players
life that he began to abhor and dread.
He longed for peace, repose, a home.
He wanted to retire from acting as
Shakespeare had done. and find some
dreamy Stafford by placid Avon.
where he could write his plays while he
l.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

VIRTUALLY everybody has been a little
surprised at the signs of some degree of
business revival for this fall Even some of the
more optimistic business prophets have seen
their predictions undone by a series of unex
pected developments
Auto production, instead of falling of. held
up well into late July, despite imminence of
new models. Steel production hasn't fallen off
to the usual seasonal extent. Electric mower
production stays around the high point
achieved in 1929
Private building construction has risen
steadily since last February 1t is still low. but
the improvement is marked and unwavering
There is even evidence that the strike of
capital may be breaking, as security issues
have been mounting, and not all of them for
paying off old issues with money borrowed at
todays low rates. A small dribble is beginning
to 60 into new enterprises
To cap all this. the stock market has been
rising steadily for many weeks to the highest
point of the year, and in many cases the high
est point in several years.
Rising stock market prices in themselves
won't feed anybody. But they are barometer
Of more hopeful feeling on the part of the
scores of thousands of people who invest in the
country's enterprises. So many people feeling
hopeful all at once has IN itself a stimulating
effect. Such people spend money
The stock market rise does not seem at
tributabe to fears of initiation, but to a re-
markable series of reports from large compan-
les whose profits rising. Definitely bet
ter statements have just been issued by such
firms as General Mills, Westinghouse Chrysler
General Motors. Radio Corp U. S. Steel and
General Refractories, to name only few.
Speaking broadly, scores of these big bust
nesses are right now either increasing profits
or climbing out of the red for the first time in
several years.
Business leaders have chorused "let us
alone Many of them are getting this fall the
first opportunity to demonstrate the business
craftsmanship they claimed to have learned
during the depression years
They will have opportunity to see that
wages and hours in the plants keep pace with
advancing cost of living, which is admittedly
causing concern.
On the ability of business to rise to such
craftsmanship depends the question of wheth-
er what looms before us is a false dawn" or
the beginning of day after darkness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
WAR AND ATROCITIES

liver since the war between Italy and
L. Ethiopia became an even bet. we've been
lis1ening for the atrocity barrage. 1t has
started
Italy officially charges Ethiopian tribes
men with "mutiiating children" in a mass
attack" or the defenseless natives of Eritrean
DanakiL'
We'd expected something more original.
"Mutilated children was a favorite in the
ancient wars between Turks and Christians.
In every Balkan war it has been hauled out
and served over again. During the World
War it saw hare service
Unofficially, in recent weeks, more imagi-
nation has been shown. The charge that the
Italians planned to scatter chemicals behind
Ethiopian lines to burn the feet off the bare
footed natives showed more ingenuity So
did the story that the Philippians scheme
to turn lions loose on III Duce's men.
We have had more than enough of atrocity
Stories-vhichever side puts them out.
War itself is an atrocity No nation has
ever gone to war. however civilized that did
not commit excuses. Individuals and groups
commit atrocities in this and all other coun-
tries. even in peacetime. war merely affords
larger outlet for cruelty
The object % wartime atrocity stories
is to arouse the public against the alleged
perpetrator Italy seeks to make people be-
lieve that. in invading Ethiopia, she is do
ing Civilizations Job. Which, of course, is not
true.
Italy is said already to have spent more
than 900 million dollars preparing for con-
flict in Africa. One-tenth that amount. used
to build roads, schoolhouses. hospitals and
whatnot would have had a far greater civil
ling influence. And the war hasn't even
started.
Tt8,y aims. OF course, are economic and
territorial. not educational So, if the war has
got to come. let's have it out along those
nnes. Let's have done With propaganda tales
of INITIATED women and children. single
BOMB dropped from plane, one of "civiliza-
TONS proudeSt creations, would mutilate more
!nnocents in the fraction of a second than
whole tribe of wild Dankalis could mutilate
in a day.
When there are atrocities, let's charge
them up to war-not to any particular race
or nation. In war both sides are guilty. War
makes savages of us all.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
UN-BUREAUCRATIC

TINE headlines say DR.. Tugwell is going to
L drop 1000 employees from the Rural Re-
settlement Administration. This certainly
must prove that the New Deals No. l BRAIN
truster can't be bureaucrat at heart.
For a bureau with plenty of money at its
disposal to cut down its personnel voluntarily
is unprecedented in Washington.
Our sympathy to the 1000 employees who
are about to lose their jobs. 1t is not their
fault that those in charge of the resettle-
ment program have been slow in planning
and hence left them without work to do
But, at the same time, our compliments
to DR.. Tugwell for recognizing that padded
pay roll does not in itself, contribute to So
luton of the social and unemployment prob
lens which the Resettlement Administration
is attacking. Instead it is merely waste of
the taxpayers money.
More and more of this pruning of pay rolls
must be done in the next few years. 1t is
perhaps the most painful duty that faces gov
eminent executives. But it is unacceptable. If
the current tax debate has proved anything
it is that tax revenue does not grow on trees
Higher taxes will be necessary. But so will
lower expenditures. Only by increases on the
income side of its ledger and decreases on the
outgo side can the government balance its
budget, and end the borrowing that is mort
gaging the future.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
SATURDAY. AUG. J. 1895.
TRACK ELEVATION

INDIANAPOLIS citizens VINO have fought for
4 years for the completion Of the track eleva-
ton program have been shocked by the dis
closure that the sl5,OOOOOO program has been
cut to s3,5OO,OOO
The reason for the cut is still vague but
there is a suspicion that red-tape and long
time delays have more than a little to do with
the regrettable situation.
OF all the projects being put over by state
and local officials throughout the nation, there
are few more worthy than the Indianapolis
track elevation program. 1t is public works
that will save lives and damages and speed up
a busy city's progress.
There is a faint suspicion that for years
public officials have not taken too seriously
the pleas Of civic organizations for the track
elevation program.
The whole thing has been like pulling teeth.
If it takes all the prestige Of the state ad-
ministration and combined efforts of both
United States Senator's, this situation should
be cleared up Immediately.
The efforts of Indiana's Senators, the Gov
ernor and Mayor, all working in cooperation,
should be enough to turn the trick.
Indianapolis wants the track elevation pro-
gram completed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
SOCIALIST TICKET is CURE
FOR CHISEL ARTISTS
By ParIor Pink.

By Parlor Pink.
The smoky back room of a pool
hall, a dilapidated upstairs room, or
dirty dinly lighted basement
room; these are the places where
some men make their living selling
baseball tickets, calling the turn of
a card or the roll of the dice and
others by naming the horses which
noses in first. These men are
called gamblers, are prosecuted and
considered outcasts.
In luxurious offices in modern
office buildings are other men who
are better fed and clothed and who
make their living buying and selling
Stocks. For them We have created
a special club called the Stock Ex-
change. These men are protected
and not prosecuted. These men are
called respected citizens and not
outcasts. Gamblers? Oh, no, spec
ulators or wizards of finance.
In the final analysis both types
OF men have taken money without
doing any productive effort. Their
money buys the goods which you or
1 create. Isn't it evident enough
that If these men can obtain food,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
UTILITIES COOPERATE

UTHILE few holding companies, still har-
w boring the publc-be-damned attitude.
attack The government by means fair or foul
some Of the operating utilities prepare to CO.
operate for their own higher self-interest
and the nations welfare.
Among the latter are those operating power
companies whose rural electrihcation commit
tee has Just suggested q Joint government
industry development program Of impressive
scope.
Ina report to Rural Electrihcation Admin
istrator Morris L. Cooke. the committee urges
a 1888 PAL 900 program under public works.
OF this sll3e 900 would be loaned to the
companies at low interest rates amcrtized over
IS years for extending lines into rural sections;
s124 $4,000 would be loaned to $500 prospec-
tive customers for wiring, service extensions
and electric appliances.
1t Is the sort OF project the government
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
FaUOrs Weed Cutting DriUe

sidered worse outside the city
than in because of the increased
speed at which motorists travel
once they hit the open spaces.
1 see you had a letter in the pa
per the other night in which some
ambitious fellow is thinking I'D a
lot of new ideas on how to reg
ulate traffic. I marvel at that man
because he apparently is young
enough not to let the heat bother
him.
If he keeps thinking up weird
numbers like those he outlined in
his letter, then it won't be neces-
Sary for the heat to bother him
because he'll be too far gone by
that time.
What Indianapolis needs is a
good, hardworking police force,
members of which will spend more
time in enforcing the law than in
loaf1ng. What that day comes,
even the Stiffness of human ma
ture can be overcome by the So
called strong arm of the law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
REVENUE, BARREL SLAVES

MORE than a billion dollars in beverage
A'A taxes have poured into the treasures of
the Federal, state and local governments since
the legalization Of beer and the subsequent
repeal of porhibtion
The governmental units have sorely needed
that revenue. They still need all they can get
That fact alone is reason enough to con-
denim the effort to leganze the sale of hard
liquor in barrels, and by bulk. The aggressive
cooperage lobby put such a provision in the
Federal Alcohol Control Act which has passed
the House and is now before the Senate
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau says that
should barrel sales be legalized. the govern
ment would have to say good-by to a substan-
tial portion of the revenue it now obtains
from hard liquor. He says that bootleggers
now apparently on the run. would get a new
lease on life. and that a whole army of tax
gatherers and liquor agents could not stop the
leaks. State tax and law-enforcenent author
tiles concur in this view.
Joseph N. Choate, head OF the late Federal
Alcohol Control Administration, says bulk sales
would bring back the infamous barrel house
days of the pre-prohibition era. and end the
progress the country apparently is making to-
ward temperance. State beverage control Off
Gals concur.
The barrel makers demand larger profits.
WIN the Senate do their bidding. Or will it
serve the country?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
THUNDER ON THE LEFT

GONE of our big business promoters should
~ sit at the feet of those patrioteering sons
of America who have been exploiting the
red menace" in this country for years.
How little they have to build on can be
learned from the mouths of the Communists
themselves. In Moscow recently Earl Brow
der, head of the American delegation to the
Communist International. boosted of prog
ress" of the Communist movement in the
United States. Proudly he declared there are
now 10000 Communists here.
Even if Comrade Browder did not pad his
figures. how pitiful an admission! In a ma
ton of 130.O0OOoO souls just emerging from
five years of defation and misery the Reds
can brag of no more following than that Of
a hfth-rate lodge.
Is this the foe within for terror of which
we are asked to relnquish our Bill of Rights
in such measures as the Tydlngs- Mccormack
bill?
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should undertake. At least a third of the
money would 20 into direct labor. More i'm
portant, it is the kind of civilizing venture that
creates new wants. new markets, new jobs
year by year. A dynamic. not a dead, invest
ment. Under government financing, rates can
be held down. Mr.. Cooke has warned that
prohteering companies will get no loans.
The field IS vast one. Chairman McNinch
Of the Federal Power Commission estimates
that five million rural American homes need
wiring for light and power. Only $4,000 out of
the nations 6.2Ss6OO farm homes now have
electricity
Here is great frontier for American enter
prise to conquer Industry is fortunate that
the government can and will cooperate.
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stitution aside when he wrote his
Emancipation Proclamation. Why,
In his very first inaugural, which
none of the Grass Rooters seem to
have read, he said: IF the policy
of government upon vital questions
affecting the whole people is to be
irrevocably fixed by decisions of the
Supreme Court the people will
cease to be their own rulers, having
to that extent practically resigned
their government to that eminent
tribunal"
Can you imagine any leadership
in building such an issue around
Abraham Lincoln? Why, all Mr..
Roosevelt has to do is quote Lincoln
and it will not be at all surprising
if the Republicans should succeed
in organizing anything like an OPP
position to Mr. Roosevelt they will
frcntically endeavor to blot out the
Supreme Court and Constitution as
an issue while the Democrats will
keep them to the front and quote
Lincoln.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
LINCOLN CRITICIZED THE
SUPREME COURT, HE SAYS
Nv a Reader

BY a Reader
1t is amusing to note how freely
the Republican press shows how
Democrats like AL Smith, John w.
Davis, John j. Raskob and the like
have deserted President Roosevelt,
and even Democrats point out how
he has ignored political custom in
making his appointments. The old
wheel horses like to point out that
in selecting the members OF his
cabinet he ignores his geography,
giving no consideration to the po-
litical effect.
1t is true, Mr.. Roosevelt is not
Of the old school. He cast conven-
ton aside. In other words, he is
President and of new type. The
type which the people like, as they
have grown tired Of the same old
game and can see no good in it. If
MIR. Roosevelt had pleased the poll
ticians by following the old rule
he would have been just another
President. This fact rankles the
politician but not the people who
do the voting and it seems strange
that the politicians should be SO
blind as not to see that the more
they broadcast these facts the
stronger he becomes. Thanks to
the Republicans and disgruntled
Democrats for their constant efforts
to show up the true Roosevelt.
AS one writer said, take a Re-
publican down in the basement and
pin him down he will admit that
the Republicans haven't China
mans chance of defeating Mr.
Roosevelt fer either nomination OF
reelection jr 1886. With no leader
ship it is small wonder that this
is a fact. Take for instance, the
Grass Rooters gathered in the towr
of Lincoln, they permitted no pic
lures save those Of Lincoln, and ir
the name of Lincoln they conse-
Grated the Republican party to de-
tending the Supreme Court against
criticism and the Constitution
against change. It's a scream. Reac
your history, and you'll dnd thai
Lincoln spent large part Of hi:
time denounc.ng Supreme Court de-
cisions, and actually set the Con.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
NO REGRETS
gram completes

THE State Departments reply to the Ger
Il man protest over the flag incident"
aboard the Bremen in New York harbor will
afford Herr Hitler scant satisfaction. It will
please Americans more.
1t offers no apology for none was de-
manded. Nor. contrary to what seems to be
the general impression, did it even express re-
greet In substance it makes clear that what
happened to the flag was the fault of the
Bremen's officers, who failed to heed the po-
lice warning that trouble was to be expected
and to keep unauthorized persons from the
ship
Hampered though they thus were, the
New York police promptly quelled the dis
order. and Jewish detective. Matthew Solo
mon, was seriously injured in his effort to
protect the Nazi f1ag-which irony will scarce
ly he lost on Berlin.
Everything considered. it was simply "un-
fortunate" that the German fag was mis-
treated The guilty should. and doubtless
will be punished.
We hold no brief for the Communists who
precipitated the riot 1t IS the duty OF this
government to afford every protection to for
eigners in this country, to their property and
their flag. No American or group of Ameri-
cans has any right to involve this govern
ment in their demonstrations. however much
they may rightly abhor the activities of other
governments. To do so is not only detesta-
bic. 1t is dangerous to our peace.
In this case the New York authorities APP
pear to have done their full duty. Had it
been otherwise, the affair might have as
sumed grave proportions. Apologies at the
very least, would have been in order AS it
was, Washington's answer unquestionably ex-
presses the sentiment of the vast majority of
the American people.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
SOnnetS of a
SOjOurner
BY BERTRAM DAY

Oh, who can tell where was the
artists home
Who carved the steeds of Nero's
chariot?
The ones that stood for centuries
in Rome
Until they found an Orient beau
ty spot.
And there for years beside the
Golden Horn
They stood like sentinels of gilded
strength,
Until TO Venice they were proudly
borne
There to remain for many
decades length.
Venetioan sunsets cast their ether
sea
Upon this statue of unrivaled art,
Until Napoleon took Italy
But after Waterloo once more
they part.
Returned to Venice as its heritage
These Steeds are now San Marcos
frontal page.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
BY R. E. C.

By r. E. c..
see by the paper that the police
traffic department has sent 81
notices to property owners to cut
the weeds on vacant lots. Well,
that will help some, but there
must be nearer $40 than 81 cases
in this city where weed-cutting
will make traffic safer.
There are sufficient reasons for
traffic hazards without adding
weeds to the bargain. Approaching
a weed-covered intersection, the
poor motorist doesn't have an
even chance.
The Marion County sheriff, who
seems to be interested in aiding
many projects of civic nature,
well might start his campaign in
the county on the heels of the city
drive.
Weed hazards on nearby country
roads are just as bad as are the
conditions in indianapolis. In fact,
these conditions might be con-