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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-23
Here's Another Way

TOR better or for worse our economic structure Is
4 a complicated one. Any measures which vitality
affect money rock the whole structure. Sometimes
months or even years elapse before the gears and
belts and fywhees have been readjusted to the new
rhythm And at this precise point up steps some
litigant with appeal to the Supreme Court ana
again there is the fear of earthquakes.
Even in such instances an established policy is
upheld there are long periods of doubt and anxiety
If the court is going speak forever with the au-
thority it now possesses it should at the very least
be obligated to make its voice known at the time OF
the controversy or forever after hold its peace.
And t would be even better if the nine old men
could be induced to pass upon hypothetical prob
lens Any President intent upon any sort OF New
Deal enterprise should have the privilege OF being
able to say, Here boy, some brand new laws 1
intend to recommend to Congress. Run over to the
Supreme Court and ask them if they are going to
holIer about any of them. And if so, why? And II
they have any objections you might ask them II
there isn't some other way in which we can do pre-
cisey the same thing. You tell those old gentlemen
that I'm blamed if I want 70 see a whole program
held up or wrecked just on account OF couple
of misplaced commas"
Copyright. 1885,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-23
INDIANA LEADS IN
u. S. STUDENT AID
Emergency Adult Teaching
Among Pursuits.

Indiana leads all other states in
the number of college studer 5 re-
ceiving Federal aid for work OH off,
campus projects, Arthur Crabtree,
supervisor of the Governors Unem-
ployment Relief Commission college
aid program, has announced.
More than Is per cent Of the IN
diana quota is engaged in commu-
nifty projects such as teaching or
leading recreation groups in the COL
lege town. A large number is
teaching the emergency adult edu-
cation classes and at Civilian Con-
servation Corps camps.
Other part-time occupations are
clerical, stenographic, research, tu-
toring and aiding unfortunate per-
sons by reading to shut-ins and tu-
toring crippled children.
The Government allots $37,785 a
month to aid 2796 Indiana students.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-23

DETZ is an enthusiast, and he
- glows as he speaks of trees.
Such enthusiasm is not to be con-
fined inside a single country. And
Mr.. Betz, who travelled the world
after his retirement as a success
full manufacturer of surgical in
StrumentS, shipped millions of
tree seeds to Palestine, where he
had seen the desert areas stripped
of their soil by loss of their an
Gent trees. Then he forgot about
it.
Not long ago there came a letter
to Hammond from Richard ST.
Barbe Baker, world forester and
authority on trees. 1t said, 4.
I recently visited Palestine, where
I saw millions of little trees grow
ing from the seed which you so
generously contributed. Ere long
those barren hills of Judah will
once again be clothed with ver-
dure. Even this generation will
see marvellous change in the
country, which will be largely
brought about by your munifcent
gift"
The prophet, you see, was not
without honor, save in his own
country. For it has been hard
shedding to interest people in for
estry in his own United States.
THOR months I have realized
Il how Morse, the inventor of
the telegraph, must have felt when
he sat in the ante-room day after
day waiting for Congressman to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-23
ARMY TO HOLD TESTS
FOR AIR APPOINTMENTS
Preliminary Examinations Will Be
Conducted Feb. 20.

Preliminary Examinations Will Be
Conducted Feb. 20.
IA preliminary examination for
applicants for appointments as Sec
ond lieutenantS in Army Air Corps
in the Fifth Corps Area will be
held Feb. 20, it was announced to-
day. Applications should be sent to
the commanding general, Fifth
Corps Area, Fit. Hayes, Columbus, O.
Candidates must have served a
minimum of year on active or ex-
tended duty as pilots with tacti-
cal unit in the air corps with a
satisfactory rating. They also must
be under 81 and physically quail
fled for flying.
All applicants VINO have not
served as pilots on active or ex-
tended duty within two years from
date of application will be required
to demonstrate their proficiency as
pilots.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-23

AS against this paucity of re-
suits Jimmy Moffett, socialite di-
rector of the agency, has ex-
pended ,3OOOOO-more than
per cent of its loans-for pub
licity and propaganda"
How best quietly to unload
Jimmy and the FILA is one of the
big Administration problems.
Some members of the National
Emergency Council have suggested
to the President that the agency
be "co-ordinated" with the Home
Owners Loan Corp. by making it
division of that organization.
Such a plan, it is held, would
have the advantage of suppressing
the FILA while soft-pedalling the
fact it has proved dud.
That would still leave the ques-
ton, however, of what to do about
Jimmy. Finding a snowy berth
for him is not easy. He would be
a perfect fit for the niche of as
Sistant secretary of the Navy, but
there is no opening there-as yet.
= =
NEVER has the Supreme Court
IN seemed to enjoy itself as in
recent weeks. A new sense of
youth and humor has overtaken
some of its venerable members.
When the Kansas City Termi-
nal case was before the court not
long ago, Attorney Frank H. Tow
ner was in the middle of lengthy
explanation of what the case in
volved when Chief Justice Hughes
interrupted.
Young man." he said, "aren't
you ever going to get down to the
law in this caSe?"
Eyes, your Honor" replied
Towner, "but I wanted to give the
court some atmosphere"
This court has already got
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-23
EUZnouNh
BY
WESIbR0OK PEGLER

A examination of the pet remarks of famous
n men reveals how very little wit it takes to
create reputation phrase-maker or humorous
philosopher if the author happens to be a man in
public life.
am thinking at the moment of Charles G.
Dawes expression Hell-an' Maria, which made him
Vice President of the United States, and of Al
Smiths scornful references to the baloney dollar
Only very dull comedian sport writer would be
satisfied with Hell-an'Naria original material in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-23


For Betz believes the salvation
of the farmer and the future of
America lie beneath the trees
which must be grown to replace
the vast forests which have fallen
under the ruthless ak of pioneer
and lumberman.
Born on a farm, he spent many
of his early years among lumber
men of the Northwest; he saw the
forests fall beneath the ak.
GONE time ago." he says, II
~ went over the old farm on
which I was reared in northern
Wisconsin. I couldn't understand
why they no longer can pay their
taxes.
when I left home in '79, we
raised 40 bushels of wheat to the
acre. Today they might plant 100
acres, but it wouldn't pay to cut
half of it. The cutting off of the
JICSS 4ClI UllC oO4A DoAC W CAOoAOA4J
and the rich topsoil is gone.
Il can take you IS miles south
of Indianapolis and show you $50,
600 acres of land entirely ruined
for farming. If American farmers
had been under the European sys-
tenn, which demands a new tree
planted for every one cut down,
this sort of thing would not hap
pen.
Its time some one who can see
ahead came out and started to
fight for the farmers who are
about to lose everything they have
because soil erosion, due to lack
of trees, gradually is destroying
their land"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-23
RvNEA Serrice


HAMMOND Ind JAM 2If America become
desert great India China
won't be the fault S.
thinks dreams writes about trees makes
speeches about trees, sells
Of the Civilian Conservation the Of the
actively preaching pactng
years the anything
lem {
22Oacre farm Hobart Ind like manicured and
forest with fields instead of wheat
from all the world instead of
demonstration printed, written
school children clubs banks
plant persuade plant
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-23
TREES THE KEY TO PROSPERITY


erS, children, clubs, who had seen
their miniature forests Sprouting,
and were happy.
Mr.. Betz has distributed liter
ally hundreds of millions of tree
seeds, and there are millions of
trees growing today which would
not be if he had been content to
rest on his laurelS as a successful
business man and retire to travel
or loaf.
why, if people would cooper
ate in tree planting, could guar
antee to add a billion dollars to
the wealth of the country in II
months" he enthuses. But peo-
pie say, oh, well, the trees will
last as long as I do and let it go
at that"
4 YEAR ago, Betz took a long
N motor trip through the West,
covering 1900 miles, distributing
4,500,00O tree seeds free to any
one who would promise to plant
them. Millions of his trees have
been planted in the Calumet dis
trict in Indiana, in Canada, the
South, all over the world.
The Conservation Department
of Indiana has co-operated with
Mr.. Betz and encouraged his
work, feeling that in addition to
Government work in forestry,
thousands of personal enthusiasts
and workers for forestry are
needed to bring the Nations wood
supply back TO adequacy, stop
denudation of rich soils, provide
bird and game cover, and regu-
late water run-off.
''It's time America wakes up!"
declares Mr.. Betz with habitual
enthusiasm. Japan, crowded for
space as it is, plants five times
more trees than We do. Germany
plants 81 times as many.
1.-THE Government has now be-
gun to take definite steps. Now
we, as private citizens, must be-
gin to do our share. 1t is late,
but it is not too late!"
And Mr.. Betz carries on his
one-man campaign for forests.
One man, yet man of whom
Alexander H. Legge, agricultural
expert, once said, May the good
Lord send us more men like this
tree-loving, tree-planting gentle
man from Indiana!"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-23

bandit circles il the bill is passed.
For our legislators, with a grim
determination to shatter the
morale of the outlaw population,
are hastily considering a measure
that would make it necessary Tor
understandings to discard their
regulation machine guns and &C
uuire artillery of smaller callber
if they want to stay within the
law.
The bill, one of the uniform
crime laws proposed by Admins
tration leaders, provides that 1T
shall be illegal to own or operate
a machine gun of 80 caliber or
larger.
Inasmuch as practically all such
weapons now in use are As callber,
it is easy to see that passage OF
the measure will necesSitate a
heavy investment in new lethal
equipment among the gentlemen
who rob, murder, kidnap and
burgle for fun or profit.
TN fact, one observer remarked
i that he thought he could de-
tect the sly hand of the munitions
trust which obviously would bene-
fit by a general rearmament move
by the mobS.
Several Republican Senators,
who apparently are even less con-
siderate of feelings of gangsters
than the Democrats, attempted to
amend the bill to make its provi-
sionS apply to all machine guns,
no matter what the caliber.
Prompt and vigorous protest to
this brutal suggestion was regis
tered by Jacob Weiss, the Senate's
president pro tenn, and the mo-
ton lost on voice vote.
Fears of several correspondents
that the banditti would thus be
deprived of sufficiently powerful
weapons for their needs were dis
PEELED by assurances of a big game
hunter that several guns smaller
than 30 caliber were used in bag
ging bears, moose, lions and tigers.
Several such amendments de-
signed to make it very tough in
deed for persons having machine
guns were voted down by the
Democrats at the suggestion of
Senator Weiss, who pointed out
the bill was a copy of a uniform
act already adopted by several
states.
But Senators Lawrence E. Carl
son CR., Huntingdon and Albert
Ferris (R., Milton, who were Sug-
costing the changes, refused to
have mercy on the kidnapers and
bandits and kept trying to sharpen
the teeth of the measure in a
manner calculated to arouse much
resentment among gangsterS and
their friends.
THEIR eloquence finally won
Il them a Democratic supporter
in the person of Senator Leo x.
Smith Cd, IndianapoliS). who APP
parently also harbors ill-will to-
ward illegal people who shoot
other people with machine guns.
But even this inSurgent move
failed in the face Of Mr.. Weiss
tolerant but firm stand and the
last harsh amendment was defeat
ed on a voice vote.
Bystanders commented audibly
that the vote sounded more AYE"
than no" but gavel wielder M.
Clifford Townsend heard other
wise and the unsympathetic ef-
fort to completely deprive robbers
and murderers of their machine
guns failed, for the time at least,
as the bill passed to third read
ing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-23

in their prediction Of vast and pun
ishing confusion as a consequence of
a verdict against the Government.
II seems to me that the situation
warrants a broad consideration of
the entire problem of the Supreme
Courts legislative veto.
As a rule any one who undertakes
to criticize the court is Immediately
set down as revolutionist No. l. In
such controversies there is always
talk about our forefathers and of
the fact that in their prophetic way
they built an instrument calculated
to endure for all time.
d. r,an-t Of the testimony of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-23

get them for nothing, they are
worth nothing"
So he started charging nominal
prices for his tree seed and seed
llngs, hoping that those who had
paid for them would value them
enough to plant them.
And the letters began to come
in, slowly from interested teach
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-23

get over the idea he was crazy"
says Mr.. Betz.
First he tried giving away tree
seed and seedlings. But that did
not work.
1--we given away as many as a
million seed in a single city," he
muses., land I don't think they
even opened the bag. When they
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-23
Haywood BROlIN

WILL ROGERS, dropping in from the skies to
w play an actors fund benefit on Broadway
Sunday night informed his audience that Wash
ington was vastly worried by mine old gentlemen
in kimonos" The sally was received in good part,
but moment later there was quite hand for the
United States Supreme Court when Will took
passing dig at the New Deal
1t is not my intention to argue the legal merits
Of the gold case now under consideration and it
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-23
ONE DOCTOR IN 100 is
HELD DRUG ADDICT
Morphine Used BY Physicians, U.
S. Chief Says.

Morphine Used By Physicians, U.
S. Chief Says.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-One
doctor out of every 100 is drug
addict, according to Harry j. An
Singer, federal commissioner of
narcotics.
about one doctor in 100 is an
addict" Mr.. Anslinger testified in
hearings before the House Appro-
priations Committee. From the
figures we have, 10 per cent of the
morphine manufactured in this
country is used by the drug addict
physician" Mr.. Anslinger said.
He estimated that in the country's
population as a whole only one out
of 1000 persons was an addict.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-23
CLUB HEARS ECONOMIST
Lewis Corey Speaks on Decline of
American Capitalism

Industry could end poverty by es-
tabishing balanced system Of dis
tribution, Lewis Corey. economist.
declared in a lecture on The De-
cline of American Capitalism" yes
terday before the Rotary Club.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-23
SELLING LIQUOR TO
MEN ON RELIEF HIT

Heavy Fine Is Handed Down by
Judge Myers.
Persons selling alcoholic beverages
to those on government or county
relief rolls cannot expect leniency
in Municipal Judge Dewey Myers
court.
The judge made this statement
yesterday in filming Lee Brown, 80,
of 125 N. Noble-St $500 and costs
after he had been convicted of SELL
ing inmates of the shelter house at
222 E. WabaSh-st alcohol. Evidence
showed that Brown had charged as
little as three cents a drink.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-23

MS work, put so little IS ever eX-
pected of men SO highly placed that
when Mr.. Dawes began to say it.
that was news.
You may challenge the notion
that his use of this remark made
him Vice President, but it did. all
right, with the assistance of his
character pipe, his comedy collar
and political circumstances.
That was back in the herman era
and Mr.. Dawes expression made
him famous and popular where his
war record had failed to distinguish
him in the public Imagination. Later
on, when the Republicans moved
into Cleveland to nominate Mr..
Coolidge and startled statesmen were
presidency in wild alarm, Mr.. Dawes
one. When Frank Lowden finally
most Threatened IN Clio tho ;oor+,, \
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-23
STATE PENSION SETUP
RAPED BY SHEPPARD
90 Standards Now Exist for Admin
istration, He Says.


istratiOn, He Says.
Ninety-two different standards OF
administering Indiana old-age pen
sions exist now, Virgil Sheppard, di-
rector of the governmental research
bureau of the Chamber of Com
merce said today in an address be-
fore the Legislative Study Group
sponsored by the Y. w. C. A. public
affairs committee.
Mr.. Sheppard said responsibility
for this rested in the policy of ad-
miniStration lying in the hands Of
county commissioners. He advo-
Gated eligibility tests and use of the
merit system in the personnel adj
miniStering the oldzage pension act
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-23

Q-What the name of the picture in which
Boris Karloff was strapped to cross and a man
started cutting of his skin just before the old castle
they were in blew up?
A-This picture titled The Ghoul" and was
a Gaumont- British production.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-23
CHURCH CLASS WILL
STAGE PLAY FRIDAY
Woodside NJ. E. Group to Give
Event in auditorium.

Mrs. Dorothy Bell will direct a
play, "The Pat. Across the Hill,
which will be gwen by the Social
Service Glass of the Woodside
Methodist Episcopal Church Friday
night in the auditorium Of School Il
English and Southeastern-avs.
Included in the cast are Mrs. The
ona Dietz, Mrs. Mary Barnes, Mrs.
Mae Day, Mrs. Helen Ely. Mrs. Lii
lie Duke, Mrs. Regina Enrick, Mrs.
Edith List, Mrs. Stella MINIS, Mrs.
June Howery and Mrs. Irene Rhine
hart.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-23
9O27 VACANT HOMES,
BUSINESS SITES FOUND

Postal Survey Reveals DecreaSe Of
1850 in Two Years.
A survey made by the Indian
apolis postoffice shows that there
are only 9027 home and business
locations vacancies in this city now
as compared to 1877 in July, 1882,
Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker
has announced.
The survey was made in connec-
ton with a new service to adver-
tisers which would enable mailers
to send postal matter addressed
merely to a certain district.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-23

American history indicates that the court has grown
very far away from the conception intended by the
founders The Supreme Court itself was revolu-
tionary body that it took over rights whlch most
certainly we're never in the mind of jefferson and
which Alexander Hamilton, himself, had hardly
contemplated
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-23
$500 REWARD OFFERED
FOR M'BETH SLAYER
City Hardware Association Joins
Search for Killer.

The Indianapolis Retail Hardware
Association will offer a 500 reward
for information leading to the ar
rest and conviction of the slayer of
Reynolds E. McBeth, 42-year- old
hardware merchant, New Years
eve, Frank Scherrer, association
secretary, has announced.
Mr.. McBeth was shot and killed as
he was closing his store at 822 N.
Alabama-st. Police believe that the
murderer was holdup man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-23
DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON 23Te moribund Admins
w aton weighing heavily the minds of White House adj
v The FILA has been signal flop It's last published report
completed $23550O0 renovng
bulding
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-23
Senate Confirms Miss Roche

| DU tWIItU ITtoo
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-The
Senate yesterday confirmed appoint
ment of Miss Josephine Roche, to be
Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-23
What? No Machine Guns!
Trying Blue Laws, Eth?
Gangsters No Little Disturbed by Proposed State
Law Now Being Debated
BY GEORGE H. DENNY
Times staff Writer

robbers and other such citizens
u are disturbed piece legislation pending in the
Assembly.
# is freely predced that great moaning in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-14

the city to-day on the orderly manner of the strikers while pick citing the plant on Mill street, and of the settlement which was so successfully negotiated to the ad- vantage of all concerned. AL though no financial terms of the settlement have been released 1t was learned to-day that the em- ployes of the factory arc being
 paid as wll as garment workers affiliated with the union elsewhere.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-14

Sutherland A. BeckwitIi of Litch- field has been named acting di- rector of the Hartford WPA dis. trict office by Connecticut WPA Administrator Matthew A. Daly of New Haven. Mir. Beckwith is well known in Waterbury. He was the democratic candidate for the office of high sheriff of Ntchfield in the last election.
 The new appointcc is a graduate of Sheffield Scientific School, year of 1915. He served overseas in the World War and is member of the 355th artillery, 76th division, organized reserves, holding the rank of captain. For the past few months he has been Connecticut with the state motor vehicle de- pertinent in the capacity of traffic engineer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-14

BStws6n 70 and 80 Waterbury veterans of the Spanish American war ana eisltt widows of veterans will be eligible for rehsions under the spanish American War vet erans' bill signed by President Roosevelt, 1t was estimated by members of Elmer Liscum post to- day. The bill restores all pensions to dependents and veterans of the Spanish- American War, Boxer Re- beilion and Philippine insurrection.
 According to Mrs. Edith Ladd, director of the Watefbury chapter of Red Gross, through whose of flee most of the pensions for To- cal veterans are handled, the Span- ish-Ainerican War veterans allot- meiits are in the majority made directly from Washington. Mrs. Ladd said that some of the local veterans had made application for the pensions at the Red Cross off, flee from time to time and had been referred to national head quarters for final approval, as Is the case with World War veterans. She explained that while the cases of Spanish American War veterans were handled through her office on occasion. most of them applied directly to federal headquarters.
 Mrs. Ladd said that in the past any veterans who had served q period of % days during the Spshlsh.American War and was ovef the age of 6s was eligible for the pension.
 It is estlmated that 50,000 per- sons are directly affected by the bill. Including. more than 37.00o