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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-31
Staging Comeback

ONCE Congress adjourned last
~ summer, however, Roosevelt
stock has been definitely on the
upgrade. The President has re-
gained part of his popularity and
confidence.
Four factors were behind this:
One was the assassination of
Huey Long, A daring and ruth
less political manipulation, the
Louisiana Kingf1sh was one of the
most potent of the enemies CEN
tering their fire on the New Deal
His Share the-Wealth program
was a real menace.
Second was the definite i'm
provement in business conditions.
The building industry, practically
at a standstill during the last four
years, displayed a real revival in
1885. The automobile industry
had one of the best years in its
history, Steel, textiles, electrical
production-all were on the up
grade. And there is nothing which
squelches political discomfort as
much as prosperity
Third was relative prosperity
among the farmers. For the first
time in years, the farmer had
some spare change in his pocket,
and even if he may have had mis-
givings about the theory of crop
control, the farmer had no qualms
about accepting AAA checks.
Fourth was the failure of the
New Deal opposition to put for
ward tangible program.
Net result has been the upturn
Of the Roosevelt barometer. Many
people are against one or more of
his policies, as clearly indicated
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The Townsend Plan

ScrippS-Hocdrd Newspaper AUianc
WASHINGTON, Dec. 81.
Rep, Roy o. Woodruff
(R.. MichD brought a note
of cheer today to congress-
men who have returned to
Washington in a jittery
state because of the recent
election to the House of a
Michigan man pledged to
the Townsend plan.
Townsend plan senti-
ment is not nearly so strong
in Michigan as outside re-
ports have indicated" said
Mr.. Woodruff.
Werner w. Main, the new
Michigan congressman, re-
ceived about $4,000 votes,
and has been quoted as
crediting only 10000 of that
number to his Townsend
supporters, Rep Woodruff
said.
Mr. Woodruff predicted
that the Townsend strength
would wane as the people
become better informed on
the impracticability of the
idea"
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER

WAsHlNGToN' Dec. 81.
w Your correspondent has
been out among the ladies and
thus has picked up certain items
which could hardly have come to
him had he been playing around
poolrooms and other haunts of the
male.
One of the most exciting of
these bits Of news is the fact that
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt can
find her way around her own
kitchen.
Some of the girls who attend
Mrs. RooSevelt'S press conferences
give their sworn word that she
showed them through the new
White House kitchen and demon
strated an astonishing familiarity
with all gadgets, fixtures, and en-
ployeS.
There are no end of cupboards
and closets in the new preSiden-
tial kitchens and the First Lady
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN

their punches, the Supreme Court
used its most blistering language
in tearing the Blue Eagle limb
from limb.
1t was the signal for the opposi-
ton attack. After that, both Re-
publican and Democratic critics
gave the New Deal everything
they had
Even the person of the Presi-
dent, until then considered sacro-
sanct, came in for an undercover
but effective whispering cam
paign.
Few Presidents with so much
political and popular strength
have lost SO much of it in so short
a time.
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Another great question arises
the old struggle between the
states and the central govern
ment. But this time big business
becomes the champion of the
Constitution and of states rights.
Just ahead loom more perilous
issues.
The Townsend plan, a scheme
to pay out $21 900, 900, 900 a year
in old-age pensions, is gaining
strength.
The F'razier-Lemke plan to
pay farm mortgages with cur
rency - $2,5OOOOO,OOO of imitation
has to be met.
The bonus bill is in the offlng.
Townsend, F'razier-Lemke, the
Legion, Relief-these are the Four
Horsemen of Imitation.
And to give point to all of this,
we now move into presidential
election year. The New Deal must
this year face the tribunal of the
people and answer for its stew
ardship.
AS it does so, the nation, in
changed mood toward the New
Deal but moving pleasantly up the
rising curve of the business cycle,
is actually preparing-so at least
it thinks-to enjoy little boom.
Has any political party in power
been defeated in year of boom?
TOMORROW: How Uncle Sam,
the business man, really has Jared
during 1885. one year before an
other presidential election.
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Candid Camera Ban

MOT many people have noticed
~ it, but no more candid camera
photos of the President are being
published. Reason is that they are
banned by strict White House
orders.
Tom McAvoy, crack candid
cameraman, went into the Presi-
dents office last summer along
with other photographers. And
while the others were setting up
their tripods, he got a whole series
of informal views of Roosevelt.
The President was in highly
jovial mood. He was laughing,
blowing cigaret smoke in the air,
and making faces at his friends
among the cameramen. And the
snaps which McAvoy registered
showed some very startling grim
aces.
He sold these to a news
magazine for $3.50, and they were
published just about the time the
whispering campaign about the
Presidents health and nervous
system was at its height.
Immediately came White
House ban on candid cameras.
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Syndicate Incl
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1t played with greater enthusiasm than in the co~ri
dors OF the Palace of Peace at Geneva
In specializing on the baseball season of 1928
members OF the American hot stove league might
say that Detroit seems all right except thai Goose
Goslin, like an overrated battleship will need re-
placement soon
The Italians might be compared to the Cncir.
Iacl Reos-a good second division country with &C.
luSions of grandeur who will fight over Their IaaC.
Tor few months and then flop for lack of stamina
or money. The French the general equivalent n
Che 81 Louis Cardinals. They good, gam fight
erS, and never so good when they find thenseivs
IN a clutch, but are too busy fighting one another
IN the clubhouse to pull together in a schedule.
contest
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back platform and introduce me to the platform
loiterers as jess Willard on his way to meet Jack
johnson for the heavyweight boxing championship
Of the world
Quite a few of them believed it, and 7 had
prepared address written by RunyOn which de-
livercd with gestures and demonstrations Of the blow
with which I hoped to win the title.
jeff 1csreau, who was spball pitcher and
simple soul. was also fooled for a couple Of days,
although he expressed the opinion that 1 did not
seem to be in first class fighting shape When
they get that big bum down to Havana" he con-
hded to Runyon, they'll have to run 30 or 40 pounds
Of fat of him before he stands chance
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A Snowstorm, the
Mountains Fear
BY ERNIE PYLE
IN A MOUNTAIN VILLAGE, Dec

MOUNTAIN VILLAGE, Dec. 31-Falng
l. snow is a beautiful thing almost anywhere
But when snow comes falling on dark dav down
into the deep narrow valleys of the Cumberland
Mountains-as it does frequently and with an awful
immenSity-1here is about it not ONLY beauty hit
strange fearfulness
Somehow you feel that snow and low clouds and
mountains and darkness all coming down upon
you and this is the end of everything and there will
never be sunlight or another day
The Cumberland Mountains are beautiful even
in the eaflessness of winter They are not immense
like the Rockies; regmented in strips like the
Blue Ridge; nor equipped with vast vistas like San
Jacinto in California. They indeed none Of
these, but a terrific serration like measles
Always in the Cumberands you must raise YOUR
head to see the sky. For all around everywhere
are peaks.
But in the snowtime the peaks are missing They
vanish in gray mist that reaches down their sides
and propes itself across the valleys to the other
peaks, making ceiling that closes you in
THE snow starts in Virginia For few minutes
it falls timdly, feeling its way The big wet
flakes float down slowly, and they stand out sharply
against the dark background or forested hillside
Then 1t becomes cold encornpassing flood
Where there were two flakes, there are thousands
Swiftly as tropical dusk the light goes out Of
the valleys Twilight comes in midafternoon Noun
tain cabins are dim things through downward
sliding screen
And now you feel the foreboding the sense OF
impending END to all things Through your mind
run, over and over. the dark lines: The shades Of
night were falling fast, when through an Alpine
village passed, youth. :"
VXTORKMEN speed homeward. before it is too
w late. Life PUSHES to get in ahead of the night
Soon there is no movement in the valley: only the
snow, and lonesomeness, and feeling of being all
alone in land of strange forces and an intuition
that something will happen.
You don't imagine specific thing that might
Eappen, nothing material as a wreck or murder
but something unreal and vaguely sinister. You
want to speed. faster and faster
That's what blizzard in a Cumberland Mountain
valley does to tenderfoot. The people there sup
pose, don't feel that way about 1t at all
And in my own case of course nothing happened.
am here tonight, in the room of little inn in a
mountain village, and I feel so superior and safe.
The radiator sizzles and the electric lights shine
Snow and darkness and doom can't come in here.
But 1t was narrow escape-frcm fear.
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A TakeOf on First Ludu

A MOTHER think which gents
L n were not allowed in on, but
concerning which your CORE
spondent has certain information,
was the Gridiron Widows party at
the White House, given for news
paperWomen.
Some of the girls called it the
"Flatiron Dinner just for fun,
but they all had a good time when
Mrs. Jay Hayden impersonted
Mrs. Roosevelt, voice and all.
When a lady acting as stooge
asked her, What does Your Maj
esty think Of the latest fashions
for women?" Mrs. Hayden grabbed
a microphone and said:
Whether the beret should be
worn on formal occasions is a
matter of taste. I hope that dur
ing the coming summer each little
family will get into its motor and
inspect the great natural beauties
of our land.
Then when the winter comes
you can sit happily by your own
flreSide and remember the pleas
ant times you had among the
birds and the flowers and the bees.
And. besides, the peace of the
world lies in women's hands.
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XXTASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-The
w year ending today marked
a definite turning point in the po-
lltlcal fortunes of Franklin Roose-
welt and his New Deal.
Future historians may call it
something else, but the Merry
Go-Round hereby tags it THE
End of the Pedestal Era"
During 1885 the people began to
realize that the feet of their
President were clay. No longer
could he write his own ticket.
The Pedestal Era lasted from
March 4, 1888, to Nov. 7, 1884.
During that period what little
criticism there was of Roosevelt
was undertone and apologize. In
the mid-term elections of 1884 he
was so strong that many Repub-
lican candidates ran on pledges to
support the President"
The result was landslide that
gave the Democratic Party a two
thirds majority in both houses of
congress.
Perhaps the end of the Pedestal
Era came partly as a result of
oVer-confdence. At any rate the
barometer Of New Deal popular
ity reached its lowest level dur
ing the summer of 1885.
Certainly er-confidence was
at the bottom of Roosevelt's trou-
BILE with Congress. There, top
heavy Democratic majorities kicked
donkey-like at the Work Relief
bill, the Central Bank bill, the
NRA Continuation Act, the Cuff
fey Coal bill, the Holding Com
pany Act and other New Deal
measures.
But the hardest blow came from
the hands of the Nine Old Men.
Where others so far had pulled
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-31

Christmas of 1882. Mans
memory remembers pleas
ure easily, but is not geared
TO recall pain very wildly.
In every city in the land at
Christmas, 1882, the long lines of
hungry men-bread lines, the most
aWesome spectacle of a depression
waited through the cold days for
soup and the colder nights for
coffee.
But a new President had been
elected and as the nation sank
down to the darkest level of the
depression, feeling of hopeful
ness somehow mixed into the
troubled Christmas.
For three years President Hoo
YER had struggled with the in
soluble problem. Then in our
quadrennial election, the issue had
been thrown back to the people.
They had seized it and angrily
had swept out Of office almost
every one they could hold-rightly
or wrongly-responsihle for their
troubles. That New Years of
1888 the people felt they had done
something about things.
MIR. HOOVER had committed
1VA himself to the theory that
certain natural forces of econom-
les were at work throughout the
whole world which we're push
ing us slowly back to recovery.
President Roosevelt, on the other
hand, was committed to a policy
Of doing something. And the ma
ton was committed to that pol
icy as well. That we should sit
in helplessness while the cruel laws
of Self-regulating economy
ground us into the earth had been
repudiated by the people.
And so, between New Years,
1929, and New Years, 1888, this
change had taken place. In 1929,
when the crash came, the ma
ton accepted it as a necessary re-
adjustment to be met with reso-
Lutte optimism.
In three years this had been
discarded in favor of a complete
surrender to the proposition that
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First Lad y Knows What
the Kitchens All About

could tell just what each was used
for, without peeking in to see.
Nor did she mind showing
whole shelves of canned vegetables
to a group of young women who
had automatically supposed all
such stuff in the White House
would be bought fresh.
incidentally, Mrs. Roosevelt
spoke to all the servants and all
the servants spoke to Mrs. Roose-
welt in a way which showed very
plainly that they had met one an
other before.
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and baseball writer for the New
York Tribune.
1t was my first training trip,
and I was impressed not only by
the names Of such players as
Mathewson, Vanguard and Merkle,
but by Bill Hanna and Damon
Runyon and Sid Mercer. Jim
Thorpe was also making his first
trip. We used to wrestle. Thorpe
took all so falls.
Runyon took quite few out
Of me, too. AS we came across
Texas TO New Orleans the train
stopped at several Of the smaller
stations, and it was Damon Run
yto,,fg Jn1ipbt IN +akp mo ont IN tho
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: WdtchfuL Waiting

ID OOSEVELT'S policy during
IN the coming months will be to
rest on his oars.
Future policy will depend on
two things. One is what the Su-
preme Court does. If the Court
scuttles the AAA and other i'm
portant measures, Roosevelt will
fight back.
The second is the Republican
National Convention in June. If
the Republicans nominate Hoover,
Knox or a conservative candidate,
Roosevelt will swing further to
the right. He will stress whatever
conservative achievements in his
Administration he can.
But if Borah is nominated. the
Roosevelt strategy will be to swing
even further to the left, in other
words, to out-Borah Borah.
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EUZnough.
BY
WESTBR0Ok PEGLER

Darts, Dec. 3l.-One of the favorite sedentary
l. sports Of Europe is the game of specializing on
war chances, corresponding to the harmless Ameri-
can pastlme OF trying to guess the winners of the
major league remnants. The players constitute sort
OF pohtlco-mitary hot stove league and the object
is 10 guess who will attack whom and who will win
The contest embraces whole tournaments of wars
ana entries include seeded players and Dummies. AS
rule the United States is regarded as the defend
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bicycle down to Windsor for
breakfast. And on Saturday
morning I have an engagement
with the Lord Mayor of Dover to
swim the Channel to Calais for
lunch.
The World Court must have
the support Of its friends. In a
few minutes this interview will
be terminated, as I have an en-
gagement to open a gold mine on
the air. I shall proceed immedi-
ately thereafter to pilot the China
Clipper"
One is assured that Mrs. F. D.
laughed very heartily at the take
of on her press conferences.
Copyright, 1885, NEA Service, Inc).
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IIS OIIdIIIpIOI Who does not have
10 play through but stands on the
Sldelines until the challenge round.
To play it you substitute for
hitting, fielding and the youth or
age OF athletes such facts as gold.
petroleum, iron, naval and mer-
camille tonnage, army statistics
and mechanical equipment, includ-
ing, of course, airplaneS, with due
regard for modernness or obso-
leScence. 1 find these hot stove
leaguers keep their statistics in
mind just as faithfully as Ameri-
cans memorize batting averages.
and though the game is an obses-
sion with the peOnle nowhere is
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BY JOHN T. FLYNN
Copyright, 1885, NEA Service, Inc).

NEW YORK, Dec 31-New Years, 1886.
New Years 1885! And what between?
You not grasp that unless you go back and add
another New Years Day-New Years. 1888 Indeed maybe
you must go back still farther New Years. 1929. For
these last twelve months important chiefly they
part of an era.
AS America poured out into the shopping streets Of its
cities for this Christmas armed with more money than
it has had for five years. it perhaps did think of the
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Some More of Tie Same

nN the picnic we had cold
" chicken salad, pineapple,
and cheese. But the children had
hard-boiled eggs. I sometimes
think there is better character and
more kindness among people in
the high income tax scale than
there is among people in the low
income tax scale.
On Thursday I am riding a
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Haywood BR0UN

THE OUTSKIRTS OF NEW ORLEANS Dec. 81
Wei" We finally made it, The depot is just
ahead Of type these hurried lines, for I must
be about my business arBi seek a successful con-
clusion to my quest. Frankly, I have come to New
Orleans in search OF my lost youth
In the year 1915 I came here with John McGraW
and the New York Giants. That was the season
when Larry Doyle said It's great to be young and
a Giant" And it wasn't 50 bad to be mere q
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WHAT 80 PROMISES THE u. S.
Trade Rise Offsets Business Rezo against Ne7v DEAL Says Fz,

The before
in twelve
months?" Well
of article
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ON that New Years day of 1888,
" as we looked back over the
factories, the shops, the stores,
the railroads and farms of the
nation, we saw that they had done
FOUR HUNDRED BILLION
DOLLARS less gross business than
in 1928. -Four hundred billion dol
lars-a billion and a third day!
That 1882 Christmas was a lean
one. In the year just ending the
workers of the nation had seen
their pay envelopes cut by TWEEN
TY-ONE BILLION DOLLARS.
And moving disconsolate, close to
despair, among our people were
100000 idle men and women.
And another 100000 perhaps liv-
ing below the margin of subsist-
ence on sweatshop wages and part
time jobs.
1t was one of the most amaz-
ing tumbles ever made by any
nation in peace,
Then, as the new Administra-
ton came into power and, under
the imperious pressure of the
crisis, found itself, whether it
wished it or not, driven to action,
the most amazing upsurge of con-
fidence followed the reigning pes
SimiSm.
AS plan after plan of the New
Deal burst upon the first pages of
the papers. the most astonishing
unity revealed itself among the
people behind the new leaders.
uERE is what had happened,
d Il essentially: Cd Business,
which was in complete control of
the government for q years, was
in retreat and in disrepute.
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Where Art Thou Romeo?

DUT, naturally We didn't try to fool anybody in
ID New Orleans, 1t was sophisticated city 1t
had an Old World air about it. In those days I had
Paris, and New Orleans my idea
of what it would be like. Later when I did get to
France I disappointed This isn't the real
thing" I thought to myself This isn't New
Orleans
OF course that wasn't fair Paris may have
caught up again After all, l saw Paris in 1917,
and two years earlier nobody was dropping bombs
New Orleans. But the Mississippi really is bigger
than the Seine and the Louisiana city 20 years
ago had much more reckless spirit than the staid
French metropolis OF course, this was long time
back but New Orleans certainly sold itself to me
as being ever so wicked.
l walked the streets at night in good deal Of
trepidauon. l feared lest some lovely lady on
balcony attempt to Cntice me away from my COM
panions the training trip Mostly asked MeSsrs.
Mercer and Runyon to Chaperon me after dark.
And, as I remember, the dark up like thunder.
And now l am returning with quite another fear.
Though 1 walk beneath balconies from sunset to
sunrise, even into the outlaw quarters of the town,
if such there be- I think it unlikely that there
will come any fair call for me.
So be it, My next attempt will be to ascertain
whether a Ramos gin fzz tastes just it did
20 years ago. Again 1 skeptical. A good deal Of
gin has flowed under the bridge since then.
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by the Literary Digest poll, but a
majority will vote for him rather
than swap horses in midstream,
as clearly shown by the Washing
ton Merry-Go-Round poll.
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old Cafe StiU in Business

TTNHERE and l believe is Antoine's, but I'm
afraid that we baseball writer's and players in
rough and ready way never gave this famous
restaurant a fair chance. They tell me the proprie
tor prefers to have his patrons call up some three
hours in advance that he may have a proper
dinner prepared.
But you couldn't expect Jim Thorpe to wait that
long. Nor would he know three hours in advance
just what he wanted for dinner. His mind would
be too intent upon the late lunch he eating at
the moment
Give us a Kansas City T-bone steak and make
it rare the formula Of the Giants and always
tried to make strangers believe 1 member of
the club. In the lobby Of the ST. Charles practCed
sitting and almost mastered it. This is an art known
only to professional players 1t is an attempt to
reach the Buddhist ideal of Nirvana, or complete
nothingness. You can set of cannon cracker in
the of a baseball player who has learned to sit
and he will not stir muscle
He seems completely insulated against existence
and he can be brought back to life again in just
one way. 1t is a magical incantation and you can
whisper it softly you please. This is the charm
for sweet awakening Come on big boy; it's time
for dinner
Copyright 1887
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Copyright 1885. by Unite Feature SYNDICATE, 1noo