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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-14
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
The Book World

NNE Of the most important novels of the sea-
~ son. a boot that gives a mature interpre-
tative story Of pre-war Europe's society strata
is the long-awaited Europa" by Robert Brit
fault (Sricbner's; s2.75), who should be remem-
oered for his volumes on anthropology.
Hailed as the book that actually was going
to give the pampered society queens and lions
their just dues, Europa" fails as a social mas
terpece, but smashes through as a tremendous
novel.
Mr. Briffaut has drawn his characters with
all the skill Of master novelist and his de-
velopment of his theme leads the reader into
splendid story Of pre-war Europe
What the author is driving at isn't quite
clear in many. spots. He brings forth contra
dictory points and then fails to choose path
What his book is, in short, is a great drama
unfolded by an author striving to analyze and
weigh pre-war Europe. 1t is important and
an erudite volume and the Book World recon-
mends it to all those interested in good itera-
ture
OF deep interest to the many Indianapolis
~ citizens Of Italian descent should be The
Grand Gennaro" by Garibaldi M. Lapona
Vanguard; $3.50. Many an Indianapolis resi-
dent who remembers the stories told by his
father or his grandfather of New York's Lit
tie Italy" will feel those same stories come to
life as he reads The Grand Gennaro"
All may not accept Mr.. Lapollas story with
urbanlty but every one will concede his famili-
arity with his topic and nod in approval over his
expert Characterization
Mr.. Lapolla has brought Little Italy" to
throbbng life in his story. 1t is more than lust
a good book; it's an understanding" one.
HE thousands of Times readers who avidly
L follow the adventures of Tarzan the mighty
on the comic page, may be pleased to hear that
a new Tarzan book has been published. This
latest one is "Tarzan and the Leopard Men," and
Edgar Rice Burroughs of course does his usual
spectacular work Burroughs, Inc $2)
Tarzans foemen in this new thrill-book are
the cannibaliStic priests of jungle tribe and
while Mr.. Burroughs has added no new death
defying adventures to his list of accomplish
ments, the book remains one of amazing heroics
For Tarzan fans only.
NF deep interest to indianapolis book-lo lovers
" will be the announcement of the publica-
ton of Royal Purple" the second book from
the pen Of Bertha Harding well-known local
author.
Bobbs-Merrill will publish Royal Purple"
some time in October, it has been announced:
Charles Scribners Sons, SO 5th-av, New York
City.
Vanguard, 100 5th-av New York City
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Tarzana, Cal
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LAST HOPE
BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK
She begged for life, for breath Of
life;
Some hope TO stem reality.
She turned to words, to living words,
That tore her brain to be set free.
No one would listen. no one stop.
She knew black depths of sure
defeat.
Oh hateful faces; hateful formsl
Oh careless, laughing, ruthless feetI
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If war fever dies down and times get better,
the world should be in better shape next year:
IN fact. it should achieve perfect So
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To others it may further prove that
in this swiftly moving era the only
practical boundaries are national
ones.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-14

There was a time, before the Shakespeare
food prices, when dollars to doughnuts" meant
a cinch bet
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Daily Thought

And his mercy is on them that
fear him from generation u gener-
ation.-St. Luke i, 81,
REAT minds erect their never
" falling trophies on the firm
basis of mercy.-Massinger.
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DO YOU STILL BEAT YOUR WIFE?

THE United States Chamber of Commerce has
just sent out to its 1909 member organizations
four questions constituting its referendum on the
New Deal.
To make it easier the answers are supplied in
advance by a special committee of the Chamber
appointed to study trends in Federal legislation
The members are supposed to answer yes or no to
the soundness of the committees findings.
Looking over the questions, we wonder whether
the Chamber isn't in the position of judge who
furnished jury with ballots al marked guilty"
l. Should there be an extension of Federal ilris-
diction into matters Of state and local concern?
2. Should the Federal government at the present
time exercise Federal spending power without relation
to revenue?
3. Should there be government competition with
private enterprise for regulatory other purposes?
4. Should all grants of authority by Congress to
the executive department of the Federal government
be within clearly defined limits?
Remember, yes no!
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IS HISTORY REPEATING?

A UG. s. 1914: The British navy dredged up and
L "A cut the German cables, and thereafter most of
the foreign news served up to neutral America was
cleared through Entente channels
Oct. TO- 1885: The British postoffice refused to
relay through a British short-wave station sched-
uled broadcast from Geneva, in which Baron Aloisi
the Italian delegate to the League, was to present
Italy's case to neutral Americas radio audience.
Thus ti4e first sanction" seems to be against in
formation
Bitter though we feel against Mussolin and all
of his spokesman for their war of INVASION we be-
eve we are entitled to hear what Italy has to say
and that it is not Britains business or any other
nations business to turn the dials.
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STRENGTHENING WPA

TT is perhaps too late to come close to fulfilling the
bright promises of the work-relief undertaking,
but those who fear the consequences of this major
failure of the Roosevelt Administration will welcome
that Army engineers have been called into the
WPA operation.
The WPA staff consists principally of political
Apprentices and social service workers. Admitting
that many Of them are and women of ability
and sincerity, they still political appointees and
social service workers, and for the most part, not
chosen for their experience in handling works
projects.
On the other hand, the Corps Of Army Engineers
has long and honorable record in planning and
directing useful and wealth ting public improve
ments Wasteful projects of the leaf-rakng type
should have hard shedding with these Army engineers
sitting at the elbows of Mr.. Hopkins and his sub
administrators.
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BENITO VS.. BENITO

TINE New Leader, Socialist journal published in
New York, appeals from Mussolini drunk with
power to Mussoni sober in the fresh morning of his
life
The New Leader quotes an editorial written by
Mussoni Jan. l, 1912, when he the young editor
Of the Socialist daily Avanti Attacking Italys war
in Libya North Africa Mussolni said % years ago;
The nationalist, conservative and clerical Italy
of today wants to make the sword her law and the
army the school Of the nation, We foresaw this
moral degeneration and therefore are not surprised
by it. But those who believe that this dominance
of mintarsln is a sign of strength mistaken.
Strong peoples have need to suffer such rubbish
the italian press INDUCES in with foolish delight
Strong peoples have themselves in check Nationalist
and militarist Italy shows that she has herself not
in check. A little of conquest is celebrated
Roman triumph"
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Questions and Answers

inclose a Scent stamp for reply
when addressing any question of
fact or information to The Indian
apolis Times Washington Informa-
ton Bureau. Legal and medical
advice can not be given. nor can
extended research be undertaken. Be
sure all mail is addressed to The
Indiana polls Times Washington
Bureau. Frederick NJ. Kerby. Direc-
tor. 1913 Thirteenth-st, n. W. Wash
tngton. D. c. THE EDITOR
Q-Name the author Of the
proverb, What you are speaks so
loud I can not hear what you
say"
Att is paraphrase from
Ralph Waldo Emersons Letters
and Social Aims" Don't say
things. What you are stands over
you the while, and thunders so
that I can not hear what you say
to the contrary"
Q-Why are dead birds seldom
found on roads or in woods?
A-Because they disintegrate
rapidly. and are eaten by preda-
tory animals and insects.
Q-Do all elephants have tusks,
and II tusk is broken does it
grow again?
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ANOTHER GAS BATTLE

A BITTER undercover fight that has ragged in re-
cent years between the gas industry and the
u D Bureau OF Standards, with S490 900 900 of the
American peoples annual fuel bill at stake. was
brought into the open by the Federal Trade Com
mission.
some ten years ago, gas companies in all parts of
the country were planning to reduce the number of
British thermal units-in other words the heating
VaIue-in the gas they sold. The American Gas AS
ISOLATION, according to Trade Commission records
was supplying the companies with material from
Which to argue that consumers were not hurt bv such
reduction, even though it was not accompanied by
rate cuts
E r. Weaver, chief gas chemist of the Bureau of
Standards, didn't believe this was So
He fought for three years to get his views before
state regulating commissions charging that the pro-
posed BTU reduction meant as much as a so per
cent increase in the price of gas and if adopted
generally meant a S49OOOOOOO addition to the ma
tons annual bill for cooking and heating.
The battle ended only when some OF the most
brilliant companies concerned started to sell natural
gas, with high heating value. and did a righ-about-
lace on the BTU question: arguing that they should
be allowed higher rates to compensate for the higher
heating value of their gas.
Viewers story of his fight has Just been put in
VIC AAdNC O'i!4IISoLuH record tOgetner With
or more of exhibits showing efforts made by gas men
to have his views suppressed
In 1924 Weaver wrote Technical Paper 900 in which
he said the amount of gas consumed increases
inversely as the number of BTUs in a cubic foot is
reduced. The CONSERVATION caused by his paper is
indicated in letters IN the record Henry L. Doherty
OF Cities Service co. called to demonstrate
The gas companies continued their campaign.
arguing that the Public Service Co. of Colorado.
a Doherty company had reduced the heating value
OF Its gas from SIS to 400 BTUs and that lit is
doubtful If any OF our customers know that a re-
duction in heating value has occurred
In 1925 Weaver determined TO write another paper
on the Denver situation. indicating consumers had
been paying 10 per cent more for their gas since
the reduction in heating value
He was told by George K. Burgess, director of
the Bureau of Standards that protests against pubi
cation OF such document had been madk to Score
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die is cast and a nation is again led
on the bloody path to war is, to my
mind, beautiful piece of literature
1t gives us a new slant on what is
going on and opens up a vista OF
still more tragic days to come. A
warning, indeed, if America needed
any to stay out.
Here too. is an insight into some
thing to which few of us have given
much thought what with our nat
ural sympathies for the underdog
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tary Of Commerce Herbert Hoover. in whose depart
ment the bureau was.
Eventually Cities Service blocked publication of
the report, Weaver says, by withdrawing permission
for of confidential data on the Denver situation
Mr.. Weaver, however obtained other less detailed
data which had been published at various times re-
vised his paper, and sent mimeographed copies to the
state commissions. The Colorado commission re-
versed its earlier stand and ruled that any reduction
of BTUs must be accompanied by a rate reduction
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-12
Censuring c.. c.. c.. Activities

CCC camps, and the Lolo Trail is
only a memory. We have not
only conquered the wilderness;
we have destroyed it,"
All this is not merely a matter
to be deplored by armchair
philosophers or a few scattered
outdoors enthusiasts. The frontier
not simply the new land that
awaits settlement, but the wild
tract that challenges an individ-
ual to make his way through it
on his own poWer-has been a
potent force in shaping Ameri-
can character.
1t has given us something ex-
tremely precious-some faint tinge
of that self-reliant and imper-
turhable sense of kinship with
nature which created what was
best in the Indian race. We can
not lightly give it up.
We seem to be approaching a
time in which the average man
will have more leisure than he
ever had before.
In such time it will be of the
highest Importance to have these
wilderness areas available-not to
automobile parties and hotel
guests, but to venturers who can
plunge in on foot, carrying what
they need on their own backs and
finding in the depths of painless
forests a tranquility, a spiritual
orientation, that can be gained in
no other way.
In short, the best thing we can
do with our remaining wilderness
areas is to leave them alone. We
can defeat our own ends by build
ing too many trails and clearing
away too much trash. Let Wash
ington call halt to these activ-
tiles before it is too late.
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THE FORUM
BY BERTRAM DAY

BY BEkIRAM DE4
To see the Roman Forum go alone:
Stupendous are the thoughts that
come to one,
For here the soul of Rome lives but
in stone,
Her flesh and blood have left the
skeleton.
The form of Julius Caesar now ap-
pears,
Who on the fatal Ides of March
had died,
When murdered by a mob with poi
soned spears,
The noblest Roman Of them all,
men cried!
For centuries the Forum was a
shrine,
Within its walls Marc Anthony was
heard
The brave Aurelius and Catiline
Were seen, and Paul proclaimed the
Masters word.
What visions of the past are linger-
ing;
Was it a dream the dead were offer
ing?
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A-Tucks are merely elongated
incisor teeth in the upper jaw.
When broken or extracted they
are never replaced. TuSks grow
on both sexes of the African ele-
plant, but seldom grow on the
female Of the Asiatic or Indian
species. In Ceyloa only about /
per cent Of either sex have tusks.
Q-What is the maximum size
Of the barracuda in the southern
waters of the United States?
A-The maximum is about eight
feet long and 40 pounds in weight.
Q-Give the source Of the quo
tation, THE hand that rocks the
cradle rules the world"
A-"What Rules the World"
poem by William Ross Wallace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-12
SEES FREEZING MACHINE AS
UNEMPLOYMENT CURE

BY a Reader
That scientist who wants to freeze
some human specimens is just a bit
behind the times. Our economic
machine froze out twelve million in
dustrial workers, and has made
semi-stiffs cut of another ten mil
lion farm workers. They might
have been better off if the scientist
had put them all through his
freezer.
He claims he can revive them
when he takes a notion to thaW
them out. There is more promise to
this process performing as expected.
than there is of expecting our eco
nonlic machine to restore tbs tWen-
ty-tWo million as effective cOnsum-
ers and producers of wealth. They
have been handed the key to the re-
lief vault to hang on in the border
land between life and death. The
scientist ought to add a lethal
chamber to his freezer so that those
who prefer a quick solution Of re-
lief could press the lethal gas but
ton.
This process would not take quite
as long as killing off the sources of
food supply.
Why has not the relief admins
tration worked this out with the
AAA?
With the new scientific processes
Of producing food synthetically,
ready to discard 80 per cent of our
cultivated land, and that many
farm tellers, the scientists machine
is just the thing to solve the
problem of what to do with these
workers The Legion might work the
machine. instead of leaving the job
to nature, or the militia. 1t would
also make the Jobs of those not on
relief more secure from competition.
And war costs $4,000 per killing.
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MIR. REEFS TAKES A SWING
AT THE G. o. P.

By r. l.. Rees
The newspapers say that Hoover
told the Democrats about their wild
spending. But of all the reading, I
see nothing about the Republicans
orgy. Under the so years of Repub-
lican rule, every farmer and laborer
paid in direct and indirect taxes,
So out of every 81 he earned.
The tariff, disguised subsidy to
pet" business, shamelessly robbed
the wagemen of S3,000,0O0,0O0 an
nually, in Hoover's time. That being
a make-work fallacy, also.
The national bank notes took a
large sum. And it is poor business
when Roosevelt retires them with
the peoples money.
The Republicans kept our pet
business and national bankers for
so years in these disguised methods
which would not cause the figures
to be put down on the government
book in either ordinary or extraor-
binary columns. But let the Demo-
Gratis come out into the open and
spend half the sum, why the
country will go bankrupt.
Well. the Republicans bankrupted
us in 1873 1893 and 1929; so let us
feel how it is when the Democrats
90 busted.
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myself intrigued again by your lat
est contribution on that most timely
topic-War.
Black Shirt, Black Skin" by that
famed radio commentator, Boake
Garter, gives every promise of being
as thrilling a narrative as its i'm
mediate predecessor.
That opening chapter, for in
stance, painting as it does in vivid
fashion the dictator's mental tor
ture in those awful hours before the
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By a Nature Lover


When the Civilian Conservation
Corps was sent into the woods
with its axes, its picks and
shovels, and it's educational
pamphlets. lovers of the great out
doors sat back comfortably and
concluded that Americas wilder
ness areas we're at last to be made
safe for the bull moose, the red
squirrel, and the future genera
ton.
But it develops that this sigh
Of relief was little premature.
Few organizations have a more
alert interest in our wilderness
heritage than the American Ma
ture Association; and this group,
speaking in the current issue OF
National Magazine" asserts that.
our primeval forests are actually
endangered by activities of the
outfit that was supposed to pro-
tect then-the CCC.
This isn't the Gees fault. The
point is that one of the jobs given
the CCC has been to build roads
through the forests; and the Ma
ture Magazine" article protests
that no one in Washington seems
to realize that if you build enough
roads into a wilderness, and dot
it with hotels and camp sites, it
very speedily ceases to be a will
erness. If The Times will permit
me, will quote few lines.
THE Cascade crest in Washing
ton has been literally riddled by
roads Of the CCC," says the ar
ticle. ITO the north and west of
Mt. Adams truck trails have
opened up an indispensable will
derness country; the headwaters
Of the Selway are invaded by
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-12

Times readers are inrfted to empress
their rie1cs in these columns. religious
controversies ercluded. Make rOur letters
short so all can hare q chance. Limit
them to 80 cords or less. Your letter
must be sidned. but names Wiu be
tCithheld on reQueSt.J
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Daily Thought

The Lord maketh poor, and max
eth rich: he bringeth low, and lift
eth up.-I Samuel ii, 7.
THE bad fortune of the good
l. turns their faces up to Heaven;
the good fortune of the bad bows
their heads down to the earth
Saadi.
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Apparently the only sufferers in this
conflict are not to be a defenseless,
helpless group of semi-barbarouS
men, women and children, protected
chiefly by the rugged terrain of their
native health, but people in high
places as we'll.
More power to The Times
If we did not already realize it
you are, by means of these articles,
wildly illustrating the utter futility
of armed conflict.
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NOT + PAT-A THUMP
ON THE BACK
BY Times Reader

BY Times Reader
My hat is off again to The Times.
Having just finished Walter Mills
Road to War" and, not yet having
recovered from the thrills of that
amazing series of articles, I found
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A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
- BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson --

TINE other side of the earth presents picture
which would be funny if it were not filed with
such tragic possibilities.
Watch the newsrees any day, anywhere and
you'll know what we're talking about. There is
dreadful sameness about these scenes Men nlassed
and marching for battle; men saluting; men with
guns-everywhere Overshadowing and dominating
them are two individuals: the pathetic Halle
Seassie, playing at being emperor; Mussolini pos
ing pompously before Caesars statue: Hitler de-
claring himself The State in front of 100000 of his
subjects; English warshipS speeding to Suez; the
streets OF Paris filled with soldiers.
The world is insane again, insane with listening
to a few men who drunk with the thought of
power. And so read in our papers that will
be aged because these men must save their faces"
And they will save them, mind you, at the expense
of millions of lives, of untold destruction and of ire
parable waste.
These pigmy morals strut-eXactly as their prcto-
types have always done. Like small boys showing
off, they mass their troops and think because the
cheers loud and the drums beat at their coming
that war will make them mighty. Neither fore
thought intelligence logic nor common sense die
tates their actions.
They funny, these dictators-but not half so
funny the millions of creatures calling themselves
men who follow their bidding like slaves. SO that
Mussolini may save his face world can be de-
stroyed civilization wrecked and thousands of
happy homes ruined forever Does it not seem chock
ing Incredible frightening, that for such paltry
these things can occur?
The United States faces tremendous RESPONSE
bility the responsibility of keeping freedom alive
upon the earth. Long ago forefathers dedicated
themselves to this cause to it must dedicate
ourselves anew forgetting that freedom be
preserved only where people permitted to govern
themselves and dictators unknown, and where
peace, war; the chief objective of all citizens.
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The cause of peace is the cause of free speech of
free press of human liberty, of constitutional gov
ernment-Senator Borah