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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14
Mark TUain Was Shocked

MARX TWAIN thought the celebrated cemetery
4V1 of the Capuchn Fathers to be in the worst
possible taste, but, then, other remarks of his ind-
Gated that he had extraordinary aversion to the
dead. He spoke of the tremendous risk of pestence
in every churchyard and thought that the dead con-
Startly accommodating in the ground would contam-
nate the soil in the course of time So he recon-
mended cremation as sanitary measure.
Yet Mark Twain himself certainly lived as long
as he had any desire to- and nowadays, notwith-
standing the which killed six millions and the
famineS and plaques which have killed even more,
the world is SO crowded that H. c. Wells insists that
2O0,OOO,O0O people have got to get off the earth.
1t is useless to look for the name of Mark Twain
in the tourist register on the window SILL for hun
dredS of thousands of sightseers have Shued along
the marble tombs on the floor since his day, almost
obliterating of the data and the present reg
lister, which is almost full goes back more than
year. The Bradley girls of New York registered the
day before yesterday.
Your correspondent on seeing the cemetery with
its neat racks of bones piled like stove wood back on
the farm its graceful designs and curious little in
ventionS of art, did not share the sense of being
shocked which Mark Twain felt. For if ever human
futility was made clear and death robbed of its
Solemnity it has been done in the hilarious arrange
ment of human ivory some 300 years ago in the
murky crypt by some pious priest in hair shirt and
SANDALS and with grisly sense of humor
The mummieS too, a dozen so of them which
had dried out during their 10 years in the ground
beneath the cavern by their poStures and
their withered leather hands awkWardly claspng
their wooded crucifxes Knocked the pride of mortal
man and rdiculed the struggle of science to conquer
death and give TO each another long term earth.
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Today S Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

NEW YORK, Dec. 14-When the 2OO-inch tee-
Y scope eventually goes into service it may solve
the biggest question in the world, namely, the ma
ture of the universe. The 2O0-inch mirror recently
removed from the annealing furnace and with
in the next year or two the big telescope will be
completed and put into service upon Mt Paomar in
California.
Astronomers at present have the following pic
ture of the universe: Our own galaxy or Milky Way
Is a collection of some hundred billion stars ar
ranged in shape like a gigantic pinwheel. Similar
pinwheels or spiral nebuae or as they sometimes
are called, exterior galaXes exist at immense dis
tances from our own galaxy.
A BOUT one million of these exterior galaXes are
L n within range of the l00-inCh telescope at Mt
Wilson, the largest telescope in existence
These exterior galaXes, while grouped into clus-
tiers Of from six to several hundred in number seem
on the whole TO be more or less uniformly scattered
through space.
In addition, the motion of every one of these
exterior galaxies seems to be away from our galaxy
The farther away they are the faster they seem to
be moving. This fact has given rise to the theory
OF the expanding universe
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BEING AN OLD SMOOTHIE' PAYS IN BRIDGE

Last year I selected Louis j.
Haddad of Chicago, president of
the American Bridge League, as
the greatest rubber bridge player
IN the country. I have been III
Chicago the past several weeks
and have had quite an opportunity
to observe his play.
I have found out why he is
Americas greatest rubber player.
There is nothing superfuman
about his play of the cards or his
bidding, but he is everybody's IA
vorite partner.
should like to tell you about
recent hand I watched in a rub
Der game. Haddad opened the
bidding with one heart; his part
ner bid one no trump; Haddad,
two hearts; his partner, two no
trump, very quickly.
Three hearts, quietly said Mr..
Haddad. Three, no trump" bold
ly came from Haddad's partner,
whereupon Haddad passed.
After the hand was over, declarer
mumbled something about the
queen of sp~d and the jack Of
clubs being wrong and he was
set two tricks for minus 100 points
!, ! looked at Haddad's hand and
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saw that it was a lay down for
four hearts and he had a play for
five. After the rubber was over, I
asked Haddad why he did not bid
four hearts.
His reply was, IF I had, my
partner would have bid four no
trump. Now, isn't it better to go
down two tricks not doubled for
a loss of 100 points, rather than
have my partner bid four or five
no trump, get doubled and then
go down possibly 500 or 70t
points?"
Haddad's reasoning on this
hand was that he had saved 400
to 600 points.
Some of Haddads partnership
rules are:
Never tell your partner that
he has lost trick in the play Of
the hand, or he will lose two on
the next hand, worrying about the
last one. If your partner is the
type Of player who wants to play
all OF the hands, do not try to
outbid him, he will cost you too
many points. Instill confidence in
your partner, as a partner Ill at
. case forces you to play against
three opponents"
Copyright. 1885. NEA Service. Inc.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14
BY ERNIE PYLE

XX7ISE, Va, Dec. 14.-And now,
w what do the people of Wise
County think of Edith Maxwell
and the Maxwell murder case?
For four days I have been talk
ing with people in Wise, the
county seat, and in Pound Edith's
home town, and out in the hills
between the two towns.
And I find practically only one
opinion, and it is all against
Edith. People say that tWo-thirds
of Wise County thinks her Is
year sentence for killing her ia
Their was just.
That would mean 10000 people
against her, 10000 for her. Former
State Senator Robert Bruce,
Edith's chief attorney, says in his
quiet, tolerant way that he be-
lieves the two-thirds estimate is
a little high. Even so. I have
found only two or three people
for her.
Everybody has an opinion, and
theory. But Jumping them all
together, the consensus is about
like this:
That Trigg Maxwell, Edith's IA
ther, was a mild man. They say
he was absolutely harmless. They
say he probably never whipped
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I decided I really wanted to live
early this year. I don't know ex-
actly why. Something came over
me, I guess. Anyway, the doctors
gave me two surgical operations
to compress my lungs. They worked
beautifully, they said, and I'll be
out of the hospital some time.
Not next week or next month,
or even next year, guess, but I'll
be out all right. And think I've
learned something about living
from wanting to die.
There's plenty of life to enjoy
even here on hospital bed, be-
lieve me-even with pain in your
chest, too. There's things to see
and hear and smell and a whole
world of things to think. And that's
about enough, isn't it?
Say those doctors had listened
to me when I wanted to die. Say
they had taken me at my worst
and given me mercy death" Say
they had.
God, I'd be dead-right now!
THE END
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Times Books

THE booklover who buys books for their fine
Il bindings and little for their contents is
no real booklover at all, but investor in house
furnishings. Nevertheless, there is place for the
fine edition. in which the bookmakers art is lavished
on works of permanent literary value; and with
Christmas coming on the shopper do we'll to
keep such editions in mind.
All Of this is by way of announcing that the Herr
tage Press Inc, has given the Christmas bookgiver
a break by bringing out half dozen classics in
ultra-dne editions.
These include Romeo and Juliet" "The Scarlet
Letter" "Manon Lescaut," "A Shropshire Lad"
David Copperfeld" and The Song of Songs" Ona
or another of these would make nice Christmas
gift as you'd to see-and the whole set is well
worth owning.
DR1NTED on durable paper, bound in leather and
l. illustrated lavishly, the books are delight to
look at.
The best job, it seems to me, has been done
David Copperheld"; the illustrator has caught the
true Dickensian flavor and has given this great old
novel the kind of dress it deserves
"Manon Lescaut" and "a Shropshire Lad" are
also exceptionally attractive.
Whether you're shopping for yourself or for
some one else, you will find these editions well worth
examining. They priced at S. apiece. (By Bruce
Cattsa0 !,
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PRESS AGENTS RESUME
CONFERENCE MEETINGS
College Publicity Men Hold District
Gathering at Lincoln.

twenty-five members of tn e
fourth district, American College
Publicity Association, today resumed
meetings of two-day conference at
the Lincoln.
Speakers on yesterdays program
included Joseph Petritz, sports pub
licity director at the University of
Notre Dame; R. E. Blackwell, as
sistant to the president of the Uni
versity of Louisville; Wallace o. Lee,
public relations director of the In
dianapoliS Power and Light Co.;
Claude A. Mahoney, reporter of the
Indianapolis Star, and Harold K.
Schellenger, publicity director of
Ohio State University. Evan B.
Walker. of Butler University is in
charge of the program.
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TwoThird Of Mountain Folk Think Girls Sentence Justified
Father Was Harmless enpecked Abused BY Family Friends Say

his children in his life. That's the
trouble, they say, he didn't have
any control over his family.
They say he was henpecked.
They tell how he used to come to
work at the mine without any
breakfast, and with just a cold
potato in his lunch box, because
his family wouldn't fix anything
for him. They say his family took
all his money, treated him like a
dog and several times beat
him up.
TTE hadn't been a blacksmith
l. l. for many years. He worked
in the coal mines and did car
pentering jobs. He used to drink
quite bit, but they say he was
always good-humored when he
was drinking. When his brother
died about a year ago. he "got
religion" and hadn't drunk any
hard liquor since, they say.
The people here don't believe
Edith's self-defense story. They
don't think Trigg was either drunk
or trying to whip her. They think
Trigg was killed in bed.
The thing they are bitterest
about is that neighbors were sent
away when they heard Maxwell
moaning, and that the family
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BY MAX STERN

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.-1t
w the Supreme Court outlaws
the AAA processing taxes, the
American Federation of Labor is
expected to join with farm leaders
in launching the long-eXpected
fight for a constitutional amend
ment, it was reported today.
' Counsel for the Federation is
studying a number of amendment
proposals submitted at the an
nual A. F. of L. convention.
President William Green today
confirmed the possibility of joint
action with the farm leaders, but
said no definite agreement had
been reached.
If the Supreme Court kills the
Triple A taxes" Mr.. Green said,
the farmers no doubt viii feel
just about the way we felt after
the Schechter decision"
AT the Federation convention
delegates submitted 10 proposals,
all designed to curb the Supreme
Courts power to upset legislation
for social welfare. These pro-
posalS were referred to the A. F.
of L. executive council for study,
and the council, in turn, has
turned them over to its legal staff,
headed by Charlton Ogburn.
The proposals range from one
denying tie high court power to
upset acts of Congress to one re-
curing at least a To court ma
jority to declare such laws un-
constitutional.
The executive council is to meet
in Miami, Jan. Is. If the high
court has knocked out Triple A
by that time, it is said the labor
leaders will invite farm leaders
to a conference with economists
and constitutional lawyers to
frame an amendment satisfactory
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II WAS earning about $40 week.
a. When you're alone, that isn't
bad, is it? Enough to take a girl
to the movies, anyway, now and
then.
Along about May I noticed a
cough and I felt sick most of the
time. I was weak, too, and ex-
hausted after each days work.
Finally I saw doctor. He was
swell about everything, but what
could he say except.-T. B.?
I went to a sanitarium upstate
right off. I stayed there about six
months and then came down to
Bellevue. In January, 1884, I came
over here to Sea View, and I've
been here ever since.
The worst of T. B. is the hope
less feeling, I guess. The thought
that you may never be really we'll
again. I used to lie awake nights
and think how I'd never be able
to do SO many things-like SWIM
ming at Coney Island, or playing
baseball with the other fellows, or
and this was tough-going out
dancing.
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Are Mercu Killings Justified?
No! Says New York Youth Who Wanted to Die

T WANTED to die. l
wanted to stop the pain
and the fight for breath
and the endless agony of
believing I'd never be able
to live except fiat on my
back on a hospital bed.
| prayed God to let me
die. l begged the doctors to
let me go, quick and easy.
T h ey did n t listen,
though; they didn't give me
a mercy DEATH"
And today | thank God
I'm still alive.
Life is worth any sort of
a fight you have to put up
for it-take the word of a
guy who almost didn't
fight. When a fellow says
he wants to die, he's just
crazy for a while, that's all. It's
just the pain or something in his
head that makes him say it. The
time always comes when he's
thankful no one listened to him.
Like me. l lie here now and
talk with the other fellows in the
ward. We play guessing games
across our beds. We have jokes
with the nurses, and people
bring us cigarets.
There's so much to live for, isn't
there? You can read, can't you?
I like detective stories, but I'm
studying architecture, too. Maybe
I'll be able to do something with
it when I get out of here.
THEN there are the walks.
Il Every morning and after
noon I can go through the
grounds-slowly, of course, and
watch the ships go by
There's so many things I didn't
notice, before got sick, I mean
the way the sun strikes the VIM
doWs of the ferries and reflects
the light like a bed of diamonds,
the sound of the ocean at night
and the smell of a fresh winter
morning.
People who never wanted to die
never learned to notice those lit
tie things, I guess. At least I
didn't, before I really died and
then came back to live again.
That was back in 1888, when I
had job as clerk in big COM
pany in Manhattan.
was born in Long Island
City, and my mother died when I
was only 8, my father when I was
II. I went to public school and
then got that job, my first one.
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the confusion and grief when the trumpet blows
and the good fathers try to reassemble themselves
ought to be even worse than Mark Twain imagined
AT least in the day when he the cemetery
and commented on the problem they all there
In one rather coy little cave and were confronted
by nothing more than the mere problem of ident-
hcation. 1t is possible the bones were catalogued
somewhere and each member knew precisely which
vertebrae and toes and shank bones were his in the
tumble which had to a casual observer appear
ance of hopeless confusion.
But If mans skull is serving a tobacco jar
on the library desk of souvenir hunter in New
York suburb and his left shoulder blade is doing
duty as a paperweght in BuenoS Aires or Moscow
there might be serious difficulty. But maybe, after
all, because the great wide world is bigger than
an apple, the power which could reconstruct the
bodies in the cellar might not be embarrassed by
having to assemble their members, no matter how
widely scattered
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By SCrippS-H OlCdrd Newspaper alliance
VXTASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-
w Americans are drinking
more and better wine, according
to Harry A. Caddow of California,
secretary-manager Of the Wine
Institute. He is here in the in
terest of a program to "civilize"
the American palate and bring
good, cheap wine to American ia
bles.
THE third year of repeal finds
this country entering an era of
saner drinking" Mr.. Caddow said.
More Americans are drinking
wine with their meals, and more
are becoming wine connoisseurs.
We believe the wine tide is def
nitely turning"
In the first year of repeal, he
said, only 100000 gallons of
wine were consumed in the United
States, and in the second year
100000.
Bad wine is disappearing, he
asserted, thanks to state regula-
ton and the rules laid down by
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waited half an hour. while he was
dying, before they sent for help.
They say nobody here objects to
grownup children being out at
night, if they're in the right kind
of place with the right kind OF
people. They say Trigg Maxwell
was anxious for Edith to make
good teacher and that he proba-
bly, did demonstrate with her for
running around.
A S to the trial itself, even the
"A few people have found who
think Edith's sentence was too
stiff, concede that she had fair
trial. They ridicule the idea OF
any narrow minded mountain
code" persecution.
Judge Skeen continually ruled
in Edith's favor, they say.
The jury, they say, was of az
erage intelligence. Some say
above average. Most of them were
from other parts of the county.
The people in Pound say they
didn't have any influence on the
verdict, because Pound people
weren't allowed on the jury.
1t is said that when the jury
first voted, one man was for a
20-year sentence, and the rest
ran from 40 years to life. So they
compromised on 25.
They say the prosecution was
very decent, and didn't use evil
dence in its possession that would
have blackened Edith's character.
They say that if Edith has an
other trial, this evidence will be
used.
They say their opinion of the
Maxwell case is not based on any
belief that father has right to
whip his groWn-up children, or
that girls should be in after dark.
In the first place. they say there
isn't any such belief here, and N
the second place even if there was
1t wouldn't enter this case, because
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THERE was the pain, too. Do
you know how it feels to lose
pounds when you've never been
very big? And the fight to
breathe when each breath of
air is it's own struggle and you
think you'll never have the
strength to draw another? And
the burning in your chest?
No, you don't know. You've
never had T. B.
But that's why /, wanted to die.
couldn't stand it, that's all. If
there's nothing to love in life,
why fear death? Why not welcome
it gratefully, like sailing away on
a ship from a place you hate to
some place you don't know much
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about, maybe, but which can't be
any worse?
That's how I used to feel about
death. That's why I prayed God
and the doctors to let me die. Just
a little morphine, T said to them,
or just little too much of some
thing else-and all the pain would
end in a peaceful dream.
Il Il
THAT seems funny now, strange
Il and distant-the desire to
die, I mean. Because now I don't
believe there's any one in New
York who wants to live any more
than I do. And I'm getting we'll,
too-don't make any mistake
about that.
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>Saner Drinking Is Finding U.S.
Turning to Wine, Says WINNER

the Federal Alcohol Administra-
ton.
The institute is back of bills
pending in Congress to reduce the
tax on sweet wine from 20 cents
to 10 cents a gallon, and on dry
wine from 10 cents to 5 cents.
They also seek a series of amend
ments to the Revenue Act freeing
wine men from many "antiquated
restrictions.
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LETTER CARRIERS TO
HEAR representative
William Schultz to Speak at Closing
Banquet Tonight.

7 tHttS SptCTUE
MARION, Ind, Dec. 14.-Rep.
William Schultz 3D., Hammond) is
to be the principal speaker at a
banquet concluding a tenth district
meeting CT the National Association
of Letter Carriers here tonight.
Others scheduled to talk during a
business session this afternoon in
clude George j. Ress, district postal
inspector; Ben Boughman, associa-
ton state president, both of Indian
apolis, and Ben Sparks, Rushville,
vice president of the national asso-
citation. Chairman in charge is
George Blackman, Marion, president
of the Indiana Allied Postal Council.
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sentence, but that Is years was too
much, the evidence being largely
circumstantial.
They point out two very i'm
portant things that were never
produced against Edith. One, no
murder weapon was ever found.
Two, no motive. If Maxwell was
so mild and SO badly under his
family's thumb, what was the
point in killing him? Even those
against Edith haven't satisfac-
tory answer for that.
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auZnouh
BY
W'ESIBRO0K PEGLER

ID ONE Dec. 14.-Your correspondent has visited
IN the famous cemetery of the Capuchin Fathers
in the cellar Of the Church of the Immaculate Con-
ception, of which Mark Twain wrote with consid-
cradle feeling in "Innocents Abroad" The picture
which he drew of the scene in the cavern beneath
the pillars of the church is pretty accurate still.
except that IN of the chandeliers the skull of
ng-forgotten reverend father has been wired
for electric light and some of the intricate scrolls
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Farm-Labor Coalition May
Result If AAA Is OutIawed

both to the farmers and city
workers. Then, it is understood,
the measure would be introduced
in the new session of Congress and
pressed for early passage and
submission to the states.
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they don't think he was trying to
whip her.
The people really don't seem
violent in their feeling against
Edith. They simply think she was
guilty, and the law will do the
Furnishing. They don't blame her
for causing all this unfavorable
mountain CODE and "hillbilly"
publicity. They blame the news
papers.
= Il
ME people (outSide of the FAM
l. ily) who are on Edith'S side
think she probably should have a
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and floral designs worked out in
the human ribs. fingers, vertebrae
and jawbones have begun to re-
veal gaps which can not be re-
paired.
The custom of disinterring the
departed members of the little
community of pious men 10 years
after their death has been dis
continued these last 40 years, and
requirements are unobtainable
now. The persistent pilfering of
thousands of souvenir hunters in
the course of time is likely to
scatter the entire collection to
million mantel shelves and tro-
ply rooms all over the earth. and
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and behave as the brains of the team. The rules
would prohibit him from taking any part in the play
itself, and he would be immune from all manhan-
ding and roughage. He would go into the huddle
and call the signals and then step back out of the
play as neutral the referee In order to dis
unguish him from his active playmates the
twelfth man would not wear uniform but ISM
pie business suit and Phi Beta Kappa key I him
as tall and thin with stoop shoulders and horn
trimmed glasses, although the rules would not go so
far as TO make these attributes essential.
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