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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11

voiced operator, What in Sam
Hill is all this noise about?"
The dulcet response is: why,
sir, don't pay any attention to
those sirens. Our motorcycle cops
are merely nonoring a quaint old
Indianapolis custom" Whereupon
the travelling man says: ooh,
YEAH" and makes a solemn VOW
never to spend another night in
Indianapolis if he can avoid do
ing so.
One inquiries of a jovial Indian
apolis business men: why do the
motorcycle cops in this city eX-
ercise their sirens so frequently
between the hours of 10 and IL
p. MP"
"Ah!" replies the jovial bust
ness man Che lives in the Suburbs)
you see, those fellows have many
hurry calls to make.
For example, about four
squares away from where they
happen to be parking pretzeI
may fall from tray to a bar,
and, beside the pretzel there may
chance to be a stein of foamy
beer. Now, on each police motor
cycle there is an ingenious device
called a foam detector which
flashes signal to the cop who,
with siren wide open, speeds to
the scene.
For isn't it well-known ak
iom that tide and foam wait for
no man?'" So we learn that these
sirenic cacophonies are consid-
cred quite necessary in the line
of duty"
don't know if your distin-
guished paper, through publish
ing this animadversion can do
anything toward having these
nightly serenades-so inconsider-
ately played by your police-ad-
judged a public nuisance, disturb
ing to the peace and quiet of your
fair city, but I do know consid-
cradle and growing number OF
travelling men who make calls in
Indianapolis, but do not spend
single night in any of your excel
lent hotels or clubs.
This fact may be Of interest to
some of your public-spirited citi-
zens and, perhaps, something may
be done toward making Indian
apolis a city wherein the ha-
raised travelling man may have
an even chance to court the favors
Of Morpheus.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11
So They Say

Any fool knows you can't clear the
wreckage of II years madness in
two years time.-Gen. Hugh S.
johnson.
Baruch has led three Presidents
to hell. That's enough for me, I'M
derstand?-Senator Huey P. Long.
The Lord never had to play SO
one-night stands in a year, no, sir.
Richard B. Harrison, "De LaWd"
in 1.-THE Green Pastures
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11

Labor has no resistant power to the
profit system, no innate protection.
The position of wealth is determined
by the flow of profit, not by labor
Profit is protected by competition
while labor is forced to the subsist-
ence level Of physical life.
Those on relief have been forced
below the subsistence level of life,
while those to whom the flow Of
profit has delivered the surplus
wealth are peers in possessions to
the wealthy of all nations
I urge old-age pensions and the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11
REFORESTATION PLAN
OF U. S. SUPPORTED

OF U. S. SUPPORTED
BY a Backer of Roosevelt
Please permit space to answer
Mr.. Bedford. He has real argu-
ment, but I wish to point out some
facts in favor of the Federal gov
eminent buying up farm land that
has become useless years ago, due
to the shortSightedness of timber
concerns who worked in these parts
and stripped our state of timber
without replacing it.
Now then, Mr.. Bedford, I have
been around a bit. Take northern
Indiana, south of the Kankakee
River. The land was a swamp
years ago, therefore, it is very rich
land, but this land has been re-
claimed by drainage. 1t keeps the
farmers on those lands poor try
ing to keep up payments on these
bitches. Every 10 years these bitches
must be dredged. Who pays for it?
The struggling farmer.
Further south is the sand coun~
try. Down there the land isn't worth
nickel Let the drainage system
go and in a few years the country
becomes a swamp. That is the way
it should have been left. Now let
us go south, down here in the hills
Of Kentucky, where the people are
worse off. All this country is good
for is timber and trapping, but it
has been neglected. I am told that
years ago there was plenty of game
in these hills, but it is not there
now.
Mr.. Bedford, you place your ar
gument on a sentimental basis. Mr..
Roosevelt has in mind the welfare
of future generations long after you
and I have passed on. Roosevelt's
plan does not call for the neglect OF
these country cemeteries-they will
be taken care of.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11
Capital Capers
by GEORGE ABELL
DREsIDENT ROOSEVELT early

DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT early this week
l. was the guest of honor of his own Cabinet
at dinner in the Mayfower Hotel
Sllk-hatted, wearing a velvet-collared over
coat the President arrived by limousine at the
Mayfower few minutes after o'clock riding
in the front seat beside one of the White House
chauffeurs-Monty Snyder
Alert Col Ed Startling, new head Of the Secret
Service, leaped from the car as it drew up. His
quick gray eyes scanned doorway, corridor, by
ISLANDERS. Under his well-tailored evening dress
a slight bulge at the hip indicated that Ed had
not forgotten his automatic. 1t was his first
big job of protecting the President. He did it
thoroughly.
Hotel corridors had been carefully roped of.
Accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt, cleaning in
white satin. and his mother Mrs Sara Delano
Roosevelt (who wore orchids and pearls against
a black evening gown, the President slowly
made his way to the private dining room. Closely
at his heels followed eagle-eyed Col Startling.
gazing war1ly on all sides.
Precedence was handled by that State De-
partment expert of etiquet veteran Charles Lee
Cooke who can tell you without blinking how to
seat diner composed Of Grand Duchess Marie
OF Russia, Lloyd George, Miss Fanny Brice and
Stain,
DOLITELY, Secretary Of State Hull offered his
l. right arm to the First Lady. Vice Presi-
dent Jack Garner docking very we'll in the eve
ming dress clothes he boasts that he never wears
followed with Mrs. Joe Byrns, wife of the
Speaker of the House, Joe himself. eyebrows
bristling, white tie slightly askew, came next
with Mrs. Garner.
Without a hitch, the guests swept on to the
dinner table, several covertly observing the bot
ties of champagne nesting in ice buckets behind
blue and gold Chinese screen
Nays Swanson (who had been lid advanced
haltingly along the corridor his face rather
pale his cheeks showing hollow behind his bill
lowy mustache. SolcitouSly, Lieut.. Charles
Renter of the Navy Band, fastened forward
May I not assist you, Mr. Secretary" he
offered.
PHOTOGRAPHERS set up their apparatus,
Il started making shots"
Miss Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor,
hustled in early.
please pose, Madame Secretary" asked
cameramen.
III only let you take picture if you'll make
it with the Vice President" she responded coyly.
That's fine" doomed Jack Garner, but let
me put my arm around her first"
And thus the picture was taken.
ON the beautifully decorated table, Expert
~ Cooke had personally placed all the cards,
embossed with the gold eagle Of the United
States Government embelliShed by the fine
Spencerian writing Of the White House penman.
Behind the wine glasses rose a huge loving
cup made Of confectioners' icing, with a replica
Of the Whit House on top.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11

The parents Dionne want to get control
over their quintupletS. That's funny. In the
United States it's usually only one Of the par
ents who wants custody Of their children.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11

When Eugene Grace. who drew such big
bonuses during the World War, said he
couldn't see why the veterans should get
theirs. it was far from a Graceful gesture.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11

A man in Florida demonstrated an inven-
ton by which he flew about like bird. He
took an awful chance with the game bird
shooting still on down there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11
Daily Thought

Let your heart therefore be per-
feet with the Lord our God, to walk
in His statutes, and to keep His
commandments, as at this day
Kings, viii, 81.
THE essence of true holiness con-
l. sists in conformity to the ma
ture and will OF God.--Lucas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11
RELIEF SYSTEM HELD
ECHO OF SLAVE DAYS

By Lewis Z. FraIeur
I am glad folks don't have to
starve, but what an insult, what a
shame to make an honest, indus
trious and worthy citizenship subsist
on relief" in a land of abundance.
7 can not resist comparing the pre-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11
The Message Center

Times readers are tnvited to cypress
their Uietcs in these columns. Make yONr
letters short, so all can haze q chance.
Limit them to ESQ 10ords or less. Your
letter must be signed. but names 10Il
be 1oithheld at request Of the letter
1criter.J
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11

"On This Site Was Born the Republican
Party" reads sign in Wisconsin. Democrats
are looking about the country for the tomb
stone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11

Perhaps it would be a good idea to let some
Federal judges know that Franklin D. Roose-
welt is President Of the United States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11

There will be no jokes about the income
tax in this department, for the simple reason
that it is no Joke.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11
THIN TRUTH
BY HARRIET SCOTT oLNICK

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK
I know I play the towards part,
I drape my life with bric-a-bracE
Pin love upon an elephant
OF shining glass, and feel no lack.
I collect books and give them soulsS
Caress their pages; reading print.
I fancy vases slende~ shapes.
To these I give love without stint.
II you should ever come 70 me,
I'd close my heart ard turn mE
back;
Would dry my tears, and plunge M
hands
Into my kind. gay pric-a-bra0
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11

The next thing for James NJ. Beck and
Newton D. Baker to find unconstitutional is
the overwhelming vote for President Roose-
Welt
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11

Depression seems 70 have made the coun-
try heartless. No one has offered to take up
a collection for the woman who lost 100000
in Jewels in a Florida hotel robbery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11

Fashion designers are worrying about what
the average man will wear this spring, but
the average man isn't. He'll wear last springs
suit. after getting it cleaned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11

Now the claim is made that Wiley Posts
stratosphere plane was tempered with by
saboteur. Probably a man from Mars.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11

That aviator who crossed the country in
1lis hours needn't boast. 1t took less than
half that tims for Abyssinia to cross Musso-
linL
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11

limitation of profit until the evolu-
tionary adjustment of surplus wealth
eliminates it entirely. I fail to see
such results in the Townsend plan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-11

1OhoUy disapproUe of uOhat yo@ sag and wiN
defend to the death your right to sag it-Voltaire
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-26
College Athletics
Leaders Meet to
Discuss Problems
Betting, Drinking and Goal
Post Destruction Among
Topics Coming Up.
By United Press

By United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.-Coaches
and leaders in college athletics
gathered here today for the annual
conventions of the National Collegi-
ate Athletic Association, National
Football Coaches Association and
other organizations governing COL
lege sports.
Preliminary meetings will be held
today, but the important sessions
are scheduled for Friday and Sat-
urday. More than 500 football
coaches will attend the convention.
Problems involving spectators,
brought about by excessive drink
ing and other violations of collegiate
etiquette, will receive serious discus
sion. The destruction of goal posts
after football victory is likely to
be one Of the main topics.
Most coaches have indicated that
they are in favor of the present
rules, and aren't likely to make more
than minor suggestions to the rules
committee proper.
Substituting and recruiting of ath-
letes and the tremendous volume Of
betting on college games are among
the other evils which will be given
consideration by the coaches and
educators.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-26
By Eddie Ash
154 RUNS BATTED IN BY GILL
127 PASSES ISSUED TO HEATH

THE runs-batedin honors in the American Association
last season bagged by Outfeder Gill of the cham
pon Minneapolis Mers and he to get chance to practice
the art against big league pitchers next year member
OF the Chicago Cubsf he sticks He can't take the short
Minneapolis fences with him to the majors Anyway, he
blasted in I'D markers for Owne Bushs team and is slug
ger by profession in regulation parks.
Stephenson
ing
The Minneapolis
the Of the
outheld wallpapers.
Indianapolis bated go each
and Johnny Cooney high Hooer with 81 Opposing
he issued
all transportation Second
Hauer Minneapolis who drew 81 passes
certainly emphasize the esteem in
30
the slump
the enemy hurlers took chances with Mickey
TINE club runbattedn title Minneapolis with 891
Columbus 73
club strkeous the duke 513 lowest of the
famed 100 times and Culop Of Columbus at 04
driving al
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-26
Stanford to End
Drills in Pasadena
Bowl Squad Starts on Final
Week of Practice.
By United Press

bY CHltCG PfcSS
PASADENA, Cal, Dec. 26.-Stan-
fordS football players, determined
to avenge defeats in Rose Bowl en-
counters during the last two years,
today were to open their final week
Of practice for the New Years Day
game against Southern Methodist.
Players, coaches and managers, all
declared the team was ready for its
greatest effort in three years since
they have been with the varsity.
Half the squad which listed South
ern California as their home ter
ritory had been here for two days
as Coach Tiny Thornhill allowed
them to spend Christmas at home.
Northern California players left
Palo Alto last night and were to
join their teammates on the Brook
side turf this afternoon.
For the first time in the three
years that Stanford has been de-
Tending Western gridiron proves in
the Rose Bowl. the Cardinals were
not favorites. Locally the Mustangs
were quoted 10-to-3 favorites with
some enthusiastic Texans giving
to and better.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-26

said slowly, and it was the first
thing he taught us-to take it as
we'll as hand it out"
How did his mother feel about
Junior playing football?
She kind of lets us kids do the
things we want to do. She figures
that if Junior wants to play he
knows what he's doing. The old
man was that way, too. They made
pretty good combination, nom and
the Old Coach"
Junior was down in front of the
bench, an oval-faced, smiling kid
with fine bloom underneath the
tan of his cheeks.
He looks different with his glasses
off, )" Bill said. Too made he has to
wear EN-, but he got g piece of glass
in his eye when he was little and
we're still trying to correct it. Still
he plays pretty good game of foot
ball. And ornery! LaWdy, YES"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-26
BY BERNARD HARMON

THAT indianapolis will play host
n to the largest gathering of ten
pin spillers in the history of the
American Bowling Congress- annual
tournaments is almost a certainty
Entries received to date are far in
advance of those of former years,
assuring followers of the game that
the nations best will parade the
alleys of the tournament site at the
State Playground Coliseum next
March and April.
And SO, with a record entry prac-
tically assured, the general ques-
ton in bowling circles today is,
will the promised gathering of the
greatest array of talent in tenpin
history establish new all-time
championship marks?"
1885 Assaults Futile
Former highs withstood the as
saults of the large army of pin
Founders that invaded Syracuse for
the 1885 event. No marks were
threatened during the six weeks of
play, the all-event total of Ora
Mayer of San Francisco being the
nearest approach in the four divi-
sions. Mayer, former Indianapolis
man, and now resident of San
Francisco, toppled 2022 sticks in his
nine games of tourney play, falling
38 pins short of the 2060 all-time
record of Gil Bunker, Milwaukee,
established in the 1888 event in Co.
lumbus, O.
The Wolfe Tire Co. of Tonawan-
da, N. Y, 1885 five-man champions,
were almost 200 pins short Of de-
throning the Tea Shops of Milwau-
kee as all time record holders. The
present champs totaled 1929 in their
trio of games, while the Milwaukee
team in setting up the high mark
in the 1927 gathering at Peoria
turned in a 3199.
Doubles Mark Stands
The doubles combination of Harry
SOuers ard Clyde Summerix of
Akron, O., garnered a 1348 total in
the Syracuse event, which was far
below the 1415 tossed by Gil Bunker
and F. Benkovic in the 1888 affair.
Larry Shotwells .all-time singles
record of TIA, tackled up in 1880 at
Cleveland, was also far out of reach
of last years solo performers. Dom
aid Brokaw of Canton nabbed the
1885 crown with a 1873.
Beating these all-time marks is
the task to be tackled on the Fair
ground drives next spring, and just
as it is in other sporting circles,
nothing is certain these days, so
when the annual classic draws to
a close. quartet of new records
may have been established.
TINE battles for the top position
L in the team standings Of most
of the city's leading loops have de-
veloped into nip-and-tucK affairs. In
many circuits the leadership has
changed hands several times, occu-
patton OF the upper berth being
short lived in many instances.
Cooks Goldblumes. jess Pritchett
Srs.' array of star performers
nabbed the lead in the fast Indian
apolis circuit early in the season
| and have never been dethroned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-26
Smith Earns Top
Winter Links Pay
Horton Pulls Down S26O5
RevoIta Second.
By United Press

By United Press
ORLANDO, Fla, Dec. 26.-Hor-
ton Smith, tall, blond Oak Park Gill;
professional, who won the Miami
Biltmore Open, was high money
winner in the S21,500 gulf stream
golf circuit.
To the $500 first place purse ir
the Miami Biltmore open, Smith
added sos in the Orlando Open
to make his total winnings S2605.
Johnny Revolta, P. G. A. cham
pion, won prize in every tourna-
ment to put him in second place
with S1949. Paul Runyan, Whit
Plains, N. Y, was the only other
golfer to cash in on every tourney
but his total winnings were 5000
placing him sixth. Other high
money winners:
Ky Laffoon, Chicago, S1495; Ted
Turner, Pine Valley, N. j., SIPS;
Leo Mallory, Norton, Conn, $1,000
Zell Eaton, Oklahoma City, 1888.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-26


Sure" I smile with restraint,
well both practice" I introduce
myself and ask what his name
might be.
Jimmy Mcclure" he says quietly,
and starts toward the table.
I almost fall through the floor;
the room whirls around and round,
and 1 see spots before the eyes.
What's more, I'm sick. Because, in
case you're not up on your table
tennis, you should know that Jimmy
Mcclure is the best player in the
United States. He is ranked No. 2,
but that is because some fellow
beats him in the national finals
when he is half asleep.
TIE is changed quite considerable
l. L during a years time in which
I have not seen him.
Are you ready?" voice comes
dimly from somewhere across the
table. I decide to take my nedl-
cine and answer yes"
We start pinging, just warming
up, and right away my courage
comes back. He doesn't hit 'em so
hard and I am getting EN- back
pretty regular. This guy can't be
so tough" I say to myself. Guess
he just hasn't had my kind of OPP
position"
Pretty soon I am feeling pretty
strong, so I say: Lets start"
We ping for service, and I win
when he sends one off the table. I
decide to take him by storm right
at the beginning, so I wind up for
my super-special cannonball serve
and let him have it. Jimmy picks it
up on the end of his paddle like it
is a floating soap bubble and sends
it back so fast it is whistling Cali
fornia Here I Come" as it bounces
by.
THAT shakes me considerable and
L I lose the first five points.
Jimmy squares off to serve and f1ips
his bat like he is waving a baton
for Second Hungarian Rhapsody"
The ball comes easing over. lazy
like; I am set to make the kill when
the pellet hits the table, jumps off
like It has touched a RED hot stove,
smacks into my paddle, and takes
off on a nonstop flight into the
shuttle board room. We have to tip
the ball boy to get it back.
so that's his game" I storm to
myself. III show him." step
back three feet from the end of
the table so I can catch the ball
after it slows down Jimmy goes
through another contortion with his
bat and the ball comes across like
it is shot out of a gun. I brace my
self for a long, low bounce. but
am double-crosSed. The thing lands
barely over the net and jumps
straight up in the air. ! make a
rush for it and nearly knock down
the table,.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-26
Redskins Return to
Basketball Practice

Basketballers of Manual Training
High School resumed practice this
morning for two road games to be
played at Mooresville and Westfeld,
Jan. and 4, respectively. After
an abbreviated vacation, the boys
seemed eager to start back to work.
Assistant Coach Harry Thomas,
who is directing the squad, drilled
his charges on. free throw shooting,
dribbling and offensive plays