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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-20
A WOn1an:S Viewpoint
by MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

II the sisters get any fun out Of
i agitating for a woman chief
executive. let them hop TO It. Our
sex is noted for its allegiance 70
false hopes. Doubtless Lillian D.
Rock. leader OF the movement.
realizes the difficulty Of accomplish
ing l. soon.
However. all things must have
their beginnings. The homebOdies
used % shy az the ballot box as We
nov shy az the presidency. When
Beiva Ann lockwood announced her
candidacy for the high Office in
1884. back in the dark ages Of the
woman's movement, the ladies' or
gained leagues 70 crush such
feminine audacities.
Women are not yet ready for the
White House" somebody pipes, and
a viler SANDER on Anna Eleanor
Roosevelt was never uttered, because
there's a woman who's ready for
anything. Also We might point 70
several gentlemen who went there
totally unprepared. The removal
Of warren GamaIel Harding from
the frOnt-porch rocking chair in
Marion % the mansion on Pennsyl-
vania-ay did nothing 70 prove
masculine fitness for the position.
7 can tell you when we'll have a
woman President Exactly when all
women decide It is a Just and neces-
sary innovation, which viii probably
be a long time IN the future. We
have first to cultivate the self-as-
surance which guides the male
through his devious ways.
Although we've come far along the
road 70 mental freedom. we've still
a longer way 20 90 before We can
walk abreast with man. who is
hampered by no inhibitiOns about
incompetence. His attitude. on the
contrary, is marked by utter con-
fdence.
The humbiest. most ignorant zap
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MAGICIANS OF STATE
ENTERTAIN AT CHURCH
''Beheading of Lady" Is Listed
Among Feats Performed.

Members Of the Indiana Society
Of Magicians presented a program
OF entertainment last night at the
25th-st Baptist Church, 2526
Paris-av.
Those who took part in the en-
tertainment, which included "the
beheading of a human lady" in
cluGed George Paxton, Argus, HUI
bert Collins, Duke Stems, George
Purvis and Sam Stems.
Audley Durham acted as stage
manager. DR.. w. S. ZarTick is presi-
dent Of the state organization and
J. Elder Blackledge is vice president.
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NATURALIST IS SAFE;
LOCATED IN SHANGHAI
Noted Explorer, Feared Missing, Is
Found in Hotel
Trifrf Prfss

BW nfff1 FFfss
SHANGHAI, March 20.-W. II
Hardness, famed American natural
ist reported missing by friends, was
found safe and unframed yesterday
at the Palace Hotel.
The man who brought back from
the Dutch East Indies the only live
Km0da dragons in captivity offered
no immediate explanation for his
failure to notify Legrande Griswold,
his companion OH new expedition,
of his return from Marking.
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believes firmly in his own qualifica-
tons for making laws and guiding
nations. For this reason I hope we
shall not have a woman President
until We can have tOpnotcher.
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His conversations with Obrosd had convinced
him that simple humanity required him to aid the
two girls. He aroae at dawn, determined to head
north, where lieved he would find them. But
he saw tn Kho was his double in a coma
stricken "
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-. While Naomi Madison thus faced the double
peril Of treacherous Arabs and the malignant river,
she did not know that she had acquired friend
in the seemingly friendless jungle. But already
Tarzan OF the Apes had decided to give aid to the
iIi-starred safari from HOLLYWOOD
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BY BlOSSer
BY Crane
Hamlin

Tarzan made a quick decision. Gently ne raised
the unconscious man to broad shoulder and
swung off through the jungle to the south
Naturally he could not know that this necessary
shift in his plans would plunge Naomi Madison
into series Of terrifying events.
, 1935-08-11
ortunty Is Knocking At Your Door Via The Herald Classified Ads
MPLOY
81 Salesmeu-Agents

MEN WANTED for Rawleigh routes
In South Cameron County. San
Benitc. Brownsville and Harlingen.
Write today. Rawleigh Co. Dept.
TXH-eS-SB. Memphis. Tenn.
N-2t
, 1935-08-11
50 For Safe, miscellaneous

FOR sALE-Twenty gallon electric
water heater. S.. Telephone 1851,
or address Mrs. j.. N. Stein, 2l0
Hibiscus, Brownsville. N-3e
, 1935-08-11
WANTED

We have an opening for q first
class salesman In Brownsville and
vicinity who Is also q good busi-
ness man. Prefer man who Ia cap
able OF interviewing Factory Exec
utives, Business Men, Bankers,
School and College Heads, Public
Officials who have charge Of ms
titutions, Better Glass Of Farm and
Home Owners. Company recognized
as leading manufacturing concern,
rated Al, established 20 years. To
the man selected we offer an OPP
portunity to earn more than an
ordinary salary and steady position
good for a life time. Similar posi-
tons In various parts Of the coun.
try r producing from $500 to
$1,000 and more annually. Write,
giving complete details Of your
business experience, age, etc. (Not
a General Motor or N. G. r. con-
nection.) Address General Mana
ger, Factory p. o. Box ee3, Dayton.
Ohio. N3e
, 1935-08-11

FOR SALE-Eureka vacuum clean
er, apiece bedroom set. 3-piece
wicker set and other miscellaneous
articles. 90 Madison. Ma
, 1935-08-11
20

20 Houses For Sale
GOOD FIvE-ROOM house and lot,
$4,000. Write BOX M-82 Herald.
M-e3
, 1935-08-11
Home Ownership a Good Investment

Borrowing in order to buy Or build q house Of your own may mean a real saw
ing over the years. Money which you save for your W use should pay
you go a year. Now, if you pay $4,000 a month for house rent, for example,
you actually spend S13,1O0O0 in twenty years in rental and interest N
rental, with nothing to show for it at the end of that tpe even though you
probably paid in rent twice the value of the house. The Brownsville Fed
eal Savings and Loan Assn will build you a home. Ask u.s..
, 1935-08-11
50 Help Wanted Female

MEXICAN GIRL 90 do general
housework and part care Of two
children. Phone 1918, i04 Ebony
Ave-. Los Ehanos. N-36
, 1935-08-11
Pre-Port Bargains

Groom two story modern house in
good repair. near High School On
Levee st. S4.250.00, terms.
Five room house with furniture.
Textone finished; garage; well Loo
ated on paved street. e2yoo0.O0.
l0% down, balance monthly.
MONSEES & QUILTER
Merchants Bank Bldg. Phone Isl
, 1935-08-11

READY CASH can easiIy be had for
old furniture and miscellaneous
articles you no longer need. Just
place your offer In The Herald
Classified section
, 1935-08-11
A
z Household Goods

FURNITURE BARGAINS
Iron cots with pad $500. Iron beds
with springs, $3.50. Wicker settee,
5000. Remington typewriter, $1,000.
Shot gun, $3.50. Steamer trunk
$500. violins and guitars very
cheap.
Hargis Furniture Co.
Next door to Dittmann Theater
PHONE $50
, 1935-08-11
A


LIE DIX UokfES ~ new
prices. See our summer specials
Hcusework made easier. Personal
brushes keep you healthy. New
health and beauty manuel free
Alphonso Rodriguez, 1909 South
east jefferson. N-37
, 1935-08-11
BUS. SERVICES
81 Insurance
EMPLOYMENT
IS Help Wanted--Male

Man OR WOMAN wanted to sup
ply customers with famous wat
kins Products In Brownsville.
Business established, earnings
average SIS weekly, pay starts
Immediately. Write J.. r. Wat
kins Company, 70-76 w. Iowa
Ave, Memphis. Tenn. MAO
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Change? That's Terrible

IN the bright lexicon of young Fish a Commun-
Il ist is anybody who asks his employer for a dol
lar more a week or a cut of half an hour in his
working time. He was named for Alexander HamI-
ton the good sound man among the founders who
fought and won against that old red-Thomas
Jefferson.
Rep. Hamilton Fish is by nature against
change of any sort whatsoever. Not only does
he regard it as immoral, but he also finds 1t
confusing Some few years ago 1 was scheduled to
do a radio debate with Ham Fish on the question OF
the recognition of Soviet Russia. He did not appear
at the studio at the time set and Ralph EaSey read
his script with some little difficulty Mr.. EaSley ap-
peared to have trouble with some of the transitions
from paragraph to paragraph. Once 1 heard him
mutter under his breath, 1T doesn't seem to hitch
up.
Two hours after the broadcast had ended 1 was
leaving the building and I met Ham Fish IN the
hall He seemed surprised when he was informed
that the debate was 1 suggested that maybe
he had forgotten that New York operating under
daylight saving time.
No" he said; Il didn't forget that. l set my
watch back an hour the first thing when woke up
this morning"
And so the followers of Fish need not conflne
themselves wholly to the slogan Block that KICK!
Riding to meetings with horse and buggy, Hamilton
Fish is Just the man to rouse that fine Old Grass
Root conforming yell of Turn back that Clock!
(Copyright. 1885,
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Today S Science
: BY DAVID DIETZ-

A STRONOMERS will have the low-down
100000 stars when the great star catalog
under way cooperative venture Of the
worlds observatories, is completed.
This seems like lot of stars and indeed is
lot of stars But our galaxy, it should be remem-
5ered contains at least 5000 stars according
to present estimates.
The great catalog. known officially by its
French title as the Carte du Ciel and called the
Astrographic Catalog in English is about half COM
peted The work to date represents half-century
of effort by many of the worlds most important
observatories.
THE present catalog started after
Il photography was applied to astronomy OBJ
servers realized at once how important this de-
velopment in 1887 conference was called
in Paris to discuss the possibility Of international
cooperation in the making Of Photographic chart
of the whole sky on a uniform scale.
1t was realized that this too expansive
task for the astronomers Of any nation to UNDER
take.
At the time it was thought that the catalog
would be completed in 10 years. but today it is only
half finished
.DY agreement, Photographic plates AZ inches
ID square and telescopes with 13-inch lenses and
focal length of ia feet were employed AS re-
suit each photograph represents area of sky two
degrees square This is area four times that
occupied by the full moon.
AS result it would have taken 1898 plates just
to cover the entire sky but because Of overlapping
of plates required to match them up. the astrono-
mers decided to use 11.027 plates. 1t was further
found advisable TO make duplicate set of plates
centered on different stars AS a consequence,
22O54 plates were used.
But that was only the beginning of the task The
big job to measure accurately the position Of
each star every plate and to determine its exact
magnitude. The preparation Of that data is what
Is taking time.
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He's Still One of the Boys

GONE of the other greats and near greats of
- Hams own day have put on flesh and are but
gross shadows of their collegiate selves That can't
be sad of Fish After a lapse of quarter OF a CEN
fury he is still in every inch and every way the I'M
spoiled undergraduate Not every President OF the
United States has been a man of genius but the
candidacy of Ham Fish would offer to the voters the
first opportunity to change our government into a
sophomOcracy. Can't you picture Ham standing be-
fore a vast audience of devoted followers while every
last one of them his feet shouting in unison the
slogan of their inspired leader-BlOck that kick"
Perhaps 1 overstate the case in suggesting that
nothing in the makeup of Ham has changed since
the spring of 1907, when he stalked forward trl-
umphantN into the sophomore class through the
grace of a D-mnus in freshman English He's
changed his color scheme. Twenty-Five years ago
every waking moment in the life of Fish was devoted
to plans and speculations of how to beat the Blue,
to smash them and break through Oh-oOh- ooh,
till last white line passed and the skies wear
crimson hue. Now the anathema of Ham is red or
pink vermlion, any tint save the true
blue of Let EN- go back where they came FROM.
I think" he said the other day in an interview
with Damon RunyOn, the American people, backed
by the regular Army and the National Guard and
the World War veterans would have no trouble lick
ing all the COMMUNISTS that are ever likely to get
together for trouble making
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MAJOR EVENTS At
BUTLER ARRANGED
Dates Are Announced by
President Putnam.

Major events on the 1935-36 aca-
de1nic calendar at Butler University
have been announced by President
James w. Putnam Fall registra-
ton will be held Sept. 1917 in both
the day and evening divisions.
Homecoming will be celebrated
Saturday, Nov. 2, with the Butler
football team playing Wabash.
Thanksgiving vacation dates have
been set as Nov. 27-Dec. 2. Students
will enjoy a two weeks Christmas
vacation from Dec. 20 until Jan. 2.
The semester will end Jan. 81.
The spring semester will open
Feb. 6. The traditional founders
day program will be held Feb. Z.
Spring vacation will be observed
from April l to 7 and honor day has
been set for May 7. Commencement
week activities will begin June II
and close with the ighty-f1rst grad
uation ceremonies on June Is.
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The result-Some of the most
fantastic inconsistencies SO far
Matched by the New Deal.
The following two examples
illustrate:
All construction projects over
$4,000 are placed under the juris-
diction of the PWA ruled by Har-
old IckeS, while projects under
that figure are turned over to a
new agency-the Works Progress
Division, run by Harry Hopkins.
Ickes decided that PWA jobs
as in the past. would pay prevail
ing wages. Hopkins laid down
the rule of security" wages.
These range from S19 to S94 a
month.
In New York City the PWA
and the WPD are now preparing
to launch construction projects.
On Ickes' PWA jobs workers will
receive prevailing union wages.
But on Hopkins WPD jobs they
will be paid a maximum of S85
a month.
In other words, bricklayer
working for the government on
one side of the street will receive
a s12-a-day wage, while another
doing the same kind of work on
the other side will receive a gov
eminent pay check of S4.85 day.
ONE of the basic rules of Hop
" kinS' Works Progress Division
is that all contractors under its
jurisdiction employ at least 90 per
cent from the relief rolls.
For more than 80 years work
erS on Great Lakes dredges have
done business with their employ
ers on a union contract basis.
Several weeks ago their contract
expired. They proposed re-
newal The barge owners shook
their heads.
we would like to. boys" they
said. But we can't"
Why not?"
For this reason: We are go
ing to work under government
contracts. ana under the terms Of
these contracts we have to employ
90 per cent of the labor from re-
lief rolls. 1t looks like you boys
viii have to 60 on the bum"
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happened to be no children in
the fields. Here in our own MID
southland no one was bothering
to protest against child labor.
Scattered over the landscape
we're implanted one and two
room shacks. Many of them had
no outbuildings of any kind.
They were novels where human
beings could eat and sleep. 1t
would be a little unfair to the
precious word to call them homes.
7 STOPPED my car in front OF
i one of these shacks and walked
up to the tiny porch. 1t was
noon and the white worker and
his wife and three children had
Just come in from the fields for
their dinner of salt pork, corn
bread and molasses.
Bad food, insanitary homes,
climate, ignorance, disease and
hopelessnesS had told on their
faces and bodies. They seemed
to belong to another land than
the America I knew and loved.
At first they we're suspicious of
me and my questions. I might
easily be a spy trying to find out
for the landlord if they had any
connection with the Southern
Tenant Farmers Union. Grad
ually I got the man to open up.
The plantation owner, he ex-
planned. furnished his house, the
10 acres of land he planted, the
shed. mule and pillow. He must
put in the crop, cultivate it and
pick the cotton. He receives
half of the return.
The owner must furnish" him
with food supplies until the
grand settlement at the end of
season. He buys at the COM
pany store and the landlord keeps
the books.
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office and the White House gener-
ally are smoother than during any
other Administration, and that
despite the fact that McCarl is a
Republican.
The weekend trip with the
President was a bit surprising,
however, in that it marked a break
in McCarls studiously unsocial
life. Always he has Stunned per-
sonal contact with politicians and
government officials, even Presi-
dents, lest he be accused of favor
itism or ungraciousness to friends
when he has to say mo- to them.
Regularly he plays golf and has
Sunday lunch at the Congressional
Country Club, but few members
ever are seen in his company.
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America
SHARECROPPER AAA's WEAK SPOT

COTTON'S been so low until
~ last year that man was
lucky if he got little somethin'
to eat out of his work" the man
went on, glancing up at me out of
pale blue eyes that had a beaten
look about them. Things is
little better noW-but I don't see
how we gained much out of this
AAA business. Reckon the COM
pany got most of that"
1t was this matter of AAA crop
reduction and payments that was
the real basis for the formation
of the union, with its resultant
terrorism, night riding and ejec-
tions. According to Sec. of the
AAA cotton contracts every fourth
row OF cotton was to be plowed
up in 1888 and in the year fol-
lowing 40 per cent reduction was
to be effected.
Tenants and choppers were not
to be dispoSsesSed but were to
have free use of the released lands
and free use of their houses.
Tenants - who furnished their
own supplies and equipment
were to share in the adjustments,
and of the cent per pound parity
payment they were to receive half.
My own brief investigation of
this desperate problem of the cot
ton lands fails to eXonerate the
AAA from some blame in its fail
ure to see that both the spirit and
the letter of the cotton adjust
ment program was carried out.
The tenant and the share cropper
were swept over in the greedy
rush for easy government money.
IT was too much of a tempta-
Il ton to most of the owners and
companies, who through the lean
years had borrowed so much
money that they we're practically
bankrupt.
Ways of reducing tenants to the
status of share choppers and CROP
pers to day laborers were found,
and troublesome men were put out
of their houses-all in direct OPP
position to the government con-
tracts. In the summer of last
year H. L. Mitchell, a dry cleaner,
and Clay East, who ran filling
station, and Ward Rodgers, a
young and courageous preacher,
formed the initial union Organi-
cation. There was no discrim-
ination between white and col
Ored members. Soon a test case
of tenant-ejection was carried the
Arkansas Supreme Court and
verdict given for the plantation
owner.
In Poinsett and adjoining coun-
ties bordering the Mississippi and
near Memphis, there were proba-
bly, 300 and more choppers and
eX-tenants thrown out of their
homes. Those who were known to
U6 uIllOI IIlSIIlU6IS W6IS vi uCACQ
off without ceremony. Preacher
Rodgers was arrested in Marked
Tree and fined $500 and given six
months in Jail for alleged sedi-
tious remarks at a union meet
ing. Organizers, speakers, Wis
itors, newspaper men we're ordered
out of town and threatened. All
local citizens who sympathized
with the share-croppers we're os-
TRACKED. A virtual reign of terror
existed.
n
THERE was a dramatic tense
l. ness about this town of
Marked Tree even when I visited
it weeks after the height of the
trouble had passed. Investigators
and reporters were definitely I'M
desirable persons. I dropped in at
the Office of G. T. Carpenter,
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South. He read from an official
report: In 13 cotton states there
were 1,091 ,944 white families and
698,839 colored families on the
land. One-third of the whites
were troopers and one-half the
colored families. Seventy per cent
of all the farms in the South
were farmed by tenants. The
problems the cotton states faced
were WORKOUT soil, single cash
crop, race prejudice and a tradi-
ton of shiftlessnesS.
TINE tenant and share-cropper
l. system was brought on after
the Civil War when the Southern
owner no longer had his slave
labor and little or no money. The
average income of the share-crop-
per is $210 a year, or 81 cents
day. Many of the children get no
education whatsoever, and a few
more cultural advantages than
natives in the center of Africa.
More than 100000 cropper and
tenant farmers have been forced
off the land by the 3 AS reduction
plan.
Then this courageous man who
has sacrificed his practice and posi-
ton to help out the lowly cropper
opened up the book of the future.
I'VE must end this vicious sys-
tenn of share cropping. 1t is little
less than slavery. The one s0lu-
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1t Might Haze Some Effect

DERHAPS a $3.50 proportion of dummy artillery
would have some effect on an enemy just the
same proportion of dummy musical instruments in
a big band found feasible by some of the noted
American maestroS in the Of the amusement
park band shell. But there must be some guns
which capable of shooting veritable missiles over
a distance Of land and with reasonable &C
curacy. The baseball addict may regard a change
of pace a right-angled downer a thing of rare
thing, and a gun, in time of war, is not admirable
for those qualities which may elevate pitcher to
the status of national hero, pro tenn.
Their fellow citizens will Sympathze with the
residents of the region of Fort Tiden who silenced
the guns for still longer time after II years lest
the noise disturb the afternoon repose of little Shir
ley But there little Shirleys 10 years ago and
there will always be In the meanwhile the
Coast Artillery Corps may be permitted an honest
professional curiosity to whether their 16-inch
rifles have developed a Slice hook or foozle.
This puts the Coast Artillery Corps on their
mettle
When Mussoni forbade the yodel, the native cry
of the Austrians in certain parts of the rridentst
country, the willy Austrans oUtsmarted him by
yodeling the Italian national anthem.
The Coast Artillery might fire the guns
night and explain, when the colonel is called before
the judge that it was just some of Ouch Schultz
boys or j. Edgar Hoovers boys pursuing the normal
tenor of their way.
Copyright 1885 by United Feature Syndicate. Incl
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CONSTABLE ORDERED
TO REMOVE CAR SIGN
MorriSSey Denies Authoriz-
ing Use of Designation.

Continuing his investigation Of al
legged racketeering among Marion
County constables, James A. Wat
son, deputy prosecutor, announced
today that he had ordered John H.
Taylor, former Center Township
constable, to remove from his auto
mobile sign reading u. P. Court
Number g."
Mr.. Watson said Mr.. Taylor had
claimed that Chief Mike MocriSsey
had given him permission to display
the sign. Chief Morrissey told Mr..
Watson he had not.
The prosecutors Office also has
ordered all Marion County con-
stables to cease the hiring of depu-
ties, a practice which has no legal
sanction.