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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-01
Carol Isn't Among the Select

A LFONSO still maintains an apartment at the
L n Meurice, but it has been reduced from the
Seven-room suite which he required for his family
when the queen was member of the troupe and
they were both young
Alfonso and the Prince of Wales frequently eat
IN the dining room where they attended by the
mead waiter. named Edouard Holton a Swiss with
solemn mien.
Crown Prince Gustave Adoph of Sweden whose
hoooy is archaeology, has just spent week in the
place. The late King Albert of the Belgans and
Queen Elizabeth appeared at the Meurice often and
thelr son, Leopold the present king whose wife was
killed in an automobile accident continues the
custom.
Carol of Rumana used to drop in occasionally
but Carols conduct began giving the place a bad
name, and there no great regret when he decided
to rent little fiat where he could PLAY house with
MS girl friend. After all, king is as good as a
private citizen only as long as he behaves himself
ana doesn't drive respectable people away
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-01
Why Not Old actors?

I WONDER what the Journal proposes TO do with
these old actors. Is it a vile thing that a COM
munty should honor men and women who have
given their best in the field of entertainment? Is the
stage TO be given over wholly to young men with
patent-leather hair and to platinum fappers? Surely
there ought to be community interested in making
1t possible for artists to do their stuff After all the
actor doesn't become inefficient merely because he
Is no longer young. Nor is human misery proper
subject for humor in any newspaper
We have been generous with subsidies to ship
builders ana others engaged in commercial projects
ana 1t seems to me than fair that there
should also be some aid for those who provided an
eVaneScent thing called entertainment They shoot
horses, but doubt that anybody will seriously ad-
Vocate similar system for old actors And YOU
can pillow them under either. The very best of the
ieIlet projects, in my opinion. those very acv-
lleS which are referred to 'boondoggling" Indeed
we are not even breaking with our own tradition
In the early days of America the painter received
good zeal OF governmental encouragement. might
point out that George Washington was always sitting
Tor somebody or other. Nobody knows precisely how
many portraits Stuart did of the Father of His
country. assume it didn't require new sitting for
each portralt-he probably painted a good MANY
from memory. But it was obviously the pride of our
iorelathers to show that nation interested
IN art even in our pioneer days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-01

WAS not that brief battle be-
w tween Italians and Negroes
in the streets of Newark but a
small cloud" on the horizon, the
significance of which can not
surely be missed?
There are more Negroes in this
country "a trifle more than
11,000,000-than there are peo-
pie in all Ethiopia.
Consider the hundreds of thou
sands of Italians. There are mil
lions of German and Jewish peo-
pie. All of them, to be sure, are
first and foremost Americans. But
when it comes to matters of COL
or, races and religions, passions
rule the day. Fighting minori-
ties start trouble in isolated spots
here and there.
And from minorities the fires
of hysteria expand and spread I'M
til they are minorities no more.
And so the Japanese sit back
and watch and wait-and smile as
Hitler and Mussolini go to work
for them.
LIVERY so often through the
IL history of the world, a civil
ization rises, rests on the laurels
of its triumphs, decays and then
passes away. And none of the
civilizations have ever made a
comeback.
The Egyptian civilization grew
xceedingly intense, as the
Psychologists and scientists are
discovering little by little. But
the Egyptians dynasty decayed
and passed into oblivion.
What of the great Grecian Pc
Rod, when the Greek warriors
and famous athletes ruled the
world? Has it ever come back?
What of the Roman era-which
Mussolini is trying so hard to
emulate and reincarnate?
And what of the civilization of
the Western World of today? Two
hundred years ago, it was strong,
virile, in the bloom of its man
hood and power. Industrial in
vention was just beginning. EN-
pire building was the order of the
day. Strong men pioneered. Col
onists left their netherlands and
endured untold hardships to settle
and colonize.
THOROUGH that era there were
Il wars, to be sure-but indi-
vldual wars. They were not
frightful mass slaughters, where
half the world was ranged against
the other half.
And so these small individual
wars were not enough to pre-
vent the expansion and gradual
intensifying of the Western
civilization.
But slowly the pace grow so
keen, the competition so great
that the first of the great mass
slaughters of the Western civiliza-
ton burst upon a Mortified world.
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civilization, but their physical en-
durance is greater.
And any race which goes phys
ically to seed, and relies on ma
chine substitutes to perform for it,
is race which is its own worst
enemy History time and again
has proved it.
A ND there is no reason to sup
n pose that the Divine Power
has suddenly changed the funda-
mentals of mankind just to suit
our present day convenience and
ego, and confound 5000 years of
history.
If so, then Utopia is here, there's
no use in going to Heaven, and
this life is no longer to be con-
sidered a period of test and trial.
But to think that is to think in
terms of defeatism, to admit that
we are licked, ready to throw up
the sponge and wait for oblivion.
There is solution-but whether
it will come through peaceful evo-
luton or series of devastating
wars, such as of the kind that
the world once more contemplates
remains entirely up to the in
telligence of the Western World.
The whole Occidental economy
is based on a system of produc-
ton which called for the parcel
ing up of every continent on the
earth and industrializing it. What
is extracted from it goes to sup
ply the demands of the produc-
ton machine of the West, and
in turn the finished goods are re-
sold to the people Of the worlds
five continents.
If it hadn't been for Africa,
Asia and the other outposts on
the rim Of the world, our econ
omy would have become static
many years ago. The Western
World long, long ago, reached it's
own Saturation point under the
way we run things now.
TINE first of the great indus
- trial nations was Great
Britain, and only because she
reached into the undeveloped ter
ritories of the world and ex-
plotted them did she become the
great empire that she is.
True, her supremacy is not so
great nor so secure as it was. But
this is because other countries
copied her methods and are now
competitors. Once England sold a
great percentage of her products
to America-but when the Amer
lean economy began running at
top speed, the door was closed.
England had to go somewhere
else-to China. Now Japan is
doing the same thing as the
United States-closing the door Of
that market.
T0mOrrOw-COncIu
Copyright, 1888. by the Telegraph Press
Harrisburg Pa
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-01
Ernie Comes Across the Soil Conservation Service
and He's COT Pretty Slogan for >Em-for Royalties

the Interior Department.. Interior
asked Agriculture who was the best
soil man they had, so they sent
over Bennett. He's been in charge
ever since
Last April, Bennett and his
whole outfit were transferred back
to Agriculture, the name was
changed to Soil Conservation
Service, and now Congress has
made them permanent bureau
and they will probably go on and
on forever.
Bennett knows his business, all
right. He was born and raised
on cotton plantation in North
Carolina, and he still knows how
to split rails and make soft I've
soap and brew perSimmon beer,
even if he IS 81 years old and
college graduate and a specialist
in the Agriculture Department
for 81 years.
LIE has been all over the globe.
Il l. making soil surveys for our
government and others. He's
big ruddy man, who loves to eat,
and every once in a while he ar
rives back from a trip to New
Orleans or some place, and rushes
right home to make some new
kind of sauce he ran into on his
travels.
Well. here's what Mr.. Bennett
and his $1,000 soil-restorers are
doing. The theory is dts more
than theory. it's a fact) that
our tillable soil is washing and
blowing away at the rate of $780,
00O, 1000 a year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-01

If all the good soil lost in this
country last year were put into
freight cars, it would make a
train that would reach around the
Equator 10 times! Maybe that1l
make you sit up.
They figure that so million
acres Of our farm soil is already
ruined, another so million about
gone, 100 million on the border
line, and 125 million more start
ing to go. That's getting serious.
Now the idea of the Soil Serv-
ice is to re-establish the soil by
setting an example to farmers,
and then helping them carry out
the example on their own farms.
GO at first they set up eight
~ demonstration areas, each
covering about $4,000 acres. Any
farmer in this area who wished
could have the Soil Service men
work on his farm.
What they did was this-build
dams every so often in all the
gullies, so the rushing water after
rains wouldn't cut away SO much
earth; plant trees on badly washed
slopes, so the roots would help
hold the earth; pillow crosswise, in
stead of up and down, on slope;
build terraces on slopes. the way
the japanese do, to hold the soil;
use strip crops on slopes, that is,
If you have to plant some oats on
a slope, plant a strip of clover
below it, so the clover roots will
hold the soil: and last, teach the
farmers what they already know
but can't afford TO do. about plant
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-01
BY ERNIE PYLE

M ASHlNGION, Nov. 1.-"Old
w soil. I fix old soil. Got
any old eroded soil around today,
lady? I fix old soil"
That phrase just now came to
me, just like that. I shall send
it to the United States Soil Con-
Servation Service, and if they want
to use it in their business, they'll
have to pay me a pretty penny in
royalties.
I'd hate to have a job in the
Soil Conservation Service. Work
ing in old WORKOUT dirt all day
long. But some people must like
it. for the service has more than
$1,000 people working for it.
It's funny how some govern
ment departments you don't hear
much about are great big things.
and others that are small make a
big hullabaloo. Now who would
have thought the Soil Conserva-.
ton Service had $1,000 people at
work?
THE Soil Erosion Service came
Il into being under the New
Deal, which means since 1888.
There wasn't any before that.
Oh, yes, there was, too, at least
there was such name, but it
consisted Of just one mans en-
thusiasm. That man was Hugh
Hammond Bennett, who had been
yelling since 1905 that we better
do something about this soil ero-
sion, but nobody paid any atten-
ton.
Well, the Soil Erosion Service
was formed. for some reason, In
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-01

After five years-11 100000 were
killed off, and more than 90
100000 manned.
But this only served to gear the
competition to higher speeds than
ever. And the higher the speed,
the softer has grown the Occiden-
tai world. Do you doubt it?
Well, look around you for proof.
WE can not live now without
w the most elaborate comforts.
Everything is aimed to save phys
ical labor and undue exertion.
Where are the days when the
mother of the house raised 10
children, kept her home spotless,
washed, ironed and mended their
clothes, found time to go out with
her husband, cooked all the meals
and weeded the cabbage patch?
Today, the help" wants to know
if the laundry is to be included
in the domestic duties and if it
is-well, it doesn't want the job.
We have the picture of a man
suing his city government to in
crease his dole of $50, because it
isn't enough!
The more intense grows the
civilization, the less physical ex-
ertion is offered and the financial
return for doing nothing is ex-
pected to be doubled.
There are so many ''isms" that
the young generation produced by
this super civilized state, fioun-
der around in pathetic confusion,
going from ism" to ism" and
becoming synthetically old men
and women before their tWenties.
If they had fundamentals to
cling to they would gladly fasten
to them, but the fundamentals
have been smothered under the
fancy "isms" of the era.
WHY, the intensity of the
w economy we have builded has
becomes so that the children no
longer hold life itself in any rev.
erence. Children in their teens"
look around, dash off a note to the
effect that "life has nothing 10
offer me-" and shoot themselves.
They have been reared in
super materialistic atmosphere
and it suffocates them before they
even know the first meaning of
life.
Thus we become flabbier and
fabbier. The japanese soldier
can exist on a quarter of a pound
of rice a day-but try to feed the
soldier of the Occidental world
the same rations and see what
happensl
Once the blacks, led by the yell
lows, have been given the oppor-
tunity to throw off the white
mans yoke, they will be the win
ners. They have not yet the
white mans intelligence as meas
ured in terms of the white mans
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gagged in training the Abyssinian
troops, confirmed it as mass de-
sertion he had seen with his own
eyes.
JAPANESE arms and munitions
~ are being supplied in profuse
quantities to Ras Tafari's soldiers
although this, too, is denied.
The Japanese have not forgiven
Mussolini for his references to
color. And Japan is the most in
telligent and the keenest of the
colored races of the world.
Some day she hopes to be the
kingpin of the earth-the creator
of the next great empire, stretch
ing through five continents. And
she lays the groundwork now, just
as the British did years ago.
She has colonization rights in
Siam. She has the same rights
in Brazil, in Abyssinia. japanese
trade expansion in South Africa
worries the Dutch and the Eng
fish. japanese immigration is
forbidden in South Africa, but
Tokyo feels that their nationals
should be allowed to settle in such
places as the Kalahari Desert, al
though the law bars them.
All over the world, you will find
japanese and japanese traders.
TINE cunning yellow men sit in
~ the far east and watch two
worlds, the white world and the
black world. They watch the white
world gradually throttling itself
into oblivion by the intensity Of
it's civilization-and they bide
their time.
Why should they try to force
things, when things are taking
care Of themselves so neatly, they
ask? And so they wait and
watch-all the time laying the
groundwork for the day when they
will be supreme among nations.
1t is to their obvious advantage
to be friendly to Ethiopia. If the
black races should suddenly rise
against their white rulers, it will
be merely helping the japanese
in the final analysis.
They do not forget either that
Mohammedans and Moslems ex-
tend through Asia Minor, to that
other vast British colony, India,
with its millions of natives again
ruled by a small handful of Eng
lishmen, and on through into
China.
When Mussolini stirs his war
stick in the bubbling black caul-
dron of Africa, he threatens the
stability of continents.
And America is not escaping
the consequences of this reborn
Caesars lust for more territory.
When his white soldiers battle the
black troops of Ethiopia, there are
millions in the United States who
are following the fortunes of each
side with almost patriotic fervor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-01
auZnouh
By
WESIbR0OK PEG[ER

Darts Nov. 1.-The favorite hotel of European
l. royalty, eXiled and otherwise, in Paris is the
Hotel Meurice, which was founded in 1907 by the
man who held the concession for the mail and pas
senger travel on the coach route from Calais and
Boulogne and via those ports to London. In those
days the hotel was comparatively small, with large
coach yard and stables adjoining. In 1905 it was
pulled down-al except the front wall on the Rue
De Rivoli, which harmonized with the architecture
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-01

ueIlnltion, and I'm sun a little
myStified as to what it means.
Apparently it is being applied
to all effort upon the part of the
government to aid the artist. Now,
1t can not be fairly maintained
that government support for the
theater is strange and radical
doctrine coming out of Moscow.
Many highly conservative coun-
tries have maintained state the
aters. The galleries in other lands
have Isn't generous support to the
modern artist. Indeed, it is
little ironic that the chief pas
sion for old masters should exist
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generally outmoded the Bristol. The present Primes
OF wales is now frequent guest at the Meurice
having begun his patronage during the war when
he would rush in town from the British front for A
day or two accompanied by Lord Claude Hamilton hi,
pal. Wales was Capt. Hamiltons lieutenant They
would toss their bags into apartment, spend a
few days relaxing and then go back to war
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Ing crops in proper yearly rotation
to conserve the soils fertility and
keep it from washing away.
The Soil Service workers 90
right in and help a farmer do this
If he can't afford it himself, even
buy materials for him. Other
farmers are supposed to come and
watch, and then go home and do
likewise.
THE eight demonstration areas
l. had been increased TO At last
summer, and "a new ones are now
being set up with S27 100000 of
WPA money. The Soil Service
must hire 21.552 men from the re-
lief rolls for this work; that's
their WPA quota.
They've already got 1880 OF
that quota at work. Furthermore.
they're going to have 100000 CCC
boys doing similar work around
their own camps before long.
Most of the demonstration farms
are in the South, the dust storm
area of the Midwest and the up
per West Coast. Some farmers
are hardheadS, and won't have
these smart guys from Washing
ton monkeying with their land.
But most of them are eager to do
anything they can to save their
land, and are willing pupils Of the
Soil Service.
I asked the Soil Service IL there
wasn't considerable overlapping
between them and the Resettle-
ment Administration. They said
no. But 1t looks that way to me.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-01

ume enough to rear any. And, after ALL next CEN
turys old master may very we'll be some proficient
painter who is alive today. but not very much SO
because OF economic necessity
Inc journal complains because the Federal gov
eminent will spend money for productions lin which
aged and back-number actors, whose careers have
closed, can tread the boards once more despite I'M
steady knees and quavering voices"
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of the street and was protected
by law.
Up to 1907 the Hotel Bristol
was the hotel patronized by roy
atty in Paris. The former Ed
ward Prince of Wales had stopped
at the Bristol, and minor platoonS
OF royal rank followed him. Roy
atty, like ball clubs. actors and
shoe statesmen, have preferences
in hotels and flock together so
they may be able to talk shop.
The Meurice was reopened in
1907, and King Alfonso of Spain
began to patronize the new place
whose plumbing was modern for
the tine and whose comforts
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-01
! 3|ack

Americas role in the Italian Ethiopian
war is an important one, and Boake
Carter, drawing toward the end of his
BLACK Shirt, Black skin" tells in Just
what way the United states is affected.
Here is another installment of Mr..
Carters book.
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BR0UN

THE Federal theaer project to spend SO 900 900 in
Il support Of government productions has caused
a good deal OF criticism. The New York
Evening Journal calls 1t stupid boondoggling."
IL l may dgress for moment I want to make
criticism Of against the excessive use of that
word "boondoggng." 1 must have been away some
where for couple Of days because when the strange
partbcipe first made its appearance did not see the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-01

TomOrrow-COncluS
Copyright, 1888. by the Telegraph Press,
Harrisburg Pa
Evening star., 1935-06-16

EG YPTIAN
FLOAT OF AL
MAS T E M P L E,
with its company
of Egyptian dane
ing girls, shortly
before starting in
the ag e a n t,
drawn by 40 Nu-
bian slaves.
@ Star Staff Photo.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-01-31
P w A MAY INCLUDE
PLANS

An opportunity for possible inclu-
sion in subsequent programs Of the
Public Works Administration for de-
velopment projects which will afford
a good of employment is be-
ing presented in the inventory now
being taken by the Public Works Ad-
ministration with the cooperation of
the Montana State Planning Board.
County planning boards, boards of
county commissioners, city councils,
school boards, chambers of COM
merce and various development ag-
encies of a public nature have been
requested to Immediately submit
schedules of worthy projects within
their communities or districts which
might he Included in a state sum-
mary of construction work eligible
for approval under the public works
and unemployment program now I'M
der consideration in Washington.
This summary might include such
public works proposals which have
heretofore been submitted to Col. D..
A. McKinnon, state engineer for the
Public Works Administration, which
failed to reach the approval stage,
and such other meritorious plans as
might appear Of public value and
capable of developing employment
for labor.
Such proposals should Immediately
lbe presented to the local county
planning boards for their conSidera-
ton and inclusion in a schedule to
be prepared by such boards for sub
mission to the state engineer. These
county or community inventories
must be turned over to the district
planning adviser for his approval
and in turn he forwarded by him to
the state engineer or delivery not
later than February II, in order that
they may be included in a state re-
port which must be in Washington
by March /.
1t is pointed out by Col. McKinnon
that in no manner shall these work
inventories be considered as applica-
lions, but they will be listed merely
as suggestions for possible employ
ment projects in order to present a
composite picture OF the opportunit-
les for work relief and development
OF natural resources within the state.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-01-31
Red Cross Chairman
Dies At Washington

WASHINGTON, ID. C.-John Bar
ton Payne, Chairman of the Ameri-
can Red Cross, died Thursday of
last week in George Washington I'm
iversity Hospital, Washington
Judge Payne's death occurred
three days before his eightieth birth
day which would have been Satur-
day, Jan. rs.
He vas reappointed chairman Of
the Red Cross by President Roose-
welt last December and was serving
his fourteenth year. He was also
chairman Of the Board Of Governors
Of the League of Red Cross Societies
to which sixty-one nations belong.
He entered official Washington life
from Chicago when President Wilson
drafted his legal services as general
counsel of the railroad administers
ton in 1917. He had been Judge OF
the Superior Court of Cook county.
He was a member of Wilson's cabin
ct as Secretary OF the Interior. The
immediate cause OF death was pneu-
mOnia, according to his medical
staff, which included Admiral Cary
It. Grayson.