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The Washington times., 1935-04-15
BUY At HOME ,
. POLICY HIT

Advocating removal of tariff
barriers, DR.. Harry D. Gideonse,
professor of economics at Chicago
University, in an address before
Town Hall audience last night, de-
clared the trend in this country
toward economic self-Sufficiency
Is threatening domestic trade.
The economist asserted the buy
at home" movement which has
swept the country in the past few
years could cause breakdown of
free trade in the United States.
He said some Of the arguments
used in favor of this theory were
1allacious, and that misleading
statistics were used. He said:
"AN these advocates use sta
eistics to bolster their cOnten-
lions. They usually fix foreign
trade at 10 per cent, rs against
90 per cent domestic hence, de-
clare foreign trade could be dis
Carded. They fail to weigh the
significance of such figures.
They fail to realize they are, at
best, merely averages"
The Washington times., 1935-04-15
Employment
Help Wanted-MaIe A3

YOUNG men: need 2 at once for local
circulation campaign. Can earn SIS per
week to start. See Mr.. Dixon, Room 409,
1919 z St, N W,
The Washington times., 1935-04-15

CLASSIFIED SERVICE
The Washington times., 1935-04-15
Special Notices

THIS to serve notice on sll creditors Of
Thomas II. Bryant and Schafter 5. Bent.
ley, trading as the Green Parrot Cafe,
13iS You st. N W., that l have severed
my connections with the said business and
the said Schaffer s. Bentley IL responsible
for any and all past, present and future
obligations.
hereby consent and approve:
SCHAFFER s. BENTLEY.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
tSeaO CHARLES g. CUNNEY,
Notary Public
The Washington times., 1935-04-15

presumed to be from private individuals
ualess the advertisement gives . firm
name or q business address or states
the word Dealer" Members or the
this column as private indtvtduals are
urged to report the matter to the Times
for Investigation
The Washington times., 1935-04-15

sERVIC
The Washington times., 1935-04-15
Bids and Proposals

TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Procurement
Division, Public Works Branch. WASH
inEton. D! c., Apr. IL. 1935-sealed bids
in duplicate. subject to Executive Order
No. 6646, dated Mar. IA, 1884. will be
publicly opened in this office at 10 .. m,
Apr 80, 1885, for furnishing all labor
and materials and performing all work for
clearing grading. seeding, etc, Square 461,
U. S. Triangle Properties, Washington, D.
C.. Specifications, not exceeding one set.
may be obtained at this office in the dis
erection of the Assistant Director of Pro-
curement, Public Works Branch. ". e.
REYNOLDS, Assistant Director Of Procure
ment, Public Works Branch.
The Washington times., 1935-04-15

HEADQUARTERs for A, G: Horn C.
(For. sold at Palais Royal.l Call DE. 6028.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02

THUMB-NAIL sketch of the work relief
u program:
PwA Administrator Ickes is President
Roosevelt's sturdy right arm.
WPA Administrator Hopkins is the Pres
idents agile left arm
DAT Director Walker is the co-ordinator
of the two arms. He is kept busy minimizing
collisions between the jabbing right and the
swinging left.
As those arms lnrhythmically punch and
fail the air, the Foe Depression rests sardon-
ically against the ropes
Nearly seven months have elapsed since
President Roosevelt asked Congress for four
billion dollars to be used to take 100000
breadwinners off the relief rolls and give them
work. It was presumed that he knew then
how he intended to spend it.
More than three months have elapsed
since the money was placed in the Presidents
hands
Only three months remain before the No
vember deadline, when all employables were
supposed to be off the relief rolls and the job
program operating at peak.
Except in the CCC, where rapid progress
has been made. less than $4,000 are on the
work relief pay roll today
If the present work relief confusion con-
tinues into the fall and winter. will not the
unemployed turn from hope to despair? viii
not the recovery machine remain dead
center? Will not the chances of a New Deal
election victory in 1896 become doubtful? Will
not the whole Roosevelt reform program be
in peril?
Better far that, the President saw off one
of the arms described in the thumb-nail
sketch above.
Again we urge President Roosevelt to con-
centrate on the main chance-on work relief
and play his hand to win the real stakes of
recovery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02
VOTE TO THE DEATH

THERE are at least six Indiana Representa-
Il tives in Congress who would seem
80 De more concerned with representing the
consumer-gouging utility holding companies
than the citizens back home.
One of the six is Rep. Louis Ludlow of In
dianapols. who, despite the revelations of the
Senate lobby investigators. yesterday continued
to cast his vote against President Roosevelt.
Another is Virginia Jenckes of Terre Haute.
who. at one time. gave promise of enlightened
public service but now has taken to politics
and is playing along with those in Congress
who would sabotage the Presidents program
at any opportunity.
Still another is Samuel Greenwood, the vet
cram Representative who considers himself a
constitutional authority.
Just the other day Rep. John w. Boehne
ANNOUNCED that in view OF the Senate commit
tee'c revelations. he could not bring himself
TO vote with the power trust once again.
Significant was Mr.. Lulows attitude. He
said simply that no matter what chicanery was
established against the lobby he still would
vote against the death sentence" clause.
That might be something to remember.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02
LOOK AHEAD

THAT the Indianapolis Park Board found it
necessary to refuse the requests for SWIM
ming and wading pools is regrettable
indianapolis Is confronted with a serious
situation and, sooner or later, must meet the
demands for larger recreation centers despite
the fact that the city now has one of the best
park systems in the country
As the depression goes on, there is more
and more need for supervised recreation.
This demand will continue long after the de-
preston because citizens of this country have
learned that recreation is one OF their greatest
comforts.
Perhaps indianapolis can not afford to
build new pools and Fairgrounds now. But the
demand is there. With budget time approach
ing. the city well might prepare to answer
these requests next year. populace that has
healthy recreation will be a credit to the city
10 and 20 years from now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02

situation had to occur and that such drastic
measures must be taken to enforce the law.
There are plenty of smart policemen on the
force. In fact Indianapolis might well con-
slider that its efficient officers outnunber
those in other cities. But they can be smart
and efficient and still not do much good I'M
less they go to work.
Police Ulcers who are checking alleged
outlaws hangouts will not profit much if they
are stopped at the door on each visit and fpd
that they haven't time to check the place by
the time they take the offered cigars and free
beers.
indianapolis does not need l2-hour police
shift and it doesn't need to enlbarrass citizens
by questioning them. All it really needs is a
few officers who will go to work.
Police officers might be pleasantly surprised
if they learned that eight hours real work
day would cure many evils.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02
GRIM SATISFACTION

IN large Middle Western city much is be-
l. ing made of the fact that for period of
81 days not a single fatal traffic accident oc
Cured. The record is considered especially
remarkable since it was set in a summer
month
TBeaty-seven days without one traffic
death.
What more glaring indictment of reckless
driving could there be than this statement?
Not one single death!
The grim story of carelessness, of heed
less speed of complete disregard for law
seems more graphic, told in this report, than
when presented in columns and columns of
figures.
The fact that the absence of accidents is
considered unusual should, indeed, give
pause to every automobile driver, every pc
destrian.
Surely the time is ahead when, even in our
great cities, the occurrence of a traffic acct
dent, rather than the absence of any. should
be the exceptional thing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02
FRIDAY. AUG 2 1885.
A WAY OUT

Decentralization. a summer complaint
4 that so often strikes the two main houses
Of Congress- has spread to 'the third house."
the Conference Committee. And among the
most acute sufferers are conferees on the So
cial security biz. who have held up final APP
proval Of this great reform legislation for
more than six weeks.
Action is blocked by the Clark amendment.
exempting some 300 private old-age pension
systems from the Federal plan. The Houses
overwhelming vote against it and the Admin
istratioa's stout opposition are mandates to
the conferees to throw out this vitiating
amendment. But a majority of Senate con-
ferees stubbornly insist on keeping it or sub
stituting some equally dangerous compromise.
Here is suggestion for breaking the dead
lock. Let the conferees write the bill minus
the Clark amendment, leaving to next Con-
gress the issue Of the private systems place in
the old-age security picture. Pay roll taxes for
old-age annuities are not colectable Until 1887.
so the private systems have another year I'M
affected by the new act. Meanwhile, let Con-
gress name joint committee to study the
problem this autumn and suggest an amend
nienJ 10 the new act ueAt StSSlUH I16Ie ID d
solution that viii be fair to both private and
Federal plans
The Clark amendment would wreck the
whole annuity plan under the bill. Ccmpro-
misses so far suggested would leave dual and
competing system. Require costly inspection
services and open the whole act to court at
tack The question is too serious to be made
the subject Of barter. particularly in the pres
ent atmosphere on Capitol Hill.
The security bill affects the welfare Of 81
million workers. while private pension plans
cover no more than one million. 1t is unfair
to let this minor problem delay or jeopardize
the omnibus bill.
An alternative is to write a hasty compro-
mise that might be as bad as the Clark amend
ment and eventually wreck the whole security
program. Surely the amendments hackers
don't want this. Or do they?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02
STORMING SAN JUAN HILL

HERBERT HOOVER lives atop San Juan
= Hill. back of the tree-dotted Stanford
campus at Palo Alto. But the peace he sought
there in 1882 has fed.
Storming up its slopes one by one go the
Men Of '36-Col. Frank Knox of Chicago,
Patrick j. Hurley of Oklahoma, Gov. Harry
Nice of Maryland, James M. Beck of Pennsyl-
vania and.~others of the willing ones They
brave the Hoover ramparts as friends and
party counselors, but all of them hope to
win from the big chiefs lips the fateful:
Il do not choose to run" All have returned
defeated. The man whom William Allen White
described as the impossible and inevitable"
remains likewise inScrutable. -
But maybe history will repeat Down in
Brazil, following his fathers trail along the
River of Doubt. is Young T. r., awaiting the
opportune moment to return as triumphant
Man of the Hour. Just as Terrible Teddy led
his Rough Riders up Cubas San Juan Hill to
victory, perhaps his nimble namesake will take
this Hoover redoubt.
After that, of course, he will have another
Roosevelt to reckon with.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02
HE THINKS RURAL AREAS
SHOULD HAVE BEER, TOO

BY Reader
There is that noisome beverage
law. If you live in the clamor and
din of the city you are entitled to
quaff and quench your thirst in any
of the hundreds and hundreds of
tayerns and inns and stands that
pepper the place. If you live in the
quiet of the countryside and where
the sun sometimes beats quite mer-
cilessly down on the residentS-in
fact the sun shines just as hot
there as in the city-you are not to
know the luxury of the modern ales
and beers and delicious wines.
That is discrimination.
Now it so happens that IN this
city of swift movement the place
where one earns his daily bread and
the place where he rests his head
are far apart. And it is becoming
more and more fashionable. There
fore. there are more and more peo-
pie residing in the suburbs and out
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02
JUST PLAIN DUMB

Out of the lobby investigation come
~ revelations that cause us to contemplate
with sadness the subject of the dumbness
that sometimes appears in the human race
The fake telegram idea, for example
What great mind thought that up? BY
what process of cerebration, did he conclude
he could get away with it without being
caught? He must have been the same fellow
who stole the bass drum and escaped on
snowshoes.
And now, another. One E. p. Cramer sug
gested the whispering campaign to promote
the idea that the President was crazy. Not
only suggested it, but put it in writing.
ones first reaction is of course anger and
indignation. But that quickly fades into
amazement that such stupidity could exist in
a land that has a common school system.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02
RetroSpection
BY MARY R. WHITE

Adown the pathway of the dear
yesteryears
Of long ago happiness-of long ago
fears,
Into the sweet dimness of days gone
by
Could we but walk again-you and I.
Family we see-then again bright
as day,
Visions Of long ago, time does not
stay
As backward we turn with hearts
filled with yearning
For the dear, dear days beyond re-
turning.
The road of the future, that once
seemed so fair
Of sorrows and heartacl1es to all
gives a share,
And the pathway back-now so dim
and sweet
Would haven Of rest be to weary
worn feet.
444OoE DCdAL44AA Observation-Disclosures
aim
May give disappointments as well as
fame.
That high estate that was then our
goal
Has from the heart of each taken
its toll.
Those long ago days dragged so
slowly by,
Today with wings spread they
swiftly fly.
And the pathway that shone so
brightly ahead
We gave our youth its bright way
TO tread.
With Observation-Disclosures of broken
ties
Friends clinging handclasps and last
goodbys
That great shining path that all
would reach
Must take its toll from the heart
Of each.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02

injections the corpus deficit was
kept from offensive putrefaction up
to 1921.
In support of this post norton no
less a smart man than President
Wilson can be called to testify. He
came all the way from Washington
to indianapolis to make an an
nouncement that has been con-
f1rmed by subsequent history. Wood
row Wilson told the man in the
street that "the Republican party
had not had new idea in 30years."
Or. was it 40? They wouldn't be-
lieve Wilson at that time, but they
believed when Franklin D. Roose-
welt arrived on the scene.
Supporting President Roosevelt in
1882 was a host of ProgresSives
from every walk of life-the man IN
the street put Franklin D. Roose-
velt in the White House. He un-
derstands the language of the Pres
ident, and he now knows whether a
true or a false prophet is speaking.
He knows too, that Father Coughlin
is a true prophet because his voice
rings true. The man in the street
may not know all the rules of gram
mar, but he does know the differ
enca between a man whose voice
rings true and one whose voice is
the voice Of ventriloquist. Edi-
torial fascism betrays its own inSin-
cerity. It's got the ring of ventrilo-
quism. Any man who can read
newspaper can check up on this
thing by contrasting The Indianap-
oils Times with other papers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02
Pleads for Transients

relief-and there are thousands of
transients who will not accept the
kind of relief furnished-is a
blight to civilization. True, other
people have been hard pressed
during Hoover'S panic but the
transient is the semi-skilled and
unskilled and he has been hit the
hardest.
Big business that will lobby
against a tax bill that places a
fair tax on them and defeat the
bill, will find soon that these I'M
derdogs will say. I'VE are going
to eat and have the clothing we
need" and either big business will
stand it's just share of the cost or
these millions will go out
and take it. Just give them work
and you will find them contented,
but they must have a fair wage.
Give these men work and they
won't care who is in Office as long
as it is not Hoover or Kingf1sh
Long.
Economic circumstances have
made these normally contented
citizens resentful and very rest
less, but after all. they like
Roosevelt and feel his intentions
and heart are right. But they
have no use for the state, county,
city politician or officer who de-
MES them the things they SO sore
ly need or those who graft in adj
ministration of relief in our
states.
Our state officials and politi-
clans should not stick these tran
sients too hard for if they are
prodded they may turn loose in
a revolt that will cause the world
to take notice. Big business had
better not figure on human mis-
cry being their gain Misery and
poverty drive men and women to
violence. Roosevelt has done
much and tried to do more but
he was blocked by big business
and the lobby.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02
So They Say

From now on I'm welded to my
art. I'm through with matrimony
at least, I think I am.-Buster
Keaton, film comedian.
Home building again is on the
upgrade, and no better sign of re-
turned prosperity than this can
be asked.-Stewart Mcdonald. act
ing Federal housing administrator.
The bottle store has placed the
liquor business on higher plane
than ever before in the history of
the United States.-Edward P. Null
rooney, chairman New York State
Liquor Authority.
The theater is no good if it does
not disturb and irritate the public.
Elmer Rice, New York playwright.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02
POINTS OUT TRAFFIC
HAZARD ON SOTH-ST

BY Ed r. GriselI
1 would like to commend your
stand in the matter of removing
traffic hazards through the medium
of having weeds cut on vacant lots,
etc, as emphasized in last evenings
edition of your paper.
was interested in the photo
graph reproduced on the front page
taken on 30th-st looking east past
the intersection of Pennsylvania st.
Had your photographer approached
30th-st from the south on Pennsyl-
vania-st at the same point. he would
have been more forcibly convinced
than ever of the hazards at that
corner. Remember, that 30th-st is
preferential street, so there Is far
more danger in driving on to 30th-st
from the south at that corner for
that reason. The weeds on the
southwest corner exclude traffic
from the west and bunch of
shrubbery around utility pole on
the southeast corner excludes ones
view of traffic from the east.
I have called the Accident Pre-
vention Bureaus attention to this
hazard twice, but SO far nothing has
been done. What more can lay
man do? I have occasion to drive
past that corner several times
week and as careful as I try to be I
have had several narrow escapes
from being hit because going north
you have to nose out into 30th-st
before you can be sure of a clear
path across or on to Both.
l hope you get results from your
efforts along this line.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02
The Book World

A FAIRLY good recent Western, guaranteed
n to entertain those who have yen for the
big outdoors where men tote six-shooters, is
Thunder Ranch" by Richard Tracy (Clode:
81 The heroine is named Ruth Cameron and
Papa owns big ranch. The villain is one Lyle
Long "a thorough rascaD and the hero is a
gentleman named Ted Parks, who not only is as
handsome a movie hero but can sling lead
with the best of them. Another good action
story is an English murder mystery "Rogue's
Holiday" by Maxwell March Doubleday, Do
ran; ST. There is plenty Of excitement in it and
the love interest is sustained spendidly.
ONE thriller that rates above average and is
~ warmly (no pun intendedD recommended
for August days in dear old Indiana is The
Phantom Canoe" by William Byron Mowery
Cittle, Brown; So Alan Laramie, crack athlete
at the University Of Alberta heads into the great
Canadian Northwest to dig himself little gold
dust, thus paving the way for q final year at
school.
But Alan is ambused and robbed, and left
with gun that had been used to kill old man
Grindley in the course of armed robbery. In
Canada murder is job for the Mounties and
what do the boys with the red jackets try to do
but pin the murder on handsome, athletic Alan
But, here's where it gets interesting. Enters
one Joan Hastings, beautiful young boss of the
Lac Loutre store who not only went to school
with our hero, but has a yen for him. Joan
helps Alan crack Jail and away they flee into
the Northwest. And there's where the excite
ment starts. Swell for hot day.
A MOTHER story of life excitement and love
N in the western plains of northern
neighbor is "Sweetwater Ranch" by Harold
BindloSs, veteran writer of Canadian thrillers
(Stokes; so. 1t takes a little while for this
latest story by Mr. BindlosS to get going, but
once he gets into stride, it's fine reading.
The heroine is pretty Jean Learmont, daugh-
ter of old Dan Qron Fist) Learmont, implacable
foe of the rival ranch owner, Carslake. Jean is
kidnapped by the henchmen of the villainous
Carslake and who comes to the rescue but hand
some Ted Ramsden. The Mounties are also in
cluded and all ends well.
60 many readers are demanding biographies
- that it seems only fair to ask little oues-
ton. If you are biography hungry have you
read any of the following:
Napoleon" by Emil Ludwig.
wellington" by Philip Guedalla.
abraham Lincoln" by Carl Sandurg.
Henry the Eighth" by Francis Hackett.
Marie Antoinette" by Stefan Zweig.
Catherine the Great" by Katharine An
thony.
Catherine, the Portrait of an Empress" by
Gina Klaus.
Every one of these but the last one has been
out for more than a year and if you have missed
them, now is the ideal time to catch up on your
back reading. After all, good books are mostly
old books
Edward j. Clode Inc, New York City.
Doubleday Doran Co., Inc. Garden City,
NY.
Little Brown & Co., "a Beacon-st, Boston.
Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York City.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02
ASSERTS REPUBLICAN PARTY
DEAD THESE MANY YEARS

B, D. o.
In spite of editorial fascism that
ooze5 forth from such editorial
pens as the indianapolis Star, Chi
cago Tribune and the Saturday
Evening Post, the President marches
on. Back before 1929 the man in
the street was easily fooled by the
pontifcal sayings that editorial fas-
cism is won't to pour forth. Only
college graduates, and for the most
part a select few with Phi. DIS and
Phi Kappa keys dangling from their
ears, could see through the inter-
mittent nonsense that editorial fas-
cism dishes out to the man in the
street.
Times are changing. Everything
is in a state of f1ux. Everything,
except the petrified tail of the G.
o. P. And that, the tail, is the only
thing that was last seen alive of the
Republican party. 1t was in fact
dead in 1921 But the coroner. biz
tory. did not pronounce the tail
technically dead until october, 1879.
Since then times have changed
The man in the street has begun
to read such papers as The In
dianapoliS Times and similar
Scripps- Howard papers. He is be-
ginning to see, in spite of the want
of Phi. D., and a Phi Beta Kappa
key. that the Republican party is
fake. Now that three or four false
prophets are turning up and quot
ing the Bible as proof that they
have been sent" to raise the Re-
publican party from the dead, the
man in the street refuses to believe
them. Even the false alarm to save
the Constitution" does not get into
the inner ear of the man in the
street. He knows that when the
Republican party was alive, its lead
ers never gave damn for the Con-
stitution.- Lincoln did the best he
could in a crisis, but when ne died,
the spirit 81 the Republican party
died. too. BY intermittent needle