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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-19
THE INDIANAPOLIS TINES
Times Books

A MOTHER Indianapolis clergyman has given
n vent TO his desire to write a book The
clergyman is the Rev. Jean S. Miner. Second
Presbyterian Church pastor. The book is The
Sky Is Red"-"a challenge that Professionalism
dare not evade" according to the jacket blurb)
Although The Sky Is Red" CBobbbs-Mer-
rill; $3.50 may be more than just voice in
the wilderness, We found little in Mr.. Miners
message that Professionalism could not evade In
fact, most Of his admittedly sound suggestions
have been purposefully eyaded for years, not
only by Protestants but by all
Mr.. Miners nicely organized volume is di-
vided into two books, Yesterday" and To-day"
In the first book he discusses the Old and New
Testaments, the dependability Of these docu-
ments, the Christian religion, and what has hap
pened to it. Although the theme is mainly his
torical, into the first book Mr. Miner has in
jected the seeds Of what prove later to be the
outstanding point in his volume. He takes the
dyed-in-the-wool Christians across his knee and
paddles them gently for believing in the miracles
described in the Bible. And in clear and con-
else manner Mr. Miner tells Christians that
they must take with grain Of salt these tales
Of the "pre-scientific" Hebrews
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DISTRIBUTION PROBLEM
CHIEF ONE FACING U. S.
BY a Cloverdaie Reader

BY a Cloverdafe Reader
Please allow me to congratulate
you on your fine and liberal cdi-
torial that appeared in The Times
Sept. IS, entitled Lets Face Facts"
While this is a splendid editorial
and full Of food for thought, it is
slightly erroneous.
You say Rodney butcher recently
pointed out in a dispatch from
Washington that a return to nor
NAL business activity would still
leave us with some six or eight mil
lion men who could not get jobs,
because our productive machinery
has grown so efficient that it can do
its job with fewer and fewer men.
You say that this condition is a
problem that cuts across all party
lines and economic theories and,
under Socialism, would still be
acute. Right here, I wish to take
issue with you. Under Socialism,
this condition would be no problem
at all. You admit in the same arti-
Gle that we can produce an album
dance with several million men less
than we have available.
Well, then, let's produce an album
dance, not with less men with the
surplus labor turned out to grass,
but with all the men at fewer hours,
longer vacations, and an earlier re-
tirement on old-age pension.
You also say that it is now be-
coming evident that we will have a
permanent army of unemployed.
My sincere sympathy goes to those
to whom this fact is just now be-
ginning to become evident. For the
last 20 years, we Socialists saw this
condition was inevitable under cap
italism.
You say that it is futile to dream
of getting the government out OF
the relief business for a long time
to come. All right. then, let's dream
of getting it into a better business,
the business of running the basic
industries, the business Of paying
all useful and productive people a
lust share of the national income
for their services, the business of
pensioning the crippled the blind
and the aged and the business of
solving the simple little problem Of
distribution of an abundance so
that each family can live in decency
and comfort.
If a people can't solve the prob
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suffering than any other man in the
history Of the world
Always in a depression, numerous
club parties, plans and factions will
pop up here and there with a mush-
room growth; share the wealth
clubs" and Townsendites who will
tell you it won't cost a cent in higher
taxes, yet all revenue is derived
from some form Of taxation.
After it's all boiled down, it takes
some form Of special tax legislation
to get it, and class legislation can
not survive under our present form
Of government.
The Republican party built its
power on class legislation, protec-
tive tariff for the MELONS and other
big business and left an aftermath
Of ruin and a panic that will never
be forgotten IND left the G. Q. P.
cropping abol Ior another foothold
in the dark
The average nan who j. radital
over one of these get-IIch-quick
schemes is usually the ran whose
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A BOY
BY MARY PENN

Beside the busy road he sat,
In overalls and a torn hat;
With a mingled look Of fear and
surprise,
That seemed to shadow his wide
blue eyes.
And as he watched there came his
way
A single traveller bent and gray.
And the traveller touched the boys
young head,
And stroked it gently as he softly
said,
My boy. there's nothing for you to
fear,
For this is the world of which you
hear,
And the time has come for you
to be,
A part Of all that you can see.
And it doesn't matter if your hat
be torn,
Or your overalls faded and worn;
For the world out there only seems
to care,
About the kind Of heart and soul
you wear.
And there's place for you at the
very top,
If you start at the bottom and
never stop.
But when you join that hurTying
throng,
Remember this as you travel along.
Live for tomorrow. but remember
the past,
Don't travel too slow, and not too
fast.
And you'll come to know the longer
you live,
That the world returns no more
than You give.
And so little boy it depends on
you,
The things you say and the things
you do,
Whether you'll smile or whether
you'll sigh,
When time brings back to memory's
eye,
A picture Of you and the day you
sat,
! BY the road Of life in a torn hat"
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"BREATHING SPELL"

4 IL the world loves a slogan, but in all
L the world no country more than ours
Slogans have won wars and lost elections,
made and wrecked careers. When all else
fails we'll rally round the slogan boys, and
march to victory or defeat. Did not "Remem-
Der the Maine!" do for old Spain in '98, and
Make the World Safe for Democracy" polish
off the Kaiser in IT? Did not DR. Burchard's
harless ALTERATION Rum, Romanism and Re-
bellion" lose the day for Blaine in "a? Did not
Lincoln's Don't Change Horses in the Mid
die Of the Stream" win him a second term?
Anc did not Woodrow Wilson's Too Proud
to Fight" almost lose him one?
When Cal Coolidge is all but forgotten peo-
pie will remember, 7 Do Not Choose to Run"
Harding coined. and helped himself into the
White House with Back to Normalcy!" Alas,
poor Hoover is haunted by "A Noble Expert
ment" Two Chickens in Every Pot" and
something about grass that would grow in the
streets.
And what a phrase-maker was that hero
of San Juan Hill and Armageddon, the I'm
mortal Teddy. Remember EN-? Speak Softly
and Carry a Big Stick "Malefactors of Great
Wealth"-"Damn the Law, Want the Canal
Builtl"-"The Square Deal"-"Weasel Words"
The Lunatic Fringe" and others.
He was the noblest sloganeer of them all.
And Teddy's distant cousin in the White
House now is not SO bad. either. There they
stard-"The New Deal" and THE Forgotten
Man" and The Abundant Life"
And now we have Breathing Spell"
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Forecasts q NelU Pdrty

him! A third, and he is typical
Of many try to make G.. o. P.
capital OUT OF Huey's undoing by
pointing with an "I-told-you-so"
gesture to the dangers that con-
front our form of government and
the Constitution In every way.
even in death, Huey's got them
licked!
Would that VIII Rogers were
still with us to WELD his little
witty hammer!
But even now, it seems, Huey is
taking his own part. Three chap
tiers of his new book, completed
just before he was asSassinated,
are getting attention.
Pray, why did not the press tell
its readers about the genius of this
great American before he was
slain by a psycho-depressed intro
vert in Baton Rouge? If you had
heard Huey Long, as I did, as the
Louisiana Senator was delivering
his famous reply to Gen. johnson
over the radio, you would have,
should have known about the eX-
traordinary gifts that God had
bestowed upon this son of the
South.
Apart from all partisan politics
and counterfeit concern about the
Constitution, the press Of the ma
ton might have avoided that
paper assassination of which it
today stands guilty, and probably
so.
The G. o. P. is bent upon keep
ing the masses in the dark. Up
to now it has been fairly success
full. 1t has done it, as Huey has
pointed out, through the "lyin'
newspapers.
a fortnight ago inner C. o. P.
big shots counted on Huey's help
to get them the 1886 election. Be
cause of Huey's going, the G. o.
P. is now slated for extinction:
President Roosevelt will be re-
elected with large majorities next
year, and 1910 will see the rise of
a new party over the body Of
Huey Pierce Long.
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THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 70. 1895.
CLAIRVOYANCE EXPLAINS 1T

EFT 70 skeptic quote: Upon what meat DO
these our Caesars feed that they have
grown so create"
Let no unimaginative Iaynan express
amazement at the brass Of the American
Liberty Leagues self-anointed committee of So
lawyers in handing down unanimous de-
oision' that the Wagner Labor Relations Act
Is plainly unconstitutional"
Be not cynical Of the assurance given by
Committee Chairman Raoul E. Desvernine that
each Of the So barristers is Of such spotless
objectivity that he could not possibly be influ-
enced to shade his legal opinion.
Mention not hat practically all Of the So
lawyers are identified with large corporate in
terests, or that the names of eminent attor-
neys known as champions Of the working man
are missing from the committees roster.
Question not the impaItiality of the chair
man Of the particular subcommittee which
fashioned this remarkable ex parte document,
for is it not a mere coincidence that he is also
counsel for the Weirton Steel ~o.9
Contend not that several hundred very
competent lawyers in Congress thought they
were abiding by their constitutional oath when
they passed the law.
We say hold your tongues skeptics, because
We think maybe we have found the explanation
of this emphatic unanimity. We refer to yes
terdays news item which told of DR.. Alexis Car
rels discovery" that every man possesses GER
tain powers Of telepathy and that some gifted
men have a weird genius for Clairvoyance.
There we have it. The Liberty League law
yers went into a trance communed with the
spirits of the constitutional fathers who met
in a Philadelphia hall 148 years ago. and then
projected their hypnotic thought rays into the
future mental processes Of the nine Supreme
Court justices who eventually VIII give the
Official ruling on the labor relations law.
Without a doubt, it must be that weird
power Of clairvoyance" which gives to the
lawyers of the Liberty League their strange
Omniscience in matters constitutional
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A WOman's Viewpoint
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

WHEN you are tired it is de-
w Iightful to be still while
your mind travels into the deep
past when you were very young
and dreamed long dreams.
How many have come true? If
you are honest I am sure you will
admit the realization of several,
and I 90 not speak Of material
ambitions, but of those half
formed. deep-seated desires which
We carry in our hearts from their
baginning-the desire for a garden,
or for a small white house with a
trellised gate, or for a river, flow
ing-those things we must have If
We are really to live.
Anyway, its a nice game to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-19

BY Martin Kuehn, Richmond
Huey Pierce Long, a gifted son
of the South, is dead.
But Senator Long was assassi-
mated long before Sept. 8, 1885.
The press of the country an
nounced his passing on the morn
ing Of Sept. 10, 1885. Last Thurs
day they laid him away in the soil
Of Louisiana.
One of the strange reactions of
the passing of this colorful genius
is a coming threat that he may
survive even death. I do not have
in mind the familiar laudatory in
scriptionS and notes of genuine
regret that follow such lamentable
tragedies. Nor do I refer to the
handful of loyal followers who are
expected to propagate his politi-
cal doctrineS-if doctrines they
were. I have in mind a spirit
genius that may yet crystalline and
become the nucleus not of a third
party but of a new party.
Another strange reaction of this
mans taking off is to be found in
the motley, if not incongruous,
editorial opinion in the North.
Here, where editorial fascism is
rampant, the press is stalling to
give this slain political genius his
proper due.
Huey was just too much for our
Northern press. He was too
subtle. His super lightning
strokes produced an elusive sheet
lightning effect that's all the
press grounding view could
make Of them. Huey was simply
too smooth an article for his
Northern neighbors who are so
accustomed to listening to the
monday hog market as they eat
their pork chop dinners.
Amusing how these editors in
the com belt assess the man. One
paper quotes the Bible about what
always happens to the fellow who
"takes up the sWordl" Another
speaks Of the nonsense" that GER
tain admiring writer's aScribe to
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SEPT. 10, 1885

age allows him to benefit by them
should they become a law.
All former relief legislation spon-
sOred by our President was for all
the people VINO were in need of it,
not a select few, and the sooner.
some Of these ancient old takers for.
get this pipe dream and come down
to earth the better off they will be.
Getting something for nothing has
always appealed to human nature. :
1t is foolish to kill the goose that.
lid the golden egg or bite the hand
that feeds you. After it is said and
done, some wise guy always feathers
his nest and leaves the rank and file
holding the bag.
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He Calls for q Union

It DO not think we can go for the themes for
l. our novels and plays to the sewers of our
civilization" writes Mr.. Miner, "or empty our
garbage cans in the living room of our thought" "
He calls for union of the forces Of Protest.
antism, wholly worthy appeal. He condemns
Communism and FaSciSm.
The book is a valiant effort at reform. Wheth-
err it aids the general public not is question.
Mr. Miners style is, for the most part, straight
forward. There are. however, too many places
where the prose slips into paternal, pastoral
tone which weakens the theme. (By j. w. ID
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mind over Ethiopia. She appears willing to
help place that ancient land under foreign
domination, provided no strong nation, like
Italy. makes a protectorate Of it.
This does not sound like happy solution.
Full light on its terms may give it different
aspect. For the moment, however, it tends
somewhat to chill the zeal Of those who, from
the sidelines. are cheering on the League
leaders.
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play. The other day I happened
to look up at my books and sud-
denly I remembered a long
forgotten prayer I used to whisper
after I had obediently repeated
Now I lay me" for my mothers
satisfaction. went to sleep nightly
on the wave of that pleasurable
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., God. let me
have long row of books"
More than anything else I
wanted books, lots of them. Pho
neers into the Middle West, as my
parents were. carried few belong
ings. All had their treasured VOL
umes, but books make heavy lug
gage and in many cases were left
behind and afterward only the
rich could buy them.
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So They Say

Mob law and mob rule are not
the creation of the dupes who prac-
tice them, but Of the artful dema-
COG who incites them to riot and
destruction.-Rep. Smell, New York.
/.
There's faster turnover IN popu-.
lar songs nowadays. Write a hit
and even your best friend won't
mention it after a month-Irving
Berlin.
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Message Center

Times readers are jnrited to cypress
letters short. so all can hare n chance.
Limit them to ESQ words or less. Your
letter must be StGHed. put names t0iH
be 1oithheld at request OF the letter
tCriterJ
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MUCH ADO

ours is free country. rich, elderly
~ man like John Henry Kirby of Houston,
Tex, with the means and leisure to be ex-
pansive, can concoct an Notwithstanding
organization like the Southern Committee to
Uphold the Constitution and have his name
printed on Ietterhead.
He can visit Washington, engage a hotel
suite, invite newspaper men to a press con-
ference and have his face and his utterances
published in the newspapers of the land.
Mr. Kirby allows it to be known that the
marvellous growth of his organization indi-
Gates a virtual uprising of the people, a
spontaneous upsuge of southern Democrats
powerful enough to wrest control of the party
from the Roosevelt Administration at the
next convention.
Mr.. Kirby may be remembered as one who
flashed across the front pages when the
Caraway lobby investigating committee of the
Senate was inquiring into the activities Of
one j. A. Arnold who wangled several hundred
thousand dollars out of gullible contributors
to his American Taxpayers League, Inc, and
Southern Tariff Association. Even with
diligent search. the committee couldn't find
that Mr.. Arnold's association did much to
earn their keep.
How business men of ordinary sagacity
can be induced to contribute to Arnold's pur-
poses is entirely ineXplicable to your commit
tee" the Senate investigators reported.
Mr.. Kirby (vice president Of Arnolds tax
payers league and president Of the tariff as
sociatiom," the report continued, 'is man Of
considerable means and E. sincere
protagonist foI he tariff legislation proposed
by Republican 1vocates of that policy, though
processing to be a Democrat.
Mr.. Arnold; attachment to the cause is
purely mercenary"
Recalling Mr.. Kirby's penchant for serving
as front for nothing, Democratic Boss Farley
and his hard-boiled colleagues on reading the
Texans political claims, doubtless added not
a single convention vote to the doubtful sum-
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REVERSION

his "A History Of the Jews" Prof Abram
Leon Sachar, formerly of the University of
illinois, described the lot of the Jsraelites in
Christian Europe in the Middle Ages:
Living in an alien faith, they we're outside
the pale Of civilization, completely at the mercy
OF their rulers whim. Even their homes were
not secure, and none could say what new visi-
tatlonS the morrow would bring The very
hardshlps which the peasants endured induced
them to seek scapegoats and they usually found
them in unhappy Jewish communities
The crusaders spread destruction while thew
blessed the name Of their Saviour. popes Wed
with princes in creating methods of terrorizing
and harassing their subject Jews So the
centuries passed. a succession of hideous men,
Dries, until every country began to expel its
Jews wholesale first robbing them and then
driving them into nowhere"
With the French Revolution. an era of en-
hghtenment dawned over Europe Napoleon
spread over Europe the reforms begun in
France
For the Jews" Sachar wrote, "the Revo-
luton was perhaps the most important influ-
ence in modern history. 1t fulfilled an almost
impossible dream by bringing them political
emancipation. For the first time in 1000 years
they became citizens of the states in which
they lived"
Yet in twentieth century Germany. Hitler'S
Reichstag passes laws denying Jews citizen
ship forbidding intermarriage with Aryans,
forbidding employment of Aryan servants
under IS in Jewish households.
Fortunately no other civilized country
shows any inclination to revert to the in
humanity and cruel stupidity Of the dark ages.
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Daily Thought

And spake unto him. saying. Tell
us, by what authority doest thou
these things? Or who is he that
gave thee this authority?-St.
Luke 20:2.
NOTHING is more gratifying to
IN the mind of man than power
or dominion
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lem of distribution, after the prob
lem Of production has already been
solved, they deserve no better fu-
ture than the picture you painted.
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RANK AND FILE
HOLDS THE BAG

BY William Lemon.
No one man has ever in the his
tory Of our country accomplished as
much or has done as much for our
unemployed as President Roosevelt.
He has eliminated more misery and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-19

President Of western university announces
surplus of janitor and dining room jobs. The
college evidently has no football team
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If that breathing spell" had been available
year ego. it would have required mirror to
determine whether business was taking advan-
tage oft.
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Rep. SABBATH of Illinois predicts next ses-
sion Of Congress will be longer than most
people think" Then it should last at least
a couple of days.
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Engineers have devised a way to give depth
to motion pictures. They might be advised
that some films should be buried deeper than
others.
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BY now movie magnates realize that if an
unsavoTy film is passed by a censor, it will be
sensed by q pastor.
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scene Of collision. The same tactics in his
college days yielded touchdowns.
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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1935-04-12
Pastor Begins
Four Weeks
Drive On Devil

Spiritualism in several phases
will be the subject discussed at the
PROPHETIC BIBLE CONFER
ENCE during the week of April
IA. This is Evangelist Thomp-
sons second week in the 1885 Cam
paign against the Devil being con-
Quoted Sunday, Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Thursday evening in The
Phyllis Wheatley Assembly. On
Thursday evening the Beaconlight
Jubilee Choir will present the
SEVEN LAST WORDS OF
CHRIST" preceding which Pastor
Thompson will give a stereopticon
Lecture. Miss Marienne Jeffry is
to accompany the singers. The
soloists are Mines. Grace Wilson,
s. S. Ratliff, A. Cook, 1. McQuerry,
and Messrs. r. Bolton, Swazey, G.
Henderson, and Director Thomp-
son.
The topics for the week are:
"DO THE DEAD RETURN TO
COMMUNICATE WITH THE
LIVING" Sunday; "THE DEVIL
TAKES HIS WIFE ON A VACA-
TON" and "DO WE MAKE OUR
HEAVEN AND OUR HE'LL
HERE ON THIS EARTH?" The
first week has created quite an en-
thusiastic interest. The meetings
are open to the public. Mr.. Gov
ernor Cook is to have charge of the
music each Thursday evening after
this week. Mrs. C. E. Thompson
has general charge of the music.
Free literature and the question
box are added and features Of in
terest.