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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-03

Wesley spent a couple of months
working with mysterious looking
odds and ends he found in his
garage and finally built a six-inch
telescope.
It is made of two pieces of stove
pipe mounted on a heavy wooden
frame. He spent q hours grind
ing piece of plate glass with
carborundum until he had a per-
feet concave surface. The glass
was polished with face rouge and
later silvered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-03
INJURED BY AIR RIFLE
City Boy Pulls Trigger Accidentally
Bee-Bee Lodges i'm Finger.

LOUIS Sesnik. Is. Of ISL Haugh-st,
was injured Yesterday while playing
with an air rifle. He held his
finger over The muzzle and pulled
the trigger accidentally. ne said.
Louis had the bee-bee removed from
his finger at City Hospital
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-03
BRUCE HERRIN NAMED
WASHINGTON EDITOR
High School Publication staff Is
Selected for Next Year.

Bruce Herrin today was named
editor-in-chief of the Surveyor,
Washington High School publica-
ton. for the coming year He will
be assisted by Edward Cotton,
sports editor; David Chapman, fea-
ture editor. Lillian Harding. bust
ness manager. and Lucille Lance,
exchange editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-03
CHAIN LETTERS RAISE
CITY POSTAL REVENUES
Seidensticker Reports S43,445 In
crease Over 1884 Period.

Indiana chain letter addicts aided
in raising the Indianapolis postofflce
receipts S43,44 over the same period
last year, Postmaster Ad0lph Sci
densticker said today. Total receipts
last month were S350.951. Permit mail
increased S28226, and stamp sales
gained $17941.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-03
JUNE 8. 1885

decried the NRA decision as a back
ward step that would materially at
feet the prices Of heir produce.
The ma ority Of the corn-hox
raisers Of the county have signed
AAA contracts for 1885 and look for
ward to signing their names 70
new contracts in 1885, Mr. Abbott
believes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-03

idLeT SllNereO.
THE telescope of the reflectory
IL type was built on the same
principal as those used in large
observatories.
1t only cost SIS to make" he
said. Il just picked up most of
the pieces
A senior in Manual Training
High School, Wesley has interested
several members of his physiog-
raphy class in amateur astronomy.
Members of the class have hung
up false ceiling in the class
room, which is painted to repre-
sent the heavens. A large electric
bulb, which hangs through a hole
IN the top, represents the. North
Star, and the other stars and
planets are placed in relation to it.
This homemade planetarium
also contains drawings of mythical
figures which the ancientS thought
resided in the sky. None of these
figures are as simple as the lay
mans big dipper," but many of
them represent what look like run
away horses and big fat fellows
wrestling.
JAMES H. BRAYTON is the
J teacher of the class, and he
and Carl Hanske, head of the
school science department, have
been attempting to build up in
terest in astronomy among their
pupils
Wesley said Samuel Waters,
president of the Indianapolis
Astronomers Association, first in
spired him to take up the science.
I am a member of Scout
Troop 38. and I started this thing
to get a merit badge" he said.
After l got to know something
about it I decided to build my
own telescope"
It seems that after you finish
one telescope you can hardly wait
to start on another one. Wesley
SAID he was already planning on
a 10-inch telescope which he in
tends to build this summer.
I don't know whether I am
going to be an astronomer or an
electrical engineer. I guess I'll
decide that after l get to Purdue"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-03
FIRE REPORTS
Saturday

Stamper Geraldine Stansburv. Abe Stein.
Dorothy Stevens John Stuckv Frances
Stuppf Robert Swengel. David Suddeth.
Carl Swift Bert Timmons. Richard
Turner. Louise Van Cieave Mary Van
CleaVe. William Vaughn. Margaret Volz,
Barteld Vredeveld Ida Wacknitz. Doris
Walden Charlotte Wallace Esther Weaver.
Sarah Weaver Frances Jean Weber.
Elmer Weishssr Helen Wheeler Lucille
White. Theresa Winzenread. Lucille Wisch-
never. Nellie Wyatt and Rachel Yosha,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-03
s. Foster WhippIe Is Dead

CHELMSFORD CENTRE. Mass,
June 3.-Funeral services will be
held at the Unitarian Church
Wednesday for S. Foster Whipple,
81. father of Sidney B. Whipple of
the United Press and for So years
advertising manager of the Lowell
Courier Citizen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-03
BY TOM OCHILTREE
Times STAFF Writer

A sTRONOMY great hobb; bound make lose
n sleep.
You Wesley Brown,
telescope builder
as
of different
sky every night of
of 23O a. m he
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-07
Dire Situation

One useful thing the depresison- born relief problem is doing for us It is acting as a microscope through which we can get new look at some of the phases af American life which we never bothered to examine very carefully before. We talk about unemployment, about the need to get people back to work, about the Amer ican standard of living" which must be preserved; and all the while, tucked away in the relief statistics, are figures which give us a dismaying new view of the way large percentage of our people have to live.
 These statistics were studied by C. Hartley Grattan in a recent issue of Scrib- ner's Magazine. MT Grattan takes his figures from the EZRA lists, which show that in September, 1884, some 18,300000 persons were receiving relief. Slightly less than two-thirds of these people were city folk; the rest were from the farms or the small towns.
 Then, by analyzing the figures, he makes a further discovery - that most of the people on relief are precisely those people who, when employed, receive in- comes so low that they cannot build up nest egg for hard times. For instance: Unskilled and semi-skilled urban laborers make up only 41 per cent of our general urban population; but they compose 63 per cent of our urban relief group. Skilled workers, composing IF per cent of our population, make up 19 per cent of the relief group.
 On the other hand, proprietary, profes- sional, and clerical workers, composing about 41 per cent of the urban population, contribute only IS per cent fthe relief group. It is the same way with rural workers. The share.croppers, the tenant farmers, the men who have been struggl- ing with marginal or sub-marginal land, never prosperous even in good times - these are the men who make up the bulk of the relief group in the rural regions.
 In city and country alike, these people are the ones who never, even in boom times, touch our famous "American stand ard of living" They live in those homes at which our slum clearance plans are aimed. They never get adequate medical attention, diet, or clothing; they never can build up bank accounts big enough to carry them very long when trouble comes.
 Studying the relief figures makes us realize, as we did not realize before, how many of these people there are. Year after year we have to carry this load of poverty. In hard times it makes the relief list almost unendurably expensive; in good times it limits our markets and gives us all the social problems which are born of poverty. We cannot be complacent about any "recovery" that does not permanently raise the status of these people in the low est income brackets.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-07

Christmas holidays, it also has it's bad sides.
 The young man. Harvard classmate of Franklin Roose- welt, Jr., was spending the holi- days with his family here when his most beloved came to Wash .. ington as one of about 40 young girls who were White House guests just after Christmas.
 He called the White House, asked for his fair damsel, fln- ally heard feminine voice say:
 Hello? Whom do you want?"
 "Is Miss x there?"
 "T don't know who's here," came back the answer. '@Ihere are so many of them can't tell them apart. They're all over tine place. Goodbye"
 Abashed, the young man hung up. Later, he found the lady of his life and demanded with some dignity:
 Who was that snooty woman who answered the phone 2"
 That" informed his lady cOIdly. "was Mrs Anna ROOsc. welt DalI, and I don't blame her at all. For two hours all she had been doing was answering calls from college boys who wanted thrill from talking to the White House.
 "She couldn't even sit on her own bed for the suitcases and guests"
 RECIPROCITY
 It was the great ambition of Secretary of State Hull to have at least one of his new reciproc- ity treaties finished and ready to cite as Exhibit A when con- grcss convened.
 Nearly six months had elapsed since congress voted him the power to make these treaties with ratification. Never before in the history of the United States had this power been granted. So 1t was natural that I MT Hull wanted to show results.
 But he reckoned without the perennial propensity of his dip Iomats for getting him into d pickle.
 The treaty selected for Ex- hIbit A was that with Brazil.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-07
Be Nice, Boys

It is to be hoped for the edification of all concerned that no didoes are cut by the legislators, who will participate in the 1885 session, at the proposed inaugural ceremonies of Wednesday. Two years ago, it may be recalled it required one of those outspoken messages of Governor Cross to persuade the warning represen- tatives and senators that they should proceed with their business peacefully and allow the ceremonies to be finished as advertised
 There is even more reason to believe that this year the Assembly will cut it's. capers what with the Senate failing to show majority in anyone of the three parties holding office in that body. The democrats hold that no rules actually bind the Senate to show majority for organ ization. They claim a plurality is suffi- cient for such purposes ar this they can muster. On the other hanQ Secretary of State John Danaher has been informed by Deputy Attorney General Ernest l.. Averill that parliamentary procedure must be followed and majority rule.
 All of which doesn't mean much to the average individual not particularly con- cerned about control of committees and the like. Still in the interests of the dem ocratic party we sincerely hope that it's seventeen members of the Senate realize that the eyes of the state are upon them. They should add to rather than take away from the prestige of the party. This is possible in many ways, but certainly the obvious way would be to persuade one or < two or all of the socialist senators to vote with them. If this be termed deal, make the most of it. The democras outrank the g.o.p. in the Senate by two votes, plus. that of the presiding officer, Lieutenant Gov. ernor-E Elect Frank Hayes That's enough to convince most people that they are entitled to organize the Senate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-07
So They Say

year ago, when I retired to have my baby I there nothing more important in the world. I'm still
 Clara Bow. If we do not want another nationary boom then. in the name of comm0n sense, let us take those steps which will make such q boom impos- sibe. Ogden L. Mills, former secretary of the treas- ury.
 used to be reforncr-until I reformed. Edward A. Filene, Boston merchant.
  Every communist knows the party will now wipe out with an iron hand the remnants of this group (of Trotskyists).
 Karl Radek, Soviet official. going on and build and build, just as fast I get the money--or borrow the money.
 Charles M. Schwab.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-07
A Book a Day
If You Would Tour Beyond The Stars
BY BRUCE CATION

If you care to go on personally conducted tour of the earth, the sun, the moon, and all the stars, you can hardly find better guide than Sir James Jeans; and this scientists latest book-"Through Space and Time"-makes such Q tour available on highly attractive terms.
 In some ways this book is just about the best of all popuiariza- tions of modern science, because 1t is so exceedingly simple. It's author has an uncanny knack foo bring ing the most abtruse subjects down to the level of fifth-grader's com prehension, and many read who has begged down hopeless on other scientific !expositions will find this one lucid and ineligible.
 Sir James begins by reviewing the history of the earth, speculat- ing as to it's age--his guess is two billion years, more or less--and outlining what is known of its origin and development. Then he leaps to the moon, ex- amines that lump of lifeless rock, proceeds to the sun, viists each of our planets--and. at last, takes off on 6 dazzling tour of the incQm- prehensible vastnesses of the outer | universe.
 There are so many stars, he re- marks. that H they were pro-rated among tho earth's inhabitants, each of US would have at least 100 The universe is expanding; perhaps 1t is exploding, perhaps 1t is drift | ing down a stream of space which alternately flows between narrow and wide banks.
 We can be sure of very little; but we can make some soul-stirrine speculations.
 All in all, a very fine book. Pub lished by Macmillan, 1t posts $3.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-07
In 1'o-day's Mail
 Anonymous lcttc"s will not he accepted unless accOmpa ilIctI with writer's name.
A MATTER OF OPINION
 Waterbury, Conn. January 5. 1885.

Editor of The Democrat:
 ally written in the Saturday issue.
 would like to have you accept this
 note as token of my aversion for
 quotation in your endeavOr, which
 is us follows: QuOte--If every able bodied man in this nation was pro- vided with a job tomorrow. there
 would be many who would not ac- cept one--unquote. What an in-
 sinuating statement! Did you pub fish this accusation because you were short of good material to fill
 the space? How did you arrive at the vcracity of the assertion, by making personal contact with the unemployed or via the channel of a brain-child of your own? Som"- times think that you print such
 remarks to annoy people like me. and if you think am writing to you with a feeling of admonition. you are very much correct. would like to ask you if the many
 who you referred to did not gladly work previous to the national dis aster. nee, (the depression) l
 suggest, if may, that before ar- irving at Q conclusion in regard to |. whether the unemployed would accept job. or not, the individual contact be made instead of brand ing them by using the word (many) which word is rather indefinite. If
 this method was tried, you would find that the majority would an- swer in the affirmative. In clos ing. I would like to request of you to be more thoughtful and con- siderate of the feelings of the un-
 fortunate, in the future.
 Sincerely yours
 L.Y. WALKER.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-07

Washington, Jan. 7-The neV strong man of the administra- tion-in very quiet and digni- fled way-has turned out to be Francis E. Riddle, hawk faced relations board.
 A bIue-blood of Philadelphia blue-bloods, Washington first sized him up as an easy-going aristotrat, sure to be pliant to White House will.
 He has turned out just tn c opposite.
 He talks little, thinks fast, acts faster. When he does talk 1t is straight from the shoulder, with no ifs, ands or buts. He has stepped on good many toes, including Miss Perkins, Donald Richberg S, and even the presi- dents. >But he doesn't seem to care a snap of lis fingers.
 Probably no New Dealer ever has quite put the White House in such an embarrassing posi- ton as Fiddle did in the Jen- nings case---the reported dis charged from the San Francisco "CaIl-Bullctin" but ordered re- instatcd by Biddle's board.
 Fiddle decided the case strict ly on what he considered its merits, with no regard for the test case which 1t placed on the doorstep of the White House in regard to the newspaper pub fishers of the country and the entire NRA.
 sOFT-PEDAL
 And having made his decision. Riddle prepared a request to the MIRA that the Blue Eagle of the "CaIl-Bullctin' be removed. But in order that he would not step on White House toes too hard, he first called up Louey Howe, closest adviser to the president. Louey asked that the letter to the MIRA be held up one week.
 "AII right" replied Riddle, 'TIl hold it until next Weakness day. And if you should decide that you want a little time be- yOnd that, let me know. Other wise I'll send the letter."
 Wednesday 9 A. M. arrived. No word from the White House, Riddle waited not q niin- ute more. He shot his letter to the MIRA.
 A few hours later Louey Howe telephoned.
 By the way" he said, you'd better hold up that Jennings case move little longer"
 It was too late. As between the publishers and the NtA, the White House had been put on the spot.
 WHITE HOUSE COLLEGIATES
 Knowing a young lady who is a guest at the White House has It's thrilling aspects for any young swain. but for one abash- cd college lad, home for the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-07
Chuckle
HOT TIPS By 0. B. Oyerman

"Wire Loses Money on Husbands Advice" reads headline. He ad- vised her to buy Golden Gate Limited" That stock made a gilt tering appeal, and had q ring like real money. She took the plunge and so did golden gate limited.
 Then "skylight Incorporated'' caught hubby's attention. Get aboard and let the sky be your limit" he advised. She grabbed off a hunk of daylight, and 1t soon be- gan to grow dim. Refusing to re-
 narge, that investment was a com plete fadc-out.
 Hubby was now on the spot. but as the moisture of fear oozed from his pores. he meelIy mentioned Consolidated Elevators" "A stock
 that will surely go up as well as
 come down, he assured her. Her wait for results was short. Con- solidated Elevators soon sagged to
 the basement, too weak to ever rise again.
 Bank Stock" said hubby in q
 low trembling voice. '"'is you one
 sure bet" Too weak to resist. she clipped in for a good size black of that. Her bank soon closed doors and folded up. So did hubby, fol lie had failed to mention the as eesslnent clause in bank stock
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-07

dian. After a day of hunting to- gether they had only turkey and partridge to show for their work. The white man said: Take your choice. You can have the partridge and I'll take the turkey; or I'll take the turkey and you may have the partridge" Ugh" said the Indian, "you don't talk turkey to me-" The expression has come to mean to talk business" c. What was the name of the last book written by Basil King?
 A. "The Spreading Dawn" writ ten in 1927.
 Q. What is the average amount of gold in sea water?
 A. It varies from 1 grain to 0.03 grain per ton.
 Q.How much silver Is there in a U. s. silver dollar? A. Pine silver, .7734375 ounces.
 If you want . copy of our bul- lctin, ''The Life of Charles A. Lindbergh," write to The Watcr- bury Democrats Washington Bu. rcau, enclosing five cent in postage stamps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-07
Selected Poem

SNOWSTORM (F'rauces Frost in the New York Sum The breakers of the air are necked By froth Iof icy cloud. The vast tides of the wind no more Smash sunny here and loud. No more across the pine dark hill Surge in their shouting wars. But muted, flake upon the earth Their spray of bitter stars.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-07
LYE PoIsoNs CHILD

Springfield. Mo (UP1--It took three months for q solution of lye which she drank to prove fatal 10 thrce-ycar-Oid Ina Belle Harrell. The child was fed through q tube after the solution ate through her csophagus. Pneumonia hastened her aeakh.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-07
Our Chance Now

The demand or the petition of the Housatonic River Conservation Commit tee that Housatonic Valley Authority be created for the future development of the picturesque western Connecticut and Massachusetts stream leads us to wonder if perhaps the Naugatuck valley might not benefit by the same token. If the Housa- tonic is to be improved in various ways then it is safe to assume that it's principal tributary in this state will also get some attention. It would be almost necessary that this be done to make the picture complete.
 We don't hope for Naugatuck Valley Authority. That's too remote an eventu- ality. Nor do we contemplate Nauga- tuck up which will pass barges bearing raw materials to the humming valley plants. We doubt if the cheapness of water transportation could even change the present modes of steam and gasoline. But there are other things to be taken into consideration, such as the elimination of pollution. That seems to this writer to be the sum and substance of the reclama- tion work in the Naugatuck valley.
 After that would naturally come beauti- fication. 1t has already been started in part by the Highway Department and it's affiliate division, the Bureau of Roadside Development. But until the river can be completely restored to it's pristine glory it will never respond to any beauty treat ments. You cant expect it to with con- munltles emptying raw sewage into the river. and mills dumping wastes and chem icals in also. In this one respect we would like to see the Naugatuck come under the influence of any valley authority that might be created for such purpose.
 Some months ago it was our suggestion that just this thing be done with repre- sentatives of every town along the valley getting together for the purpose of form- ing group that could work toward this end. It is an expensive job, as we well know right here in Waterbury, but with federal help such as is indicated for the development of the Housatonic river, there is no reason why it could not be duplicated in the Naugatuck Valley, too. It merits the serious consideration of our congressman and the senators from Con- necticut.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-07
Daily Washington Merry Go Round
@toRS SkGA.
-BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT s. ALLEN

 Bddte Philadelphia Bebood Stong an o Administrations New Lo
   to ShowU Farey DO Oun
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-07

Senator Francis T. Maloneys first reaction to President Roosevelt's message of Friday was to telegraph to Governor Cross urging an immediate study of the grade crossing situation in Connecticut. We can easily understand the senator's interest in this matter. He is native of city that is possessed of any number of grade crossings where the New Haven road runs through the center of the town. It would be natural for him then to sug- gest that ways and means of correcting a condition that exists in his own town to deplorable degree be studied with the in- tention of correction. But Meriden isn't the only town where grade crossings con- stitute something of menace. There are New Britain, Hartford and other places, too, suffering from crossings. The state has made some progress in their elimina- tion. It needs to carry on the good work with available federal funds if they are obtainable and judging by the presidents remarks, they will be for this type of undertaking.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-07
Questions And Answers,
 by The Democrats Washington information Bureau
YoUR QUEsTIoNs ANswERED

You wet mn question Editor. The
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-07
COMMON ERRORS

Never say. ..'IIe resented the treatment that had been eY- tended to him.; say "ac- corded to him"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-07

While the choice offices in the lower house of Congress go to southern demo- crats it is hard to find any fault with the selections. In Representative Byrns of Tennessee the democrats will find Speaker moulded along the same lines as his immediate democratic predecessors, the late Representative Henry T. Rainey, and Vice-President John N. Garner. As Floor Leader there will be the veteran and competent William B. Bankhead, who, in addition to being fine legislator, is the father of Tallulah Bankhead, the actress Under their leadership and with overwhelming democratic strength there should be no trouble in passing legislation that the President wants.