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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-21
Gen. johnson Saws

M ASHINGTON, Feb 21.-It is not one-tenth so
w much what this Administration is doing that
gives Its enemies ground upon which to lump ,p
ana down screaming as what some of its ecstatic
rhapsodists are saying.
1 note. cried the enraptured Aubrey Williams to
Cie ASSOCIATION OF Social Workers, that your pro-
gram calls for Federal works which should offer
employment to any person who is unemployed and
anie 10 work whether not he is eligible for relief
. oeneve you should go further and recognize
tiaC such program will call for yearly expen-
olture OF at least SO 00000 100000 Shall false econ
omy and the interests of property or shall the well
1ale OF an our people dominate public relief pocy2
For SOCIAL workers, there can be only one answer"
ne denounced those who would give another an
sWer as handful of rich and powerful men con-
cerneo with their own prerogatives and pocketboos
"A Joo SAID ne, is the right of every man and
woman, regardless of need"-cearlv implying that
ILLS rlgnt is due from the Federal government re-
careless OF necessity or expense.
NILS is no private and unofficial view A,hrev
Williams is Harry Hopkins Assistant Admins
traitor m WPA and FERA, as well as director of the
National Youth administration
Now that couldn't be Administration on;nio,
lhere is nothing in Federal policy authority or ca
paclty mat guarantees government Job to ANYBODY
Wno regardless OF need, wants one and can't find il
ELSEWHERE. Nine billions added to present spending
would bankrupt the government Social workers
nave no monopoly on human sympathy and this
oincla! branding of more practical critics of this
aosuroty as selfish msers of money and power adds
no administration support and destroys much
More harmful to the President than all the rih
er1y Leagues TRADES are these frequent rrespons-
Die 1ugwellan quotations The whole fatulent
crew couldn't favorably influence 100000 yoses-but
they could ALLEVIATE three million
Copyright. 1896 by United Feature Syndicate Inc,
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Times Books

A RTHUR STRINGER is well equipped to write
Z a The Wife Traders" (Bobbs-Merrill. Indianan-
OILS So an exciting tale of the North Himself a
lover OF outdoor life, he ably pictures the society man
owen Winslow. who tires of the shallow life he has
been living his wife's money and reverts to the
life of the aborignes.
Winslow leaves his beautiful society wife Celina,
and takes as his mate, the native nuit Tooloona
When Ceiina who thought Wnslow dead, discovers
that he is living the Ungava coast she sends her
best friend, Stendal, after him.
Stendal rather bungles up things and the situa-
ton is further complicated by the arrival of Celina
The story ends the only way it could end fate
helping Winslow choose between his two worlds. Mr.
Stringer paints sympathetic picture of the life Of
the Innuits and the reader can not help but admire
the character and resourcefulness of Toooona. who
surprisingly is the dominating character in the story
Mr. Strnger tells of the exciting life led by these
people who seem little more than children of their
weird customs, one Of the strangest being the ex-
change Of wives. (By Dorothy Ritz
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Treasury statement, baseball pools
and policy rackets in many North
ern and Southern cities.
The bolita player selects num-
Der from / to 100, and bets from
a nickel upward it will be drawn.
PeddlerS sell bolita tickets
throughout the city, many Of
them having regular routes, visit
ing industrial establishments and
even calling at back doors to sell
to servants-and their mistresses.
The drawings take place at the
gambling houses. Groups of eager
players usually attend the ritual.
One hundred small balls, each
bearing number, are placed in
muslin bag and shaken violent
iy. Some one is chosen to take
hold of one through the cloth.
This is cut out of the bag and
becomes the winning number for
the day, paying on the average
of about 80 to /.
CERTAIN Syndlcates have spe-
~ cialized in selling tickets
based on Cuba's national lottery,
drawn each week at Havana. They
pretend that the money is sent
to Havana, but investigators say
the local syndicates were able to
sell enough of these tickets to
warrant their paying large prizes
in the same proportion as at Ha-
vana-and thus avoid running
afoul of the government by for
hidden use of the mails.
Increasing profits by the gam
bling racketeers increased the de-
mands of venal politicians, and
the day came when the gamblers
decided it would be cheaper to
run candidates of their own
choosing, especially for the law
enforcing offices, than to pay such
heavy tribute.
Thenceforth, while keeping un-
der cover themselves, they were
instrumental on many occasions
in electing "safe men," some of
them respected citizens who took
the view that there was no occa-
sion to interfere with the gam
blers since gambling was what the.
public wanted.
Under the Florida one-party
primary system nomination is
usually equivalent to election,
since all participants in the pri-
mary are pledged to vote for the
winners, and independent tickets
at the general election are rare.
Keep this in mind. 1t gives clue
to the reasons for the fogging of
Shoemaker, poulnot and Rogers.
NEXT-A Political Feud.
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Let Them BeUare of Another

A LFRED M. IANDON has also indicated his will
ingness to take pot luck at the Republican table,
and a Kansas farmland mean competitor in
a catch -catchcan eath contest. He has already
shown considerable prowess of sort by regurgi-
tating tie better half Of his first name which had
been bitten away for local political purposes
And yet think that Borah, Knox and Landon,
in spite of their records will do we'll to fear fourth
contender His very name indicates his ambidex-
terity assmilator of any kind of rations More
over, the gentleman have in mind has gone we'll
beyond the mariner who wore a dead albatross
around his neck. This hero has carried for many
years red herring in every pocket.
And so If the Cleveland convention this summer
makes for swallows rather than statesmen one name
must lead all the rest. To a country which cries out
for bread the convention most unfittngly may give
Ham Fish.
Copyright. 1880
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knows that If she must fight
Japan she must do it through the
air. Aud, with the East always
in mino, she has organized the
greatest military air force in the
world.
At the end of the second FIVE
year plan, in 1887, she hopes to
have 5000 planes. It's believed
that she has $500 ships now, in
Guiding all modern types. Besides
this, in some of Russia's eight
airplane factories workers are
building 10 of the Maxim Gorky
kind of super-craft.
THE Maxim Gorky, you'll re-
Il member, was supposed to &C
comodate anywhere from so to
100 passengers. 1t crashed last
May, killing all the occupants.
These new giant ships will have
six motors instead of the Gorkeys
SA524U d4io WOO4d NC bOCO AL
of war as perch from which
machine gunners in parachutes
would sacrifice themselves to the
state just as Japans human
bombs" gave their lives to the
Sun God in the Shanghai battle.
Japan's air fleet is made up of
about 1000 army and $50 navy
ships, not including an increasing
number of commercial planes,
especially in Korea and Man
chukuo. The Japanese are some
what slow in the entering the
military airplane race; but with
that enormous energy which ma
tionalisrn has given them they
are building wings toward any
eventuality in the East.
And so the old dream of man
the dream of Roger Bacon and
da Vinci-the dream of flying like
gods has in coming true become
the worlds nightmare.
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bI DAVID T.. SMILE Z
Editor of The Tampa Daily Time:

thority effective or too
weak to break with the
hackers who had financed
their campaigns.
This is not a unique condition.
1t has its counterpart in scores of
American cities.
In some of them, the stake is
city contracts awarded to favored
bidders.
In others the stake is the award
of special privileges or franchises.
In Tampa it is gambling.
TAMPA is Florida's industrial
a. capital. Beginning so years
ago with the establishment of
clear Havana made cigar fac
tories, the city has been an indus
trial and commercial center.
1t is surrounded by rich agri-
cultural hinterland growing citrus
fruits and winter vegetables, and
has almost within it's borders an
area producing the largest winter
crop of Strawberries in the world.
Gifted with a fine harbor which
the Federal government has i'm
proved so that vessels drawing up
to 30 feet may use it freely, Tam
pa has become the largest port in
point of annual tonnage between
Norfolk and New Orleans. Locally
controlled freight ship lines
reaching out to most of the coun-
tries of the world.
On the city's outskirts are huge
phosphate mine workings, and
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Gate Crashing!

By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-.
How three Congresswomen
crashed the gate" at a stag
party in a. hotel here leaked
out today.
The ladies were: Florence
Prag Kahn (R., CALI, Edith
Nourse Rogers (R., MassD and
Isabella Greenway Cd, Ariz).
The party was a "shore din
ner" given by western New
York CO. rressmen to some IS
members Oh the lower House.
The Congresswomen wanted
to go, but got no invitations.
They hit upon a scheme of
dressing as cigaret girls. AS
the coffee was being served the
doors opened and in came Mrs.
Kahn, wearing a Floradora
hat, plenty of mascara and
rouge and gay silk dress;
Mrs. Rogers, dressed like a
Soubrette, and Mrs. Greenway,
attired in a garb somewhere
between these extremes.
MY Gawd!" sang out Rep.
Carter (R., CALI when ap-
preached by one of the cigaret-
vendors with her tray of
smokes. "It's Florence Kahn!"
Cheers and outlaws went up
as the women wound their way
among the tables. When they
had sold out their ware, the
three modestly retired in time
to escape the after dinner
stories.
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THUS gambling became COM
i mercialized. Once CONNER
cialized, it inevitably attracted
the attention of politicians. And
presently the gamblers were pay
ing for protection - and paying
heavily.
Thus the illicit connection be-
tween gambling and grating had
it's beginning.
There were sporadic attempts
to- break up this alliance. Reform
ers tried it with Indifferent sue
cess. New law enforcement Off
Gals tried it with a blowing of
trumpets and smashing of doors.
But the syndicates always came
back with renewed strength.
The most popular form of gam
bling in Tampa is "bolita," which
means little ball." 1t is a form
of lottery like the numbers game
in Harlem, the bank clearings,
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natural that Holland should be
concerned. For if at some thine
the relations between Germany
and England should snap she
would become the Belgium of a
second World War.
She lies, in the cool mist of her
canals, on. a crows line between
them with an army that could be
a half million, an air fleet of $50
planes. And her business men are
strengthening whenever possible
their friendship for England.
England will have 1000 fighting
planes in 1887. They will be mod
ern. The engines will be her own;
for when England devises a new
type of flying motor she puts it on
the secret list" for three years.
TT is difficult to obtain an exact
l. figure for Germany; but Ger
tainly she has between 1000 and
5000 planes. And the number of
those studying to be pilots is great
er than it ever has been. AS
matter of fact, it is believed by
many that Germany could, if need
be, muster 10000 pilots. Many of
these would come from glider
camps, which have been encour-
aged by the government.
France has 1900 to 100 planes,
a number of them, it is said, OBJ
solete. 1t is estimated that Italy
commands an air squadron of
1900 planes, although this figure
is not certain, since II Duce, so
voluble on some subjects, is ex-
tremely reticent when it comes to
discussing military detail.
Five hundred of these planes
are of foreign make; but it is
curious to note that, according to
reports here, the foreign identifi-
cations is removed so that the
Italian pilot supposes he is flying
a Fascist-made ship.
TN the Ethiopian war Italy, 1t is
Il said, has split her air forces.
The old planes she has sent to
Africa, where she will meet no
opposition from Halle Selassie's
uncultured tribesmen. The most
up-to-date ships are supposed to
have been concentrated in Sicily,
ready in case of any conflict with
England's sea power
Meanwhile, troubled reports
come here from the Far East.
Month by month Japan seems to
be rubbing the skin of the Rus
sian Bear little thinner. Russia
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He Should BE Prepared

QUITE obviously all this is good as far as the
" mental phases of che problem in hand are
concerned If the Senator truly convince himself
that he is Bosco Borah the copper Lined man, 1t
NAV ease his way toward meeting the fearful repast
which the Cleveland convention seems certain to set
in front of him. But he should not overlook certain
physical necessities well. 1 strongly advise Borah
to provide himself with three dozen sliced lemons
two quarts horseradish, one gallon tabasco and ten
gross of we'll grained salt. would also take along
an antidote.
You can not give complete loyalty to the elephant
and demand SQUAD on toast at the same time. The
c. o. p. furnishes no haven for the gourmet but,
on the contrary, operates under swinging sign
which proclaims to the traveller that he must take
his chances.
But although Frank was the first to declare that
he has no intention of being finicky hardly think
the country will be as much moved by the gallant
sacrifice which he is prepared to make as by the
abnegation Of Bill Borah.
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about it, and on the whole these
people are good citizens, indus
trious and frugal in other re-
spects!
With such a cosmopolitan
citizenry Tampa has never been
given to blue laws. The temper
of the people has been to smile
indulgently on the lottery sellers,
and in such fertile fields it was
inevitable that gambling in many
forms should develop and flour
iSh.
And, of course, there were in
dividuals to take advantage of
these conditions. From the hum
BILE wheel of fortune or dice game
in the back room of a cigar store
or cafe, the business grew to large
and well appointed establishments,
financed by syndicates each con-
trolling from half a dozen to so
such places.
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the personal request of President Roosevelt. One
report is that Dr. High is to handle radio work for
the committee. Another is that he is to assist the
President in writing campaign book
Some months ago, when whispers about Mr..
Roosevets physical condition had reached fam
tastc height, DR.. High spent an afternoon with the
President and went on the air that night to refute
the rumors. NBC also provided two men for the
Republican National Committees radio division.
LADY manager for grand opera singers tells
IA House Committee that most of the big-shot
movie stars are made through ballyhoo She needn't
have limited herself to the movies. Ballyhoo has
made many a big business executive. AS for poll
tcians-without balyhoo they would blush unseen
and you get votes that way.
Even the most retiring of national figures,
Gov Landon has learned about life from Carlo.
He uses her formula. Run away from publicity and
it follows you all the more avidly. In the press
agent trade this is known as inverted publicity.
Our more aggressive political stars are so well
publcized as to character types that you could al
most shove them from politics into the movies with
out the movie fans knowing anything had happened,
starring Senator Borah, say, in "Mutiny on the
Bounty" and with some help from the makeup di
rector, throwing the aspiring Col. Knox into Gary
Coopers new film Desire" Or imagine the greatest
actor of them ALL President Roosevelt, in Anything
Goes" He's as good crooner as Bng Crosby and
in his time he has had to whistle through as much
sour music
Even the comics won't be safe if some of our poll
ticians start looking fog jobs in the movies Al Smith
talks more like Jimmy Durante than Jimmy does.
And it is hari to understand why they put Eddie
Cantor in Strike Me Pink instead of hiring the
great red-hunter, Rep. Ham Fish, who is funnier
without trying
CENATOR BORAH expects to enter the Nebraska
- primaries and to launch his campaign there with
speech at Omaha. BY this move Senator Borah
expects to smoke out Gov Landon of neighborng
Kansas by forcing the elusive Governor either to get
into the Nebraska primary else lose the state by
default.
ic m hic Nahr Sko
campaign with appeal TO voters of both parties
TO return Senator George Norris, his fellow Pro-
gressive Republican, TO the Senate although Sem
ator Norris, anticipating that the Republicans would
nominate not Senator Borah but reactionary can
didate already had declared for the reelection of
Roosevelt.
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Roper EUasiUe

60 Berry went direct to the
- President, and asked to be all
lowed to see the document. The
President assured him he could
do so, that he would give instruc-
lions to this effect.
A week went by and nothing was
heard from Roper. Then a news
man, tipped off about the report,
asked Roper about it.
oh he replied airily, "it is un-
important"
ADMINISTRATORS interested in
seeing that the report is made
public felt otherwise. They went
to Rep. Connery of the House La
Dor Committee, and told him the
story.
"That is just the material I
need to help me put over my 30
hour BILL" he said. "I'll get it.
Whether he does remains to oe
seen. He has written Roper a let
ter requesting the report. If Roper
refuses to come across, Connery
plans to offer a resolution in the
House putting the Secretary of
Commerce on the spot.
Copyright. 1886, by United Featur
Syndicate. Inc.)
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lumber is brought in from the
nearby timberlands for shipment
to many foreign ports.
Consequently Tampa has large
laboring population of both skilled
and unskilled workers. 1t follows
that there is a traditional middle
class hostility toward radicalism,
especially In labor matters.
1t is necessary to keep these
facts in mind in considering the
problems which furnish the set
ting for the brutal fogging MUIR
der.
nUT of population in the
~ metropolitan area of some
$4,000, there is a large proportion
of working people with the South
ern European and Latin-Ameri-
can love of gaiety, expressed in
frequent fiestas and carnivals.
Probably 10000 of them speak
Spanish as fluently as English.
In two sections-Ybor City and
West Tampa, where the cigar
factories center-Spanish is the
prevailing tongue.
Among these people there is
native carefree instinct for games
of chance. They buy 10-cent lot
terry tickets as naturally as they
buy their Spanish coffee in the
cafes and clubs where they read
the Spanish and Cuban periodi-
Gals.
There is nothing very wicked
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SIIOulO lily 10 prevent TepeCl-
ton of this unWanted Serenade.
Cherry Trees
GEORGE WASHINGTON will
~ soon have a new crop of
cherry trees at his shrine in Fred
ericksburg, Va. In this case, how
ever, they will be Bred N Japan"
A delegation from the FEEDER
icksburg Chamber of Commerce
recently visited Japanese Ambas-
sador Saito to ask his aid in Sc
curing Japan's famous pink bios
somed cherry trees to beautify the
George Washington shrine at
Fredericksburg.
Ambassador Saito promised to
get 200 trees.
But" he added, as if just re-
membering something, your gov
eminent forbids the importation
of plants from the Orient. There
is a quarantine, I believe.
Nevertheless" continued the
ambassador, apparently enjoying
the look of disappointment on the
faces of the delegates, 81 think I
know how to avoid that. We have
several nurseries in this country.
I will request that they supply the
trees for you"
NRA Again
DROABLY the most impor-
i tant question arising out of
the termination of the MIRA is
whether its demise has brought
an increase in sweated labor.
To answer this question, the
President appointed a committee
of experts. 1t was to study the
pay scales and work hours, and
what changes had taken place in
them since the end of the Blue
Eagle.
A few weeks ago the committee
bought in its report. 1t showed
a general frightening of hours,
slashing of pay, and a very con-
siderable increase in child labor.
The report was sent to the
White House, where it fell into the
hands of Marvin Mcintyre. That
was the nearest it got to the
President. Mcintyre sent it to his
good friend Uncle Dan" Roper.
He took one look, then ducked.
Several days went by and Maj.
George Berry, co-ordinator for
industrial recovery, got wind of
the report. He made inquiries
at the Labor Department, expect
ing that it would be sent there
as the agency directly concerned
with such matters.
The Labor Department in
formed Berry it had not re-
ceived the report, that Mcintyre
had taken it upon himself to send
it to Roper.
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that perhaps he is preparing Tor
some fearful astronomical feat
which staggers his imagination.
He might, for instance, have to
swallow Col. Knox.
Maybe the gentleman from
Idaho is right in thinking that
when the ordeal comes he will be
better prepared psychologically on
account of his Coue course.
A good Republican table d'hote
diner should be allowed some pre-
liminary quavers as he looks up
and down the menu and finds that
his choice is restricted to Fish or
Hoover, Vandenberg or Ogden
Mile hlock cOffea and Senator
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to
Uncork on Hoover
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

XX7AsH1NGTON, Feb. 21.-The Administration
w is preparing to uncork on Herbert Hoover. 1t
probably will open up Saturday night when Demo-
cratic National Chairman Farley makes his Wash
ington Birthday address at Topeka Kas.
The last straw Hoover'S Lincoln Day speech.
The Administration particularly resented Hoovers
charge that the stock market boom an infa-
onary flight into equities resulting from widespread
fear of the Administrations monetary policies Some
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that Hoover, Intentionally or
otherwise, was saying things
which would tend to create a
panicky state of mind among
uniformed persons throughout
the country.
y n
Considerable mystery has de-
veloped over the loaning by the
National Broadcasting Co. of DR..
Stanley High to the Democratic
National Committee. DR.. High,
lecturer and former editor, was
1nnnnd hU the 70 6iO nennle of
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IIdII WHO IIUW SCdIldS on TeVleW-
ing platform receiving the patri-
otto and personal adulation of
more than a hundred thousand
Germans is a tremendous power,
and it makes your flesh squirm
to reflect that a nod or shake of
his head can start war that
would kill millions of men.
All this power resides in the
person of a man who weighs about
200 pounds and wears a belted
brown leather overcoat and a
brown military cap and smiles
much more than you would ex-
pect him to. He has rather heavy
eyelidS, and from the set of his