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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-09

up. When we winter IN Florida
most of us want to be where we
can take a turn at Switchboard
or talk about pensions with the
family from the other end of the
nation.
So the trailer camps, with their
hot showers and tubs to wash
your white ducks, and light SOCK
cts to save wear on the car bat
terry, will blossom on every lake
and beach and desert. There will
be overnight camps on the arte-
rial highways.
There should be positions in the
larger camps for men trained as
city managers. The same prob
lem of policing, health and sani-
tation will occur as in the home
town.
NTE may see permanent camps
w where retired farmers and
merchants will come to live for
years. In one Florida camp are
customers who have been in the
same spot for two or more years.
they have seen all the country,
they like this place and they will
stay as long as the tax assessor
keeps his distance and the camp
fees remain reasonable.
But the instant levies are aimed
at the trailers or the camps are
not kept clear and comfortable,
these customers will hitch and
run. And how can you stop them?
If you tax the camps or trailers
in one state they will detour. II
road regulations or mechanical
requirements are made too severe
it will be the same story. Federal
regulations might drive them
over a north or south border.
Is it possible, in all decency, to
levy trailer tax that will COM
pare to the levy on a house and
lot or farm or store? The value
simply isn't there.
Maybe this quicksilver popula-
ton of the future will be bless
ing. A rowing army of five or 10
million families, even if their in
come average were low, easily
could boycott sections where poll
tics are unsavory and taxes high
and thereby bring pressure that
might better the conditions. 1t is
happening in a small way al
ready.
y
IT'S true, their needs might be
4 modest: they would build not
mansions and covet few polo pom
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-09

be toted; there was the loose con-
nection in the roof ventilator that
leaked until found and frightened;
there is the food bill, keeping pace
with five booming, outdoor appe-
titles; there is-there is
turned to Mrs. D.
II have run out of objections,
I confessed. You are the hard
worker in this outfit. You cook
and wash and sew while I fish.
Name your poisons."
Well" she reflected, there was
the time when we forgot to lock
the cupboard and the dishes fell
out and broke on a turn. And the
kids are nuisance in these small
quarters on rainy day. And I
have to boil every drop of their
drinking water. And-and-
"Yes?" I prodded.
'.Oh, the worst thing of all"
She said. 1--WE never have been in
town at the same time with that
movie on the quintuplets."
THE END
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-09

money would be spent. So with
out consulting other party lead
ers, National Chairman Fletcher
went out and organized the fac
ulty of professors. f. In an eff
fort to strengthen the party's po-
sition in Michigan, the Demo-
cratic high command has per-
suaded Frank Murphy, high COM
missioner OF The Philippine Is
lands, to return and run for Gov
ernor. A former mayor of De-
troit, Murphy has the reputation
of being potent vote-getter De-
spite the national New Deal land
slide, the Democrats lost Michi-
gan in 1884 and the defeat has
ranked.
CENAIUK M,NANY OF oregon
~ is in for a unique primary
election honor. Because his job
of Republican floor leader pre-
vents personal campaign for
denomination, he will max a
special radio broadcast from
Washington to the state. Oregon
friends have organized a nom
partisan committee which is fl
nancing the hook-up, and even
the Democratic press is for him.
Real hero of the siege of
the American Legation in Adds
Abapa was Will Cramp, young
vice consul. After the staff had
evacuated to the British lega-
ton, he returned to U. S. quarters,
found everything intact and be-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-09
Crusade of Liberation

II VEN in his most recent utterances Hitler has
~ made it evident that the determination of these
peStllentlal creatures who uSurping too much
territory as their playground would not be war of
aggression but crusade of liberation for the benefit
OF humanity. His reward would be a free hand to
colonlze the country and give it some semblance of
civilization which, to his way of thinking it has not
yet enjoyed.
To carry out this plan, however Germany first
must do three things:
l. Keep Britain and France apart.
2 Wall France up in western Europe by making
the Rhineand impossible oiEG7 II 1oi
3. Obtain Japans cooperation in the Far East.
Diplomatic and military observers are agreed that
all three considerations are already well the road
to becoming accomplished facts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-09

unreasonable expense the exodus
will start. The wheels on the
houses will insure square deal.
We could speculate and dream
for hours. 1t is clean fun and
doesn't cost a cent.
Mrs. D. has been looking long
ingly over my shoulder.
do you call yourself a re-
porter?" she shifts.
"You have been painting moth
ing but bright pictures. Your job
is to present both sides of the
question. How about the disad-
vantages of trailing?"
VOU are right" I admit. I'm
Il my enthusiasm I have men
toned only the beer and skittles.
I will enumerate the sorrows of
this loose living"
So now I am thinking of the
dark side. There is the time when
the water tank is empty on
rainy morning and buckets must
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-09
Forcing His Hand

ECONOMISTS acquainted with the situation here
are convinced his hand will be forced by, condi-
lions at home if by nothing else To create employ
ment first then to turn Germany into an armed
camp, he has borrowed and spent billions on top of
ONIONS HIS credit abroad gone, and with little left
WITHIN his own borders, he nevertheless can not stop
spending. He must proceed full steam ahead And he
must use the structure he is creating before the
whole house of cards coapses
Abroad, such is the confusion he may be pre-
sented with the very opportunity which he is cred
led with seeking Not since the talk Of "encircling"
Germany began has there been less unity of purpose
among the surrounding links
Hltler's hatred, rather his contempt for Russia
is really profound MoscowS belief in an eventual
blow, therefore, has foundation He regards Russias
as cattle monopozing one-sxth of the land surface
OF the globe-something diabolcaly out gf all pro-
portion. He holds that they never hage been able
to rule themselves and WILL THAI they always
nave been driven about by outsdets-hrst by the
Czarists from the Baltic provinces, and by in
ternationa Jews +
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-09

les, but they would eat and wear
clothes and buy gasoline and fish
ing tackle.
There are thousands of miles of
beach and woodlands with sum
shine and gentle climates where
trailer cities might rise without
offending sensitive souls who OBJ
ject to washing on line or
babies playing III sun suits.
The investment for a trailer
camp is small, much less than for
a tourist camp of the same CAL
iber Florida camps were crowded
this season but there will be
many more next winter. The law
of supply and demand will be
obeyed.
Trailer cities of the future may
have branch bank, a school,
postoff1ce and theater as we'll as
the stores and other concessions
already there. They may need a
small police force. But if graft or
politics appear in the form of any
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-09
1t Might Haze Been Different

TT has been asserted definitely that Borah and
l. Lodge and the rest who shattered Woodrow Will
sons dream now stand revealed as patriots and men
OF vision. 1t is not proved Nobody knows what the
life of the league might have been had America gone
in I do not want to make any guess that in such a
case everything would have been hotsy totsy but at
any rate, 1t would have been different
certainly am for league and for it here and
now. OF course it must be a league which draws
its instructions not from little group of back
room diplomats but from the masses of the world If
the League of Nations dead this is the very hour to
create League of Peoples.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-09
Washington Merry-Go-Round
by DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN-

N7ASHINGTON, May 9.-The
w Navy Department was so
flabbagasted at Admiral Reeves
order forbidding men and Off
GERS to carry cameras with the
United States fleet that it tele-
graphed him asking if they had
received the correct wording of
his order. Eddie Bowling, ace
radio entertainer, is preparing
some hot entertainment for the
Democratic national convention in
Philadelphia. Eddie is the dis
coverer of Kate Smith and Paul
Robson. +. George Peek, one
time AAA boss and former head
of the Export Import Bank, will
be in the Republican corner in
this years campaign. He says he
expects" to advise the G.. o. P.
On the farm issue, probably also
will take the stump in the corn
belt against the New Deal. :.
Federal Housing Administrator
Stewart Mcdonald is rapidly
winning fame as the Administra-
TONS boss poker and bridge player.
In several recent sessions, Nc
Donald took over RFC Chairman
Jesse Jones, who had the reputa-
ton of being tops in these two
indoor sports. Secretary Ro-
per is proudly citing an item in
a report by Lloyd's, the great
British insurance company, rank
ing United States shipping with
Sweden in losing the least number
of vessels at sea last year. The
same report also shows that more
passengers lost their lives on
American ships last year than in
any of the six previous years. but
Uncle Dan is not mentioning that.
So confident was Assistant
Atty. Gen. John Dickinson that
the Supeme Court would not hand
down it's decision in the Guffey
Coal Act case last week that he
did not even go to the court.
chamber Dickinson argued the
governments side in the contro-
versy.
The frescoed face of Maury Nav
erick forever will look down on
passersby in the Justice Depart
ment Building. Artist George
Biddle is reproducing the Inca
ments of the scrappy Texan in
one of the symbolic figures in
the mural of social justice. Nav
erick says he will look like bum
lettering before a tenement.
A HOT scramble is on among
IN state Democratic leaders for
the privilege of seconding Roose-
velt's nomination at the Phila-
delphia convention. 1t has been
decided to limit the number OF
seconders to Is, with a time al
lotment of 5 minutes for each
speaker. Vice President Jack
Garner will be placed in nonni-
natio by a boy from home
Youthful Gov. James v. Alfred OF
Texas. Republican insiders
are placing responsibility for the
party's recently created brain
trust on William B. Bell, presi-
dent of the American Cyanamid
Co., and chairman of the G. o.
P.'s Embarrassing committee. Bell
was strong for staff of academic
advisers, and backed it up with
the argument that If ne was 10
pr3aRice the campaign where
VI thai he ought to say how the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-09

land for settlement and raw ma
terials.
Her route of expansion will be
via Austria and western
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES already
wholly or largely Germanic-
into the Ukraine, the most dis
affected, if not pro-German, re-
gion CT the Soviet Union.
There is little difference o.
opinion here, among the informed
with regard to the above pro-
gram. The Nazis, Hitler first of
all. Of late have SAID or intimated
as much again and again.
1t has become largely a ques-
ton of timing. And when it
comes to that, Hitler is a master.
whether it is for domestic cc,,,,-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-09

triumph over the mud nuts OF the
city, but 10 years from now some
Peterkin will find skull in the
dust and try in vain to ascertain
what good came of the famous
victory.
The momentary psychological
effect of the successful campaign
is great. Its force is felt we'll be-
yond the borders of Italy. Edwin
c. Hill all but did a Fascist salute
to the dictator over a national
network the other night. In Joe's
Tavern, the nearest approach of
civilization to my farm in SIAM
ford, the chianti flowed in freshets
Ill tLas.s..s.i.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-09

that Mussolinis hold en- Adds Ababa will cut an
hour from or add a dollar to anybody's work week
IN stamford. even doubt that it will have that
erect in Rome, Milan or Venice
80 what? Ethiopia may be rich in natural re-
sources or barren land, but in no case will it's
fruits now IN any equal proportion to the working
masses OF Italy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-09
Haywood BR0UN

NEW YORK, May 9.-When Mussolini
had finished his broadcast of victory to
the fascinated millions l wish some still
small voice had piped up, $50 what?' In
deed, the Duce will have to answer that
question whether it has been propounded
Oh not
The horsemen and the footmen are streaming
into Adds Ababa, and the Roman Eagles wave in
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/MNw World
BY
VIM. PHILIP SIMMS
Batting for westbrook PegIer.l

RERLIN, May 9.-Nazi Germany plans to
isolate France by walling her up in
western Europe with Rhineland fortiica-
tions, regardless of the risks involved.
That done, her next step will be to ex-
pand eastward-not to attack the French-to in
corporate more Germans in the Reich and acquire
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-09

Here Is the sixth and last Of a series
Of articles on the amazing popularity
of the automobile trailer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-09

"hether IL is Tor domestic ccup5 d'etat present.
Ing foreign powers with fats accompli.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-23
Taxing Stamp Collectors

New stamp issues-and there are more of them than ever coming along now - puzzle many postoffice patrons. They are always being confronted with sheets of strange pictures that they would never suppose were to be licked and pasted on letters. It seems impossible that the landscape, especially, should be postage stamps. Even the letter-carriers are said to have trouble sometimes in identifying them as such.
 And the collectors? A normal citizen would suppose they were annoyed by hav- ing to keep up with all these new issues, and pay out their money to keep their books up to date. But apparently they like it. It's nuts to them, even if it's nutty to other folks -..nd from such curious form of mental aberraLicn MT Farley reaps a postal revenue that former in- cumbents never dreamed of
 The government might make real money, almost enough to pay off it's de- pression debts. if it proceeded likewise to exploit the weakness of all our other yrIlps of nonomaniac collectors. Spend ing for fads is the most painless form of expenditure.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-23
Profitable Movies

Hollywood, says critic, set out to make a few prestige pictures for the sake of good will and to silence the mounting criticism against objectional. screen plays. It was expected that the special pictures would lose money themselves but would make money for the movies in general. The prestige picture" is based on good literature. No expense is spared in getting the setting just right and having the fin. est photography possible. It was expected to appeal to a very limited, highbrow audience.
 What happened was more of surprise to Hollywood than to other parts of the country. A number of the literary pie lures turned out to be box office suc- cesses and made their producers a pot of money. There is no need to hammer home the lesson. The movie magnates seem to have learned 1t for themselves. At least, good pictures, with good plots and good acting along with good scenery, have become so numerous that patrons and critics have to hurry to keep up with them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-23
Harmony Still Theme

All cries to the contrary democrats of Connecticut continue to display more marked degree of harmony day by day as the time draws nearer and nearer for nominations and elections. We made this statement before the recent state convection at New Haven; we made 1t also at the conclusion when eX-Mayor David E. FitzGerald of New Haven was endorsed for national committeeman. We also offered it when it was announced that Waterbury democrats would be the first to fete New Havens ex-mayor on his honor.
 It is still apparent in the news of the day democrats of the state central committee have reelected their present slate of officers. Waterbury can take considerable pride in this, for the state chairman, J. Francis Smith, is one or our own and the vice-chairman, Mrs. Nora Mahaney Harris, although now New Havener is Waterburian by birth. The reelection of these two officers is particularly gratifying to us. It must be so, also, to all democrats who have watched the progress of the party under the direction of MT. Smith.
 We doubt if the actual management of the party has been in as skillful and cap able hands as presently. In addition to the above two-named officers Hartford contributes the energetic and all- accomplishing, William M. Greene, as secretary and the reliable and faithful Fred F. Holt as treasurer. While their reelection was never in doubt and did not come as any surprise to the state, we point it out as an indication that the democrats are still going places in Con- necticut. If you don't believe us, ask the republican who knows.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-23
A Thought for Today
Sentiment Is Increasing

Sentiment in favor of abandonment of our present county jail system IS surely on the increase in this state. Whether or not those persons who will be able to make any change in the system possible can be counted among the adherents or the new scheme of things is unknown: Perhaps we won't know about 1t untn the Legislature goes into session next January. Certainly determined efforC will be made to have the incoming legls- lators do what others before them have refused to do.
 Speaking recently in this state in the interest of the prison farm plan Austin MacCormick, commissioner of correction in New York city, declared "The average iail is faced with the almost unsurmount- able problem of idleness. The more dis couraging aspect of this phase of the problem is the fact that prisoners are yearly becoming more idle. There IS no work for them and no effort is being made to establish any -" That IS true in this state, of course, where authorltleS are hard pressed to find tasks at which inmates may be placed.
 Time and again we have reviewed the physical properties of our county Jalls. Some are, no question about it,. in fine condition and the prisoners are well treated and in no danger of coming out worse than when they entered. But there are several of our county 1nstltu- tions that border, we have heard it said, on the verge of public condemnation. Not alone are the buildings antiquated, but there is no opportunity whatsoever for employment of inmates. It is high time that we approached this matter boldly and ceased dancing all around it. Sooner or later we must take definite steps. The way has been made open to us.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-23

Nothing should give this city more pleasure than the fact that today Settlers Village is once more being reopened to the public of Waterbury. And naturally we sincerely trust that the Village will continue to be mecca for visitors from outside the city, as well as outside the state. If it does come within reasonably close distance of approximating the at- tendance figures of last season the direc- tors will be well satisfied. We also hope that the industrial exhibit which thrilled Waterburians, not to mention out-of- towners, will be with us again. Settlers Village now occupies particular niche in Waterbury history. It should be re- tained, embellished, and cherished as the years pass We know no better way in which Waterbury and the many nationali- ties which make up it's cosmopolitan pop ulation can go on parade than through this tercentenary contribution.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-23
Music and Manners

The national high school band con- tests held recently in Cleveland were a revelation to adults in that city. Sixty bands from all parts of the country gath cred for the ninth annual championship contest. Membership in bands ranged from 30 to 100 players. Uniforms were colorful and gay The music was excel lent. Indeed, the judges agreed that much of it was better than that pro- duced by many professional bands.
 The revelation, however, concerned the behavior of the thousands of youngsters rather than the quality of their music. Those boys and girls proved to be model guests. They indulged in no rowdy actions, but attended earnestly to their music during the contests, and enjoyed themselves happily and quietly when they had time on their hands. They did some sightseeing and bought few Souv- enirs. And they gathered in groups on sidewalks now and then to talk things over.
 These young ladies and gentlemen were a distinct credit to their home towns, their parents, their schools and teachers. Perhaps it was a decent pride in their musical achievements and conscious ness of their serious purpose that made them behave so differently from the average football crowd, or even adult con- vention crowds. At any rate, they de- serve congratulations for good manners as well as good music.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-23

People had almost forgotten that Eu- gene Fields widow was still alive when newsmen dug up the fact that at 80 she was trying to save the home to which she retired years ago in Wisconsin. In fact, the world has been going right past her door for years now and not even noticing her. Yet the memory of Eugene Field lives on and on, as it should. And it will, people who have grown to love Eugene Field through his beautiful writings home to which she is so attached.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-23
A Book a Day
Aha! !! Dirty Work Is On at the Old Inn
BY BRUCE CATION

If you like tales of sinister leth century English inns, lonely moors, dark dojngs along the seacoast ct midnight, and beautiful heroines who are just dumb enough to keep getting into dangerous messes, you ought to enjoy Jamaica Inn" by Daphne du Maurier Doubleday Doran: $2b0.)
 This novel takes ell those tried and true ingredients. tSirs them Up with gusto, and produces Q regu- lar old-time nelodrama. It may creak e bit, in spots, but it's all there - down to and including the handsome villain, who, in the end, reveals Q heart of purest gold beating beneath his furry bosom.
 What we get, in brief, is love- ly damsel who, orphaned as sine stands at the threshold of woman hood, has to go and live with an aunt and an uncle in Q lonely inn near the sea.
 This inn is dark and nlysteri- ous sort of joint, and no mistake. 6mugglers seem to hang out there. bossed by Uncle who is six and one-half feet tall, drinks and swears nightly and is no part of Q bargain for an innocent niece but presently 1t appears that some thing worse than smuggling is in the wind.
 It develops, at last, that Uncle and his gang are shipwreckers by trade. They light false beacon fires along the coast, cause ships to run on the rocks, murder such sailors as survive, and steal the cargoes.
 Our niece finds out about all this, tries to stop it, narrowly es- capes a fate worse than death, and comes finally to Q happy end, with all the usual melodramatic trim mings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-23
Current Comments

I'm not much of Q politician. but I don't think my son should caln- paign this year. The people know whether they want him for another four years. If they don't, well, he'T get along well enough.
 Mrs. Sara Delan0 Roosevelt,
 mother of the president.
 
 If it hadn't been for Roosevelt, we'd have ben shooting our neigh- bors. back in 1898. and I'm damned # ! wouldn't rather be taxed Co feed 'em than Dc taxed to buy sanpoW- der Co blow lem up. -dovsfnor Benjamin 2. AoeuEs
 Arizona.