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The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18

Seventy-fourth Congress. Imme-
diately after the munitions probe,
now holding the footlights, the
Senate lobby inquiry will reopen
its show with an all-star cast of
utility moguls, on whom it has
been gathering secret material for
months. And when it rings down
the curtain, Senator Burt Wheel
er will take the boards with his
investigation into the inner mys-
teries of railroad financing.
Latest congressional comment on
the Townsent plan, voiced in the
House by Massachusetts, Republi-
can Rep. Clifford: Patrick Henry's
famous cry, Give me liberty or
give me death can now be para
phrased, Give me liberty or give
me death-but anyhow, gimme"
Prominent at the Jackson Day
dinner in the capital were Chair
man Charles H. March of the Fed
eral Trade Commission, Repub-
lican originally appointed by CAL
vim Collidge: and President Bill
Green of the A. F. of L., attired
in white tie, tails and a silk top
per.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18
Literary Notes

Captain Cohn, of the House of Books, is en-
couraging book collectors to collect the Pulitzer
Prize novels. In his catalogue of modern first
editions he lists them ALL II to date and he SAYS
some will be forgotten except as Pulitzer Prize
novels, but many have already found their places
in our literature. BY and large they are a repre-
sentative selection of the work of modern American
novelists. He doesn't give the prices of the in
dvidual books but prices the whole SERIES all first
editions at s125.
Among the books by Cecil Day Lewis is listed "A
Question Of Proof written under the pseudonym
Nicholas Blake and published this year in London.
first edition of Norman Douglas South Wind"
is listed at $3.50 This copy published in Eng
land and has on the flyleaf the rubber stamp OF
the literary agents who placed the book in the
United States. 1t is the file copy sent to thers be-
fore the publication by Marin Seeker, the English
copy. There are transposed lines page 1885,
Among the autograph letters in the catalogue Is
one from Sherwood Anderson to John Cournos on
personal and literary matters, which is worth $50:
one from James NJ Barrie dated April 20. 1896
ferTing to the illustration Of Of his books (s65o)
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18
Wales Takes Throne at
Instant Of Xmas Death

days of King Henry VIII. It makes
certain that there shall be no
interval, or interregnum, between
two mOnarchS.
The line of succession to the
throne at present is as follows:
1. Prince of Wales, who is IL.
2. The Duke of York, the Sec
ond son, who is 40.
8. Princess Elizabe eth, older
daughter of the duke, who is ga.
4. Princess Margaret Rose, who
is 51a.
5. The Duke of Gloucester, the
third son, who is "a.
6. The Duke of Kent, the fourth
son, who is 33.
Z. The dukes son, Prince Ed
ward, who is 3 months old.
8. Princess Mary, the kings only
daughter. Following her come her
children, Viscount Lascelles, nearly
13, and the Hon. Gerald Lascelles,
liz.
If the Prince of Wales marries
and has children, they will take
precedence over the Duke Of York,
the sons first, then daughters.
Most people believe the prince
will not marry, and the Duke of
York's younger daughter is 515.
Hence many believe there is more
than even chance that Princess
Elizabeth will be queen some day.
If the duke had son, however,
he would take precedence over the
daughters, ever though they would
be older.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18

Mr.. Kipling was born in
Bombay, on Dec. 80, 1865.
His father was an artist,
the director of the Lahore
museum. His crusading
zeal, if not his wartime in
stincts, he may have de-
rived from his grand
fathers, who on both sides
were Methodist preachers.
After attending a military school
in England, young Kipling re-
turned to India, where the Duke
of Connaught gave him the free
dom of the Northwest district,
allowing him to mix with the SOL
diers and study the native hill
people.
TT was here he learned to know
Il and portray the character and
actions of the British Tommy" as
none had before or since. For
Departmental Ditties" which he
had published when he was 21,
MI Kipling received an initial
payment of 500 rupees (about
$185).
The work subsequently earned
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18
RENT SLASH DENIED
EASTERN AIRL|NES
City May Consider Plea at
Renewal Time,

After testifying that Eastern Air
lines loses more than $4,000 every
month, company officials hoped to-
day that the Works Board eventual
ly would reduce the $1OO monthly
rental charge for operating facilities
at the Municipal Airport.
The board refused the company's
petition for a reduction yesterday,
but said that when new contracts
were drawn with all companies, this
organization would get considera-
ton.
1t was explained that, at present.
the city has contracts with other
airlines which specify that all or
ganizations shall pay a uniform
rental charge. George E. Gardner
Eastern Airlines divisional superin-
tendent, explained the request by
saying his company landed only two
planes here daily.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18
around 100000 for author and

around 100000 for author and
publishers.
Following tour of the United
States, the poet offered his i'm
pressions of America to the San
Francisco Examiner, but Editor
F. H. L. Noble rejected them as
being too f1ippant.
All Kipling asked for them was
$40 for two columns. Mr.. Noble,
however, later published plain
Tales From the Hills" which
started Mr.. Kipling's popularity
in the United States.
While on his tour, Mr.. Kipling.
met Caroline Starr Balestier,
Vermont girl, and they we're mar
ried. The couple returned to Eng
land, where Rudyard settled down
to the writing of consistent best.
sellers.
His output increased, and the
publication of one of his works
came to be regarded as an event
in the world of literature. French
universities have used his works as
textbooks.
II IPLTNG did not look the type
IN who could write so graphical
ly of adventure, war and romance.
His scantily%covered scalp, thick
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18

Great War. Kipling produced at
least one book year. The
Jungle Books" were written for
his son JOHN, who was later killed
in the trenches.
u IPLINCi was admittedly su-
IN preme as the great national
patriotic writer during the war.
He did much propaganda work,
and wrote several books on mod
ern warfare.
Considerable American hostility
against Mr.. i>ipling was aroused
shortly after the war. He was
reported by the old New York
World to have declared that the
United States had entered the war
too late, and had forced the al
lies to agree to peace before the
Germans were properly punished.
While he never directly denied
the charge, Mr.. Kiplfng declared
he had not known he was talk
ing for publication.
Monetary considerations cer-
tainly did not influence his work,
although his books were nearly
all money-makers. He once re-
fused to write an article for
which he was offered $125 word.
On another occasion, when
some joking undergraduate, hear
ing he received shilling a word,
wired him a shilling and saying,
"Please send lis one of your
words" Mr.. Kipling answered,
Thanks"
LIS famous poem, eff" is
i i known to millions through
out the English-speaking world.
II that had been his sole contri-
button to literature, he would still
be remembered by posterity as
long as the presses could turn out
the printed word
Always a trenchant writer, Kip
ling had no mercy for national
weaknesses" and despite the
furcre for his Absent Minded
Beggar" poem, at the outbreak of
the South African War, he actu-
ally made himself most unpopu-
lar among sporting Britishers by
his allegedly sneering references
to the national games of cricket
and football in a powerful poem
urging national effort to end the
war.
His scathing references to "f1an-
neled fools at the wicket" and
'muddled OATS at the goal," were,
he. explained, in no sense deroga-
tory to the national sports, but
merely poetic license in the effort
to emphasize the necessity of a
nation shelving all forms of
amusement in order to end a war
quickly and successfully.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18

glasses and dropping mustache
belied the creative fire and in
tense imperialism which glowed
within.
So fiery were his writings during
the Boer War that ne became
known as a confirmed "Jingo."
His extreme nationalism, how
ever, did not prevent him re-
ceiving the Noble prize for
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18
Washington Merry-Go-Round
- BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN

VX7ASHINGTON, Jan. 18.-In-
w side word is that four mem
bers of the present Federal Re-
serve Board will be renamed by
the President to the new board
that becomes operative Feb. /.
They are Gov. Mariner S. Ec-
cles, who will head the new body,
Charles S. Hamlin and Adolph G.
Miller, personal friends of the
President who have been on the
board since it's creation in 1914;
and M. S. Szymczak, the youngest
member. Heading the list of new
men to be appointed is Joseph
A. Rroderick, former New York
superintendent of banks
j. P. Morgan attends all hearings
of the Senate munitions investi-
cation attired in a wing collar,
specially made for him in Eng
land. On the small finger of his
left hand the international banker
wears a large signet ring and
hanging from his vest a heavy gold
chain, both inherited from his
father. Morgan smokes his fire.
quent cigars in short ivory holder
embellished with a broad gold
band.
Model of understatement by
Senator John H. Bankhead: Il
have come to the well-considered
judgment that the Bankhead cot
ton act (of which he is the au-
thor will be held unconstitution-
al by the Supreme Court" In
his majority decision banning the
AAA Justice Roberts characterized
the Bankhead law as an example
of illegal legislation Reports
have reached washington that the
Southern Tenant Farmers Union,
which has been waging a fierce
battle to gain recognition from
plantation owners, has become so
significant politically that Harry
Malcolm, deputy state labor COM
missioner of Arkansas. addressed
its recent second annual conven-
tion in Little Rock Southern
CALIFORNIA; Democratic Represen-
tative Charles j. Golden, newly
appointed chairman of the House
Committee for the disposition of
executive papers, has named his
daughter to the $2700-a-year post
as secretary of the body.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18

HHHNt Nttk AINoVj NuD b1f1IPIJ VIIIO :
He read from papers and
memoirs of Lansing, Col. House,
Lord Balfour and Lloyd George
testimony that in the spring CT
1917, Immediately after we en-
tered the war, Wilson was in
formed of the secret treaties
among the Allies which prevented
them from accepting American
ideas as to what the peace set
tlement ought to be.
Then Nye tactlessly read from
Wilson's testimony before the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
n1ittae after tho yuor II, orcyroy
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18
WPA DIRECTOR TO TALK
Recreation Plans to Be Described to
Relief Agency Heads.

Description of the recreation pro-
gram of the Works Progress Admin
istration is to be given by Garrett G.
Eppley, state director, at the weekly
luncheon of Federal relief agency dl-
rectors in the Washington Wednes-
day, Clarence Manion, state director
of the National Emergency Council
announced today.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18

medanS, receives titheS from the
faithful, but American nobility
get theirs in dividends or royal
ties. In the long run, however, the
income of Americans of this class
Is produced by the labor of count
less imperSonal subjects in mines,
mills. factories and fields and IS
transmitted to France, where it is
spent on villas, horses, gowns,
Jewelry and other necessities of
life of the nobility.
The Aga Khan can hardly be
expected to have personal
acquaintance with each of his five
million faithful folInu,orc nnl
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18
ARMY FLIERS RENEW
HUNT FOR LOST CHILD
Boy. 4, Strayed From Arizona Ranch
Wednesday; Mishap Feared,

Boy. 4, Strayed From Arizona Ranch
Wednesday; Mishap Feared.
By United Press
DOUGLAS, Ariz., Jan. 18.-Army
planes from Fort >Huachuca today
renewed search over the rugged
Geronimo Trail" district for a.
year-old Roy Rogers, lost since
Wednesday. More than 100 soldiers
from the fort also made detailed
ground check.
The child wandered away from a
ranch Wednesday and was believed
to have gone into the Guadaloupe
Mountains.
Freezing temperatures in the ter
ritory once used by hostile Indians
as a hiding place led searchers to
fear for the child's safety.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18

WEAK eyes made poet of who might have been
great general.
Rudyard Kiping equally noted for his prose and
poetry, was destined for the His extreme short
sightedness responsible for producing of the
worlds greatest writer's.
Yet, his undoubted greatness well his valuable
services to Great Britain through his patriotic writings
and verse, failed to for him the highest poetic award
in the Empire, but the English Empire mourned his death
today with much grief it has bestowed
of letters
Queen Victoria herself, it is reported vetoed pro-
posa to appoint Mr. Kpng to succeed Tennyson Poet
Laureate.
1t thought that she antagonized by his poetic
references to her The Widow of Windsor in his Bar
Rail
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18
EaUZnouNh
BY
.ESIbR00k PEGLER

DARIS, Jan. 18.-The American nobility in France
has been considerably reduced in numbers since
the great panic of 1922 but that is not to say that
the colony has been wiped out There are still enough
OF them to make showing in Paris and along the
Riviera, where, like Aga Khan of Bombay they are
maintained in great comfort by their subjects back
home.
The method of obtaining contributions differs but
the effect is about the same. The Aga Khan, being
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18

literature in 1907, while many
British and foreign universities
awarded him honorary degrees.
A "Kipling Society," formed in
London to spread appreciation of
his works, repeatedly sent him
greetings. But such was his
hatred of sham and adulation,
that he never answered.
Up to the beginning of the
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18
War Probe Doomed
by Wilson Attack
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

NTASHINGTON, Jan. 18--Young Senator Nye's
w investigation of munitions, j. P. Morgan, and
what caused the war; is practically dead. It's soul
may go marching on. But everything else is about
to go off the Senate pay roll The committee has
only $400 left and Senate leaders have passed the
word that funds are to be voted
This investigation is being choked off in the name
of Woodrow Wilson.
Senator Nye's offense in addition to being young
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18

By United Press
+ ONDON, jan 18.-When King
L. George of England dies, the
Prince of Wales at the moment of
death will become All already con-
Stituted monarch.
This has been recognized as a
constitutional principle since the
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18
LandOn on Spot

ATEW DEALERS are charging
L y Gov. Alf Landon with refus-
ing to call a special session of the
Kansas Legislature to enact So
cial security law in compliance
with the Federal act, because of
fear of showdown on the wet
and-dry issue. Prohibitionists in
the state plan to offer a bone-dry
bill if a special session is called,
thus forcing Landon to declare
himself on the dynamite loaded
question. =. Cyril Upham, assist
ant to Secretary Morgenthau, on
Federal business in Birmingham,
Ala, got his first news of the
Supreme Courts decision on the
AAA from a newsboy as follows:
Extra, extra, New Deal farm law
goes out like light" Presi-
dental appointments sent to the
Senate for confirmation last year
numbered TITS as compared with
1854 for the entire preceding
Seventy-third Congress. Among
the latest gifts to the Library of
Congress is a book entitled, "A
Handful of Sand" translated from
the works of Takuboku Ishikawa
by Shio Sakanishi, Phi. D., with a
foreword by His Excellency Hirosi
Saito. japanese Ambassador to the
United States.
Copyright, 1896. by United Feature
Syndicate, Incl
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18

similarly, an absentee American of noble status can
not hope to know the names of all the working
people at home whose little individual contributions
go to create an income sufficient to maintain him
or her abroad
Anyway. these subjects always dying and being
succeeded by their sons and daughters. The nobility
OF course die too and hand down their possessions
TO their sons and daughters, who continue to live
in France
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18

VOCers al over tne country muttef-
ing to themselves. IF that's the
Republican idea of radio enter
tainment' I wonder what in heav-
ems name they mean by farm
relief"
Possibly you didn't hear LIB
erty at the Crossroads" or have
access to a script. IF so, I'd like to
give an indication of the nature of
the sketches.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18
KIPLING REACHES ROADS END


when earhs last picture painted and the tubes
twisted dried,
oldest have faded, youngest
has
We shall faith, we shall title down for
two,
Till the master of good workmen shall set to work
-LENvOI
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18
That's Beside the Point

TNHERE is tendency among destructive critics to
Il object to this arrangement on the ground that
TINS class OF Americans parasites on the body
o. the American working class This is an ignorant
point OF view, because the good works of the Amer
lean nobility among the poor of France are famous
throughout the world
IL may be true that this money would be more at
nome If used to rehabtate some American villages
IN ARKANSAS for example, where the condition of the
peasants never was any too good, provide shoes
Tor that large group whom Miss Frances Perkins so
tactlessly described as the ShoeesS tenth
But the point is that the American friend of
france can make much greater impression with
contribution of 5000 francs in France than with the
equivalent sum of $3.50 at home The 5000 francs
not only buy more bricks and shoes in France but
make much more resounding figure than $500
When America was still on gold and the American
working people were conscentiously at work instead
OF loaflng and grumbling the dole, a member
OF the society colony in France could do magnificent
Things OF charitable character with American in
come and still come up with profit on the year
thanks to the difference in prices. In 1926, $1,000
bought $4,000 francs
There is no rigid scale of prices for the various
grades OF the French Legion of Honor but any bene-
factor who gave $4,000 francs mere and did not re-
celve red ribbon may regard himself or herself
as cheated. The higher grades naturally cost more
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18

IWO JyplCdl young Americans are
just coming through the door. John Qow)-Is this
the right Office, dye spose, Mary?
Mary 0ow)-It said License Bureau" on the door,
Ask that man back of the desk.
John-Well, here goes! Loud) I-er-excuse me
please
Clerk-Full name, please.
John-Why-a-we wanted "a Is this the
place where you get
Clerk-A marriage license?
John (delighted)-Yes!
Mary-Yes!
Clerk-What's your full name, please?
Mary-Mary Phoebe
Clerk-Groom first, please.
Mary (gggling)-Groom? Oh, that's you, John.
John-Huh? Me?
Mary (helpfully)-His name is John Albeit
Clerk-Cant you speak for yourself, Johnny?
John-Huh? Sure. My names John Albert Smith,
Clerk-Where do you live?
John-Thirteen Em-st.
Clerk-And your is Mary Phoebe
Mary-Jones. Mary Phoebe Jones.
Clerk-Where do you live Mary?
Mary-I live at 13 Eim-st, too
Clerk-What?
John-Oh, no! It's big apartment house.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18
Judicial Caution

PRESIDENTIAL advisers are
l. warning Roosevelt to be ex-
tremely careful about all appoint
ments to the judiciary, even in the
lower courts. AT present a vacancy
exists in the Federal judiciary in
New York and Gov. Lehman has
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18
II Seems hM
BY
HEYWOODBR0UN

7 HOPE Liberty at the Crossroads goes the air
Il again and next time over network All Demo-
Gratis, progressives and radicals should join in
that wish, because 1t turns out that Mr.. Fletchers
first campaign snow is sort of Republican Shoot
the Works" And that is putting it mildly.
The Democrats, who have been experiencing
tough time lately. afford to laugh at last. Their
attitude toward their adversaries ought to be Just
give them enough radio" Ii is easy to imagine
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18
Witness on Spot

IF Bolivian Consul General Wal
L ter Decker declines to testify
before New York grand jury re-
garding four bombing planes al
legged to have been smuggled out
by Curtiss- Wright subsidiary,
the Senate munitions committee is
prepared to turn on the heat. SEN
ators are aching for chance to
give Bolivia more arms-smuggling
publicity than it would get be-
fore the grand jury. -. Three
first ladies of the land were to-
gether under one roof the other
day when Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs.
Taft and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
attended Mrs. Townsend's musl-
Gale. Jimmy Roosevelt and
family are now living in the
Presidents New York house which
the Roosevelts for some time have
been trying to sell. :. When the
Supreme Court showed the AlaA
off the constit dtional standard,
100 night workers who send
checks to farmers wired the Presi-
dent message of confidence
signed. ''The Night Workers of the
AAA." They received reply from
Roosevelt which read: "The ar
dours of the days work are
lightened by the message ct 10y
atty and goodwill sent me by the
Night Workers of the AAA."
Il
Heavy Booking
NEW sessions have had as
Il heavy a booking of important
senatorial Investigations as the
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18
Back to the Buggy Age

IF you don't mind my shutting off that damn radio
Il for a minute I must say that although I had
heard it would be dirty campaign, had no idea
it would come to this
Clerk Qading up)-And now Mr.. Smith and Miss
Jones, before 1 grant this license to marry l must
know: Are you in position to carry the burden of
the head of an American family?
John-Burden?
Mary-Burden? Why, why, OH Mothers not
going to live with u.s. She
Clerk don't mean the mother-in-law burden.
Have you any money John?
Now that think, ought to be about ALL Turn
those dials and get any amateur hour. Get me
Uncle Don. Even get me child soprano singing
1.-THE Music Goes Round and Around"
When Liberty at the Crossroads is done again
have just the right snapper for final fadeout
Clerk-Who was that statesman 1 you walk
ing down the street with?
John-That statesman, you dope That
Republican presidential candidate
Copyright, 1856
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18
Governors, Take Notice

TT is a distinct handicap to the American lower
classes that they are not picturesque They do not
wear smocks or wooden shoes drive oxen, and old
aqleS DO not sit by doors sunny days knitting lace
caps. The corresponding class of Americans wears
ragged overas and no shoes at all, and they would
rather drive skinny mules through cotton fields or
pull the pows themselves And old ladies sitting by
doors on sunny days present repugnant picture as
tney pole snuff around their gums smoke their
pipes, which quite different from Partisan cigar
cts -7lth satin tip of the color as ones lip
stick.
But probably the worst handicap of the Amer
lean lower classes is the lack of anything approximate
Ing the French notion of the Legion of Honor. The
Governor of Arkansas and the Governor of Pennsyl-
vana might wish to investigate the possibilities of
profit in state Legion of Honor
1t is not to be imagined, Of course, that such a
decoration would attract large numbers of French
nobility to the United States and move them to do
nate dollars for the relief of American distress The
French are fond of decorations but their self
IN the face OF temptation when decoration is going
to cost them money is of the wonders of the
world.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-01-18
CITES DIFFERENCES
IN 2 ORGANIZATIONS
Perry Township Taxpayers Head
Makes Explanation.

Makes Explanation.
The Perry Township Civic League,
Inc, which is to meet at Monday
in University Heights School, is a
different organization from the
Perry Township Taxpayers Associa-
ton, George Hacker, president of
the latter group, pointed out today.
The taxpayers association was
locked out of Southport High School
after the organization became en-
broiled in a fight with Leonard A.
Hohlt, township trustee.