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deal about him. and about some of the men around
him, and argue the definition in Ohio politics
of legal, or honest, graft. Democratic Job-holderS
think he is a great Governor, but outside Of that
circle you find much difference of opinion.
GENERAL attempts have been made to induce
- Stephen M. Young of Cleveland Representative
at-large in Congress, to try to take the nomna-
ton for Governor away from Dayey. he mas oeen
hesitant because he feels sure OF reelection 10
Congress- But the call is becoming louder and Mr.
Young is reconsdering If he goes in it Will be
fight. - -, :.
Feeling about Gov. Davey is such that II ne IS
renomirated, many Democrats will vote 1or the I'M
onnoset Republican candidate, John w. BrlcKer, VINO
has been elected state attorney general IN lace o1
the last two Democratic lanoShoes.
Among the local feuds which are adding to the
Democratic confusion is the one involving the
Temocratic boss of Cleveland, w. Burr GongWer,
former newspaper political reporter who 1ouno the
insurance and bonding business more lucrative az
least during the times when his croWu was III
mower Senator Bulkley is leading tgnt TO keep
~, off the Ohio delegation to the Democratic
notional convention Postmaster General Farley anu
TIndersecretary of the Interior Eharles west VIZ.
Administrations Ohio political ontacU Aiaii a."
e,,nnosed to be cold toward Mr. Gongwer ana W NC
,,rnathetic with Senator Bukleys effort 10 bounce
him Mr. Gongwer wasn't quick enough VI .ait
lump at the 1882 convention when the HooSeFe4O
bandwagon went by r,; po,,,son
80 nov nave trouble getting on the delegation
A Ill of which is big help, as can De lnaeiileu'
~ To Roosevelt who has enough 10 WorTy aoou o
in Ohio He carried the state IN 1907 w oi'''
IS 600 out of a total vote OF 2oOOCoo.
Bit it isn't all bad In the youngstown
area which Hoover carried four years ago, poiis
show Roosevelt ahead Some 1900 home owners IN
the district are still home owners thanks to having
been saved from foreclosure by Hole. WORK re-
lief is accomplishing some useful local improve
ments Southern and central Ohio, except In the
coal mining sections, hostile. Northern ONO
especially here around Cleveland, Akron and Toledo
seems favorable to Roosevelt. Cleveland, which
voted for La Toilette in 1924 may hold the balance
of power and Roosevelt is strong here. One aStute
Republican leader says Roosevelt is stronger in The
state than he few weeks ago. He attributes
this in part to sympathy resulting from the extreme
attacks on Roosevelt by the very business leaders
who have found profits again under the New Deal
Here in Cleveland there is much dissatisfaction
with the WPA program, chiefly because of local
administrative difficulties which officials trying
to correct in response to widespread complaint.
las Governor" one politician said, "Davey is
still great tree surgeon. He tries to climb out on
every limb in sight,"
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Times Books

4 FAST-MOVING tale of a rough and-ready de-
n tective is what Kurt Steel produces i'll Murder
for WHAT" (Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis; s2) Mr.
SteeS private operative, Henry CHank) Hyer is not
a gardenia wearing connoisseur of ceramics, but a
singularly modern young American who takes good
of himself in rough company.
Murder for What?" involves an upstate New
York murder with gangsters, gamblers and counter
feiters and builds up to the point where one of the
central figures in the mystery drama is slain in
detectives department And whose fngerprints
are on the pistol but those of Detective Hyer?
Author Steel, having taken the reader through
any number of breathess episodes then hits his
stride The ensuing chapters move so swiftly what
with Duesenbergs racing the highways at I02
miles hour, that Mr. Steel deserves some sort of
award for raciness.
The characters are marked by a lack of nde-
corum in their of the Kings College English but
the book itself is terate enough If you like excite
men in your mysteries, Murder for What?" is Just
your speed (By N E. Isaacs)
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Anyway, He Spoke

JOINING out of the sacred precinct of the House
-" of Representatives, can hardly wait to find
circle of listeners where conversation is permissible
1 have even tried to make speeches to the working
press and interrupt the blackjack game which goes
on in the back room while statesmen discuss the fate
of the nation. But the House gallery correspondents
are for the most part mature than the con-
gressmen. They the elder statesmen and know
all the answers They gave short Shrift and went
with their blackjack
And so I have taken terrible revenge upon
Washington hostesses and might do the same here
in New York, except that don't get asked out
much There party last week at which indi
cations given that free debate was expected
and allowed. 1 took that liberty for license. Even
on the way home I had slight foreboding that
maybe had talked too much.
Indeed, I asked the young lady who went with
me, and she replied in kindly fashion, Il think you
had a swell SPOT to get off after you finished your
sixth speech
Copyright. 1887
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Patronage Bdttler

THE youngest member of the
l. Senate's liberal bloc, West
Virginia's Rush Holt, is causing
some private headshaking among
his crusading colleagues. Rea-
son for the concern is Mr.. Hollis
excessive devotion recently to
petty political and patronage
matters.
In the six weeks that the pres
ent Congress has been in ses-
sion young Holt has spent a good
part of his time scurrying about
government departments and agen-
cies demanding jobs for hench-
men.
AS a result of this activity Mr..
Holt has become embroiled in
several bitter clashes with other
West Virginia members, one with
Rep. Andrew Edmiston over the
naming of postmaster of a ham,
let population 5000 in his dis
trict, and another with Senator
M. M. Nicely over the appoint
ment of an internal revenue COL
lector.
On Senator Neely's recommen-
dalton the President named Walter
Thurman. Senator Holt is holly
fighting the appointment because
Mr.. Thurman opposed him in the
primaries.
Copyright. 1886. by United Feature
Syndicate, Inc.)
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Hotel Boom Is FOreSeen

T>HERE are thousands of these hotels within two
Il hours run of New York and other thousands
elsewhere West and East, and there may be note
of consolation for those who advocated the boycott
in the fact that the majority of the inns which
occupy, but do not necessarily adorn, the slopes Of
the Catski Mountains owned by Jewish citizens.
Of course, abandonment of principle could not
be compensated by a few dollars of profit, but as
who Urged the boycott several months ago I
will have to admit the principle was a weak and
ailing child and choked its arguments.
1t is nonsense to believe that the Olympic COM
petitions promote brotherhood for the athletes
bicker and snar even with their own compatriots,
but it can do no harm to continue them until the
next interrupts the series again, and it might
hasten that to break off athletic relations in the
grim and formal manner of diplomacy.
Garmisch has received worldwide publicity
through the holding of these games but more i'm
portant than that, sports themselves have been
brought to public notice, and this can do no harm
at home
The year of the great blizzard may not be the
most opportune time to suggest the pleasures of life
amid the drifts and iccles but the truth is that for
many years American sporting life has been existing
indoors in winter or following the soft entcement
of the tropics The result is in the inferiority
of American athletes
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The above does not include a
quart of milk daily for families
with a child under years of age.
The Federal surplus foods vary
from week to week, and the dis
tribution and its variety in
Marion County for December is
shown as follows: 44,308 cans of
beef, 1913 pounds of butter,
11,211 pounds of prunes and
10,309 tins of evaporated milk.
Il Il
COMFORTS, pillow cases, tow
~ els also were furnished direct
relief clients.
Revamping the poor relief laws
at the 1885 session of the Cen
eral Assembly and making it pos
sible for counties to issue relief
bonds to back the credit of town.
ships has done much to aid town
ships in bad straits due to fnan-
cial troubles.
The law insures speedy pay
ment of poor relief bills to mer-
chants. Under the former law the
township issued bonds but relief
creditors were compelled to go
into courts and obtain judgments
before they could collect. In
stances have been frequent where
a merchant waited from a year
to year and half before he
could collect township bill.
The Center Township tax rate
was hiked 16 cents for the fiscal
year of 1935-1936 to place poor
relief on "pay-as-you-go" basis
and take care of direct relief
yearly instead of piling up obliga-
tions. The tax rate in 1934-1935
was 9 cents for the township but
the current year it is 25 cents.
Payment for current relief"
says Mr.. Smith, with current tax
levies is the ultimate Utopia we
hope to reach"
Next: The Unemploya bles-Who
They Are! How Cared For.)
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lllCy OAQ 1lOG OSSClNS 81 IIluCIl DIS
nickel ride on a street car,
much less a voyage de luxe TO
the Old World, and the showing
of the team in competition with
athletes of other nations prob
ably will result in a drive to i'm
prove American proficiency in
winter sports.
This, then, should result in the
manufacture and sale in large
quantities of skates, skis, boots,
costumes, and certainly a large
proportion of the apparel, which
is expensive and governed by
changing moods of style, will be
provided by our Jewish neighbors
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Gratis one big happy family over
election day.
For the last few days the
Democrats have been fighting
among themselves again. The
main center of trouble is Gov.
Martin Davey, the tree surgeon.
Only God can make tree, but
Davey's tree surgeons take over
the job where God. leaves of.
This noble work, however, does
not SEINE to have endeared the
surgical Governor to his fellow
men. They complain a great
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For Chief Justice Hughes the
courts pronounced disharmony
this term has been a severe trial.
Throughout his six years as Chief
Justice he has eXerted great eff
forts to act as a conciliator among
his colleagues and to avoid dis
senting opinions.
In past sessions of the court he
succeeded to a remarkable degree.
But this term the number of
issues presented, their Importance
and the depth of feeling of the
viewpoints involved were too
much for him.
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FLA Quandary

T OCAL Federal Housing Ad-
IL miniStration speakers, long on
oratory but short on humor, have
been placed in a quandary. 1t
happened this way:
Ace speaker of the agency is Ar
thur Walsh, assistant administra-
tor. His talks are enlivened with
sparkling witticisms and amusing
anecdotes.
But in an address to an audi
ence of business men in a South
ern city, which he had never Wis
tied before, none of Mr.. Walsh's
sallies went over. Stories that
evoked hearty laughter elsewhere
got only a faint ripple of Oitters.
Mr.. Walsh was much puzzled.
After the meeting he asked a
friend what was wrong.
Nothing" was the reply, "only
we heard all those jokes a week
or so ago from one of your local
officials"
When he returned to his Office
in Washington, Mr.. Walsh learned
that his speeches had been mime
ographed and distributed to FILA
officials as models of good sales
talks.
Il appreciate the compliment"
said Mr.. Walsh, "but let them dig
up their own jokes" forth
with issued an order putting
halt to the distribution of his
speeches.
= =
Prophets Honor
DROPHET HERBERT HOOVER
Il is not without honor, save in
his own country.
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About Those Dissents

TN the Is cases on which there
l. were dissents the three liberal
justices - Stone, Cardozo and
BrandeiS - were on the winning
side only five tmies. Justice Nc
Reynolds was the lone dissenter
in the S-to-1 case, involving
rights to certain Los Angeles
tidal water lands.
Chief Justice Hughes and JUS
tice Roberts, the so-called bal
ance of power" on the court, sided
with the four conservative mem
bers eight and II times, respec-
lively. Each also has handed
down one dissenting opinion this
term.
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Congress Complex

PUT all the time was boiling inside with fierce
~ eagerness to add my cents worth. Just what
happens to the spectator who interrupts the proceed
ings of the House do not know. OF course, even in
my widest fantasies 1 never dreamed of butting
in on the Senate Presumably the penalties are pro-
digious
And 1 fought the good fight entirely within
myself and maintained, outWardly at least perfect
decorum
But that's the way you get inhibtons and COM
pleXeS. 1 am suffering acutely from suppressed
desire to be a congressman, and, unfortunately,
am beginning TO act, to talk and to look like
congressman.
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auZnouNh'
BY
WESIbR00k PEGLER

ARMISCH- PARTENKIRCHEN Feb 17-Per-
~ haps it's just well the United States did
not boycott the winter Olympic games conducted in
the Bavarian Alps under the sign of the Swastka.
If the trip had been called off the firm jawed,
clean-limbed, clear-eyed American athletes would
and privilege, to say nothing of a free trip 10
Europe. and might have blamed the Jews for that
Now, however. at most they demonstrated that
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BY ARCH STEINEL

SKM list of II persons that you know in Indianapolis
and Marion County and if you're cosmopolte then, in
theory two of the IL should depend work grocery
lief to exc out existence.
Seer? Nobut all that is necessary to check that fact
is to go up the first 55 persons that meet and hail
them and they should say according to Marion County
Works Progress Administration records and those of the
township trustees Eyes, relief"
The countys relief rolls, both WPA and those of town.
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The morning after Mr.. Hoover's
slashing attack on the Admins
tration's spending policies, a letter
was received at the White House
from the city authorities of Palo
Alto, Cal, the home town of the
former President.
The city fathers complained
bitterly about an order, issued by
Secretary Ickes, reducing a PWA
grant for a municipal power plant
from $4,000 to $164,OOO. They
petitioned the President to direct
Mr.. Ickes to restore the $4,000
cut.
Note-Mr. Ickes slashed the al
location as an economy move
when he learned that the city
authorities had quietly reduced
the sum they had pledged to put
up as their share of the project.
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Moreover, the impending conversion of large
element of the American tribe to the sports which
are discoursed in the ice and snow will be a boon
to the hotel trade in the mountains, where GUS
tomarily mine host throws himself into his under
wear when last summers boarders have departed
and settles down to long period of proftlesS hi
bernation.
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and heard. He looks down upon
the Representatives, and out of
his new geographical location
there grows in him a Gunga
Dinish feeling that he is a bet
ter man than the fellow from
Massachusetts who is making the
speech.
Particularly when some long
winded and perfectly familiar
anecdote was being retailed l
could hardly resist the tempta-
ton of speeding things up and
giving the catchword in advance.
But my long training as
dramatic critic came in handy. I
managed to preserve a look Of
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take a chance of some one freez-
ing to death"
Il wouldn't be surprised but that
some peddled extra orders of coal
which they received from us" he
asserted.
A woodward operated by the
trustee reduces the fuel costs.
Nine thousand garments sewn
by 600 women on Marion County
WPA dressmaking project have
done much to alleviate clothing
needs.
The average relief case1families
not persons-in Center Town.
ship, which constitutes Indian
apolis relief clients, receives $3.50
monthly or $4.58 weekly at the
trustees office, >214 N. Senate-av.
The above average is $376
higher than the states average for
direct relief in January. The state
average is $14.54 month in gro
Gerry orders or 1884 week.
DIRECT relief for each per-
IL son on the trustees rolls
is lower due to the larger num-
Der Of single persons receiving
food aid. January relief was
given at the rate of 1882 month
ly or $1.65 week for each per-
son on relief, while the state
average per person is $4.58 a
month and $115 a week.
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Democrats in Ohio
Can't Remain Pals
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

CLEVELAND. Feb. 17-Ohio's major boondoggling
~ project centers around Ratchet. Democratic
leaders meet and bury it one week Then the next
week they dig it up. One week they all pals.
The next week every carries his own bodyguard.
Whether Roosevelt wins Ohio next November may
depend somewhat upon whether not the Ratchet
happens to be buried that week, making the Demo-
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Business Is Business

DEOPLE here have the general appearance of
l. strength and health which comes from personal
participation in the various sliding and skating
games on the Olympic program. Unlike the
American visitors to the winter Oympcs at Lake
Placid the majority of them go up into the noun
tans for the championship contests under their own
power on skis At Lake Placid they used taxicabs
almost exclusively
And pertaining to the activities of the favorite
American winter sport of wrestling with Tom
Conses by the hour in the shade of striped
umbrella the brink of tropc sea, believe that
the doctor would recommend the former.
Ard TO return to the sordd subject of commerce,
it is good outlet, for or woman taking up
winter sports in big way will run up bill Of
$75 or $780, After all, business is business, and it
suggests another drop of water for the printing OF
that pump.
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HEY.WOOD.B R0I)N

TT is just barely possible that picked up bad
habit in Washington, although my friends
hereabouts assure me that had it when I went in.
My notion to blame Congress. 1t is very
difficult to sit in the press gallery of the House
without feeling terrific urge to precpitate your
self into the proceedings. Strategically. a in
the gallery is ideally spotted if he wishes to be seen
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The four unanimous opinions
were: Cd rejection of Huey Longs
discriminatory tax against certain
Louisiana newspapers; 20 invali-
dating that section of the Home
Loan Corporation Act permitting
the Federalizing of building and
loan associations over the protests
of state authorities; 60 uphold-
ing the Maryland law taxing RFC
stock in state banks; a. sustain
ing the Oregon statute liking
standard containers for raspber-
ries and strawberries.
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
by DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN

N7ASHINGTON. Feb. 1.-THE
w number of state and Fed
eral laws whose constitutionality
it has been asked to review is not
the only record being hung up
this term by the Supreme Court.
In handing down these judg-
ments the great tribunal is also
setting a new high water mark
in the frequency of dissents-
some of them extremely bitter
among the nine justices.
In no other term in the history
of the court have its members
split so often and with such
sharpness. Of the 19 important
rulings rendered up to Feb. 10,
the last decision day, the record
r-T
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ter Township. One of Miss
Noone's most competent social
workers is a former head of
children's bureau of a private re-
lief agency. She was hired, it is
said, without regard to her politics,
but stress was placed on her
qualifications as a social worker.
THE direct relief dollar has
- taken a cutting in Center
Township due to increased coal
prices and the sub-zero weather
which caused an unprecedented
demand for coal.
Catering to all of the direct re-
lief clients of Indianapolis or
1910 cases, total of 24,732 per-
sons, the Center Township trustee
spent $139,251 for direct relief in
January, 1886, against $191 900
spent on combined FERA and
direct relief load of 1929 cases
in January, 1895.
The comparative relief dollars
for food and household necessi-
ties for the unemployables shows
an increase in costs with fuel up
per cent over January, 1885.
The two monthly dollars for
direct relief in the township in
1885 and 1886, and what each
dollar bought is shown in this
table:
January, 1885.
Food and household necessities. SO56S
salaries COMMUNICATIONS. O.1O3
housing .................... O.052
Clothing NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. OO4
Other costs-medical aid-buriafs O.O12
Total ....................S 1.00
January, 1886
Food and household necessities >. SO.562
FUEL .................... O2S4
salaries '.'... ................... DOCS
housing ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 0.052
Ciotnlng .'...s.............. 0.02
otner costs '.................... O014
Iotai ..................... .$1.00
Il
INCREASE in coal prices from
Il $4.61 ton of one year ago to
$4.73 ton today has increased the
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SALVAGING 475,000 HOLSTERS
1t of EUey II i'm County Are ON Direct Aid or Work Rolls

a o
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average monthly aid to direct re-
lief families and persons.
But walk into a home of di-
rect relief client and ask the
housewife to divide her weekly
relief budget. If she has four
persons in her family and re-
ceives all relief benefits the bud
uot should lnnlr lilo THO.
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INCREASE in coal prices from
Il $4.61 a ton of one year ago to
$4.73 ton today has increased the
township taxpayers bill.
Then too," adds Mr.. Smith,
"the severe cold weather increased
the demand for coal. We know
We were imposed upon by some
relief clients, but we would rather
deliver an extra ton of coal than
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aloof and utter boredom during the de
which I was most passionately interested.