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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-06
Defenders of Culture

TN spite of the fact that, Admiral Fiske sees Hitler
Il and Mussoln as the leaders in the movement for
the preservation of culture he generously accords
place in the family of great nations to several lag
CARDS Thus we find him saying, "At the present
time. for instance, the only nations that really
be called great nations the only nations that are
able to keep up any advance in culture are the
United states, Great Britain France Germany Italy.
and Japan" ~
They said the Premier's body lay all night under
a blanket of snow after the asSaSsins had gone but
later it proved that relative had sacrificed himself
to the japanese leader from the hands of the
cuturists They lie lonely and sometimes sob at
night in Italy because their far away cviliz
ing Ethiopia. In Germany the fires dance at night
the books burned and in the concentration
camps the prisoners who are dashed do not moan
loudly. Lads in Edinburgh jeef at Allehby when he
talks of peace, at home Hearsts in his heaven
And Bradley A. Fiske can retire to pleasant
dreams of drum fire. Culture marches on.
Copyright.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-06
Liberal Viewpoint
BY HARRY ELMER BARNES


THE munition makers, especially in the United
States, have of late been subjected to very severe
criticism in important books the reports of Sena-
torial investigating committees and the like
1 have no desire or intention of withdrawing
munition makers. But the against them will be
all the stronger we bring to light everything which
can be said in their behalf and admit the important
episodes in which they have not been primarily to
blame
very important instance has been brought to
light by Miss Rose M. Stein in her book "M-Day"
The du Pont Co. of Wilmington, DEL had been
one of the largest producers of military power during
the World War, turning out on an average 1900 900
pounds Of smokeless powder day. The war came
to end.
So the sales director of the firm Mai. K K "
Casey, had conference with Gen. C. c. Williams
Chief OF Ordnance of the United States Army in
June, 1919. Maj Casey pointed cut to Gen Williams
that there was every reason why the government
should now manufacture its powder
But Gen. Williams, speaking for the government
was opposed to this proposition AS Miss Stein puts it,
Gen. Williams, according to Maj. Casey was
emphatically opposed to the suggestion 1t was I'M
thinkable. Military powder and the du Points were
inseparable."
So the du Pont Co. was persuaded by the govern.
ment against its own better judgment to remain as
the principal producer of military powder in the
United States.
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Ing can be arranged where we
would have an opportunity to lay
our problems presumably equip
ping the Northwest route) directly
before the new Administration,
: and, if we can, lay out proposal
that will be looked upon with ia
vor. Apparently Eugene Vidal is
slated for the Department of Com
merce job although it has not yet
been officially confirmed"
Eugene Vidal, now director of
the Bureau of Air Commerce,
was general manager of the Lud-
ington Line between New York
and Washington in the early days
of airmail, and made Amelia Ear
hart his vice president.
On April II, Col. Brittin again
wrote to Hunter: I'm just in
receipt of letter from George
Putnam husband of Amelia Ear
hart) saying that they are spend
ing the night of goth at the
White House, and will be in Wash
ington on the 21st."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-06
They Don't See Behind the Scenes

"HAT the masses do not see however, is that
W the boom is a purely government financed
AFFAIR." that the country is living mostly it's CAPT.
tal that its raw materials are dwindling and new
stocks can not be imported that the money realized
from the sale of goods is going into armies naves air
forces tanks big guns strategic highways fortica-
lions, little or none of which is productive.
The stark, terrifying likelihood therefore is that
one bright morning the population may wake up and
find their jobs gone, their savings accounts frozen
their life insurance policies unrealizabe save in steel
and cement Notifications and poison gas and that
the day of reckoning is at hand
No German regime will lightly face such a con-
tngency least of all regime like Hitlers Yet from
This dilemma there seems at this moment only one
possible avenue of escape namely the military one
Eastern Europe always has had a fascination for
than now
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-06

has fine trailer and plans to fish
lot in the next 10 or 20 years.
THESE are not unusual cases.
u Five years, even three years
ago, most trailerites were drifters,
transient laborers, persons of small
and doubtful means. You prob
ably were justified in keeping a
careful eye on the chickens and
the melon patch when a trailer
family parked in the grove across
the road
1t may take a few years for the
caravaneers to live down this
gypsy reputation. But it would be
unfair to judge the rank and file
today by the sins of a few of the
hungry, homeless lot that lived
catch-as- catch-can in early trail
er days. -4154
The new house trailers have
comforts not found in many
American homes. They are, more ).
soundly constructed than the
shacks and tenements- that house
millions. Only the oldest models
are without electric lights and
running water.
TINE figures are not at hand,
i but I know that scandalous
percentage of housewives in this
progressive nation must draw
water from well and sew by
lamplight.
But to interview some more
jewellers at the Clearwater (Fla.)
camp. There was an old couple
living on railroad pension.
There was family of four,
mother, father, grandfather and
small grandson. The old mans
Civil War pension seemed to feed
them well.
Adjusted service certificate cash
bought the trailer. They are go
ing to California with the bonus.
Grandfather's rheumatism was
much better in the sun and fresh
air and he should get his monthly
check for many years. When that
income ceases father expects to
have a World War pension.
There was a Montana family
of six. Fathers health demanded
more sunshine and they went on
a years trip, looking for a per-
manent residence. But they like
trailer life, so they may stretch
the tour indefinitely.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-06

A GAIN on June 20, George Pal
L n mer putnam wrote to Hun
ter apparently taking credit for
the appointment of Eugene Vidal
as Director of the Air Bureau and
indicating that his wife could help
Northwest Always further. He
said:
Sunday we wanted to talk to
you on the phone because we had
right interesting news from
Washington. I am venturing this
note to ask if there is any chance
of your being East soon. There
are things we would a little bit
rather not write about.
Failing conservation, perhaps
A. E. or I can have a chat with
you on the phone. AS perhaps you
know, Eugene Vidal has landed in
Washington. There's been quite
an internal mixup. Out of it a.
very satisfactory situation has
emerged. He becomes director of
air regulations, which, as you
know, is the branch covering Ii
censing new lines, new ships and
all that sort of thing"
Copyright 1885, by United Feature
Syndicate, Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-06
Times Books

NTHEN the African King Jugurtha ran afoul of
w the might of ancient Rome, some 81 centuries
ago. and found that he able to buy himself out
OF jams as fast as he got into them. he remarked
cynically: The world is for SALE if any one can
find buyer
You are apt to dust of that remark and use it
afresh after you finish reading Emmanuel H. La
vines new book, Cheese 1.-THE Cops!"
For Mr. Lavine, veteran New York police re-
porter, has set down here such a sorry record of
knavery and venality in American police depart
ments as to make wonder If there are any
honest men left in the republic
MIR. Lavines book Is exceedingly refreshing for
all its discouragng revelations because it handles
without gloves the whole problem of law enforce
ment.
1t ought to be text in every course of civics in
the land Published by Vanguard. it sells for $3.50.
Bruce Catton) d
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-06

The AnSUer Must Be Eyes"

T Mike ordinary unemployment projects-in
~ themselves difficult enough to drop unless the
workers are absorbed into regular business and in
dustry-Germanys new national defense plans can
not be allowed to lapse or even be postponed no
matter what happens Or so the Nazs reason
so at the very moment when the Reich is Begin
ming to feel the pinch of the past three years of
heavy financial drain and feel it terribly impera-
tive new demands from the national economy are
made by Herr Hitler and he will not take no" for
an answer
Where the money is to come from nobody knows
Germany has no foreign credit There is talk of
British land therefore politicaD loan of 10 or IA
million pounds, but that is problematical Even
should 1t mateTIaliZe, banker here privately adj
mitted, it would be like pouring a single bucket of
water on prairie fire. What is required is billions
not millions.
1our-tenths of one per cent of the gold reserve of
the united States And that must be husbanded to
guard against actual hunger. Were there a Single
major crop fa1lure-Say the potato or grain CROP
the whole OF Germanys gold reserve would be wiped
OUT Without credit and without foreign exchange
Germany has to pay cash down for all she imnorts
unless she can arrange to swap commodities for
commodities.
And her credit at home is beginning to tighten
reaoy she is resortng virtually to forced loans AS
ALREADY stated billions top of billions of Short
term paper has been put out until banks and other
financial institutions literally stuffed with it. It
is not case OF not wanting any more but often of
not being able to take any more
The end, therefore, would not far distant
Today the masses ignorant of Gernlany's peril
Gus economic position. What the people see is a
country specifically better off than it has been since
the war Jobs are more plentiful. Barring the
ptable plight of the Jews and other mnorities times
seem vastly better Herr Hitler unquestionably rates
hlgher with his followers today than at any time in
MS career. To them he appears as a huge shining
success
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-06

THERE was a salesman, SAM
Il pies neatly arranged in the
trailer. He drove right up to the
customers door and displayed his
entire line. You can't beat eye
appeal, he said.
Next, a travelling entertainer
and lecturer, Phi. D. with a
dozen letters after his name. He
had lecture scheduled at the
large resort hotel up the bay. 1
caught him puzzling over income
tax forms.
There were two Kansas families
from the same village. The two
children of one family were, in
school at Clearwater. The other
outfit had to return home and
was worrying about flooded roads.
No one seemed to know much
about the next couple. Their ex-
pensive car bore New Jersey plates
and their trailer CLEANED with ma
hogany and silver She sat I'M
der a.. gayly-striped awning and
knitted when. the dishes were
washed, and he went out on the
fishing boats or dangled a line
from the causeway bridge when
the wind rolled the waves too high
in the Gulf.
NEXT door were two college
L y graduates seeing the world
before looking for work. In fact,
one of them had landed job in
lama for the fall.
, Here was a: quaint couple; two
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Only by these miracles of
hand-to-mouth existence are
they able to stave off disaster
in the seemingly most threat
ened sector, namely that of
economics. Yet were that part
of the line to give way, the in
ternal and international roper
cussions would unquestionably
be grave.
Nevertheless the signs are
multiplying fast that DR.. Hjalmar
Schacht, Minister of National
Economy, president of the
Reichsbank, and his new boss.
Gen. Hermann Goering, can
not possible expect to hold the
fort indefinitely.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-06


culture. He speaks of the golden
age of Pericles and thinks of
Michelangelo and machine guns
Of Shakespeare and of shrapnel.
ut is a fact that after ma
ton has gone through a successful
war the energy lasts for a con-
siderable period after the war has
ceased"
Yes, there is still public for
one more book by Coningsby
Dawson, another verse of Hin
key-Dinkey Parlez VouS" and
enough. surplus civilizing force
tn found the Ku-KllIY Klan
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-06
Washington Merry-Go-Round

VX7AsHINGTON, May 6.-To
Wv +boca m +ba ;~e;do 49,

VX7AsHINGTON, May 6.-To
w those on the inside, the
Senate investigation into airplane
accidents in general and the Sena-
tor Cutting crash in particular,
ended in a shimmering whitewash
for pretty much all concerned.
Whenever Senator Copeland, saw
an unSavory situation about to
break before his committee, he side
stepped with alacrity astounding for
his age. He CLOSED over the rows
between the air lines and the Bu-
reau of Air Commerce. He shut his
eyes to internal politics running rife
within the bureau. &
Most important of all, he steered
clear of implications Of wire-pull-
ing by members of the Roosevelt
family, and by Amelia Earhart,
close friend of Mrs. Roosevelt.
Shortly after the Roosevelt Ad-
ministration came into Office,
Croyl Hunter, president of North
west Anyways, Inc, endeavored to
get a government appropriation
for air aids, lights, ETC., along the
route travelled by his planes from
st. Paul to Seattle. Equipping the
1904 miles of this route would
cost about $1,200,0O0.
ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT was a
IL friend of Hunters, and some
evidence came before the Com
mittee that Elliott was associated
with him. One letter apologized
for the mention of Elliott's name
as a director of Northwest Air
ways and explained that it was
meant to be Robert Bonner, at
that time Elliott's brother in law
Through his first wife, Elizabeth
Bonner Roosevelt.)
Hunter also wrote letters to
Anna Roosevelt Dali, addressed
Dear Anna" and expressing the
hope that she impress on her ia,
ther the Importance of aviation.
There was no evidence that
either Anna or Elliott did use
their influence, although Senator
Copeland never permitted an OPP
portunity to find out one way or
the other.
Amelia Earhart began to figure
in the picture on March 20, 1888,
when a letter was written to Mr..
Hunter by Col. Lewis H. Brittin,
vice president of Northwest Air
ways and its representative in
Washington. Blittin later served
10 days for contempt of the Sem
ate during Senator Blacks air
mail investigation.
n . e
VXTRITTNG to Hunter, presi-
wv dent of Northwest Always,
Brittin said:
Amelia Earhart had lunch last
week at the White House and /
think 1t Is quite possible a meet
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-06

At another camp were two COL
lege professors, spending Sabbath
cal yearssin the open. One was a
zoologist. He collected strange,
mushy sea beasts from the tide
flats.
These are typical cases. They
might be your neighbors at home.
It's hard to tell by their clothes
or manners whether they have
plenty of money or just enough
to live.
Money makes little difference
here. The road and the sunshine
and fresh air and good fishing are
all free.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-06

elderly ladies, one ats least 70, the
other about so. Both widows, I
believe, living on insurance in
vestments of thoughtful husbands.
They left. a year ago. with only
tent but acquired the trailer in
month or two.
The next couple had been here
two years, summer, and winter.
They appeared to be stranded.
Their trailer was on jacks and
their car tires fiat. Now and then
he got an odd job, but it was gen.
orally believed they lived mostly
on the fish he caught from the
bridge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-06
Haywood BR0UN

NEW YORK, May 6.-Bradley A. Fiske,
who was rear admiral in the Navy of
the United States, is now retired and as he
sits and watches the embers of a dying
fire he sees within the smoke the images of
wars which are gone and wars to come
And the old man finds them good
Indeed, he has taken up his pen and written a
letter TO the New York Herald Tribune in praise of
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/GKw M1M
BY
VIM. PHILIP SIMMS
Batting for Westbrook Pegler.l

RERLlN, May 6.-Titanic, apparently If
resistible forces-economic political
and international-are racing like triple
trains of powder towards an explosion In
Nazi Germany.
Daily her masters are performing verb
table financial wzardries robbng Peter to pay Paul.
then dragooning Paul in some manner to even things
Date
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-06
BY GEORGE H. DENNY

BY GEORGE H. DENNY
A CENSUS of the thou
sands of persons now
living in house trailers
might bare some facts rela-
tive to the state of the ma
ton.
It is fair to assume that
a great percentage of these
wanderers are victims of
political or economic cir
cumstances.
Since there has been no such
census we must rely on estimates
to compute the number and on
questioning a few to determine
the motives of the mass.
Numerical estimates of the
trailerites range from 100000 to
more than 100000. Certainly the
throngs have tripled or quad
rupled in less than two years.
Ask any trailer camp manager.
For months I have been living
in, a house trailer, parking with
these persons in their camps,
prying into their houses and af-
fairs.
found that about half we're
simply on vacations ranging from
two weeks to a year; living in
trailers because they saw it was
the cheapest and most comfort
able way to the best fishing and
swimming.
DUT we can't disregard these
- pleasure seekers as prospects
for permanent trailer life. Hav-
ing sampled freedom and indie
pendence they are apt to return
to this life at the first sign of
trouble at home.
For instance, the couple from
northern Indiana.
This is just a vacation for me-"
he said. 1.-THE doctor recommend
ed rest for month or two and
l rented this trailer from friend.
Its a glorious life he con-
tinued. Il realize now what I've
missed. hope to sell out in the
next year or two, before taxes ruin
me, and hit the road. for good"
1t developed he was a real
estate operator and owner; mostly
small rental properties.
"The property taxes are bad
enough but the state gross income
tax is the last straw" he said. 81
never kicked on an income tax on
profits but now they are levying
on red ink.
ae<a
THE man from Wisconsin
Il with the home made trailer
was of the same mindS He was
a contractor.
~ was on the wrong side of the
political fence so I missed out on
the Federal work and that's all
the work we mad in my county"
he said.
Then l saw trouble ahead with
the government spending so much
money. ] was lucky to find
buyer"
OF course 1 have no way to
check the accuracy of these or
following statements.
The depression started many
trailerites on their rowing lives.
In dozens of cases the stories are
nearly identical.
TINE former owner of a general
L store in a Dakota town lost
money in the drought and the dust
storms. He paid creditors from
savings and boarded the store
windows. He traded his insur-
ance equities for an annuity that
will keep him and his wife nicely
in trailer.
Let the store rot" he laughed.
-Four years of depression broke
the health and spirit of Maine
manufacturer. Six months in a
sanitarium, worrying about busi-
ness, did hira no good. His wife
stopped the worry by selling the
factory to a competitor. Friends
who were trailer fans persuaded
them to try the life.
After year ne is brown and
healthy He rs net yet so, but does
he ,yearn for the grind? He does
not. He, is moderately wealthy,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-06

GermanyS stupendous work creating projects of
1883 and 1884, costing billions of marks which had
to be borrowed on short-term loans have now given
way to even bigger and costlier rearmament schemes
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-06

when a nation. is fighting for it's life every
mental and moral and physical energy is aroused
and is used"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-06

The Times today presents the third in
its series Of articles on the amazing
popularity of the house trailer for auto
mobiles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-06

HISTORY: Oklahoma never had native Gov
ernor or Senator In Oklahoma Governors are
elected and then impeached. Only two were con-
yicted and ousted. So It doesn't meaQs anything.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-06

yXTRITTNG to Hunter, presi-
w dent of Northwest Always,
Brittin said:
Amelia Earhart, had lunch last
week at the White House and I
think 1t is quite possible a meet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-21
CLUESEXHAUSTED
IN PLANE SEARCH
Company Offers 900 for
Trace of Transport With
Seven Aboard.
BULLETIN.

NS6Q FcltS ElClu NY loNAo IOduy
that he had sighted what he be-
lieved to be wreckage Of Che
missing Northwest Airlines trans
port plane near Calder. Idaho. "A
pilot and co-pilot were aboard the
airship when it disappeared early
Friday. The brief message said
only that he had found the ship.
and that he could not determine
whether Pilot Joe Livermore and
Co-Pilot Arthur A. Maid were alive.
By the Associated Press.
SALT LAKE CITY, December 81.
The Wintry West locked the fate
Of nine missing persons in its cold
and snow today as Western Air Ex-
press officials, posting a 81 900 reward,
announced a search ION our own"
for one Of two planes seven days after
1t disappeared.
Admitting "every clue exhausted"
the officials offered the reward, eff
fective until noon, January 4, for dis
covery Of the Los Angeles-Salt Lake
transport, lost with five men and two
women since Tuesday.
The ship. last reported over Mil
ford. in Southwestern Utah, is sought
in that vicinity and northward and
East Central Nevada.
Five hundred miles Northwest
Ranger M. T. Olmsted turned the hunt
to a new sector in North Idaho for
Pilot Joe 'Livermore, Co-pilot A. A.
Haid and their Northwest airlines
transport, missing since Friday.
Last Report Over Idaho.
Livermore made his last radio report
over Elk River, Idaho. The search
had conferred between there and
Spokane. Olmsted said, however, the
transport flew low over the forest
service station at Calder, 40 miles
north of Elk River, Friday, then
turned west toward Spokane.
Similar reports by three other Calder
residents prompted extension of the
land and air search to the Calder
region today. But Pilot Roy Shrek,
saying I'VE combed every ridge and
canyon in the Calder area" discounted
the new lead.
One thousand C. c. C. enrollees,
Army officers and enlisted men were
assigned to comb mountainous sections
OF Utah over which S. j. Samson NAV
have piloted the Western Air Express
plane. They were part of 5000 men
placed at disposal of airline officials
by Brig. Gen. Walter c. Sweeney. COM
mander of Fort Douglas, near Salt
Lake City.
A dozen planes continued an aerial
search.
I'VE have exhausted every clue. and
now we are going to work on our own
estimate CT what Pilot Samson NAV
have done" Allan Barrie, company
vice president. said.
Messages Amateur Calls"
I'VE believe now the messages heard
here. at Kingman, Ariz,, and at Las
Vegas, New. Saturday was merely some
amateur calling George at Salt Lake
not st. George, Utah, or Salt LAKE."
Barrie explained.
In Utah, reported flights" turned
out to be welding operations along a
railroad. In Western Nevada Pilot
Ralph Hall, after checking reports of
desert fares" doubted the plane had
reached that region.