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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-22
Text Of Roosevelt's
Washington Day Talk

and library buildings amounting to
more than 100000 900.
I'VE are also providing through
the Works Progress Administration
educational courses for thousands Of
groups of adults wherever there are
competent unemployed teachers:
and through the National Youth
Administration funds for part time
employment TO help deserving young
people to earn their way through
accredited colleges and universities
in all parts of the United States.
I'VE have rightly taken the posi-
ton that in spite of the fact that
economic adversely through these
years might impose upon the youth
of the country distressing and I'M
avoidable burdens, the government
owed it to the future of the nation
to see that these burdens should not
include the denial of educational op-
portunities for those who were will
ing and ready to use them to adj
vantage.
Educational progress in the past
generation has wen to this coun-
try population more literate, more
cultured, in the best sense of the
word, and more aware of the COM
plexities of modern civilized life
than ever before in our history. And
while the methods of spreading edu..
cation are new, the lessons of edu-
cation are eternal. The books may
be new but the truth is old.
1.-THE qualities of true education
remain what they were when Wash
ington insisted upon its Importance
First among these qualities is a
sense of fair play among men.
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MILLION SEEK DEGREES

But progress in the things of the
mind has been even more striking
in these past so years. In my child
hood a high school education was
an exceptional opportunity for an
American boy or girl; college edu-
cation was possible only to an ex-
ceedingly small minority. Profess
sional schools had hardly come into
existence. Since 1900, while the ma
tons population has increased by
about 10 per cent, the enrolment
in all branches of institutions of
higher learning has increased about
400 per cent.
"At the beginning of this century
the total enrolment in our COL
leges and universities was just one
student short of 10000.
II think it is too bad they did
not get that other one student-if
only to round out the number and
ease the way for future statisticians.
To-day well over a million stu
dents are seeking degrees in our
colleges and universities and more
than 100000 are enrolled in ex-
tension courses and summer schools.
I think that we of Temple Univer-
sity-I am exercising my right now
to speak as an alumnus-can take
special pride in the part that our
institution here has taken in this
growth. This institution has car
ried in practice the basic ideal of
it's great founder, the late DR.. Rus
sell H. Conwell.
HE believed that every young
person should be given chance to
obtain a good education and he
founded Temple University to meet
the needs of those who might not
be able to afford a college educa-
ton elsewhere. He believed that
education should respond to COM
munity needs and fit itself into the
many-sided and complex life that
modern conditions have imposed
upon us.
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(COnt1nucQ from rage OneJ
was in Washington's day. Old sur
veyor's records we're brought out
from dusty files, but they disagreed
and only added to the confusion.
Rep. Bloom cabled London and
received a report from the British
record Office tina THE Rappahannock
in Washington's day was more than
1900 feet wide.
Imagine Washington throwing
anything nearly 500 yards" Mr.
Bloom scoffed.
w. B. F. Cole, Fredericksburg
commonwealth attorney, protested
that if British records were correct,
Fredericksburg would have been
flooded off the map.
Maybe Johnson or some one else
can throw a dollar over the river
today, but they couldn't do it over
the river that ran by the farm in
Washington's day." Rep. Bloom said.
World Series Gallery
"And that's my bet. Washington
didn't do it, any more than he cut
down that cherry tree, and no one
else can. The bet still is open to
any one who can throw dollar
1900 feet"
Whether Rep. Bloom himself will
witness Johnson's attempt was
doubtful, as the SeOate and House
Of Representatives, usually in recess
on Saturday, meet especially to
hear Washingtons farewell address
read.
Johnson was bit nervous as the
crucial hour approached. He has
trained to fine edge by pitching
dollars at barn door on his farm
near Germantown, Md, for week.
The eyes of the nation were focused
on him as it never was in his long
career as baseball pitcher. His
gallery was of World Series pro-
portions.
Some One Else's Dollars
The big Train" insisted upon
just one thing-that some one else
furnish the dollars. Besides, he
said, he didn't have a silver dollar.
So Rep. Bloom sent him one
minted in 1896. 1t was one of the
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is entirely fiction. It's incidents
and characters are entirely imag-
mary. But with the phenomenal
babies as centerpoint, the au-
thors have written a story that, in
addition to being an absorbing
yarn in itself, gives you much of
the color and romance of the
country in which the quins were
really born.
THE new serial is illustrated
l. with still photos from the
just-completed movie production
of the same story, and with new
and unpublished pictures Of the
quintuplets themselves as they ap-
pear in their irst starring movie.
While fictional in detail. The
Country Doctor" presents a lue
and vivid picture of life on the
fringes of civilization in the
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Johnson Ready to Try
Washington Dollar Feat

earliest minted, Mr.. Bloom said.
He said there we're no silver dol-
lars when Washington was boy.
Accompanying the dollar was LETT :
ter: :
walter, there is no one in the
world who wishes you more sue
cess than I do. After you have
warmed up and have two strikes
and three balls on the other fellow,
use this dollar, because I believe
that the eagle on the dollar is in !.
flight, it might bring you the good
luck that millions of people
throughout the country are wishing
you, and the eagle in its flight
might assist in carrying this across
the Rappahannock.
Wishes Walter Good Luck g
Good luck to you, Walter, and
whether you are successful or not
the next time I see you we will
celebrate, because I know that
George Washington, who was al
ways lover of good sport, would
wish you the same as I am doing
today"
Johnson was undecided whether
he would use Rep. Blooms dollar
on the first attempt. Banker John
F. Gouldman Jr. provided 10 silver
cartwheels, but said he hoped Wal
ter wouldn't waste any of them.
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TINE versatile Dionne Quin-
Il tuplets stepped into a new
role today-as heroines of a popu-
lar novel-with the announce
ment that quintuplets are the
leading characters in The Coun-
try Doctor" newspaper serial
story to be printed in The Times
in daily installments, beginning
Monday, Feb. "a.
Around these popular ba-
bies has been written a thrilling
story of the far north, of coun-
try doctors battles for life and
limb amid dread epidemics, of
dashing young flier who dared a
blizzard to save little lives, and
won love as well.
This story, based on the see
mario of THE Country Doctor"
the quintuplets' first full-length
movie starring venture, just COM
pleted by Twentieth Century-Fox,
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ITALIAN TROOPS
REPORTED FIXED
TO STORM PEAK
Resumption of Advance on
Amba Alagi Ridge
Expected Today.
By United Press

By United Press
ROME, Feb. 22-Italian troops
are on two sides of the ridge of
Amba Alagi on the northern front
in Ethiopia and are ready for the
final assault on the 11,188-foot
peak, unofficial dispatches from
Asmara said today.
Units of the Sabauda and Sila
divisions of regulars and the Jam
uary 3 division of Fascist blackshirt
militiamen, the dispatches said. oc-
cupied the sides of the ridge late
yesterday. :
The advance was suspended for
the night, the dispatches said, and
it was believed that the Italians
might put the flag on the peak
sometime today.
Before the dispatches arrived off,
Gals confirmed that the Italians
were advancing. They limited that
the soldiers were approaching the
terrible, jagged peak of Mount
Alagi and would occupy it soon.
Capture of the peak would be
victory strategically more important
than any in the war, and senti-
mentally the most important since
the occupation at Aduwa.
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northland, and it is in addition a
beautiful tribute to all country
doctors, as we'll as to the never
failing charm of the iovable quin-
tuplets.
Into a situation complicated by
hatreds and intrigues, as well as
by a stormy love affair, come sud-
denly the quintuplets, and the way
in which their unexpected appear
ance straightens everything out
makes a thrilling tale. The story
is full of characters just as low
able as the ones in the real affair
at Callander, and no one will want
to miss a single chapter of this
stirring saga starring the most
famous and most beloved babies
in the world.
-
VXTHILE the quintuplet scenes
w in the moving picture ver-
sion of The Country Doctor"
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were photographed under the per-
sonal supervision of DR.. Allan Roy
Dafoe, the quintuplets' physician
since their birth, the film story
is in no manner a novelization of
DR.. Dafoe's life or, for that mat
ter, the real lives of the quin-
tuplets.
Producers and authors both
stress the point that the entire
work is based entirely on an i'm
aginary plot and story.
For the Twentieth Century Fox
Film Corporation, Daryl F. Ia
muck, brilliant young Hollywood
executive, has been in charge of
the production.
The film was directed by Henry
King. with Nunally johnson act
ing as associate producer. The
screen play was written by Sonya
Levien, based on a story by
Charles Blake.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-22
Army Reduction limited

By Untted Press
ROME, Feb. 22.-Premier Benito.
Mussolini has decided TO release
some 100000 soldiers from his army
of more than 100000. according to-
information received today from
usually most reliable sources.
The men would be sent home by
degrees, on indefinite furlough and
subject to recall within "a hours il
necessary. Only men now in Italy
would be affected.
The report was denied officially.
At the same time, it was again an
nounced that the Supreme Army
Council would meet Monday. This
meeting was called Feb. 8. :.
It was said that the proposed re-
duction in army strength was due
first to confidence that the Eu-i
ropean political situation was muchs
more peaceable in atmosphere, Sec
ondly that there was but a remote
possibility that the League might
adopt further effective penalties
against Italy for it's Ethiopian war;.
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FARLEY OPENS F. D. R.
CAMPAIGN IN MISSOURI
Democratic Chairman Vigorously
Defends Federal Spending.

By United Press
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 22.-James A..
Farley, Democratic National Com
mittee chairman, rallied Missouri
party forces today for a vigorous
campaign to re-elect President
Roosevelt.
From a mass meeting of Demo-
Gratis last night in which he as
sailed the American Liberty League
and special interests" Farley went
to Jefferson City. Mo-, to address a
meeting of young Democrats today
He defended Roosevelt spending
as a policy successful to o degree
unparalleled in the history of
American economics" and said that
this is the first time, within my
memory at least, when an Admins
tration has been called on to defend
itself for restoring prosperity and
putting money in the pockets of the
people"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-22
KEEP SOURCES PURE

Gas education grows men come to
recognize their essential dependence
one upon the other. There is re-
vealed to them the true nature of
society and of government, which,
in a large measure, eliminates in
the art of human cooperation.
1.-THE second great attribute of
education is peculiarly appropriate
to great democracy. 1t is a sense
of equality among men when they
are dealing with the things of the
minds Inequality may linger in the
world of material things, but great
music, great literature and the won
derS of science are and should be
open to all. . ss4ESg
Finally, true education depends
upon freedom in the pursuit of
truth. No group and no govern
ment can properly prescribe pre-
cisely what should constitute the
body of knowledge with which true
education is concerned. The truth
is found when men are free to pur-
sue it. Genuine education is pres
emit only when the springs from
which knowledge comes are pure.
1t is this belief in the freedom of
mind, written into our funda-
mental law and observed in our
every day dealings with the prob
lens of life, that distinguishes us
as a nation.
I'm our ability to keep pure the
sources of knowledge-in our minds
freedom to winnow the chaff from
the good grain-in the even tenn
per and in the calmness of our every
day relationships-in our willingness
to face the details of fact and the
needs of temporary emergencies-in
all of these lie our future and our
children's future.
con your own heads. in your own
hands, the sin and the saving lies "
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cutor, Anthony M. Hauck, and
Hauptmann's chief attorney, C..
Lloyd Fisher.
Mr.. Hauck refused to be a party,
publicly, to action that might re-
fleet on state witnesses, but he
promised to make no objection to
steps the Governor might take. Per-
sors close to the smiling young
G vernon said he probably would
write to "Jafsie" that his return was
necessary for realization of JUS
tice.
Plans Arouse Interest
Immediate interest centered on
what the Governor planned for
Willard Whited, former resident of
the Sourland Mountains who testi-
fed at Hauptmann's trial that he
saw the Bronx carpenter twice in
the vicinity of Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh's Hopewell estate.
Whited's testimony underwent a
terrific battering from defense at
torneys during the trial. The de-
Tense attack on him was so sue
cessful that Justice Thomas w.
Trenchard, summing up evidence
for the jury, I'D not even mention
Whited, Gov. Hoffman and Mr..
Fisher, it was learned, agreed at
last nights conference that he
should be questioned again, outside
the restrictions of courtroom pro-
cedure.
The Governor denied that he had
ordered state police to execute the
plan, but did not deny that he might
do SO.
A third witness who provided
damning testimony against Haupt-
man, 88-year-old Amandus Hoch-
muth, also may be cross examined.
Mr.. Hochmuth was another Sour
land Mountain resident who said he
saw Hauptman near the Lindbergh
estate. He said he saw Hauptman
in a motor car near Hopewell at
approximately the time of the kid
mapping and that he had a ladder
in the car. The state contended
that the baby was removed from
it's nursery window by way of a
ladder.
Testimony Assailed.
Mr.. Hochmuth's testimony was as
sailed several months ago on the
ground that he was so blind that
he could not have seen the details
to which he testified. Gov. Hoff-
man, Mr. Hauck and Mr. Fisher dis
cussed his testimony with that of
Mr. Whited. None of the three
would admit more than that.
Gov. Hoffman asked Mr.. Hauck to
join him and Mr.. Fisher in a request
to DR.. Condor to return to Trenton.
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to Ask Condor
to Return From Panama
Educator to Be Requested to Answer Puzzng Questions;
State Witness Also Nav Be Gried

DR.. Condor has indicated repeatedly
since he went to Panama five weeks
ago that he intends to stay there
indefinitely, probably until after the
week of March 80 when Hauptmann
is scheduled to be executed.
Asked to Examine Whited
The Governor also asked Mr..
Hauck to undertake a re-eXamina-
ton of Mr.. Whited's testimony. 1t
was understood that Mr.. Hauck ten
tatively consented to the plan, but
insisted that Gov. Hoffman conduct
the actual interrogation.
State police reported to Gov.
Hoffman yesterday that all the evil
dence in their possession indicated
that Hauptmann was guilty and
that they were unable to find trace
of accompliceS.
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Carpenter Held in West
BIZ United Press


SANTA ANA, Cal, Feb. o.
Alexander Witten, slender German
carpenter, who admitted entering
this country illegally in 1929, today
was held for Federal authorities
while investigators tried to unravel
reports he had certain information"
about Bruno Richard Hauptmann,
convicted slayer of the Lindbergh
baby.
Although Witten denied any
knowledge of Hauptmann or the
Lindbergh kidnapping, his finger
prints and records were sent to
Washington in an effort to trace
his movements since he entered this
country three years before the in
FAINT son of Charles A. Lindbergh
was kidnapped at Hopewell, N. j.
Witten, mild-mannered, slightly
built and resembling Hauptmann
somewhat in appearance, was taken
in custody when an unnamed in
formant told police he believed
Witten was a man named by a
REV. Mr.. Burns" in an article IN
Real Detective Story Magazine
last month as having Important
information about Bruno Haupt-
mann"
Interrupted Court Trial
A Rev. Vincent G.. Burns was re-
called as a New Jersey pastor who
interrupted the Hauptmann murder
trial on it's last day, shouting, 81
have confession by the man who
committed this crime"
Later he told reporters he had
talked with a man who resembled
Hauptmann, and he believed the
Bronx carpenter innocent of the
kidnapping.
The informant who reported Wit
ten to police, said he noticed his
resemblance to a picture in the de-
! tective article.
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DUTY OF GOVERNMENT

II am proud to be the head of a
government that has sought to
make a substantial contribution to
the cause of education, even in
period of economic distress.
Through the various agencies, the
government is helping educational
institutions to add to their present
equipment. Since 1888 the govern
ment has made, through the various
governmental agencies Of the adj
ministration, allotments to local
communities for schools, colleges
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Alton Qll) Youth, 8 Feet Inches Tall,
Thinks 1t Time He Stopped Growing
BY CULLEN j. SMITH
United Press STAFF Correspondent

A LION, Ill, Feb. 22.-Robert
L n Wadlow, youthful giant. to-
day celebrated his eighteenth
birthday by marking up gain in
heighth of two and half inches
in one year, and observed shyly:
Its about time I stopped grow
ing"
He now scars to a height Of 8
feet 4 inches, weighs 800 pounds,
and gets around in size 35 shoes.
Physicians who have studied his
startling growth believe he may
continue to grow until he is % or
%, possibly attaining a height
of 9 feet.
Robert smiles easily and talks
boyishly in a soft, husky voice. He
peers trif1e self-consciously
through gold-rimmed spectacles.
His great height bothers him a
little in moving about and he has
to stoop to avoid brushing his
head against electric light fixtures
and door Tops.
A THOUGH generally good
l. n natured Robert bristles when
any one mentions him as pos
sible circus attraction or alludes
to the quantity of food he con-
sumes.
How much I eat or what eat
is nobody's business but my own"
he said earnestly. That's the
way I feel about it, and it makes
me sore every time anybody talks
about it.
And as far as circuseS are con-
cerned, I wouldn't join one if it
was the last thing on earth I
could do. There are too many
people to stretch their necks at
me now. That's why I don't like
big cities like Chicago and st.
Louis"
Regarding circus tall men"
Robert said he's seen some pretty
tall ones, but had never seen one
why could top" him.
They look pretty sick when I
stand up-even when they wear
high-heeled boots and cowboy
hats" he said, giantly.
ID OBERTS ambition is to be a
IN lawyer. When he graduated
from high school last month he
Immediately enrolled in a pre-law
course in Shurtleff College at Al
ton and hopes to enter Washing
ton University in st. Louis.
At Shurtleff he occasionally
plays basketball, but he thinks it
a pretty easy game" Spreading
his huge hands expressively he
remarked, Il just stand down at
the basket and when somebody
throws me the ball I drop it in"
Roberts growth is attributed to
over-activity of the pituitary gland,
a small gland at the base of the
brain. His parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold Wadlow, who are normal
in size, have refused to allow an
operation. They believe it would
be dangerous.
u
ID OBERT has four younger
IN brothers and sisterS-all of
normal size. They are: Helen,
16; Betty, IL; Eugene, 13, and
Harold Jr., 3.
He has no girl friend right now,
explaining there's a lot better
things can do with money than
to spend it on girls" In spare
moments he likes to tinker with
cameras-his principal hobby.
He thinks airplanes are mighty
fine" and takes trips in them
quite frequently. He has no am
billions of being an aviator, how
ever, and becoming a prizefghter
is absolutely out"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-22
CITY WOMAN SLUGGED
Negro Footpads Beat Her, Flee
Without Purse.

Mrs. Anna Webb, "A. of 2136 Tai
bot-av, reported to police today that
she was assaulted by two young
Negroes last night near her home
when she refused to give them her
purse. One of them knocked her
down before they fled without the
purse.