The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-22

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Times Editor-PerSonally 1 would
not want to live to see our country
get back to saloons, commonly
called doggeries and morning glories
and beer gardens. No doubt they
would cause a good deal of dissatis-
faction. Should it have to come
back to restore peace and for a
revenue equal to our taxes it should
be handled direct from the Fed
eral Government. The Government
should retain the revenue, but not
to create political jobs, as political
employees are the worst foe to civil
government.
A good many people enjoy a trip
to Canada now and then, to enjoy
the wisdom OF their prosperity.
Should Canada create a fund at 5
per cent of their taxation so that
immigrants may buy a home fee
simple, tax free, which is the con-
dition in which America should be,
and the past eight years would have
placed us in this tax free condition
if the Republican party were in
terested in civil government instead
of sending out posses shooting down
men and children.
If we can elect Mr.. AL Smith he
has enough brains and intelligence
to run This country with the higher
order of mankind. the most deadly
foe to the devils doctrine. The key
note to the unrest and dissatisfac-
ton is the practice Of making po-
litical jobs Of government affairs.
FRANK WALTON.
R. R. 2, Box 40, Campbellsburg,
Ind.
Times Editor-In your Keeping
Up With The News" column of Aug.
II, views of several prominent citi-
zens on the religious aspects of the
/ present presidential campaign was
quoted, in particular that Of John
S. Bryan, editor of the Chicago
Journal and Richmond News-Leader
He says in part that the Catholic
Church leafs out of the Govern
ment's hand" in France and Italy
Also with 100000 people in this
country who belong to no church
at all, what can 100000 Catholics
do?"
Personally, I am a little too far
from the picture to correct Mr..
Bryan on conditions in France and
Italy, but at that it might be il
Illuminating to know what the church
leafs" and if only out of the hand"
AS to the problem in proportion.
Did Mr.. Bryan ever know of high
ly organized minority controlling an
unorganized majority? In itself the
newspaper of today is a highly or
ganized minority in public inf1u-
ence, at work always in moulding
the opinion of a majority out of all
proportion to its numerical value.
Mr. Bryan should be one of the first
to recognize this, and the absurdity
of his statements.
Being one of the 100000. hold
no brief for Catholic or Protestant
but I do believe that until all of our
present day "bogey-man" religions
are replaced by something retter it
would be well to always favor the
more liberal of the present day
faiths.
"ONE OF THE 60,OoOOoO."
Editor Times-I regret that Peter
E. Grimes in speaking of the great
meteor of 1877 did not mention the
month of its appearance. I think
it is the same one that I saw, be-
cause the time of the night and its
path across the sky coincide.
1t was in November or early De-
cember. I was returning from a
spelling bee between 9 and 10 p m
I heard swish, as Of burning hair
and Immediately saw it, already in
fragments, moving at a terrific
speed to the eastward, at about the
same level as the pole star. 1t was
in Scott County in latitude S8 de-
grees, 40 minutes, so it's elevation
was near So degrees. If had know
how far to the northward was its
path, I could have readily estimated
it's height, which would have been
one and one-third miles for every
mile to the north.
I read an article in the Toledo
Blade or New York Tribune (both
weeklies) a few months later, that