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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-22
Why Not Begrudge the Farmer a
Seat in the Game?

From the days of the first exploration of America,
large groups of men have been lured by the hope of
getting something fer nothing They hoped at first to
tackle mountains of pure gold
While there has been plenty of hard work ex-
pended in the development of the United States
the lure of easy money has remained ever seductive
Thorstein Veblen once observed sardonically that
getting something for nothing" was the underlying
American philosophy.
Whether this be true not Professor Joseph Stage
Lawrence, formerly of Princeton university, alleges
that the American farmer is trying get something
for nothing in the farm marketing act and the present
system of farm relief In an article on 1.-THE Futilty
of Farm Relief" in Harper'S Magazine, he observes:
Something for nothing The Elusive grail of
costleSs relief dangled before their eyes. 1t is the
key to the vehemence persistence of farm relief
agitation"
There is more than this tc the demand for farm
relief. But suppose it is just Dr. Lawrence says
it is. 1t would nothing more than the fact
that the farmer is climbing on the band-wagon
century late.
Capital has been trying to get something for moth
ing since the first frantic speculation in public securi
ties at the very start of national existence. It's
general philosophy is to sell as large a volume as
possible of the poorest quality of goods that can be
marketed safely at the highest possible price Profits
dominant drive.
Labor learned the lesson from capital. 1t
came from the early abuses in the piecework system
The laborer was jockeyed into condition where he
had to do more and more work for essentially the
wages
In due time he learned his lesson. He introduced
the idea of the limitation of output into the we'll
organized trades following the 1880s. The organized
skilled trades have their practical philosophy of
getting something for nothing. It is the shortest
possible day of the utmost permissible oang for the
highest available wages
Now the farmer comes along and demands slice
# the national melon in the form of big subsidy for
purchase and disposition of surplus farm products
We doubt if it is necessarily the soundest economics
or any ultimate solution of our agrarian problem
But it IS sound the theory of business enter
2rise, the tarif, monopoly gambling in securities,
Imitation OF output and the like
If We to arrive at any decisive settlement of
national industrial problems, the solution obvious
" must rest upon sound economic principles 1t never
be founded the effort to outsteal the other
elbow.
But until we insist such principles being applied
al around, we hardly demand that the farmer
shall be the only who must observe passabe eco
Domic rules We scarcely can deny his request for a
iland in the great something for nothing game
The farm marketing act is petty larceny compared
20 the organized robbery OF the Hawley- Smoot tariff
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-22
The One Tax Problem

Not only theater men and utility owners, but every
other business might join in protest against new
ways of collecting taxes
The amusement people say that an additional TAX
would wreck them The utilities assert that higher
taxes would mean higher rates.
AS matter of fact all taxes are finally paid by
the consumer and the producer. The worker knows
that he pays for the government, even though the
tax he paid by his landlord, his butcher, his movie
house or utility company.
The one problem of taxation is reduction OF the
total paid for government. Useless employees on pay
rolls of the state or county city mean more taxes
The giving of contracts at high prices to political
fayortes digs into the pocketbooks of the housewife
and the worker.
Instead of attempting to find new ways OF raising
taxes in a manner that will not incite new Boston
tea parties a greater service could be performed by
investigating methods of spending less money ana
getting better service from the governmental units
The one sure way of reducing taxes Is to cut
costs That is the big and perhaps the only problem
For no matter what method is adopted for raising
money the man who works in the factory or on farm
or in the distribution of what is made in factories
or raised on the farms pays the bill.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-22
The Democratic Platform

What the Democratic party writes into its platform
at It's coming state convention will probably be more
important than its utterances in other years There
are signs of discomfort the part Of the people with
existing and past administrations and a stronger
possibility that party aleg will count for less
than it has in the past.
1t IS to be expected that Under sich circumstances
there will be temptation avoid giving o1ense, for
that is tie usual attitude of politicians and those who
manage political parties
If there was ever time when pussy footing should
be abandoned matter CT political strategy 1t Is
this year in the minority party
The source of the present plight of the Republican
PARTY is not difficult to discover The party permit
ted it's control to pass into the hands of the Anti
Saloon League and the Kan, and into the ownership
OF the privileged interests of the state.
It depended on it's machine organization rather
than service to the people.
It placed its party and its candidates in bond
age by acceptance of campaign aid from undesirables
Unless the Democratic party offers distinct op-
position to all these evils and backs its utterances with
a ticket Of men and women whose records Of oppo-
siton 20 these evils is plain and clear, those
who dream of drifting into office by capitazing dis
content may be rudely disillusioned.
The people are quite likely to be discriminating
this fall They do not want another machine under
a different name. They do not want the same old
forces and the same old practices continued
platform that says something definite on the
questions about which people are thinking is de-
manded by the circumstances. Those who would
speak in whispers and weasel words are giving poor
advice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-22
GOOd-bv (Irundy!

Even the highest protect.onist tariff state IN the
Union can not stomach Joe Grundy the tariff lonoS-
list and senator chiefly responsible for the billion
dollar bill Pennsylvania. in the primary Tuesday re-
iected Cirundy who wantec. to be the Republican
senatorial candidate for the seat he now occupies by
appointment.
Not content with his billion dollar monstrosity
C5rundy campaigned for higher tariff Protecton-
list Pennsylvania answered by burying him beneath
more than quarter million adverse plurality.
Unfortunately, Secretary of Labor Davis. who de-
feated him is in many ways not much better than
Cyrl,ndv Nine years in the cabinet of three admin
istrations have demonstrated that Davis is a pro-
fessional politician and party regular usually on the
reactionsly side.
This is all the worse because he processes TO De
friend OF labor In its treatment of aliens and OF
nanv labor unions during the last year the depart
ent of labor under Davis has earned the reputation
of being the most vicious of the federal agencies.
Davis owes his Pennsylvania primary victory in part
to the notorious Ware machine. His position on pro-
hibition was evasive.
The best feature of the primary was the apparent
victorv-on the basis of incomplete returns-of ex-
Governor Clifford Pnchot FIR the gubernatorsl noni-
nation.
DESPITE his extreme dry complex, Pinchot is one OF
the highest types of public servants in the country
todav. He dared 20 fight predatory interests in
the state where they are strongest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-22

pie and annual pay roll Of more than two thou
sand million dollars directly and Immediately hit
by this suicidal bill. Mooney showed
Loss Of automobile export trade, already rapidly
falling under the Grundy threat, would cost ooO
workers their jobs, and about 100000 people their
means of support"
With Ford officials protesting from Detroit and
General Motors from New York E. H. Gorrell presi-
cent Of the Stutz Motor Company in Indianapolis,
indicated that these demands are not limited to the
largest companies to any section of the country
I'VE ship regularly to more than sixty countries,
and our business has been damaged in more than
half this number, Gorrell reported. IF the Hawley
moot tariff bill goes through it is probable that the
export OF American automobiles in the coming year
will be reduced by two-thirds
ut means depression for the automobile industry,
which will contribute to the general business stagna-
ton. There is no question that many men will be
thrown out OF work and business recovery greatly
handicapped"
The President and congress know these facts as
we'll the economists, editors bankers, merchants
and manufacturers who are citing them. President
Hoover by his specific campaign pledges and his mes
sages to congress is committed definitely against the
general tariff increase.
Congress itself definitely is committed to both the
Republican and Democratic platforms against the
general increase
Employers and employees of this country expect the
President and congress to protect their profits and
their wages from this menace. Voters of the coun-
try expect the President and congress to keep faith
Neither congress nor the President can escape re-
sponsiblity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-22
Hard Times Ahead?

National protest against the billion-dollar tariff
bill continues to rise From all parts OF the country
come demands that congress reject the measure ana
that the President veto it if it goes up to him.
On top of the protest of 1923 leading economists
and the Scripps Howard poll showing overwhelming
national opposition of the press, Henry Ford and
other prominent industrialsts and bankers have
Joined in the fight to save prosperity.
While the high protectionist state of Pennsyl-
vana in a primary Tuesday was voting down Senator
er,lndy the evil genius of this BILL more manutac-
trers in other states warning congress and the
President against this bresd-line legislation.
James D. Mooney. president Of the General Motors
export company speaking in New York, demonstrated
with figures from his own industry that national
prosperity is dependent upon foreign trade. which is
being wiped out by tariff reprisals. He said;
"The higher tariff win be harmful TO the great
majority of the people; it will increase the cost Of
living retard our commercial recovery, and tend per-
manenty to reduce the volume Of American business;
it will impose additional burdens on everybody, bur
dens which must be borne by the industrialist the
worker and the farmer alike. with no conceivable ben
eft to any one but few selected. and favored bene-
hciaries-
BY provoking other countries to erect similar
tariff barriers against US 1t threatens the one de-
yeopment to which American inaatry must look
fer its principal future expansion; in shogt. the pro-
posed measure commits itself to the absurdity Of
striving 10 increase employment by restricting trade
Taking the automobile industry alone workers and
their families numbering upward Of i've milljQn peo-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-22
Drink Wet, Vote Dry

TN Pennsylvania, as in other states,
4 prohibition can be beaten every
where, except at the polls. If some
people fail to vote as they drink,
more fail to vote as they talk. That
is one reason why nobody, except
bootleggers and rum runners, has
much to show for all the CONVEX
Sation.
New York's committee of four
teen." created twenty-five years ago
to fight organized vice, just has
issued a report in which the speak
easy restaurant is given clean bill
of health, while the dance hall is in
dicted as a source of immortality.
Commenting on the suspension of
Arthur B. O'Keefe at Trinity COL
lege, Hartford, Conn, for violation
of rules against drinking, the Grim
son, Harvard's undergraduate daily,
says that drinking is not consid-
cred a crime by the authorities Of
that university.
Theoretically" the Crimson eX-
plains, "any American institution
except the jail and reform school,
should not knowingly harbor per-
sistent violators of the law. Never
tleless, thousands of students daily
are violating the Jones law, in a
large number Of cases in the knowl-
edge ard with the acquiescence Of
their faculty"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-22
Two Lies

THAT is the most barefaced and
l. shameless defense of lynching
1 have ever seen in supposedly
reputable American paper, and it is
founded not on one lie, but two.
First, there is the suggestion that
the citizens of Sherman acted as
they did through their determine
ton not tamely to allow their. won1-
en- to go unavenged.
Was that the issue? No honest
man can maintain it. The culprit
already was in the hands Of the
law. His doom was approaching
fast. He had confessed. Nothing
but mob violence possibly could stay
his execution.
Indeed, the mob never succeeded
in venting its wrath on the thing
that had been a man. 1t was a
dead body when they burned and
riddled with their futile and insane
bullets.
And the Atlanta Constitution
would put the responsibility for this
not on the Negro criminal, but on
all Negroes. If the innocent Negro
people Of the town had not fed they
would have been killed, too. AS it
was, their homes and stores were
burned.
How can any intelligent person
suggest that the atrocious deed Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-22
Criminals All

TINE Constitution speaks of "lust."
l. What name does it care to
apply to those who sought to find
satisfaction in marrying and parad-
ing even lifeless flesh? I say that
the dead man committed horrible
deed and that every member Of the
mob sinned against civilization In
similar proportion.
Was the lust of one ever yet sane
titled and washed away by the lust
of many? It is not sectional
issue. It is not an issue between
white and black. The North has
known the same violence and the
same blood guilt.
The issue is simply one between
Righteousness and evil, between high
heaven and the jungle. The man,
or men, who behave like jackals I'M
der any compulsion whatsoever, are
more than traitors to their race.
They have betrayed the whole of
human kind.
Henry Mencken once said that
cruelty was commonest in those
sections of America which pay loud
lip-service to the principles of
Christianity. He named what he
called "the Bible belt' as the scene
Of the fiercest and most unbrioled
passions.
To me this seemed tall generali-
zation. But by curious coinci-
dence the same issue of the Atlanta
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-22
The Party Whip Cracks

TT is to be admitted that a Re-
4 publican primary in Pennsylva-
MIA should not be taken too seriously
eXcep as it illustrates the effective
ness of machine politics and slush
funds.
Here is one place where the I'M
crowned kings of American democ-
racy seem to have acquired the
comfortable habit of doing what
they are told, especially if an hon
est penny can be turned in the
process.
They have reached a point Of
subserviency. where they are ready
not only to ditch such pet meas
ure as the Smoot- Hawley bill if the
whip cracks, but forget that pro-
hibition is an issue.
BY the count, this primary re-
suited in notable victory for the
drys, since the admittedly wet can
didates polled only about Is per cent
of the vote.
Who supposes that IS per cent OF
Pennsylvania Republicans are dry?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-22
SCIENCE
Plans Are Being Drawt for a
Monster Telescope, NTH
Huge Mirror, 200 Inches IN
Diameter.
by DAVID DIETZ :

DROFESsOR G. w. RITCHEY,
L formerly Of the Mt. Wilson
observatory, at present a resident
Of Paris, is making plans for a
telescope larger than any now I'M
der contemplation.
The worlds largest telescope at
present is the 10O-inch telescope at
Mt. Wilson. It is called the 100
inch because the huge mirror in it
is 100 inches in diameter.
Plans for a 2OO-inch telescope to
be mounted on California noun
tain near Mt. Wilson are being
drawn up by committee of the
California Institute of Technology.
DR.. George Ellery Hale, honorary
director of the Mt. Wilson observa-
tory, is chairman of this committee.
The 200-inch telescope is to be
financed by funds from the inter
national education board, a John D.
Rockefeller Jr. foundation. Reports
got into circulation that the 200
inch telescope would cost $4,000, 000,
but it IS understood that the cost
of the telescope, dome to house it
and mountain roads to make access
sible will amount only to about half
of that sum.
No word has reached this country
as to how Professor Ritchey plans
to finance his telescope. It is OBJ
ViouS that such a venture can be
undertaken only with the backing of
some great philanthropic founda-
ton or man of great wealth or the
backing of national government.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-22
Test Artificial Fever to ROut Disease

raise the temperature much higher
than 104 to los degrees, but this has
not been done because of the pos
sible dangers.
When the temperature of the
body is raised rapidly by such a
device. the person begins to have
a fast pulse and to breathe more
rapidly.
Usually the blood pressure falls.
In some instances high tempera-
lures we're maintained for an hour
without apparent distress or fatigue
to the patient.
1t is believed that the develop
ment of the heat in the body is due
to the resistance made by the body
to the condition of the current.
The evidence thus far available
from studies in some twenty-five
human beings and of many labora-
tory animals indicates that the heat
within the body makes it less fav-
orable for the multiplication of
germs and that the increased rate
of the various chemical processes
in the body aids the resistance to
disease and infectious agents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-22
TT SEEMS TO ME By HR EE022S

Constitution which carried the de-.
Tense of lynching, printed in the
very next column, a defense of Or.
Mcbride, prohibitions mad mullah,
and an attack on Senator John j.
Blaine for daring to question the
divine and direct inspiration of the
Anti-Saloon League.
"For Senator Blaine" say the
Constitution, cor anyone else, to
question that spirit of God whom
Jesus declared would come to men
when He Himself should depart
from among them, and who, when
He, the spirit of truth, is come, He
shall guide you into all truth in
spired men now to .endeavors in line
with that righteousness which is
the constitution of Christ's kingdom
on earth, is going far afield from
the understanding of the Christian
world"
copyright. 1880. BY The Times,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-22
HAD refrained from saying any,

r HAD refrained from saying any,
Il thing about the lynchinge in
Sherman, Tex. It seemed to me
that there was nothing to be said.
This was deed, I did assume, cruel
and contemplate in the eyes OF all
men. No responsible person would
stand up and condone the bestiality
Of the mob.
But now I will speak because, to
my utter amazement, find in as
responsible q paper as the Atlanta
Constitution, disposition to ir1ti-
mate that there is something to be
said for the pack. Indeed, 1t digni-
des their deeds by captioning the
editorial 1.-THE Sherman Avengers.
And the paper of Clark Howell Jr.
goes on to say: 1.-THE adherentS to
law and order may deplore and de-
nounce these volcanic outbreaks OF
murderous rage, overriding all the
instrumentalitieS Of regular justice
and the powers of the government,
but there is one great and irrever-
sible fact ingrained in the pSychol-
ogy of the southern people that al
ways must be taken into account by
those who judge such events as this
one at Sherman.
THAT fact is that the white peo-
pie will not tamely allow their wom-
en- to be the unavenged victim OF
the lust and brutality of any Negro
man-criticism of that passion, and
action from any source appeals only
to the deafness of the adder, and
no one can avert the terrible VEN
geance but the Negro who keeps his
lustful hands off an innocent white
woman"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-22
REASON By FE EESBFs

EX-SENATOR Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma has
- written lengthy book which seeks to prove
that in the Teapot Dome transaction Harry Sinclair
was gentleman anG patriot.
AS piece Of fctinn this classic should rank high
among the seasons offerings.
If ne W nted to do So Admiral Byrd could write
mary louS underwear testimonials when he re-
from the South Pole but he's not that kind OF
9 hairpin.
Two Ta1many crooks have been given one wear
L for stealing 100000 from New YorE City in
sewer contract but they will keep the money.
In all such the guilty should be separated
rom their loot.
Washington is wondering who is breaking into the
Offices of cur senator's and while We have no first
hand information we should say, considering the
Of the year that it's somebody who's after his
yarden seeds
NJ. V. Siler, prohibition inspector for Kentucky
epoTts that most colleges in the Blue Grass country
bone dIy but there are those who hold that it's
a crazy bone.
TETHILE crossing creek at the Rapidan camp of
w President Hoover, log rolled and threw DR..
hubert Work into the water, but that not in it
With the damage caused by the log rolling in the
present tariff battle.
Chicago business men claim thA 100000 is in
sight 70 wage campaign against Ne gangSters but
unless they want to lose it they ould remove it
from view. 80
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-22
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FIVE QUESTIONS A DAN
ON FAMILIAR PASSAOES

l. Why is the tower of Babel
famous?
2. Quote the Christmas song Of
the angels at Bethlehem.
3. What was a scapegoat?
4. Name five kinds of musical in
struments mentioned in the Old
Testament.
5. What did Paul say about little
leaven?
Answers to Yesterdays Queries
l. New cloth in old garments and
new wine in old bottles; Mark
2:21-22.
2. "A land flowing with milk and
honey" Exodus 3:l7.
3. Joy cometh in the morning. :"
Psalm 30:5.
4. Solomon I Kings 4:33.
5. For God so loved the world
that he gave his only hegotten son. "
spoken to Nicodemus. John 3:16.
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" Richard Wagner, the orig
inator of the music drama and
one of the greatest of musical
geniuses, was born in Leipzig.
Influenced as a boy by his read
ings in Shakespeare, Wagner, at
the age of IA, wrote a four-act
tragedy. Later, falling under the
spell of the music of Weber and
Beethoven, he decided he would
learn music so that he could COM
pose a piece for his tragedy.
In 1888, at the age of 90, he
became a professional musician,
accepting the post of chorus
master at Wurzburg. He diligently
occupied himself writing libret-
tos, but few of them sold.
Impoverished as he was, he mar
ried Minna Planer, as actress. When
they went to England soon after
their marriage, Wagner got in
spiration for his Flying Dutch
man" in the tempestuous channel
crossing. But this, and his subse-
ouent ''Tannhauser," were not re-
ceived cordially.
Wagner ultimately became friends
with List, who helped him in
times Of need, and encouraged him
to compose. Later Wagner took
FOR his second wife his friends
daughter, CosiMa List, who died
only recently. Wagner himself lived
to see his works Imply acclaimed.