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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-01
How to Lose Fat
a Pound a Dav
on a Full Stomach
Do Just These
Two Simple Things
Fat MeLts Away

Science has made important discov-
cries in fat reduction. The average
fat person can now rip off fat a
pound a day-four to seven pounds
every week!-on a full stomach,
with never a hungry moment. Thus
it is foolish now to stay fat.
This is what you do: Take a tea
spoonful ordinary Jad Salts in a
glass of water a half hour before
breakfast every morning. This re-
iuceS moisture weight instantly.
Also cleanses the system of the
waste matter and excess toxins that
most fat people have, and banishes
puf1ness and bloat.
Then do this about eating. FILL
YOUR STOMACH-eat your fill
Of lean meats, vegetables like spin
ach, caulifower, cabbage, tomatoes,
etc, and lots of salads. Eat a lot.
Eat all you can hold. Don't go
hungry minute! Cut down on but
ter, sweets and desserts, bread. Eat
any fruit except bananas, for des-
Sert.
That's all you do. Fat seems to
melt away. The coarse lines of over
weight give way to the refined ones
Of slenderness. You lose as much as
q pound a day. You feel better than
for years. For in this treatment you
achieve two important results. The
lad Salts clear your system of toxins.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-01
FOR PLAY
Shortridge Seniors Rehearse
for May Is Event.

1.-THE Devil and the Cheese" by
Tom Cushing, will be the Shortridge
high school senior play to be. given
May Is under the direction of
Eleanor Dee Theek, coach of the
play and member of the faculty.
Members of the cast and their
roles follow:
Jimmie Walter Hiner: Goldina. vernice
Michael; Mr. Quigley, Edward Humston;
Mrs. Quigley, Mary McKeehan; DR.. Jones,
Shannon Hughes; Father Petros, Frank
Little God Min, Philip Mitchell; Constan-
tinos, James Highley, Chubbock. John
Clemens.
The Shortridge girls will meet
the Bedford girls in a debate April
8 at 2:45 in Caleb Mills hall. The
subject is. Resolved: That the pres
ent system of installment buying is
detrimental to the American peo-
pie" Shortridge will take the mega
tive.
The boys debating team upholds
the negative against Walnut Hills
of Cincinnati on April II at 8 p. m.
on the question, Resolved: That
the several states should enact legis-
lation for compulsory unemployment
insurance"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-01
CITY PUPILS TO
WRITE ESSAYS
ABOUT SAFETY
Teachers Also Eligible to
Enter One Division
of Contest.

Pupils and teachers Of Indiana
elementary schools will compete in
the tenth national campaign for
street and highway safety, sponsored
by the national highway educational
board.
The contestants are divided into
two groups. Pupils in the fifth,
sixt, seventh and eighth grades, Il
and under, will write an essay on
My Rewards for Observing Street
and Highway Safety Rules"
All elementary school teachers Of
the eighth and lower grades may
enter a lesson contest. The sub
ject for discussion is Teaching the
Rewards of Careful Conduct on
Streets and Highways"
Essays are to be not more than
500 words in length, it was an
nounced, while lessons must be at
least 1000 words, but not more than
5000 words long.
The contest closes May Is.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-01
CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Modern science is being popular
lied for the children. Here are some
interesting books recently added to
the children'S reading room to read
during the vacation period:
THE Earth for SAM" by W. M. Reed
The story Of how the earth, once a white
hot mass without life in any form, be-
came place where plants. animals, and
finally men, could live. The story is told
as scientists have read it from fossils,
rock formations. and historic remains.
There are many amusing illustrations and
photographs of museum exhibits
"'Kah-Da," by Donald B. Macmillan
This contains true information of the
Arctic regions presented in an attractive
story.
'Little Pilgrim to PENIS Woods" BY
Edna Alberta lively account of the life
OF little maid who Travelled to the New
World many years before the Revolution.
The Adventures of Andris," by Eliza
beth Jacobi-Andris and his sister. Kati.
live on big estate in Hungary, SO large
that 1t is little village in itself, The
author and illustrator are both native
Hungarians.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-01

matically becoming a contestant in
the national event.
Reviews are to be in legible writ
ing, neat, and we'll phrased, and
must contain not more than fifty
words. Care should be taken to list
the names of all in the cast and the
roles they play.
When you have written your re-
view, mail it to the "Parlor, Bed
room and Bath" Editor, care of The
Times.
In addition to the cash prizes be-
ing offered by Metro Goodwin
Mayer, The Times also offers ten
pairs of guest tickets to the Palace,
so that even though you may not
win a cash prize. you will at least
have an opportunity of winning
tickets to the theater.
This contest is open to every one,
excepting employees of The Times
and Loew'S Palace theater, and also
employees of the Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer exchange, located in this city
The rules are simple. See the
picture at the Palace, then write
your review of fifty words or less
and then mail it.
In the cast are Buster Keaton
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-01
Two of Schools Officers
Have Been Awarded
Top HonorS.

One of the first schools in In
dianapolis to begin R. o. T. c.
military training, Manual Training
high school, boasts members pro-
ficient in all of its branches
craftsmanship, drill, scouting and
patroling.
Two of the commissioned officers,
Major Milo Haines and First Lieu
tenant Kenneth Jarvis, have been
awarded the Glossbrenner awards.
Second Lieutenant Donald Moore
won the Bruce Robinson medal in
1880. Others have won high recog-
milton on the rifle team or have
been promoted in rank to their
present position. Members of the
Manual r. o. T. G. are:
First Row Cleft to right -
Second Lieutenant William Doherty,
First Lieutenant Raymon Adler,
First Lieutenant Kenneth Jarvis,
Captain William Uhl, Major Milo
Haines, Captain William Faust,
Captain Theodore Bluemel, First
Lieutenant John Schurman and
Second Lieutenant Donald Moore.
Second Row Cleft to right)-First
Sergeant Albert Meyers, Sergeant
David Cohn, Sergeant George
Stricken, Staff Sergeant Fred
Stages, Staff Sergeant Harold Good
night, Sergeant Emmanuel Farber,
Sergeant Richard Brier and First
Sergeant Clayton Burres.
Rear Cleft to right - Sergeant
Homer Shull, instructor in military
science since 1919; Corporal Robert
Mcdaniel, Corporal Kenneth Far
quar-, Corporal Robert Maschmeyer,
Corporal Harold Hall, Corporal
Clement Craig, Assistant Instructor
Kenneth Campbell, Corporal Phillip
Fogle and Corporal Glen Nees.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-01
MANY WOULD LIKE
TO BE CRITICS
Review Contest for "ParIor, Bedroom and Bath" at
Palace Results in Many Entering Their Opinions

IF typewriter pen here is your
4 chance
Parlor Bedroom and Bath Mayors comedy
ring Buster Keaton is at the Palace.
order thinks
their picture through Times
and Loews Palace to conduct writing among
tergoers of this city, offering $3.50 second
prize, and 500 for the third prize
This contest embraces the entire Loew circuit
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-01
IONS were -.
Study Mrs. NirdIinger,s Letters

NICE, France, April Letters,
some of them many months old, in
which Mrs. Charlotte Nixon Nird-
linger was alleged to have COM
planned to her mother of i'll treat
ment by her husband, were under
examination here today by the
magistrate handling the case of the
former st. Louis beauty contest
winner, who is held for killing her
husband
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-01
Tech Notes
TechnieaI Corresnondent

r. o. T. C. commissions and
athletic awards were presented to
125 Tech students by De Witt S.
Morgan, school principal, at an
auditorium held last Friday.
Boys receiving commissions were:
Lieutenant-colonel Robert Moore; Cliff
9Ta Reno maloTt ByFo5 Padig97tt I'm I'm
Win Bo% aea IoS Bsxer RoeT Hasead
Rnd Max Wells first lieutenants. William
Manning. Howard Bisseu, Francis Raub.
Maurice Ireland and Charles Reed. second
heutenants, Joe Faucet. Edward Brant-
ner. Otto Frey. Ernest Ameter. frst serg-
Todd Cougill, william Feeman, Joe Barker,
Frank Dlet1, Kenneth Bryant, Thomas
McGtnnis, Donald Byers, Franklin Dillon,
Harry Westerheld. Raymond Fields. Win
son Cox, Maurice Cullom, Richard Daven-
port, Edward Pearson, Herman GinSberg,
Bruce Richards and Douglas Ewings, serg-
RantS Robert Behr. John Marshall. Robert
Brinkman. John Thurgood. Arthur Wilson,
Paul Weatherly Dickinson McGaw, Jack
Ter. BufoTd Payne Robert Munro. Paul
Pratt Albert Clark, Simon Reisler. James
Raber arthur Rahensperger, Charles Keel
ling. Robert Afford. Homer Shields. VIII
Liam Greenlees, Russell Miller, William
Grepp, CLYDE Heidenrich. Lawrence
Swearinger, Roy Cox. William Grain and
John EagleSon, corporaIs.
Girls awarded the A. T. S. buttons
for basketball were:
Margaret Davis. Alice Green, Olive La
Duke, Geneva Miller, Dorothy Milliron.
Mary Soeurt, and Gertrude White
Girls to whom the T. H. S. mono
grams were given were:
Dorothy Cheezum. Dorothy Downey,
Ruth Guy. Betty Hancock, Merle Hobbs,
June Kramer, Marian Niles and Frances
Sanford
Six boys were given block "T''
awards for basketball. They were:
Leroy Edwards. Ray GLADDEN., Clarence
Jones, Earl Overman, Kermit Bunnell.
and Howard White.
The latter two boys received spe-
cial sweaters in view of the fact that
they had been awarded the block
''T" in some other form of athletics.
Boys who received the T. H. S.
monogram were:
Walter Chapman. Donas Dischinger.
Halbert Gauker. Walter Huston, Hubert
Kinney, Ralph Lytle Howard Pursell.
Elmer Schultse. Earl Townsend and Ralph
Those boys receiving A. T. S. but
tons we're:
Max Abbott, Ned Garten, Ben King.
Richard Lutz, Leonard Oliver. Andt
Pagach, William Pursell, Arthur Schulse,
Wallace Steele, Donald Thomas, John
Townsend, Stanley williams Carl Wilson.
Jack Woerner, Francis Wright, and George
Wright.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-01
Mother and Son Accused

By Times Special
FIT. WAYNE, April Mrs. Nora
Kennedy and son George, both of
Angola, we're placed under $1,000
bond each when arraigned here be-
fore a United States commissioner
on a charge of violating the prohi-
hition law. They were arrested fol-
lowing a raid by state and federal
officers at the Liggett cottage or
Lake James.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-01
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
152 ARE NAMED
ON HONOR ROLL
AT SHORTRIDCE
rs Attain Highest Honors
by Earning Twelve
Grade Points.

In the first grades OF the spring
semester at Shortridge high school,
twenty-five pupils attained highest
honors by earning twelve grade
points. One hundred and f1fty-two
students made the honor roll with
eight grade points. Girls have a
slight edge in number on the high
honor roll; on the honor roll they
walk away from the boys by a two
to one majority.
The honor rolls follow:
HIGH HONOR ROLL
10 Ann Alerdice. Hilton Brown, Ather-
ton. Julie Baker. Lucy Ann Balch, Bert
Brayton.- Thomas Cassell. Mary Frances
DIGS. Henry Fauyre. Charles Feibleman
Charlene Heard. Julian, Kiser Joe ,Mayhalll
Don Miller, Frances Morrison. Mary Alice
Norris. Helen Patrick. James Henry Pres
Gott, warren Shearer. Harry Sondin
Underwood and Roberta Waughten.
HONOR ROLL
Ruth ApoStol. william Askren. Alma
Alter Myrtle Austin. Aline Bailey. Martha
bach. Ralph Baur. Florence Berrle, Lena
Black. Betty Lou BIackmore, Dorothey
Blackwell Edward Blackwell, Aloyse Bot
Braden. Leroy. Breunig, Buddy Brown
Margaret Bundren, William j. Burich
Ralph Burns, Frederick Burnside, Edna
son. Eileen Chaffee. Richard Clay. Johr
Clemens. Gordon Cohn. Lucy Colby. Mar
ina Coleman, Elsie Connan, Evelyn Cook
Markaret Cook. Charlotte Elaine Cox. Bet
tY Davenport. Jane Hunt Davis Dorothy
pay: jack Dorman. Dorothey Dunbar
h,Ar
Mary Freeman. Mary Alberta Gates
Mildred Graysoh, Mary Ellen Grueling
Dorothy Hamilton. Bernice Hanson. Heller
Harris, Barbara, Harrison. Mary Hatfield
Catherine Heard. James Henderson, Flor
bard. Mary Alice Hicks. Harold Hall
Howard Hockett. Wesley HofmeiSter. James
Holder. Harriet Pana Holmes. Ralph Hon
Edward HuIEston. Charles Huston, Hal
ston johnson. Bernice Kaplain; Hazel Kars
ner. Robert Kay. Alice Kelly. FredericR
Kershner; Flora Jane Ketchan. Evelyr
King. Robert Lambertus. 80
Dorotha M. Lane. Marian Laut, Lois X
Saulnier, Margaret Lesch, Robert Upton
Betty Lutz, Robert Magill. Estelle ManuS
Dorothy. Martenet, Ruth P. Martin, Mar.
Menges. Gladys Merchant. Mary Louise
Merrell. Elizabeth Myers. Kitty Myers
Walter Myers, Kathryn Neat. Marjorie
Newman, Martha Norman. Jimmie O'Con-
nor. John Pearson. Marjorie PendIeton
lean Pennigton. Maxine Peters. Curtis
William Reed. Richard Riser. Ruth Root
stein. Joseph Hothbard Virginia Sawyer
Marjorie Schock. Martha Rose Scott, Edith
Sellers. Paul Shields, Cleo Shullenberger
Fred Simmon.
Virginia Simpson, Margaret sissenguth
Catherine Smith. Gilbert Smith. Helen Ross
Smith. Robert Smith. Jean Soehner. Sarah
Jane Southworth. Mary Jane Steeg. Olive
Steinle, MariorY Stettler. Esther Steup
Pearl Stockdale, Carolyn Rose Strauss, Jack
Strickland Gayle Thornbrough. Dorothy
florence, zeena Valinetz. Doris Van Horn.
Wagner. Miriam Waldo. Phyllis Ward
Stuart C. william. Eugene Wilson. Arleer
Wilson. Dorothy Wilson. Evelyn Wright
William Wright. Lillian Young and Helen
Zitzlaf.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-01
RADIO PLAY ANNOUNCED
Columbia Network to Give Drama
for School Children.

Melodies on percussion instru-
ments will be broadcast Tuesday at
1:30 p. m. over the Columbia net
work. The program is designed es-
pecially for the intermediate grades.
James Fenimore Cooper's, 1.-THE
Last Of the Mohicans" will be
dramatized for school children and
presented over WFBM and the Co.
lumbia system at 1870 Wednesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-01
SCHOOLS PICK
BEST SPOILERS
IN The COUNTY
Prizes Go to Winners of
Quietly Contests; Final
Test April II.

Arguing. The boys we're ar
guing."
"A-r-g-u-i-n-g."
Next. Arguing"
All through the Marion county
schools, pupils of the fourth through
the eighth grades are choosing sides,
lining against the schoolroom wall,
and taxing part in the same form
Of spelling contest that our great
grandparents used to enjoy.
Friday the best spoilers in each
viii meet in spell-down that will
determine the best speller in the
school To make the contest more
lair, representatives will be chosen
from two groups: One from the
seventh and eighth grades: one
from the combined fourth, fifth and
sixth grades.
GLADDEN. in Charge
On April 10 and II, the best
spoilers Of forty-nine schools will
gather at Southport high school.
A committee Of principals will
choose the words to be used. The
flnal list probably vii contain words
most frequently misspelled in the
building contests. Fred T. GLADDEN.,
superintendent Of Marion county
schools, is in charge of arrange
ments.
Entrants from the fourth, fifth,
and sixth grades will complete the
first night Of the finals. They will
be judged by George Cole, new state
superintendent Of schools; Robert
Hougham Of Franklin, superin-
tendent of schools in Johnson coun-
ty, and Floyd McMurray, county
superintendent of Boone county.
Announcers will be John S. Hussey,
state school inspector and Albert
Free, city superintendent at Spen-
Ger.
Trip to Capital, Prize
April IL at 7:3O in the Southport
school, seventh and eighth grade
contestants will compete. The best
speller viii be chosen by Grover
Van Duyn, assistant state superin-
tendent; Waldo Wood, president Of
Central Normal College at Danville;
M. B. Stump, Glenville; 2. M.
Smith, city superintendent of Green
field schools, and Virgil Whitaker,
Morgan county superintendent.
Prizes range from a dictionary
and school supplies to trip to
Washington with all expenses paid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-01
Lincoln Death Witness Dies

SOUTH BEND, Ind, April l.
Richard Med, SO, native Of st. Jo-
seph county and last survivor of the
theater audience which witnessed
the assassination Of Abraham Lin
coin, is dead at Wichita, Kan. He
aided in capturing the slayer, John
Wilkes Booth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-01
COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
ORATORS TO COMPETE
Six Schools to Be Represented in
Contest at Lawrence.

contest at Lawrence
George Washington to a reading
on Cuba are subjects high schools
pupils Of Marion county have
selected their material for the an
nual oratorical contest to be held at
Lawrence high school auditorium
Friday at 8 p. m.
Six schools will be represented.
Speakers include Rosemary Gladen
of West Newton; Virginia Schlosser,
Warren; Albert j. Thompson, Ben
Davis; Albert Roberts, New Bethel;
Charles Bruce, Lawrence, and Char
lotte Jane Esmon of Southport.
William N. Otto of Shortridge
high school, will judge. The invo-
cation will be pronounced by the
Rev. L. G. MUIR of Lawrence. Music
will be presented by the Lawrence
township band.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-01
BOYS TOP HONOR ROLL

Boys lead The fourth period honor
roll of Nora township school, but
only two are included on the honor
able mention list. The roll in
cludes:
Bob Brewer Scott Brewer. Louise Clark
Frank Cooper. Jimmy Nurry, Theda Mae
Myers. Bob Newly. Barbara Jean Osterheld
Shirley Talbot, Esther Waggoner and Bill
Wlllbutts. Honorable mention: Ruth
Brown. Elsie st. Clarie. Margaret Cooper
Miriam Edwards. Eugene Green. Dale Van
Hart. Rena Rue Van.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-01

"The diet takes off fat with food that
turns into energy instead of weight.
If you're tired of being embarrassed
by fat. try this way. You'll be glad
that you did. You can get Jad Salts
at any drug store.
Note particularly - the salts are
urged purely as a poison banishing
agent-not as a reducing. The change
in food does the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-01

The present system of punctua-
ton was developed by Aldus Ma
nutius, an Italian printer and
scholar, who printed Greek classics
on his press at Venice in the latter
part of the fifteenth century.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-01
SALARY VOTE is DUE
Final BalIoting to Be Done on
Teachers Schedule.

Teachers Schedule.
Final vote on the new teachers
salary schedule will be taken at the
meeting of the Marion county board
OF education, April z. The commit
tee investigating the matter is try
ing to adjust salaries that the rate
OF pay will be more uniform
throughout the county. Experience
and training will be the two chief
factors considered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-01

Charlotte Greenwood, Cliff Edwards,
Reginald Denny, Natalie Moorhead,
Sally Eilers, Joan Peers and Edward
Brophy. The name Of the picture is
"Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
indianapolis theaters today offer:
Beau Ideal" at the Circle, June
Noon at the Indiana, Doctors
Wives" at the Apollo, double feature
bill at the Ohio, Holiday" at the
Civic, "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
at the Palace, Lonely Wives" at the
Lyric, movies at the Colonial, and
burlesque at the Mutual.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-01

r. o. r. C. commissions and
athletic awards were presented to
125 Tech students by De Witt S.
Morgan, school principal, at an
auditorium held last Friday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-01

Arguing. The boys we're ar
guing."
"A-r-g-u--i-n-g."
Next. Arguing"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-04
A Letter From the Furniture
Capitol OF the World

ures but we certainly didn't expect the Daily
Work. to do this.
The situation in Grand Rapids is serious With
only about 1000 able to get relief out of $4,000
unemployed, the bread and butter question is
burning one. The employed workers are also
faced with problem of supporting their fami-
cents an hour. We also have another more or
class home-owners in Grand Rapids is excep-
tionaly large OF course, most of these work
ers do not really own their homes they are
only paying on them. Hundreds who own their
homes are losing them because they are or 8
years behind in tax payments and have no pros
poets of ever being able to pay any taxes. Other
thousands are losing their homes to the bankers
because they can't keep up their inStallment
payments, or because they can't even pay the
interest on their mortgages.
We are fighting for decent cash relief for
unemployed. We are stressing relief for part
time workers. We are demanding no foreclosures
or tax payments on workers homes during I'M
employment. We have four unemployed coun-
ellis in Grand Rapids and two in the suburbs.
Twenty-Five Grand Rapids workers face trial on
March for militant participation in the last
two demonstrations.
Yes exaggeration is a danger, but under esti-
nation of the response of workers to militant
program and struggle against the miseries of
the present crisis is also a danger. We hope
the Daily Worker will correct the erroneous re-
port of our demonstration in the Feb. q issue
Grand Rapids Section Committee Of C.P.U.S.A.
District No. Z
Arnold Ziegler, Section Organizer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-04
Who are the Slave-Drivers?

Sumatra, "On inaccessible parts OF the island OF
Sumatra will be found large number of pang-
longs, or small wood-cutting establishments
which make planks firewood, or charcoal. The
owners of these establishments have secured
their labor among Chinese at Singapore, and
according to reports these laborers have lived in
a 'yeritable reign of terror"
Workers slave in these panglongs for IA and 16
hours a day Conditions are terrible. In many
places, humans are forced to carry the logs, in
others, oxen are used to pull the loads. The
dwellings are very primitive The panglong bos
ses gather up the coolies from houses in Singa-
pore, known as Kedehnasi, where jobless Chinese
workers are boarded and lodged.
These coolies have paid for their board when
they found work, that is, when they are sold
to an employer. The employers, In fact con-
sidered that they bought their workers, and the
coolie lodging house keepers were known as
man-dealers. These "man- dealers received a
sum from the employer and sometimes an adj
vance was made on the wages promised to the
coolie to pay the imam dealer" for supplying
the coolie with board and lodging"
1.-THE coolie was then off to the panglong
heavily in debt. And to keep him in debt the
panglong owner would force him to buy clothing,
mosquito netting and other articles at high
prices"
One OF the greatest producers OF rubber Is
Sumatra The United States Rubber Co. obtained
concession from the Dutch in Sumatra in 1910,
and It's holdings today total about $4,000 acres.
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. holds some
$4,000 acres in Sumatra. Imported Javanese and
Chinese coolies work on these rubber plantations.
John H. Harris in his book, Slavery or Sacred
Trust" says Of conditions on these rubber plant
atoms "The major part of this rubber is prod
uced today by plantations run by contract native
labor under white oyerseers. Large numbers of
these plantations fostering sores, not merely
politically, but physically. Disease is rampant.
There are no moral standards, whilst corrup-
ton, oppression and brutality are indicated by
the appalling sickness and death rates"
Workers are supposed to receive from IS to 40
cents day In thu East Indian Euhsx planta-