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The Washington times., 1931-12-08
Eleven Billions for Europe?
It's Up to Congress

President Hoover has declared moratorium on the war
debts but the debts have not declared moratorium on
President Hoover.
The simple fact is that Mr. Hoovers promise" of last
Iune to halt the debt payments worth the paper is
written unless ratified by Congre-and Europe knows it.
Congress met Monday One Of its first acts should be to
throw the moratorium overboardlock stock and barrel
Congress has the power to do this
It has the right to do this. .-.
It has the DUTY to do this.
The American people have given Mr. Hoover NO authority
to suspend the debts His attempt to suspend them
plain violation of the policy of his predecessors and his
party, and his country.
Worse than that Mr. Hoover has taken the first step
toward canceng the debts completely and shifting the cost
Of the the shoulders of the American taxpayer
Moratorium spells cancellation Cancellation spells
tax burden this country OF eleven billion dollars
With deficits of than two billion dollars America
this burden and does not propose to do
America never has surrendered her just claims the debts
Mr. Hoovers moratorium merely represents his personal
views and those of Wall Street conflicts directly with
those of the taxpayer.
Representative Rankin of Mississippi correctly character
ICES it "a scheme concocted by group Of international
nanciers to induce Congress cancel the debts unload them
the American people and thereby enable these nan
Bankers private loans to Europe amount to nearly five
billions To salvage them the taxpayer would have to sar
flee eleven billions He would have to throw two dollars
Of HIS money the bankers dollar of THEIR money
That where the taxpayer gets off, the moratorium and
the rest OF the program go through
The taxpayer therefore, heartily the plan Rep
resentatv Rankin and other Democrats to investigate these
private loans before consenting to the moratorium.
Investigation will fully reveal the manner in which the
public is to be swnded and Congress does its duty will
"My opinion , says Representative Rankin, "i.
that going to beat it. II, I believe, the
Administration is trying to couple This One-year
respite .Oith further n'or0torun's and reOisicns'
then it has deceived Senator's and RepresentatOes
and they not bound by the pledge they gaze the
President last summer"
That states the
Congress has been fooled along with the people.
It is free to ac and unless stone blind the rights
Of the people it will do
It alone the United States from this steal of
eleven billion dollars and what worse from the fitting
title of 1.-The biggest boob nation in history
The Washington times., 1931-12-08
Model Police Work

Washington has through ryinp epigode with color.
flying
Ihe demonstration of the sOcaed hunger marchers yeger
day was so orderly and peaceful that highest hopes of the
city for tranquility more than realized
10 the Metropolitan Police Department and the other agencies
OF law enforcement the highest credit is due
Confronted with situation which required tact and firm
ness the police displayed both.
They permitted the archers go the full extent of the
awand some instances the police themselves overrode
minor regulations in order that the demonstrators might have
every possible latitude. -
But the willingness of police give the marchers break
was not sign of weakness It sign strength for the
archers as well the public realized that occasion had
warranted swift and effective action would have been taken
Major Pelham Glasford commanding the forces of order
deserves the commendaon planning execution
Of arrangements Officers and members of the ranks should
likewise receive commentator for their restraint handling
q difficult task
Coming almost the start Of Major GlasOrds adminsra
uon this successful coping with dangerous situation is
happy augury.
The Washington times., 1931-12-08

simple reason that there's no
excuse to start trouble.
No King Shooting
How can we rebel against q
government that we made our
selves and run ourselves?
How can we shoot a King
when there isn't any king to
shoot? How can we massacre
aristocrats when there aren't
any but you and I?
Why call a man a "cut-
throat capitalist" when he got
his start selling papers on
street corners just as you're do
ing now? Why bomb his store
if you know darned we'll (and
you DO know darned welD
that you would have done
exactly as he has done?
Uprising? My eye! Be your
age!
We're going to have a hard
winter. AN irritating winter
:. AN upset winter. That's in
evitable. No one will escape
the pressure of this winter. J..
rich nan, poor man, beggar
man and bootlegger-we'll all
have to take the rap. Well all
have to put our hands in our
pockets-or our pride. But, for
the luvva Mike, let's do it with
good nature and horse sense.
Just Traitors
Let's keep our heads and
our sense of humor. We're not
a bunch of half baked, 4aysteri.
cal peasants. We're solid, SEN
sible, we'll educated Americans
living in a land where the
breaks are better for the COM
mon man than they are any
where else on earth. We've all
had good wages in the past.
Well all have them again in
the future. IF WE STAND
STEADY NOW.
And If we don't stand
steady? If we insist on say
ing that this Nation is a flop
and a failure-then what?.
THEN WE'RE TRAITORS
AND NOTHING BUT! AS
ACTUAL RAITORS AS
THOUGH WE DESERTED IN
WAR TIME AND SOLD OUR
COUNTRY OUT TO FOREIGN
SPIES.
For this is war time. And
there are foreign spies within
our lines. Indeed, the whole
world is spying on us now.
watching our democratic ex-
pertinent with stealthy, spe-
culating eyes. Once those eyes
we're enVious-envious of our
prosperity, our progress, our
brotherly friendliness. Now
they are openly sneering, openly
scheming.
+ And who's responsible?
YOU AND I ARE, RESPON-
SIBLE. YOU AND I, WITH
OUR LOOSE TALK.
Copyright. 1891, King Features
syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1931-12-08

try is going to the dogs.
And it's all tommy-rot.
A starved Chinese coolie might
be excused for talking like that,
or a stupid Russian peasant
whose mind has been warped
by cruel tyranny. But there is
no excuse for any American
citizen, with a decent public
school education and the mem
ory of decent American wages
behind him, talking like that.
Hard times? OF course we're
having them. Sos the whole
world having them. That's why
we're having them.
This thing didn't start in
America. Depression hasn't
arisen because there's something
wrong with our cotton fields,
our textile mills, our steel
works, coal mines, automobile
factories. 1t has come because
THERE is SOME T HING
WRONG WITH THE WORLD.
It's Age-Old
It began about 50,000,000
years ago when cussed human
nature first started and it will
continue at least 50.000,0 900
years more, until man really
grows up and gets dry behind
the ears.
The Government isn't re-
Sponsible. Capital isn't re-
sponsible. Nor Wall Street,
nor the bankers. Nor Messrs.
Mussolini ana Stain. Nor the
English, French and German
governments. ..-- r.
THE WHOLE DUMB HUMAN
RACE rs RESPONSIBLE. We're
all in a jam together.
But we Americans have been
In plenty of jams before. And
got out of them. We can get
out of this one, too, if we Keep
cool. use our heads and face
facts. And the first fact is
THERE ISN'T GOING TO
BE ANY SERIOUS TROUBLE
IN THIS COUNTRY. For the
The Washington times., 1931-12-08
ONCE-OVERS


Meantime as many more
debts in other ways are accum-
ulating and the sum total be-
comes staggering when figured
on the basis Of steady employ
ment and a rneager income.
On the other hand an income
may round amp'e br:; when a
family begins to live on it the
demands are more than ex'
pected and it dwindleS.
Some incomes appear to be
generous till it becomes appar-
ent that there are incidental ex.
penses of keeping the job which
cut into it in a way 50 that
there is little left after all to
keep up a home.
Are you morally strong
enough to live cheerfully on a
small salary.
Copyright, 1881, by International
Feature Service, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1931-12-08
Blind as Those
That. Will Not See'
D., HInur1o n Rn1roro
Bu Claude G.. BOIUers

not make for the creditors
comfort. He talked like a
Democrat-however he votes.
The action of the tariff
commission in recommending
the reducing Of some rates
that mean little or nothing,
while upholding the rates on
cement and lumber, is just
what is to be expected un-
der the present system of
packing the commission with
men subservient to the anti
quated theories of the Ad-
ministration. Didn't a for
mer President throw the
recommendations of a for
mer commission for a de-.
crease in the sugar rate
into the waste basket when
he gave pig iron an increase
of so per cent.
Lumber and cement! How
we'll we all recall the log
rolling Of the team to get
the rates they have. Each
had its following in the
House, and the bargain be-
tween them in the making
of the present law, as COM
monty understood, was that
the lumber crowd would
vote to boost the cement
rates on the consumers, and
the cement crowd would re-
ciprocate.
The Washington times., 1931-12-08
Expenses and Income

EApCASCS anu AASUMAS
Soon to be married, a young
girl submits the question what
are some of the, problems to be
met by young people who marry
at the present time?"
There are many.
Most important is that of reg
ulating expenses to keep within
income.
Brides who retain their posi-
>tions after marriage have little
more leeway than those who re-
sign and try to live on the sal.
ary of a young husband.
To combine personal expenses
and the upkeep of a home is
not so simple.
There are a thousand and
one temptations to buy equip
ment which seems almost neces-
sary but could not be paid for
in many months.
The Washington times., 1931-12-08

down to John
in the wash
room or the
smoking car.
Saying there's
going to be
trouble. Say
ing " w e we
got to stop
t h os e cut
throat CAPT.
taliStS from
t a kin g the
bread out of
a poor mans
mouth. Say
ing this COIN.
The Washington times., 1931-12-08

THERE is not the least
probability of any at
tempt by Congress at a gen.
eral reduction of the tariff
during the present session
because of the division of
governmental power between
the parties. This, however,
does not save Senator Smoot
from an attack of hysteria
at the thought of touching
the sacrosanct.
Denouncing the Demo-
Gratis for even suggesting
tariff reform, he makes the
remarkable statement that
foreign imports are en-
croaching upon the Amer
lean market at a time when
domestic industry is Grip
pied and millions are unem-
ployed.
The truth is that there
has been an appalling de-
crease in customs revenue
because of the loss of for
eign trade, and that the
crippling of domestic indus
try and the loss Of employ
ment by from six to seven
million men, the most serious
and SOLDERING depression in
all our history, has come at
a time when we have the
highest tariff rates we have
ever had.
He knows that this pro-
hibitive act he sponsored
has resulted in the raising
of tariff barriers against
the products Of our factories
and fields by the other ma
tions.
He knows that this is de-
priving us of the foreign
markets on which we once
profited, and that the de-
crease in production in fac
tories is measured by the
decrease in demands for our
goods from other nations,
and that this decrease in
demand is reflected in the
decrease in the number, of
workers needed. He knows
that factories are building
branches in other nations to
escape the curse of the
Smoot rates, and that these
branches are employing, not
A m e can, but foreign
workers.
The Washington times., 1931-12-08
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

just let him go on talking and
he'll contradict himself.
One of the chief reasons for
so many matrimonial failures
these days appears to be the
average mans old fear of find,
ing himself tied to a woman
of more than two working
brain-CellS.
Hunting big game may be
an exciting pastime; but it Is
safe and sane sport beside
hunting bargain gifts for a big
family in a modern department
store.
When an old-fashioned girl
didn't want to be kissed, she
haughtily informed the man
that she was "a lady" A
The Washington times., 1931-12-08
Mitchell Talked
Like a Democrat

Such a statement would
seem incredible but for the
fact that mems minds do be-
come ossified and set in their
prejudices. ''The higher the
tariff the greater the pros
perity old stuff now and
thoroughly discredited by
facts.
Not from the Democrats,
but from a Republican in
dustrialist we quote:
''The theory Of high pro-
tective tariff as an aid to
business and employment
br eaks down completely
when a nation like the
United States has become a
huge exporter in manufac-
tured goods and in wheat,
copper, cotton and oil, and
when all the other impor-
tant nations have adopted
high tariffs, too"
That is not a political but
a business view and it comes
from James D. Mooney, presi-
dent, of the General Motors
Export Company.
He proposes that this coun-
try Immediately initiate
common sense reciprocal
trade arrangements and
thereby start the forward
movement %in commerce and
employment" That is the
general idea in the tentative
plan of Henry Rainey, the
Democratic leader in the
House.
Common sense in business
is closer to the Democratic
concept Of wisdom now than
to the superannuated ideas
of Mr.. Smoot.
Talk About
Bargains"
Charles Mitchell, of the
National City Bank, appear
ing before the same commit
tee the other day, reminded
the statesmen that making
loans to Europe and then
making it impossible to trade
with the debtor nations does
The Washington times., 1931-12-08

dressing. Madame Pompadour'
Mary Pickford, Irene Castle,
Greta Carlo and Helen Morgan
will clways be remembered be-
cause a lot of other women
tried to look like them.
A wife has her uses-not the
least of them being that she
is the only indiSputable alibi
for not marrying the other
woman.
Before marriage. man can
see all a woman's charms at
a casual glance; after mar.
riage, he sometimes has to use
a microscope to perceive even
a few of her good points.
Never contradict a man
when he is in the midst OF
a carefully worked up alibi;
The Washington times., 1931-12-08
The Trouble With
Some Craftsmanship

All went we'll until the ce-
ment rates went up, and
then, because some of tie
cement votes were not de
livered" there was a mo.
mentary fluke on the in
crease in the lumber rates.
In anguish of spirit, some
of the lumber crowd sought
expert advice from a cer-
tain brilliant Democrat par
Humanitarian on whether 1T
were possible to get a re-
consideration of the cement
rates-and sweet revenge.
In the end they both got
what they were after; but
what a comment on hcw
tariffs are made and the
consumers are gouged! Talk
about "bargains" in judge
ship nominations between
the two parties in New
York Here was a bargain,
pretty brazen, that went
into the pockets Of the peo-
pie to the tune Of millions!
But that bargain is sacro-
sanct to the President; and
he and his packed commits
sion will not double-cross
either the cement or the lum-
Der crowd.
One day Mr.. Hoover spoke
feelingly Of the owned home,
and, in the midst Of the
wholesale evictions for the
nonpayment of rent, urged
people to build their homes:
and the next day he stood
like Gibraltar against any re-
duction in the rates on ce-
ment and lumber that deter
mine the cost of building.
The trouble with some
craftsmanship is that it has
no coordination.
And it has another trouble,
too it gets it's political
economy from the speeches
of "Pig Iron" Kelly.
The Washington times., 1931-12-08
LISTEN, WORLD!
Loose Talk
BY Elsie Robinson

Loose Talk
There's a lot of loose talk fly
ing around.
Everywhere you hear it. Mag
gle gossiping to Mamie over the
phone. Jim giving the low
The Washington times., 1931-12-08
The Problem of Our
New Civilization

Last week William Green,
of the American Federation
of Labor, made a statement
to the La Toilette Senate
committee:
1.-THE Government does not
owe every man q living, but
it owes every man and
woman an opportunity to get
a living. Yet we are told in
a fatalistic tone to expect fu-
ture employment. That is an
Indictment Of our social sys-
tenn
1t is worse than an indict-
ment; it is a death warrant,
ultimately, unless a way is
found to prevent the recur-
renee of such. a tragedy as
that OF To-Day.
He proposes to meet the
real menace of the mechani-
cal age with a seven-hour
day and a five-day week.
There is abundance of sense
in that idea, but it is not
being seriously considered by
industrialjsts or the organ
lied forces of society. We
are having no conferences in
the White House on this
human problem; which is
also the problem of our new
civilization.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-12-08
Mcdonnell Leaves to
Attend Funeral Rites

G. W. Mcdonnell, member OF the
state railroad commission, left for
Loughead, Alberta, Monday to attend
the funeral Of his mother. who died
last week.
Mrs. Mcdonnell was 86 years old
and had been in i'll health from the
effects of injuries received when she
fell down a flight Of stairs. She had
made her home at Ioughead.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-12-08

Farm census figures show Florida
has more than $1,000 horses and
mules, none of which is in Monroe
county.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-12-08
337 CLUB MEMBERS
T0ATTEND SESSION
State Agricultural College Is
Host to Annual Achieve
ment Institute

Thirty counties have delegated 337
of their All club members to attend
the annual Achievement Institute at
the North Dakota Agricultural COL
lege, which begins Tuesday.
Members of the Burleigh county
delegation boarded train for Fargo
Monday evening while H. O. Putnam,
Burleigh county agricultural agent.
will leave Wednesday to attend the
county agents meeting.
Included in the lists of delegates
are:
Adams county: Margaret Hagen,
Evelyn Knudson, Eda Remmen, Susie
Stevens.
Burleigh: Mabel Bier, Martha Ed
holm, Milton Mandigo, Alvin Stanley,
Braddock; Madeline Boren, Byron
Clizbe, Vivian Larson, Mary Ellen
Reese, Esther Watson, Mckenzie;
Walter Brestrom, Steve Torzeki, Will
ton: Carey Johnson, Helen Swind-
ling. Sterling; Paul Martineson, Rob-
erta Reid, Bismarck; Violet Olson,
Regan: Louise PAIL, Arena; Esther
Tompt. Driscoll.
Golden Valley: Leo Kreitinger,
Golva.
Hcttinger Sends Trio
Hettinger: Dorothy Bob n h o + I,
Mary Zich, Mott: Clarence Wlcn-
mann, Burt.
Kidder: Lorraine Burkett, Rowena
Burton, Phyllis Hooker, Ruth Niles,
Dawson; Stanley Hanish, Pettibone;
Helmer Nelson, Tappen; Marvin
Roth. Braddock; Augusta Solberg,
Driscoll; Nina Waters, Robinson.
Mckenzie: Helen Feiring, Rawson;
Oryille Green, Fairview; Robt. Hay
den, Grassy Butte; Nina Leek,
Gwendolyn Stenehjem, Arnegard.
Mclean: Lois Gregory, Hensler;
Ross Josephson, Milton Sauer, Anita
scholl, Washburn: Margaret Nor
. land. Viola Tauer, May Thompson,
Underwood.
Morton: Hazel Corkery, William
Cookery, Fort Rice; Margaret Cart
ner. Hubertina Keller, Glen Ullln;
Rudolph Hermes, Agnes Schatz, He
bron: GLADYS johnson, Fla sh err;
Eleanor Klusmann, Helen zarndt,
New Salem: Luella Lotspeich, Kath-
lcen AdlSVCll, SA1lAAOAAe, 0OAAAA = 0FSAN>~~'
Mandari.
stark: VIM. Buresh, Connie Meule-
mans, South Heart; Chas. Trinka,
Dickinson; Anton Wolf, Gladstone.
Wells: Frances Blauer. ROLAND
Harding, Howard Hoy, Frank Wade,
Heaton; Wayne Grimm, Hurdsfield; !;
Verne Hendrickson. Wellsburg;
Harold Molk. Thelma Odegaard, An
ma Mae Watt, Bowdon; Gertrude
Muscha, Alfred Running, Harvey;
Donna Nelson, Sykeston; Margaret
Nsuenschwander, Fessenden; Mildred
Schroeder, Heimdal; Louis Schwarz
Jr., Manfred; George Weihmuller
Emrick: Emma Weippert, Chaseley;
Beatrice Zwemke, Sykeston.
Slope Leaders to Attend
Local club officials and leaders who
will attend the institute include:
Ray w. Harding, Hettinger; Mrs
Henry Larson, Mckenzie; Thore
MAIDEN, Braddock; Mrs. H. M. Young
Guelph; Leo Kreitinger, Golva: Mrs
w. L. Belts. DeSart; Elsie Hoeft
Dawson; Erik Solberg, Driscoll; E. A
Hendrickson, Watford City; Marie
Paulson, Washburn: r. c. Newcomer
Mandan, and Pohn F. Krank, Dick
trlson.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-12-08

Armour Creameries IBIS.
marck) will custom dress your
turkeys FREE. Get in touch
with them quick, sell them
your home dressed turkeys and
highest market prices will be
paid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04

at the Marott. Her daughter, Mrs.
Douglass Pollock johnson, formerly
Miss Ann Undertake, will sail next
week from San Diego for Panama,
and will come to Indianapolis in
March to spend six weeks with her
mother.
7. H. Schaefer, Indianapolis, is
spending few days in Washington
at the Commodore.
Mr.. and Mrs. James w. Cooper,
2871 North Gale street, had as their
guests at dinner Tuesday night,
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas T. Walker
and Mrs. Charles Davies.
Phillip Yunker, a student in IN
diana medical school, has returned
from Howell, Ind, where he spent
the mid-semester vacation with his
parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. Richards, who
recently moved to Indianapolis from
Louisville, are at home at the Ma
rott.
Mrs, Vernon Griffith, Marott, has
returned to her home, after visit
ing her daughter, Mrs. Guy G.
Smith, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
Mrs. Elizabeth Jones has taken
an apartment at the Marott.
Mrs. Robert c. Elliott and Mrs,
W. H. Kinnear of the Marott have
returned to their home, after at
tending the Hoesier Salon in Chi
cago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04
L0Ckyear
to Be Hostess
for Meeting

Mrs. Elmer Q. Lockyear, 337
Buckingham drive, will be hostess
for the Aftermath Club guest meet
ing Thursday afternoon.
Following is the musical program:
Trio
Misses Georgia Baumann, vioiinisfp: ie viTr
glnia Ieyenoerger, cellist. and Gertrude
Free. pianist.
.".AA d9daI3tes. .MendeIssohn
~. Miss Bsumann.
Thou Art So Like a Flower" Chadwick
The Dreaming Lake" cTriffer
r.,o Mary Morgan German. ''''A
.@sgIl as the Night. .............B ohm
Miss Baumann. Miss Leyenb SsTeasihSeF
c.,,. and Miss Free.
"Gavotte scbeiil;. ~, ist
Voice '' Ivy e"0eiSe''
Nv the 6n( Luxembourg Garden, Manning
Miss German. '0eoe
Members of the program commit
tee, headed by Mrs. Charles w
Field, Mesdames William Myers
Arthur w. Mason, Bertha Wright
Mitchell, John A. Sink and Mrs
Frank T. Day, president, will assist
Mrs. Lockyear.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04
KIRSHBAUM SCENE
OF DRAMA RECITAL

Miss Eva Yoalit and David Vardi
will present a dramatic recital Sun
day night under the auspices of
the KirShbaum center. Patron and
patroneSseS will be:
Messrs and Mesdames Louis J. BORN
stein. Henry Blatt. Allan Bloom, joseph M.
Bloch, Isaac Born, Phillip p. Efroymson.
Samuel Falendar. Isadore Feibelman.
Samuel Frommer, Daniel Frsch, Mortimer
Furscott. Meyer Calm. Myro Glass, Albert
S. Goldstein, A NJ. Goodman, Jack A.
Goodman, Philip Grenwald, Joseph Lyman,
Edgar r. Kiser. Simon L. Kiser. I. G..
Kahn Isaac Marks, Max Plesser, Louis
II. Segar. Sidney J. Sternberger, Charles
B. Sommers, David Shane, Nathan Joplin.
Jacob Weiss. Louis Wolf; DR.. Evelyn Kroot
Berger; Mrs. Harry Cohen: Misses EVELYN
Hahn, Louise Jaeger: Rabbi BENJAMIN
Cohen, Rabbi Morris M. Fuerlicht, Rabbi
s. A. Katz, Rabbi Milton Steinberg. and
Leonard Strauss. Morris Strauss, Frank r.
Wolf Jacob L. Mueller, and A. H. Gold
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