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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-08
HUNT RAIDED TENANT

Search Follows ConfiscatiOn of Beer
Cache by Police.
Police today still were searching
for S. A Marshall, painter, who was
tenant at 1443 North Alabama
street, south side, when a raid was
made on his home and 300 quarts
Of beer seized. Marshall was not at
home when the raid was conducted
Friday. Police say the Speak"
portion of the residence was on the
second floor. Service tables and tin
cups were found there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
Railroad Rate Speed

The interstate commerce commission has acted
with commendable speed in scheduling the hearing
ON the railroads petition for a Is per cent freight
rate increase Just a month after receiving the car
riers' plea.
The railroads will get first chance on July 10
to present their case, and then testimony Of OPP
ponents to the proposal will be heard. On this basis
it appears that a decision can not be expected until
the last quarter of the year.
Railroads might have had their petition oonsid-
cred more speedily if they had specified, as the COM
mission suggested, which rates they do not intend
to increase.
The petitioners are within their rights in asking
a blanket increase with the right to readjust rates
where necessary later. But instead of coming before
the commission with mental reservations they might
have clarified their case, and been fairer to the con-
sumers who must eventually bear the burden OF any
increase by stating at the outset which commoolues
would be exempt.
The commission made it evident, in asking the
railroads what rates, if any, they intended to exempt
from the proposed increase, that speed was OF prime
inheritance. The railroads asked a speedy decision
too hut their own action seems to have hindered
their purpose.
II is much more than a railroad problem that the
trterstate commerce commission will start consider
ing on July is.
This is a case that affects every consumer, and
:, saw that it concerns the length Of the depres-
sion. ,
The commission undoubtedly understands this
and It evidently is prepared to give all interested
parties a full hearing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07

Stains new economic policy" is proof again that
the Russian Communist leaders are r~ealists. That is
how they survive. They have developed to an art the
necessary give and take of government. theoretically
the most rigid Of all political systems, Communism
in practice in Russia has been completely adaptable
To the necessities Of the moment.
Therefore Stains reported proposal to sanction
further wage inequalities, to fix individual response
bility ON industrial managers, and to take back into
industry the old engineers and technicians Of the
czarist regime, is not so surprising as it seems on the
surface. Theoretically, it may be interpreted as the
Remuneration of Communism and return to capitalism
But it is not theory, it is fact that is important
in Russia. Viewed factualy, the purpose Of the new
move is to strengthen Communism. If past expert
ence is a criterion, that probably will be its actual
result.
This seeming paradox is clarified by recalling the
causes and results Of Lenins new economic policy"
That, too, was a return to modified capitalism, by
re-establishment of private trade. The outside world
said that was the end of the Communist experiment,
and most of the Communist rank and file in Russia
were regretfully Of the same opinion.
But Lenin said: No, it is only a strategic retreat
for a further later advance. History proved Lenin's
prophecy accurate.
1t is all a matter Of degree. There never has been
complete Communism in Russia. Communism is the
goal toward which the leaders zigzag over mountains
of adversely. Hence the periodic swings from right"
to left and-as now--back to right"
But in all this eat-advance-retre there is one
citadel which is never sacrificed. SO long as that one
citadel is held the revolution is safe and uncompro-
missed, according to the Communist view. That CT
tadel is the dictatorship of the Communist party, or
-as, they express 1.-THE dictatorship of the class
conscious proletariat."
So long as the Communist party strengthens its
power, it and it alone can determine whether retreat
or advance is e~xpedient in the interests Of the future
complete Communist state. So long as it strengthens
the Communist dictatorship, Communism wins.
If the Lenin-Stalin strategy is as effective in 1881
as it was in 1921, this latest new economic policy"
will not lead Russia back to capitalism"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07

small farmer. it is inescapable that the wheat disease
is bound to remain with us. Wheat farmers NAV
groan, wheat belt congressman may shout until they
are black in the face, economists may twist and
squirm, and Uncle Sam may remain a glorihed grain
Spectator and continue to pour millions Of the tax
payers money down the chute-but so long as the
fundamental condition exists there can be no sane
hope for economic remedy or permanent relief.
"Romanticists who believe otherwise-and thew
apparently include congress, the President, and the
federal farm board-simply are shadow-boxing with
distressing results and effects, without attacking the
basic and chronic disease.
The only remedy for the wheat affection Is to
remove the economic milestone which hangs around
the neck of nearly every stalk of wheat produced in
this country.
Corporation farming, Mayo declares. not only
would make it possible to produce wheat proAtablv
at present prices; it would give us wheat at prices
low enough to promote extensive eat
up the wheat surplus and thin out our breadlines.
Further it would put us in a position to compete
With the Russian wheat raised under intensively
mechanical farming.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
Colds More Likely in Warm Weather

perature, vapor pressure, percent
age of sunshine, or atmospheric
pressure fell below its ordinary level
for the period there vas likely to
be a rise in the number of colds in
the people studied.
Modern investigators are estab-
fishing the reasons for changes in
the human body in connection with
changes Of climate.
Some time ago investigators in a
large circle proved that the ability
of a person with rheumatism to
predict a change in the weather was
based on definite changes that took
place in his body before the change
in the weather occurred.
The opinion of at least twenty
centuries that there is a definite
relationship between sudden changes
in the weather and the catching of
cold would seem to be borne out
by the carefully assembled Statis-
tics now made available.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07

He believes that there is reason
ably something in the environment
tai or Observation-Disclosures structures
Of individuals which changes dur
ing the flow Of seasons.
Apparently this element in the
physical state is more active during
warm periods than during the
colder seasons of the year.
For instance, from october to
April whenever the maximum tenn
perature, average temperature, or
dry bulb temperature, fell below its
ordinary temperature, there was a
slight tendency of the incidence Of
colds to rise.
There did not seem to be any
relationship to the maximum tenn
perature, the humidity, rainfall,
Spheric pressure.
In the warm period, from April to
October, whenever the maximum
temperature, average temperature,
temperature range, dry bulb tenn
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
Agricultural Revolution

Are we on the eve Of the greatest agrlcu1uraA
revolution In American history-one which VIII make
the social and economic effects OF the reaper ano
hinder seem trivial and t~ransitory by conparlsonF
such is the contention Of Morrow Mayo, in an article
on Goodbye, Wheat Farmer" in American Mercury
According to MI. Mayo, the present program Oh the
,oro hoard is merely a frantic effort to subsidize
boneIesslv archaic and inefficient methods for mme-
diate humanitarian and political reasons. 1t Is a
t,t,le attempt to stop the inevitable tide Of thorough
,ndustrialization Of western wheat farming: 1T Is
like King Canute trying to stop the tide, not with
uords hut bv throwing dollars into the sea"
Mavo offers revelant statistics to support his STAR
fling thesis. Even If we figure the farmers working
wear on a city workers basis, he has 277 working days.
At the most it takes only 100 days to SOW, reap, thresn'
and deliver the wheat.
That leaves 1T working days during which Moth
,na of any real economic import can be carried on
nv the farmer. What would happen to a city worker
who lays idle 1T days out Of 2779
Further. the up-to-date wheat farmer, on a farm
n saw 500 acres, uses tractors and other machinery
which can be employed with real efficiency only on
tracts of from 5000 to 10000 acres. Neither the
tenant-farmer nor the man who owns his own land
can break even If wheat sells for less than 81 a bushel.
What is the other side of the picture-the alterna-
tive supplied by corporation farming? Here machin-
cry can De appheo Win maAlnlAn eM04eHCy Un 00N"O
5000 to $4,000 acres.
Labor can be employed for the exact period neces-
sary to raise the wheat, namely, from sixty to ninety
DAYS. In 1900 it took three hours of man and horse
fine to produce a bushel of wheat. Corporation
farming with machinery can today produce a bushel
In three minutes of machine time. Even under I'M
Favorable conditions, corporation wheat farming can
produce a good profit when wheat sells for SO cents a
bushel. Under the best conditions 1t can make a
profit with wheat selling for 80 cents a bushel.
Present wheat prices, even with efforts at federal
boosting, are ruinous to the independent farmer.
But corporation farmers can make a handsome profit
right now.
II we may believe Mayo, the small wheat farmer
has no more chance against the corporation farming
OF the future than the hand-weaver Of Silas Manners
time had against the new power-looms Of Britains
factories:
"As long as wheat continues to be productivity the
"a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
In frances Place

DUT cheer up. France is coming
O into line, if somewhat reluct-
antly. Neither are the alterations
in President Hoover's plan for
which she has been contending en-
tirely without logic.
AS the New York Times suggests,
we would probably have taken the
same position had we been in
Frances place.
We are not in Frances place. We
have not suffered as she did, nor
are we surrounded by a continent
that froths with age-old hates.
1t is impossible for France, or any
other European country to see the
existing situation through American
eyes. We not only have a distant
perspective, but we can afford to
look at it more impersonally.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
Reward for Ability

DIRECTLY stated, Stain proposes
ID that the idea of a level wage
scale be abandoned, that ability be
given some consideration, that the
old bourgeois be taken back if they
can, and are willing to do good
work, and that the p%roletariat pay
more attention to producing an in
tellegentia of its own.
Regardless of how such ideas
square with MarXism, they repre-
sent good sense.
Unlike some Of his predecessors
and associates, Stain is sufficiently
practical to recognize the folly Of
trying to level humanity. That is
something even those at the bottom
don't want.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07

COUTH DAKOTA and Nebraska are now suffering
~ an invasion by their old enemies, the grasshoppers,
and they threaten to take these states by storm.
This reminds us of an incident in the life of the
late Robert G.. Ingersoll, one of the greatest orators
the world ever knew.
1t was back in the year 1888 when the Republicans
held their national convention in Chicago. The con-
vention was waiting for some committee to make its
report before it started to ballot for a candidate for
President, and different party leaders were invited to
speak.
There were loud calls for Ingersoll, but he was not
present and finally when he made his appearance
upon the stage the great audience gave him an ova-
ton, which was in good form since Ingerson had been
the Republican partys greatest campaigner since the
Civil war.
TNGERsOLL came forward, smiling and launched
u into one of his hypnotic orations and instantly
the vast assemblage was in the hollow of his hand.
One minute he had the thousands rocking with
laughter and the next minute he led them to the top
of the world with his marvellous e%loquence.
Then he made the only great o~ratorical mistake
of his career. He proceeded to define the qualities
which the nominee of the convention should possess
He built up an irresistible person and then proceeded
to tell the audience that Judge Walter @. Gresham
was the candidate who fitted his description of the
ideal candidate.
He had done the same thing before in the Re-
publican convention of 1876 when he nominated
James, G. Blaine and on that occasion he had over
whelmed his hearers and it was only by putting out
the lights that the enemies of Blaine were able to
prevent his nomination.
DUT on that occasion Ingersoll appeared as the
O avowed advocate of Blaine, while in Chicago he
was called merely to make q speech for the good of
the order and the delight of the waiting multitude.
And the result was the exact opposite of what it
had been at Cincinnati in 1876.
The vast audience turned against Ingersoll, that is,
all Of 1t, except the part that favored Gresham. They
howled and Kissed and shook their fists and the pam
demoninum was such that he could not proceed. For
the first time in his career he was forced to take his
seat.
q y y
The next day a young man approached Inger-
soil and told him that when the crowd forced him
to stop speaking 1t was as If a great locomotive had
been stopped inStantaneously while travelling through
the country at seventy-hve miles an hour.
Ingerson's eyes lighted and he replied: well, you
know, grasShoppers have been known to stop loco
motives" s
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
Beyond the Debt HnIidau

The world rejoices with President Hoover that
France finally has accepted his plan for a one-vear
moratorium on war debts and reparations. Virtually
all the world has a stake in this debtors holiday. For
this agreement should lift part of the weight of the
international business depression-though only q
part.
Assuming that Hoover is accurate IN stating that
his plan has been accepted lin substance" by France.
twelve months Of grace may be given the nations to
WORK themselves UP and out of the economic depths
in which they now founder.
Whether the Hoover moratorium has o too late
to produce the full effect desired, remains to be seen.
Certainly it would have been much more effective a
year ago, before Germany had been bled to the point or
collapse and other nations had suffered accordingly.
But it will help some, even at this late day.
The rise of commodity and security values" of
more than $7,000,000,00O in less than a week following
announcement of the moratorium plan, indicates the
tremendous psychological lifting power of the pro-
posal.
But to expect the moratorium to work miracles
would be to rob it of ell value. 1t must be understood
as a negative thing, a postponement and nothing more.
Taken alone it will not correct the international eco
nomic situation; it merely will put off the day of &C
counting, with evil compounded.
Of course there is no reason why this moratorium
should be allowed to stand alone, and pile up future
uoup4e' WIFI THESE precious monCflS OF leeWay, the
American and European governments have a chance
to remove some of the causes which are dragging
Europe toward chaos and pauperizing the rest of the
world. The statesmen can:
1. Drasticaly reduce or cancel war debts and
separations;
2. Scale down the high tariff walls-our own the
w~orst-which block the flow of foreign trade upon
which prosperity depends;
8. Stop the armament race which is bankrupting
the governments and leading to another world war.
All of these essential reforms are part of a whole,
which must be achieved to win the race against in
ternational chaos.
We hope that the world acclaim received by Pres,
ident Hoover for his debt holiday plan will encourage
him to lead in the removal of those basic causes of
the world depression and danger.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07

There Is No Plot Back of
the HooUer Plan, bat You
Couldn't Make RussiG'S
Professional Patriots Be-
HeUe 1t.
NEW YORK, July Rome had
IN nothing on the good old United
States of America when it comes to
holidays. Four hundred and eighty
three dead, according to the Latest
compilation. which is obviously in
complete. Let's be conservative and
call it 500-a casualty list ecualled
in few battles of the revolution.
The prevailing thought seems to
be that we can afford it in spite of
the depression, but If we can, why
all the stewing about cancer a-d
tuberculosis?
Like so many other phases of
our civilization, the safety first
movement runs to ads. We're all
for it if a corporation has to spend
money, or politicians get a job, but
very few Of us are sold on 1t
sufficiently to slow down.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
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LvOFF'S q. S. STATEMENT
~ ~

July z
ON July 7, 1917, Prince Lvoff,
" Russian premier and minister
Of the interior, made a public
statement at Petrograd for the
information Of America.
Discussing Russo-American and
Russian world relations, Lvod
said:
For decades of darkness and
oppression America has been our
ideal of freedom and intellectual
and material development; rather
not our ideal, for we had consid-
cred it unattainable, but a re-
mote fairy tale of happiness.
Nov we have in one jump
reached Americas condition Of free
dom. There remains the slower but
not impossible task to overtake her
in education, material progress,
culture and respect for order.
1--WE are on the right track.
The spirit Of new Russia is close
ly akin to the immemoTial spirit Of
free America, and where the spirit
is, work follows. That means
Russia's salvation.
"I an convinced that our revo-
luton is no mere domestic affair,
but a stage in the new world move
ment towas6 liberty, equality, fra
ternity-perhapS the greatest stage
in the worlds history"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times-What may we next
expect? May we in the future eX-
pect to find it necessary that the
motoring public buy gasoline and oil
at acknowledgements filling sta
tons, or dare we hope that we who
drive may be allowed to buy our gas
and oil Of whom we choose without
fear Of retribution?
viii we, in time, beforced to pay
toll s. we may enter the downtown
district, or the area within the mile
square?> Toll to the city would be
preferable to the condition that now
exists, that of paying toll to indi-
viduals who operate parking lots,
parking and storage garages, for
then we might, by consistent howl
ing, get something for the money
so spent.
AS the situation now exists we
are only fattening the purses of
a few persons. most of whom, when
intrusted with the care of our cars,
not only abuse them in handling and
dent tenders and mar bumpers by
crowded parking, but avail them
selves of parts of alleys adjacent to
their parking lots, the very alleys we
lesser individuals are not permitted
to use.
1t seems a peculiar state of af-
fairs when the taxpayers of the city
are not permitted to use the streets
which they helped to build and on
which they pay taxes for mainte-
nance and repairs, on which to park
their a r when in the course of
their business they find it necessary
to enter the downtown area.
How may a business such as ours
enter the business r to make de-
liveries that are require before 9
a. M? are we to tell u customers
that we can not render service Of
any nature down town before that
time? What would we do with an
order for a store opening that re-
quired palms and other materials,
and that wished to open its doors at
8 a. M?
How are we expected to take care
Of our marketing that takes us to
the wholesale florist establishments
early each morning? Must we
supply ourselves with a pocketfuI
Of quarters with which to pay
operators Of parking lots, hunt up
the nearest one that may be two
block from the place where we make
our purchases, and then either carry
our merchandise, or wait our turn
by driving about the streets until
space is available in the loading
zone, if there is a loading zone?
A physician would be able to
render a wonderful service to
stricken humanity, if in the early
morning he found it necessary to
stop at his office in a downtown
building to get a necessary in
strument, and find that his car has
been dragged away in the few
minutes he was gone. That would
be fine.
Why should I not be permitted to
park in my own loading zone, If 1
wanted such a gone?
EDWIN E. TEMPERLEY.
-
Editor Times: In their efforts to
get a bad man, supposed to be
connected with the Jackson killing
our brave city cops placed the
writer and his wife in a very pre-
carious situation recently at 3
o'clock in the morning. After
working at our business until 8 a.
M, we drove to our apartment for
a few "winks."
AS we stopped Dur car in front
of our home, a a also stopped
with running boards almost touch
ing, and without a word, the writer
looked into a As held by the brave
(?l cop.
7ainking : was q hold-up. ]
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07

till We get to you. I am for any new
enterprise to come to our city, hut
what do a few of our politicians
who have been living off of the tax
payers for years in some form or
another care if a few of or indus
tries do leave our city? There viii
always be enough left to afford them
a political job, and especially when
the union labor vote counts fer so
much. l am not against union labor,
for I was a union man myself at
one time. I was told that a very
important industry is leaving our
city now and others have left, and
what will keep E. G. Atkins Com
pany and twenty-four others that
want natural gas from leaving our
city and going where they can get
the gas they wish and need? Why
not build a fence around Indian
apolis, and build it SO high that
the birds can't get over It? I am
a believer in competition, which is
the life of trade. What Indianap-
olise needs is more industry, more
competition and fewer politicians.
JOHN Q. KIRCH.
1888 Union street.
Editor Times-As a taxpayer of
Indianapolis I feel that something
should be done about the high
charges for public utilities, and as
the firms themselves seem unable
to lower the rates, I appeal to you
to help us all you can.
We all r interested in making
Indianapolis the very best city in
the country, but when visitors see
our people under pressure and hear
their just complaints, it certainly
does not do our city any good.
The gas, water, light and tele-
phone companies still are charging
the same rates as during the war
when wages we're much higher than
at present.
Foods, rents, materials all have
done their share to meet the e
ent conditions. but it seems that
the utilities are blind to the fact
that the people need their co-opera-
ton. Or else they have unusual
ideas about economy and its
benefits.
I feel sure your worthy paper will
help in behalf of the public regard
ing this matter. Let's hear from
other patrons of this newspaper.
MABEL LOWE.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-07
Stain Turns

TUST the same, and in spite of
- her professional patriots, Russia
is swinging into line.
Nothing proves this like StaliTs
latest pronouncement. which rep
resents a definite turn to the right,
no matter how vigorously he may
deny it.
What he proposes will have to be
passed on by the Communist party
council, of course, but that's a mere
formality.
Stain Yields as much power as
any Romanof ever did. The big
difference is that he thinks in terms
of industry, while the cars thought
in terms Of pomp.