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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-10
Other Livestock
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packing sows $4SoGSi5 p Smooth igRt
weights to $40: light lights, .14O-160 lbs.
5000 o and choice, $4.75@5.l5; lightweights.
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choice, $3.50 $50; heavyweights. 25o-350
lbs, good and choice. $3.50 $50; packing
soWs 275-5o0 lbs. medium and good. $4.5e
@5;4o; slaughter pigs. 10o-130 lbs, good
5000; calves, 700; moderately active and
generally steady on fed steers, yearlings
and livestock; grassy. kinds also. steady;
yealers. strong; bulls steady; slaughter cat
and choice, s7:50@io Is; sSo-1 1oo 1l5ss
good and choice, $7.5O@10;25; 1,100-l 800
lbs. good and choice. $7.5001060; 1900
1,500 lbs, good and choice, $3.50 q o.6o;
COOL 300 lbs. common and medium, $40
So 9 he 4s 55O-S5O lbs good and ch9ice
SIS; cows. good and choice. $4.25@5:75;
common and medium S3.25@4 Is; low
cutter and cutter cows, s2@3.25; bulls,
vealers. milk fed. good and choice, $500
8.75; medium. $6@7.50: Gull and common,
$4@6. Stocker and feeder cattlezzSteers,
S SoGS5O d lD s9GS a9s hGGs sSSS
Receipts. 10000; mostly steady to strong;
spots shade higher; good to choice native
lambs. s5.75.@62 Is: few. $3.50: choice west
ems hsd above pediHm MSntaRs s.
Slaughter sheep and lambs-Lambs. 90 lbs
down. good and choice, $575Q SOS; me
dunn S5M5.75: all weights common, So 90
as: ewes. 90-15o lbs. medium to choice.
0S1 so; feeding lambs. 50-75 lbs. good and
choice, S4.7505.50.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-10
Chicago
Stocks

cRy James T. Hamin & Coz
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-10
Time Money Unchanged

Time money rates held un-
changed. but bankers acceptance
rates rose Z Of / per cent and COM
mercial paper advanced.
Following the action Of the New
York federal reserve bank, the Bank
of France raised it's discount rate
to 212 per cent, placing that coun-
try on a basis relatively unchanged
from where it was before the New
York bank increased its rate. This
means that gold can continue to
flow to France from this country.
The street was not certain about
the effects Of higher money. How
ever, the general opinion was it
would be beneficial to banks and
this in turn would have a good
effect on business. Bank stocks re-
flected this feeling and made sub
stantial gains on top of their rise
Thursday after the rediscount rate
rise was announced.
The rise in rails was spirited for
time. Buying was brought into
this group on the assumption some
thing would be done to relieve the
carriers which have been hard
pressed of late. No definite pro-
gram for aiding railroad bonds has
been forthcoming so far, but some
action was looked for from the adj
ministration at Washington.
Rate Action Expected
In addition the street expected
early favorable action on the freight
rate increase request, and rumors of
wage reductions which would in
crease profits also contributed to the
buying impetus.
At one time, the carriers were up
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-10
TRANSPORTATION
Local Wagon Wheat

CITY grain elevators are paying arc for
No. 2 red wheat and 26c for No. bard
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-23
GOLDEN DAWN
By PETER B. KXNh
tcopyright. 1902

, sweet and wonderful, Stephen? I want
you to most of ALL"
MY dear, come herel" he COM
manded, land sit on my knees Just as
you used to do when you were Nance
Belden and a simple child of impulse
when you hadn't the least compunc-
ton about making love to me-"
Penelope flushed, but nevertheless
obeyed. Stephen drew her cheek down
to his. IT want to tell you some thing,
he murmured. THE first night / saw
you my heart went out to you. And
when Dan told me how it all happened
had q tremendous admiration for
your courage and wit I love brainy
people, Penelope, and you have brains.
I felt so sorry for you, my poor dear.
I wanted to help you more than l ever
wanted to help any human being. l
understood all about you-you were just
little lost atom, crying so pitifully to
be saved, to know love and protection
and happiness, that you developed into
game. and Lanny and Dan and just
had to play 1t to the finish"
Have you thought of me sometimes?"
"Oftener than 1 cared to admit to
myself. Penelope, know all about
you. In this box on my desk are all
the records. Look at them, Penelope,
dear"
Then you bothered to find out every
thing-you cared for me just little
bit?"
"A considerable bit-just how much
didn't realize until now. I want you
for my patient always"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-23

what do you mean. Stepheuf. az
"I'm clumsy, dare say. butA1 have
more than n suspicion that I've been
in love with you-and now that / r we
you back I'm quite certain l love you
enough to want you to marry me. I
think my love for you will grow with
the years"
And you'll never think back-never
be ashamed OF me; never regret your
course? And are you sure this isn't
lust pity?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-23

y. Pity Is akin to love. It started In
pity, sweetheart-and it's growing every
minute. Fast work, my Penelope. but
I'm not afraid to trust my instinct.
You're my woman. You love me q
little. do you notp"
Why" said Penelope, soberly. 'T've
loved you from the day Dan brought
me to this Office. You were kind to
me, and you didn't seem to see my
nose. was so grateful-and ever
since I've been waiting out there, ONE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-23

,'E. knew you didn't, stevie. dear, -
Penelope spoke up. But I did-acci-
dentally."
Miss Ordway blushingly withdrew.
who is Prof. Finneean. darling?"
Penelope wanted to know.
Just q fictitious person IAnny and
I invented to help rid me Of nuts that
stay too long. sweetheart. You don't
have to consider him at all"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-23

where" She Rugged him fiercely. "Oh,
Stevie. darling. all the rest of my life
I shall devote to YOU. I'll not be OPP
pressive with my love. and I'll not be
possessive, but 1 do want the task Of
adding to your happiness I know what
happiness is. I can appreciate even q
little bit-and I'll never forget to cher
ish what you gave me and give back
all I can"
THAT way happiness lies. You seem
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-23

70 -havs the Formula" he replied,
gravely.
The door from Miss Ordway's ONCE
opened and the nurse looked in.
I'm sorry. DR.. Burt, but Prof. Fin
negan has just telephoned that you are
is minutes late to your engagement to
meet the great German savant, Herr
Doktor Unit
But J didn't press the button, Miss
Ordway"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-23
'I wouldn't. of course" said Pene.
lope. I'm queen here. am not?"
(THE ENID

Miss Marie le Prince, an American
school teacher, attended the unwilling
Of q memorial tablet to her father. NJ.
Louis lie Prince. pioneer Of the motion
picture, at Leeds, England. where he
achieved his early success.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-23
Acidine Ends
Acidity and Gas
Torture Quick

Terrible attacks Of aeidity were so
Weakening that they began. 70 get on
my nerves, says Charles foreman of
rochester, Pa, Then tried ACIDINE.
l cannot praise Il enough: 1 feel so
wish every one who Is suffering acidity
would try ACIDINE."
Almost every one who takes ACIDINE
raves about IT, More than two million
packages have been sold. It's abso-
lutely amazing the way this prescription
fail
.ACIDINE is the only known remedy
which contains Japtase, that in labora-
tory tests digests 800 times its weight
cause trouble. II .neutralizes burning
acids. soothes irritated stomach Innings,
stops gassy headaches. sleeplessness and
neryoGsness, No other known remedy
stomach KCIDiNE also fortiAes you
against colds by reducing acidity.
Watch how quick acid INDIGESTION,
burn, dizziness, fulinSss. short breath
vanish. Eat, drink all YOU want with
out fear. from acidity.. Maker refunds
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
Low Wages Make Pension System For
Aged Necessary, Labor Chief Says
President Green Points Out insufficient Pay and
Discrimination Against Workers For Age
Means Society Must Assume Burden of Car
ing For Needy Old, Now Increasing.

classed as dependent much sooner and
earlier in life than they We're years
ago. This tends to reduce the life's
earning period of the wage Garner and
breadwinner. In turn, it lessons his
opportunity to accumulate for the
day of dependency. 1t is difficult to
conceive of stronger argument of
fered in support of old age pension
legislation than is presented, uncon-
sciously perhaps, by corporations
which practice discrimination against
working people who reach the age of
45 years.
Burden Placed on Society
1T is difficult to understand WHY
such a policy was originated and pur-
sued by employers of labor Science
shows that the mental power of in
dividuals increases steadily during all
the years of maturity until the in
dividual reaches 70 years of age. If
industry had pursued a more humane
and liberal age policy the percentage
of working people who would become
dependent would be substantially re-
duced. 1t is this sordd industrial
policy which results in transfer of
the obligation to care for aged de-
pendents from industry to society.
"There are few men and women
who, at the age of 45 years, do not
have dependents, consequently dis
elimination in securing employment
depreciates his ability to discharge his
family obligations. This creates a
menacing situation in which society
is tremendously interested. Obvious
ly, people must work and earn an in
come during the entire life period
during which they are fitted and
qualified to render service, otherwise
they become public charge or de-
pendent upon relatives and friends.
Standards Set BY Labor
"The American Federation of La
Dor believes that the minimum stand
ards established through the enact
ment of old age pension legislation
should provide state supervision, state
control, with state contributions to
the creation of an old age pension
fund; a compulsory law requiring
every state to maintain an old age
pension commission clothed with au-
thority to care for those entitled to
pension payments. The age of bene-
ficiary should be IS and the amount
of pension paid should be not less
than $500 per year per person. There
is involved in this field of social JUS
tice legislation the protection and
maintenance of the home and family.
If this institution, so vital to the pre-
servation of our social order, is to be
preserved and protected guarantees
must be given for the economic care
and protection of wage earners en-
gagged in rearing and educating their
families. The haunting fear of de-
pendency must be minimized through
the assurance of a measure of eco
nomic and financial support to those
who, through misfortune and eco
nomic discrimination, have been made
dependent. Wherever possible the
home should be maintained intact"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
WAR ON ILLITERACY
URGED BY WILBUR

Washington.-Despite its decrease,
illiteracy continues to be "ominous,
formidable and challenging, said Sec
retary of the Interior Wilbur in a
radio address.
Recent returns from the bureau of
the census in 16 states show reduc-
tion of illiteracy during the last
decade amounting to 1876 per cent"
said the secretary. "In 1920 these
states reported 1,160,781 illiterates.
In 1890 they reduced the number to
1,013,623 or 147,158 The District of
Columbia lowered its number from
10,509 to 6,611, which was a drop of
81 per cent. Alabama reduced its
number nearly 2700O Mississippi
nearly 5000 and Arkansas more than
$4,000
"A critical observer may scrutinize
the returns from the 16 states and
embarrass US with sharp question.
If the reduction has been 147,158 in
10 years, or 1876 per cent, he may
say, then at that rate it may take
70 years to eradicate illiteracy"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
Pay Cuts Grave Peril
julius Klein Asserts
Attacking Wage Sashers, Assistant Secretary of Com
merce Declares in Radio Speech Buying Power of
Wage Farmers Must Be Sustained and Strengthened

Washington ILNS)-Talking on a
Columbia coast-to-coast network this
week, Dr. julius Klein, assistant sec
retary of commerce, lambasted wage
cutters, and, by showing what hap
pened in 1920, forecasted what would
follow wage cuts today. He said:
"We must sustain and strengthen
the buying power of our wage earn
ers. AS President Hoover pointed out
it all gets down to that one word
work Fortunately most of our in
dustrial leaders are keenly apprecia-
tive of the necessity of providing at
least some work for the maximum
number"
Most of our leaders realize the
grave perils that lurk in the short
sighted proposal of the wage cut. Let
US not add strikes and other indus
trial disorders to our troubles. We
have had grief as it is. That is what
was done in 1921 when wage cuts
started the greater part of the 2,400
strikes in that depression and turned
more than a million workers into the
streets. One dose of that kind of
dangerous nostrum ought to be
enough in our depression experience
eve need more jobs, not less; and
we need them, not after lot of cum
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
B. & 0. CLERKS AID
UNEMPLOYED

The five-day week with five and a
half days pay is now in effect in
several departments of the main Of
fee Of the Baltimore & Ohio at Bal
timer, as the result of series of
conferences between the Brotherhood
of Railway Clerks and the B. & o.
management.
About 1,500 employees are affected
by the plan which is to remain in eff
feet for 80 days, after which further
conferences will be held to decide as
to it's continuance or abandonment.
During the 90-day trial period" there
are to be no lay-offs. The clerks
agreement with the B. & o. provides
that each man in scheduled position
shall be guaranteed six full eight
hour days of work each week
When the management recently
suggested it might be necessary to
curtail forces because of slack bust
ness, Representatives of the clerks
proposed the five-day arrangement,
agreeing to take pay for five and a
half days. BY waving the six-day
agreement the clerks are sacrificing
a half days pay as their contribution
to unemployment relief.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24

sion. Pressure brought on any one
point forces all other factors to meet
a situation. Demand of workers for
higher standards has been a stimulus
to industry to find more efficient
methods.
"The rapid mechanization of indus
try within recent years has made pos
sible far greater reduction in hours
of work than has actually taken place.
The production of the average worker
in industry has increased far more
rapidly in the decade since 1919 than
in any other period of which we have
record"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
NO STEEL PRICE WAR:
HARMFUL TO PROFITS

New York.-There is no prospect
of a general price war in the steel
industry, according to the Wall Street
Journal.
Rumors that the steel trust will
seek business at any price are with
out foundation, it is stated
Such action, says w. S. j., would
result in giving consumers unusually
reasonable levels at which the steel
companies would not make a profit.
A ruthless price war would not help
any part of the industry"
This reasoning, however, does not
seem to apply to labor, as wage re-
adjustment" are not unusual.
1t is not good business, however,
to cut prices. Profits would be les
sened.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24

WOULD LESSEN ACCIDENTS
Trenton, N. 1.-THE state legisla-
ture passed bill which provides for
teaching of accident prevention in
nnhlic schools.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
BUY UNION-MADE
Goods and End Depression
in Thirty Days, Says
Heady

San Francisco.-Dr James NJ. Heady
addressed an audience in the audi
torium of the labor temple here re-
Gently, taking for his subject, "How
to Improve Yourself and Existing
Conditions" The lecturer, as report
ed in the Labor Clarion, launched into
an exposition of psychological teach
ings applicable to individual and col
lective success. Developing the theme
along the line of "What a man be-
lieves, that he is" the speaker show
ed that the will to do is responsible
for all of the success" in life. He
then took up the subject of populariz-
ing the demand for union-made goods
and the support of the union label.
Speaking of the prevailing business
depression, he said that if everybody
would demand union-made products
the products of workers who are paid
adequate wages and labor under
proper conditions the economic de-
preston would be thing of the past
within 30 days.
'If workmen have steady employ
ment at good wages everybody prof
its; the butcher, the baker, the can
dlestick maker and every line of busi-
ness benefits" The demand for union
products is the only way ito bring
about and to maintain this condition,
he declared, and he expressed the
hope that in the series of lectures
which he proposed to deliver it would
be demonstrated that in the demand
for union-made products was the solu-
tion of labor's problems.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
WAGES LOWER;
REACH 1916 Level

Neutrality-suspicious. wages, on
April l were at the lowest level since
1916, according to the Federal Bu-
reau of Agricultural Economics.
This drop, it is stated, was caused
by the lower level of industrial en-
ployment, which has increased the
supply of farm workers, and the
sharp decline in demand for workers
because of low prices for products.
The decline from January to
April l, the bureau said, is unusual,
as it occurred in period when farm
wage ordinarily advanced-in the
spring planting season.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
Green Says 5-Day Week
Would Give Jobs to All
A. F. of L. President Declares Adoption of Universal
Shorter Working Period Would Be Most Effective
Single Measure that Could Be Taken for Relief of
Unemployment.
Unemployment.

New York City (ILNS)-Introduc-
tion of the universal five-day working
week would be the most effective
measure that could be taken against
unemployment, President William
Green, of the American Federation of
Labor, says in study of the shorter
week appearing in the Harvard Busi-
ness Review.
"That failure to reduce hours or
work in proportion to other progress
has contributed to unemployment is
evident from widespread provisions
for parttime work, rotation of force
and similar provisions to make en-
ployment go round" says Mr.. Green.
Many companies have put in the
fve-day week as an emergency meas
ure"
Declaring that the fve-day week
was the most important single step
that could be taken to relieve unem-
ployment, Mr.. Green says that the
introduction of the shorter work-week
would absorb the jobless. He also
shows that the shorter workday
would mean increasing leisure, oppor-
tunity for culture and an increasing
time for the wage-earner to assume
the responsibilities of citizenship.
''No group of citizens should be
forced to restrict their lives to indus
trial problems and environments, but
each should have opportunity for a
rounded, balanced life," he adds.
After tracing the history of the
shortening of the work period from
1922 and pointing out that as ma
chimes and methods of doing work
have been improved the output of the
individual worker has increased, Mr.
Green goes on to say:
Each step has been contested by
employers on the grounds of expense,
upsetting of customary regulations
and decreased output" says Mr.
Green. 'Yet since both work day and
work week have been shortened, unit
costs of production have lessened, out
put has increased many-fold and all
of industry has learned more efficient
habits. The force which employers
ignored in their arguments is the adj
Instability of industry. Production is
a live thing that finds new methods
of its own volition or under compul-
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HOSIERY UNION
REOPENS DRIVE
IN BERKS COUNTY
Mill Gate Meetings Resum-
ed as Employers ''Chisel'
Wages and Workers Make
Demand for Organization.

Reading, Pa. ILNS)-"At the in
sistent demand of the full fashioned
workers in Reading, the union has re-
opened its mass organization drive in
Berks county in full force" General
Representative E. F. Callaghan, of
the American Federation of Full
Fashioned Hosiery Workers told the
Federated Trades Council here.
Mill gate meetings at noon-time
have already been resumed and the
speech amplifying system, which car
ries the union message for blocks, has
been tuned up and is doing duty once
more.
Organizer Callaghan and corps of
volunteer organizers will assist Or
ganizer Hoffman, who has been in
Reading all winter, to carry on this
campaign. Cooperation is being ex-
tended to the hosiery workers by
other labor organizations in the city,
through officers of the Federated
Trades Council.
Mills Cut Wages Again
"The Reading manufacturers ceased
wage cutting for couple of months
after the general strike of last De-
cember, but are beginning to 'chiser
the workers pay once more" declared
Organizer Hoffman,, addressing the
Trades Council.
"The manufacturers are making no
effort to get together to stabilize con-
ditions in the industry Reckless
operating policies continue to be fol-
lowed and surplus goods continue to
constitute a menace to the entire
trade. There has been almost no re-
duction of hours in the face of the
fact that practically every mill in the
district is operating irregularly or
with less than a normal force"
Callaghan told the Federated
Trades Council that the success of the
5SIlSldi SCl IhS III IOil-ullOl Hills III
the Philadelphia area has placed the
union in a position to put larger
portion of its organizing staff back
into Reading.
Union Only Stabilizing Agency
What has happened in Philadel-
phia in the past two months proves
beyond question that the union is the
only agency so far devised that can
exert any stabilizing influence in the
industry, and the only agency through
which the workers can expect to get
any protection against a constant and
suicidal series of wage cuts. Regula-
ton of hours is the most immediate
and urgent necessity of the trade as
whole, and the non-union workers
are assisting in the fight for legisla-
tion to standardize hours for women,
while the union workers are fighting
for standardization through arrange
ments with employers brought about
by trade union actions"
Reading and Berks county consti-
tute the second largest full fashioned
hosiery center in America and en-
ploys almost 1000 non-union work
ers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24

bersome political maneuvering, not
next year or next winter, but right
now.
During 1881 not less than S725,-
100000 is being spent by government
for public works. Scores of millions
of dollars of that have already gone
into the pockets of grimy overalls,
and other millions are on the way
right now.
"Just compare that amount with
the $275,o00,Ooo expended in 1928,
fair average recent year of federal
building. That is an increase of 100
per cent-nearly half billion dol
lars"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
JOHN MOSSOP RESIGNS

Indianapolis-Ill health compelled
John J. Mossop to resign as a mem
Der of the international board Of
auditors, United Mine Workers, after
32 years continuous service in that
position. He is one of the "old guard"
in the miners organization.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-24
OIL ON FIVE-DAY WEEK

San Francisco.-Th Standard Oil
Company of California placed its pro
duction department on the five-day
week basis. Field and pipe line oper-
ators are included.