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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-01
A Question of Title,

After another season." said Farmes
Corntossel, Il guess we'll have a chef
for the Summer boarders."
whats a chef?" asked Mrs. Corn
tossel.
"A chef is a man with big enough
vocabulary to give the soup different
name every day."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-01

KNOWN when to quit is a mighty
good thing" said Uncle Eben, but
KNOWN when not to start somethin' Il
sttll better"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-01

Jud Tunkins says the radio orator is
liable to find himself in the position Of
persuasive salesman and get orders
for more goods than he could deliver in
q lifetime.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-01

and more apparent thet the big talking
point OF the Democrats in the next ma
ttonal campaign Is to be the depression
OF business and unemployment in this
country, which started with the stock
market crash in 1929 Prohibition will
have its part in the campaign, particu-
larly in States where there is strong
opposition to the eighteenth amend
ment. But depression is to be the main
line OF attack on the G. o. P. and the
Hoover administration. Today the
Democratic Publicity Bureau is sending
cut statement after statement, quoting
Democratic leaders as saying that the
Hoover administration and also that of
former President Coolidge were respon-
slole In large part for the economic
condition which came upon the country
more than year and half ego. Rep
resentative Joseph W. ByTne5 of Ten
nessee, ranking minority member of the
House Appropriations Committee, is the
latest to issue statement The fol-
lowing excerpt gives the tenor of the
whole statement, as follows:
Fate has been unkind to President
Hoover ana Secretary Mellon, One
was sold to the country as the best
equipped man ever nominated for the
presidency, whose election would be a
guarantee Of continued and even
greater prosperity. The other was
hailed as the greatest financial genius
since Alexander Hamilton. Yet, under
their administration, the country sus-
tains the heaviest economic shock in
history; foreign trade drops so per cent
in two years; governmental eXpendi-
lures reach the highest point in the
peace-time history of the country, and
the Federal Treasury finds itself with
billion dollar deficit. The only alibi
is that the depression is world wide,
when only little while ago Mr.. Hoover
was saying that Republican policies
had kept the country immune from
such ills"
y 4 \ 4
The Republican leaders themselves
know they are in terrible jam over
this depression argument. They realize
as we'll as the Democrats that they
have been telling the voters In each
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-01

The Republican leaders themselves
know they are in terrible jam over
as we'll as the Democrats that they
have been telling the voters In each
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-01

@. Why did Coxeys army march to
Washington-W. H.
A. Mr.. Coxey's good roads bill was
introduced in Congress in 1892 Under
this bill the Treasury vas to issue le-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25
Reactionary Democrats

Democrats control the house of representatives
They lack one of having many votes in the senate
as the Republicans. They believe they have chance
to elect the next President,
These things influence the Democratic legislative
program-or the notable lack of program. The Demo-
Gratis with victory dangling before them patiently
trying to curry public favor They chary of pro-
claiming the traditional principles Of their party and
demonstrating that they the liberal party, they
have long said.
Thus the taX-paying public Is treated TO the spec
tacle of the Democratic leader, Senator Joseph T.
Robinson of Arkansas, taking position taxation
far more conservative than that of his conservative
Republican colleagues.
He is for instance, opposed to increasing surtaxes,
on the theory that an increase might brighten in
vestors prolong the depression and approach con-
fscstion" >t
Yet Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, chairman of the
hnance committee and dean of the Republican old
guard group believes incomes above 100000
must be increased from 20 per cent to 40 per cent,
and he does not regard this as confscatory.
Robinson also objects to levying taxes for the
purpose of distributing wealth reducing fortunes,
and here again departs from the historic position Of
his party.
Whatever Robinson may think, taxation can not
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25
Wisconsin Acts

In Wisconsin the legislature is meeting in special
session
In Indiana the farmers and the workers are de-
handing special session for the same purposes and
objects on which the northern state is acting.
The difference is in the fact that for e generation
or more the people Of Wisconsin have had the idea
that government was intended to serve the people
instead of people serve the government.
The difference lies in the fact that Wisconsin has
Governor whose social vision is broad hu-
manity and who has obligations except those
to the whole people themselves.
Young Governor Philip La Toilette believes that
nation which spent forty billions of dollars for
'wasteful war" spend a small part of that sum
TO give men work.
He believes that the way to prevent a dole system
IS to provide work and he does not hesitate to take
steps to provide work
He believes that hours of labor must be regulated
that all may have chance.
The system he proposes to raise funds for these
purposes is an income tax in which all would share
He would tax small incomes small percentage He
would take high 30 per cent away from those
who have incomes of 100000 more year.
A proposal to tax incomes in this state in order
to relieve estate defeated at the last session
Of the legislature by one of the strongest and best
financed Hobbies that went to law-making
body.
But the farmers of the state facing bank
ruptcy, are demanding this of saving them
selves from serfdom. They asking special ses
The forces that killed the income tax bills
are protesting against such session. They prefer to
depend upon charity to for the unemployed and
conhscated farms to continue agriculture.
The situation in Wisconsin, far numbers of
unemployed is concerned is probably about the same
as in Indiana. The need is about the same. The
relief proposed would probably work in the same
way.
Is there anything radical in the suggestion that
men have the right to their own living? Is
there anything radical in the proposal that business
be given new start by starting to work and
that those who profit most from business prosperity
pay the most to start it back?
This state could stand a good strong dose of
Wisconsin medicine for its present plights.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25

help but affect the distribution of wealth Nor can
the fact be ignored that the concentration of wealth
in fewer hands has proceeded at a rapid rate in re-
cent years, and is one Of the major causes Of our
economic breakdown.
Robinson is silent on the need for higher inner
ance taxes, and revival of the gift tax. which most
Republicans apparently believe is necessary
The question is not one of soaking the rich" of
conscation, of frightening business as those who
are opposing additional taxes on wealth assert and
whose advocate Senator Robinson has become Rather
the question is Of tackng the very real problem
Of the prospective two billion dollar federal deficit in
an intelligent and courageous manner This means
higher taxes on those best able to pay
At the best the budget can not be balanced this
year. even taxes higher than those of war time were
imposed 1t is doubtful if it can be balanced next
year.
Personal income taxes, if increased to the point
CT maximum return, would not meet this years deficit
or provide all the revenue that will be needed for next
year.
But beginning must be made Those who are
able must pay more expenditures must be restricted
and new sources of revenue must be found
Senator Robinson does not meet the Issue IF
MS party in its anxiety to please the very rich ex
hiots similar lack of and foresight on other
national problems. it will forfeit the confidence of
the voters who gave it control of the house o
sentstives.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25
Hitch-Hiking Mosquitoes

Dur friends the enemies of the insect world are
prohtng from the lessons of modern transportation
if not.
Mosquitoes, we learn from the United States public
health service, now hitch-hike on airplanes With
their legs stained fox identification enterprisng
band of mosquito immigrants slowed away on plane
at Porto Rico. They picked up identified, and
spprehended in Miami, $50 miles away, finishing the
longest nonstop mosquito fight of record.
Insects carry plague and disease. If they can hop
quarantine walls aboard airpanes or dirgibles,
security through isolation gets another blow.
AS the world shrinks and nations draw together as
next door neighbours every national war tends to be-
come an international one. So now must the war
against pests become a world war
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

MYTH war looming ornlnous IN the Orient, every
w should ask herself honest question.
Just how much how little influence do we have in
the shaping of governmental policies?
I believe that the answer would be both disturb
ing and melancholy. Although our organizations may
not always agree to the methods by which world
peace IS to be attained it is exaggeraton to state
that each of them desires permanent peace.
There does not live in these United States a true
born American woman who would choose hostility in
stead of amty for her nation. But are her wishes
needed by the statesmen? That, my friend is the
question to be considered.
Moreover, how stanch are we in our beliefs? Once
the drums begin, once the parades are formed once
the patitudes about glory start would We like sheep
follow the sword? dare say.
TOR the test of our courage does not lie in what
Il We say when friendliness reigns. 1t comes only
when we obliged to take stand against the con-
certed pressure Of those understanding words that al
ways have been used to foster bigotry and hatred
To make world peace real we must cast aside all
the mawksh sentimentaties that hitherto have made
glamorous Our little boys should be taught that
1t is neither heroic noble necessary settle
differences with battes-but futile, ugly and ignoble
for intelligent men.
And if We are not strong enough to accom-
pSh this in time if we are so weak that we permit
masculine opinion to divert us from this so desper-
ately needed task then it seems to me that all our
suffrage rights have been gained in vain.
We already have proved our courage in time OF
war. We now must work to make that courage strong
enough to oppose public sentiment it has turned
\belligerent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25

Worried Children Prone to Accidents

tons an effective substitute is the
story lesson with the demonstra-
ton of the effect of wrong action.
An interesting observation is
the fact that accidents occur just
as frequently to the more intelli-
gent children as to the less intelh-
gent.
The intelligent quotients, as de-
termined by intelligence tests, do
not seem to offer a criterion of be-
havior in an actual situation.
There are two ways in which the
incident of accidents may be at
tackled:
Through education of those who
are the subjects of the accidents.
Through control of those who are
likely to cause accidents.
Motorists, particularly the drivers
of trucks, must be taught to respect
signs indicating the neighborhood
of a school or a children's play
ground.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25
One Life, One Dollar

Bart keeler of Los Angeles, one of the coun.
trys 100000 unemployed, had owned dollar he
would not now be mourning Doris. his 2-vear.o1c
daughter.
Doris was sick. The doctor scrubbed a pre-
Scrlptlon on a slip of paper and told Keeler to fill if
az drug store 1t cost only 81, but Keeer hadn't
seen dollar for some days.
Inc drug store refused him credit From one drug
store TO another he tramped in vain He even begged
from passing pedestrians, but no one believed his
story He returned home that night without the pre-
Scrlptlon. The next morning Doris died.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25

much walking on the streets as dc
the hours in the afternoon, but in
the afternoon period the children
are tired and responses are slower
and senses are less acute, and their
judgment of distances and of time
and their coordination are dis
turbed.
In his investigation, DR.. Stack
found that all normal children love
adventure and unless this craving
is supplied by suitable competitive
sport under controlled conditions.
by scouting, by camping, football
or some similar activity, the child
is likely to get his thrills by hitch
ing, running across the street,
jumping from high places, or SINH
lar performances.
The method of teaching appar-
emily most successful in causing
children to avoid accidents is the
demonstration method with an ar
tificial accident.
In the place of such demOnStra-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25

We Are Beginning to Realize
That Some Of the Things
We Sneered at We're Not
So Bad, and Some Of Those
We Cheered for We're Not
So Good.
NEW YORK, Nov. 25.-Thanks-
L giving day will be observed with
greater seriousness this year than it
has been for long time. There
will be more honest charity for the
unfortunate and more honest self
analysis on the part of those dis
pensing it.
Whatever may be thought of
such a change from the purely re-
ligious viewpoint, it hardly can be
without benefit from the human
viewpoint.
Much of the present-day trouble
goes back to carelesSnesS and con-
ceit, to overconadence in super
ficials.
One senses a definite turning
backward, not to Puritanism exact
ly, but to certain fashioned viz
tues which have been proved and
tested by ages of experience.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25
Some Good Signs

OTTER feeling, bitter laws and
- bitter talk play a constantly de-
creaSing part in human affairs.
Things that we hated even as
short time as decade ago, that
produced mobS and threatened war,
gradually are creating less disturb
ance.
Things that found us cold and
Indifferent are occupying more and
more of our attention.
We are less inclined to get mad
if somebody mentions SOVIET Russia
these days, or beat up Communists
if they put on parade, but we are
a little more concerned about peo-
pie who are in hard luck.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25
Our Inheritance

WE really are fortunate thai
w conditions have not been
worse. Those who have borne the
brunt of the burden in this coun-
try, who have actually faced want,
have shown a surprising degree of
patience.
If some one had told us that we
could go through such a widespread
and unexpected series of disaster,
without rioting and violence, he
would hardly have been believed.
1t all goes back to some very fine
traditions and examples which we
have inherited and which deserve
more than a passing THOUGHT.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25
Friction Machines

IN the early days of electricity. it
Il became known that electricity
could be generated by friction. Thus
for example, rubbing a glass rod
with a silk cloth would generate
what later was called FRACTIONAL
electricity or static electricity"
In times, machines known as fric-
tional electric machines were de-
veloped. In some of these, a glass
plate was revolved, friction against
the plate generating the electricity
which was led off by wires to brass
knobs. Such machines would gen.
crate enough electricity to furnish
sparks several inches long.
However, the development of the
electric battery and the dynamo
which would furnish continuous
electrical currents instead of the
concentrated electrical charges of
the static machines drew the at
tention of experimenters into new
fields.
The electron theory served to
show the nature of the electrical
current and the relation between it
and the old experiments with static
electricity. The electric current is
now known to be a stream of cleo
irons, particles of negative cleo
tricity in motion.
In the old experiments, as when
a glass rod was rubbed with a silk
cloth, conditions of identification
were produced through friction
What happened was that electrons
were rubbed off the surface of one
body. This resulted in shortage
of negative electronS or a charge
of positive electricity. The other
body acquired an excess of cleo
irons and therefore a positive
charge.
When a spark leaps between two
electrified bodies it restores the bal
ance. A stream of electrons leaps
from the negative body to the posi-
tive one, restoring the balance OF
electrons and rendering both bodies
electrically neutral.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25
* TODAY 50
WORLD WAR \
ANNIVERSARY
~ ofASE
VISIT LAFAYETTE TOMB
Nov. rs

ON Nov. 25. 1917, Colonel House.
" General Bliss and Admiral Ben
son and other members of the
American Mission visited the Picpus
cemetery and placed on the tomb OF
Lafayette a floral wreath bearing
the inscription, From the Ameri-
can War Mission, in Grateful Re-
membrance."
Meantime, French forces in the
Verdun sector captured first and
second German lines and deep dug
outs between SamogneauX and the
region to the south of the Angle
mont farm. The British battled for
Bourbon wood.
The First italian army went into
action on the offensive at Meletta
and captured some machine guns.
Venice was raided by Austrian
airmen.
United States ensign Kenneth
Smith, Frank j. Brady, gunner
and I. F. Wilkensen. mechanician
were rescued off the French coast
from a disabled hydroplane where
they had been clinging for sixty
hours.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25

Editor Times: Your paper appeals
to me as one that stands for COM
mon sense and that tries to lift the
standard of the people above super
StitiouS nonsense. I ask you, as the
exponent of intelligence, what we
are going to do about these idiotic
chain letters, which are sent to us,
apparently by intelligent people?
I received one this morning and
I am risking the most dire cala1ni-
ties (the death of my son-I have
none-or the burning down of my
house, by breaking the chain.
Wouldn't it be a topsy-turvy
world, not operating on eternal
principles of law and order, cause
and effect, if we we're to bring Gala
mites upon ourselves by not copy
ing a certain Senseless rot nine
times and insulting the intelligence
of nine other people by mailing it
to them?
Forsooth, this must be the cause
of the depression: for certainly
many countless millions have not
had the opportunity to so copy and
mail such a letter and that, at last
explains their dilema
The we'll meaning young man who
mailed this to me is fine chap, a
college graduate, engaged in the
practice of a profession that is sup
posed to require real intelligence,
and yet-oh what shall we do about
it?
I am not afraid of any Sinking
powers of darkness that punish
those who do not obey such silly
command, Sc this chain at least is
broken. If The Times occasionally
will take a poke at this silly nom
sense, it might help little.
MISS MAMIE L. BASS
Editor Times: Thirteen years ago
the war to make the world safe for
democracy was ended. It was to
have been a war to end war. Now,
because of certain conditions, an
other war looms on the horizon.
No war ever was fought to make
the world safe for democracy.
Wars have been fought and always
will be fought because of lust and
greed. Gang wars of the present
day are sample of all wars. In all
the past wars kings and countries,
the same as present-day gangsters,
because of lust and greed, tried to
muscle in on the other fellows ter
ritory and war was the result.
The World war was trade war.
Europe was afraid that Germany
was going to corner the trade of
the world, so it took advantage Of
the assassination of the Archduke
to begin war.
Today the world is faced with a
new era in human relationship. The
present system is failing. That is
the reason we have a depression.
There are two ways open for the
world to take. One way is to
acknowledge that a new era is be-
fore it, and take the steps to make
it possible for all to share in the
comforts of life, and to denounce all
war as the work of the greedy and
unjust.
The other way is to permit the
threat of war to become an actual
ity. A war now will be only the re-
suits of the combined efforts of
! f1nanciers of the world to prevent a
new era becoming a reality just yet.
Mr. Editor I don't believe in war.
don't think it is patriotic to die
for your country. To kill and to die
for your country in time of war is
futile and senseless. All war is
fought because of greed and a man
if he is patriotic must fight and die
to make the dreams of the greedy
come true.
Mr. Editor. think it is far better
to live and devise ways for greater