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Evening star., 1931-11-29
WHEAT RALLY LIFTS
MARKETS FOR GRAIN
Standing Orders to Buy Cause
Abrupt Check to Decline
in Values.
BY JOHN p. BOUGHAN.


CHICAGO, November 28.-Late rallies
in grain values lifted wheat today to
above yesterdays finish. In the final
hour, the markets met with stubborn
resistance to selling pressure, active
buying power developing from standing
orders to purchase on downturns. Most
of the recoveries were scored after trad
ing in stocks had ended for the week
A late stimulating factor was news of a
hot wave in Argentina, with tempera-
lures of above 100, threatening serious
damage to crops.
Wheat closed irregular, varying from
Il cent off to IA gain, compared with
yesterdays finish; corn unchanged to
2s down; oats at 1saA decline to Is
advance. and provisions unchanged to
Is cents lower
Evening star., 1931-11-29
CURB SHARES SAG
AS SALES PICK UP
Leaders Offer Sitter Resist.
anCe When Market NearS
October 5 Lows.
BY JOHN l.. COOLEY,
Associated Press Financial Writer.

NEW YORK, November 28.-rhe Curb
market eaSed narrowly today in fairly
active trading for two-hour session.
Selling met somewhat better resist
ance as the old lows were approached
for numerous leaders, and the final
dealings witnessed mild furry of week
end covering. Net losses, generally
speaking. were small
Electric Bond g. Share ruled lower.
One transaction involving 1000 shares
was negotiated at Is, which was 4
above the bear market low, but the final
price was 1855, unchanged. American
Gas 6c Electric and Duke Power were
off a point. Utilities Power 81 Light
sagged about half a point and nominal
net losses were recorded by several
other utility favorites.
In the specialities, Aluminium Of
America sagged a couple of points, but
reduced the decline. Glen Alden Coal
turned heavy. Deere, Woolworth. Ltd,
among numerous other lower priced is
sues. held steady to firm.
Little or nothing happened in the oil
division, nor was the investment trust
group active.
Evening star., 1931-11-29
Distribution of Assets.

NEW YORK, November % R.-A
plan for distribution of assets of To-
bacco Products Corporation is under
stood to be ready for announcement to
stockholders early next week. The plan
is said to provide for formation of two
new companies, one of which will in
volve the lease of certain brands to the
American Tobacco Co. and will issue
Collateral Trust 61s per cent deben-
lures covered by deposit of the lease.
The second of the new companies will
receive United Cigar Stores common
stock held by Tobacco Products and
other miscellaneous assets of Tobacco
Products. and also the stock Of the
company holding the lease.
Evening star., 1931-11-29
BALTIMORE STOCKS.

special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, November 2S.-
Evening star., 1931-11-29
WALL PAPER FACTORIES
BEGIN OVERTIME WORK
b. the Asso, Led Press.

B. the Assosiat Press.
NEW YORK, November 28.-The
Wall Paper Association has reported
that three wall paper factories at
Plattsburgh and Hudson Falls, N. Y,
and York, Pa, have begun overtime
work and put on extra shifts to fill a
rush Of orders for Spring delivery.
Evening star., 1931-11-29
General Business,


WHuItsdIe TTICts.
Fishers Index (1926 ~ 1907:
All commodities (120). 686 1896 808
Agricultural prod. t30l. 53.7 $50 1877
on-agricultural prod
uctS 1907 ............ 70.2 702 803
Copper. electrolytc ...... AS 493 1919
Cotton, middling. N. Y. 22.8 243 4Ol
Iron and steel composite TAO TAO ITO
Wheat No. 2 red. Kansas
City .................., 45.0 40.1 SIT
Evening star., 1931-11-29
Total 90 mos.), 2,l99,33O 1,s22,l17 1888
Canadian Sales.

Canaulan Sales.
Factory sales indicators for Canada
continue also to decline, according to
figures supplied the Census Bureau by
the Dominion Bureau of Statistics.
Total sales for October were / ,440 au-
tomobiles, of which 761 were passenger
cars and 679 were trucks. This total
is a reduction Of 1,2O6 automobiles from
the preceding months figures and 3,101
less than those sold in october, 1880.
For the 10-month period of this year
Canadian factories sold 1892 automo-
biles, which was 64,221 less than sales
recorded during the like period Of 1880.
Evening star., 1931-11-29
EARNINGS REPORTED.

NEW YORK, November 28 CP.-Per-
share earnings of corporations report
ing this week, with comparisons with
last wear include.
Evening star., 1931-11-29
Financial.

Relative to weekly average l92S-I93o per
week shown.
Relative to a computed normal taken
es 100.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03
Railway MerpPrS

OF more Importance than the request for a Is
per cent blanket rate increase is the agreement OF the
eastern railways upon a four-system consolidation
plan. Only through some such consolidation can the
railways increase their efficiency to the point Of ade-
quate public service and a fighting chance against
new competition from bus and pipe lines.
Details of the consolidation plan will not be known
until announced by the interstate commerce commits
sion. Even then the public will not be disposed to
pass judgment on the details.
Whether this four-system plan is better than the
fve-system approach originally suggested by the in
terstate commerce commission, is a matter for the
technical experts to decide. 1t can be left safely
to the Interstate commerce commission, which Ger
tainly is one of the ablest and farest of all federal
commissions.
But on the general proposition, the public appar-
entlv is in agreement with the President, who has
said:
THE chief purpose Of consolidation is to secure
well-balanced systems with more uniform and salts
factory rate structure, a more stable financial struc-
ture, more equitable distribution of traffic, greater
efficiency. and single-line instead of multiple-line
hauls. In this way the country will have the assur-
ance of better service and ultimately at lower and
more even rates than would otherwise be attained"
We add, only, that the rights of railway labor
especially must be safeguarded in any merger which
is to achieve the maximum benefit.
Through some such naturalization of the rail-
vav industry-rather than through a blanket rate
increase. which drives away customers to the COM
netting bus and pipe lines-hes the salvation of the
roads.
For. whatever action the interstate commerce
commission may take this month on the rate increase
plea. prosperity of the railways will wait upon sound
er financing and greater internal efficiency.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03
HEALTH
Reading Helpful to Mental Diseases

fiction and travel, one found pleas
ure in philology and natural Sci
ences, and nine included with fiction
such varying subjects as biology,
sociology, useful arts, poetry, travel
and philosophy.
1t seems quite likely that if twen-
ty-five normal human beings were
selected at random off the street,
their choice of reading material
would be about the same, except
that in some districts of certain
large cities it would be found that
some of the normal persons did not
even read newspapers.
1t is interesting to realize the
tremendous pleasure and benefit de-
rived by persons i~ncarcerated in in
StitutionS from reading suitable
books. Unable to travel, they can
by good travel books project them
selves thousands of miles away.
Finding life montonous and dull,
they stir their minds vigorously by
romance and mystery.
The true place of literature in the
treatment of mental disorders is a
great one and is only, after many
years. beginning to be appreciated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03
Sir. Thomas

work is funl" With that motto Sir Thomas Lip
ton made a fortune and a world of friends.
His craftsmanship did not begin, nor end, with
racing yachts. He lived his craftsmanship. That
was his attitude toward business, toward play, to-
ward people. Small wonder that he was successful
and popular.
Now that he is dead, the world will retell the old
story of his rise. And, somehow, his ability to climb
from poverty to power seems more heroic set against
the British barriers of class than the more familiar
otblack-to-bank biographies of many American
multimilionaires,
Like so many otherSScotch-I Irish lads of his time,
he sought America as a chosen land. Unlike most, he
returned home with his first 500 American dollars
and set up his one-man business in Glasgow.
But the bond with America never was broken. The
mark of the steerage, of the Yankee grocery clerk the
New Orleans motorman, the Carolina plantation
hand. remained as a human part Of a very human
gentleman.
SO it came about, when Sir Thomas made his
4Iast unsuccessful race to capture the yachting cup
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03
An Air Raid

Experts on such things long have predicted that
the next war would be a hideous war of speeding
airplanes and poison gas-spreading everywhere,
sparing no one.
You would think that such war just had struck
New York City, after reading Of the effects of a
movie smoke screen that drifted down upon the
streets, burning innocent faces and hands, running
clothes.
The incident occurred when a commercial plane
threw a smoke screen around the navy dirigible Los
Angeles, flying above Manhattan, to create a spec
tacular background for news reel cameramen flying
in another plane. The gas drifted to earth. Hun
dreds on the streets felt the effects, voiced angry
complaint.
It is just because of such incidents as this that
we need and have federal regulation of aeronautics.
There is a rule forbidding the carrying in CONNER
cial planes of infammable liquids or explosives that
might do damage to those below, if dropped.
Surely that regulation can be interpreted to cover
this case. If there isn't a regulation covering it,
there should be one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03
-The Peoples Voice-
These Utility Rates Need Probing
1919 Water Bill for Small Residence Is Deemed Outrage
by Consumer.

reduced so per cent, and within ten
years the bonded debt could be paid
off without a raise in taxes, and
after that the profits would reduce
city taxes by so per cent or more.
The business men Of this city
should recognize the truth of this
statement and back up the city in
a fight to put all public utilities in
city ownership. All newspapers
would sponsor such a movement. I
know they would see taxes reduced
so per cent.
San Francisco is a city of 6OO.O 0
people. They own v e their street
car system, one of the very few
cities where the scent rate is still
in effect, and the system shows a
handsome profit over expenses.
Why? City ownership, out Of poll
tics.
My salary has been reduced once
since she depression, and is going to
be reduced again. Everything has
come down from Is to so per cent,
but not water, lights, gas, phone or
telegraph rates. Why? Monopoly.
Something wrong with the system.
1 am not a Communist; just a
middle class citizen, believe in my
country and government, and
boost the city I live in. I have lived
in indianapolis two and one-half
years and in Indiana six years. I
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03

Editor Times-T noticed in The
Times recently, your article about
the light and power company. You
also should investigate the water
company.
I live at 1926 Hemlock avenue
and last month my bills we're as
follows: Lights, s12.74; gas, 1874;
water, S9.79; total, s28.42.
Water is about the cheapest thing
in Indiana except the air we
breathe, and to pay a water bill Of
1919 for a small residence is out
of the question. A bill Of 81 or So
would seem more normal, and with
out doubt would bring a nice profit
On investment.
I have travelled extensively, and
lived in Memphis, South Bend, Lit
tie Rock, Savannah, New Orlean,
Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and San
Francisco, and never have L had
over a So water bill, not even in the
hottest summer months.
A S12.74 light bill is enormous. l
have a Frigidaire, but certainly a
bill of s12.74 in summer months IS
high. I had the light company
check my bill. The excuse they gave
me was, We'll, your bill vas so
much last year, so if it is the same
this year, it shows it is not out Of
reason"
am a great believer in city own
ership of public utilities. I suggest
a bond issue and put in city water
works, gas and lights. Rates could be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03

fact that the conflict did not be-
gin as a clean-cut fight over the
issue of slavery. Lincoln explicitly
declared that preservation of the
Union was his primary objective.
The Emancipation Proclamation
was a byproduct of the military
situation.
And yet there is no denying the
vast Importance of the preliminary
work done by the radical William
Lloyd Garrison, who was both paci-
fist and abolitionist.
Second guessing about history al
ways is a matter of conjecture. 1
believe that the notions of Garrison
might have gone much further in
the actual freeing of the Negro than
the political philosophy of General
Ulysses S. Grant.
An armed conflict, which had at
least some of its roots in the ideal
iStic vision of universal fellowship,
ended with a conservative President,
who headed a corrupt administra-
ton.
Whenever people try to make
good their dreams of radical change
through gun and bayonet, it is nee
essary to put some man on horse
back. And when the last shot has
been fired and peace declared, you
have your problem to be decided
all over again.
For, after all, there he sits. And
how are you going to get your sue
cessful chieftain off the high horse
on which he is perched and back
to earth again?
Copyright. 1881. BY The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

A READER, dlSagreelng with this column that Anne
1 n L~indbergh was wise to go with her husband and
leave her child, challenges my statement that a babys
wants are simple and material. She insists that this
opposes all teachings of modern psychology.
May I remind her that practically any statement
made about children would do that, since opinions
handed down by students of psychology seldom, if
ever, agree.
I can remember when I was concerned greatly
over this question. I read with avidity the compI-
Gated dissertations of the various schools and was
almost a nervous wreck attempting to bring up my
two youngest according to the rules, while I recalled
at the same time that my eldest had had no pSychol-
ogy whatever in his infancy.
A CCORDING to one authority, in whom I be-
"A lieved for a period, he was destined to become
a vagrant and a burden upon society, because he had
been brought up, as one might say, by hand. Then I
discovered another who assured me that rearing would
cause him to commit ruthless crimes. 1t then was
too late to do anything, because the general opinion
seemed to be that character forming begins in the
cradle. And when this particular son occupied the
cradle I was so busy with the fundamental struggle of
living that I had no time at all to worry about
psychology.
Since that time I have read so many and such
varied cults that I discount them all about so per
cent and therefore am at peace again.
I have learned to enjoy my children, something
that few theorists seem able to do.
The greatest paradox of the age is psychology. Its
foundation stone is the elimination of fears, yet it
has succeeded in frightening the uodern mother into
a state Of continual apprehenSlon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

1t is interesting to discover that
patients disabled by paralysis and
by fractures indulge only in news
papers and magazines, whereas drug
addicts, patients with Inflammation
of the brain, those mentally def
cient, those who are constitution
ally inferior mentally and who have
psychoseS, those with hysteria, over
action OF the thyroid and various
disturbances of the brain, add fc-
ton to their literary diets.
Alcoholics and patients with
dementia praecoX, a form of ado
lescent insanity, appear to prefer
books on the useful arts.
Those with the type of mental
disease called maniac Oppressive,
exercise a wide choice, reading
everything f newspapers,
through magazines to fiction, phi
losophy, sociology, languages, sci
enceS, poetry, travel and history.
ParanoiacS read tremendously in all
fields.
twenty-five patients with demen-
tia praecox were given special study.
Four read only fiction, one moth
ing but biology, another fine arts,
eight divided their time between
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03
Just a Start

The announcement Of the majority OF the
public service commission that rates for
water and other utilities should be based on
present-day prices is a start.
1t will mean nothing until it is translated
into the bills sent out by the water, the tele-
phone, the gas and electric barons of the
state.
The declaration that five and not seven
per cent is a fair return in these present
days should be followed by an automatic de-
crease in the size of bills. That cut will not
come unless forced by an aroused and de-
termined public.
Electricity in these days is as much a
part of our industrial and commercial life as
the slave was the essential factor in the days
of cotton before the war between the states.
The man who can control the charges for
electricity controls all industry and all bust
ness.
It is true that the householder could get
along with makeshifts. He could go back to
the kerosene lamp or the taIlow candle and
toss his radio into the discard. But industry
can not get along without this modern
power.
The black man of the last century has
been replaced by electric current.
The public utilities have become the gov
eminent in this and most other states.
They have worked secretly in politics.
Their henchmen are to be found in the con-
v|entions of both political parties. Their lob
byists are on guard at sessions of the legisla-
ture. The ambitious know that political
favors, either by appointment or by nomina-
tons, are given or refused by the political
masters of these utilities.
They collect on political investments, not
on service.
Three members of the commission say
that present rates are unfair and unjust.
Certainly what is an unfair basis in Vim
Cennes must be an unfair basis in Indianap-
DIis or in Bloomington or Bedford or Fort
Wayne.
How long they will remain a majority is
uncertain. Things have happened to mem
bers who, in the past, have failed to listen
to the voice Of the utility masters. Some
have been kicked out. Others have been
taken to other jobs. Some have suddenly
changed their minds.
The time to fight is now. 1t is time to
demand a reduction on utility rates. That
will do more to help unemployment and the
distress that comes from unemployment than
penny pitching on local taxes or organizing
of charity drives to determine how little a
human being can eat and still live.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03
Any C%haIengerS?

My own exertion this time was
wi modified by the fact that 1
was a seeded competitor. In the
driving contest, sponsored by the
Daily News, Sidney Skolsky and
Fred Fletcher, employees of this rival
sheet, engaged in an elimination
contest. I expressed the wish to
take on the loser.
But the officials ruled against me
and pitted me against the winner.
I am glad to say that I won my title
in spite of an adherence to the best
principals of true craftsmanship.
Mr.. Skolsky, of the News, my
opponent, drove out of bounds some
ten yards to the right of the tee.
Paul Calico suggested: Hes dis
qualified. All you've got to do is just
to tap it a couple of yards down the
fairway."
This idea was repugnant to me,
1--WE BrounS don't do things in that
way" I told the sporting columnist.
Thereupon I proceeded to take a
full st. Andrews swing. Cutting a
little below the ball, I lofted it into
the air several hundred yards.
1t descended majestically a full
fifty feet in front of me and in the
precise center of the course. I may
have lacked horizontal distance, but
my direction was superb. I at
tribute it to clean living.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03
M. E.. Tracy
-SAYS:.

We Insist on Election of
Judges to Keep Courts
Democratic; Then Insist
Their Election Be Kept out
of Politics!
NEW YORK, Oct. 3.-There
~ really isn't anything new in
this wrangle over twelve Long Is
land judgeships, except that Boss
McCooey's son happens to be one
Of the nominees.
Outside of that, it is the same
old story-a party agreement for
the great and noble purpose of
keeping the judiciary out of politics.
One would suppose that the
simplest way to do that was to
adopt some other method Of select
ing judges, but We must be demo-
cratic, it seems, no matter what the
useless motion, or expense.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03
TIT CEENTC M NTE =, HEYWOOD
i i OLA1N1O ~ WILL bI BROUN

town this particular vision was
hardly more palpable than in the
days before the Boston tea party.
Certainly America went on with a
distinct economic caste system in
spite of a democratic form Of gov
eminent.
The checks and balances which
came into our Constitution were de-
signed to preserve the privileges of
the property-owning class against
the wish and will of the landless
and the disinherited.
Even If I am to be shot at SUM-
dawn for the state ment I must in
sist that George Washington, the
father of his country, did not exem-
plify in his own political opinions
the doctrine of complete equality.
I do not mean to add my mite to
the anti-Washington school of liter
allure. He stands as one of my
favorite Americans.
There is no questioning his mill
tary skill, his sincerity and force of
character. But he just didn't hap
pen to be a man of radical belief
even in his own day. After all, he
thought in terms of the soldier. He
was accustomed to give commands
and have them obeyed.
1t was not in his nature to render
complete acquiescence to the wish
of the common people.
II n
We Need a Statesman
A ND, again, there we're decidedly
IA revolutionary facts in the Civil
war. I am aware of the historical