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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-30

bother. I can take cab and stop
at your office"
He insisted a bit gruffly that he
would come to drive her to the sta
ton. The train was to leave at 4:30.
IF there's anything you want
me to do, I can come early" Jim
offered.
There won't be anything. Al
most everything IS packed al
ready"
They discussed closing up the
house. They discussed for what
seemed like the hundredth time
what Gypsy was to do in Reno.
Suddenly the girl could stand it
no longer. She jumped to her feet.
Why do you keep on telling me
all that?" she demanded. you've
told me before. II don't want to
hear itl'
She ran UP the stairs to her own
room and locked the door She
listened, but there was no sound
downstairs until presently the green
roadster slid out the driveway.
Though she was awake until after
midnight, she did not hear the car
come back.
MONDAY dawned as fair and
I've beautiful as an August day
can be. There were the usual
formal exchanges at the breakfast
table. Wallace started to go and
then came back to remind Gypsy
that he would be out in time to
get to the train
She nodded, not trusting her.
self to speak.
All through the morning she kept
Pat beside her. They went out to
the garden and for the last time
Gypsy looked at the flowers she had
worked over and loved so.
She wanted to remember che
garden just as it was now with
the golden glow and the asters
and the dahlias in full bloom.
She went back to the house and
surveyed each of the rooms. In
the library she paused before Jim's
desk with his books and his untidy
papers that no one else was allowed
to touch.
ooh, Pat" she cried, dropping
to her knees beside the fox terrier.
What am going to do? What
am l going to do?"
Pat rubbed his cold little nose
against her chin and Wagged his
tail as comfortingly as possible.
She had expected Jim about 4,
for he was always punctual. In
stead it was not later than 2:3O
when Gypsy, down on her knees
Juggling at the patented fastener
that was to hold her dresses smooth
in the trunk, heard footsteps on the
stairs. In another instant Jim ap-
peared in the doorway.
Thought there might be some
thing I could help WITH" he vol
unteered.
Gypsy sat back. There isn't"
~ she said. "Everythings
packed and I'll be ready just as
soon as I fasten up these things"
well, I can do that, can't II"
The girl tugged Independently for
minute, but she could not bulge
the bar. "All right" she conceded,
rising. Maybe you'll be better at it
than I am"
Pat began shifting around The
trunk.
60 away~ Jim told the dog
gruffly. He forced the fastener
into place. "Sure's there's moth
ing more to go in here?" he asked.
There isn't, but II take one
more look" She turned toward
the clothes closet. No, she be-
gan and suddenly her eye fell on
the terrier.
"Pat!" Gypsy exclaimed, "go
away. You mustn't do that!"
The terrier was poking his nose
down into the corner of the brown
suit case. AS she spoke he raised
his head.
ITO Be Continued)
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-02-12
PANHANDLERS AT WORK IN
OUTSKIRTS OF ST. PETER

Panhandlers are still busy here
abouts and are raking in misguided
charity, according to the St. Peter
Herald. Justice E. E. Miller, who
has been doing much to uncover the
nefarious practices of these gentry,
accosted q woman in the outskirts of
the city who was engaged in selling
pen and pencils ITO raise fund for a
pitiable cause" and apparently was
doing thriving business. When ask
ed to identify herself and to give
her home address, she walked out,
boarded large sedan where her COM
panion was parked, and pulled out
before the number of the car could be
secured.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-02-12

tress to home and school, and it kim
dies fire in the breasts Of boys that
drives them forward-crusaders in
the moral and spiritual world, even as
the pioneer scouts blazed their trails
and conquered the earth.
Demonstrating beckons and
calls to patriotic men to love and
serve the sons of America, yet in
plastic years; and all who are thus
privileged shall know the beauty,
the wisdom and the power of the
words of the Prophet of Old, who
said, "A little child shall lead them"
-Fairmont Daily Sentinel.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-02-12

YOU'LL welcome this new and
L better Tip-Top 6-sow Farrow-
House both for its sturdy con-
struction and its many features of
early narrowing comfort. There are
no sagging corners, no loose joints
-. each section bolts together with
perfect fit. Neither wind nor rain
nor driving snow with chilling drafts
can penetrate its warm security. Its
big stove completely enclosed in
heavy sheet metal and steel, radiates
heat right down onto the floor
where the little pigs are and to every
corner of tho room, and always
maintains an even temperature.
Each pen has a double door, each
section Of which operates independ-
emily of the other. Upper door has
a window that floods the floor with
sunlight. The pen construction Of
roomy accommodations protects lit
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-02-12

1t is surprising how many preach
ers there are in action right now who
believe that it would be better for US
to join the League Court than to get
religion.-Ex.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-02-12
Peddlers on Parade

w 1E would like to parade of peddlers-going
M out of town. Solicitors and statesmen of dubi-
Gus mission making their annual rounds
again ushered in by Januarys balmy breezes. The
other day a hosiery salesman set his satche on the
floor and inquired "Can interest you in silk hosiery
Before he received answer he started his stock
talk-"Oh, it's good line, nationally advertised in the
Saturday Evening Post, and other big magazines"
What kind of silk hosiery?" questioned we.
"Our silk hosiery" was the reply.
Just that, "silk hosiery, leaving it to the pros
poets imagination what brand he represented if any
The agent informed that he could interest u.s.
for the reason that did not cater to agents when
merchandise could be obtained in any grade and vare-
ty at local stores.
"Oh, but sell the business men, too, and the
doctors, lawyers and DENTISTS he shot back
And there's the rub, as the Sleepy Eye Herald Dis
patch expressed it. The Herald Dispatch touches upon
pertinent fact, and comments further:
We doubt if peddlers are permitted to solicit en-
ployees in nearly every place in town, but know,
for fact, that they do solicit in many of them In
many firms they solicit, and sell the boss himself
That's the sad part of it. 1t is condition that should
be remedied. If agents sell newspaper men and doc
tors silk hosiery, bankers and druggists overcoats
clothing bonds and drugs, grocers furniture and
furniture dealers groceries, just who is going to pay
the taxes which it takes to keep schools and city
government operating? No is the gamer by such
transactions Each loses the business he should have
and helps to deprive his neighbor of the business
rightfully belonging to him.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-02-12
County Government Reform

period when people discussing the increasing
I tax burdens, public expenditures, and government,
there noticeable trend toward the local units Of
government as a means Of improvement. Few stud
ents of have suggested charging the coun
ties, so that the number would be reduced approx
matey by one-haf
The modern trend seems toward Capitalization, OF
effectng more effective system of authority and re-
sponsibility The Mortified News suggests that coun
ty manager plan as against the present county system
with its numerous Independent officials and the dis
trict evil"
James county, Tennessee, wins the first homer OF
putting over county consolidation. Looked upon from
all parts of the country experiment in unit gov
eminent, it was observed that the consolidation OF
counties reduced the tax burden. The truth is. our
system Of county is costing far more than
It is worth" declares Professor Walter Burr ct the
University Of Missouri -@sxxA ~ - = zElkzG
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-02-12
The President Replies

president HOOVERS open letter to Senator
r Thomas D. Schall, in which the president refused
to make the appointment of Ernest A. Michel as
United States Judge for the district of Minnesota
a gem. 1t should be placed in the archives at Wash
ington where following generations may read it and
say, "There ruler who could not be guided by
threats to the administration"
Mr. Hoover deeply regretted his inability to make
the appointment and said in part that he has in
dependent obligation president, to nominate for
the federal Judiciary who not subject to any ques
tion as to their fitness.
The president also stated in his letter that he
of the implications which have been made of
reprisals against the administration if he failed to
agree to the appointment Of Michel
He suggested that Senator Schal submit list of
eight ten names Of men whom the senator would
think would make fit appointees for the POSITION
linen whom you are sure will be dominated by
and from such list shall hope to find some one
with fitness for the position"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-02-12
HE Arose Out of Adversely

HE Arose Out of Adversely
4 BRAHAM LINCOLN, as many other great men,
~ early in his met adversely, often when
right around the But he
familiar terms with work, he rolled up his
sleeves and out of difficulty, despite the frequent
and dscouraging circumstances. His the
tenacity that which marks of colossus nature
He as the fighting Scotlander, Robert Bruce resolved
to try try, again." Lincoln bufeted about in the
of his political well as in his personal
life
When addressing that vast audience at Gettys-
burg, he remarked "The world will little note, nor
long remember what we may say here - and most
of the newspapers took him for his word and failed
to comprehend the significance of that we'll known
masterpiece in reporting the speech the following day.
Even Horace Greeley missed playing it up, but he
of the first editors to recognize the merit of its
simplicity and beauty afterward. AS characterizes
great men, Lincoln cognzant of the event it
self that he expressed himself naturally, whereas his
esteemed contemporary orator too concerned with
his eloquence utter anything of common appeal
Tax List Publication
TT HERE few editors that have suggested that
the publication of personal property tax could be
dispensed with, advancing their claim with the
defense that people will lie whether it is printed
not A fellow named Regain of Mankato has intro
0uced Dill into the legislature TO tnlS eHecC.
After the personal property tax list published
in Sleepy Eye it discovered that number of ctz
ems were the list Proper authorities conducted
an investigation with the result that 81
added, and $500 additional taxes were levied
Figures of several others corrected, store
raised from $665s to $49s.02, gain of $4S2. In
this instance the publication of tax list not only
rected gross but brought in about $74O in
additional revenue.
Is there any why this law should be revok-
ed Not in the light of this example. 1t not only
goes prove that the present law is of good intent
but that the functoning of the local equalization board
depends upon the initiative of it's members Of delvng
into records and make necessary corrections Public
records subject to public inspection and scrutiny
and is only reasonable to suppose that the pubca
ton of them will not only furnish incentive for
public officials to keep records correct and uptodate
but remove any temptation Of malfeasance.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-05-23
Commissioner Eastman

Joe Eastman of the interstate commerce commits
sion 10 proof that a government worker does not
nave TO be bureaucrat or a yes-man He wins at
tentlon for his ideas government His mind touches
liberal solutions that usually receive only condemna-
ton from bureaucrats.
When he addressed the New York Traffic Club the
other day, he said many things the country should
hear For instance:
/ have no great sympathy with the . idea
popular in circles that the less congress sits the
better for the country" This dogma, spread by so
many conservative congressional leaders and business
men, was shown by Eastman to be counterfeit wis
dom"
In puncturing another popular notion he said:
"One Of the current slogans popular in certain
circles is less government in business and more busi
ness in government Like all advertising slogans, it
has the effect Of obscurng rather than Illuminating
the truth"
Explaining that he was speaking for himself and
not for the I c. c. he added
The fact is that government in business is not an
idea which view with alarm. If the business is Of
such nature that it not be carried on by private
enterprise without the protection OF all concerned
which is afforded by an elaborate system of public
regulation.
Being somewhat in advance Of the times have
abiding conviction that the sound and sensible way
to carry on such business 10 for the government to
sumo complete responsibility for it, and that such
plan would be preferable to the present system OF
divided responsibility and dual control.
1T is my thought that if the same amount of in
genuity devoted to the subject as has been
voted, for example, to the creation of intricate and
largely vicious mazes of holding companies and in
terlaced subsidiaries it would be quite possible to
evolve plan Of complete governmental responsibility
for the TRANSPORTATION service which would retain most
of the merits of private initiative.
II am not prepared to say" Eastman continued,
shat this country ripe for such ideas now and still
less for their execution
Maybe the country is not ripe for these suggestions,
Eastman says, but certainly it is to the countrys
advantage to have among its government officials
man like Eastman who is not afraid to think.
More Eastmans in government would lift the curse
Of bureaucracy.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-05-23
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
HEALTH
Smallpox, Once Dread Malady, Curbed

pox would result in stamping out
this disease entirely.
Unfortunately, there are still
people who refuse to be vaccinated
and there are still people who de-
vote the largest part of their lives
trying to prevent other people from
being vaccinated.
Vaccination against smallpox
merely is the means of giving the
person the kind of immunity from
disease that results from pre-
vious attack without causing him
to undergo all of the tribulations
of the disease and the pock- mark
ing of his face associated with it.
In the eighteenth century, the un-
usual person was the one without
the scars of smallpox on his face,
but today the unusual person is
the one who carries such. scars.
Smallpox seems to the average
man to be merely disease of the
skin with a severe eruption.
1t is, however, disease with
fever, aches and pains, and not in
frequently with severe hemorrhages
which may cause death.
The figures of the United States
public health service indicate that
The Indianapolis times., 1931-05-23
A League of Nations or of victors?

Opposition to the League of Nations has been
justified the United States chiefly by the solationist
philosophy which contends that must avoid mixing
into affairs of Europe. Such attitude is futile in this
age of world communication and already existent in
terrelationships
But there is another argument which unquestion-
ably does possess some validity. 1t lies in the charge
that thus far the league has been fundamentally a
league Of vctors concerned chiefly with preserving
the system which grew out of the postwar treaties
The vanqushed not any real parity with their
conquerors at Geneva.
This point of view voiced by Count Bethlen
of Hungary the tenth anniversary of his premier
ship, when he said:
"The league has become an organization Of the
victor states, which offer neither justice nor
peace to the other group of nations which they
quered 1t has conceived its task only as being to
bring about the hegemony of the victor states.
But cracks and crevces have appeared in this
fabric lately and the mentality has found itself
In a cul-de-sac"
If friends of the league desire to raise it in the
esteem of fair minded men, then let them take up
Bethens challenge and prove to the world that it has
no foundation.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-05-23
REASON BY FfERHSEGk nAHDTS

d ICHARD BARTHOLDT of st. Louis, who long has
An been member of one of the forty-eeven organ
1zatonS dedicated to the bringing about of the time
when all OF the lions and lambs all the world
shall lie down together, comes to bat with an old
proposal
1t is a proposal, drenched with innocence in
nooence OF an emerald hue.
He proposes that the United States stampede the
wide, wide world to disarmament by throwing down
all Of its defensive weapons and exposing its naked
chest to the furieS of nations.
XXTE sometimes envy philosophers who strut their
w stuff with such light baggage as Doctor Barth-
oldt's.
He is bothered neither by history, by logic by
common sense nor anything else he is in light march,
ing order so he may travel far and still be fresh
when evening overtakes him.
No nation in this world fears u.s. no nation in this
world maintains one soldier, Ship one arplane
because it fears us, but this does not in the least
impede the graceful, an-embracing flourish of the
doctors Springtme violet song.
T1AR from fearing us, these foreign powers which
a now go, grllnting up and down the calendar bent
double beneath mountain Of guns, cannon balls,
bombs and poison gas, regard being the feeble
minded Willie of the international neghborhood.
They do this because at the end of the World war
we said we did not want inch of ground one sin
gle dollar OF indemnity and because long after that
we did not have intestines enough to make Euro
pean nations pay their honest debts.
nR BARTHOLDTS plan would not make much
~ of hit today in the most populous nation Of
the world, China.
That nation has tried the Bartholdt formula and
as result it has become the pin cushion of the pale
face.
And yes, we ourselves have tried it. After the
washington naval conference we did not build the
ships we were allowed to build, but that did not keep
other nations from building up to the very limit
We will disarm for man and gun for gun with
the rest OF them, but for qualifying for world
wide razzle dazzle by making ourselves utterly help
less, that's horse of another color
The Indianapolis times., 1931-05-23

about $4,000 people year develop
smallpox in our country. Due to
the increased scientific care given
to such people, there are only a few
hundred deaths from these cases.
However, diseases change in their
virulence and there are severe out
breaks from time to time in which
as many as 20 per cent Of those
who are not vaccinated and who
get the disease die as a result of
the attack.
Because of the present relative
infrequency of smallpox and be-
cause of modern methods of scien-
tif1c control, there are some who
think that vaccination might well
be abandoned.
AS long as the disease is among
us, however, the way of safety is
vaccination. A disregard of this
measure would result in gradual in
crease in the number OF cases, an
increase in virulence and numerous
fatalities.
Perhaps the time will Come when
the whole world will be sufficiently
intelligent to take the necessary
steps to stamp out smallpox COM
pletely, but that time is not yet.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-05-23


Mr. Davis when he said that. Read on:
Picture II you viii, the scene in railway sta
ton in a midwest town-almost any town for that
matter-thirty years ago.
woman at ticket window In her arms baby
that is tired, sticky and cross
"A ticket, please, to Bee Greek Junction"
The ticket agent, carow youth with dropping
eyeids, gazes across the street at dog engaged in
scratching its eas; at the heat vapor arising from
the sidewalk in the yellow afternoon
"a ticket if you please, to Bee Greek Junction
the woman repeats.
The youth yawns as he pulls from the pigeon hole
Of tiny desk sheet Of fimsy paper fixes his gaze
upon it, and reads that henceforth reports
OF the killing Of COWS must be made on form 4-1I-44
instead Of upon form 4-11-43
This woman at the window needs to be impressed
with the fact that the comings and gongs of trains
must be taken nonchalantly by men of the world.
Who does she think she is talking to- anyhow?
The one and only station agent Of Billy Goat Hill
must have the respect that is due him. He will sell
her ticket when he gets ready. To he'll with the
public
We imagine that Mr.. Davis, being a banker, would
put it in more dignifled way but that is what he
means to tell you when he says that: Public rela-
tions between the roads and the public have been
handled deploraby."
little more than quarter century ago the rail-
road began to feel that the public damned atti-
tude was costing it something 1t was It has been
costing it something since.
And today some of the opposition that will be
displayed to the plea of the railroads for higher
freight rates will be on other than economic grounds
1t will represent hangover from the time when
the woman with the sticky baby awaited the con-
descenSion of the ticket agent of Billy Goat Hill.
Within the last few years railway service and
railway courtesy have shown a vast improvement
Ticket sellers longer say to he'll with the public
But many who old enough to have bought tickets
back around the turn of the century still remember
those old aronts and continue to say: ITO hell with
the railroads. whenever railway issue is raised
Truly, the sins of the fathers visited upon the
children, as the railroad have found out.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-05-23

and the lumber salvaged. The brick
and refuse was left and the prop
erty resembles dumping grounds
and is an eyesore to the south side.
j. M.
A health board officer who investigated
reported he ordered the building torn
down, but that he found nothing in
sanitary in the situation.
Mr.. FiNt-An old house on East
Market street between Cruise and
Oriental streets has been torn down
and the basement never has been
filled in, leaving the place full of
bTicks. A barn was torn down in
the rear of the lot. leaving a half
basement open, which has gar
bage, cans and trash In it.
AN OLD SUBSCRIBER.
This has been investigated by the
health board and an order issued to an
agent of the owner to clean il mp or
ii would be condemned. He promised to
remodel the place. the inspector reported.
Mr.. Fixit-Would you please Gee
that the yard and alley of the store
building on the southeast corner
OF West Tenth street and North
Pershing avenue is cleaned up.
Trash is piled in the yard and al
ley, and even in the street.
TIMES READER.
An order TO remove the trash within
ten days has been issued by g health
board officer.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-05-23
More PiDe Dreams

CUPPOSING the wheat-producing
~ countries were to agree on the
reduction of acreage, how would
they enforce it, not only as a group,
but individually?
By what means, for instance.
could the United States guarantee
that her wheat farmers would cur
tail their acreage by 25 per cent?
And would the export scheme
present less difficulties?
With five or six million men &C.
tually under arms, with 70 per cent
more spent for military establish
mentS than in 1918, and with every
great nation striving to produce the
most devilish devices Of death ana
destruction, this world is in no con-
dition to bet on altruistic pipe
dreams.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-05-23
n y y
We Must Eight

EHOR the time being at least, each
4 nation could do more for itself.
and probably as much for the world
at large, by endeavoring to put it's
own affairs in order.
II anything, we're worse off in
America because of the energy
wasted and the false hopes raised
by foreign powwowing.
were simply not going to save
our wheat farmers by persuading
Russia to let up, or our steel bust
ness by getting Germany to raise
the price, or our South American
trade by influencing England and
France to lay off.
We're not only going to fight for
what we get, as we always have
put were going to fight a little
harder than usual if we get it.
We're going to meet the compe-
tltlon or get licked.