The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-05
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r HAPPENED to read an item in
Il the Indianapolis News Nov.
in which Harvey A. Grabill STAYED
that you can, at the present time,
pick out recipients of charity bas-
kets in Indianapolis by pictures OF
Roosevelt in their windows.
l have a picture of Roosevelt and
also OF Paul McNutt in my window
mot put there through compulsion)
but l do not receive a charity bas-
ket. Such a statement coming from
a professional man, especially an
attorney, is absurd.
JOHN F. WALSH.
Editor Times
TT appears that the Marion County
Il Association for Tax Reduction
is attempting to represent to the
public taht only those candidates
Endorsed by said organization are
pledged TO tax reduction.
AS a nominees for state repre-
sentative on the Democratic ticket,
r. together with all other nominees
on the Democratic ticket, am
pledged TO and will work for tax
reduction.
There undoubtedly are nominees
for the legislature on the Republ-
lean ticket who stand for tax re-
duction, although they were not
named by this association.
Such representations are unfair
to nominees on the Democratic and
Republican tickets who are for tax
reduction. but were not named by
this organization.
MISS BEss ROBBINS.
Editor Times
TN his Madison Square Garden
II speech, President Hoover dwelt
at length upon the folly of plan
to alter 1.-THE very foundations OF
our American system" He then
went on to say that this depression
was "a break of the same type we
have met fifteen times in CEN
tury!"
II seems to me that when you
have been hit fifteen times IN the
same spot, 1t is time to move.
He also stated: The hours OF
labor have decreased, the twelve
hour day has disappeared, even the
nine-hour day has almost gone.
How truel He might have gone
on to say that for millions OF men
the one-hour day has also diSap-
peared. Perhaps in his next speech
he will boast of having given MS
countrymen an opportunity to SIT
THROUGH nO-hOur day!
PAUL BOXELL.
Editor Times
r WISH TO add my mite OF APP
nreciation for the unbiased way
in which you have presented oo:h
sides of the political controversy IN
contrast to the King Can DO No
Wrong" attitude as followed by the
two other. local dailies. eyo,y.-F~.e
If the populace only will thlnK
hack to the eight years OF the WIZ
son adminiStration-fro the nrs'
to the last--when it was Impossible
to walk the street for single square
or time without seeing helI
wanted sign of some kind, IN com
harrison to the no help wanted signs
Of tcdav. it is hard to see how the
electorate can fail to dismiss Inc
G o. P. next Tuesday.
w. G.. WANSER,
Editor Times
MIR. HOOVER says he does not
NI have to engage in promises
Naturally, he wouldn't; that Is
what he was engaged in four years
400. It would be foolish for him
10 throw the same bait out the sec
ond time. He knows the American
people will not bite.
He says he may point TO perform
snces.
wonder If he would be afraid
to point TO these facts: Wheat the
lowest in 800 years, corn being
burned for fuel because there Is no
market.
Girls and boys in and under their
teens working in factories and mills
for a few cents day, doing the
work their fathers or some other
man ought TO be doing at living
wage, high taxes imposed on the
common people; Is cents an -Four
naid for road work in Indiana, I'M
der the leadership Of Republican
Governor Leslie and tnat great
senator. James Watson; eleven
million people out of work, While
+he government is putting millions
of dollars in the pockets Of the rlcn
THESE and many other perform
ances Mr.. Hoover fails to point out
Let us get the Democratic plat
form to working, for the sake OF
humanity. NEEAAr'i''
A CCORDING to The Times
N powers Hargood, Socialist
candidate for Governor, charges
the communists with being opposed
to freedom of religious worship
That the charge is not true is evil
denced by these facts:
First-In Communist Russia, re-
Hgious liberty is guaranteed by tne
soviet Constitution which reads
I'm order to guarantee to all work
ers real freedom of conscience. the
church is separated from the state
and the school from the church
and freedom of religious and anti
religious propaganda is bestowed or
all citizens"
Second-An Indianapolis con-
struction engineer, w. A. WorSham
who spent eighteen months in the
soviet Union, has stated publicly or
numerous occasions that churche:
we're open, that he himself at
tended church.
Sherwood Eddy and Pro
lessor Harry F. Ward, prominent
religious leaders who have Speni