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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-06
Reducing Taxes

Under any construction of the law re-
garding the valuation of property for taxa
ton, the horizontal reduction on valuations
made by Assessor McCloskey is justified.
The value Of real estate is it's sale price.
No one could argue that the price of real
estate has not fallen at least % per cent since
the last assessment.
The price Of everything has fallen, espe-
cially the price of labor. The price will fall
farther unless some plan is devised to put
men back to work and create market for
labor and commodities.
That is, the price of everything except
money. The interest on debts, public and pri-
vate, remains at the old figure, although the
purchasing power Of the dollar has increased
greatly. The money lenders are receiving
much more for the use of their dollars than
they did in 1929, if they translate their cou-
pons into food clothing or Injuries.
AS matter of fact, the valuation of
property has very little to do with the
amount of taxes which must be paid by the
people. The only way that taxes can be re-
duced is to spend less.
Spending less in these days will inevitably
mean the reduction of salaries. Probably
public officials will attempt to scale down
costs by reducing wages and leave the salar-
les stand. There is difference
1t will probably be necessary to cut out
many public projects. The first to go should
be the unnecessary building of public high
ways by the state. In another year or so, the
number of automobiles in use will make pres
ent roads more than ample.
There will be other community enter
prizes, very necessary for cultural and spir-
itual advance, which will probably disappear
under the compusion of necessity
There can be no relief until the burden of
interest is lifted from the backs of private
and public debtors.
That can not be done until prices of labor
and commodities are lifted, through initiation
of currency, back to the levels on which
debts were contracted. PAIRING down of
public expense will help but not much
In 1929 the national income was 81 bill
lions of dollars, and of this interest and gov
eminent took about % per cent This year
the national income will be As billions. The
fixed charges remain the same, but amount
to more than so cents out of every dollar.
Interest charges, utility rates, useless
jobs should be scrutinized. They offer the
one chance of first aid. The final answer
must come with jobs for the jobless. That is
the real tax problem.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-06
Calming Down

In Chicago Heights last Monday the suburb city,s
only bank was paying out fast The people were ex-
cited, and by Thursday bank crisis was at hand.
Mayor Daniel Bergen proclaimed a weeks holiday,
shutting down bank stores, and shops. In two days
the folks were back at work. their sanity restored
Everybody grabbed fishing pole and made a
holiday of it," said Mayor Bergin "they got Gained
down and came back ready for business"
Of course can't fish ourselves out of a depres-
sion, but neither can we get out by becoming hys-
terical The main thing is to keep cool and unafraid
And what better antidote for tangled nerves than
watching the willows dip into the shade of sluggish
river or the set the vista of placid lake?
AS Emerson reminds us, nature always is asking:
Why hot, my little man?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-06
Primitive Culture

CUFFICIENT data is not yet at
- hand to determine the age of
the cavern culture. 1t may be fairly
recent, although one thing is GER
tain.
No trace of European influence
was found in the caves, indicating
that the deposits were older than
the Spanish invasion of the south
west.
Most Of the deposits were near the
surface, although they ranged to a
depth of seven feet. The caves
were filled with bats and mud
swallows and apparently had
changed little since their original
inhabitants deserted them.
Settler describes the culture as
very primitive, showing no influence
OF contact with other people.
Apparently the cave dwellers were
wholly dependent upon the local
vegetation, using cactus fibers for
weaving baskets, sandals, ropes, and
even blankets.
1t is little difficult to understand
why an ancient people voluntarily
should have entered mountainous
region where living was so difficult.
One possible explanation is that
they might have been driven to
seek refuge from powerful enemies.
Settler obtained his first clew to
the cave jewellers when the mouth
of a cave accidentally was uncov-
cred by a dog chasing a fox.
The culture appears to have ex-
tended over wide area from Ell
Paso east to the Pecos river and
from the Rio Grande north to the
neighborhood of Alpine, Tex.
Further exploration may reveal
an even greater range.
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scnolar-statesman, the time has come for declara-
ton OF nterdependence of the nations of the earth.
Our system which we propose is elastic" he said.
This coordination of independent units each with
Its own point Of view, each with its own traditions,
each with its own language, if you please each with
its own form of political and religious faith in matters
Of detail, but working together as units with one
great purpose-to keep this world in peace to keep
this world Free and, far as human effort can do
it, to keep this world prosperous and happy"
DR.. Butler voices not ideal, but an actual
trend. Both major parties in Chicago wrote into
their platforms unprecedented planks urging Ameri-
can participation in conferences of powers in of
breach Of the Kellogg pact.
To clarity this idea, DR.. Buffers own twentieth
century fund committee economic sanctions
Tuesday urged immediate initiation by the United
States protocol to the pact of Paris under which
signatories may vote simultaneous embargos upon
pact vioators without the use of armed force or
entangling alliances
The Democrats urged world court participation,
tariff conference, arbitration.
Interdependence is a big word in size and impor-
lance. That it is being recognized as the twentieth
century coroary of independence shows that the
sensate nationasm stirred by the World war is dying
out.
We are one big family, and common woe is draw
ing closer together.
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l. Do not go swimming alone or
at night
2. Don't verestim al e your
strength. Because you have been
able TO swim a certain distance sew
eral times that day, that does not
mean that you will be able to do it
again.
3. Never swim across lakes or
rivers or from headland to island,
etc, or in unknown or dangerous
waters, unless accompanied by a
boat and a strong, level-headed
companion trained in life saving.
4. At the first opportunity, learn
how to rescue drowning persons
without unduly endangering your
own life and learn how to admin
lister artificial respiration.
5. Do not attempt to swim to a
drowning persons rescue in rough
or deep water unless no other help
is Immediately at hand and you are
confident you are capable of effect
ing a rescue without sacrificing the
drowning persons, as we'll as your
own life.
6. If possible before starting to
rescue, call to someone to get rope.
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Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times-It seems that the
unemployed relief forces in this city
are playing out. The colored Y. M.
G. A., which has been housing the
homeless and unemployed Negroes
in its basement and giving them
breakfast now is turning these men
out.
They plead lack of funds. I hap
pened to be one of the men given
invitations to try the outdoors. I
am not at all worried about a place
to sleep, for in nice weather I would
much prefer to sleep out doors than
to be lodged in that dismal under
ground hole, where the cockroaches
have their orgies and the sunlight
never strikes, but I am worried
about where I am to get my break
fast.
While they didn't give us much
more than enough to feed a canary,
yet it is some comfort to a fellow
to know that when he gets up in
the morning he won't have to wait
until 10 or II o'clock when the soup
house opens, before he will be able
to get little something to eat.
This depression hardly had
started when the officials of this
Y, using it as a pretext, began
making salary cuts. Naturally they
started at the bottom, with the
dormitory maids. These three
maids, poor souls, we're making only
pittance at first, but they even
had that pittance reduced.
And as the depression progressed,
they laid off one of the maids,
thereby further reducing their ex-
penses by one-third while adding
so per cent more work for the two
remaining maids. But never once
have they made any reduction in
their charges for room rent. Their
rates are the same that they were
in the most prosperous times.
Some officials of this Y not only
are holding down fat paying jobs,
but their wives also are holding
lucrative positions. 1t doesn't mean
anything to them that in thou
sands of homes in this city neither
husband nor wife is employed. They
prattle and pirate necessarily about
justice and Christianity, but they
have no more conception of either
than has a gorilla.
I happened to be present one
morning this spring when one of
these officials came into the build
ing and I witnessed a scene that
made my heart ache. 1t was a
cold, blustery March morning. Hud-
died around the radiator were some
Of the unemployed men, wretched-
ness and despair pictured in their
faces.
With less feeling than an ordi-
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Questions and
Answers

Is the word "girP' in the English
version of the Bible?
In the singular number it is found
only once, in Joel, 3:3, they have
sold a girl for wine that they might
drink" The plural girls" also oc-
ours once, in zachariah 8:5, "the
streets of the city shall ne full of
boys and girls, playing in the streets
thereof"
On what day did Nov II, 1908,
fall?
Saturday.
sWhat is ''the dark of the mOOn?"
The expression dark moon" or
dark of the moon" is a popular one
indicating that portion of the
month when the moon is not visible.
From two days before new moon
until two days after old moon is
the approximate time of invisibility,
and constitutes the dark of the
moon" All the rest of the lunar
month is regarded as the light Of
the moon"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-06
Cactus CheWerS

THE new-found prehistoric race
l. appears to have made perma-
nent homes in caves from forty-five
to fifty feet in depth. They de-
pended largely upon the cacti of the
Texas mountains for food, clothing,
and utensils.
Settler describes them as a "cud-
chewing people" He found great
accumulation of partially masticated
balls of the lechuilla, local cactus,
in the caves.
He believes that the people chewed
the leaves Of this cactus until all the
juice was extracted and then dis
carded the remaining fiber.
The people also were hunters.
Settler found bones of deer. bear,
rabbits, and many variety of birds
in the caves. He also found arrow
shafts and arrow heads.
A number of the bones of the ami
mails were broken open, presumably
to obtain the marrow which they
contained. Such broken open bones
are common in the caves OF prehis-
toric races in Europe.
One grewsome discovery made by
the expedition was that small
child, in each case under 2 years old,
had been buried in the center of
each Of the caves.
No other burials were found in the
caves, adult burials apparently
taking place elsewhere, in places or
caves as yet undiscovered.
Significance of these child burials
is as yet unknown, but it would APP
pear at first glance as though they
must have some primitive religious
significance. Human sacrifices have
been common among prehistoric
peoples.
The child skeletons will be care
fully studied, in the hope that they
may give some clew to the physical
traits Of the ve-dwellers.
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Foolish About Contracts

MOST of our statesmen are run
1VA ming around yelling that "a
contracts a contract" even if it
can't be fulfilled.
One day they tell us that all debts
must be paid, and the next that all
debts should be measured by ability
to pay.
Years have been wasted forcing
this or that government to recognize
something Gin principle" when it
commonly was admitted that the
government could not and would
not carry it out in practice.
Like children, we seem vastly more
anxious to get something in the
record that we can twit each other
about later than in doing what is
sensible.
Nothing made CIemenceau so mad
at the council of Versailles as the
fact that the German delegates re-
fused to stand. Nothing gave him
more satisfaction over the allied
victory than the humbling of Vienna
as a rival of Paris.
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roads would not be done as eco
nomically or as well, and in the
end nothing would have been
achieved, ultimately resulting in
financial leakage, ineficiency, and
loss.
1t is a very easy matter to criti-
else public department, but the
Indiana state highway commission
has a lasting memorial of its sery-
ice to the public in its magnificent
highways, which are admitted to
be some of the finest in the Union
and the pride of the state.
OF course taxes ought to be
lowered, but feel sure there are
ways and means of effecting this
without harmful results to a sec
ton of the people. For instance,
give the county road work to the
state highway commission, and
make the farmer immune from the
cost Of roads.
Stcppage of work and deprivation
OF employment at these times can
not be considered wise or progress
sive movement, and no temporary
or ultimate good can result from
such procedure.
NELSON WALSH.
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Attitude Is NEGATIVE

liver since the war fever en-
IL quilted it, humanity has been
laboring under a reign of childish
emotionalism, in which fear of the
future has combined with provin-
cialism of the past to make any
thing like bold, constructive lead
ership impossible.
Russia and Italy have cut loose,
but only to breed CONSERVATION
among other people. Even here in
America, we are more concerned
about what Bolshevism or Fascism
might do to us than what we might
and should do for ourselves.
Our attitude has been negative
since the war ended. We have spent
most of our time studying what not
to do, have elected three Presidents
largely because we believed that
they not only would refuse to I'M
dertake anything new, but would
exert themselves to break all i'm
piled commitments by which we
might appear obligated to try any
thing new.
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BALKAN CAMPAIGN
July 6

ON July 6, 1918, italian and
" French troops in Albania
started the Balkan campaign, begin
ming drive between the coast and
the Tomorica valley.
Italian troops were jubilant and
ready for further action along this
front when they learned that fellow
soldiers finally had expelled Aus
TRANS from the western bank of the
Piave river.
Australians and Americans, dou-
bling up on a front northeast of
Villers- Bretonneaux, advanced along
a range of almost a mile. Ameri-
cans also successfully repulsed a
raid at Xivray.
RuSsia's internal strife continued.
General Count Won Mirbach, Ger
man ambassador to Russia, was as
sassinated by two social revolution
lists.
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nary man would show for stray
dog, this official brusquely ordered
these men out of the building, and
he had the nerve to tell them to
go out and look for work.
Every Sunday morning, bright
and early, one of these officials hur-
ries to the Y. He gathers the I'M
employed men about him, and, as
Stunning a reverent mien, lectures
them on their duty to the church.
He not only urges them to attend
church, but he actually commands
them.
These officials are regarded as
exemplary Christians. They go to
church on Sundays and shout glory
to God, hallelujah I believe their
Sunday worship is purely perfume
tory, but in their worship of Man
non they are passionately sincere.
He is their 6 to 0 favorite.
CHARLES MYERS.
Military park
Editor Times-Quoting from the
Congressional Record of May ID,
1882, on Page 1O9, 103 "Mr. Archibald
Roosevelt heads the self-styled ma
tional economy committee, which
wants to reduce veterans relief. In
1880 the Roosevelt Steamship Com
pany of which Mr.. Roosevelt was
part owner and a director, secured
a ten-year contract from the gov
eminent to carry the mail from
Baltimore to Hamburg.
1.-THE distance is 4,077 miles. The
contract price is Sc a mile for fifty
two trips year, which amounts to
$24, 1852 trip, or $1,272014 a year.
The service commenced July l, 1881.
ITO date the government actually
has paid, by reason of that contract,
the sum OF $807 ,246. Other steam
ship lines would have rendered the
same service for not to exceed $685.
246. Therefore, RooSevelt's company
received a gift from the government
amounting to $779,004.
THE Roosevelts are interested
joint with j. P. Morgan in several
steamship lines that have contracts
to carry ocean mail. One of their
vessels went from New York by
Plymouth to London a short time
ago. 1t carried two pounds of letters.
The statutory price for such service
Is 30 cents a pound.
THE Roosevelts and Morgan re-
ceived the contract price of Sc
mile, $20,214 for the trip, or a gift
of more than $20,212. Another
steamship company during the last
fiscal year rendered service of the
value of $95, but received from the
government for this service S6OT,-
1890.
THE names of representatives of
favored shipping interests and in
ternational banks appear on the list
Of economy committee members.
This committee would like to dis
tract attention of the people from
ocean mail subsidies and Colombian
bonds to veterans relief"
According to an editorial that ap-
peared in your paper a while back,
this Mr.. Archibald Roosevelt was
your idea not only of real pa
triot, but a super patriot. AS in
telligent as I have always believed
you to be, it can not be presumed
that you were not aware of the
facts as presented by Representative
Patman of Texas in the foregoing
quotations.
If you were aware of the gifts
Mr.. Roosevelt and others of that
wonderful economy committee were
receiving from the government, how
could you hold up these men to the
public as superpatriots because they
petitioned against a measly $12 a
month pension to Gx-service men,
when they were receiving hundreds
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Says

Most Greatness Consists Of
Ability to Break Array
From the. Past and Try
Something NeaC.
NEW YORK, July 6.-Young
IN Alexander wasted no time try
ing to unite the Gordian knot. He
just whipped out his sword and cut
it.
No doubt, he Mortified some of the
conservatives by adopting such a
crude method. No doubt, they
called him poor sport, scolded
him for having so little respect for
precedent, and charged him with
violating the Constitution.
But young Alexander got results,
which was about all his rollicking,
devil-may-c soldiers demanded.
They accepted him as leader who
could think fast in an emergency,
and who didn't give a whoop
whether he thought in accordance
with custom, or not.
Because they accepted him as
such leader, they followed him
with unsuitable confidence and en-
abled him to accomplish incon-
ceivable things.
Looking back from the distance of
more than 1000 years, we are able
to understand that Alexander's
greatness was due to an ability to
break away from the past and try
something new.
Most greatness consists of the
same simple stuff.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association. and of Hygeia. the
Health MSpazine


Association. and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
CIxTY per cent of all drownings
~ occur from May to August. Con-
trary to the usual belief, the ma
jority of people who drown are ex-
pert swimmers and not amateurs.
The expert swimmer takes chances
to which the amateur never sub
mits himself.
Weissmuller, most famous of
American swimmers, never Swims
out in deep water without an &C
companying boat. The good swim
mer sometimes overestimates his
strength and disregards common
sense rules of safety.
DR.. E. H. Lines, medical director
of great life insurance company,
after an examination of the records
of that company concerning persons
who drowned while swimming, Of
fers the following twelve rules of
safety for special consideration dur
ing the swimming season:
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Your Questions Answered

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any answerable question of
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your problems.
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SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ-

Traces Found By Explorer Of
Hitherto UnknoUn Race of
Care DlCeuerS IN Terds.
d EMAINs of a previously UNI
~ known race of cave-dwellers,
discovered in the mountains Of
southwestern Texas by an expedi-
ton of the Smithsonian Institu-
ton, may have important bearing
on one of the most disputed ques-
tons in American archaeology, the
question of how long man has been
in the new world
The question is not only one OF
the most disputed, b2s also one Of
the most fundamental. There are
two schools of thought.
One, headed by DR.. AleS Hrdlicka,
famous anthropologiSt of the Smith
sonian Institution, claims that man
made his way into America from
Siberia by way of Alaska and that
human beings have been on this
continent less than $1,000 years.
perhaps less than 10000 years.
The other school, whose adher-
ents incidentally include some Of
the Smithsonian experts, insist that
man has been in America for a
much longer period.
The expedition which just has
returned from southwestern Texas
was headed by Frank Setzker,
Smithsonian archeologist. 1t brought
back a large amount of material,
most of it basketry. from seven
caves spread over wide area in
the Big Bend and Chisos mountain
region.
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Man of COURAGE Needed


II VERY so often, men create a
Il snarl Sometimes, they create it
consciously, but more often without
realizing what they are doing.
Occasionally, the snarl becomes
too complicated to be taken apart
the way it was put together. Then
we have to wait until somebody
comes along with sufficient courage
and originality to slash it.
That is what we are waiting for
today.
Debt conferences, disarmament
conferences, naval conferences,
economic conferences-they are all
failing because they are all predi-
Gated on the futile idea of unravel-
ing a worldwide tangle according to
the method and system by which it
was developed.
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Interdependence

DR.. Nicholar Murray Butler who recently has had
sn uncanny way of being right, was right again in
his Fourth of July address before the American So
cety in London. Magnificent were Magma Charta
and Our Declaration Of Independence. said this
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radical says we need a government devoid of
hypocrisy, but the veteran politicians will dismiss
that statement just another attack on our good old
American customs
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Chicago bandit who robbed pedestrian of $500
recently gave his victim $40 to get another start on
That's the difference between bandit and lawyer