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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-24
COURTS RULE
AGAINST $3.50
TAX RATE LAW
DaVieSS Circuit Judge Holds
Same View as State
Board Members.

Doubled arened decisions against
the $3.50 property tax limitation
law have been rendered by state
circuit courts, according to reports
received at the statehouse today.
In each decision the view ad-
vanced by state tax board members.
following passage of the law, has
been upheld.
Judge NJ S. Hastings OF Daviess
circuit court Friday afternoon over
ruled demurrers in an Injunction
suit brought by indianapolis bond
holders against the $3.50 levy or
dered by the Davess county board
of tax adjustment.
No Provisions for Bonds
Evidence disclosed that the $50
law left no provision for payment
Of the Daviess county courthouse
bonds falling due next year. 1t also
failed to provide sufficient revenues
for the city of Washington's gov
eminent to function.
Hastings pointed out that the
bond payments, and also payments
Of salaries by the city, are contracts
which can not be abrogated by leg
islative action.
The same position, in reverse
manner, was taken by Judge Clyde
c. Carlin of La Grange circuit
court. He refused to enjoin Mil
ford township officials from exceed
ing the $3.50 limitation to meet
obligations.
Ten Counties Face Problem
According to tax board reports,
ten counties are in the same stu
alton as DaviesS in adhering to the
$3.50 limitation.
Protagonists Of the $3.50 law de-
clare now that the provision made
in the measure for the adjustment
board was to meet such emergencies
as payment of bonds.
But they have been fighting to
curtail governmental costs so that
bond payments can be met and the
$150 not exceeded
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-24
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press STAFF Correspondent


WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.-Tax-
payers who want to know what the
United States senate is costing, and
where. the money goes, will have
more trouble than usual in finding
out this year.
A complete accounting Of how
the senate spends 100000 a year
on itself is made annually in the
report Of the secretary Of the SEN
ate.
In the past 1t has been possible
for any one to go to the senate
document room and obtain a copy
of 1t.
This document is the source of
information regarding nepotism in
the senate, where thirty-seven mem
bers are known to have employed
relatives. 1t is the source Of in
formation regarding lavish expense
accounts of such junketing eXpedi-
tions as that Of the wild life COM
mittee.
Only 200 Copies Printed
It tells exactly why a United
States senator, who is paid $4,000
a year under the temporary econ
Omy act, actually costs an average
of $4,000 a year when the cost of
upkeep covering mileage, clerks, sta
tionery, barber shops and mineral
water, is included
This Illuminating document can
not be obtained by the general pub
lie this year. Two hundred copies
were printed, two for each senator.
One person obtained a copy by
persuading a friendly senator to
telephone the senate document
room, and authorize the attendant
to release one of his copies. But
the recipient was required to sign
for his copy so that an official rec
ord is kept Of each person obtaining
one of the documents.
One Of these documents has by
chance fallen into the hands of this
newspaper reporter and its contents
will be summarized, in these dis
patches, later
Files Go Back to 1868
The house went still farther and
refused even to print its clerks
report for the first time in years
The files of such reports go back to
1868, and show expenses for COM
mittees investigating the assassina-
ton Of President Lincoln, and for
the Impeachment of President An
drew Johnson.
But publication of details con-
corning the family pay roll situa-
ton in congress and the liberal
scattering of public money by sem
ators and congressman while travel
ing on government expense ac-
counts, brought so much complaint
that members in both houses be-
lieved they could curtail repetition
Of that trouble by not printing the
two source books for public dis
tribution
However, these documents, once
preliminary difficulties have been
overcome, and they are inspected,
make appropriate Christmas read
ing, for they show in detail how
NOllS4 coo is 4Io OW4l Aodi4Gd OldNSs
Seeks Increased Funds
This year, despite the pressure
for economy, the senate is asking
for a net increase of $101, IA in its
contingent fund, which is used for
Investigations and general expenses,
1884 more for the sergeant-at-
arms and doorkeepers and 500 more
for postage.
The only decrease proposed is a
reduction of $4,000 for the office of
the secretary.
Abandonment of this item is due
to the fact that it represents the
salary paid to a retired employe
who died recently.
The house, which costs about S.
100000 year, is asking for net
r
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-24
BY PAUL HARRISON,
NEA Service Writer

NEW YORK, Dec. 24.-Tech-
IN nOcracy, which boasts the
ability to reorganize America on
an ordered basis Of prosperity,
employment and increased leisure,
is being hailed as new school Of
scientific philosophy.
Yet, while its head is in the
clouds Of the present depression,
its roots reach back as far as Eng
lands industrial revolution and
the development Of the first labor
saving machines.
And the actual problems and
aims Of Technocracy were begin
ming to be defined in 1920, when
Howard Scott, leader of the pres
ent movement, organized what he
called the Technical Alliance.
He already had formed
vision Of a nation eventually to be
controlled by engineers, and to
that end had gathered some data
and compiled charts tc show how
industry was being carried on. AS
Scott saw it-and still sees it:
The whole problem is one OF
elimination of waste. But waste
to an engineer has a different
meaning than it has to the pub
lie.
Waste ordinarily is thought of
In terms Of potato Feelings, or the
spending Of money for luXuries.
If the elimination Of that kind of
waste would solve the problem,
China would be the richest coun-
try in the world today.
But the engineer recognizes
that idleness is waste, that COM
petition is waste, and that dupli-
cation of effort and the unneces-
sary exhaustion of any natural
resource is waste.
If we can eliminate idleneSs and
duplication Of effort. we can have
Immediately such prosperity as
the world never has known.
Nobody can bring this about
but engineers. So far. they have
been very successful in doing away
with material waste and duplica-
ton of energy in the various in
dustries in which they are employ
ed.
But they have not thought of
American industry as an industry
in itself. The time has come
when that must be done. We are
nearing a crisis"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-24
WORK SPEEDED ON
APPROPRIATIONS BILL
Measure to Be Ready Shortly After
Legislature COnvenes.

Although they have until the end
of January to prepare the appro-
priations bill, the state budget COM
mittee expects to have the final
draft ready shortly after the legis-
lature convenes, Jan. 5, it was an
nounced today by Lawrence +. Orr.
Orr, as chief examiner of the
state board of accounts, is an ex
officio member of the budget COM
mittee.
The budget committee may make
recommendations regarding possible
ways of increasing revenues to meet
the budget total, Orr said.
The law creating the committee
calls for making such recommended
tions, but this provision previously
has been ignored, ne said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-24

THO get some of the scientific
Il antecedents of the movement,
listen to M. King Hubert, profess
scr of geo-physics at Columbia
university and one Of Techno-
cracy's leaders:
For many years the physical
sciences developed independently
in their separate fields. They be-
came so highly specialized and
complex that scientists couldn't
even understand each other, and
along about 1900 progress began
to lag.
"One day Willard Gibbs, a Yale
physicist, sat down and solved the
problems that had baked the
chemists. About the same time a
Norwegian physici.5 named
Bjerknes got interested in meteor
ology, threw all its old theories
out the window, built up new
one on the basis of physics, and
laid the whole foundation for the
true science of meteorology today.
Science suddenly realized that
1t must cooperate to progress.
And now we have geo-physicists,
phySio-chemists and all the rest of
the combinations"
SO what?" asked the reporter,
who still wanted to talk about
Technocracy.
so physical science in general
now is interested in the whole
field of our physical mechanism,
and even in the social sciences to
the extent that people are users
and converters of energy.
Science can't help watching
the inconsistencies of operation,
and wanting to combine and ana
lyze all aspects of the operating
mechanism.
TINE inspiration for collective
Il chronological action came out
of the World war days, when en-
gineers were called upon to or
ganize production, centralize it,
and speed it up to a new high.
Here is what one of the lead
ing technocratS has to say about
it; he is frederick Lee Alderman,
prominent New York architect:
During the early part of the
war, we were able to observe
what happened to production when
it was released momentarily from
price control. OF course, prices
still prevailed nominally, but they
were disregarded, so far as get
ting things done was concerned.
I'VE could watch the movement
of some products through a con-
tinuous process from manufacture
to consumption. We noticed that
many problems were not being
solved because of an improper
method of approach.
I'VE also saw that what we
considered the proper method
scientific control without the han
dicap of economic worked
every time it was used.
Technical men began to gather
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-24
HEAVY LOADS BARRED
Unpaved Roads Order Is Issued BY
Highway Department.

A. H. Hinkle, maintenance super
intendent of the state highway de-
partment, announced today that
heavy loads will be barred on all un-
paved roads until they are again
frozen hard. All principal cities
and towns of the state can be
reached over pavement, he pointed
ont
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-24
Ability to Bring Return of Prosperity
Is Claimed by Disciples of Technocracy

The leaders Of the new scientific
philosophy" called Teehnocraey and the
origin of the economically revolutionary
movement which is attracting nation
vide attention, are described in the fol-
lowing artiele-the second in a series Of
six written for The Times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-24

Also, NTechnocrat Scott is not
the Howard Scott listed in the
Engineering Who's Who" Pro-
fessor Rautenstrauch told this
reporter that eve never have
looked into the record CT Scott"
Despite the removal Of va
rious legends that have grown
up about him, technocrats are
agreed that he possesses a phe-
nomenaI amount and breadth of
scientific knowledge, as we'll as
the ability to approach technora-
cyS problems in a scientifically
methodical way.
NEXT: What TechnOcracy Has
Discovered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-24
THIEVES WITH HEAVY
APPETITES GET LOOT
Provide Selves With Huge Yule
Dinners in Chicago.

Dinners in Chicago.
By United Press
CHICAGO, Dec. "a. - Thieves
whose holiday appetite apparently
was gargantuan went to work Fri
day night to provide themselves
with Christmas dinners.
At one store they stole twenty
five turkeys, ten geese and twenty
five chickens.
At another they carried off thirty
turkeys, six geese and four ducks.
And in a third raid twenty-fiv
turkeys, twenty boxes Of Christmas
candy, twenty boxes of cookies and
three coops of chickens were stolen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-24

The rarely photographed Howard
Scott, chief Of the technOcrats, is
pictured at the right. At left is
another prominent member of the
organization, DIR. Richard c. Toll
man of the California Institute of
Technology, with Albert Einstein
(center), who is said to be inter
ested in the movement.
Virginia and educated in Europe,
where his engineer-father was en-
gagged in various construction pro-
jectS, including the Bagdad-Berlin
railroad.
Shortly before the opening of
the World war, Howard Scott left
a job in German dye plant, went
to Canada and was employed in
the building of munitions plants.
Scott was not, as has been wide
ly reported, assistant chief techni-
clan at Muscle Shoals. According
to an official of the company by
which he was employed, he held a
minor position there.
After the war, Scott went to
New York, started his technical al
lance and set himself up as a
free lance consulting engineer.
He became a familiar figure at
Greenwich Village studios, where
liberals and radicals met to dis
cuss the salvation of the world.
Contrary to reports, Scott does
not hold a number of university
degrees. Until recently, his as
sociates in democracy believed
that he held a degree of doctor of
science; but he does not.
The Washington times., 1932-04-14
D.C.MAN SHOOTS
BALT|MOREAN

Herbert Myers, 36-year-old ex-
convict and well-known Wash
ington police character, is sought
here today for the shooting last
night of a speakeasy proprietor
in Baltimore.
The shooting was the out
growth of a fight between two
women. Sam Lampel, 35, ex.
convict, the victim, attempted
to separate the two women when
Myers interposed and shot him.
The shooting occurred in the
first block Fayette Street in the
Monumental City. Fourteen per-
sons. in the house at the time
Of the shooting, were released
by police. The names of the
women who started the fight
could not be learned.
Myers, the man sought by
Washington police at the re-
quest of Baltimore authorities,
served 10 years in the Maryland
State Penitentiary for receiving
stolen automobiles.
Lampel is in a serious cond!-
ton in a Baltimore hospital.
The Washington times., 1932-04-14
|NSULL FIRM
FACES 5-YEAR
RECE|VERSHIP
Bankers See Little Chance OF
Utilities Being Able to Pay
$10,0OO,000 Note

CHICAGO, April IA (I.N.S).
A five-year receivership may
be invoked to handle the diff
ficulties of the Middle West
Utilities Company, it appeared
today.
Following conferences with
Samuel insult, founder of the
$2,500,000,000 holding company,
bankers declared there was little
likelihood that the concern would
be able to meet a $10,000,000
note falling due June /.
1t was said the company also
appears unable to meet other
pressing financial demands, in
cluding similar funded maturities,
in the next few years.
Never in financial history has
there been a receivership for
corporation the size of Middle
West. Operations of the COM
pany extend into 80 States and
include bus lines, pipe lines,
textiles manufacture, and genera
tion and distribution of electric
power.
The Washington times., 1932-04-14
a GREY LADIES
To GRADUATE

Graduation exercises for the
Grey Ladies of the Walter Reed
unit of the district of Columbia
Chapter of the American Red
Cross were to be held today at the
Walter Reed Hospital.
Col. Albert E. TRULY, COM
mandant of the Army Medical
School. is to present certificates
to IA young women, and pins will
be awarded by Mrs. Henry D. Rea,
first field director of the Walter
Reed unit.
Maj Gen. Robert U. Patterson,
surgeon general of the Army,
will deliver the address and the
exercises will be opened by Col
Philip w Huntington, assistant
commandant of the Army Medl-
cal School.
@ The graduates are Shirley
Randolph Barr, julie Striben
Daniels, Margaret Marie Ferry,
Louise D. Finley, Virginia Lang
don Forward. Barendina Gar
dener, Carry P. Hill. Caroline
Iowman, Margaret Mott Remsen,
Bida Estelle Sherburne, Beta
Triester, Jamie De J. Troxel.
Ethel Tilson Warren and Eliza
beth Stevenson Hall.
The Washington times., 1932-04-14
CHURCH PLANS
2-DAY MEET
Times staff .hoto

The Alexandria district confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, will begin two
day assembly tomorrow in the
Washington Street church, at
Alexandria. There will be dele
gates from Fredericksburg, Guam
tico, Leesburg, Warrenton, Ma
nassas, Middleburg, Clarendon,
Alexandria, and from schools and
colleges of the Baltimore confer
ence.
Bishop Edwin D. Mouzon, of
Charlotte, N. c.. will be the prin-
cipal speaker. The Rev. Francis
H. Balthis. presiding elder of the
Alexandria district, will preside.
The assembly will continue until
Saturday.
The Washington times., 1932-04-14
OFFICER DRAWS
SUSPENSION

Following a disturbance in an
apartment house at 704 Ninth
st. N. w., where he is said to
have forced his way into an
apartment and to have fired a
shot through the floor, Patrol
man Charles M. Skidmore, of
Precinct No. 3, was suspended
from duty today and sent home.
The Trial Board is expected to
act on his case shortly.
According to the police, he
went about midnight to the apart
ment house and tried to force
his way into an apartment oc-
cupied by Eunice Wilson. He
made so much noise in the hall,
it is said, that Elmer Mercurio,
occupying the apartment next
door, made a protest.
Thereupon, it is said, Skidmore
drew his gun and thrust it in Mer,
curioS face. Mercurio thereupon
withdrew and Skidmore continued
his efforts to get into the Wilson
apartment, with eventual success
The occupant was present at the
time, and it is said that one other
person was also there.
Skidmore, it is alleged, searched
the apartment and finally fired q
shot through the floor. He was
traced through his auto tags by
Sergeant Saunders, of the Traffic
Bureau, and was today suspended
from duty.
The Washington times., 1932-04-14
1000 PARCELS
AUCT|ONED IN
TWO DAYS
Bulk of Property Bought BY
County Can Be Later
Redeemed

Property valued at $114,O00
was sold in NJ ontg ON r y
county's two-day tax sale, j.
Forest Walker, county treas
urer, announced today. This
amount includes the taxes, in
terest and costs.
There were approximately l.
O30 pieces sold, most of which
were bought by the county. The
property sold represents about
one.third OF that which entered
the delinquent lists January /.
Mr.. Walker said this sale com
pares very favorably with those
of 1880 and 1881. He explained
that although more pieces we're
sold, no more persons were con-
cerned than in the previous years
and that no more money was
obtained.
The property can be redeemed
after so days and within two
years, upon payment of the sale
price, plus 10 per cent interest.
The Washington times., 1932-04-14
CHURCH GROUP
ELECTS TUFTS

w. o. Tufts, of Mt. Pleasant
Congregational Church, was
elected president of the Washing
ton Federation of Churches at a
meeting held yesterday in the
First Congregational Church. He
succeeds Bishop William F. Nc
Dowell, of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church. At the same time
Mrs. H. Wellen Fisher was elected
president of the women's council
of the federation. ...
Others elected by the Fedora
ton were the Rev. j. H. Hollister,
of Chevy Chase Presbyterian
Church; the Rev. J. H. Wells,
of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, and Henry Bre-
wood, of Mt. Vernon Christian
Church, vice presidents; J. Fred
Laise, of Foundry M. E. Church,
treasurer and Horace L. Steven
son. of Bethany Baptist Church,
assistant treasurer.
Mrs. w. R. Rhoads, Mrs. H. M.
Kendrick, Mrs. w. P. Ellenberger,
Mrs. T. E. Robertson, Mrs. Har-
vey B. Smith and Mrs. David W.
Lum, were named vice-presidents
of the Women's Council. Mrs.
George A. Ross was elected re-
cording secretary; Mrs. E. C. Din
widdie, treasurer, and Mrs. j.
Claude KEEPER, chairman of the
denominational representatives.
The Washington times., 1932-04-14
NUMBERS FAIL
HOOVER NOW

Hoover hasn't a chance to be
reelected in November, accord
ing to Miss Orcella Rexford,
name and number expert, now on
holiday in Washington.
In 1928 Miss Rexford predicted
Hoover'S election by a big ma
jority. He was then under the
sign of 80" and victory was GER
tain, but this year he is going
into a "7," and that, says Miss
Rexford, means retirement from
public life.
It's all very simple. Miss Rex
ford adds the digitS of his birth
day, birth month and birth year
and then in turn adds the digits
of the total. Then she adds
few more figures, and the result
tells the story.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and
Alfalfa Bill" Murray have the
best chance among the Demo
Gratis.
Both are "2s" surrounded by a
flock of other "2s" and both run
into "8S" which means prosperity.
The Washington times., 1932-04-14
AL To MOVERS
|RK JUDGE

Automobile drivers who move
other cars into restricted zones to
open parking space for their
own cars we're sharply criticized
in Traffic Court yesterday by
Judge John P. Mcmahon, who
expressed a desire to see the arrest
of such offenders.
Judge Mcmahon expressed his
criticism in dismissing a charge
against Roy R. Shirah, 1O17 Tenth
st. N. W., who was accused of
parking by a fire hydrant. First
Precinct Policeman L. M. John
son said he found Shirah's car
parked within two feet of a fire
hydrant on Seventh st. near E
st. N. w.
Shirah said he parked the car
while he went to store and that
when he returned he found the
emergency brake released and the
car moved much closer to the
hydrant than it was when he
left it.
The Washington times., 1932-04-14
BEAR RAIDS SINK
PRICES, SAYS
GERARD
Former Diplomat Scores New
Exchange Rules As
EffortIeSS

NEW YORK, April IA
IN.S.).-No effective safe
guard against bear raiding in
the stock market has been
provided by the stock ex-
changes new regulations on
the loaning of customers
stocks to the short interest,
and bear raiding was un-
doubtedly contributed to the
recent drop in stock price.
So declared James w. Gerard,
noted diplomat and attorney, in
an exclusive interview here today.
Gerard has in recent years de-
voted considerable time to the
study of every phase of stock mar
ket speculation and declares en-
phatically that brokers who loan
their cusomerS' stock are COM
mitting a breach of trust against
their own clientele. He said:
Smart customers do not per-
nit the brokers to lend their
stocks. Any man with enough
sense to referee a duck fight
will refuse to give the broker
absolute power to do with his
stock as he pleases, including
the lOaning of the shares for
the express purpose of driving
the price downward"
The Washington times., 1932-04-14
TOWN OFFICIAL
DRUNK DRIVER

Wallace Rawlings, a town coun-
Gilman of Capitol Heights, Md,
was found guilty of drunken driv-
ing in Circuit Court at Upper
Marlboro yesterday. He will be
sentenced later this week.
Rawlings was arrested last Feb
ruary after his automobile struck
and injured Margaret Plumley
while she was roller skating on
the Marlboro Pike at the inter
section of Crystal Spring Avenue.
Rawlings, for many years
active in civic affairs of Capitol
Heights, said from the stand
that he is a retired lieutenant of
the Washington Fire Department.
The Washington times., 1932-04-14
D. C.. Attorney Aids
COUntU Prosecutor

The Hyattsville Police Court
had a new prosecuting attorney
yesterday in the person of Arthur
D. Keefer, Mt. Rainier and Wash
ington attorney.
Mr.. Keefer acted in the absence
of States Attorney Alan Bowie,
who is busy with the Prince
Georges grand jury at Upper
Marlboro.
The Washington times., 1932-04-14
TAX PAYMENTS
SHOW RISE

Tax collections for March
showed an increase of $19,848.47
over the same month year ago,
it was announced today by Tax
Collector Chatham M. Towers.
Last months collection totaled
$4,475, ,25262, which includ e d
$3,083, ,469.59 from real estate,
1928, ,780.07 from tangible personal
property and 1896, ,637.48 intan-
g1bIe personal property. The col
lection for March, 1881, totaled
SASS, ,404.09.
Collector Towers and his staff
ren1ain busy totaling the last half
1892 real and personal property
taxes which we're paid last month.
The Washington times., 1932-04-14
Music Theft Nets
Three-Yedr Term

Edward w. Worthington, col
ored, 18, of 121 R st N. W., who
was arrested several days ago in
the music room of st. Andrews
Church, was sentenced to three
years in jail on three counts of
petit larceny by Judge Robert E.
Mattingly, in Police Court, yes
terday.
The youth was charged with
stealing sheet music from St. An
dreW's and from the Church of
the Epiphany and Mt. Vernon
Place Church. Police say he has
taken music from II other
churches in the city.