The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-31
Is Your Column
You Say 1t
Be Your Own CoIumniSt;
Page One Is Wide Open
= for Your Views.

HERE is good news for the tarm-
Il Il er. He can buy a new Ford
tudor 4-cylinder sedan for $535 and
pay for it with $3.50 bushels of corn,
/ or 1877 bushels of wheat or seventy
six hogs, averinging 200 pounds
each, or a Chevrolet tudor coach for
1896, and pay for it with 1851
bushels of corn or 1.490 bushels of
wheat or eighty-f1ve hogs averaging
200 pounds each.
He can buy the cheapest Buick
sedan for SLIT and pay for it with
0,638 bushels of corn, or 2,792 BUSH
els Of wheat or 159 hogs averaging
200 pounds each, provided he will de-
liver his grain to the elevator or his
shogs to the market
A FRIEND OF THE FARMERS.
Editor Times
T CAN NOT let go unrebuked the
Il sending of campaign literature to
my address secured from roll of
& the Churches of Jesus Christ, by a
man who uses the title of minister
Of the gospel to secure a hearing he
otherwise might be denied.
l ask him: What is the depart
ment of good government of the Re-
publican state committee What
other kinds of government have de-
partments in your committee? Is it
department of good government
or is it department of church pub
licity-a department designed to use
the ministry Of the church for the
purpose of partisan propaganda?
My spleen at this is not due to
Democratic sympathies. l already
have read the platform you enclose
and have listened attentively to the
President of my country. But live
and labor for the Church of Christ
-Four years ago I saw great sections
OF the church discredit it and weak
en- its influence by worldly and
political Vaccinations in favor of a
party which since has ducked its
tail and run from so great a moral
issue as prohibition
BY this craven action a great is
sue was surrendered without a
stroke in its defense, and the Amer
lean "drys" betrayed I am not one
of those drys, but believe in loyalty
to something besides success.
4 If this is not an attempt to use
, the church to pull Republican chest
nuts out of the fire, why do you use
the title "Reverend?" That title be-
longs to no man. It's use is to be
tolerated only for the sake of the
office of a man who gives his life to
the teaching of the word of God.
You have right to work for the
Republican party or any other. But
you have no right tosuse the title of
a divine office in the performance of
a secular and partisan function.
The return address was Indiana
Republican state committee, Room
625, Claypool hotel, department OF
good government, the Rev. F. A
Hayward, director The Enclosure
was the Presidents Des Moines
speech and the Republican platform
\ H. GRADY DAVIS, Minister.
Editor Times
7 WOULD venture to say mos
Il wives are not doing interesting
Office work because of the desire tt
develop and exercise latent power.
or to participate in the struggle o.
today, as much as it is their desire
for money and position. They know
they can hire some one to do theil
housework on starvation wages.
/ know some men who have mar.
ried state or city employees; eacl
receiving salary sufficient to sup,
ply a family. and both are exempt
from income tax, while another
family lives on charity.
don't doubt that part of the extra
salary is used to help balance tn,
family budget and the rest is taker
out of circulation by being placed
in a safe deposit box.
II the wives were dismissed anC
the work given to some unemployed
man with a family the money would
be kept in circulation and the pub.
lie would profit by it.
have heard of two or three com.
panies in Indianapolis that will no
hire man who has a wife workine
or a wife who has husband work.
ing. This is the only way to relieve
:. the unemployed situation, and tht
great need for charity.
ARTHUR j. CALLAHAN.
q
Editor Times
VXTE farmers are wondering wha
w has become of billions of dollars
increase in the value of farm prod
ucts the Republicans were bragginj
about short time ago. Also, w
were told wheat would be a dollar
bushel by November. Since Pres
ident Hoover spoke, in Des Moines
all principal farm commodities hav
decreased in price. It's a gloom,
picture for the farmer, with new
corn at 7 to 10 cents buShel ant
wheat lowest in 800 years.
AT Des Moines he set himself UP a
superman and a prophet. H
claimed that he kept us from goin,
of the gold standard and tina
would have meant chaos. AS
prophet he said that If the Dem
ocrats were put into power anC
passed laws they sponsored it woulC
be our ruin.
If he is such a great prophet
why couldn't he have foreseen tn,
Wall street disaster? Why couldn'
he have seen that the Hawley-
Smoot tariff would be disastrous Il
our foreign trade; or that the fed
eral farm board law would aggravat,
farm commodity prices instead o
raising them?
1t seems the proper thing t,
change horses before all of us sink
eri..n E.,c.cc..,lA -