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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-28

And Roosevelt shows disposition to
let the farm leaders try out their
ideas. I like that better than call
ing in Henry Ford to solve the
farm problem, as you may remem-
Der the present administration once
did.
Henry Ford bought $500 acres
over near Springfield o., at the
close of the war, and lost enough
money managing it one year that
he turned it over to neighborhood
farmers to run, and was letting
them keep him even, the last time
I was over there.
Roosevelt also realizes that any,
thing done about the farm problem
will be in the nature of an ex-
pertinent. Nothing has really been
tried except talk, and the farm
board, which was not the farmers
idea, but which has given farm
leaders much valuable experience,
and probably will help in the long
run.
That he is willing to experiment,
and to experiment along the lines
worked out by the men who are the
experts in this field, means much.
Farm leaders will agree with you
that the only way to make the tariff
help the farmer is to reduce the
tariff on the things he buys. Roose-
welt probably knows that. too.
But the rank and file of farmers,
as well as the rank and file Of voters,
have been miseducated on the sub
ject Of the tariff for too many years
to change just because OF one de-
preston.
The superstition that high tariffs
bring prosperity probably will per-
sist for long time. as did the prim-
tive superstition that spring festi-
walls bring big crops.
AS long as business men are SUI
perstitious about the tariff, any rad
ical revision ill fail to accomplish
much relief What We shall have to
have on that subject is a LOT OF ed
ucating. E. B. BENDER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-28
IT SEEMS TO ME BY H FEoSs

ask for nine rahs or locomotive
In his honor. This would be an ex-
cellent practice in the case of poll
ticians.
With all my soul and lungs will
gladly join in a shout for "Walkerl"
"Hoover!" or "Foster~ 1 can grow
tender about each and every one OF
them upon the instant that he is
removed from the lineup.
Copyright 1882. by The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-28
by DAVID DIETZ.

L
Factory Used By Cavemen
10000 Years Ago Is Found
IN France.
A WORKSHOP $4,000 years old
n has been discovered by
scientist from the Smithsonian in
stitution. 1t is located in the Py-
renees foothills in southern France.
1t is an open-air factory, where
$4,000 years ago the cavemen of the
day fashioned tools and weapons
out of flint and quartzite. The site
of the factory" which covers sew
eral acres, now is overgrown by
forest.
J. Townsend Russell. collaborat-
ing archeologist of the Smithsonian
institution, made the discovery
while passing through the forest
over rain-washed wagon track. He
noticed some flint flakes, obviously
Clipped by hand.
Investigation revealed the ancient
workshop. which is few miles
from the cave of Marsoulas, where
archaeological Investigations are be-
ing conducted by joint expedition
from the University of Toulouse and
the Smithsonian institution.
The workshop, according to Rus
sell, belonged to the type of ancient
culture or civilization known as
Solutrean This culture marked the
highest tools and weapons by chip
ping stone.
At the close of this period, men
made the discovery that better tools
could be made by grinding the stone
instead of chipping it and new
era was Slshered in.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-28
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-To The Indianapo-
lis Times, the good old paper that
tries to help the poor people of the
city get justice.
In this great time of depression,
when every one, everywhere, is cry
ing for work and most states are
trying to keep their work for their
own people, why don't Indianapolis
and Indiana practice that, too?
My husband works in a boiler
shop that has put out good work for
firms in indianapolis and all over
Indiana for fifty years. This boiler
shop has done work for the fuel dis
poSal plant that was satisfactory.
Yet when big contract was to be
let this winter, instead Of favoring
one of the Arms here, they gave the
contract to a bankrupt firm in Ten
nessee. Are Tennessee taxes keep
ing up this city's concern? MOI
Taxes of men who work in these
boiler shops of Indianapolis and Of
men who own these boiler shops
have helped to build this city con-
Germ and their taxes have helped to
keep it going.
The man who had the right to
say to whom the contract should go
said ne was saving Indianapolis
81 900 because the Tennessee firm
bid 81 900 less than an Indianapolis
firm, yet he is robbing Indianapolis
people of $4,000 that rightfully be-
longs to them by giving this work to
another state.
Wouldn't most of this money go
back to the city, in time. for taxes
on their homes that have taken
them almost a lifetime to buy, and
some now are about to lose them
because of no work and no money.
Part of this 5000 would go to
grocers and other merchants Of In
dianapolis for necessities of life.
These men go into the shops every
morning, hoping to get an hour or
two or a days work, but go home
disappointed and discouraged, and
they are tickled to death if they get
two or three days work a week.
Their families hardly can exist on
what they earn.
We have taken The Times for
nearly twenty years, and my father
and mother took it when it was The
Sun. Three cheers for its good
work. MRS. r. L.
Editor Times-I have read with
interest your editorial on Governor
Roosevelt's Topeka speech on the
farm situation. I agree with prac-
tically everything you say. And yet,
listening to that speech over the
radio, as practical farmer, found
myself much pleased with Roose-
welt as a candidate. and hopeful
that If he is elected farm conditions
will improve.
I think mis- attitude toward the
problem is encouraging. He knows
there is farm depression. And he
knows that there are farm leaders
who have ideas, based upon in
formation, study and long thought,
about how that depression can be
dispellled.
That is miles more than any
President since the war has known!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-28
BRITISH AIR DEEDS

Sept. Is
NN Sept. %, 1918. it was revealed
~ that British war pilots had shot
down 3S3 German airplanes on the
western front during the first
twenty seven days of the month.
German troops, in a determined
counter attack, we're repulsed by
American forces north of Danne-
voux.
French forces were successful in
taking TT. Malmaison, southeast of
Laon, and advancing in Cham
payne.
Belgian and British troops, weld
ed into a compact unit, attacked on
ten-mile front in Flanders. and
advanced more than three and "
half miles from Dixmude to a point
north Of Yprez
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-28

THE most widely used and safest
l. method for destruction of
superfuous hair is with electric
needle.
Success of this method depends
largely on length of time that can
be given to the process and skill OF
the operator.
No matter how carefully the work
is done, there are occasional cases in
which very light soaring may occur.
The X-ray has been used to de-
stroy hair, but the method is con-
sidered especially dangerous, be-
cause of the possibility of killing
cells of the skin or stimulating
growth of the cells to the point of
the appearance of cancer.
Thallium preparations, recently in
troduced, have been discarded by
the medal profession because of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-28
Questions .and
Answers

Did Johnny WeismuIIer appear
personally in all the tree top scenes
in "Tarzan, the Ape Man?
Alfredo Cordona, circus aerial
list, doubled for him in some of the
scenes.
What is the authorized capital of
the Reconstruction Finance Cor
pOration?
$4,000, 900, 900.
How many colleges and universe
ties are there in the United
States?
LOTS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-28

lege of reading his own obituary
notices.
James j. Walker, I hope, is still
long for the land of the Pilgrims
pride but in a political sense he is
one with Peter Stuyvesant. Already
the local historians are writing es-
says which begin, In the days OF
James j. Walker" 1t seems to them
that an age has ended and that
chapter is closed.
+
In Need of a Little Joy
MOT every man has the privilege
~ of becoming landmark with
in his own lifetime. almost can
see him now looking over some hotel
balcony and gazing in the direction
of Vesuvius.
who is that man? says another
American tourist. Don't you
know" answers his companion.
That's James j. Walker
Now there is spot right at the
edge of the limelight where both
passion and illumination cease.
Even if I wanted to, I could not go
on hating Walker with bitterness
after the last white line was passed.
He has become once more a mem
Der in excellent standing of the
company of good fellows.
II =
Remember Herbert Hoover
r CAN'T quite pretend that after
l. election day Herbert Hoover will
be eligible for this fraternity, but
even in his case the fires of bitter
ness will abate and the most vio-
lent of his foes can say sincerely
and reminiscently within year.
"Oh, yes; Herbert Clark Hoover! I
suppose he meant we'll"
It is not possible to be passionate
about the SHOWS, the mayors or the
Presidents of yesteryear. am even
a little apologize about having re-
vealed the fact of the exit of Will
liam 2. Foster from the main tent.
Some of my Communist CORE
spondents have written to complain
that I am picking upon man now
low in health and power in his
party. But I did not contribute to
either of these facts. I do not ques-
ton at all the plain fact that his in
tentions were excellent. He did the
best within his power.
When football player leaves the
gridiron during big game, 1t is
customary for the cheer leader to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-28

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those OF
one Of Americas most inter
esting writer's and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude OF
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-28
The League ON Trial

Criticism Of the League Of Nations by President De
Valera OF the Irish Free state in opening the thr
teenth annual session at Geneva reflects the grow
Inc impotence OF the world with that institution.
It's enemies have said AL along that it was des-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-28

Faith and Joy are the ascensive
forces Of song.-Stedman.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-28
Daily Thoughts

The whole earth is at rest, and
IS quiet; they break forth into
s0ng.-Isaiah 14:7.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-28

I'LL be glad when the election is
L over. The excitement is fun, if
and when it happens, but the pas
sion and the partisanship are fac
tors a little outside my character.
Or possibly I might express it more
closely by saying lack of character.
I have very small talent for hat
ing. This is not put forward as a
sort of whimsical pose. 1t seems to
me that any f1rSt-rate person should
have access upon occasion to the
grapes Of wrath. But just can't do
it with any comfort or satisfaction
to myself.
OF course, I have written mean
pieces in my time, and from some
of them I drew certain satisfac-
ton. But it was impermanent. The
better the job, the greater my re-
morse.
Fortunately, it never was within
my power to sweep any one entirely
out of being with one stroke of the
Pen or two right-hand swings to the
typewriter.
II II
| Know My Own Strength
IF this had been within my scope
i might have enjoyed it enor-
mously at the moment and regretted
it poignantly thereafter. For months
I sniped away at James j. Walker
with all the resources at my COM
mand.
Naturally I know that his event.
ual downfall was brought about by
tides and current wholly beyond my
control. Nevertheless, when he
walked out of the fame into moth
ingness felt sorry.
In Italy, which he has selected
for his exile, they have saying,
See Naples and die" Walker has
committed under pressure, but of
his own free will, political hara-kiri
We shall not look upon his like
again.
And I envy Mr.. Walker in his
present status. He has found for
himself the best seat in the house.
He is sitting shoulder-to -shoulder
with the hero of Arnold Benefits
most engaging novel, Buried Alive"
If you recollect the book, you may
remember that it told the tale of a
master painter who allowed his
name to become confused with that
Of his dead valet and thereupon had
the satisfaction of watching his own
funeral services in Westminster Alb
hey, and enjoyed the peculiar privi-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-28
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
Out of the Red With the
Sales Tax
There's No Other Way Out

Having wrecked the manufacturers sales tax this
Congress will enact it this winter
The tax was wrecked by the irresponsible and dema
Sog1c elements Congress.
will be enacted by the most responsible and satesmanke
elements in Congress
Congress usually light year after the rest
of the country has it.
This not altogether to the advantage of the of the
country.
In the present cas the country aborng under stupid
tax which penalties achievement and singles out certain
industries for unfair and discriminatory burdens
This stupid law could have been averted to the benefit
of all concerned Congress abreast of public sentiment
But the change though late, will be the more welcome
when it
The nuisance taxes imposed please nobody.
The sales where it has been tried pleases everybody
If tax be described as pleasing.
It is, at least, fair and painless.
You cannot ask of tax than that
sales undoubtedly has been responsible for much of the
change sentiment among Congressman toward the
Mississippi was bankrupt.
Salaries
Property taxes could not be collected.
There buyers for farms put on the market at
shAriffs' sales
And the sales adopted last spring there
virtual rioting in the capital of the State.
However, the tax worked
Mississippi balancing its budget and getting back the
rock bottom of financial stability.
The opposition to the is dead.
Most Of the citizens enthusiastically in favor of it,
Yet the Mississippi is the WORST form of sales
tax levied retail sales not manufactured products
at the source
is not surprising therefore, that leaders in Congress
and in the United States Chamber of Commerce swinging
toward the manufacturers sales tax as NECESSARY and
The example of Canada with such close at hand
The example of many European countries is convincing
the LEAST desirable of sales obvious that the
nation climb out of the red with the MOST desirable form
of sales tax.
Too bad Congress didn't try the last session. Still
better late than
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
Street Car Needs
Companies Must Look to Selves

The financial problems of the railways of the city
grow difficult daily with apparently little definite
action being taken to alleviate their plight
The companies have looked outside agencies long enough
for relief.
It is time that they took energetic and courageous
action looking toward Improvement of their condition
Reports of the companies show continuing decline in the
number of passengers carried and continuing drop in
revenue.
This cannot go indefinitely without the entire city su
fering.
Efforts to combat the drop in passenger traffic by
rigid control of taxcabs have apparently failed.
Efforts to the situation through of the
companies have been at least temporarily blocked Congress
The Public Utilities Commission and Congress unable
unwilling to do more to aidSthe companies
The exercise of any rigid economy the part of
the companies only result in decrease service and
likely in further drop in income
Some radical step must be taken lure passengers back
to the street if the companies prosper
to continue to exist.
There many possible open to the companies
They could institute the daily weekly pass system tried
out successfully in other cities.
They could experiment with flat reduction in rates
They could try out a system predicated upon a
tnuance of existing fares in the outlying sections
Any one of these steps would be revolutionary far
WASHINGTON is concerned
But they worth trial
Certainly the companies should make an effort in their
own behalf and not wait nacvey for the day when Con-
gress may see fit to pass merger resolution
The Washington times., 1932-08-20

tax bill was before US foy
consideration, the Secretary
of the Treasury (Mr, Mills)
and the Administration
spokesman in the Senate
said that the budget was
balanced. The very next
morning, at II o'clock, the
same people, Mr.. Mills and
the Administration spokes-
man here, admitted it was
275,000,000 short.
No one challenged that as
sertion. The Admlnlstra-
tion spokesman, thus re-
ferred to in his presence, did
not whimper. Tydings told
the truth.
Here is exclamation enough
for the length of time con-
sumed in framing a tax bill
to balance the budget; and
the humorists Of the press,
ieering at Congress, uncon-
sciously were laughing at
themselves.
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
ONCE-OVERS
Be Modern

Be Modern
Are you keeping young in a
dignified way or do you act
foolish in your efforts to be
gay.
Many old fellows insist that
they don't feel any older than
they did thirty years ago.
Endeavoring to make this
assertion good they try to do
things that only young person
should do.
They try to force their society
on those much younger and
often are tolerated because of
their liberal spending.
Thf old chaps think they are
received with welcome for their
pleasing ways and attractive
manners.
One of the silliest persons is
the elderly man with group
of young people and he trying
to b. the gayeSt.
1t is possible to be young in
spirit in a decorous manner.
The elderly persons with a
bright outlook on life. who gives
young folk the credit for being
just as good as the youth in
his time is on the right track.
(CopyriEht. 1882, King Features
Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
The Cigarette
1t Celebrates It's Hundredth Birthday This Year

One centennial that to have escaped notice this
year is that of the cigarette.
Research establishes the fact that the first cofn nall
exactly 100 years ago and that like other
epo"hmaking events it was due to accident.
The goes that in 1882, when French troops were
besePjng the City of Acre, in Syria shipment pipes
the artillery went as+ray
Gunners in those days used small paper tubes filled with
powder to prime their
Some forgotten genius among them conceived idea
s9king the powder out of the tubes and reng them with
tobacco
The rest is history
casual beginning for habit which once stirred up
nearly much controversy prohibition which has
been adopted throughout the civilized world has
industry that into billions of dollars.
Cigarette smokers and cigarette makers might cont
memorate the with exercises or monument or
something
1t is pity that the of the cigarettes daddy has
been lost in the of time
He did nearly much to affect posterity GaileO
Newton or Columbus.
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
Demand to Wipe
Out U. s. Deficit

Everyone wanted the
budget balanced, and the
Hoover deficit, which this
year alone was only 25 per
cent less than the cost Of the
Civil War, wiped out.
1t was not an easy task to
find the taxes, not nearly so
simple as simple minded
critics seemed to think. 1t
will be recalled that while
Congress was graphing with
this problem, thrown into its
lap by the "veterans," " the
critics of press and politics
and business were jeering at
the Congress. Why didn't it
do something? Didn't it have
brains enough to know the
budget must be balanced?
And why, when it had a plan
prepared, did it forthwith
throw it in the waste basket
and start all over again?
Had these members of
House and Senate no brains
at all?
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
At Home

You raise much objection to
certain noises in your home
and state. vigorously that they
unnerve you.
The children's mechanical
toys drive you to madness.
You think they should be
operated only in your absence.
1t requires very little to
irritate you in your home.
Isn't it because you make no
effort to control yourself?
Where you are employed
annoying things occur but you
go ahead with your work just
the same because you must,
or lose your job
If you used only a small
part of the effort you exert at
control during business hours,
when you reach home, you
would not be heard grumhling
at home,
You are right in asking for
quiet in your home when you
want to rest, but if you think
that the family should tlptoe
around and be noiseless in every
thing they do while you are at
home you are demanding too
much.
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
Public Aware
Of True Facts

1t is evident that the "vet-
Grams" hope to confuse the
public this summer and fall
with a vast amount Of bun
combe. 1t will be neither
easy nor wise. Business men
and the jobless have been
following proceedings in
Washington with an intelli-
gence sharpened by suffer
ing and fear. They know
what the issues are; and
they expect to see both
parties meet them frankly
with facts.
"The only party fit to
govern" has a sorry sound
today; and veterans" is a
poor disguise for the shabby
shibboleth shot full of holes
with tragic facts.
The Washington times., 1932-08-20

There are secret places in
mountains, like lovely little
affairs
There are wide, calm meadows,
where grief and fear and doubt
and pettiness drop away and
you are left alone and quiet
with Life
There are lakes like the deep,
cool places of the soul
And tangled trails that beckon
on and on.
And arid stretches, gaunt and
terrible, where storms have
struggled for mastery SCARED
stretches, yet somehow noble
and more beautiful than all
the pretty flowered paths
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
Finally Reports
Much Bigger Deficit

Well, what was the
trouble? If brains were in
volved it was the brains of
the Administration and par
ticularly of the Treasury.
Here was the trouble. How
much is the deficit and how
much must be raised? asked
Congress. And Mr.. Mills
and the Treasury gave the
amount.
Congress, with a micro
scope, looking for new
sources of revenue, finally
had bill perfected.
And then Mr.. Mills and
the Treasury appeared, to
announce that the revenue
had been greatly overestl-
mated, and a new ana much
huger deficit was named.
Into the waste basket then
with the bill; and again
Congress got out its micro
scope to find still more
possible sources of revenue.
And during the delay the
simple minded critics jeered
the louder-at Congress.
In the presence of the
spokesmen of the Admins
tration, on the floor of the
Senate, Senator Tydings
made this statement;
lone afternoon, while the
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
Failed to Reduce
Government Costs

Then, again, we have
heard much about how Con-
gress has prevented Mr..
Hoover from drastically cut
ting the cost of Government.
Everyone knows he prom
ised to reorganize the Gov
ernment in his campaign in
1928. Everyone knows he
did nothing of the sort.
Everyone should know that
he had forgotten all about
it until Congress began to
act; and then he became as
much interested for the cam
paign of 1882 as he had in
that of 1923.
Nothing worth while has
been done; and the Hurleys,
Mills, Hydes now have the
impudence to complain that
Congress stood in the Presi-
dent S way.
What happened?
Under existing law, Mr..
Hoover had the power to
abolish or consolidate bu-
reaus, and everyone knows
that these duplicating, over
tapping and unnecessary
bureaus are a national scan
dial.
Has he consolidated or
abolished? He has not.