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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-16
FOOT EXHIBIT PLANNED
Demonstration to Be Held Friday at
Seulean's Shoe Store.

o. T. Watkins, representative OF
the manufacturers of DR.. Scholl
shoes, will give demonstration OF
foot comfort Friday and Saturday
at Seulean's shoe store. 2214 Shelby
street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-16
a BOX
a DAY
By BRUCE CATION

IF you have been wondering lately
l. just what would happen If
Uncle Sam actually should go to
waS with Japan, I suggest that you
read THE Great Pacific War" by
Hector Bywater.
This book, first published in 1925,
is being reissued by the Houghton
Mifflin Company, whose officials ap-
parently have seen something in the
papers about the current mixup in
the Far East.
Bywater writes a history of an
imaginary war between Japan and
the United States, and his book is
a good summary of unbiased expert
opinion about the way such a war
should go.
In the beginning, the war is all
Japan's. The Panama canal is
wrecked by explosives and a good
part of the United States fleet is
temporarily inmobilized in the At
lantic.
The japanese battle fleet invades
Philippine waters, finds a woefully
weak American cruiser hotilla there,
and destroys it. Then the japanese
start hopping up.
Such outlying islands as Guam
are swallowed quickly. AS soon as
the only United States naval force
in the Orient is destroyed, the Jap
anese send an expeditionary force
t0 tho Philinnines
Ignoring the powerful seaward de-
lenses of Manila, they effect land
ing on the other side of the island,
march overland, and soon capture
the city, Selling the rest Of the
archipelago in short order.
e. n
THUS, by the time the war is
i six months old, Japan has COM
plete mastery of the eastern Pacific
and can fight g. defensive war
thereforward.
The United States finally takes
the offensive and ultimately gains
the victory; but it is an exceed
ingly expensive process, and-as Mr..
Bywater does not fail to point out
the nation is no better OFF after it
has won the war than it was be-
fore it started.
You'll find 1.-THE Great Pacific
War" both interesting and inStruc-
tive. 1t sells at $3.50 copy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-16

Goodwin Mayer studios for posi-
BILE use in forthcoming Keaton
or Durante pictures.
Cash awards totaling $25 will
be divided among the winners as
follows: First prize, $40; second
SIS; third, So; fourth, 50, and 81
each to the mkt five selected by
the judges.
The dialogue is open to every
one in Indianapolis, excepting
employees of The Times, Metro
Goldwyn-NTayer Distributing Cor
poration and Loew's Palace thea
ter,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-16
TAX SURVEY PUSHED
Legislative Group Preparing
Data for 1888 Session.

Indiana's tax survey commission,
authorized by the 1929 legislature,
will continue it's study of the taxa
ton problem un1nindful of the rec
concentrations of the so-called "cit-
liens committee"
Another meeting of the commits
sion is scheduled for next Monday
at L. S. Ayres & Co. directors room,
according to Senator Joe Rand
Beckett, secretary.
Beckett holds the commission is
charged only with making recon-
mendations to the 1888 legislature,
and is not to consider any special
session proposals.
The Monday session is to be de-
voted to plans for cutting the gov
ernmental costs. Senator Alonzo
H. Lindley CRep), Kingman, farm
bloc leader in the senate, will give
his views on possible governmental
economy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-16
GETS SON, 7.
DRUNK; GIVEN
COURT MERCY
Convicted, Father Escapes
Penalty Because of Loss
of Hands in Accident.

A father whose footsteps wan
dered from the straight and mar
row" in more ways than one, today
stood convicted of child neglect be-
cause he gave liquor to his 7-year-
old son.
He is Henry McMann, $500 West
Vermont street, sentenced by Rus
sell Newgent, juvenile court ref
cree, after evidence showed Nc
Mann had a "girl friend" and gave
his son booze out of a lineup.
A sixty-day sentence and 81 fine
against McMann were suspended BY
Newgent when it was revealed Nc
Mann recently lost both hands in a
punch press accident.
Appearing before the court Tues
day, McMann did not deny the &C.
cusations Of his wife Edith.
She said her husband had given
their son liquor in cup several
times. On some of these occasions
the boy became intoxicated.
Mrs. McMann further linked Nc
Mann with secret love affair
She found a pencil in his pocket
bearing the initials of Miss Anna
Mann, she testified. The court
suspended a thirty-day sentence
against Miss Mann on a conviction
for contributing to delinquency.
Mrs. McMann, still without denial
from her husband, told the court
McMann had kicked the boy. Mrs
McMann said she had protested
several times against her husband
giving booze to the child.
This is the worst kind of child
neglect" Newgent said. Because
of your physical condition, I dare
not send you to jail, Otherwise
you would have to serve a SEN
tence."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-16
BRITISH OATH IS
VALERA TARGET
IreIand'S New Leader Acts
to Alter Allegiance.
By United Press

By United Press
DUBLIN, March 16.-Ireland's re-
publican leader and president,
canon De Valera. has made his first
move to eliminate the oath of al
legiance which Irishmen take to the
British crown.
De Valera announced definitely in
the Dali that ne intended to remove
the oath irons the Free State consti-
tuition.
He said his government is fully
conscious of the responsibility for
preservation of law and order in at
tempting to break away completely
from Great Britain.
I'VE want every section of the
community to be able to send rep
resentatives to this assembly with
out their conSciences being coerced,"
the president said. an order to do
that, we propose to remove the oath.
1--WE have the mandate of the peo-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-16
Heat S On
How Postmaster Clancy
Was Subjected to an
Embarrassing Hour.
POSTMASTER LESLIE I

POSTMASTER LESLIE D.
Il CLANCY has his embarrass-
ing moments, and he revealed
today one he'd been keeping Sc
cret for a couple of weeks.
CIapcy's son John, IS, a pupil
at school No. &c, has been study
ing civics and his interest in court
procedure mounted to the fever
point.
A week ago last Saturday John
visited his father at the federal
building so the postmaster could
initiate him into the intricies OF
federal procedure.
Postmaster and son took their
seats in the courtroom. Two men
were standing before Judge Robert
c. Baltzell.
You two poStmasters are SEN
fenced to Bedford JAIL" said Bait
zell. "You for sixty days, and you
for thirty" He waved the men
over to the United States marshal.
The men had pleaded guilty to
postal embezzlement.
John Clancy looked at his
father. The postmaster was busy
hopping his brow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-16
C. V. Sorenson, Official of
insult Corporation, to
Speak at De Paw.

By Times Special
GREENCASTLE, Ind, March 16
Second of the series of special
lectures on pubic utilities will be
given Thursday night in the
chemistry lecture room of De Paw
university. Speaker will be G. V.
Sorenson, general sales manager for
the Public Service Company of IN
diana, with headquarters in Indian
apolis.
Sorenson will represent the side
of the utility, the Public Service
company being a holding company
in control of the North Indiana
Power Company, which serves the
territory in which Greencastle is
located and is an insult holding.
Sorenson will talk on utility
Management" A large crowd turned
out to hear B. B. Shively of
Marion, two weeks ago, when he
spoke on the utility question from
standpoint of the legislator. Shively
is co-author of the Shively- Spencer
Dill, winch regulates utilities IN IN
diana.
Third lecture in the series will
be April 7, when Howell Ellis,
member of the public service COM
mission, is scheduled to speak. He
will talk on "The Problems of Util-
ity Management" giving the view
point of the commission that must
apply law to both utilities and the
communities concerned.
Fourth and last talk will be by
the mayor of some Indiana city
that owns its own utilities. Mayor
John w. McCarty of Washington is
being considered by Professor w.
A. NeiSwanger for this concluding
talk. Professor Neiswanger ar
ranged this series for students in
his classes in economics, and the
meetings are open to the public.
Fred L. O'Hair, president of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-16
GARDEN INSTITUTE is
HELD AT LIBRARY

Realty Board, County Farm Service
Sponsor Library Event.
Sponsored by the indianapolis
Real Estate Board and the Marion
county agricultural extension serv-
ice, a garden institute were to be
held today in Cropsey hall of the
Indianapolis public library. Sessions
are scheduled for 2:30 and 8.
Speaker is to be R. B. Hull, as
sistant professor in the horticulture
department of Purdue university
who will discuss lawns, their care
and landscaping. He will be in
troduced by Clarence E. Henry
Marion county farm agent.
The library will cooperate with
a display of garden books.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-16
JOSLIN ENDS YEAR AS
HOOVER'S PRESS AID

TITS Hard Lie" Says Public KeIa-
tions Man, but He Likes 1t.
BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, March 16.-Theo-
dore JoSlin, who fused to be a
newspaper man himself" today eel
ebrated his first year as press rela-
tions secretary to President Hoover.
Joslin succeeded George AkerSon,
now an executive in a motion pic
ture organization.
Its a hard life" he commented
at the end of the first year, but he
likes it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-16
MARCH 16, 1882

pie to do it. When it is removed
there win be no excuse for any one
not to give perfect and willing
obedience to the law"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-16
CANADA VIEWS
SALES TAX AS
UNFAIR BURDEN
All Classes Unite Against
Levy; Small Income
Hard Hit.
This Is the second Of two articles on
the sales tax as IL affects Canada.

~ Scripps-Hotoard Newspaper Alliance
OTTAWA, Canada, March 49,
Canada's sales tax has few, If any,
friends outside government depart
ments. 1t is resented by business
men as vexatious and unfair, and by
farmers and labor organizations as
a tax which increases the cost of
living and falls most heavily upon
those with least ability to pay.
The consumers kick against the
tax is that it adds to prices. In
Canada the tax has yielded an
nually from $40,000,000 to $780,
100000, depending on the rate. This
year, at 4 per cent, it is expected
to produce $65,00O,O00, which is $50
from each Canadian family. The
poorest families may not pay $50,
but every family contributes.
Though the list of articles eX-
empt from sales tax is long, it does
not include clothing nor any but
primary foodstuffs.
Allb
1t Is held in Canada that the
sales tax does not give due weight
to ability to pay. The man of small
income and large family, obliged to
spend his whole revenue for goods,
bears too large a share of the bur-
den. He may actually pay more in
sales tax than a man with a much
larger income and no dependents.
Canadian experience shows that
the sales tax not only is passed on
to consumers as an addition to
prices, but pyramided on the way.
Manufacturers wholesalers and re-
tailers figure their percentage
profits on price plus tax. 1t was
calculated, when the rate was 5
per cent in Canada, that for an
article costing $1,000 to make, $1,000
with tax added, the manufacturer
taking is per cent profit, the job
Der 20 per cent and the retailer
80 1-3 cent, the ultimate buyer paid
81 ,932 instead of $3.50, the price
without sales tax.
Of the extra $92, the government
got only $50. On this basis the $50
a family gathered by the Canadian
government this year may be pyra-
mided to $555 in increased living
costs.
Tax Branded Unjust
In Canada big business and in
dustry, as we'll as consumers, de-
nounce the sales tax as unjust.
Manufacturers and wholesalers
object to doing the job of collect
ing for the government. They have
to show the amount of sales tax on
every invoice, add the labor of
calculating and writing these
amounts in heavy expense.
Sales tax is due in Canada at the
end of the month following that
in which the sales are made. The
tax on March sales, for instance,
is due April 30. Manufacturers
and wholesalers say they do not
commonly called from their custo-
mers in that time and so have to
pay sales tax with borrowed money
bearing interest.
A third defect they find in the
tax is its compleXity. The sales
tax law includes ten closely
printed pages covering special pro-
visions, exemptions and deductions.
These are constantly made more
complicated by fresh regulations,
and they are interpreted different
ly by local officers, causing end
less confusion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-16
STUDENTS TO HEAR
SIDE OF UTILITIES

Central National bank here, will
introduce Sorenson Thursday night.
The address starts at 7:30.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-16
ART SAYS:

Y gu ca n
b e g i n t o
think serious
ly of she'd
d i n g t h e
"w collie S. :"
Baseball Cos
sip is getting
warmer and
warmer and
it won't be
long now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-16
CAB DRIVER, GROCERY
CLERK ARE HELD UP
Fares" Take Taxi; Gunner Loot
Store and Cash Register.

DsV1N HHIU Nt79EH W IotUA'
Bandits robbed taxi driver and
a grocery clerk today, escaping with
$34, according to police.
Two bandits brandished revolvers
at Arthur Embry, clerk in a gro
Gerry store at 728 South West street,
this morning, and looted a cash
register of $28.
Harry T. Skinner, 43, of 3433 East
Tenth street, cab driver, reported to
police that two fares" robbed him
of Sc and forced him out of the
cab near Fifty-fourth street and
College avenue, early today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-16
PLAN CHILD HEALTH DAY
Churches, Schools, PIT. A. Groups
to Assist Observance May l.

Indiana will observe Child Health
day May /, with the aid of churches,
schools and parent-teacher organi-
cations.
State schools will observe the day
either the week before May 1 or
the week following. Churches plan
their observance for May / because
it falls on Sunday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-23
1T SEEMS TOME BY n M4x

EITHER I went out with the
~ wrong crowd yesterday or my
opinions of New York literary life,
with its literary teas, are desper-
ately in need Of readjusting. Also
my opinion of what books are for
needs readjusting, too.
had presumed books were
something to be read. They are
not. They are something to be
argued about.
The crowd argues about them,
I find, in the same way it argues
with the taxi driver about taking
six persons to another address for
the fare of one. And the purpose
of arguing about going to this
other address is simply to find a
new place to argue about books
again.
I do not mind, of course, as it is
all lot of fun. But from cartoons
I had gathered the idea that New
York night life consisted largely of
women in evening gowns holding a
cocktail glass in one hand and a
mans neck in the other and with
the room carpeted by bleary guests
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-23
Relief for .JObless

The scant consideration given to proposal in the
special session of the legislature to give relief to the
voorhees, through small tax cigarets suggests
that the members of that body have failed to recog
nize the facts.
Certainly when hundreds of union miners
desperately trying to get themselves convicted Of vo
lation of law in order to obtain food for themselves
and families the situation is far from ideal
When there is the added factor Of depleted funds
for relief in most of the industrial counties with
private charity making hopeless effort to obtain
enough money for care for immediate wants. the
emergency is apparent and imperative.
While there is protest against "doles," the sober
fact remains that there are hundreds of thousands
Of citizens dependent upon a dole of some sort for
their very existence and that the need has grown too
great to be handled by voluntary charity and volun
tary contributions.
The Weiss measure proposed an unpaid admin
stratve body to for the needs in each county.
1t also provided one way to get money for the
increasing number Of cases Of those who not
qualify under present poor laws but are in no less
desperate straits
No subject at this session is more important than
that of aid to the jobless.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-23
Slogan Snitchers

good phrase or slogan in these political dog
days is worth heap. Yet there doesn't seem to
be any copyright law or theft insurance that will
protect the sloganeer.
Senator Moses thought up a cute one. Since
Governor Roosevelt had talked about the new
DEAL Moses wsecracked that if the Democrats we're
dealing it would be from the bottom of the deck.
No sooner had he said it than one of his own bud
dies Pat Hurley hijacked the idea and made a
whole speech out of it in Columbus
Then there Roosevelt's famous Forgotten
Man" Even while Ogden Mills was making fun of
this slogan as demamogery, young Teddy Roosevelt
made lunge for it and used it in his message
to the Philippine legislature.
OF course Governor Teddy said he was battling
for 'the little man" instead OF the forgotten man."
which perhaps is the difference between demagogery
and craftsmanship. 1t also is the long distance
record for slogan Switching
We don't know what be done about such
goings-on, unless it is to adopt theft-proof slogans
Apparently that's just what the Republicans intenc
to do.
James Francis Burke, general counsel for the
G. o. P. and a famous phrase-maker in his own
right, told reporters at the White House the other
day that President Hoover is to be pictured in the
coming months, not the great engineer" nor
even "the great humanitarian" but as 1.-THE doctor
of a dsordered world"
The Republicans needn't worry about anybody
stealing that one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-23
Just Every Day Sense
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

ME editor of the Ladies Home Journal proffers his
Il readers some good advice. He points out that in
her eagerness to save the American woman is likely
to waste her money on shoddy merchandise
The wise housewife will heed this adnonition At
present she is little dazed at the dizzy toboggan Of
prices. She recalls that it was but the other dav
when everything seemed alarmngly expensive
Consequently, if she has any money left with
which to shop, she gets little drunk at the bargains
she now sees displayed.
The markets flooded with cheap goods What
we sometimes forget, however, is that shoddy things
never are cheap. They dear at rock-bottom
prices. Ready-made garments poorly put together
badly cut, ill-ftting bargains.
Colors that run, sleazy materials synthetic satins
cheap buttons, thin thread faulty stching-a these
are expensive in the long run.
TT never is economy to buy suits that will not hold
their shape stocking that will not last day fur
niture that will not stand wear, and foodStuffs i'm
properly prepared and packed.
1t is far better for a woman to buy good dress
season than to get three shoddy ones The former
will look better and last longer.
And it would be ungrateful of us to forsake the
manufacturers who, through period of years. have
furnished us with durable goods and proved their
reputation for honesty to give patronage to the junk
shop dealers who will disappear with the depression
While the American housewife must make her
dimes go far as possible these days, she can do
great deal to stabilize business by refusing to ex-
change her money for poor merchandise.
We may become roor nation but let us not be
shoddy one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-23
A Blow to Business

only the excessively hot weather account for
the monstrous proposal before the legislature to
the use of all trucks so heavily that transportation of
goods will be forced back to the railroads.
The measure. which apparently has great support,
proposes that every owner of truck, whether he
operates it for hire in his own business must pay
tax for every mile he uses that vehicle.
Before he can operate the truck at all, he must
20 before the public service commission and obtain
permission That body is given unlimited authority
to hire as many inspectors desires to enforce the
law and collect the tax.
The record Of that body in recent years would
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-23
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Diseases of Pre-School Age Studied

more than one-fourth of all deaths
of children between l and years
of age.
In large cities the percentage of
deaths due to these causes may be
even greater.
The younger the child, the great
er the danger from any of these
diseases when it is contracted,
Thus, it is especially important
to guard the younger children until
they shall have reached the age
when greater resistance has devel-
oped.
Diphtheria is beginning to be
overcome through the application
of the Schick test and through the
use of toxin-antitoxin and diph-
liberia toxoid.
However, the need for vigilance is
constant.
Thus far, no definitely established
means of prevention are available
against measles and whooping
cough.
Hence, children must be guardee1
particularly against contact with
cases of these two diseases.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-23

alone be sufficient argument to defeat the proposal as
emergency measure at special session, if it
were not fagrantly unjust and unfair.
Truck owners estimate that the tax for hauling
load of goods to Chicago would amount to
about $50
AS one means of getting the bill through, it is
proposed to exempt the farmer in the use of trucks
to haul his livestock to market But the manufac-
turer or the merchant. who uses truck as a con-
venent and economical way to conduct business
and give employment to men must either pay the
heavy tax resort to the of railroads with their
heavier charges
Business is having hard enough time as it is
without these added burdens. This particular meas
ure is SO vicious in principle and filed with danger
Of adding more tax eaters to the pay rolls without
any real return to the people that it deserves no
sderation.
Perhaps cooler weather may bring calmer judg-
ment
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-23
People Can Speak

CIRCUMSTANCES have forced
~ the Democratic party into an
aggressive and liberal role. 1t has
a platform and candidate which
seem to fit the issue.
For the first time since the
eighteenth amendment was adopt
ed the people have opportunity to
express themselves on it, provided
the case is presented properly.
For the first time since the war
the people have opportunity to
speak with some degree of definite
ness on the tariff, power, and for
eign affairs.
The Hoover administration obvi-
ously is committed to the status
quo, whether from a political or
economic standpoint.
The Democratic party is commit
ted to certain changes.
That ought to make the argument
interesting enough, without intro
ducing extraneous matter, without
the usual trimmings which have
been thought necessary because of
the dullness of some previous cam
DaiQnS.