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The Indianapolis times., 1932-09-15
Resort to Force

Now come the real estate men of this city with the
declaration that unless taxes greatly reduced they
will resort to force
Here is probably the first direct threat Of revolu
ton that has been made in the depression.
Police have been used to break up meetings Of
radicals congressional committees have hunted for
reds the attorney-general of the United States ex-
plains the nation that the bonus army made up
OF Communists, but 1t remained for the realtors to
openly declare that unless their taxes cut they viii
stand ready appeal to the higher whether
this be the power OF courts the power of the vote or
the power of force"
If this what it says, if judges refuse to see
eye to eye with them on the matter they will organize
to defeat the judges.
If they fail to overthrow the judges by ballots, they
expect to take the law into their own hands and make
stand with whatever weapons they have to defy the
orderly processes Of government.
The Importance of the announcement is not so
much it's violent language it's The realtors
have been the most conservative of all groups Of
business men, The public had been led to expect that
from them would come nothing but virile declara-
ton of keeping things as they are, without change
and without rocking Of boats. For them to threaten
revolution and violence is as startling as would be
profanity from the mouth Of babe
Only a desperate condition could produce such a
declaration OF course it is quite safe for these men
to give voice to such sentiments, which, on the lips
of others might mean Jail or deportation.
The truth of the situation is that this explosive
statement and all other similar declarations come
from the fact that there idle in this country
and that idleness has reduced the purchasing and
paying power to such extent that real estate is
being conflscated TO maintain the government.
The one solution for the tax problem is purchas-
ing power in the hands of the men and women who
are now idle through compulson.
There can be no solution of the tax problem until
men are again at their normal work at saving wage
Trimming tax budgets to the bone will help but
little 1t may save few dollars. There can be no
abolition Of those agencies interested in public safety
or health.
The resort to force is rather desperate method
to use for any problem. There should be resort to
brains The men who threaten violence, especially
when those men the leaders of g. community,
should be thinking of ways in which their former ten
ants can be put back to work at wages that will again
permit them to pay rents.
If those the higher walks of life lose their heads
and tempers these days, what be expected from
the man who has nothing but time his hands?
The Indianapolis times., 1932-09-15

payment now Of funds promised them in 1e45 The
accrued interest on their bonus certificates which
they want now, does not exist and will not exist
until the end of that period.
But moral right is higher than a legal right.
Have they moral right to the cash bonus? Ger
tainly the able-bodied and employed veterans, who
the vast majority, have no moral right to a gift
from the taxpayer.
There is moral right involved, but it is with the
unemployed veterans-and non-veterans. What the
veterans have right to demand is that no shall
go hungry who is denied work through no fault Of
his own.
1t is Just to ask the government and the hard
pressed taxpayers to help all those victims of the
depression But it is rank injustice to propose taking
funds which otherwise might be distributed to the
hungry and give it instead to healthy and employed
and, in some cases, rich veterans.
Unfortunately this issue has not been explained
sufficiently to the rank and file of the veterans Un-
fortunately the administration was too busy using
the army against obess veterans to explain to the
veterans as a whole why the blanket cash bonus
would not reach those who need it most
This morning President Hoover issued clear and
convincing statement on why the cash bonus not
be paid in advance. But it comes too late, and it
comes from man whom the veterans no longer feel
they trust
1t is too late to change the legion vote But it is
not too late to prevent similar vote by congress-
The Indianapolis times., 1932-09-15

There seems to be reason to be-
lieve, however, that long continu-
ance may result in an eventual up
ward trend of the rates for tuber-
culosis.
The unemployment situation has
affected particularly those towns
and districts where there were ex-
tensive tobacco industries. These
factories had to shut down early,
because of the strict limitations
placed on the Importation of foreign
tobacco.
In these districts, however, the
change in conditions brought about
by more living in the open air seems
to have been of benefit to public
health rather than, for the present,
the causes of any serious harm.
Reports from Germany indicate
that, taking the public as a whole,
the present state of nutrition of the
German people is not unfavorable,
although if present conditions con-
tinue, the reverse may become true.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-09-15

zle vote. We are asked to supply
the missing phrases in all presiden-
tial proclamations The winner of
the first prize will be allowed to
toss a medicine ball at the Presi-
dent.
One of the most ingenious con-
tests ever offered to the electorate
is the Republican prohibition plank.
You are asked to take the letters
contained in this statement and see
how many words and principles you
can evolve from the mess.
Charlie Curtis, an educated In
dian living in Kansas, solved the
puzzle in four minutes and ten Sec
onds. He got the word dry" out of
it. But I do not think Mr.. Curtis
will win prize and be allowed to
toss the medicine ball.
In the first place, "dry" is a
three-letter word and should not
count. Besides, Mr.. Mills, dealing
with the same material, has made
it spell wet" "arid," damp"
"bone-dry,' repeal" revision, 3"
enforcement" modification" and
"fapdoodle."
Copyright 1892. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times., 1932-09-15
Questions and
Answers

Who is the Argentine ambassador
to the United States and what is
his address?
Senor DR.. Felipe A. Espil. The
Argentine embassy is at 1900 New
Hampshire avenue, N. W., Washing
ton, D. @.
What is Neopolitan ice cream?
A mold of from two to four diff
ferent flavors or water ices, ar
ranged in layers.
What is the value of an 1872
dime?
1t is worth from 10 to Is cents.
Are you allowed toshoot black
birds in the city with BIB guns while
in your own yard?
No. There is an ordinance pro-
hibiting use of BIB guns or any kind
Of firearms in the city limits.
What is the smallest breed Of
dog?
YorkshireN terriers, some Of which
| weigh only ten ounces.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-09-15
The Bonus Demand

Today the American Legion is expected to demand
the cash bonus. No one will be surprised that vet
erans who believe they have just claim on the
government for advance payment of the bonus favor
getting such cash. In these hard times, people are
apt to try to get all the money they can.
But the final answer on this IS with congress. It
has to consider not only the special interest of the
veterans but the wider interest of the country as
whole. The country not afford TO pay that money
at this time
When the veterans have time to think it over,
many Of them will realize that the nation has not
been ungenerous. They have received $572s 900.
Congress now is voting them more than half bill
lion dollars year in addition to hospital and doni-
ciliary care.
they have no legal right to s2.sOO.oOd1OO cash
The Indianapolis times., 1932-09-15
Just Every Day Sense
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

WE have with certain authorities who insist
w that wife should be concerned with love alone
and that her husband should be her sole interest
in life.
Now comes another Professor John Erskine who
contradicts this: "A man always will love woman
more if she has enthusiastic interest apart from
him. The wife who does nothing but love her man
will drive him away by her poSSesSiveness."
I feel sure that Professor Erskne is right Men
love to love- but they resent being loved too much.
For women therefore, the most difficult thing to
achieve is moderation in marriage.
The wife who assumes pose of indifference, if
nothing more nearly always will manage to mold l4er
husband better than the one who cngs too fast
The latter gives uncomfortable feeling of
responsibility. He particularly dslikes this.
Nor do hold with the modernized Victorian who
asserts that men appreciate adulation and reward
it with undying affection, and that the happiest
woman is she who lives only in the reflection of her
husband and children
THE family, Of course, is the vital fact in life, but
4 not the only fact. And men, like children, resent
constant demands upon their affection. They want
certain amount of freedom and they should have it.
indeed, when 1t comes to love, am not sure
that grandma was such u weak creature. Though
she gets credit for being a clinging vne she was in
truth very Sturdy and independent persons-per-
haps the most independent of all generations of
women.
She was a tremendous factor in the successful
evolution OF world from wilderness She was pre-
time for whining or clinging
And she took her marriage in sensible manner
expecting no miracles from either life or men,
WHAT'S more, she knew how to support herself
and her children with her own hands, and she lever
was rshamed to do it.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-09-15
Roosevelt at Topeka

Roosevelt's farm relief plan as outlined at Topeka
Tuesday is disappointing. That is not surprising
most solutions of the farm problem inadequate.
The problem is momentous and many-Sided There
is no simple or easy way out
At least Roosevelt deserves credit for offering no
cure-a Unlike the traditional Republican campaign
orators the Democratic presidential candidate did not
try to gold brick the farm voters with a complete
panacea.
He was at his best in the constructive proposal for
Withdrawing marginal lands from production
But he might have been franker in his discussion
of two Of the root evils-overproduction and the
tariff
Apparently he did not have the courage to tell the
farmers that American agriculture must depend pri
marily on the domestic market; that it's ability to
compete with cheaper producing abroad is lin
tied; that diversi1cation and sharp reduction Of
mounting surpluses is essential
That is a cruel truth for the farmer to swallow,
But 1t is the TRUTH nevertheless 1t involves an
nomc surgical operation for the industry instead of
doping the patient with price-hxing and surplus
control panaceas of the farm board type which do
more harm than good
The tariff is subject which Roosevelt al
ways hazy. His generalzations don't get any,
where. While attacking effectively the failure of the
Republican tariff to help the farmer, at Topeka he
appeared to hold up the tariff as hope for the
farmer.
To propose he did, "a darm) tariff benefit over
world prices which is equivalent to the benefits given
by the tariff to Industrial products" is to promise the
impossible.
The only way to close the tariff gap between what
the farmer buys and sells is to cut the tariff on in
duSrrial products.
There is not much to talk about restoring pros
perity for the farmer for any one else in America
until there is a general tariff reduction permitting
the resumption of international trade
The failure of the Democratic platform and of the
Democratic candidate to date to pledge a definite
tariff cut is one of the major disappontments of the
campaign.
Perhaps, however, a man who sees as clearly as
Roosevelt the faacy of the high tariff philosophy
will be specific about cuts before the campaign
Is over.
AS correctly stated by him at Topeka, the high
tariff theory is absurd because is designed to helm
the few on the assumption that they in turn, may
be kind enough to help the many. But the many al
ways lose.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-09-15
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
SERVICE CE----
Depression Hurts Health in GERMANY

triton is found much more often in
women than in men, because the
women deprive themselves of food
during the time of scarcity so the
men who work and the children
may have it.
Notwithstanding the poor nutri-
ton, however, there are certain
other factors of the unemployment
situation that seem to be of value
to health,
The person who is out of employ
ment is able to spend more time in
the open air and can get all the
sleep and rest he needs.
Apparently the undernutrition
due to unemployment has not pro-
greSsed sufficiently to show a def
mite effect on the rates for tuber-
culosis.
tuberculosis is distinctly a disease
associated with undernutrition.
The tuberculosis rates for Ger
many have been showing a constant
trend downward, and this downward
trend has not been modified by the
unemployment situation.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-09-15
Mcdonald Observatory

THE announcement from the
i University of Chicago says:
THE University of Texas received
by bequest of the late William J.
Mcdonald, a distinguished Texan, a
sum now slightly in excess of $780,
600, to erect and maintain an as
Economical observatory.
"The observatory will be known
as the w. j. Mcdonald observatory
of the University of Texas" and
will cost, including site, buildings
and equipment, approximately $375,-
900. Its completion is scheduled
for July 1, 1888.
CDR. Otto Struve, director of the
Yerkes observatory of the Univer-
sity of Chicago at Williams Bay.
Wis, also is to become director of
the Mcdonald observatory.
"The University of Chicago is to
pay the salaries Of DR.. Struve, an
assistant director, who will have a
permanent residence at the Nc
Donald observatory, at least two
observing assistants, and the neces-
sary maintenance staff.
"The University Of Texas has
agreed to set up a maintenance and
publications fund, and the Univer-
sity of Chicago also is to provide
for certain operating expenses, such
as Photographic materials"
The Indianapolis times., 1932-09-15
Two Views of Public Utilities

In Golfers magazine, ex-President Coolidge ex-
pounds his view of current public utility owner
ship and operation. To him these utilities benign
public servants that furnish indispensable service and
offer securities which represent safe and democratic
investment for our populace.
"One of the most important of these kinds of cor
porate property is represented by the public utilities
We call them public utilities because they are
dedicated to public service. 1t is probable that
these properties owned directly indirectly by
more than seventy millions of our people They rep
resent an investment of many billions of dollars of
the money of the people.
"These vast properties are not operated for the
benefit of private individuals. To be of any value
to any return the money invested in them
they do and must work for the public
Ther services are all subject to our order at any
time without discrimination, at a price which our
various governments fixed and judged to be fair"
Not word do we get from Coolidge about the
great holding companies which, according to Senator
Norris own and control some "a per cent of our eec-
trio industry are as unnecessary as fifth wheel on
automobile, absorb profits made by the essential
and commendable operating companies which they
own, and produce high prices for electric light and
power
One might suppose that Coolidge never had heard
OF the Electric Bond and Share Corporation the
insult pyramids and that he believes that the electric
utilities exclusively honorable and Industrious
operating companies generating power directly for
consumers and selling it on cost plus reasonable
profit basis
When turn to expert on public utilities, we
get much different picture. Witness Professor w
2. Ripleys article Public Utility Insecurities" in
the Forum. Ripley does not indulge in any ranting
or indiscriminate abuse. He recognizes that many
electric utilities, especially operating companies are
relatively efficient sound and reasonable
"I would not unnecessarily alarm. There is yet
tme owing. to the inherent soun6nesS and the lusty
gor of this great republic industry to close the door
against certain indirect practices But it is high time
that those who have the public welfare at heart
should look alive.
Encouragement of such legislation as shall guard
against recurrence of these evils becomes matter of
public duty"
Ripley finds two major evils in the electric utility
organization of the country today: First is the
traordinary development of the holding or finance
corporation. Second is the complexity and eabora-
ton of each separate financial set-up not only of
paper corporations but of the real operating compa-
MES as we'll"
The Indianapolis times., 1932-09-15

JULIUS CAESAR was under the
~ impression that all Gaul was
divided into three parts. The Ro-
man conqueror lacked prophetic vi
sion and could not foresee the cam
paign tactics of the Republican
party in the year 1882 and the re-
sultant unification.
Word comes from Washington
that President Hoover intends to
say nothing more about Prohibition
before election day, and as Howard
Brubaker explains in the New
Yorker:
There are only two sides to the
question and he has taken them
both"
Nor is this the only instance in
which the candidate has fought
fiercely on two front. I suppose
the most audacious of all the claims
advanced in favor of the great en-
gineer is the assertion that he alone
recognizes the Importance of the
international factor in our economic
situation.
The entire strategy of Herbert
Hoover and his supporters is based
upon the assumption that hardly
a man now is alive who remembers
what was said by the inspired leader
in the year 1923. And the worst
of it is that they are quite right.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-09-15
Resources Pooled

" A S result Of the cooperative
N undertaking. the announce
ment continues, "plans of the Uni
versity Of Chicago to build an OBJ
servatory and powerful rejecting
telescope in one Of the southern
states have been abandoned.
although the forty-inch refract-
ing telescope of the Yerkes observa-
tory of the University of Chicago
is unexcelled for certain types of
astronomical research, another in
strument was required if the Chi
cago astronomers were to develop
the modern research in the field of
astrophysics in which Yerkes has
been a pioneer.
Initiating negotiations to avoid
duplication that would result should
the two universities undertake in
dependent observatories, President
Robert Maynard Hutchins of the
University of Chicago received so
cooperative a response from Presi-
dent H. Y. Benedict of the Univer-
sity of Texas that a basis for the
agreement was established quickly.
"The pooling of resources enables
the University of Texas to concen-
trate on erection of the observatory,
while the University of Chicago,
free of the necessity of building an
other telescope and observatory of
its own, Will be able to devote it's
resources in astronomy to maintain
ing the best available staff for both
the Yerkes and Mcdonald observa-
tories.
''The economy of the arrange
ment permits constructing for the
Mcdonald observatory one large
telescope.
Had the two universities de-
veloped their plans independently,
the burden of construction ard
maintenance would not have per
mitted their building an instrument
as large as the eighty-inch now
agreed upon"
The Indianapolis times., 1932-09-15
Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor TimeS-I am a subscriber
to The Times, and I read the pros
and cons that appear each day. It
is quite interesting to note in the
editorials and Peoples Voice what
is said about this coming corkscrew
campaign. Yes, indeed, 1 have read
the planks in the two parties. And
careful reader can see the regular
old-fashioned political bunk in both
of them.
But like the Democrats for say
ing in straightforward fashion
what they stand for. AS to the
corkscrew bunk in regard to prohi-
bition in the two parties, the dif-
ference is not hard to see. The
Republicans propose to continue the
power Of the federal government to
prevent the return of the old saloon
in vet states.
The Democrats merely would urge
the wet states to prevent the re-
turn of the saloon. If this is not
corkscrew bunk personified, words
are mot to be found. Surely Jim
w GASoOA4 AActA COAAACbAA4A45 W AO WAk4A
wording these planks, for they both
ring like old Jim.
But such bunk never is convincing
to thoughtful people, but goes strong
with the great unthinking masses,
and is likely to swing the election to
the Democrats in November.
The rich vets in both parties
have thrust this corkscrew cam
paign upon the voters in this coun-
try to grind the poor man who loves
the glass, so they may clip more
coupons. But be assured, now and
forever, that while they propose
their gold-digging devices to rob
the poor, the God Of mercy will
raise up a people that will dispose
the nets of these corkscrewers.
Repeal the eighteenth amend
ment, and the brewers limousine
will solve our moot questions. Just
give them a chance. Down the
throats will go the Everlasting all.
Thsn the editors Of these wet pa
The Indianapolis times., 1932-09-15

cared for about 1900, 900 visitors In
the various parks, including state
forests and hatcheries, we had to be
prepared to meet a decrease, owing
to the prevailing unfortunate con-
ditions. Instead of that, we most
likely will finish with a 10 per cent
increase of visitors.
We believe that the facilities
offered for plain and healthfuI
recreatio- were needed by this great
throng, and we are happy in the
thought that in some small way we
were permitted to help other folks
at least temporarily over the trials
and tribulations Of the day. IN
deed, man liveth not of bread alone.
RICHARD LIEBER,
Director, Department of Con-
servation.
Editor Times-Your recent edi-
torial in regard to adult education
in this city performed a distinct
service to the community in focus
ing public attention upon this ne
cessity.
Isn't there some way in which
the school board might offer eve
ming courses of study to the people
of this city at the bare cost Of
operation, which would be paid by
the students Of such night school?
Couldn't the expenses of the night
schools Of other years be analyzed
in such manner as to provide a tu-
itional rate TO be borne by the stu
dents, which would defray the ex-
penses Of such institution, and still
fulfill the need at a smaller cost
than those business and technical
schools which are privately owned,
and which return a generous profit
for their private owners?
I do not know whether suci, in
stitution could be created, but y
offers one seemingly feasible soir-
ton to the adult educational ntuE=
tion. JACK WHITE.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-09-15

perS can park their cars anywhere,
The vets tell us that honest men
are being made into bootleggers by
the eighteenth amendment, but they
forget that the governments report
shows that there were more than
1000 blind tigers in the city of
Pittsburgh before national prohibi-
ton.
And Philadelphia had more than
1000 selling their wares. And they
tell us that it takes S200,000,000 to
enforce prohibition laws, but they
fail to tell the public that the gov
ernment has collected in fines and
revenues more than S450,000,000.
The argument Of the vets Ee-
minds me of the big copper cents
we used to put in vinegar to make
a solution to kill ivy poisoning, the
way the battle is waging for a glass
of beer and two fingers Of whisky,
forgetting how John Barleycorn
served Robby.
In conclusion, let me say that no
man will receive my vote TO bring
back these hell-holes again. know
something about them.
So here's hoping long life to you
and your great paper, and may your
shadow never grow less in the cause
of humanity and its morality.
Seymour, Ind. j. H. JONES, M. D.
Editor Times-We were greatly
interested in and pleased with your
thoughtful editorial of Sept. l,
What Are Essentials?" Of course,
every one who is wrapped up in his
work naturally considers it an es-
sential.
In this case we hold that the work
of the department Of conservation
is essential to the welfare of the
people. In a few weeks we will close
the fiscal year with somewhat of a
proof that the work has been ap-
preciated by the citizens.
In the division Of landk and
waters. for example, which last year