The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-05
Is Your Column
You Say 1t
Rise and Shine! Well
Now Listen to Some
More Brothers.
Edltor Times

w in the WOrl0-I1eI ErlCkSOn,
the great American claimant;
Thor6nn Karlsefan, that OF Maine;
Cord9va, the Yucatan: Balboa, the
Pacific? None Of these equals
President Hoover AMI Senator
Watson.
A great obstruction to American
business blocked procedure. All
discoveries, all doctors, all theo-
loglans were called in to diagnose
the case, and thes honor goes to
President Hoover. He discovered
that all the assets in America are
frozen.
jim Watson prescribed a higher
tariff that would thaw this out in
less than sixty days and produce
prosperity, but the magic wand
tailed. Another pan Of soap bubbles,
i'm the form Of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation also failed.
Other applications are applied
including the home bank bill, of
which both Jim and the President
claim to be the daddy. All appli-
cations-high tariff, reconstruction.
home loan bank and other prog
nosis-are failures. We still are
frozen. A. L. HUFF.
Ed1or Times
TN answer to the column on the
IL front page of the News Sept. %,
entitled Democrats are asked about
tax Increases" Judge Chamberlin
could afford to cut his salary Is per
cent for the last six months of his
term to get votes this fall.
! don't blame Democratic Judges
for wanting the same salaries the
Republicans have received for years.
Maybe the Republicans don't re-
member when they we're in power
and If you were in with the gang
they would make a good job for you.
SAMUEL J. LANG JR.
EdHor Times
TINE Citizens Gas Company
4 should be compelled either to
surrender its charter or pay the city
an annual rental charge of 100000
Tor use Of streets and alleys. There
then would be no cause for worry
as to school teachers salaries.
There is a budget item of $4,000
for salaries of the so-called utility
district, this being merely a politi-
cal set-up to insure that Citizens
gas dividends are paid on stock
spread where it will do the most
good for the company,
Any dividends nov being paid
should so into the city treasury as
rental, for the gas company has no
legal right to operate.
WILLIAM E. NELSON.
EdHor Times
TN the Times, September IS, I
4 noticed a fellow referred to all
eX-service men as gold brickers"
The appellation is right, but not in
the sense he meant it. They were
bricks" which the whole German
army can attest, and we all know
they were of purest gold
I notice that he, as in 1917 and
1918, still is reluctant to sign his
name. Perhaps he thinks there
might be another war and it is not
best to make ones name too con-
spicuous,
He says he served his country as
a civilian. No doubt, and at $40
a day, picking up boards in some
shipyard
AS for old funny name" Powell,
he will write just as convincing an
article for the other side if the
Scripps- Howard papers willspay him.
M A. PRATT.
Editor Times
ID EGARDING Senator Watsons
IN speech at Peru, putting grease
where the squeak is, that is good
policy. Would be better to grease
before the squeak began. Senator
Watson did not say what or who
was squeaking. Could it be Sena-
tor Watson, Mr.. Shower or Indiana
and her loved one?
Senator Watson has wakened up
in the eleventh hour applying
grease that was promised four years
ago. But it has the wrong brand
and directions. Labor is the source
and foundation Of all wealth, and
we had labor when we had no
banks. railroads or factories. Grease
and take care of the foundation and
the top or rich will take care OF
itself. Let grease come from the
Constitution of the United States,
not second hand through the
moneyed power 1t makes bad mat
tiers worse. S. II. COLBERT.
Editor Times
CAN you beat it? If it isn't
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