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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-12

Editor Times-I am sending you
a comment on the present situation
as one who sees it from the side
lines.
Why doesn't congress, since it
started it, and the President cor
rect the mistake made when they
passed and approved the tariff re-
vision bill? You would think they
believe it crime to back down, so
they let the people suffer.
The country was going to the dogs
when they passed it and by now
they can see it is getting no bet
ter. Maybe it would be a good thing
to have an investigation about why
the tariff bill was passed.
Everybody knows it did the peo-
pie no good as it was supposed to.
Then the question: Who did it
benefit? comes up.
Take the situation with Japan.
Have we the force we should need
in that case? If not, why not? Be-
cause Of lack of money. Takes mon
ey to build airplanes, navieS and
uphold an army.
There did not seem to be a short
age of money when it came to keep
ing up the army of prohibition
shoppers and stool pigeons to uphold
the prohibition law that the Anti
Saloon League forced on the coun-
try. That is another reason we are
all broke today, including some of
the biggest cities.
This country is being run by pol
iticans, for politicians. When po-
litical parties get stronger than the
government, it is time to shift back
to the Constitution. We have ten
Commandments. You can not add
to or detract and live. F. r. Y.
Editor Times Officers and men,
bers of the Sunnyside Guild would
appreciate it very much if The In
dianapolis Times would publish a
few facts concerning the work of
the Guild.
The Sunnyside Guild was organ
lied in 1919 to furnish entertain
ment and help in many ways for
the patients at Sunnyside. In that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-12
Questions and
Answers

Who was Jean La Elite?
He was a noted pirate operating
in the Gulf of Mexico. He was
born in France and held commits
sion as privateer from the French
government, but degenerated into
a pirate with Barataria bay, as his
rendezvous. Upon the outbreak of
the War of 1872 the British made
overtures to La Fitte who refused to
join them. Later, he joined with the
American forces under General
Jackson in the defense Of New Or
leans, and he and his crew acquit-
ted themselves so well that Presi-
dent Madison issued a free pardon
for all their nniSdeeds. La Fitte is
supposed to have died in Yucatan
in 1926.
How many persons in the United
States are gainfully employed?
According to the 1880 census the
number was approximately forty
eight million.
What Is the Lim-fjord?
An arm Of the sea extending
across the northern part Of Jutland,
Denmark.
How can an individual loan
money to the United States govern
ment?
BY buying government securities.
For what purpose was the leaning
tower of Pisa built?
A bell tower or campanile.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-12
Canada and the United States

Gentlemen now speaking in congress for the party
Of jefferson, Jackson and Wilson, apparently so
bankrupt of native staecrat that they boast of hav
ing received their inspiration for the proposed $780,
100000 sales tax from the discredited systems Of
Europe Australia and Canada
II we are to follow other nations in our fiscal pol
Icies. we hope It will not be the unhappy sales tax
countries Of Europe, nor the virtually bankrupt
Australia
AS for neighbor Canada, why do these same Demo-
cratic and administration leaders who refused to
Initiate the Canadian policy Of feeding the jobless
TO swallow unsound and unpopular tax on
consumers which Canadians themselves want to get
rid of?
The house ways and means committee may have
given Canada's sales tax exhaustive study Several
Of them recently made junket across the border.
Obviously however they did not learn about it from
the Canadian people.
The Canadian people. We hear from our CORE
apondent, are about unanimous in declaring It far
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-12

from the rosy, painless and happy solution of tax
troubles advertised.
The Canadian sales tax we learn is a war baby
How popular it may be gathered from the fact that
the Canadian Manufacturers Association, the trade
and labor congress- all the major farmer organizations
many Boards of Trade and Chambers of Commerce
have denounced it.
These say that it discourages trade; is cumber-
some and intricate acts unfairly as between certain
commodities; loads the tax burden on those least able
to bear it, encourages prohteering and pyramiding.
While the Canadian liberals were in power, the
sales tax under heavy bombardment from the
conservatives as well from the progressives 1t
was, in fact, reduced to per cent in $780,
When the conservatives came to power in 1881
Prime Minister Bennett raised the rate to per cent
He explained he did this not because he liked the tax
but because he feared to dslocate business at the
time of depression by changing the tax system-a
feeling not shared by the bipartisan writer's of the
American revenue BILL which changes the American
system Bennett, in fact calls the sales tax "unde-
pendable"
At per cent, and with many more exemptions
than in the house committee bill, the Canadian tax
raises $65000000 this year. Even this is burden of
$50 on every Canadian family. Based upon Canada's
experience, it is estimated that this $50 can become
in fact $55-in pyramided increases in commodity
costs.
Under the circumstances we can understand the
comment Of Montreal tax expert that sales tax
victims gladly would exchange 1t bndfolded for al
most any other kind of tax"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-12

constitutions that are superior and
resistant to infection.
Throughout life infections and
other harmful forces which sur
round us take off the weak and
leave the strong.
Medical knowledge and skill and
improved sanitary conditions pre-
vent an increasingly large amount
of sickness and death before so
years Of age.
Ultimately, DR.. Pearl points out,
there is a group of extremely old
people for whom infections have
no particular terrors.
They have developed resistance.
Most of them die because their con-
stitution or system breaks down.
DR.. Pearl is convinced that if any
considerable number of people are
to live longer than they now do, it
will be necessary for man to ac-
quire by some means not yet clee<
a circulatory system organically SUI
perior to the one that he now has.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-12
Times Readers Voice Their Views

time they have been happy to give
to them moving picture machine,
lawn swings and benches, three
pianos, victrola, extra chairs for
the recreation room and card tables.
A greenhouse has been built so
the patients can have flowers and
the most wonderful thing is a mas
ter radio connected with each bed,
which the guild maintains. There
is a radio in the nurses home and
porch chairs for them, a radio in
the main dining room of the hos
pital, and public address system
for the doctors SO they may reach
each patient.
Each month an entertainment is
given, with refreshments for every
patient at the hospital and on each
holiday they are remembered. At
Christmas a present is given and
a lovely Christmas box and all the
trees and things that make their
Christmas brighter. The extra
treat for this last Christmas was
fifty bed lights for the two cottages.
which are a great help for the pa
tients there.
This last year the Sunnyside
Guild gave $4,000 toward the build
ing fund of the nutrition camp at
Bridgeport, feeling it was helping
many boys and girls on the road to
health. The guild also gave $500
to the Red Cross.
For more than a year the guild
has increased it's work and now is
trying to help tuberculer families
outside of Sunnyside. This has been
an emergency relief and all this
work has been done, through the
visiting nurse at Sunnyside and the
emergency relief committee of the
SunnySide guild.
The guild has paid out more than
Sc, 500 in that time and feels that
the money has been spent well.
Editor TimeS-JuSt a few words
to voice my opinion. am an ex-
service man with a wife and three
children. I have had no work for
eighteen months. Lost $1,700 in
a little home we we're trying to buy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-12
Economy Talk

MEANWHILE let us not forget
1V1 that the public debt has been
reduced by some eight billion dol
lars since 1919.
That represents a surplus credit
that the government might use,
and which it should be using.
Instead, the government proposes
the Identical policy for which it has
been criticising banks-call for cash
and refuse credit.
Furthermore, it proposes to avoid
such economies as the vast majority
of people have been obliged to
make.
There has been much fine talk
about saving money here and there,
but for the most part, it has result
ed in little, except the discharge
of few poorly paid employees at
the foot of the line.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-12
TX TO-DAY SO
WORLD WAP \
ANNIVERSARY
GG4 ofAGE
PARIS is BOMBED
March IL

ON March II, 1918, German
" planes bombed Paris, killing
thirty-four persons and iniurfne
seventy-nine others. Sixty-six more
were sufocated in a subway
stampede. =
-Four German planes were
brought down during the raid BIZ
French anti-aircraft guns.
German troops entered the OUT
skirts of Odessa, principal Rus
sian port on the Black sea and
third city in size in Russia proper.
before the outbreak of the World
war.
The Russian Black sea fleet was
reported preparing to leave
Odessa.
Numerous German raids char
acterized the activities on the
western front. Many Of the at
tacks we're made in force and
were preceded by heavy artillery
commandments.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-12
: DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
One Out Of 20 Lives to Be 90

DR.. Pearl has shown that from
the age of 60 to the end of life, the
death rate assignable to break
down of the circulatory system is
higher than that associated with
any other system Of the body.
1t has been pointed out pre-
viouSly that the heart begins beat
ing long before the human being
is born and works constantly to
the moment of death.
1t is not surprising, therefore,
that the breakdown of the circula-
tory system should be today the
leading cause of death after mid
die age.
The woman past 80 no longer is
affected by the causes of disease as
ISOLATED with the reproductive Or
gans and the kidneys, whereas, the
man, after IS years of age, still is
liable to prostate difficulties. In
deed, most of the serious illness of
men after IS is associated with
such trouble.
People who live to 80 years of
age do so because they begin with
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-12
Swivel Chair Immunity

TINTED STATES Steel cut the
~ salaries of all its high officials
before reducing wages. Did the
government?
Has there been a single move at
Washington to reduce the pay of
those who could best afford it?
You can go to the books of most
any great concern in this country
and find that its operating expenses
are down by 80 or 40 per cent.
Better still, you find that those
at the top are sharing the loss.
When you go to the public books,
you find a very different condition
prevailing. You find some of the
postoffice clerks overworked be-
cause vacancies have not been
filled, but you find the boys at the
mahogany desks drawing the same
old pay and expense accounts
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-12
Why Not Bonds?

IF one billion dollars in taxes each
L year for two years is sufficient to
balance the budget, why couldn't
the same result be accomplished
by bond issue for two billion, but
in order to be fair, let's call it
three.
With the public debt reduced by
eight billion since 1919, is there any
sound reason why such a bond issue
should not be made?
Is there any sound reason why
credit shouldn't be employed to the
limit at a time like this?
Do our public officials realize how
hard it has become for many people
to pay taxes, or how taxes are
forcing thousands of them, if not
hundreds of thousands, to the wall?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-12
The Last Straw

TAXPAYERS strikes are becom-
4 ing dangerously common, not
so much from spirit of unrea-
Soned discomfort as from necessity.
Down where people live, and
where third, or a fourth of them
are out of work, the margin of
safety has grown pitifully thin. Tt
often occurs, that a ten-dollar bill
represents the difference between
failure and the ability to hang on.
Any kind of pressure, no matter
how slight, should be avoided, if
possible.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-12
Enlist in Common Cause

Gtlli0l III OUIIlllUII OQuSG
THE Lindbergh case struck two
4 distinct responses in the public
mind. In addition to creating feov.
it reused national and, indeed, in
ternational sympathy. Possibly
there can be a crumb of comfort in
the proof that we need not be for
ever ruggedly individualistic to the
point of insulation against the suf-
fering of others.
But l do not regret the fact that
a large element of the dramatic Is
needed to capture the universal i'm
agination. 1t seems easier for us
to heed the agony of one or two
than that of millions.
If a survey showed that in some
single city thousands of boys and
girls were suffering from malnutri-
ton, we would be sorry, but the
forces of county, state, and nation
would move less rapidly to save and
solve the situation.
The remedies for ills which attic.
us are generally not dramatic. We
will have in many papers letters adj
vising the organization of vigilance
committees, and citizens will be
urged to take the law into their own
hands. In other words, to cure law
lesSness we will be asked to embark
on more lawleSsneSs.
1t has been said that plays and
pictures and stories about the under.
world have tended to make a hero
of the gangster and to encourage
him in the pursuit of his profession.
Yet there never was a talkie which
f1attered the ego Of the racketeer as
does the panic cry of The gunner
have us licked!"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-12

Used my bonus to pay debts. Never
have owned a car or radio.
Now here is the problem. Fiji
teen years ago the government
called for men to protect the peace
of America, and we answered the
call. Fine and dandy. Today we
people call on that government to
help and protect us from starva-
ton and what do we get? A lot
of promises.
My family is tired of eating soup
and more soup. I am tired of
working two days for measly bas-
ket of groceries, and of having
nothing to wear but castoff cloth
ing. You people who read this do
not know how heart rending it is
to hear your children cry on ac-
count of the watered soup they
have been eating for months. 1t
is about time something is done.
When we say anything up at the
trustees Office, they call the police,
saying that there are reds plotting
trouble. Where do they get it,
when we poor devils are Shaving
two days for a basket of groceries
we could duplicate anywhere for
$3.50 if we had the money to buy
with?
We have stood it as long as we
can. If not for any one else but
our poor children, Mr.. Editor, won't
you champion our cause? God
bless you for all the good you have
been doing for us in your paper.
1t is our opinion that the trus-
tees Office. the Community Chest
and this made work" affair is
lot of political graft. What has
become of the money from benefit
shows, dances and polo games?
Imagine money going to the Y.
M. c. A. and Y. w. G. A. from
the Community Chest. Try to get
something there for nothing.
DOWN AND ALMOST OUT.
Editor Times-It will not be dis
puted by those people informed on
the subject that there is more abb
ject poverty in the United States
than in any other nation on earth
except China and India. The num-
Der of Americans who know this
likely is not more than 20 per cent,
but it now must be increasing rap
idly.
Such condition in country with
remarkable natural resources could
be brought about only by political
and economic injustice and gen.
era1 disregard Of the principles Of
human decency. Gradual recogni-
ton of these facts, together with
the growing collapse Of our cap
italistic system, no doubt will pre-
vent the accumulation Of huge for
tunes in the future.
People now can not believe the
Hoover prosperity ballyhoo Of 1923
any more than they believed the
rugged individualism" Of 1881. But
there is need to wreck some Of these
present big fortunes to alleviate hui
man misery if for no other reason.
Millions usually are wrested from
the helpless public. Rockefeller,
Mellon, Ford, Morgan, insult, and
others are old men. Doubling and
trebling the federal inheritance and
gift taxes now, instead of a few
years later. might add a billion
dollars to federal income. s. S.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-12
Rank inconsistency

TINE government is in hole be-
4 cause it could get away with
things the rest of us couldn't. Now
it wants us to pay off its deficit over
night because it has the power to
make us.
At the same time, it wants all
the banks to be liberal with credit
and all the mortgage companies to
be lenient with extensions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-12

II there are any high tariff defenders left-outsde
the Republican old guard-they would better get busy
For the country is becoming pretty completely dsllu
stoned about that milon-dolar Hawley- Smoot mon
strosy which was touted to restore prosperity in
sixty days." and instead doubled depression and I'M
employment
The latest group to take crack at trade killing
tariffs is the American Committee on International
Settlements Of the International Chamber of Com
merce. This committee is headed by none other than
President Hoovers friend Slas H Strawn of Chicago
After pointing out, somewhat paintively that
numerous world economic and international Chamber
OF Commerce congresses since 1927 have called for
liberation Of trade from destructive high tariffs the
Strawn committee complains that:
Despite these solemn declarations and WARNINGS
nearly every country in the world proceeded to i'm
pose additional restrictions upon international COM
merce. In fact since 1927 we have gone through an
unprecedented period of increasingly aggressive and
realiatory tariffs and other restrictions upon trade
So the committee recommends consideration Of
change in national policies throughout the world
respecting tariffs and other restrictions on trade
1he United States government would not have
started this latest suicidal tariff war; if more of the
Dig bankers and induStriasts on this committee had
fought openly and vigorously against the Hawley-
Smoot bill when the administration was forcing If IN
the country.
This committee Of sixty-Seven includes the biggest
names among the Republican and Democratic partv
campaign contributors. Are they ready in addition
TO passing general resolutions to work for specific and
immediate reduction of the American tariff wall to
hasten business revival?
American export trade now. compared with a ten
year average, is running at an annual loss of two
and half billion dollars. Two and half billion
dollars worth of business would be very welcome to
American business men and the unemployed
Sir Malcolm Campbell wasn't satisfied with 253
miles an hour in his racing car You never can satisfy
these motoristsl
The idea Of work startles children child expert
says Children must be smarter than we thought.
They made Jack Dempsey colonel in Ken
lucky But most fighters don't respect their superior
officers
Further proof that the Philippines rapidly are
becoming civilized is shown in reports of gang war
fare In Manila.
Arizona women fighting for a bill providing
for easier divorce. What they really want is easier
amony.
Since the depression, America has become a
land Of law and no orders.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-12
Not Dramatic, But Useful

"TITHIN the last few DAYS a
w newspaper editorial gravely
considered the advantages of Amer
ica's turning to form of Dictator
ship such as that administered by
MusSolini in Italy. It seems to me
that it would be utter folly to SCRAP
democracy until such time as we
have made up our minds to try it.
Many of the very people who now.
are wringing their hands in despair
never have lifted finger to fight
municipal corruption and the very
things out of which racketeerino.
grows. To the man or woman who
says, but what can I do?" there is a
very simple answer. Il
1t consists of the undramatic sd-.
vice, Take an intelligent interest in
the affairs of our city, state, and ma
ton and then go out and vote ac-
cordingly."
If we have battle on our hands
let's fight it with ballots, rather than
bullets.
Copyright. 1892. by The TimeO
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-12


Health Magazine.
NNE of every twenty-six white
" persons in the United States
lives to be more than go years old!
This interesting fact has been
brought out by DR.. Raymond Pearl,
who recently finished an analysis
of the diseases and causes of death
of the aged.
Strangely enough, your chances
of living to be 80 are better if you
are a woman. For women, nearly
one in twenty lives to be 80. The
percentage for men is lower.
The usual cause of death for per-
sons over 90 is senility, which
merely means the person grew old
and died.
Actually, of course, even though
a person may wear out at the age
of 80, it is probably some special
organ among the important parts
of the body that breaks down and
is the primary cause of death.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-12
IT SEEMS
TO ME
By Heywood Broun

This Is a Bad Time to Shout
That LdW Has Broken DOtCB
Utterly and That No Child
Is Safe.
IT is reasonable, and more than
L that, for America to be excited
and concerned by the problem OF
crime, of gangs and racketeers. But
no crisis in any country ever was
solved by the simple process of run
ming around in short circles and
screaming, Isn't this awfull'
So great is the public panic that
the most palpable kind of quack
remedies are being freely offered
and in some quarters accepted
eagerly. In the first place. there is
great careleSsneSS about the facts.
At the moment this is written no
certain explanation of the Lind
bergh case has been reached.
The dramatic nature of the kid
naping has dwarfed all other news
and warped the national perspective.
No matter what the solution, 1t will.
not be wise to generalize too much
upon a single incident, however
great its emotional appeal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-12
Daily Thought

The wicked flee when no man
pursueth.-Proverbs 2S:1.
They whose guilt within their
bosoms lie imagine every eye be-
holds their blame. Shakespeare.