davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23
FARMERS CALL
/. FOR QUICK AID
ON MORTGAGES
Serious Emergency to Be
Faced in Sixty Days,
Congress Warned.
BILLIONS ARE INVOLV WE'D
Bills to Slave Off Disaster
Are Being Prepared by
Democrats.
BY RUTH FINNEY
Times stan Writer

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-Con-
greSS has been told by farm repre-
SentativeS from the west and so,,tb
I mat unless some arrangements for
rehnancing farm mortgages is made
within the next sixty DAYS a serious
emergency will confront the coun-
try.
mat is the reason for sudden ac-
tlvlty on the subject, at a time when
other matters are being postponed
until after the holidays.
Three different groups of senator's
ana representatives met to work at
the problem of farm mortgages
Thursday.
AT their meetings stories of
farmers armed with pitchforks to
prevent foreclosures, or agreeing
among themselves to buy in prop
critics at prices yielding nothing to
creditors, were interspersed in legal
lStlc debate over property rights
guaranteed by the Constitution.
Action Is Demanded
congress has unqueStioned power
to scale down principal and inter
est OF mortgages held by federal
land banks and intermediate credit
banks, but liens held by individuals
o. private banks present a more diff
f1cult problem.
However, in the last few DAYS
even conservative members of con-
greSS have expressed themselves as
believing that the situation de-
nands action, whether it is later
approved by the courts or not.
Farm mortgages outstanding
amount to approximately $9,OOO,-
100000.
Bills are being prepared today
along the lines suggested at Thurs
days conference of Democratic
leaders with representatives of farm
organizations and several of Presi-
dent-Elect Roosevelt's advisers.
Government guarantee of mort
cages and general scaling down of
principal and interest rates we're
discussed.
Several Remedies Pondered
CreaClon Oh a debt Cancellation
commission, creation of an emer-
gency fund for the benefit of delin-
quent borrowers, additional capital
Tor new loans, consolidation of fed
eral and joint stock land banks, de-
terment of payments for a limited
period where borrowers are unable
to ref1nance loans, and consolida-
ton of all agencies that now make
loans to agricultural borrowers were
mentioned as among the possibil-
tiles by Senator Joseph T. Robinson,
Democratic floor leader.
Senator Robinson announced that
consideration of measures along
these lines would begin Immediate
ly after the holidays and that effort
will be made to enact legislation
quickly.
Meanwhile, the senate banking
and currency committee is holding
hearings on the Frazier refinancing
bill, which calls for use of the fed
eral farm loan system and the fed
eral reserve system to refinance
real estate mortgages at IL per
cent interest and liz per cent prin-
cipal annually.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23

They said nothing of it then
and profess reluctance to talk
about it now. They say that but
for probing press and curious
public, the very existence of Tech
nocracy would have remained a
secret until their work could have
been completed and presented to
the public.
But technocracy was discovered,
and in few weeks has become
a subject of discussion throughout
a worried world. Technocrats first
found themselves busy repudiating
allegedly inaccurate statements
of their aims, and now are shud-
dering under the attacks of critics
who are using those statements
as the bases of their opposition.
Howard Scott wishes everybody
would go away and let him alone;
he has lot of work to do. But
before he locks himself in the
office he is using at Columbia uni
versity'S school of engineering, he
intends to state the case of his
group.
Reduced to its simplest terms.
Technocracy is fact-finding Or
ganization concerned with the dis
covery of what is happening in
duStrially to North America.
1t seeks to form complete pic
ture of our present social mechan-
ism in terms of the practical
sciences.
Scott declared at the outset
and that was twelve years ago
that he believed the whole func-
tional process of a nation or con-
tinent could be reduced to cold
figures, capable of only one inter-
probation.
All divergent economic and in
dustrial theories, he felt sure, are
the results of lack of co-ordina
ton, or of misinterpretation of
half-facts.
60 the Technocrats decided to
~ survey some 5000 leading in
duStrieS-from toys to tractors,
pop bottles to pig iron They did
not study cost or price factors,
considering them unstable and
meaningless.
But they did study such definite
aspects as machine energy and
man hours expended for the unit
of production, and rates Of in
creased chronological efficiency.
They put into their Unconditional
charts the story of power CONVEX
sion, the introduction of improved
machinery, and the resultant eff
fects on employment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23
FEE CUT NOT TO. BE
OPPOSED BY SEXTON
Treasurer to Accept Settlement, De-
spite Suit, Says Office.

Delinquent tax fees on the re-
duced basis fixed by the special leg
islative session will be paid Tim
othy P. Sexton, county treasurer, in
the 1882 tax settlement with the
county auditor, Dec. 81.
Despite a suit pending in superior
court four to prevent settlement I'M
der the new law, it was reported
from Sections Office today that he
would not oppose the settlement.
The settlement will total about
$4,000
Sexton will be paid delinquent fees
of 2 per cent instead of per
cent, as under the old law. The
treasurer's demand and mileage
fees also are eliminated under the
new law.
Outcome of Sections suit for in
junction and another suit to test
validity of the new tax laws will
determine whether the treasurer can
collect more than the 2 per cent
fee
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23

What might be a companion
gift is a face iron. Milady smearS
cream on her face, plugs the iron
in on the house current and irons
out her skin.
There is also a grown-together
cocktail shaker of pewter. One
chamber is empty during the &C
tual shake, but after the drinks
have bene poured. one may re-
move the ice from the business
side of the shaker and store it in
the empty side, where it refrig-
crates without further diluting the
drink-Supposing there is any
drink left,
A N eminently practical arrange
N ment is a sort of double tray
of individual compartments for
ice cubes.
You put the cubes into the COM
partments one by one with tongs.
assuring the privacy so dear to
ice cubes, and then you pick them
out one by one and drop them
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23
ASH is IN HOSPITAL
Community Fund Official Undergoes
Appendicitis Operation.

Condition of William j. Ash, $40
Carrollton avenue, indianapolis
Community Fund publicity director,
who underwent an operation for ap-
pendicitis at st. Vincent's hospital
Thursday afternoon, was reported
good today.
He was taken i'll suddenly after
trimming a Christmas tree and par
ticipating in a birthday celebration
for his daughter. Joan Ash, at his
home "Wednesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23
BY PAUL HARRISON
NFA Service Writer


NEW YORK, Dec. ga job
IN for everybody between the
ages of IS and 45-anG after that
you go fishing on an income paid
by the state
A sixteen-hour working week
four hours a day for four days
and the rest of the time for leis-
ure
A standard of living ten times
higher than our present average
a scale corresponding to a $4,000
income under our present sys-
Abolition of debt and the i'm
possibility of assuming new
More goods and a higher quail
ity of goods-and elimination Of
waste of our natural resources
Those are just few of the
roseate visions Of the new scien-
tific philosophy called technoc-
racy.
BY many, it is spoken of with
distrust and fear; by others, with
approval. Few even pretend to
understand fully what democracy
really is. Whether Howard Scott,
chief technocrat, likes it or not
and you may be sure that he
doesnt-technocracy is undergo
ing all sorts of interpretations.
While some term it radicalism
rampant, others consider it, con-
servative science. Some see in it
an attempt at the dedication of a
clanking robot. And others,
through it, glimpse Utopia.
TTERE are some other things
II the Technocrats believe:
That this nation, with the greatest
debt load and unemployment in
its history, in the midst of an
economy of plenty, is definitely at
the end of an era and stands face
to face either with bankruptcy
or complete chaos-possibly with
in eighteen months.
That our social system has been
subjugated by the machine, and
that our economic scheme is Who'll
ly incompetent to cope with me-
chanistic advances which seem
bound to make over our collective
life.
They also forecast the doom of
our economic price SYSTEM,
which is the evaluation of one
commodity in terms of another
commodity. and declare that it is
basically responsible for our pres
ent accumulation of debt, unem-
ployment, and industrial stagna-
ton.
They contend we must throw
overheard all previous economic
theories and social PHILOSOPHERS,
as we'll as the political "isms" of
Messrs. Marx, Lenin, and Mus
Solini.
Those are, at best, gloomy views,
and have brough widespread criti-
cism to Technocracy for the up
setting effect they may have on a
shell-shocked public.
Technocracy, on the other hand,
does not admit peSsimism; it says
that if the nation will but organize
for the control of the machine,
we are on the eve of great era
of well-being.
r n
NEITHER Scott nor his asso-
IN ciates-most of them re-
putable engineers and scientists
are alarmists. Ten years ago,
studying their graphs and extend
ing them along probable Sc
quences, they claim to have found
evidence that America would en-
counter a severe depression in
1890 can error of about six
months)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23
Jobs for All; Plenty of LEISURE Higher Living
Standards That's Technocracy's Rosy Vision
Now, What Is This New
Science? Leaders Re-
IuCtantIy Tell.

What is democracy? How did It
start? What are its discoveries and its
aims? How would it affect everyday
life? The Times begins today six
articles interpreting this amazing new
scientific philosophy which soon will
be on everyone's tongue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23
TWIN BABY BOY DEAD

Acute GastritiS Is Fatal, Ruling of
Deputy Coroner.
Herbert, 4-months-old twin son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Stamm,
1896 English avenue, was found
dead in bed today by the mother.
Acute gastritis caused death, ac-
cording to DR.. E. R. Wilson, deputy
coroner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23

Genevieve Collage demonstrate
ing the electric face ir0ner.
into your drinks like sugar. 1t kills
time better than bagatelle.
Gifts for the drinkers seem to
be, in fact, more appropriate than
ever before this year. There's the
complete tippler's outfit in a
handsome leather case, with
lock on the bottle so that the own
er can lock himself out whenever
he wants to go on the wagon.
There's a fancy bar on wheels,
made of a barrel, which takes the
place of the obsolete tea cart. Not
to forget the ice cubes tongs which
are used to protect oneself when
the guests get to the throwing
stage of the party. and the cleo
trio face ironer, which is about as
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23

pictorial suggestion of what Technocracy
The lower picture shows primitive Chinese
labor coolies wo together
At top modern urbo-generao plant operating under the
observation OF one The generates would the
combined energy OF 100000 coolies
Inset ef graphic Technocacys work
plan working four
would have standard of living corresponding $4,000
income.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23

There is at least one author who
will have a fine Christmas and that
is Pearl S. Buck. All because her
second novel, Sons" is being listed
by all people in the book business
as one Of the best sellers of the
year. Her first Good Earth" swept
the country with its popularity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23
World Is Blue Printed;
Economic Theories Go
Overheard.

bleS such as stock markets and
gold reserves.
So the TechnocratS are seeking
to translate our industrial trends
into energy, with the idea that
this is the only true yardstick for
measuring the growth of our
robot age.
Business has been guiding itself
by standards which We believe
have no fundamental relation to
reality" said Scott. Indexes such
as prices and gold movements are
not causes, but effects.
The thing that conditions our
society is whether a man can be
at work and earn his daily bread"
Only about 800 charts of indus
tries have been completed by the
TechnocratS, and these are to be
exhibited early in 1888 Technoc-
racy is non-prof1t-making men,
bership organization. and can do
nothing with ITS findings except to
make them public property.
The group is financed by con-
tributions from fewer than 100 of
its members. It's draughtsmen are
paid by the architects emergency
committee, and its quarters are
furnished free by the industrial
engineering department Of Column
bia university.
"NUR work has been merely to
" measure the advances made
in machine production, from the
beginning of the chronological
age to the present." Scott ex-
planned. mo sentiment, politics
or social considerations are taken
into account"
Thus Technocracy has been
more concerned with the rise of
the robot than with what is hap
pening to the man who is out of
a job.
1t has paid more attention to
industrial waste of natural re-
sources than to economic waste.
1t attempts to go beyond all
present argument to the effect
that our present system can lift
itself from the doldrumS, and de-
clares that there are incontrov-
ertible reasons why that system
can not survive more than a rel
atively few more years.
At our present geometric rate
of expansion, for instance, even
our coal, oil and minerals would
be depleted in nalf a century and
would bring us to an abrupt halt.
Technocracy believes that, I'M
der scientific control, Americas
standard of living can be raised
and its resources conserved for at
least thousand years.
Yet Technocracy is not a def
mite plan, but a challenge. 1t
finds facts, co-ordinates them,
and shows what technology is
likely to do in the future.
Then it shows, by implication,
what course we are expected to
follow to keep pace with the ma
chine.
Next: Who's who in TechnOc-
racy, and how the movement
started.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23

buttons announce their prize book
for January as ''Sardinian Sideshow"
by Amelie Posse Brazdova. It is
said to posses "humor, romance and
color"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23

Yes, the present successful play
Dinner AT Eight" by George S.
kaufman and Edna Ferber has been
published. 1t has been published
by Doubleday, Doran and sells for
50.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23

You still want to know my favor
lite novel of the year? Here is it.
Estate Fair" by Stong. And a
Merry Christmas TO you.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23

Am informed by the Business
Branch Library of the indianapolis
Public Library that the following
new business books have been placed
for Notwithstanding the De-
preston" by Babson; Fashion
Merchandising" by Nustrom; "Busi-
ness and Public Interests" by Javits;
Duties of the Senior Accountant"
by Thornton, and, Working With
Men," by Beasley.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-10-15
FORMER PRINCE |S ACCUSED HIGH TREASON
 BY SOCIALIST PAPER

BERLIN, Oct. 15,-Former Crown Prince Fried drich Wilhelm was bluntly accused of high treason by the Militant Socialist organ "Vor- Waerts', which charged that a deep-rooted conspiracy is afoot to restore the Hohenzollern dynasty
 The newspaper declared that the former Crown Prince had made the statement that he and President von Hindenburg, Chancellor von Papen and War Minister von Schleicher have agreed that, when the moment is opportune, von Hin denburg shall resign and Friedrich Wilhelm shall become regent.
 The government, in an official denial of newspaper charges, char acterized them as pure fantasy"
Seward daily gateway., 1932-10-15
SALES TAX MAY BE
 INCREASED BECAUSE
 OF TREASURY DEFICIT

WASHINGTON, Oct, Is, In crease in the sales tax is almost certain, it was announced here yesterday, because of the Treasury deficit of $4O,0OO,OO0 and enhanc- ing the need for more government economy which the public de- mands.
 The national d e b t is reported to have increased to $3,000, 100000, due to the depression, the returns from the income tax bringing out this assertion. The money to bal ance the books must be obtained from some source and the sales tax will probably be the source select ed.
 However, should the Democrats win in next months election, the Republican administration will be out of it and will let the problem go ever to that party. It was the sales tax fight which put Demo- crats in control of the House at the last session of Congress.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-10-15
LARGE NUMBER OF.
 RESERVATIONS ABOARD
 $. YUKON FOR SOUTH

Passengers departing on the SS. Yukon, of the Alaska Steamship Co.,, last night at 9 o'clck for Seat tie and way-ports Were:-
 To SEATTLE-Mr and Mrs. s. M. Graf, G. c. Erickson, Mrs. c. Clark, J. s. Sturdevant, MT. and Mrs. c. w. Stone, Laila Anderson, Mrs. B Sorlie, J. I. Dillon, Harold Stewart, Wm F. Hoelscher, MT. and Mrs. R. E. Lynch, Jerry Zinehan M. R. Morgan, Mrs. A. HolmquiSt, Mrs. Orin Olsen, N. A. Evans, Fred Matz, J. A. Tord, Geo. Beck, F. s. Brooks, Robert Dahl, c. Emmet, T. Rae, Frank Foskett, Jens Hellson, Arnt Skang, T. OhnStad, Fritz Metzger, Geo. McMaster, Warren Neil, W. S. Christensen, Wm. Hart nett, Tom McNean, Joseph w.. Bowman, MT. and Mrs. Maritz An dreSen. MT and Mrs Gus Uatila, c. J. Whitney, E. H. Carlson, Miss Jean Love, Geo. F. Potter, V. C. An dersOn, ThOS. P Hyde, Capt. c. w. Adams, MT. and Mrs. L. K. Sharp less, Jr., Mrs. A. c. Sessions, Alfred Andresen, Clara Andresen, w, J. Rooney, Martin Claich, R. B. Oliver, GuStin A. Vedin, Mr. and Mrs. Ar thur Chamberlin, Carl J. Erickson, Miss Minnie Coleman.
 To VALDEZ-Helen Gulovsen, Mrs. Henshaw, Dr. A. R. Roberts, Grant H. Pearson.
 To JUNEAU-Irene Frazer, Nora Frazer, Ida Lytelle, J. P. Morgan, Carl Harden.
 To KETCHIKAN-E. D. Somers, Marco Batoris, Woodrow Garrison. To CORDOVA-Wm. L. Paul, w. H. Laughlin, Rawland T. Wyatt, D. N. Ohphant, Neil Holdren, Conner B. Cole, Chas. Hancock, Preston Claudman, Wm. McNeil, Dennis O'Brien.
 To LATOUCHE-George Martich, James Onsick.
 Passengers embarking at Valdez for the voyage to Seattle via Sew ard were Fred c. Bannister.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-10-15
GARNER CHARGES
 HOOVER CONCEAL|NG
 EXPRESSION DEFICITS

NEW YORK. Oct, 15,-JOhn N. Garner. Democratic candidate for vice-president charged the admin istration with having concealed deficits during the depression. He charged the administration with abusing confidence" hiding the truth, and substituting pretence for actuality", and described Presi- dent Hoover's statement that the country had at one time been with in two weeks of leaving the gold standard as "a libel on the credit of the United States
 Because of my position ln the government, I know there was never a warrant for saying that we were on the edge of financial col lapse. world crash and government failure The whole thing is ab- Surd, I cannot conceive that Mr. Mellon or MT. Mills should have made such a statement, nor can l conceive that President Hoover would have uttered such an Ob- vious error unless somebody had told him that such was the fact"
 Garner denied that the latest stage of depression had been re- percussion from abroad. Tt came from our own folly and illusion, not the least of which was that prosperity was so great that pover- ty would soon be abolished".
 Citizen President Hoover'S 1928 statement of policies for agricul ture and industry and the Subse quent development in these fields, Garner declared was financing loans to crippled countries was folly. Increasing tariffs destroyed foreign trade and made debt pay ment impossible" The cause of continued depression was ascribed by Garner to the deficit. Hiram Johnson will not support Hoover, he said.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-10-15
DANGER OF WAR

LONDON, Oct, 1.-The Nations 0. the world are quarreling more than at any time in world history, and there is imminent danger of a new world war, David Lloyd George, British Statesman, said in an address before the Information al Peace Society. His speech re- ferred to the present plight of Ger many and accused the Allied Pow CTS of insincerity in their attitude toward Berlin.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-10-15
SIN, H, JOHNSON WILL
 NOT SUPPORT HOOVER
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct, 15,-Sen

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct, 15,-Sen- ator Hiram Johnson, of California, cannot and will not" suppor t President Hoover for reelection, he said in response to a telegram from gressive Republican, MT. Hoover is not, he declared.
 The publishers had appeared to Johnson with statement that his statement might have a decisive effect on the contest in California. Johnson has a tremendous follow ing in California and both Hoover and Governor Roosevelt have been seeking his support.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-10-15
MISSOURI STAGES \
 L!0N HUNT EXPEDITION

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Oct 15.-A lion hunting expedition with the hunt CTS taking the lions with them in cages so they will be sure to have something at which to shoot is be- ing staged near here.
 Nellie and Bess, 10 months old lionesses, will be loosed on Miss issippi river island at dawn today. Four hours later 10 dogs will start hunting them. Four men and a IA year old boy armed with heavy rifles hope to kill the lions and bring their hides back as souvenirs of Missouri's first lion hunt.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-10-15
$. ALASKA ENROUTE
 ID SEWARD WITH 18

SEATTLE, Oct, 15,-The SS. AL aska, of the Alaska Steamship Co.,, sailed this morning at g o'clock with the following Seward passen- gers:
 Edward G. Dobrin, Mrs. D. c. La briche and infant, Valerie Labriche, Henry Olson, MT. and Mrs. L. L. Denison, MT. and Mrs. L. Best, in fant and Sidney Best, Chas. Lar son, Mrs. V. R. Fuller and infant, Mrs. c. U. Southwick and infant, Mrs. L. E. Fleckenstein and Mrs. J. L. Reed.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-10-15
IRISH DELEGATION
 OPTIMISTIC, c0NFAB

LONDON, Oct, 15,-High States men of Great Britain and the Irish Free State, began a series of con- ferences which they hope will bring to an end of the strangest of all modern wars.
 Irish delegates, headed by Presi- dent Ramon De Valera, and Brit ish leaders, under Foreign Secre- tary Sir John Simon, spent most of the time discussing the form of procedure to be followed in further weekend conferences. The Irish delegation were optimistic.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-10-15
WILL PRESS DEMAND
 F0A |NSULL'S RETURN

CHICAGO, Oct., 15, An action to oust Mayor Anton J. Cermak be- cause he was on an Insull "preferr- ed' list, climaxed a phase of the Insull case here.
 Another development was the departure for Washington, of the Assistant States Attorney, enroute to Greece to press the demand for Insults return here to face charges in connection with the collapse of his utilities projects.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-10-15
CHIvALROUS BURGLAR
 ESCAPES WITH $29,000

NEW YORK, Oct. IS, Don't scream lady; remember there's children asleep in the house."
 So spoke a burglar to frightened Mrs. Minerva Coleman when he backed her up against the bed, post and tied her securely with a couple of her husbands neckties,
 He then proceeded to remove $20,0O0 worth of jewelry from the lady's safe to his pocket.
 He was compelled to halt for a few minutes when two servants, entering the room, were likewise bound. He made a safe escape.