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The Washington times., 1933-03-31
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large, bright living room, dining room,
8 bright bed rooms, lovely kitchen. tiled
bath with built-in tub and shower: 2
screened porches, extra lavatory in base
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-24
.IUDGE THAYER

TIME death of Judge Webster Thayer of
Il Massachusetts removes from the bench
jurist who attained about as odd variety of
fame as any man could get
In the course of long career on the bench,
Judge Thayer tried many cases. but his name
will be RECOMMENDATION a long, long time,
probably-because of just one case, the Sacco-
Vanzett trial
Whatever the opinions about the justice or
otherwise of the verdict rendered in that case,
one must at least admit that its memory will
be kept green for years to come. 1t is one of
the celebrated cases in American legal history;
it will have its place in the history books
century hence.
And as long as it is remembered, and read
about and examined by students, the name of
Judge Webster Thayer also will be remem-
bered.
Whatever the verdict which history ulti-
mately hands down about him. he at least will
not be forgotten.
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thousand immigrant ships; it struggled over
the mountains filled up the plains felled
forests and settled wildernesses; it made the
very name, America, shine like a good beacon
before the eyes Of the people of the world.
Define it? 1t is that deep and unspoken
confidence that in this land we are hitting
upon new way of ordering human society
way which is to mean a better life for
the ordinary man and woman, so that all
people may have chance for freedom, hap
piness and plenty
That faith is our most valuable possession;
If we ever really lose it so that we can not get
1t back we shall have lost everything
The undercurrent of excitement today sig
nifies rebirth of that faith. We are looking
beyond the horizon again and seeing great
things.
once more we are willing to believe that
America shall yet live up to the dreams that
brought it to birth
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-24
MONDAY. APRIL "a. 1898.
A PHILIPPINE CONFERENCE

THOUGH for the moment obscured by do
mesrc problems and European diplo-
matte conversations, The Philippine question
waits to be answered by the Roosevelt admin
istration The so-called independence law
passed by the last congress is vicious legis-
lation.
1t is acceptable neither to public opinion
In the islands nor in the United States If the
Flllpinos are to have freedom, they want it
and have right to it without the impossible
strings attached to the new law.
The law, in its final mutated form, was
written by and for selfish interest lobbyists
vino had at heart the welfare of neither the
Fuipinos nor the Americans
If the FilipinOs were to accept alleged in
dependence under the offered terms, they
would have no freedom to determine whether
the United States retained naval and military
bases in the islands; their freedom of foreign
relations would be restricted
On the economic side their liberty would
be restricted even more After having made
them dependent ON the American market, he
would limit their freedom Of export.
To avoid the lasting disgrace to the United
States in unloading it's responsibility in such
cruel fashion, and to avoid the economic ruin
of friendly people who have lived under our
flag for thirty years, the responsible leaders
Of the two governments should cooperate.
President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine
senate, whose craftsmanship is valued as
highly in Washington as in Manila just has
arrived in this country We hope that Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Mr.. Quezon can arrange a
representative conference to find better
way out.
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|M.E.TracySays:
rise of dictatorship ov

THE rise of dictatorship owes more to an old
IL habit than new order.
For one reason or another, people have
lain down on the job of governing themselves.
They want the privilege just as ardently as they
ever did, but shy at the responsibility.
What they can get out of the government
has come to be the all-important motive of those
who take an active interest.
Many Of the so-called liberal innovations
have rested on little but a clever scheme of
passing the buck.
Politicians have seen the advantage Of leav-
ing legislation to popular sentiment whether
officially or unofficially expressed In the first
place. it relieves them of being held accountable.
In the second, it abstracts attention from what
they are doing in routine way.
The idea that people have either the time or
intelligence to make expert decisions on every
little matter that may come up before town,
a city, or nation is course ridiculous. 1t has
been made to play major part, however, IN the
drama of modern democracy.
WHILE the people have tried to figure out
w policies laws, and regulations, the poll
tcians have built up machines.
Theoretically it sounds all right to let the
people vote on everything from war to bread
wrapping machine, but from practical stand
point it results only in confusion.
The mass simply can't be its own doctor,
lawyer or engineer If it could, we wouldn't be
paying so many of them for expert assistance.
BY the same token the mass can not be It's
own lawmaker except in the most general sense.
Wherever expertness is desirable, authority
must be delegated to some individual or group
of individuals.
Our forefathers recognized and obeyed this
self-evident truth when they established rep
resentative republic.
During the last half-century, tendencies not
only here but abroad, have favored more
direct form of government.
These tendencies definitely have increased
the amount of talk and balloting, but they have
not made government proportionately better.
MASS emotionaIsm rather than studied con-
1N1 illusions have come to dominate public
policy
There has been a marked inclination to act
on impulse, even with regard to the gravest
matters.
All Europe went to war in four or five days
and let no one suppose that the people were
against it.
The eighteenth amendment actually was swept
into our Constitution by a wave of popular ex-
element.
The delusion that all things could be made
right by law or system, especially if trotted out
in the name of the masses, has gripped the
whole civilized world
Failure and fatigue produce dictatorship, just
as inevitably as night follows day. Nothing is
wrong with democracy except the way it has
been abused.
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HAIL THE TWIN JONAHS!

ID EAPPEARANCE of Andrew Mellon and
IN Ogden Mills upon the public scene comes
at most opportune time and brings high
encouragement to distressed people.
Mills incidentally, will speak here Friday
and his message" will be of especial interest.
Emerging for the first time from the snow
bank of ballots with which only few brief
months ago their official policies were sub
merged, they will lead the opposition to the
Roosevelt relation program.
So completely and consistently wrong did
these two prove themselves as they guided us
SO swiftly cellarward that we all shall take
heart in the assumption that they will con-
tinue to run true to form and be wrong today,
as ever.
Their shields should go through, I'M
furnished, their records remain unbroken,
their stalwart reputation for economic awk-
wardness and fiscal futility be undimmed the
very momentum of their past performance
carry them to even greater heights of error
and ineptitude.
Hence the wave of reinsurance that sweeps
over us, as they add their potent bit to the
cause of national rehabilitation.
Much has been written and said about the
need for restored confidence as factor in
recovery.
than they ever will realize to that happy end.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-24
NEW FOREST LANDS

THE activities of the forest army" recently
4 enrolled for emergency reconstruction
work haze aroused a new interest in the gen.
eral subject of reforestation and construction
1t is worth noting that survey made by the
United States forest service urges that public
agencies should in the near future acquire
224000 900 acres of additional forest land.
Whatever may the. comparative merits of
public ownership in other fields, it is fairly
clear that to put through an intelligent, large
scale forest conservation program the govern
ment must own a vast acreage of forest land.
In the very nature of things the Iong-range
and all-lncluSive plans necessary for such a.
program can not be evolved when ownership
of the land involved is split among a great
number of individuals
Here is a very important field where ma
tonal planning is necessary. 1t is to be hoped
that the government will go forward with the
work in a far-reaching manner.
In the past, forest conservation has been
largely conversation. This is proved bv a
plain-spoken report of the United States forest
service, just issued to the senate by Secretary
of Agriculture Wallace and his assistant DR..
TugWeu.
Practically all the major problems of
American forestry center in, or have grown
out of private ownership" says this report
The avowedly planless policy of private own
ership is failing to meet the situation"
The situation, as described by the report.
would make the gods weep. Through what is
called the cut-and-get- out policy" more than
fifty million acres of agricultural land, once
timbered, have been abandoned.
The forest capital of the east. where 96 Der
cent is IN private hands, must be increased
by $50 per cent to meet current demands. The
west, containing 80 per cent of the remaining
saw timber, is being burned, slashed and de-
pleted at an alarming rate. Of the devastated
and poorly stocked forest lands, 80 per cent
is privately owned
Problems of erosion, wild-life watershed
destruction and devastation of timber re-
sources grow each year through neglect Even
the federal public lands are overgrazed and
under-toreSted. Tax delinquences on de-
torested areas are spreading this domain.
The report urges:
l. large extension of public ownership.
1t recommends federal and state purchases of
2240O0000 acres of timber land, including
part of the abandoned rural regions now
available, "at the earliest possible date" The
federal government should buy 134O0OOOO
acres, the states 100000 acres.
2. More intensive management on all public
lands
Nothing can be gained and much will be
lost by delay" the report declares.
Here is concrete land utilization program
for one-third of the nation
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-24
THE ELECTRIC TAX

THE sense Of outrage which has been &C
- cumulating for year over the electric tax,
designed for producers and shifted to con-
sumers has expressed itself in the house Of
representatives.
In ore swift rebellion against its leadership,
the membership of the house put the tax back
where it belonged, on the companies whose
monopoly profits have kept them in relatively
comfortable condition throughout the hard
times of the past three years.
The senate, which levied the tax originally
upon producers of electricity, should welcome
this reinforcement in its old fight to place
taxes where they can be borne most
easily and should lose no time in seconding
the action of the house.
The men who transformed production
tax into a consumption tax in the secrecy Of
the conference room have been retired from
public life by the voters. The internal revenue
administration which forbade state utility
commissions to assist in protecting house
holders from the tax has been changed.
If the senate acts promptly, the country
soon will be rid of one of the most unjust sales
taxes ever levied and one that reminded every
citizen monthly of the political power of the
electric industry
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Typhoid Death Rate Rapidly Reduced

TN England and Wales, in the
4 years from 1871 to 1875, there
were 37.4 deaths per 100000 popu-
lation from typhoid fever.
BY 1911 this number had dropped
to six, whereas in the United States,
in 1911, the rate still was twenty
one. However, the rate had dropped
to As in the United States in 1881.
Certain states have much lower
rates than others, and in general
the rates in the southern states are
much above those in the north.
Indeed, the rates for Minnesota
and Wisconsin were 06 and or per
100000, as contrasted with 1877 for
Tennessee, 1875 for West Virginia,
AS for Louisiana, 1876 for South
Carolina, and 1871 for Georgia.
Even here, however, there has
been improvement, because Tennes-
see and South Carolina had rates
exceeding 200 in the year 1927.
So far as foreign countries are
concerned, Polish cities have rates
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-24
A Woman's Viewpoint

THERE is nothing like hard times
i to promote common sense.
We're even getting some these days
from the postofice department. Mr..
Farley announces that the aban-
Comment of mail delivery in small
towns is contemplated as an eco
nomical measure.
Now this is not only practical, but
will be welcome news to the small
towner himself, who didn't want
free delivery in the first place, al
though he probably signed all the
petitions. That official little racket
was conceived and executed by the
politician who made medicine for
himself.
The resident upon whom the boon
was bestowed may have been
pleased at first by his metropolitan
airs, but he regretted, and did not
entirely abandon the pleasant Gus
tom of going after his own letters.
One Of the incest things about
life in a small town is the daily trip
to the postof1ce.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-24
CROPPING FOR A BETTER DAY

WHILE many dogmatists have their cut
and-dried solutions of the current de-
preston, it is likely that we shall have-to do
a vast amount of experimenting in the solu-
ton of the rather unique situation in which
we find ourselves
There will be much fumbling and CROP
ing, but in the end we may reach light and
recovery. new group of books contributes
in one way or another to the search for
path to better days
The eminent poet and playwright. John
Drinkwater, has written a thoughtful and
amiable assessment of our age in This
Troubled World" He finds that our major
difficulties lie in improper adjustment to ma
chine production, the perpetuation of war.
and the breakdown of conventional political
institutions
He speaks for a greater attention to art
and individuality in the future. Nobody well
can question the nobility of Mr. Drinkwater's
ideals but one legitimately may question their
practical adaptability to the elimination of
economic reimbursement starvation and mis-
cry. They may be useful in solving the prob
lens of leisure which lie beyond the achieve
ment of recovery
DR.. Elizabeth Faulkner Baker has made a
study of the displacement of men as a result
of mechanical improvement in commercial
printing in the last generation in "Displace-
ment of Men by Machines" While there
have been enormous advances in the tech
nology of printing, she does not find any
alarming displacement of men.
This has been due in part to the fact that
the machinery has not been of the type which
throws a vast number of individuals out of
work, and in part to the large increase in the
demand for printed products. Nevertheless,
there has been very considerable revisual
element of chronological unemployment.
Critics of Technocracy will be unwise to
base their dogmas too exclusively upon this
book which deals with very special and
complicated type of industry. AS DR.. Baker
points out, one man with new type of ma
chine can not produce more than two or
three men could have turned out with the
older machinery.
In other industries there are automatic
machines which enable one operator to do
the work formerly carried out by more than
a score of men.
Nearly four years ago Ralph Borsodi pub
lshed a very striking criticism of modern
capitalism and mass production, urging a re-
turn to the land and the development Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-24
The Seal of FiHaIitY

TINE declaration which unbaI-
Il anced me was that we should
return to the modes of the Middle
Ages. AT that time a thing called
authority or excellence" existed
In education.
In other words, you started for
goal, and when you arrived Won
remarked, Here's where I get of"
And upon alighting you could sit
down and rest yourself for the re-
mainder of your natural existence.
1 don't believe that. I think the
trouble with most human progress
IS that the traveller picks himself
some Grand Central Station. That's
mistake, because if he doesn't get
there 1t is tragic, and if he does
that is also tragic.
have known certain fine fam
ing fighters who went out to win
an digestive, and when they sue
ceeded it ruined them for life. They
immediately became armchair re-
dictionaries.
have in mind specifically certain
StaIWart champions Of the suffrage
for women. They got it, and after
that they felt that anything more
was unnecessary. Those who
pointed that the ballot had hot
solved the feminist problem were
Stlgmatized as impatient radicals
who didn't know when they were
we'll off
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reer and his social standing with
threats of martial law, provost
guards, and confiscation of capital
to provide relief for those IMPROVE
dent, unthrifty people who are I'M
able to care for themselves and who
would refuse honest work if it we're
offered.
Does this Governor, or any think
ing man, believe that we, who by
skill, ability, and intelligence have
accumulated property, and who by
thrift and wisdom have preserved it
and provided the necessary good
things of life for ourselves, owe any,
thing to the great unWashed horde?
Does this Governor or any think
ing man. believe that the solid, sub
Stantial people will stand for any
such radical, Socialistic, Commu-
nistic drivel? Does he not know
that there is very definite sacred
ness about property rights that
must be maintained at all costs?
Does he not know that capital
and interest must be held inviolate
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-24

tipped eXpertly into their boxes.
Pleasant anticipations of happy
messages to come-although some of
them never do-lend a vicarious
happiness to the friendly groups.
The housewife shopping for her
groceries drops in to gossip for a
while with an acquaintance from
the other side Of town. The
preacher jokes with the bootlegger.
And by the time the general de-
livery window is open and the trav-
cling salesman has received his or
ders, every little item of news has
become common property.
And what a place for romance is
that postoffice lobby How will
lingly the youngsters offer 10 go
after the MALL" Sweethearts whis-
per together and plan their trysts.
and rough, griny little boys chase
shrieking little girls through the
open doors.
The small-town postofice is as
popular as the old-town pump used
to be- It's official comeback will do
much to tighten the gloom brought
by 25-cent wheat.
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small, self-sufficing household units. In the
days Of the bull market and of the prosperity
around-the-corner talk, such book seemed
chimerical
But after four years of depression his
doctrine possesses far greater attractiveness
and practically Many would prefer the
simple life to no life at all Not few COM
munities have turned to Mr.. Borsodi as a
guide. Around Dayton, O., considerable
groups are putting his plan into practical
operation. For this reason the country may
welcome the new edition of his stimulating
book which may prove bible to many thou
sands who despair of mass production and
"the great industry" under the system of
society," 1t is called THE Ugly Civilization"
The disappearance of wages and the fail
ure Of bank credit have forced many people
in various parts of the United States to de-
vclop substitutes for conventional exchange
media Barter has been resumed on a large
scale, and in most communities which have
reverted to barter various schemes of scrip
money have been worked out.
This movement has passed beyond the stage
of bizarre experimentation and is enabling
many thousands to get along paSSably we'll
outside the pale Of conventional capitalstic
finance. Wayne Weishaar and Wayne w.
Parrish have written a clear little introduc-
ton 70 the development of barter and scrip
money in the United States since the depres-
sion in Men without Money" 1t is an
amazing and truly significant movement which
may produce more interesting ultimate devel
opments than the late bank holiday.
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BY indianapolis Citizen.
Last year, when the budgets we're
being made up for the civil city,
school city, and county units, there
was talk of a tax strike.
The tax strike seems to be upon
us. According to figures released
by Fay Wright, deputy, spring col
lections are running IS per cent
behind last year.
Some people, unquestionably, are
not paying their taxes, as a ges-
ture of protest. However, much
the greater part of the people
simply haven't the money to pay
their taxes. They might oe able to
pay them, if the rate we're $3.50
a hundred.
The officials of Marion county
say, 1.-THE people must pay so
much" But the people do not pay
the set amount.
The answer? The officials will
not have the amount they want
to spend, whether they like it or
not.
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| though the heavens fall? And in
violate they shall be, eternally.
If the unskilled lower classes have
harbored the delusion that, because
during the development of this
great wealthy nation they received
much more than their share of the
national income, they are entitled
to receive as much now, let them be
at once undeceived.
American needs, and will have, a
peasant class, to perform the mental
tasks, and has, and will continue to
have, an ariStOcracy that rules over
the peasantry This condition al
ways has prevailed and always will,
in spite Of the piffle and poppycock
of such radicals as Governor Olsen.
BY Times Reader.
Have they any right at the as
SCISSORS office to raise your house
hold furnishings without coming
and looking at them, just going by
the room? 1 have some rooms that
didn't cost me $40 apiece TO fur
nish. I went around to an auction
room and got old things and painted
them.
Now they have me listed at $25 a
room, and after I have used them
for three or four years you might
say they aren't worth anything.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

of 343 for 1920, with a drop to 10
in 1880, but with a marked in
crease in 1882. Chile and Spain still
have rates between 10 and Is.
Japan has had a rate constantly
rising until 1924, when it almost
reached 25 per 100000, but it since
has dropped Greece, Hungary,
Italy and Portugal also have rates
still above Is per 100000
The rates generally are compare
BILE, although there is difficulty in
some places of making certain of the
difference in diagnosis between what
is called typhoid fever and paraty-
phoid fever.
The condition called typhoid fever
is spread largely by contaminated
food and water which get in contact
with typhoid germs either through
sewage improperly disposed of, or
through the medium of typhoid
ever carriers.