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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-08
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| Times readers are mrited to cypress
their rieics in these columns. Mdke your
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to ESQ 40ords or less
BY Times Reader.
Twenty-three years ago, a man
with a wife and two children
bought a horse in Morgan county
Another farmer living nearby went
his note for 500. Twenty years ago
this September, the man who bought
the horse was killed by a train at
La Crosse, Wis. Five years ago in
June, the party. who went on the
note called to see the widow, now
IS; and who lives alone, and asked
her if she remembered the sale of
the horse. She said she remembered
her husband buying a horse, but
knew nothing about it. He eX-
planned to her that she was obli-
gated to pay this. Of course, this
frightened her and she gave him
$40 her first pay day, as she was
cooking at a sanitarium in Martins
vile at that time.
Before he left her house that day,
he had her sign on piece of paper.
A couple of weeks after, she found
she had signed a new note for 500.
Every one told her this was wrong,
that she would not have to pay it.
I went to see the lawyer who was
trying to force her to pay it. He
admitted it was dirty but said that
there were as many lawyers in
Martinsville as there were grocery
stores, and if he didn't take the
case, some one else would.
In the meantime, the plaintiff
died. SO nov the heirs are putting
her little house up for public auc-
ton on Dec. %, between 10 a. m.
and. 4 p. m. at the courthouse in
Martinsville to collect $50
This widow has no money, no
job and is two months behind with
her payments on her house which
she has been paying on for nine
years.
Will the citizens Of Martinsville
investigate this and learn what kind
of fine neighbors they have to let
such as this take place in their own
city?
This auction notice was pub
lished in Martinsville last week.
BY Benjamin F. Stuart.
Now that the i'll criticism. like a
windstorm, has spent its force, it is
time for reason to assert itself in
regard to Tndianas exhibit at the
Chicago Century of Progress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-08

TTOW is wife TO obtain justice
l. L and her fair share Of money
when the sentiment against alimony
is growing?
A Cleveland mother faces this
problem. She has seen her husband
spend hundreds a month upon his
mistress while she and her children
have lived on $50 a month, doled
out to her by the court?
The adjustments in such case
necessarily must depend upon the
judge, and probably We need not
expect justice until courts are i'm
proved and judges are immune from
human frailties. Certainly the man
who has a $40 a month income
should be compelled to give an ade-
quate sum to his children.
OF that sum the wife should have
her share, not because she has been
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-08
you your say

interests Of the taxpayers and leave
the Walkathon alone and let each
and every individual be his own
judge as to whether he cared to
spend his money for that kind of
entertaining.
When something like the Butler
university deal is pulled off they
close one eye, or even both, if nee
essary, and let the taxpayer be the
goat, as usual but with the Walka-
thon, that brings in revenue to the
state and affords those who care
for such entertainment a chance for
little recreation, they are hor-
rified and decide it must stop. re-
CARELESS of how many sign a pc
tition for it to continue.
AS for Chief Mike Morrissey and
his brave bluecoats, he should have
a medal for bravery for taking his
life in his hands and going into
such dangerous place, amid all
those desperadoes with only twenty
five of his trusty men to guard him.
That episode Saturday afternoon
should go down in history as one
of the chiefs greatest ''roundups."
Had there been a call into head
quarters that the Dillinger gang
were out at the manufacturers
building, he would have warned all
his trusty cruising squads to get
under cover and publish in the pa
pers the exact location of all his
Notifications so Dillinger would
have the safest route out of town.
Here's hoping the Walkathon
wins out against all this silly OPP
position.
I dare you to publish this.
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truly can compensate us for such
injustice.
One lives and one must endure.
The way for such a wife is hard,
but she will have to walk upon it..
After obtaining as much help as
possible by legal means, she simply
will have to set herself to the job
Of bringing up her children alone
and upon very little. Railing against
fate and cultivating thoughts Of
hatred only will hinder her in the
performance Of her task.
Let's look at it in another way.
Compare what both husband and
wife now possess. He has his in
come and his mistress. She has her
integrity and her children. If bet
ting is to be done upon the chance
of either for future happiness III
put all my money on the woman.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-08
Que St1OnS and
AnSWe rS

Q-Are lotteries legal in
France, Italy and Spain?
Ayes.
Q-Would an alien woman who
became an American citizen
through marriage prior to 1922
lose her citizenship if she now
marries another alien?
A-No.
Q-What was the language
used in the original Treaty OF
Versailles and Armistice Proc
lamation?
A-French and English.
O-Is Ricardo Cortez Jew?
Ayes.
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A Woman'S Viewpoint : {:
BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

a wife. but because she is doing her
work as mother. The citizen who
performs this task. most important
in the nation. deserves proper COM
pensation. if possible.
The woman who denied this is
bitter. Could We expect her to be
otherwise at first?
DUT I think women, whether
ID married, single or divorced,
must learn that courts never can
settle the problems Of life. Neither
justices nor jurors are able to give
us back our lost dreams or to res
urrect our dead hopes.
If one has been married to
scoundrel who deliberately takes
from his children that which should
be theirs, to spend it on loose wom-
en-. there is no earthly tribunal that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-08
Housing
~ Alexander Freeman.

BY Alexander Freeman.
We, the members of the Re
ciproco Club, believe that the Com
munity Housing Corporation will
do a great work. This movement
has beeen indorsd unanimously by
this club. It will be of great bene-
fit in our slum districts where
housing conditions for Negroes are
unfit for human habitation. We
hope this project will be carried
out successfully.
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BY a Times Reader.

BY a Times Reader.
AS a citizen and taxpayer, would
like to express my opinion of the
situation at the Walkathon and our
noble city attorney" and police de-
partment, especially Chief Morris
sey.
1t is no wonder the city of In
dianapolis is the laughing stock Of
the entire state with such narrow
minded people trying to run our
affairs.
1t seems to me that the city at
torney would have plenty to do if
he would look after the financial
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M. E. Tracy Says:

MIRA will be dragged into court, which is
| L about the last place it could do any good
Some people, however, rather would fight over
the question OF whether an experiment is con-
stltutional than see it succeed.
The fact that we are in the grip of a great
emergency and that no one knows precisely what
| to do means nothing to them.
This country always has been able to afford
the pleasure of splitting legal hairs. The fact
that it proposes to go right on shows how deep
seated some Of its traditions are.
There are plenty Of legal hairs to split No
one with common sense denies that the Roose-
welt administration has gone very far in it's
efforts to rejuvenate American life. No one with
common sense doubts that the President is fully
aware of the thin ice on which he is skating.
Meanwhile, we are in the midst of disaster.
Too much havoc is being wrought for us to hold
our hands until every fine point has been de-
cded.
! MAYBE certain phases of NRA are uncon-
1V1 stitutional. but so are conditions which
deprive millions of the right to live comfortably
| and happily.
We are not true masters of our fate for the
moment but must compromise with crcum-
| stances unless, indeed We are prepared to in
tensify misfortune for the sake of being techni-
cally correct.
A terrific calamity has overtaken us Old
methods have proved inadequate to meet it. We
are not sure whether new ones will work any
better but do We have to deny them trial on
that account?
When the emergency is over there will be
ample time to square accounts with the Consti-
tuition. When bread and meat have been re-
stored to the hungry multitudes it will be quite
proper to restore those liberties which may have
been abridged during the process.
The President has undertaken to reorganize
| the country not necessarily on a permanent
basis, but to do what had to be done for the
time being. He has insisted on temporary laws
and has frankly conceded their experimental
character Time after time he has told us that
he could not be sure how the various plans. pro-
grams and policies would work. Time after time
he has expressed willingness to alter them. as.
II and when that seemed desirable
OF what profit to quarrel over the constitu
~ tionality Of measures which NAV cease be-
fore test case can be completed? On the other
hand. what harm may result from the de-
morallZing effect Of such an attitudei
It may be unconstitutional for an ordinary
citizen to take command Of bewildered crowd
in case of fire. flood or famine but who will saw
he should be stopped on that ground?
Horace Greeley constantly accused Lincoln
CT violating the Constitution, but urged people
10 support him nevertheless. because, in Gree
ley'S opinion, Lincoln was doing what had to be
done in the only possible way and the preserva-
ton Of the Union outweighed strict obedience to
laws
The present job is to preserve American life.
American institutions and American ideals We
know that it calls for temporary sacrifice of
privileges. Why suppose that the privileges of a
legal gabfest is immune?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-08

It's correct to say, None of them are here, I"
according to an English professor at the Uni
verslty of Michigan. If he means prosperity
bringerS, none Of them never wuz. here"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-08

Billy Sunday is planning to 20 to Alaska
Tor revival tour. He'll get a cold reception
there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-08

Queen Of Irak married to the king by
proxy last September will meet him finally
for the first time. mistake. Now she'll be
just his wife,
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-08

BY Benjamin F. Stuart.
Now that the i'll criticism, like a
windstorm, has spent its force, it is
time for reason to assert itself in
regard to Indiana's exhibit at the
Chicago Century of Progress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-08

HE house subcommittee on ways and
means has done a commendable job in its
partial report on how to stop tax avoidance
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
A Few Words
About Meetings

1t can be shown that where or
ganiZation was once established
and it fell apart the reason for
the breakdown was, nine times out
of ten, that meetings of the LEGAL
were not held regularly. First for
one reason, then for another a
meeting was not held on the
scheduled date, with the result
that many farmers got to thinking
that the U. F. L. meeting is not
important, and they stopped COM
ing 10 the meetings. There isn't
anything more important than the
meeting. It should be held on
regular, scheduled dates.
A good meeting is a prepared
meeting. We have said that be-
fore and we repeat it again here,
The executive committee of the To-
cal should meet in advance to take
up the correspondence, the diree-
tives, etc., that have come from
the higher organs or that are "a
be found in the pages Of the Pro
ducers News as well as to con.
slider the local problems that are
held over from the previous meet.
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ing or that have developed since
the previous meeting. On the
basis of these an agenda for the
coming meeting can be prepared.
Then there is no need for staring
at each other and wondering what
we have come here for when the
meeting takes place. It is always
well if someone in the form of a
report can present to the meeting
the principle problems that are
confronting the body.
The purely business side of the
meeting should be made as short
as possible. By the business
side" we mean the organizational
details like collecting dues, plan
ming socials, etc. Time must be
given to the discussion of local
farmers problems, such as fore
closures and evictions, relief; any
grievances which agitate the COM
munity. This is what the organi-
cation is for primarily. Secondly,
educational discussions must be on
the order of business. There is
always an editorial or article in
the Producers News that will serve
as a bisis for discussion. The U.
~ L. has already issued some
pamphlets and will issue some
more. A good practice is to select
some one or two individuals at a
meeting to prepare a brief report
or opening speech for the next
meeting. No matter how short it
may be, It is sure TO occasion
valuable discussion.
The meeting Of the u. F. L. To-
cal is not the place fer gossip OF
for carrying on neighborly dis
eussion about the pigs and cows.
You always have an opportunity
for that. Give your serious at
tention at least for the one eve
ming to the problems Of the or
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
November "a, 1888
The Second Conference and
the United Front

CASUAL VISITOR to the Farmers Second National Con-
ing of only cleft wing" farmers of the country rather than
the united front conference which it actually was.
The visitor would have Judged from the fact that here
700 farmers apparently unanimous several points
In the first place. they were agreed that the Roosevelt New
Deal offered only increased misery to the san and middle
farmers
In the Call of Action adopted by these farmers Roose
vet was recognized as creature of Wall Street. servant
who did the bidding of the Money Masters The OF
he New Deal was set forth as designed o help the financial
interests at the expense of the lives and homes of the work.
ing peopeto save the food SPECTATORS banks and nSur
companies that had led the attack foreclosures and
evictiOns"
The casual visitor would have Judged from this that all
the farmers present who voted for this were radicals
'left-wingers But the casual visitor would have been
wrong.
THE DISGUST of the farmers for Mr. Roosevelt and his
Deal certainly is wide spread Unable to bear the
burden of insecurity hunger and the threat OF eviction the
farmers ready to struggle However if we consider
them all radical" lefwngerS merely this basis we
binding ourselves to few facts.
Wall Street knows, for instance that the farmers are
dsosted with the New Deal and Wall Street that
thew demand action 1t is in such times this that the big
capitalists send their agents done new STYLE IhlS
&c b time when Wall Street puts forward its third political
- an Ear obor or+v This c also the time when
the American Hetes begin to spread the poison OF race
prejudice natonas false patriotism IN an effort to buc
From our experience at the conference well
previous experience we know how win the OF
farmers for struggle against common enemy the Wal
Street money lords That method is the United Front
At THE CONFERENCE voted together for a united
front program 1t complete the program OF
the United Farmers League 1t is not fareeng as the
program of UFL. But it is program which the mass Of
farmers will recognize their own, which they will fight
for
Our job therefore is to take this united front program
into every locality, organization to every farmer pos
sibe and rally them all in struggle for these demands.
Fighting shoulder to shoulder with allies of the
city workers. they will realize the truth of program and
the honesty of furthest aims They will be won fol-
our struggle rather than for the struggle of the Fascst
and the Farmer-Labor parties of Wall Street
Some of our members may feel that the farmers are
becoming radcalized rapidly that need not bother
about united fronts Many of them consider the Chicago
Conference as proof of this.
What the conference proves the contrary that by
united 'front.' win the of the farmers The
present when the threat of the Fascsts and the Takers
great is especially the time for firm and bold policy
the broadest united fronts
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
NATL. COMMITTEE
FOR 1884 SET UP
AT CHICAGO MEET
Socialist, Communist Pre-
sent Parties Farm Pro-
grams at Conf.

CHICAGO, Ill.-The last job of
the Farmers Second National Con-
ference was to establish a Nation
al Committee for Action consisting
of 81 members, with Lem Harris,
as executive secretary, to carry
through a united front campaign
for cancellation of secured debts.
Together with the National Com
mittee, a special dairy section
committee of rs farmers was set
up to carry through plans for milk
strikes in the various big milk
sheds.
On Thursday morning, the con-
ference broke up into five sections,
as follows: grain, dairy, cotton
corn, and hogs, and specialties Tin
Guiding poultry, truck, potatoes
etc.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
Overcoming
Our Weaknesses

In the November third issue of
the Producers News we put forth
series of propositions to be con-
sidered in connection with i'm
proving our work. Let us now go
back to that issue and once mere
study the points raised thsre. And
after that let US give coneidera-
ton to the following additional
propositions:
Are we willing to, and do we
devote our time and energy
seriously to the building of oul
organization? Are we doing what
we can to educate our backward
neighbors by conducting study
! groups, holding little house meet.
ings, spreading the Producers
News and other United Farmers
League literature? Are we doing
what we should be doing or are
we still trying individually to gel
along by trying to make a success.
y
Of farming?
It will do no good to tell the
backward neighbor that the CAPT
talist system is falling to piece:
and that it win crash, if on tn,
other hand we bolster up faith il
that system by working harder OF
the farm, by trying to improve tn,
Farm and so on, proving by ouI
actions that we expect to get bene
fits from that work. In othe.
words, it does no good to preacl
one thing and to practice another
| Governor Floyd B. Olson, Gov
ernor LANCER, John Simpson, Mil,
Reno. John Bosch and others O
their kind are talking about tn,
breakdown of capitalism and o
the coming cooperative common
wealth. But, what do they do /
practice? They accept al tn
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24

A high light of the conference
was the opening report of Lem
Harris, executive secretary of the
national committee. In detail, he
sketched the activities of the mill
tant farm movement over the past
year in stopping foreclosures and
If, fighting for a better standard
of living. He concluded with call
to unity of all toiling farmers,
around the issues of the confer
ence.
The reports of the delegates
from various sections of the coun-
try was history in the making
Joe Weller ard Johnny Hetts OF
Wisconsin, who came straight from
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ganization. The social side neA
not be and should not be entIsV
neglected. A song OF Two VIII e.,
liven the gathering. A recitation
or two or some sketch will be cav
cational as well as entertaining.
cup of tea or coffee with or WIZ
out the trimmings, 60 gOOd' n
pecially on winter evenings -
of these little things will nelp
attract the outsiders.
United Farmers League ns''
ings should be open to all iSl-.
ers and workers. In fact menlDes
of the United Farmers Ley !,.
must make it a point to p''.
farmer neighbors to every nls'
ing. Go to the neighbOrs WIZ
definite idea of what is gong
be taken up at the meeting y,
then convince your neigh6of 80
it is to his very interest 70 -
part in it. Every farmer ~
worker attending a meeting snO ~.
be made to feel that they are ~ 4,
come and that their part u ..ss,
discussion is appreciated Wls" Si.
thew are members Of the OrsS
zation or not. m
Meetings must be carried . I. 10
democratically. There must IA. y
throttling of opinion, even L 4 nat
adverse opinion. OF course add
does not mean that we . sr
make of our meetings OpeA i "oruty
for lawyers, politicians, .., co1 o.
agents and such, for carry,Hs Ne
their boss class propaganda, .. h
mean that the meetings mus D.,.iou
open for the expression Of fds
by any and every RANK az sbuss
farmer or worker. Persona us q
and name calling, in the ' 1'ust Be
discussions and debates M I'm meet.
avoided like the plague Our 3r, ai1
ings must be friendly,
constructive gatnerins''
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
Weekly OrganizatiOnal Letter
By ALFRED ITALIA Natl Minneapolis

appointments, offices and duties
given them by the capitalist class
to uphold capitalism, thus demon
strating their faith in the system
that they condemn in words. Fell
low farmers, it will not do for us
to be the little apes of the big
takers. Radical talk with conser-
vative deeds or no deeds at all is
not going to get US out of the jam
we are in. Education, organiza-
ton and struggle-these are the
things that are worth our time and
devotion.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24

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