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wholly disapprOve you say the dealt

Times readers are mrited to cypress
their ctetcs in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to $50 tc0rdS or less.)
BY Independent Grocer.
This, is in reply to the letter of
Taxpayer and Welfare Worker"
which appeared Nov %. Mr. Tax
payer, if you'd stop long enough
you'd have realized that the differ
ent items on the so-called list"
consists mostly of staple foods, that
the list was made purposely for the
people who can not select reason
ably There are hundreds who do
not, if they did not that still doesn't
help their stomachs or those of
their children who are perfectly in
nocent of their parents buying. Ac-
cording to your idea you would have
script and they could go anywhere
and choose Wouldn't it be just
lovely for the majority of them to
go to chair stores, one chain store
particularly where they send their
money across the WaterP
Haven't you seen enough to see
that's partly what's wrong with our
country today? AS for farina being
fixed" cereal, what's wrong with
dried peaches, prunes, oats and pan
cake flour for breakfast? If de-
partment store had silk dress, a
wool or cotton for $1.89, or few
cents difference, would 1 have to
wool or cotton one if I preferred
the silk just because they saw fit to
advertise the wool and cotton? You
said Mr.. Book had soap on the
list" for 5 cents a bar, that you
noticed one store had three for 10
cents. Did you overlook the three
for g cents bars he had directly
under the cent bar? I'm not writ
ing in behalf of Mr.. Book or the
Governor, for there are several
things they've done I don't agree
with them on, but it seems to me
you got off the subject little. Let's
hear from you again.
BY F. w Terrence.
Will you please publish the fol-
loW-an open letter to Will Rogers?
Dear Mr.. Rogers:
Until recently, I would, perhaps,
have said Dear Will" However,
after hearing your rotten attack on
President Roosevelt, any such ap-
parent familiarity would be repul-
sive to me.
In one way, your performance was
a wonder as a quick change act. I've
laughed at your stuff, read your
articles with pleasure and attended
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Phone-RIley 5J51
FRIDAY. DEC l. 1888
A LIQUOR TARIFF

ONCE the tariff conflict between nations
- has come down to point of bargaining
it probably is fair enough to the administra-
ton 10 use liquor tariff for trading purposes.
That is the plan
Many foreign nations have been counting
upon large export of liquor to the United
States following repeal. Presumably they will
be more willing to level down their general
trade barriers against US. if that is the price
necessary for them to share in the American
liquor trade.
That the administration for the first time
Is beginning to understand the value Of for
e.gn trade to this country, and therefore is
troubled by the international tariff war. is
clear from recent statements by Agriculture
Secretary Henry Wallace and Commerce Sec
rotary Dan Roper. For several months the
President and his aids seemed to be operating
on the fallacy that this nation is entirely self
contained and independent Of foreign trade.
Today there is a new emphasis in Washington.
The goal should be reciprocal lowering of
tariffs all around AS the United States, dur
ing the Republican administrations, was re-
sponsible largely for starting this costly war
Of trade barriers, doubtless the United States
Will have to be the prime mover in the oppo-
site direction if anything is to be accom-
plshed.
In any event in view of the damage al
ready done to this country by the high pro-
tectonist policy, it would be grotesque to use
the tariff to protect an infant liquor industry
Here is one line Of foreign trade that might be
developed with a minimum Of consideration
for domestic manufacture. We refer especially
to hard liquor, rather than to light wines.
The liquor tariff should be temporary and
for trading purposes only.
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A START, ANYWAY

light years ago, in 1925. the country
~ was called prosperous. Five years ago,
in 1928, the great Republican BOOM was
at its height.
In 1925 and in 1923 farmers everywhere
were in bad straits They were given credit
aplenty, public and private credit; but what
ever the conditions in the cities. farm pros
perty was but a goal yet unattained
We know now how falsely prosperous
those years we're; how the bubbles of paper
profits burst with noise that still is rumbling
around the land. Some city jewellers may
have had warm silk shirts and had chickens
in every pot, but the farm folk relatively
speaking, had neither a shirt nor a pot.
There followed the long and terrible de-
preston. And then came the new deal. I'm
der it, the effort to bring about recovery is
based on making agriculture paying business
Already the results of this effort are be-
ing felt County agents of the United States
extension service, reporting to headquarters
in washington on what farmers are doing
with the benefit payments made to them I'M
der the agricultural adjustment act, tell
pleasant stories.
Debts" says one report from Texas of
five to eight years standing are being paid,
to the great amazement of bankers. Farm
ers have more cash in their hands than at
any time for several years County banks and
small town merchants report that overdue
notes and accounts are being paid and that
trade in all lines shows a big improvement"
In 1925, in 1923, in 1929, no such picture
as this was painted
Apparently the new deals farm experiment
is beginning to produce recovery in some re-
gions.
As farm purchasing power goes up. so
will city purchasing power. In the increase
in purchasing power is the essence of re-
covery.
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M. Tracy Says:

DOOR old Rugged IndividuahSm' What raz1-
L ing it hasreceived! We want no more OF IT.,
they saw with its waste of competition, Its futile
clash of ideas and its ruthless wlnnoWlng OF the
unfit What we want is good man at the nelm
and another good man in the galley to dish out
balanced diet, conserving our initiative and
imagination for the sportful, happy hours when
we are off duty. We want to cooperate under
skilIful planning which will not only show us
what to do, but how much.
Well maybe they're right, but I'm skeptic.
I don't believe that We have suffered from an
overdose of rugged individualism or that this
howl for supervised industry and supervised
play originates in the fact that average people
have become too smart independent and am
bilious for their own good.
few dominating personalities have lorded
it at the top, to be sure but what about the
plability and indifference at the bottom?
We Americans are not half so individualistic
as one would guess from all the chatter, and
have not been for fifty years. We have been
joining companies, clubs, associations and move
ments of every description, submerging ourselves
in order to strengthen the gang. We had gone
hayWire over collectivisn long before NEA was
ever heard Of; had invoked all kinds of organi-
cation to get rich quick, boost prices and bauy-
hoo an artificial culture.
UTALTER B. PITKIN says that about half
sion how many things they can do without that
they have lost their ambition and their nerve.
The physical side Of this phenomenon may have
been brought out when the boom collapsed, but
its moral side began TO appear long before.
Two generations ago, we began to teach chill
dren to believe in the herd idea, not only by
precept, but by example. First, We taught them
to think of the big school as the best school or
the big church as the best church, Of the big
business as the best business and of the big city
as the best city.
We carefully and assiduouSly have developed
a cumulative viewpoint have worshipped the
tallest building, the largest concern and highest
profit; have counted noses to prove the nations
growth, and the number of shares sold on Wall
Street to prove its progress.
l.
WE have taught our children to look for jobs
w with some gigantic enterprise = to fit
themselves for cogS in the mechanism rather
than self-reliant citizens. We have told them
not to think Of starting in business because the
day when that could be done successfully had
passed
Realizing that buying power forms the basis
of prosperity. we have preached down the doc
trine of creative power. Little people must stand
at the counter and do their shopping alone, we
have said but when it comes to contributing
ideas they don't count.
am hereto enough to believe that mass
thinking. which means individual thinking all
down the line, bears the same relation to social
progress that mass buying bears to economic
progress and that mental consumption is Just as
important as physical consumption.
Also, I believe that the only way to get an
overdose of rugged individualism at the top is
through lack Of it at the bottom.
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Sonnet
BY ARCHER SHIRLEY

BY ARCHER SHIRLEY
People do not interest me, find,
Their loves and hates hold no con-
Germ for me;
When they go from my sight they
leave my mind,
fear ike others 1 shall never be.
The names Of those I meet I never
know,
IT seems that I forget them as
they're said;
Is it because my ears and brain
are slow?
Do thoughts Of more importance
I'LL my head?
All, yes. it is because my mind is
filled
With images of you-your eyes,
your hair,
Your voice and lips. know my
heart is thrilled,
I see and hear no one Just you are
there.
Stay near to me-to see you Is
divine,
And doubly SO when feel you are
mine.
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T Asst night, in city few miles
IL from me. a young man was
strapped into an electric chair and
burned to death. Whether he was
guilty of the deed of which he was
accused does not in any sense re-
ieve society Of the crime Of hav-
ing murdered him.
With all the progress we have
made and in spite of our noble
schemes for the betterment Of man,
we have not advanced one inch
along the way Of improvement in
the matter Of penology.
What shall it profit us to live in
an age of scientific enlightenment il
our minds loiter in the Dark Ages
And that's exactly where they are,
so far as this problem is concerned.
A nation that viii burn any man
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exists an everlasting fire Of an
actual physical hell.
Today, after thousands Of years
Of vengeful retaliation, we can see
none of the same evil results from
our methods. The galloWs and
electric chair are like the proverbial
dragons teeth. From one spring
innumerable numbers. We SOW
revenge and We reap crime.
Why do we cling to such an an
cient, vicious, harmful system? Be-
cause it always is easier to kill than
to think. Thought is an uncom-
Portable process that most of lis
avoid. And Sc long as We refuse to
think about the causes Of crime and
concentrate only upon its effect
We shall have electric chairs and
criminals.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-01
A HORROR PASSES
THE world movesl

THE world movesl
Only yesterday the word "bolshevik"
was scare word to frighten babes and bank
ers. And on Friday night at the Waldorf
Astoria. in the grand ballroom of one of the
swankest hotels of this nation, the babes were
not present. but the bankers we're, and their
kith and kin of American business, not terri
fed at all, but happy. A great concourse of
them
And whom did these toast? A bolshevik,
a mighty one present in the flesh, the honor
guest Beside the Stars and Stripes, an ex-
panse of crimson banner stretched, and on
that banner was hammer and sickle, sym
Dol of that once most fearful economic re-
n-Communism-the faith of a nation
covering, as Colonel Hugh L. Cooper declared,
a sixth of the land surface of the earth.
And that martial air the orchestra played,
the Internationale, the Internationale Of the
paraders and shouters and sometimes rioters
of Union square. The powerful of American
capitalism rose and paid respectful thought
to the trade, not to speak of the increase in
international stability and friendship likely to
flow to them through this diplomatic union
of the two banners hanging above the dais
where Litvinoff, commissar of foreign affairs
for all the Russias, genially sat
strange and confounding and altogether
encouraging scene was this. The red" nation,
horror when it was weak, mad ceased to be
fearful in its success and power.
And if the appeal of trade was the cir
cunstance which dispelled fear in revealing
certain better aspects of additionally COM
munal nation waging mighty warfare against
nature, certainly few present at the SEEM
ingy fantastic event we're uninnpressed by that
passage in Comnissar Litvinoff's address in
which he said in effect;
The population of Russia has grown
100000 in ten years due to cultural growth
and a health program which have cut the
child mortality of 27O thousand in half and
increased literacy from 30 per cent before
the revolution to 80 per cent now, more than
trebling the number of children in school
meanwhile.
Clearly it is no mans business what faith
religious, economic or political, his neighbor
holds, so long as he does not seek to force it
upon others and tends to his business and pays
his debts.
The great banquet of LOO in the grand
ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel on Fri
day night was testimony to a new stabiliza-
ton, a new security new influence toward
peace
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia,
the Health Magazine.

Safety Council says that ice one
inch thick is not safe; ice two
inches thick will hold one person; ice
three inches thick is safe for small
groups, and ice four inches thick
will hold large groups.
Of course, ice skating in rink
is safe so far as weight is concerned,
but it is not safe if you lose your
balance and deposit the wrong por-
ton of your anatomy on the ice.
Then there are the accidents
which occur during the hunting
season. From November to Feb
ruary, some 100000 hunters will be
out with firearms and great care
should be taken in their use.
The number of deaths from fire.
arms in hunting has not decreased
since 1918. The National Safety
Council provides a dozen "donts'
for hunters.
They are told not to carry a
loaded gun in an automobile or
wagon; not to pull a gun over a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-01
Well, HOOsierS?

BY Times Reader.
I was. just looking over the
paper tonight and I saw an article
that I didn't think sounded too
nice about the Kentuckians and
Tennesseeans. I just want to bring
to your mind a few words regard
ing the answer to your piece in
the paper.
My father was a Hoosier and
my mother was Kentuckian. The
real reason that the Hoosiers are
Jealous of the Kentuckians is be-
cause they get up early and are
ready for work whenever they can
get it, and the Hoosiers are in bed
until the last minute, then get up
and get their own breakfast,
which is a cup of coffee and a
doughnut, while their wives sleep
because they have been to card
party or to midnight show and
she will get up just in time to
open a can of soup, corn and peas,
and get a loaf of bread for their
husbands dinners. There aren't
such wives in Kentucky.
Well, I want you to print this
for me as I haven't the money to
pay for it because my husband
hasn't had any work for three
years until just a short time ago.
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UNEMPLOYED DEMOCRATS

D ECENTLY there was brought to the at
Al tention of the federal civil works ad-
ministration the charge that a youngstown
politician had attempted to use civil works
jobs to help out unemployed Democrats" He
was quoted as having instructed such jobless
Democrats to register first with the city en-
ployment bureau and then take cards to the
clerk of the board of elections. The politician
further was charged with saying he spoke to
the mayor and "he promised me he will put
as many men to work as possible"
The speed with which Federal Relief Ad-
ministrator Hopkins met this situation was
none too fast. He notified the Ohio state
CWA chief that if such conditions held
youngstown would be denied all CWA funds.
The civil works administration will not
tolerate political interference" Mr. Hopkins
wired.
Cities, counties and states elsewhere should
take warning. Some waste. doubtless, is in
evitable when the government starts pouring
s4OOoC0OOO into localities, many of which are
unprepared to use it efficiently But politics,
favoritism or graft IS unthinkable The money,
every cent of it, balongs to the needy without
regard to their politics. color or other status.
Any Office holder who tries to favor one
group of unemployed as against another
should be made forthwith to join the ranks
of the jobleSs himself
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THE BEST SOLUTION

THE heated discussion that has arisen over
l. the administrations gold policy is a most
encouraging sign to all lovers OF freedom of
speech and Of the press. Whatever ones
opinions in the matter. it can not be denied
that the opposition is getting its full share
of the debate.
But even more satisfying than this is the
feeling that such open discussion of the
countrys most conflicting problem is certain
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your shows. Along with millions of
other Americans, thought you were
funny. You're not any more.
1t is natural for Republicans to
attack the President, and to a Ger
tain extent they can be forgiven.
It's in the game. You, however,
always have claimed to be Demo-
crat. Moreover, you have posed as
the personal friend of Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
The way you tried to picture him,
as a crawling, cringing, pleading,
cowardly President, licking the
boots of the Soviet commisSar, is q
disgrace not only to you and the
radio, but to the American people
as well. And here's the rottenest
thing about it. Andy Mellon him
self, for all his opposition to Presi-
dent Roosevelt, would have had
more sense than to have done this
thing personally.
Unfortunately, too many people
do not realize that the oil company
for which you are supposed to be
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i: A Woman's Viewpoint ::
By. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON


to death is not less barbarous than
one that crucified a Redeemer. SO
long as single one Of us permits
such savagery in the name Of the
laws we make, We are not better
than Pontius Plate, who washed
his hands of moral responsibility for
the murder Of a God.
CAPITAL punishment goes
~ against all the edicts Of edu-
cation, of ethics, of common sense.
It had its origin in state of mind
that believed in the right Of the
strong over the weak, of master over
his slave, and of the divine prero-
gatives Of kings. It is one with the
benighted conviction that there
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ny III 4MuETlS TlS4Deln on WIN
ter health and safety hazards, and ways
to avoid them.
HUNDREDS of thousands of
l. l. people are burt every year as a
result Of accidents that could have
been prevented very easily. A great
many of these are associated with
conditions peculiar to the winter
season.
One of the simplest causes of
accidents is slipping on an ice
covered step. Old persons are the
greatest sufferers from this form of
injury, and physicians have come to
realize that a broken hip bone in
an older person is very serious, often
leading to death.
This accident is such a menace
that every home in which there are
old people should guard against it
by having a hand rail on the steps,
by keeping the steps clear Of snow
and ice, or by making certain that
ashes are on the steps early in the
morning.
Another common hazard is the
sport Of ice skating. The National
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:: The Message Center ::
% the death your right to say it.-VOltaire

! working is only another of the cor
porate names for Andy Mellon ana
Company.
You claim to be an Indian. 1
don't believe it. Such treachery as
yours is certainly not an Indian
characteristic. All of Andy's money
wouldn't tempt a real Indian to do
to his friend what you have done
to Frank Roosevelt.
Of course, in a way, this won't
make a lot of difference. Franklin
D. Roosevelt is such a big man that
your attack will have no effect on
him. He will ignore it and smile
So go right ahead. He is more in
terested in whether my kids and the
Jones kids and sixty million Smith
kids shall eat, than in what you
and Andy think Of him.
By Carre Davis.
The gist of my thought is that the
citizens of Indiana nominate Louis
Ludlow for the United States senate
in the coming election.
My reasons follow: He is a gen.
tleman who is fitted for the place
because he is fearlessly honest and
of that peculiar intelligence which
is necessary to pick the wheat from
! the chaff. Another thing that is
necessary, he is a real runner as at
tested by the fact that he has been
elected three times from a strong
Republican district, with mounting
pluralities each time.
1 carefully have pursued his activ-
tiles in the house for the past three
terms and have frankly admired
his untiring deliverance with re-
spect to his job and his being con-
structively right on the questions
that have arisen.
In view of the fact that these are
the most trying times that we have
ever gone through, I believe with
all my might that the time has
come to send such a man to the
senate from Indiana.
BY E. o. Snethen.
was delighted to see your publ
cation in reference to the munich
pally-owned light plant at Wash
ington, Ind; also of them taking
over the water plant there. 1 hope
you continue to publish articles
about municipally-ow plants I
am on the public utilities committee
of the Federation of Community
and Civic Clubs and we are expect
ing to ask for an election to deter
mine whether indianapolis shall
take over the water company here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-01

Why the knees" on automobiles? Haven't
they been crawling downtown long enough?
What the autos do need is a pair OF Shout
ders, to shove their way through jams
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-01

Chicago university is going to conduct a
research on sex. But, whatever the profs dis
cover the girls will continue fooling the boys
just the same.
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German professor says there are six dis
tinct races in Europe and not one of them
is pure. He's in America, OF course.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-01

Minnesota schools will have courses on
temperance. Thus teaching the children to
drink before they know what it's all about.
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Remains of an animal of the plaisiadapi-
dae family were discovered in the South Da-
kota badlands Must have choked to death
when it tried to give its name to the police.
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There is always the feeling that something
good is around the corner" says Mrs. Roose-
velt Prosperity has been so overworked.
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Latest Paris edict is to wear something in
the hair That must be the evening dress
mode for nudists
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Al Smith calls it the 'baloney dollar" and
he's opposed to slicing it any further.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-01

A convict in Folsom prison, California, has
developed a new hydrogen process, one-forty-
fifth as costly as our present process He will
remain in Jail.
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German scientist found a live flea 5000 900
years old-making it eligible to feed on pure
Aryan stock