The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-29

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BY Poor Man
Our high and mighty tax lords
have set the auto license deadline
for Dec. 31st. Why? Why start this
practice now when almost every one
is hard pressed? The result of this
deadline for me. on account of part
time work, will be that I shall have
to walk for two or three months.
Doubtless many, other people are in
the same boat, and the state will
lose many dollars in gas tax. This is
fine headwork on the part of our
public servants.
Speaking of gas tax, I see the fed
eral government is giving US a re-
duction on account of liquor income.
Has any one heard about a reduc-
ton in the state gas tax?
By Bishop banner.
indianapolis working people
should direct their wrath at the ex-
plotting employers of that city who
really are to blame for the condi-
tons of which they complain
Southern employers seldom give en-
ployment to northern people and it
is just about impossible for a Yam
kee to obtain justice in the courts
south of the Ohio river. All this
malice and injustice are the fruits
we are gathering from a glorious CD
war which our fathers we're engaged
in about seventy-two years ago and
so it will now take a lot of good will
and fair mindedneSS to overcome
this disagreeable situation.
Nothing good ever is accomplished
by hate, strife and prejudice. North
ern and southern people should in
termingle more instead of less and
inter-marry as much as possible, as
this will do more than anything
else to reunite these two factions of
our race.
Last year I read Charles Darwin's
book 1.-THE Descent OF Man." anu
when you see hungry, half starved
and poorly clothed men quarreling
and fighting with each other over
a place to work and live it is not
hard for me to believe the truth of
DarWin's statements that all man
kind has developed from an ape-like
creation down on level with the
rest of the brute family.
If people who attend trashy sense
less amusements and who read the
same kind Of fiction would only try
to become interested in and read
good books such as H. G. Wells
Outline of History" Henry Georges
Progress and Poverty" George A.
Dorsey's why We Behave Like
Human Beings" and some of Robert
Ingersoll's good books, they no doubt
would be better off and make better
citizens.
Labor-saving machinery can be
made a great blessing to all man
kind by limiting each worker to
thirty or thirty-f1ve hours each
week with a minimum living wage,
or it can become a curse as the pri-
vately-oWned machinery of a greedy
exploiting class of rugged individ-
ualists who may choose not to sub
nit to government regulation of
working hours and wages.
lived in southern Alabama eIev-
en- years. I am in favor of dis
armament by all nations. If we can
maintain world peace, it will mean
progress and plenty for all. If we
have strife and warfare, it will
bring about a dwarfed poverty
stricken existence for all.
By an Overseas Veteran.
wish publicity through The
Times to express my sincere ap-
probation and thanks to Arthur G.
Gresham, chairman of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars relief committee.
Here is a man, disabled himself in
the World war, who has done much
for the disabled ex-service mer
Every service man in Indiana who
holds any respect for the men with