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get the principle that was TO save then-gen-
eral and stable increase in purchasing power.
Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Wallace
discusses the whole problem in his annual re-
port. He concludes that profits may have to
be regulated.
Redistribution of purchasing power to
wage earners and crop adjustments in agricul-
ture can not be relied on exclusively to cor
rect the trouble" he says. Professors, dis
tributors and others hold strong position in
the economic system. They can continue to
exact an undue share Of the consumers dollar
if nothing is done to stop them"
Going on to point out that the problem is
as acute in NRA as in AAA, Secretary Wallace
says:
Regulation of production and Of pro-
ducers' prices would seem to require, as logi-
cal corollary, the regulation of profits. When
profits increase greatly out Of proportion TO
wage payments, consumption inevitably tells.
This question Of profits goes, Of course,
beyond the industries that handle agricultural
products Stability in our industrial, as well
as our agricultural life, may depend on an
swering it correctly 1t may be necessary to
review very critically the influence of excessive
profits on our economic life"
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AN OLD DOGMA PASSES

TT is interesting to notice that the old legal
technicality by which a wife was not al
lowed to testify in defense of her husband in
a criminal case at last has been swept aside by
the United States supreme court.
The decision came on the appeal of North
Carolinian who had been convicted of con-
spiracy to violate the dry laws At his trial
his wife was not allowed to testify for him.
This ruling was in accord with the ancient
common law provision that wife, in such
case, would be an interested witness and hence
not deserving of credence.
Very properly the supreme court sweeps
this aside The test OF croSs-examination of
witnesses. the increased intelligence OF jurors,
and other considerations says the court, have
changed things.
Hereafter man accused of crime may call
his wife as WITHSTAND an ARCHAIC and
illogical quirk of criminal law has been abol-
iShed
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Fair
Enough
Is. 1893
-nY wEsTBRooK PEeLER.

NOWHERE in any OF the codes
IN which have tried to read have
I discovered any practical attempt to
apportion the available work among
the class Of citizens who are known
as brain workers. sympathize in
stinctively with General johnson in
any effort which he has made or
may make to control the industry.
for obviously there is too much
thinking going on in the U. S. A ae
this time and much OF the thought
is very low-grade.
But the brain worker seems to be
beyond bureaucratic control. He is
incorrigible and. in a sense. an IN
patriotic individual, for nobody can
tell when a thinker is thinking, as
he is the master Of many decep-
tive tricks. He may indulge in
cerebration above and beyond his
legal quota when he appears to be
watching a prize fight or playing
carGS, and he may think surrepti-
tiously while shaving or running fol-
a train.
There also is the difficult prob
lem of the nonprofessional thinker
who cogitates while following the
furrow or carrying the bod, thus
adding to the congestion in the most
overcrowded profession of all.
Obviously, if the government were
to treat the recognized, or, as you
might say. union thinkers, the same
as it has been treating the cotton
farmers. and offer them a price to
pillow under their surplus thoughts,
it would be very difficult to reach
fair basis of compensation.
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M. E. TracySays:

THIRTY years ago this week humanity stood
l. at the threshold of aviation but without
realizing it. The fact that two young men from
Dayton, O., were downed at Kitty Hawk on the
Carolina coast, where they proposed to try out
another flying machine, aroused no interest.
Only five persons besides the Wright brothers
witnessed the epoch-making performance, and
the proverbial reporter was not among them.
Publicity and warm weather might have attract
ed a bigger crowd, but even so nine out Of ten
would have come to laugh.
Like all truly original thinkers the Wright
brothers had to fight alone. Their task was not
only to solve mechanical problem but to over
come the resistance of a Scofing, skeptical world
In performing it, they were compelled to risk
their lives and fortune. That's what you may
call real experimenting.
Now that the science Of aviation is well es-
tablished, we hail every new device, invention
and achievement with enthusiasm, and pat our
selves on the back as progressive. 1t is no long
er dangerous to experiment we tell each other.
The race has at last been sold on the idea of
change.
THAT is just so much bunk We are just as
Il much opposed to revolutionary ideas as we
ever were. Most Of the experiments which we
applaud merely represent notifications of some
basic plan Of mechanism, and most of them are
with other peoples lives or money.
There is fundamental difference between
Individual experimenting and collective bargain
ing. The former admittedly is safer for those
who furnish the ideas Whether it is safer for
the crowd may we'll be doubted. Men are apt
to be more careful when obliged to back their
own ideas with their own money.
There is waste in permitting lot of vision
aries to go 1t alone. The pioneering days of
aviation are cluttered with failure, disappoint-
ment and ruined careers. But when would we
have learned to fly had the problem been left
to government bureaus?
JOUR years after the WrightS had made their
l. first successful flight, Lord Haldane British
war minister, calmly declared, THE war office
is not disposed to enter into relations at present
with any manufacturer Of aeroplanes"
1t took war to convince governments that
a great discovery had been made.
Governments can do thorough Job rnobiliz-
ing people for this or that specific undertaking,
provided taxpayers put up the money but when
it comes to solid. constructive progress, they are
not so hot.
The same thing goes for organization all
along the line. OrZanig- ion generally grows
up around new ideas, but it gives birth to few
especially Of a radical character. Even Com
muniSm owes its existence to few daring in
dividuals and is characterized by the sternest
kind Of opposition to any opinion or belief which
promises change.
For one, doubt the wisdom of swapping the
individuals right to try experiments for the
collective right to impose experiments. $3.50.
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CONSUMER PROTESTS

FOLLOWING the Washington consumers
L conference, protests from consumer groups
about excessive price increases probably will
become more numerous and inSiStent if NRA
does not take steps to meet squarely the issue
they raise.
In President Roosevelt's message to en-
ployers asking them to sign the blue eagle
agreement pledge was included that price
increases would be delayed as long as possible,
and when made would cover only additional
pay roll costs caused by higher wages and re-
employment.
That pledge has been broken by some
Prices are mounting out Of proportion to the
ability of buyers to buy. Business can not con-
tinue to improve and the recovery program
can not continue to junction If employers for.
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MONDAY. DEC. 10. 1888.
DRIVE OUT BOOTLEGGING

WH1sKY sold at beer bars; bootleggers
cornering the local corn" supply; Chi
cago racketeers trying to muscle in" on drug
store sales-these are some of the ugly symp-
toms that have accompanied repeal in Indiana.
There are two aspects of the whole liquor
problem: Moral and economic. Consider the
first Of these. America has learned by more
than a decade of bitter experience that alb
stinence can not be forced by law. The peo-
pie turned away in disgust from prohibition
in the belief that there were better ways of
encouraging temperance.
The obvious way for Indiana to promote
the cause of true temperance is to make fer
mented and brewed beverages of all kinds
cheap and easily available Distilled drinks
should be at hand for those who want them,
but it is perfectly proper for the state to levy
heavier tax on them than on wines and
beers
This tax should not be so high, however,
as to provide opportunity for bootleggers
successfully to compete with legal liquor
sellers. Above all, the quality of legitimate
whisky should be far above that offered by
racketeers.
From the economic standpoint 1egalzed
liquors should provide a new and ample rev.
enue for distressed government. They are a
luxury and it is proper to tax them.
But, as any economist knows, there is a
law of diminishing returns which operates on
all questions of taxation Up to reasonable
point, the state can expect to increase its rev.
enue enormously from the liquor tax Beyond
that point the tax becomes oppressive and the
income from it dwindles with great rapidity.
Demands already are being heard that the
police act with severity against bootleggers.
That is proper No laXity in enforcement
should be tolerated now that legal liquor is
available Police, however, can do nothing
without public opinion behind them
Stop patronizing the bootlegger even though
you have to make sacrifices for the time being
to do so. The only way to drive out racketeer-
ing in liquor is to make it improbable. 1t is
smart to be legal.
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A LIBRARY FOR S2.1O

INDIANAPOLIS is one among a number of
L American cities selected for an experiment
in literature, the purpose of which, certainly,
deserves high praise.
The National Home Library Foundation of
Washington, D. c., is placing on sale at news
stands in indianapolis and other cities certain
books of recognized literary merit, at the
astonishingly low price of Is cents each.
a Fourteen volumes already are available in
what the foundation calls the Jacket Lii
brary" They are: The New Testament,
Green Mansions" Alice in Wonderland and
Through the Looking Glass" Tom Sawyer"
Under the Greenwood Tree" Treasure Is
land" Emersons Essays, "Pere Goriot" "The
Way of All Flesh" Adventures of Sherlock
Holiness" Palgrave's Golden Treasury of Song
and Verse;" and THE Merchant of Venice"
Postand's "Cyrano de Bergerac," and Justice
Louis D. Brandeis "Other Peoples Money"
The books are we'll printed on good paper
in attractive bindings. 1t is difficult to under
stand how they can be sold so cheaply And,
indeed, the foundations editor Sherman F.
NItten, asserts that there is no desire for
financial profits, but that the aim is:
To offer classics in so attractive form,
and at so low price, that greater and
greater numbers Of our people will come to
know the delight and profit of great books.
Some 100000 volumes have been sold to
schools, colleges and through the usual COM
mercial outlets. We are attempting to open
up new fields Of distribution and have made
progress in negotiations even with chain
grocery stores. We want books to be con-
sidered necessary, democratic staple. If the
American housewife could be induced to
make her purchase Of Green Mansions"
with her dozen eggs, it would be one step
further in breaking down the intellectual
snobbineSS our universities perpetuate re-
garding the classics.
The advisory board which determines. the
to be published includes representatives of
many large educational and cultural organ
izationS Among the members are Dorothy
Garfield Fisher, James Truslow Adams, Albert
Einstein Robert A. Millikan, William Allen
White, VIII Durant, John Dewey, Norman
Hapgood, Ellen Glasgow, Clara Clemens and
many others.
The desire of the foundation is, not to
compete with standard publishers. but to
spread the book-reading habit and SC to in
crease the demand for good books from all
publishers. Such an enterprise it seems to u.s.
deserves TO be encouraged. We hope that the
present experiment in indianapolis will be suc-
cessful and that it will help to lead to the
establishing of the multiplied outlets the
foundation is seeking for its classics.
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:: A Woman's Viewpoint

to common sense by those who have
never known want? Is this the good
we are to expect from the evils we
have seen? If so, then I say to you
it is not enough.
It never will be enough to obliter-
ate the crime Of a generation that
refused to think. Good never comes
out Of economic misery. Good never
blossoms from universal greed and
selfishness.
And what will it profit us to have
slight revival Of family life If in
our land there are multitudes Of
men too poor to have homes, and
If half the babies born into it face
an existence Of insecurity or want?
Family life built upon that fimsy
economic foundation never viii
amount to much.
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T CAN'T agree with Mrs. Margaret
i Aver Barnes, Chicago novelist.
when she says the depression has
been a boon for children because it
has revived family Hfe.
It seems to me a state Of affairs
which injured and killed thousands
of little ones and caused them to go
cold and hungry and miserable can't
by any stretch Of imagination be
called a boon, even though it has
forced some parents to stay home
evenings.
One understands what Mrs.
Barnes is talking about. She speaks
of. the fortunate children who al
ready have sufficient warmth and
milk, and who, because stocks have
lost their value, may now enjoy
the compahionship OF their fathers
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Love
BY OLIVE ENsLEN FINDER

BY OLIVE ENSLEN FINDER
Your love came as suddenly as the
first spring rain,
Gentle, warm, assuring, and then
you were gone;
But the echoes Of your laughter still
remain
Within my heart. I should have
known you'd go away
Swiftly, as the night fleeing from
the red fingers Of day,
Leaving me to seek the answer 70
love in vain.
Your voice comes whispering in the
evening wind,
And in a dream I follow the rus
ting sigh, to find
The memory of your eyes in the
gray of the misty dawn.
My hand goes out to touch you
standing there,
But I find only emptiness, hooking
dreams and despair.
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You're Right

By d. P. w.
Here is another grievance. Two
members of the indianapolis fire
department are visiting each en-
CINE house and asking donation
of so cents from each man to buy
Chief Voshell and his two sub
ordinates Christmas presents. If
each man did this, it would
amount to approximately $500.
Surely these three men would not
want this done if they knew about
it. Think of the needy boys and
girls this money would care for
this Christmas. 1t would mean
food, clothing and shelter, and
perhaps a few small gifts besides.
These three men do not need that
money; these poor children do.
What is your choice?
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and
Answers

Q-What are the native haunts
and habits Of the Asiatic ele-
plant?
A-These elephants keep them
selves in the depths of forests,
particularly in mountainous re-
gions, where they browse on
branches or eat heritage and roots,
and from which they issue chiefly
in the cool of the night 10 pas
ture in more open grounds. They
feed largely on the shoots Of palm
trees and eat cocoanuts, after roll
ng them under foot to rub of the
husks.
Q-Why are halibut never mar
keted with the heads on?
A--Because the head is to bulky
it would be wastefu to ship it
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Mass of Y0deLs

NIVEN certain acoustics one
" patriotic Tyrolean yodeler
could yodel with a hundred voices.
1t was a hopeless task to determine
which Of the yodelS were mere
echoes and track down the culprit
who had let go the original yodel
Mussolini's genius for the suppress
sion of all expressions Of dissent
never was equal to the challenge
Of the bouncing Tyrolean yodel and
visitors have told me that to this
very day the offensive notes of the
oo-lee-ay-lee-oo affront the ears
and the patriotism of the Italian
conquerorS.
There is no question that many
thinkers in this country are in
sad situation nowadays and would
be willing to entertain a proposition
Of a penny per thought from the
government, which might be an ex-
cessive price for some of the prod
uct, but a fair average, at that. But
I do not see how General Johnson
could cope with the element of
uuIIdH SISeG anu OVSI IlLIle JillIlk-
ing.
1t is one thing to prescribe
penalties for brain workers who go
on thinking after hours but
another thing to catch them at it
and get convictions. 1t is impossible
to tell from the look of a man
whether he is living up to the code
or thinking thoughts in excess Of
his allowance. I have heard that
even outfielders and honorable
judges on the bench, two classes
which gave a convincing appear
ance of utter dumbness, often in
dulge in thought. If this is so it
is obvious that any one can get
away with bootleg thinking.
Copyright, 1888, by United Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
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: BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

and mothers for the first time. That,
to be sure, is something.
But it never can wipe out the
horrible wrong we have done to
countless poor babies - babies who
have been born in miserable lodg-
ings. in tents, on the ground; to tots
who have had to live for weeks on
bread and beans; to parents who
have endured the Gethsemane OF
looking helplessly on while their
children starved.
n
MOREOVER I hate the smugness
N1 Of the American attitude that
pronounceS: "Out of all these null
tiplied miseries good viii come.
What good? Just areluctant return
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in a dozen years and pay some on
the debt. Don't you think SO?
BY Harvey X. Harper.

the debt. Don't you think so?
By Harvey X. Harper.
have read with some surprise
the letters in the Message Center
of The Times in regard to the Ken
tuckians and Tennesseeans, and
want to add few lines to the argu-
ment.
You can't blame them for crossing
the Smith and Wesson line into In
dianapolis, for where will you find
a better city than indianapolis?
The lads know a good thing, and
are on the job to enjoy liberty and
happiness under Mayor Sullivan
and Chief Mike MorrisSey. Can you
blame them? We should say not, if
you compare life in Indianapolis
with Louisville or Memphis. Even
a citizen of Pittsburgh will tell you
Indianapolis is the ace-high city
of America. Where can you go,
from Maine to California, and find
better place?
To get back into history and give
a welcome hand to the fellows from
Kentucky and Tennessee, who were
those who made America? The
Kentuckians and Tennesseeans
They we're in the front ranks dur
ing the wars Of 1776, 1872, 1848, 1898
and 1918. They were there and did
their part. Who was with George
Washington at the crossing of the
Delaware? If you lcok at picture
of that famous event, you will see
Kentucky and Tennessee faces in
the picture. They were there, for
they knew the British had plenty
of good whisky to celebrate Christ
mas. And who likes drink on
Christmas day? The Kentuckians
and TenneSSeeanS.
Who was with Davy Crockett at
the Alamo? The lads from Ken
lucky and Tennessee! History from
the year one doesn't give a better
example of bravery than those who
died in San Antonio, Tex, during
the Mexican war. They were there
and killed enough Mexicans to fill
Crown Hill before they died.
Who was with Teddy Roosevelt
at San Juan hill in 1898? Well, you
might know without using 500 words
to put over a ten-word idea. Who
were in the Argonne of 1918 to make
the world safe for democracy? The
French girls can tell you who were
there and who spent their francs"
on an army pay day There were
no tightwads among the Kentuck-
ians and TennesSeeanS.
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President Roosevelt is said to be consider
ing the merger of all radio, telephone and
telegraph systems into separate monopolies I'M
der government supervision. What makes him
hesitate must be his fear of getting all tangled
up in the wire business
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Faster and Better

IF they were approached on the
i basis of the 1914 rate of cerebra-
ton most of them would be certain
to insist that they think faster and
better nowadays and reject with
scorn any proposition of a penny
for their thoughts. I am &C
quainted with playwrights who have
not given outward evidence of any
high-class thinking for years who
would be certain to tell the govern
ment agent when he came around
to make the cash adjustment that
they had just thought of another
Abie'S Irish Rose.
Mussolini trieo something almost
as difficult as the control of think
ing when he attempted some years
ago to suppress the yodel among the
TyroleanS in the captive country
which altruistic Italy had acquired
by fighting for the rights of minor
tiles. The Tyroleans gave every out
ward sign of submission to their
conquerors except that they per-
sisted in singing oo-lee-ay-lee-oo
which Mussolini regarded as a Sc
ditious noise.
Mussolini thereupon forbade the
yodel under severe penalties but the
resourceful and stubborn Tyroleans
were not beaten yet. Patriots took
to yodeling silently to themselves
and yodel-easies were established in
cellars where the Tyroleans gath
cred and yodeled behind sound
proof doors. Some individuals went
up into the mountains and yodeled
deflantly and ran the Italian SOL
diers ragged as the echoes bounced
from crag to crag and the unfortu-
nate Italians chased them up and
down the peaks.
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In the old days, when man wanted
something to eat, he went to a saloon; now,
when he wants something to drink, he goes
to thesgrocers.
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Bank liquidator in Cleveland offers for sale
solid mahogany directors table-alttough
he really meant to describe the table and not
cast any reflections on the directors
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Yosemite national park rangers ate meat
that was 200 years old. We had some of it
last night.
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By Mrs. Howard Allen.
Please renew NY subscription to
The Times. I am enclosing 81 for
the next three months. I also am
going to ask you if you could do our
community a favor.
When Governor McNutt gave the
trustees the right to employ the
poor, I'm sure he didn't intend for
the work to be given to men who
didn't need it. We have people in
our neighborhood who were too
proud to go to the county for help
when they were asking for some
thing to eat, but now that they are
giving work, they feel like it is right
that they should have it, but they
can't get anything. Every one who
has been employed is Republican.
One man out here who is an or
phan. single, and tubercular, asked
for help. They won't either give him
food or work. He isn't lazy nor can
any one say word against his
character. Another man, married,
has little boy, 2. The baby hasn't
enough clothes to keep him warm
and the mother is sick from worry.
I am not writing this for myself
because we always have gotten along
some way and this isn't our home,
but these poor people down here
have been trod on long enough and
I know you can do something if
anybody can. People all seem to
stand back and let our trustee,
Chew, have his way. know Cover
nor McNutt would change things if
he but knew and hope The Times
will do all it can to let him know.
Don't think I am nosey old lady
trying to cause trouble, for I'm not
a trouble maker. I'm only asking
for justice where it is due.
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The price of liquor, we are promised, will
be cut. But will it be cut as much as the
liquor2