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voted to the "soundest" of sound money poll
cies, namely, the determination, at any cost, to
preserve the gold standard and the gold dollar
unimpaired.
When Mr. Hoover and Mr. Mills went be-
fore the American public in the campaign of
1882, the achievement which they pointed to
with greatest pride was the preservation of
the gold standard. No modern nation ever has
attempted to execute so relentless and thor
ough a program Of deflation as that carried
out by the Hoover administration and the
financial powers in Wall Street from 1908.
How any informed person can stand up and
view the American people with a straight face
and declare that this was sound policy"
however sound the money in a conventional
sense utterly passes my understanding. Just
how Sound" it was stood starkly revealed on
March Of the present year. In so far as
financial and currency matters entered into the
picture, the end product of the policy of
those who oppose initiation was the bank hol-
iday.
This was the closest shave which capitalism
ever has experienced in the United States.
The only thing which prevented its complete
collapse at the time was the absence of any
strong radical movement in the United States
willing and able to exploit the desperate plight
of captalistic society.
In spite of this fact, we find Professor
Carothers-a NOTED economist" -informing
the readers of the New York Herald Tribune
of New. 26, 1888, that deflation is the one
sure road to economic recovery
This price of indignation, which is a con-
sequence of depression and not cause, is the
certain agency Of recovery. It wipes out the
bloated valuations, over-extended credit and
inefficient production that brought collapse.
Slowly the surviving activities take on a
healthy growth. On the new basis new
credit superstructure rises, bringing prices to
a new level of prosperity. Recovery is at
tanned"
Where was Professor Carothers from O.
tober, 1929, to March, 1888?
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WHEN Margery Wilson gave her
w reasons for including Mrs.
Emily Post in her list of the worlds
ten most charming persons. she ex-
pressed valid motive for her selec-
ton.
Mrs. Post qualified. we are told,
because "she breaks so many Of her
own rules so charmingly."
May we not. then, infer that a
part of the charm Of any PERSONAL
ity lies in the ability to break rules
graciously-always, Of course, allow
ing for proper consideration Of other
peoples feelings? I think so. Be-
cause naturalness is the first re-
quirelment of that elusive quality
known as charm.
Miss Wilson, I hope you notice,
played nc faTorites. Her list had
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:: The Message Center ::
dsapprOve you say your

By A Dozen Taxpayers.
I want to express my thoughts
for a dozen or more taxpayers. Of
course, we are all tired Of shows and
really enjoyed the Walkathon for a
change. Now our police have inter-
fered. We never expect to see an
other one in Indianapolis. But if
we were Leo Settler, we would sure
start one as close here as possible,
for he would surely have a crowd
of followers.
Those kids in that Walkathon
take no more chances with their
lives than do our police with bandits
or our race drivers every May. No,
our mayor is very anxious to get it
stopped, for he wants TomlinSon
hall filled four nights a week with
skaters for our soup kitchen. Well,
we hope no one for the Walkathon
attends these skating nights. Any
way, putting out so many dollars
now for the unemployed and so
much more work, why have soup
kitchen? This is why they want
the Walkathon closed, and the
theater managers are kicking also.
The shows aren't as crowded as they
used to be.
Editors Note: Because of limited
space The Times is physically unable to
print all of the letters it has received
commenting on the Valuation. The
above letter is the last we can handle
in fairness to correspondents who have
written on other subjects.
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IS able to command attention outside Indiana.
The trustees, particularly the local group,
are also citizens Of distinction. Several of them
have given years of their lives to the interests
Of the university. 1t is impossible for The
Times to pass upon the merits of the con-
troversy between them and DR.. Athearn
What this newspaper fundamentally is in
terested in is the future of Butler Due to
large extent to the generosity of Mr. Will
Irwin the institution is endowed richly with
an excellent plant. 1t is ready to move ahead
and take its place among the outstanding uni
versities of America.
All that stands in the way is this deplora-
BILE dispute over DR.. Athearn's dismissal and
the differences that are being drawn from it.
The controversy has reached a stage where it
is likely to harm the university This must
not be- We hope that both sides will soon
find way of composing their differences.
Meanwhile the public should remember
that neither DR.. Athearn nor the trustees are
Butler university.
The institution towers above them both.
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COMMON SENSE AND ARMS

THERE never has been a time in human
history when it was more vitality essential
for all friends of civilization to unite in check
ing the war spirit. Certainly, capitalislic and
democratic society never could weather the
shock of another world war. Such a cataclysm
would be followed either by communistic
world or by a reverSion to barbarism.
Hence, it is very necessary that the peace
forces should recognize their major enemies
and not go cunning for mice when elephants
lurk within easy range
Some extremely cogent observations sup
porting this vital consideration are contained
in an article on the arms industry by DR.. H. G.
Englebrecht in The World, Tomorrow. The
author is the foremost American authority on
the armament racket and is well known for
his sympathy with the pacifst cause.
He summarizes the conventional charges
made by paciflstS against the arms industrys
"Hitlers campaign funds were furnished in
part by the German armament maker Thyssen
and by the directors of Skoda the French
owned armament company of Czechoslovakia
British aircraft makers accepted an order for
among the best in the world-from the Hitler
government and delivery was prevented Only
because the British government interviewed.
Sixty British tanks were delivered to the
Russian Soviet government at the very time
that diplomatic relations between Great
Britain and Russia were severely strained
The French furnished 400 tanks to the Hitler
dir
announced the Chinese as their customers
and, together with planes, have sent to China
a group of f1iers to train the Chinese in aerial
warfare.
THE indictment of the armament industry
frequently emphasizes the corrupt business
practices of its statesmen. They bride govern
ment officials, raise war scares, lobby against
disarmament, control or subsidize the press
secure high government officials as directors
or stockholders, work hand in glove with
powerful and INSCRIPTIONS bankers and resort
to other such devices"
1t is a mistake, however, to imagine that
the war system is kept alive through the
propaganda and intrigue carried on by the
arms industry. In most cases. the governments
ufacturers and encourage and substitute the
latter.
Moreover, the corrupt bushes practices Of
the armament manufacturers are no worse
than those which prevail in other branches
of business and finance. John T. F1ynn's book,
Graft in Business" tells rather more sorry
story than any single volume which has been
written on the chicanery Of the arms makers.
Dr. Englebrecht concludes with the following
sane admonitioni
Let US have all the exposes of the arms
industry We can get: focus a searchlight on
its devious paths; curb its activities wherever
possible.
But let us not be drawn away by this
sensational subject from the more prosaic task
OF fighting the moro important war makers.
Let tbs peaes forces concentrate Their attaek
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That Louisiana Corn

pUT think I could also, after
II all my research, undertake to
call the names Of many varieties Of
strong beverages of the kind which
were sold during prohibition and
state where I first encountered the
same and under what circum-
stances.
could not fail on Louisiana corn,
for example. The first sniff of that
peculiar gasoline bouquet would be
enough to tell me that this was the
drink which 1 first met up with in
little cabin in the woods outside
Shreveport, La, run by an old gam
bier who had retired from profess
slonaI life to be near his old mother
and whose fingers were too rheu-
matte to handle the cards any more.
any way.
Maryland rye would arouse a
memory OF Washington in 1926 and
needed beer would carry me back
to an upstairs place in Chicago.
where the sign on the door said
international Hoe, Shovel and
Whelbarrow Associates. Inc"
l could spot at once the peculiar
aroma, like the smell of sulphur.
arising from the old available rye
WHISKY IN Cleveland during the
tlIne the Republicans were nominal
ing Mr.. Coolidge and the prohibi-
lion agents were arresting citizens
1or carrying packages in the streets.
never thought this knowledge
was worth putting in a book. Be-
cause, as the experts say with re-
gard to wine, experience is the only
teacher.
Copyright, 1898, by United Features
Syndicate, Incl
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RGined Ont

By Reader.
How about the NRA on the civil
works program in Monroe county
forest reserve?
We leave here at 6:15 a. m. and
get home any time between 4:30
and p. m. On Dec. 10, it rained
all day and the boss got sore be-
cause the men would not work
out in the mud and rain and held
the buses till $3.50 p. m, before
he would let them leave. Still he
doesn't want us to get paid six
hours for the eleven hours we
were on the road and held up.
I thought these bosses weren't
to be slave drivers but he tries to
drive about 600 men out in the
rain and hollers because the men
want a fire on cold days when the
rangers said it was all right as
long as we keep them on the road
and put them out before we leave.
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or from unconcern, men do manage
to ignore most Of the hampering
regulations that are so important
and therefore so deadening to the
development of the feminine per-
sonalty- and by doing Sc they re-
tain a little Of the naivet Of the
juvenile which so allures.
They may, if they are egoists, be
absorbed in themselves, or they may
be able to concentrate entirely upon
eXtraneous matters. But they never
occupy themselves with trying 10 be
what they are not.
Women, on the contrary, who
have more natural aptitude for the
cultivation Of this particular grace,
often spoil everything by their pre-
tensions. And the poSeur never is
charming.
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Sleeping Girl
BY HAROLD FRENCH

Marvelousiy sloped, her throat
glides glides from my eyes
And GIBBS into the swelling Of her
breasts
Recalling to me the depth where
Lethe lies
Glimpsed through a vista of 10
tus--bearing crests.
About her arm an amulet Of runic.
queer device
Rich with the splendor Of an an
Gent scheme
Entices romance from his Bohemian
trysts
Toward pastures lying in her sgl-
dream.
Capricious shadows curl about hev
figure
As sentinel candles throw their
glance upon her.
Shadow-struck, her pillowed hair
filings out secure
Daedaian beauty that was Arach-
mes in her honor.
And just as begin TO think her
marble Parian,
The sleeping girl signs heavily
and slowly whispers Pan
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Fair
Enough
BY wEsTBROoK PEGLER-

T HAVE been reading some learned
L pieces lately on the art Of
drinking wine and I find them
rather discouraging because I don't
want to become a career-man at
this sort Of thing and yet the sub
ject apparently is one which takes
a life of study and conscientious
drinking. And then maybe it
wouldn't be worth the bother. be
cause 7 read in such articles that
there are only very few acres Of
good vineyards in the entire world
and that the expert drinker. after
all his study and sampling, is con-
stantly being disappointed.
The name Of the wine tells him
that it was grown on the third sprig
from the left in the second row
from the top in a side-hil patch
in a dear little old-world VILLAGE
six miles up a dirt road from the
town Of Beaune. But when the
waiter has pulled the cork and
| poured him a shot of the wine his
nose FUCKERS up like a dried apple
and warns him that this wine was
grown in a swamp behind a house
with blue shutters twenty-five miles
in the other direction from Beaune
and isn't any good.
This not only ruins his evening
but sets him to moping and sulk-
ing and he isn't any use to himself
or his loved ones for weeks and
| weeks.
Where ignorance permits one to
assume, however, that anything in
a bottle under a Beaune label is
something very special in the wav
Of wine it strikes me as foolishness
to go to the trouble and cost of
finding out that the bottle which
speaks for Sc on the wine-list is
nothing but bath-tub which the
French dealers have sent over to
the U. S. A. in reprisal for the nasty
way the Americans have been act
ing about the war debts.
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8! A Woman'S Viewpoint !:
: By. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

five men and five women and in
Guided no one whose right to the
honor could reasonably be ques-
tione. But it seems to me that
study of individuals over any wide
area would disclose many more
charming men than women. And
men are not charming because they
spend any time practicing the art,
but because they do not.
A NY studied effort along this
IN line is. necessarily fatal Charm
is something very different from
good manners or good looks or
learning which. by dint of much eff
fort, one may acquire. 1t is, should
say, the complete art Of being ones
self.
Now. whether ib Is from conceit
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Resentment Is Sure

THIS is certain to cause resent
Il ment and all the wine experts
seem to agree that wine must be
approached in spirit of generosity
and loving kindness if the ideal eff
feet is to be obtained. A man should
not wish to remain ignorant. but
this subject of wine seems to be
such a big one that I don't think
1 have enough time left to 90 into
1t fully. So, if I happen to be TAX
ing belts at a bottle of something
which is very old and elegant for
all know to the contrary. it
wouldn't do my enjoyment any
good to be told that it was nothing
but red ink.
conclude from my reading Of
the expert instruction that the ie
noramus likely is to find much
greater pleasure in his wine. though
1t is merely a French brand of
Sheep-dip or grape hootch, than the
expert finds in much better grade
OF stuff which, nevertheless to his
tastidious nose and palate. is a.
couple of eighths under perfection.
Mr.. Julian Street, a wine expert.
declares that really sophisticated
taste can remember a wine. visualiz-
ing not only its name but the scene
I where it was grown, the attractive
daughter of the man who owned the
place and the surroundings in which
he first encountered it
This I readily can believe. for I
have had somewhat similar ex-
per1ence as to various kinds of slim
uIant which encountered on nv
travels under prohibition. During
that time, I now begin to realize.
1 developed a nose and taste for
hootch as discriminating as his
knowledge Of wine. This took prac-
tIce, perseverance, suffering and
and no little expenditure of money.
You may blindfold Mr. Street and
certain other wine experts and give
them little whiffs and snifters of
many vintages and they will under
take, for a side bet if you insist, to
identify each sample with many
particulars.
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Buffers Opportunity
An Editorial

DUTLER has the most splendid opportunity
II Of any university in the United States.
Every educational authority in the country is
agreed upon that. indianapolis needs Butler.
Butler needs Indianapolis
That is why it is singularly unfortunate
that the institution has for several weeks been
plunged into controversy with DR.. Walter
Scott Athearn, its former president. 1t is an
open secret that the trustees have made some
mistakes in the management Of the college.
We think that they erred in summarily dis
missing DR.. Athearn in the middle Of last
term. We hold no brief for the former presi-
dent. Nor do we deny the right Of a board of
trustees to make a change in the executive
setup of an institution which they control.
But we do not believe that college presidents
should be hired and fired like business execu-
tives. Universities are not proft-making en-
terprise5 Education not financial gain, is the
reason for their existence.
1t is obvious that the trustees and DR..
Athearn are in wide disagreement on the
management Of Butler. The former president
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BY william Fowler.

By william Fowler.
In answer to Kentucky TinSes
reader: If you do such good, honest
labor, why don't you do it in your
hills. There are enough ignorant
people in Indiana without you
briar- hoppers here.
Sure you can get job. You'll work
twelve and fifteen hours a day for
a buck. Yes, you helped put Indi-
annapolis where it is. There is no
doubt about it. We would be busy
the next ten years mot five) put
ting Indianapolis back where it was
before you people came here. Our
crumbiest ends of town are full Of
Kentuckiars.
Give one Of you hin billies a
mouthful Of corn bread and you
could live for a month.
Your story about a Kentuckian
sending a Hoosier back home was
good. I guess he was glad to get
back in the good old United States.
But I still think you got that story
wrong. 1t was a Kentuckian stand
ing on corner with tears in his
eyes. He dropped a penny in a
mail box and no peanuts came out,
which made him feel very, very
dumb, which he ain't-yeS.
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You don't pay much attention to a report
OF a communistic attack on a Ukrainian
parade until you discover that this was in
Chicago.
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By A Reader

By A Reader
want to say that I see a lot of
comment on the stand that the
Governor of California took in that
lynching case. want to say right
here amen" to it; want to say to
these crankS who oppose his stano
on this matter:
"You haven't the sense of a last
years birds nest"
Now let's bring this matter into
your own home, and see how your
pulse will beat. Suppose your boy
was kidnapped and murdered; your
daughter kidnapped, taken out on a
lonely road and raped and muir
dered; what would you have to say
to this? Bring these things in your
own home. I think if you had any
good common sense you would think
just as this governor and this mob
did; the quicker you get rid of such
characters the better off the coun-
try is. You let those fellows come
to trial and the judge or jury will
give them two to fourteen years.
They stay about eighteen months,
then here comes along a pardon
board and paroles them; now here
you find them ready to commit an
other crime. say this mob was
justified in doing just what it did.
think If I had been in Herbert
Hoover's place I would have kept
my mouth shut. What did he do to
THE bonus boys; call out the state
militia at Washington. You re-
member there were several killed.
That was some of HOover's good
work. I think if I were as little
thought Of as Hoover I never would
allow my name to be put in the
paper any more.
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If the pure food and drug bill is passed
as drawn up originally, maybe we'll find Out
what there really is in the baloney DOLLAR
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husband did the driving, and on
those trips, it made me love my old
home state and was very anxious
to return home.
But what gets on my nerves is
where somebody, and I suppose it
is either a Kentuckian or a Ten
nesseean, always is trying to slur
the Hoosier people and the state
and I want to tell you if any of
you don't like the Hoosier state and
her people, it is not fenced up and
it's no farther to go back to where
you came from than it is when you
came over here, and besides, we did
not send for you. I do not blame
the Kentuckians or the Tennessee
ans for coming over here, but I
think they ought to behave them
selves and not slur Hoosiers.
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BY A Taxpayer.

BY Taxpayer.
With all of these government
projects now going on it would seem
that some attention should be taken
of the plight of a greater number
of south side citizens who live in
the vicinity of State avenue. 1t
would be a great benefit to large
number of people. most of whom
are buying their homes, if this street
was cut through and made passable
for traffic
Persons living in this neighbor-
hood have no access to town unless
they travel by the way of Shelby
street, and this is quite a distance
for any one living close to State
avenue.
This not only would be a great
convenience for many people but
also would be the means of open
ing up another artery for through
traffic and would mean another
substantial business section.
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By Mrs. H. Hurd.

By Mrs. H. Hurd.
1 am a Hoosier and the wife of
one OF the best Kentuckians who
ever lived. I have lived with him
eleven years and I know wherein I
speak. have had the pleasure of
going down in the southern part of
Kentucky near the Tennessee line
three different times, and had
to stand on one side of the Ford to
keep it from turning over, while my
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By A Butler Student.

By A Butler Student.
Why pick on professional courses
for teachers, why can't we expose
all the "racketS" that have grown
up in our educational circles. There
are as many nonsense" courses be-
ing taught in the academic fields
as in the professional fields, and
among the professional fields the
teachers do not have any monopoly
on all the nonsense.
Are we going to follow propa-
ganda without making complete
and impartial survey, yes, include
even mathematics. Be fair and
thorough to the taxpayer and stop
academic waste as we'll as profess
Sional waste.
Let us remove the aged and in
competent instructors from the two
universities as well as the normal
schools. Yes, and from the extern
sion division Of the normal schools
and university as well.
With no exception we should in
veStigate every service the state in
situations perform and weigh the
results in dollars and cents. inves-
tigate the competence of every
teacher from the kindergarten
through the university, and train
no more at public expense until
necessary.