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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21
WHO'S TO BLAME?

EARTON county authorities are to institute
WI the second vote investigation since the
urinary elections were held in May.
This time a former county workman
CHARGES that he found several uncounted PAL
lots when the ballot boxes we're returned 10
the county yards for storage. Several weeks
AGO the grand jury admitted there was evi-
dence of fraud in the primary, especially IN
the tabuIation of Republican ballots, but men,
hers of the Jury we're unable to point to the
offenders.
indianapolis ard Marion county. Tor years
have been subjected to ridcule for the manner
in which primaries and elections have been
conducted. Every balloting period Is followed
ny subsequent periods OF charges and counter
charces pointing to petty thievery at the polls.
Generally these charges die out after several
weeks
If there is any foundation 10 the new al
legations. county authorities would be wise to
start and actually complete the investigation
this time. More Of these gesture probes are
fruitless and tiresome.
Marion county can not hope to have repre-
sentative government If Unccunted ballots are
tossed aside. And the same reasoning must
amply If the investigating forces OF the county
should find that the ballots were not counted
and then could not place the blame.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21
WHO PAYS?

IT IS easy to understand the popular distaste
for taxing the necessities of life
But what is to be done? Legislatures
throughout the country in the last few years
have been frantic in their efforts to raise
money to carry on the functions of govern
ment Unjust sales taxes have been imposed
in nearly two dozen states, not because a
msjority Of legislators believed in that form
Of taxation, but because of uncompromising
necessity. Widespread defaults on general
property taxes have barkrupted municipal and
county governments. increasing the demands
upon and diminishing the revenues of state
governments.
And who can blame the defaulting tax
payers? The general property tax, backbone
of the taxing system Of state and local govern
ments. is in most states little more than a
real estate tax. And because this is true
greater part of the burden has been carried
by the farmers.
Twenty years ago, the gross income from
three acres Of the average American farm was
sufficient to pay the taxes on 100 acres. In
1892. taxes ate up the gross income of nine
each acre we're pal per cent above the acre
tax of 1913
report just published by the United States
bureau of agricultural economics suggests ways
to reduce the farm tax burden. The sugges-
tons include: Abolition of rural school dis
tricts in favor of county unit control of schools
incidentally, some states have found state
administration of rural schools even more
efficient; taking road administration out of
the hands of townships and turning it over
to counties Estate administration of roads has
been found even better; merging counties
and townships into larger units, and reducing
property taxes by substituting personal in
come taxes.
Counties and townships, handed down
from the -and-buggy days, are obviously
unsuited to the present era. In many in
stances, state capitals are more accessible
than county seats were 100 years ago.
The personal income tax while not as easy
to impose nor as easy to collect, is obviously
a more equitable tax than either the sales
tax or the property tax. 1t should at least
give relief to farmers in years of droughts and
depressed prices
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21
Two Kinds of Patriotism Discussed

American goods were successfully
evaded by our manufacturers by
erecting factories in these foreign
countries.
Go to the main library and see
the familiar American trade mark
names advertised in foreign mag
azines. The shareholders get diVi-
dends; the workers in America
lost their jobs. Profit knows no
flag. Yet these same American
manufacturer would not hesitate
to appeal to American workers to
save their investments by giving
up their lives in time of war.
The capital that is leaving the
country to develop industry in the
Orient and elsewhere was created
by the American people collective
ly, not by its poSSesSors. Why
should the American capitalists
be allowed to get away with this?
This money belongs in this coun-
try to rehabilitate our former
standard Of living.
Perhaps Edward Hayes, the con-
sentative commander of the Amer
lean Legion, and Russell Cook,
AmericaniSm chairman of the
legion, might turn their eyes to
these "subVersive forces" in the
persons of American capitalists
who take the jobs out of the coun-
try or refuse to let any work be
done in providing the needs Of the
people unless they receive tribute.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21
SUGGESTS PUBLICATION
OF TRUE PRICES

BY Dovie L. League.
Since I've read your advertise
ment of The Times I'd like to write
you as to what I think is the
greatest need of the farmers in a
paper. 1 think that most of all the
farmers need market page giving
the true market price of farm prod
ucts.
1t is true enough that there are
other features in a newspaper which
one likes very much. Haywood Broun
is very interesting.
Still, think the farmers want
very much to be aware of the true
market price before sending their
products to the city. Money is a
very important thing to each Of us,
If not truly the most important
thing in our lives. 1t signifies our
bread and butter Without it I feel
every one would possibly be like
myself-sometimeS have bread with
out butter and sometimes have
butter without bread.
1 have about four acres of
Stowell's Evergreen sugar corn now
about ready for market and I'm
told by the truck drivers that the
corn price given in The Times is
not correct. This is very incon-
venient for me since I possibly
should make more by saving the
corn for seed if I can't get the
price quoted for wholesale in The
Times. A farmer often would de-
cline to send his products if he
knew the true market price.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21
LESS, NOT MORE, RED TAPE

A MONG other things the American Bar
n Associations administrative law COM
mittee recommends that independent govern
ment bureaus and commissions be stripped of
their judicial powers and merged into the
regular departments This seems an illogical
recommendation.
Established independent agencies such as
the interstate commerce commission and fed
eral trade commission owe their effectiveness
to the exercise of judicial authority and to
freedom from the kind of political influence
that is inherent in the machinery of the reg
ular departments.
New Deal agencies, such as NRA, IVA and
the securities and exchange commission,
frankly are experimental. To apply effectively
the trial and error method. they must be left
free to establish such rules and procedure as
seem best suited for the purpose. The older
a government department. the more complex
and strangling its red tape Very little ex-
perimenting can be done in a strait jacket.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21
SEVEN TO ONE

ME muscle men of the underworld have
= things their own way because they are
so tough that people fear to oppose them.
Once in a while. however, some two-fsted
citizen comes along to demonstrate that the
underworld plug-ugly is pretty much a hollow
shell.
1t was so with a Chicagoan recently. A
west slider named Richard johnson one night
surprised four young hoodlunls robbing the
store which is under his apartment. Being a
war veteran, Johnson isn't afraid of a fight;
so he waded in. rounded up the four single
handed, and turned them over to the police.
Next day mysterious stranger warned
him not to testify against them in court or he
would be taken for a ride. johnson laughed
at him. couple Of nights later three men
jumped on him near his home. to put the
threat into execution. Johnson started his
fists swinging-and pretty soon these three
were in police cells, along with the other four.
These fearsome city gangSters evidently
aren't quite so tough, after all-if one lone
citizen. equipped only with courage and good
physique, can handle seven of them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21
SUGGESTS CLOSING OF
RELIGION DEBATE

BY r. C. o. NJ.
There appeared in The Message
Center some time ago, an article
which brought quite number of
protests from our beloved christian
churchmen.
The writer of the article has gone
so far over the heads of these pro-
testing churchmen, that he has been
accused of being both an atheist
and an infidel by the same person.
The use of an ordinary dictionary
would be Of great assistance to this
person.
I did not see one word in that
letter which would lead me to be-
lieve that the writer denied the ex-
istence of a God. AS this question
can not BE- settled by the combined
armies of the entire world, it surely
can not be settled through the use
of the limited space of newspaper.
Allow me to suggest that the
question be closed, as it can only
create a hate among ourselves, which
can be avoided.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21

By Forrest s, Rogers.
Those who love their country
with their hearts and not with
their lips know that capitalists
know no flag. Evidence of this
is abundant.
In the financial section of the
New York Times, J. H. Carmical
describes the growing industrial
ism of the Orient, and relates the
following episode:
1T is difficult to determine to
what extent American capital is
playing in the industrial develop
ment of the Chinese ports. How
ever, it is known that one large
international concern owned part
ly by American capital dismantIed
four of its factories Gin America),
employing approximately 10000
workers, and transferred its OPP
erations to Shanghai.
when an official was criticised
for the move because of its effect
on the employment situation mere,
he replied that his responsibility
was first to the shareholders of
the corporation.
Profits of so to rs per cent from
industries located in China and
Japan are common, the author
stated.
The manufacturers of this
country clamored for and received
high protective tariffs from the
Republicans. Retaliatory tariffs
passed by foreign countries against
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21
TARIFF POLITICS?

THERE are disconcerting reports that the
administrations tariff bargaining is being
delayed until after election Politics should
not be permitted to interfere with the use of
one of the New Deals most potent weapons for
recovery
Politics has been kept at minimum in the
administration of the relief. public works and
agricultural programs. That is one reason why
the country has made advances toward re-
covery.
No less essential to recovery is the pending
effort to recapture foreign markets for Amer
lean farm and factory products. The alter
native is painful contraction in those Amer
lean industries that are keyed to production
far beyond the demands of the home market
Typical examples are the cotton and tobacco
industries which respectively depend upon for
eign markets for the sale of SIS and 20 per cent
of production.
Reciprocity treaties permitting a two-way
flow of trade without injury to local interests
are not impossible to achieve But they will be
impossible if politics is to have a controlling
hand. Every local interest regardless of how
Insignificant or inefficient or monopolistic it is
viii protest bitterly against any tariff conces-
sion that even might remotely affect it.
We hope the unfortunate is due, as admin
sary for development of a comprehensive pro-
gram. II the tariff trading is to be effective.
it must be major operation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21
AURORA WATER SUPPLY
DECLARED PURE

BY Fred ROache. Aurora, Ind.
1 should like to ask that you per-
NIT me to make clear one point in
your article dealing with river water
at Aurora which your writer did not
make entirely clear. A stranger
reading the article might infer that
water used by the citizens of Aurora
is not good water. This is not true.
The company which serves water
here properly treats all raw water
from the river before it is distributed
through the mains. When, as some
times happens, the B coli count eX-
ceeds 10000, the water is pre-treated
before being delivered into the CO.
agulating and settling basins for
regular treatment. This extra pre-
caution assures pure water for
drinking and all uses. In addition,
we treat the water for taste so that
it is not merely pure but satiSfac-
tory to the taste.
I might say that our local health
officer, DR.. James P. Treon, records
the inspections of the state board OF
health, whose analyses regularly are
reported back to us as "SatiSfac-
tory" 1 shall be grateful for space
to make these points about the
water used by Aurora residents.
Editors Note-The Times article
did not intend to infer that
AurOra's drinking water was I'M
safe but did say distinctly that the
water which was pumped from the
Ohio river was unsafe and unsat-
isfactOry as water supply for a
city. The Times pointed out that
Aurora is forced TO give the water
extra treatment due to the pOllu-
tiOnaI load.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21
MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN

~ONLY mad dogs and Englishmen go out IN
Othe MONDAY sun" runs the chorus Of
oerlsive Asiatic ditty.
The unknown author should get look at
some Of our Hoosier males as they move
along washington street in lOO-degree heat.
At least the Englishman in torrid temperatures
mas for years had the good sense to wear
minimum Of loose. lightweight washable cloth
ing. Frequently. aside from footwear. his attire
is merely shorts. shirt and pith helmet.
Contrast this with the indianapolis bust
ness man who would as soon join nudiSt
colony as appear at his office in shorts or in
tieleSs polo shirt for that matter. 1t makes no
difference that after two hours in a WOODEN
suit he is ready to kick the Office cat and beat
up his StenOgrapher.
Women. at whom the omnipotent male is
too prone to jibe. years ago abandoned the
idea Of four or five layers Of clothing in hot
weather. Remember when We were al shocked
because the flappers parked" their corsets for
summer dancing? Now the only place you can
find corset IS in the attic.
There is hope for the masculine sex. It has
taken some FIVE hundred years for it to discard
the steel cuirsss as the proper formal attire for
a gentleman in all weathers. Now this I'M
pressive garment fingers only in the stiff eve
ming shirt
Not so long ago men felt it necessary to
wear pretty uncomfortable clothes even at golf
and tennis. To-Day they really are quite senSi-
bic In their sports attire and some steps have
been taken IN the direction OF everyday COM
fort in the way Of washable suits.
Marx Twain. YOU remember. was the first
American male who dared to wear white linen
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21
sATURDAY - 81 ~.
TIME TO ACT

MASTOIDITIS. sinus infection. strepto-
coccus throat. car assesses, intestinal
% disorder. skin diseases-this is the grim har-
vest Indiana is reaping because its public Of
hcials have. for years. permitted special priw-
lcge to make open sewers Of the states lovely
streams
Arch Steinel Of The Times staff talked to
scores Of physicians about stream pollution
and published their statements yesterday. He
found the medical profession unanimous in
agreeing that filthy swimming waters are an
extremely grave menace TO health.
There is no excuse for this condition.
Cities have failed to build sewage disposal
plants because they require 50 few men to
operate that there is no political patronage
in them. Industries pour poison into our
streams because they refuse TO spend few
thousand dollars to be decent neighbors.
Such industries must be treated exactly as
would any individual who kept hogs in a resi-
dental district They must be forced to clean
up. Keeping pigs in the city limits is HARM
less compared to making rivers unfit even
for fishing
The worst thing about stream pollution is
lAldb IL ollAhto ldlBt4g d. tiAC AACes4b' "a NAAS
coming generation. 1t is the young people
who are disabled. often permanently by this
unnecessary evil.
Perhaps your boy likes to swim Next time
you sit up through long. hot night with
him and watch him in agony from earache
or listen to him hacking with one of those
severe summer colds" ask yourself if some
swinish political boss or ruggedly individual
istic industry may not be responsible for his
condition.
You. Mrs. Citizen, do not have to put up
with such tragic abuse. The streams OF In
diana belong to you and your children Take
I'D the matter with your women's orgsniza-
tions. Write to your local public officials
Nothing moves a politician like the loss OF
votes.
Meanwhile. The Times is in this fight to
the finish. It will be swayed neither by po-
utical nor business considerations. You may
rest assured OF that.
When the streams are restored TO the
sparkling purity in which they were when
James Whitcomb Riley and a host OF other
Indiana poets made them celebrated through
ont the world. then, and only then, VIII TINS
newspaper quit the battle
Indiana is in America. 1t Is not province
in China.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21
REFUSES TO BE MUCH
PERTURBED BY NUDISM
By H. V. Allison.

Dg n " AiliSOAs
Mr.. Bailey, writing in The Mes
sage Center, expresses regret that
the press and the public take so
little interest in the nudist activi-
ties becoming popular with a certain
class. I believe thinking people like
myself see no cause for alarm and
take the same attitude Will Rogers
takes toward the Hitler govern
ment. He says if you oppose he
government you are asked to COM
nit SUICIDE or face the firing squad.
He says over here we just let them
90 on making speeches, and the re-
suits are about the same. I think
this nudism idea is an epidemic
slightly contagious to the narrow
minded. Diagnosed as sex crazy,
and both sides, being about evenly
divided, soon will destroy them
selves.
With the nudist idea there seems
to be a misunderstanding about the
spiritual and the material parts Of
man. The mind, the spiritual part
of the body, fails to function prop
erly and likely is TO destroy the ma
terial. We have gone too far from
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21
COMPLAINS OF ACTION
AT HOSIERY MILLS
By Subscriber.

BY Subscriber.
I do not work at either of the
hosiery mills but I have friends who
work there. From what I hear the
girls at the National are get
ting a bad deal. I understood that
every one would be taken back and
treated just as well as they were be-
fore they came out. Well, how about
it, Mr.. Barskin? Can't you stand
back of your word? The strikers
have stood by theirs.
If the strikers hadn't intended to
do what was right they wouldn't
have gone back. How about it, you
strikers? I am sure the public is
with you 100 per cent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21

ties of a we'll know brand of bread.
apparently those who are respon-
sible for this freakish type of adYer-
Using forget, or rather ignore the
fact that their business depends
chiefly upon women customers.
some of whom may resent an af-
front of this sort and dissatisfied
customer usually finds ways and
means of doing their shopping I'M
der more congenial conditions.
Merchants owe a certain amount
of consideration TO their customers
and to the buying public in gen.
eral. I have seen about all kinds
of nude, lewd and otherwise sex
crazy" pictures in various advertise
ments, but this certainly is the
prize of the lot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21
Capital Caperc
BY GEORGE ARELL-

MINISTER CHATTER KHAN DJALAL of
1F1 Persia, whose sparkling diamond tie pins
and gay supper parties brighten the summer sea-
son here, just has scored real diplomatic VIC
tory.
The thing was done in an extremely able way
and Washington offcialdom is only now begin
ming to realize how ably.
Briefly, these are the facts:
There is in the Gulf of Persia an island
named Bahrien, whose possession is disputed by
both Great Britain and Persia. Oil reserves
make the island desirable, a fact which has
caused the Standard Oil Company of California
to lease it from the British government. (The
British have claimed Bahrien since 177O and
maintain their sovereignty there by force of
armed troopS)
Minister Djalal recently found good open
ing for the side of Persia when he learned that
the United States senate to ratify the 1925
treaty for the prohibition of the arms traffic.
1t was just before the senate, hot and wearied
by hours of ceaSeleSS argument, was about to
adjourn. Every one was anxious to get away
Senators mopped their brows, consulted railroad
tickets and train schedules. Last-minute legis-
lation hastily damned through. The 1925
treaty ratification came up.
Then Envoy Djalal stepped in.
He induced Senator William H. King of
Utah (who frequently has been wined and dined
at the Persian legation) to insert a reservation
to the effect that nothing in the treaty should
be construed as denying Persian sovereignty in
the Gulf of Persia
The treaty ratification, thus worded, was
quickly passed by a perspiring and Indifferent
senate. Senators don't think twice about small
island named Bahrian which happens to be in
the Gulf of Persia.
This does not mean, of course that Persia's
claim to Bahrien is confirmed by the United
States. But it does lend Persia a strong political
lever for such a claim.
Minister DALAI flashes his diamond pins and
his suppers and smiles quietly There is talk that
the grateful Shah of Persia may give ham a
decoration.
CTEVE EARLY and Marvin Mcintyre, the
~ presidential secretaries, afford the only signs
OF life at the White House.
Steve, looking fit and bronzed has just re-
turned from a cruise in Canadian waters-a
striking contrast to lean Mr.. Mcintyre, whose
pallor is remarked by White House callers and
others who remark him at luncheon in the May
flower and the Carlton.
Little Louis Howe Colonel Howe to be exact)
is on his vacation up north, and the rest of the
White House staff is scattered far and wide
some with President Roosevelt, some in Europe
and others in various parts of the United States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21

coats and trousers. He once remarked on a
very hot day that what he really wanted to do
bones
But after all maybe the mad dog Of the
Asiatic ditty is the most sensibly dressed of all
for not weather.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21
SILK MILL WORKER
MAKES COMPLAINT
By a Times Reader.

By Times Reader.
In view of your fairness in the
strike at the silk mills here, ask
you to please print this
1 work at the National mill, and
I, for one, was under the impress
sion if We would all go back to work
just as we came out the strikers
would be we'll treated, but it seems
somebody has not kept his word.
There always have been too many
girls in each department, but we
have worked on an average Of six
hours a day for the last two years.
Why can't We do the same now
instead of being laid off every week
or so?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21
ADVERTISING PICTURE
DRAWS RESENTMENT

BY Ex-Customer
Within the last week there has
appeared on the largest billboards
in our city, and Of course occupying
the most conspicuous locations, a
lewd and altogether repulsive carl
cature Of womanhood.
This monstrosity IS supposed to
call attention TO the sterling quail
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21

papers referring to their beloved
city as Frisco"
You may say what you want
against their climate, their fruit or
their wines; but when you call their
city by the Golden Gate Frisco"
you are just inviting editorial retri-
button, and they never decline an
invitation