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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
"TAKEIT-OR-LEAVE-IT"

DROTESTS are beginning to reach the SEN
l. ate territories committee against its at
ternpt to force unfair independence terms
upon the Philippines.
The unjust Hawes-C Cutting law, which was
rejected last October by the Philippine leg
islature. Iapsed two weeks ago. Instead Oh
moving to amend it in the interests OF ]uSVice'
or waiting for the President to reach COM
pronnise independence agreement with the
Cuezon mission, the senate committee has now
voted to revive the rejected law without
change. The joker is in chairman 1yolngS
declaration that:
eff after the new elections the legislature
again fails to take action or acts adversely
under the provisions of the BILL it Will be
notice to congress that the Fllipinos DO not
desire independence and desire to continue
unoer their present status" In other words,
the committee undertakes not only to tell the
Filipinos the kind of independence they
should have but says take our brand or MOTH
ing. Since the Philippine legislature ALREADY
has rejected the Hawes-Cutting terms, there
seems to be no point in the committees lat
est action unless it is to force the Filipinos
to accept the committees dictation.
We can not believe that congress desires to
DENY the Philippines the right of selt-oeter-
mination We believe that most members OF
congress in voting for the original haWeS-
Cutting bill took seriously the bills provision
that the Philippines could accept or reject it,
and that congress has no intention OF dicta-
torship.
In protesting the committees action and
the Tydings statement, Raymond Leslie
Buell., president Of the foreign policy sssocia-
ton. says of the new this-or- nothing policy:
IF this is the view of congress. the only
Just thing is to make the act mandatory and
not to ask the Filipino people to go through
the formality of the plebscite. The terms
of this act have been criticised by a commit
tee of distinguished publicists sponsored by
the foreign policy association and the world
peace foundation, and by the great majority
of newspapers within the United States. In
view of these criticisms of the act, do not see
how any fair-minded person can say that, if
the Filipinos reject the act, it follows that
they do not want independence. The only
solution of the problem, in my Judgment, is the
amendment of the Hawes-Cutting act so as
to provide an equitable settlement"
The senate committee can hardly refuse
the request of DR.. Buell., and other distin-
guished critics of the committees policy, for
a public hearing on just amendments TO the
rejected independence measure
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
NEEDLESS DEATHS

TWO-THIRDS of the women who died in
= childbirth last year could have been saved.
Sixty per cent of them died because of lack
of knowledge or judgment on the part Of the
attending physician.
These are figures to be carefully consid-
cred by that part of the population which feels
active alarm at the growing trend toward birth
control They should be pondered by those
concerned with physical, ethical and social
wellbeing in this country.
The figures were reported by a committee
of the Academy of Medicine and approved by
the council of that body. They stand as a
lasting reproach to a civilization which will
tolerate such condition.
In time of many immediate and harass-
ing problems this one should not be over
looked More hundreds of women will die
this year unnecessarily.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
THE CITIES PLIGHT

IMPOVERISHED cities, plagued with bank
ruptcy, depressed bond markets and pay
less paydays. are calling for the same life
savers the government has been tossing to
banks, railroads and others. The United
States conference of mayors, representing 1S9
cities Of $4,000 or more, favors:
l. The Sumners-Wilcox bill. This would
permit bondholders to sit down at table with
city officials and. if two-thirds of the credit
ors agree, arrange for reducing or refunding
the loans. The plan now operates for rail-
roads and others under the recently bankrupt
cy act.
2 Loans from the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation. secured by tax anticipation war
rants or notes This might involve a revo,v-
ing fund of S5OoO0O,0OO
Some 1900 municipalities are said to be in
default on their bends. Detroit is reported to
be plastered with city scrip. The social serv-
ices, including schools health departments,
police and fire protection. are being cut to the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
LdMds Times Setup

BY L. c. McKinsey.
I take this occasion to compi-
ment you on the new arrange
ment of the educational and
editorial pages. The pages printed
back to back will eliminate clip
ping the various columns.
About a year and half ago I
started cutting out and filing
Broun's 1T Seems to. Me-" You
can imagine the bulk of the clip
pings I amassed Unfortunately,
they were destroyed by mistake.
Willis Thornton's recent article
was very good. For them who
won't read, the cartoonist's pic
ture story in the article tells
much. The uncoUth gentleman
on the right should have loomed
larger, as he is the biggest
stumbling block on the road to
the left and progress.
also think F. D. r. would
have locked we'll and appropriate
on the cuff of the hand holding
the quill.
I was very much interested in
the much heralded schools for
adult education, to be conducted
by the government. On investiga-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
ANOTHER REDSKIN

dorm three centuries earlier, quite con-
- ceivably Chief Great Thundercloud of
the Narragansetts might have been the one
who uttered that historic defiance of sending
a bundle of arrows wrapped in rattleSlake's
skin to the Puritan Governor.
The Narragansetts then were a mighty
and warlike race. AS they saw the white
winged ships unload their white-skinned
gun-carrying crews they might have been
uplifted with a divine hope or they might
have sensed impending rivalry but not the
most doleful of their medicine men would
have foretold complete extinction for them.
But the Narragansetts for practical pur-
poses have ceased to be, and their last chief,
Great Thundercloud, has just died of mall
nutrition and exposure in a shack under
Coogan's Bluff in New York City. He had
become DR.. Thundercloud, peddler of herb
tonics in Harlem. The decline OF his people
was reflected in his own life.
We living today didn't dispossess the In
dams, of course, but when such tragedies
come to light it is hard to escape a twinge
in these noveau usurper American con-
sciences of ours.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30

ton I find the last classes are
from to p. m. To my notion
this gives the man in the shop a
bad break. The unemployed young
and the man too old for CWA
stand to benefit.
In the former case a dissatisfied
school boy rarely learns, in the
latter an inhexible and unre-
ceptive mind.
Projects were not approved or
money allotted unless they were
of public benefit and of more or
less permanent nature. Therefore,
I Go not believe this educational
move is an empty gesture merely
to employ teachers.
Would it be too unreasonable
to ask YOU to see what could be
done about this? The only reason
advanced by a Y. M. G. A. official
is that no provision for light was
made in the appropriation.
So thank you in advance and
I wish you a continued increase
in circulation and feel that cur
tailment of the freedom Of the
press never will affect a ScrippS-
Howard publication.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30

solve it alone. It can be solved by
intelligent cooperation of Indian
apolis business men and the Cham
Der Of Commerce. The low rentals
in Indianapolis are caused by lack
of work and low wages. There is no
occasion for surprise at the number
of vacancies. Men are leaving town
every day. They are finding work
elsewhere.
Saturday night at $3.50 our down.
town district had the appearance of
a small country village. One of
those places where they lock the
doors, put out the lights and roll
up the sidewalks at 8 p. m.
There was supposed to be an adj
dition built to the federal building
When it goes through it will mean
profit for Indianapolis workmen and
business men. I suggest that the
Chamber of Commerce concentrate
on this problem. and see if it can
be expedited.
This requires no local capital. In
dianapolis is tagging behind in
! building. Building is infectious.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
TUESDAY. JAN 30. 1898.
AN ABSURD PLEA

THE Indianapolis Power and Light Com
pany must appear before the public serv-
ice commission on Thursday. It has much to
explain about its rate structure and its valu-
atoms. There is every evidence that it will try
to dodge any explanation at all by seeking to
restrain the commission through the federal
courts.
The utility's efforts to wrap itself in the
American flag and hide its strange business
conduct behind the Constitution are ridiculous
They simply prove to the public that the
power and light company will not, or can not
try its case on the merits
We are not surprised that the corpora
ton seems confused and bafled. 1t is an open
secret that for years our state administrations
have favored utilities. That is the reason rates
in Indiana average more than in the country
at large.
The McNutt administration is emphatically
not favorable to the utilities 1t reports to
the people and not to the power companies.
In addition to this the last legislature made
some changes in the law. The indianapolis
Power and Light Company will find these
changes rather diScomfiting.
"A public counsellor was created. This office,
nav ably held by Shsrman Minton, is sup
ported by the state but devoted to protecting
the interests of the consumer in rate matters.
The legislators also altered the law to
make appeals to federal courts in rate cases a
good deal more difficult. Resort to the United
States judiciary in such cases is what the
lawyers call proceeding in equity 1t is a
fundamental principle of law that equity can
not intervene unless there is a reasonable allie
cation that no other legal remedy is available
Under the revised statutes such legal rem
edy is provided for the utilities without making
necessary plea to the federal courts.
The indianapolis Power and Light Com
pany now may have decisions of the public
service commission reviewed by the state
courts. Thus it is unnecessary for it to run to a
federal judge until it has carried its case I'D
through the local courts.
Doubtless the federal courts will consider
this if the light company tries to force itself
before them.
The indianapolis Power and Light Company
is just trying one more legalstic dodge to avoid
the day of reckoning that is surely overtaking
it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30

TINE profession of law more
l. than any other appears to
close up avenues of thought. Lee
gality, not life, is the chief con-
Germ of the American attorney.
He has protected and guarded his
old codes with a fortitude worthy
of a nobler cause. And he often
displays such monumental stub
bornness that even the tortoise
movements made toward legal
improvements partake of the ma
ture of a miracle.
Now I'm coming to the point.
The other day 1 heard a lawyer
high in his profession, whose in
tellect is far above the average,
say. You'll never be able to train
the desire to steal out Of the hu-
man race"
Do you think he's right? And
am I just a softie because I have
imagined that stealing was vice
which had been trained into man
and fostered by the exigencies Of
his economic state2
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
SAMUEL INSULT

A GED Samuel insult has lost his appeal to
Greeces supreme state council, and must
leave his classic hideout in a hurry or be de-
ported. Other countries, even little Albania,
have refused him sanctuary. 1t is said he
will seek refuge on the Island of Rhodes in
the Aegean sea. Otherwise his choice of
abode seems to be the shakespeare of Cook
county illinois, where he would be welcomed
to answer a fraud indictment.
The plight of this one-time American
super-financier will be sermonized as lesson
in personal knavery. 1t is more lesson in
social immortality insult might have grown
old honorably like his friend Edison. That
he chose instead to plunge in the great game
of utility finance and lost, dragging with him
the savings of hundreds of thousands of poor
people, was his fault-but it was also Americas.
For generations this country has preached
money success to its school children and en-
shrined as its highest caste the gamblers who
won. insult played the American game
He played it recklessly and probably IL
legally. although he had the advice of emf
nent counsel. But what we are coming to
realize now is that the game itself was crooked
It is easy to hold up to scorn the Kreugers
and insults or the more careful Michells, Wig
gins. Morgans and other furnished idols of
the business world. 1t is not so easy to ad-
NIT that society also is the sinner.
If the depression has taught us anything
II is that besides drumming the crooked
nlavers from the game We must change
the rules
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
So They Say

Great Britain is the sole guardian
Of democracy.-Stanley Baldwin.
America is a Titan still, but for
the moment an exhausted Titan
Professor David P. BarrowS of the
University of California.
We have done nothing to insure
a future for American music.-PauI
Whiteman.
Were it not for repeal, a disas-
trous initiation might even now be
on the way. - Professor E. r. A.
Seligman of Columbia university.
I believe that radio has debased
high-class music. Many sponsors
would use good music if they dared
but they feel the public doesn't
want it.-Reinald Werrenrath.
The keynote of success is the
ability to conquer the things in
which you have failed.-Marie
Dressler.
Some people in this country seem
to think the burlesque is this and
that" But that's a COMPOUNDED lie.
Max Wilmer, burlesque "impre-
sario."
I guess, after all, helped to Sc
lect the wrong man, for President
Of the United States when I nomi-
mated Herbert Hoover.-William S.
Ware, Republican leader of Phila-
delphia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
War
BY LAWRENCE E. SCOTT

BY LAWRENCE E. SCOTT
Be not misled by false deceit
OF martial airs and tramping feet.
The very thought of guuesome war
Is one to fear, one to abhor.
The drum and bugle's thrill can't
last
Beyond the lannon's razing blast,
Nor medals can those hearts appease
Who've lost their loved ones over
seas"
Brave manhood in the prime of life
Is crushed by warfare's cruel strife.
Sane men should know by now, 1t
seems,
To settle odds by peaceful means.
How Christ like it would surely be
If nations could be made TO see
That better, far, than warfare's sin,
Is peace on earth, good viii toward
men!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
ALIQUOR TRUST?

QUIT has been brought in circuit court to
~ determine the legality Of the states pres
ent methods of licensing vine wholesalers.
Under the present setup no one may sell vine
who has not also beer wholesalers permit.
We see no good reason for this unless it is
10 extend the beer monopoly to wine. 1t IS a
dangerous situation, particularly since good
wine should be cheap ana easily available II
tine temperance is TO be promoted.
Evidently Ralph Whitaker, local repre-
Senative of Nichigan's Houppert Wine Com
pany. feels the same way about it. HIS con-
Germ is not in the beer business, and he sees
no reason why it should have to go into it
To sell its products in Indiana. So he has
quite properly gone to the courts to haye his
rights determined.
There is too much mysterious undeIcover
activity in the liquor business in this state.
prices are too high and a few individuals are
getting the distribution channels into their
own hands.
Do not forget that the saloon evil sprang
I'D mainly because the brewers and distillers
got control of the retail outlets ana then
abused them.
Today there are disquieting rumors that
the same thing is taking place in this state
The Times wishes 10 warn these smooth gentle
men that il is fully aware Of what is going on.
Rather than permit the people of Indiana TO
be victimized by selfish interests it viii fight
for a complete cnange in the whole liquor
control system.
The Whitaker suit is a test case. Let us
have it promptly and finally adjudicated. If
the encouragement. in defending it inter-
poses lot of technicalities the people OF this
state viii realize that he is not representing
them. but the interests that are seeking TO
, establish liquor trusts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
VETERAN WANTS HIS
BASKET BACK

By A. B. C.
I have taken your paper for the
last fifteen years and 1 would like to
see if you would answer these queS-
tions for me and my buddies.
was working for the CWA up
until today at which time lot of
us eX-soldiers received notice that
we were not needed on the job any,
more because the quota was more
than filled. I am married man
with a family and need the work
badly. The men that were kept on
the job we're not married and not
soldiers, and some of them do not
really need the job. You printed a
piece some time ago about fellow
that delivered water in Ford V-8.
Well, that was on project No. 10
and it is the same job that I am
speaking about. They also have a
foreman on the job that came all
the way from Florida to get the
job Now why can't the men from
this city be treated like human be-
ings? Are they going to give our
baskets back to us?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
HERE'S ANOTHER Ardent
FOE OF MNUTT
BY Old Subscriber,

BY Old Subscriber.
read the letter of Mr.. Pratt Of
Jan. % and also the answer by j.
Brook. I sure agree 100 per cent
with Mr.. Brook in his views on the
tax question. There is only one
thing that Governor McNutt has
never been given credit for.
He is one of the greatest inven-
tors the state has ever produced.
He has made a speciality of invent
ing methods of taxation. Without
doubt he knows more about the
different things produced in the
state and the different kinds Of
businesses than anybody as he has
a special tax for each one.
Then the state politicians say you
can have your choice of being a
customer of the soup kitchens or
pay income tax (making no allow
ance for people who have children
and are compelled to pay two or
three prices for school books, only
state employees politicians being
exempt.
And last, but not least, he is the
inventor of the latest thing in poll
tics, "the skip election"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

bone in many cities. Fall Rivers mayor Is
working for day laborer's salary. Yonkers
owns 1900 parcels Of land taken for tax de-
linouency. New York City's plight is well
known after sixteen years of Tammany waste
The lessons are too obvious to repeat. Cities
will and must learn from the depression to
run their affairs without graft, extravaganza
and ineficiency.
In the meantime the federal government
should offer them what relief it can by way
of bankruptcy machinery and short-term
credit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
A WORD IN FAVOR
OF THE TRUSTEE

By S. c.
Give the devil his due.
AS so much has been said in re-
gard to the treatment people have
received when asking for help at
the trustees Office, felt as if I
could not help but write a few lines
to really let others know of the
excellent way I was treated. True,
they do not investigate the same
day you ask for help, but as soon
as possible, considering the vast
number of people applying for help
If you have never been there, you
have no idea how nicely and quiet
" they handle the crowd, trying to
be lust, and using every one alike.
I did not have any political pull
and was a stranger to all. All I
knew about the trustee is what I
read in the papers, and through
some of the others that have been
helped.
When I went to the Standard
Store on the corner of Alabama and
Massachusetts I always received
courtesy. I have been dealing with
the public for eighteen years, and
sometimes I wonder just what some
people expect.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
HERE'S A LETTER
BACKING THE CWA

Because I am a reader Of The
Indianapolis Times and an en-
ploye of the eva, I feel free in
asking publication Of this mes
sage.
I have been wondering if you
ever receive any favorable reports
in reference to the CWA. I am a
laborer on one of the river projects
and I am happy to receive my check
each week. Although the check is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
CITY Tagging, WE'RE
TOLD IN THIS ONE
BY Tom BerIing.

BY Tom BerIing.
I have before me an authentic
report Of expenses and gross re-
ceipts on an apartment building.
It contains nineteen apartments,
three store rooms, and twenty-four
garages.
1t was financed in 1926 by an
issue of 100000 615 per cent
mortgage bonds, $37,0OO0O of which
is still outstanding; no maturities
or interest having been paid since
January, 1882.
Receipts for year 1888 were
$4,179.50 Expenses were as follows:
Custodian. SLIGO; lights, S815.31;
coal, $437.42; gas, $232.73; water,
$25220; mis-, $52786; insurance,
1885 IS; taxes, $1,122.30. Receipts,
$4,179; expenses, S5,484.67, making
deficit of $1,30517.
At present all apartments, store
rooms and eight garages are occu-
pied at reduced rentals. This is a
real problem and the owner can not
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30

Canadian penitentiaries have 1860 men in
mates and only forty-four women. Don't the
royal mounted ever get their women?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30

The chorus girls in New Yorks new Fol-
lies are not so undressed as they used to be.
Still, clothes aren't what make the woman.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
The Message Center

Times readers are inrited to cypress
their rietoS in these columns. Make your
letters short, SO all can hare a chance
Limit them to $50 qcords or lPssJ
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30

Milk dealers are going to replace their glass
bottles with paper containers. Now, how are
we going to get up before breakfast?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30

that man without a job gets and
other times you don't.
I know plenty of people who have
to depend on that little help. The
man that has job making SIS a
week gets his flour, meat, butter,
and other things, where the man
that hasn't anything gets told it's
for the CWA workers.
If I were making SIS week, I
probably could buy my food. I don't
believe President Roosevelt meant
it to be that way. Would you please
look into this? Of course, this will
never be in The Times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
IF HE HAD SIS A WEEK
HE'D BUY HIS FOOD
By a Times Reader

By a Times Reader.
I'm Just another guy out Of job
getting help from the trustee. Some
weeks you get all the extra things
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The indianapolis Times
sCRTPPS-HOWAR NEWSPAPER

ROY ". HOWARD ....... =. President
TALcoTT POWELL i. Editor
EARL D. BAKER 800. Business Manager
Phona-RIler hs51
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
Liberal Viewpoint
-Bv DIR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

This is the first of two articles by Harry Elmer
Barnes, Phi. D., the moderate character OF any
inhatonary measures before the country.