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Evening star., 1934-12-06
COUNCILMAN QUITS
Gaithersburg Man Resigns to Re
tain Postal Position.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
GAITHERSBURG. December g.
The resignation of Councilman Ira
Darby was accepted by the mayor and
Town Council at the monthly meeting
last night, it being stated that Darby
could not hold his present position ir
the local post office and remain q
member of the council.
After a service of eight years in this
capacity Darby was reelected last
May for another term of four years
A special meeting will be called by
Mayor McBain next week to name a
successor.
Evening star., 1934-12-06
Tourist Losses Offset.

While fewer American and British
tourists visited Italy this year the diff
ference was offset by the increased
number from Germany and France.
Evening star., 1934-12-06

PkINIE MIIHAEL CANTACUZENE,
Former major general in the
Russian Cars army. was married
in Sarasota. Fla. to Miss jeanette
Draper. former clerk in his bank.
Prince Cantacuzene and Mrs. Julia
Cantacuzene- Grant of Washington,
granddaughter of former President
U. S. Grant, were recently divorced.
"A P. Photo.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-08
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
SAVING THE FORESTS

A CTTCN by owners Of the nations AGO.
IN 100000 acres Of private timber land may
modify the ruthless individualism that has all
but ruined the priceless heritage of our forests.
The owners themselves, impelled by en-
lghtened self-interest and the new federal
leadership, have agreed to strengthen the
conservation section of the lumber code by
elf-imposed rules to be administered by the
code authority with all the effect of law.
Minimum standards for logging and other
forest work will be framed, adapted to the
ten regional sections of the country and en-
forced While these standards are minimum
ones and, doubtless, will not insure steady,
sustained yield of growth, they should halt
at once the insane slashing and overlogging
in commercial forests.
Besides these measures an executive COM
mittee of ten, five named by Agriculture Sec
rotary Henry Wallace to represent the public,
will recommend federal and state legislation
covering tax reforms, fire protection and pub
lie land acquisition
These are momentous steps in the Slow
hard struggle for forest conservation in Amer
lea Since out of 100000 acres of timber
now being cut each year, only about 3650oo
are being harvested with an eye to future
needs, the decision of timbermen to conserve
their own wealth is long overdue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-08
LABOR SECURITY

THE unemployment insurance bill, intro
l. duced with the Roosevelt administrations
blessing, follows logically upon the recovery
acts Of last session. The shaken house Of
American industry can not be rebuilt safely
and solidly without provision for a measure
of security for its 100000 wage earners.
The wagner-Lewis bill does not ride over
state rights. 1t is a promotion, not COM
pulsion project. Under its well-considered
provisions the government will collect pay
roll tax from all corporations and employers,
with minor exceptions. The tax money will
be returned to employers to the amount Of in
surance premiums they pay into state security
reserves
It is believed that, rather than let the tax
money remain in the federal treasury. the
states will seek to keep the wealth at homo
by passing immediate compulsory unemploy-
ment insurance laws. That the states need
some such encouragement is shown by the fact
that in face of the awful needs Of their peo-
pie in the past four years only one, Wiscon-
sin, has adopted a security law.
Compulsory unemployment insurance is in
evitabe. The federal government can not
continue to carry millions of people on the
dole. That way leads to the ruin of public
credit and personal morale. Industry from
now on must prepare to care for its own. 1t
should adopt a planned economy that sets
aside reserves in times Of plenty against the
times of slack. And government, federal and
state, must see that industry does this.
For twenty years England has had unen-
ployment insurance, wrongly called here "the
dole" While during the depression the re-
serve fund was heavily subsidized by the gov
eminent, British workers have had that which
ours have lacked, a saving sense of security.
Sir William Beverage recently told Labor Sec
rotary Francis Perkins that mo sensible en-
ployer in England would vote to abolish" their
system.
Unemployment insurance has saved an
amount of human misery and suffering" he
added, that simply can not be calculated"
1t is good news that the Roosevelt admin
istration conceives workers security as an eS-
sential card in its new deal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-08
PARENTS AND DUTIES

4 Ohio court has ruled that mother who
n voluntarily gives up her claim to her
baby has no right to come back later and re-
claim it. 1t has held that the rights of foster
parents can be greater than those Of actual
flesh and blood.
1t makes an interesting case, because it
goes in the opposite direction to most of our
sentimental conceptions of the rights of par
enthood.
The woman in question bore a girl four
years ago. The mother was in poor circum-
stances financially, the child's health was bad;
and when the youngster was about year and
a half old, the mother placed the child in
public institution for care.
Then the mother dropped out of the pic
ture. And the baby girl was adopted by
man and woman who reared the child as
their own. Her health was built up and she
was made happy; she came to love her foster
parents as her own, and she lost her memory
of her real mother.
Finally not long ago, the real mother re-
turned and demanded that the child be given
back to her. The foSter-parentS refused to
comply So the mother went into court, asked
10 nave IIl6 ooANAO, oAANt ~NANN0VNN>
that the child be delivered into her custody.
After hearing the evidence, the court re-
fused to act. 1t ruled that the mother had
forfeited her right to the child and that the
youngsters best interests would be served by
leaving it in the home it now occupies.
We frequently fall into the assumption
that the physical tie which exists between
mother and a child can be stronger than any
other consideration. In this connection, we
talk sentimentally about the bond" that must
exist and we have a good deal to say about
the rights of parents.
What we often forget is the fact that
rights are accompanied by duties and that it
takes more than a simple physical relation
ship to forge an enduring bond
The mere fact that we bring child into
the world gives US very little claim on the
child. Our job only begins then.
If circumstances or our own defects keep
us from accomplishing that job, all We can do
is turn it over to some one who will perform
it. If we fail in our duties, our rights lapse
Clear away the traditional cloud of senti-
ment, and there seems little reason to quarrel
with this Ohio courts decision.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-08
A Woman's Viewpoint
: By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

My peace Of mind is shattered
4VA constantly by the present
confusion regarding the proper
designation for women in and out
of matrimony. I've almost come
to the place where I am ready to
advocate a law, and that means
sheer desperation. Why can't we
decide on Miss or Mrs. for every
body and stick to it?
Each day thousands Of letters,
which must be answered, pass
through the United States mails
signed by such enigmatic names
as C. Smith or ]. Jones or E.
Brown. Nobody can be blessed
with sufficient perspicacity TO fig
ure out whether their writer's are
male or female. Consequently one
can always count on doing the
wrong thing.
If the person happens to be a
man he will be grossly offended
if he is addressed as My Dear
Miss So and So" His vanity will
be wounded, his pride injured, his
masculine egoism assailed. Should
the writer be woman, the error
may not be so offensive, but it is
equally conspicuous.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-08
SIGNIFICANT SILK

4 NEW YORK relief agency, trying to help
IA girls looking for jobs. is buying silk
stockings for its wards, according to a recent
news dispatch.
A decade or two ago such bit of news
would have indicated a most profound and
irresponsible bit of miSmanagement. Today it
merely shows that the relief workers have
good sense.
A girl who is looking for job must be
dressed neatly; and nowadays being neatly
dressed. for a woman, means among other
thingS-the wearing of silk stockings.
Lament the fact as We may, it neverthe-
less is true that silk stockings are just about a
necessity, now, and not a luxury.
And the fact is a significant measure Of
the way in which living standards have
changed in the last few years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-08

PARIS REVOLTS

XGTHAT is happening in Paris IS mucn more
w than a passing riot. 1t is an explosion
Of deep discomfort Many and conflicting
groups and classes are involved. The mobs
number tens Of thousands. They represent
every point Of view from the Royalists on the
extreme right TO the Communists on the left.
In the case Of the middle classes the bank
scandal has shaken loose the pentup resent
ment against inefficient parliamentary adj
ministration, unemployment. taxes and the
high cost of living Their demand is reform,
but from the right and from the left comes
the demand Of revolution. for basic change
in the nature and control Of the system.
Whether successful or not this wide pop
ular revolt and violence is the stuff OF which
revolution is made Modern governments in
civilized capitals in the year 1884 do not turn
machine guns on citizens unless the situation
is serious. 1t was after demonstrators were
killed by machine gun fire that the general
populace poured on to the streets in anger. An
event Of this kind never is forgotten. 1t lights
new flames of revolt which, even though
smothered for awhile, are apt to burst out
with greater intensity later.
But so far there Is no indication that either
the Royalist revoutionists or the Communist
revoutionists have sufficient organization to
harness the revolt for the purpose Of Selling
power. There seems TO be even less organiza-
ton now than in the somewhat similar riots
which resulted in the short-lived red COM
mune of 1871 1t IS highly improbable that
such effective revolutionary organization will
be developed in time to ride this particular
wave of revolt. 1t is probably inevitable, how
ever, that the Royalists and Fascists on the
right and the Communists on the left now will
be encouraged to strengthen their organiza-
tons in definite preparation for future revolu-
ton.
Anv understanding of this French revolt
must center on the war factor-on the war
WEAKNESS. economic dislocaticns and business
and political corruption still flowing from the
last war, and the public's uneasiness over the
next war. Most successful revolutions have
been intimately related to war causes. If
France drifts into another war there seems
much more than an even chance that she will
come out Of it either as a Fascist or Com
munist country. Indeed, even the threat of
war may be enough to precipitate successful
French revolution.
Even from what already has occurred in
Paris, the United States can learn several
things We can learn that citizens who are
Indifferent toward government graft and
financial scandals during prosperity turn into
dangerous mobs when this sort of villainy is
rubbed into them during hard times. We can
learn that machine guns should not be used
on citizens unless a government is prepared to
start a revolution against itself. We can learn
that revolt is not caused by foreign propa-
ganda but by internal conditions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-08
OPPOSES TAX PROGRAM
OF M'NUTT REGIME

BY George C. Thompson.
A recent article by E. w. Pratt
states that the McNutt regime has
reduced the tax on real estate nearly
one-half.
Responding to this assertion, I
can say with confidence that Mr.
Pratt does not own real estate in
Indianapolis. If he did he would
ask this question: Why have the tax
rates increased "a cents on 500 on
my property-with a promise OF re-
lief from the gross income tax that
has failed to function as planned
by the McNutt regime? Did this
happen because the income tax
money was paid to political serv-
ants for collecting it, and possibly
their salary exceeded the income.
that the extra load had to be sad
died on real estate, in order to bal
ance the deficiency?
This subject suggests the opposite
to your delectable ovations con-
tanned in your article, Mr. Pratt.
And, some time when you are in
town, just step over to the Marion
county courthouse and gaze over the
precise records of the facts; and
perhaps you may learn that these
same property taxpayers are con-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-08
MAN OF VISION

VXTALTER WELLMAN died the other day
w at rs. He was the first man to try to
fly across the Atlantic ocean. and when he
made the attempt the stunt was looked on as
the ultimate in foolhardy daring.
But he lived to see the number of those
who have crossed the sea by air rise far into
three figures.
It's commonplace to say that aerial science
has developed rapidly in the last quarter CEN
fury. One hardly realizes how true that say
ing is however. until one glances at the career
Of a man like Wellman.
1t was on Oct. Is, 1910, that Mr.. Wellman
started his projected transatlantic flight The
takeof was from Atlantic City; the ship was
a nonrigid dirigible. clumsy and fragile affair
164 feet long. with a gas bag capacity of
$4,000 cubic feet.
1t compares with a Macon or Graf Yep
pelin as one Of Columbus caravels compares
with the Leviathan.
Underneath the bag was slung a lifeboat,
stocked with provisions. Down into the sea
trailed a device called an "equilibrator"-a
series Of cylindrical tanks which floated on
the ocean, expected to act as sort Of stabi-
nzer, to keep the ship from rising too high
in the air. Besides Mr.. Wenman, five men
were aboard
The takeoff was at in the morning.
Twenty-four hours iater-half of the first day
having been spent repairing one of the two
engines, which had quit cold-the dirigible
had reached a point some $50 miles northeast
OF its starting point.
The voyage had been excessively perilous.
The hydrogen in the envelope cooled and con-
tracted dangerously. nearly pitching the ship
into the water. A collision with a steamer
narrowly was averted
One OF the engines exhaust pipes nearly
set the bag on fire. The equilibrator, instead
Of working as expected made the ship almost
impossible to steer.
Another twenty-four hours passed. and con-
ditions became worse. The dirigible was some
400 miles out now. and it was pretty plain
rations were made to take to the water in the
nfeboat, but it was found impossible to
launch it.
Next morning. providentially. a steamer
showed up. Signaled by the dirigible. it came
alongside. Mr.. wellman and his crew came
aboard. and the dirigible was left to float out
TO sea.
SO ended the first transatlantic flight at
tempt.
It took place less than twenty-five years
ago. Since then. enormous dirigibles have
crossed and recrossed the Atlantic times with
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-08

DUELING is an archaic and silly bust
u ness, as everybody knows. But it at least
must lend spicy flavor to national life
especially when it is carried on in the modern
manner, bloodlessly.
Two highly placed Frenchmen had an al
tercation about the Stavisky scandal wounded
each others feelings and fought" duel to
settle matters. They met at dawn in de-
serted stadium, fired two shots apiece, hit no
one-and the matter was over, with nobody
hurt and, presumably with the claims Of
honor fully satisfied.
This seems an admirable way of arranging
things. Senator Huey Long recently has been
challenged to duel by one or another of his
New Orleans foes. Why could they not meet
some chilly dawn, in, say, the Washington
baseball park?
They could stand on the ground hallowed
by the spiked shoes of Goose Goslin and Joe
Cronin, shatter the atmosphere with their
bullets, and go their ways in uninjured peace.
Official and unofficial Washington doubtless
would be glad to pay modest fee for the
privilege of admission, too
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-08

A SINGLE girl sometimes will
"A be irritated if you write her
down Mrs" while the married
woman thinks you are poking fun
at her when you dub her Miss"
unless she happens to be some sort
Of a professional.
Then there are these hordes Of
divorced women taking back
maiden names and putting Miss
on their cards, while the girls who
get married and refuse to assume
their husbands names are for
ever bobbing up. One Is kept in a
perpetual state Of agitation for
fear one will do or say the incor-
rect thing.
It's practically impossible 70
figure out who is married to
whom. Not that it matters, Of
course, only most of US dislike to
be responsible for the plumbers
that such a condition makes al
most inevitable.
Actually the whole thing is an
insanity. From first TO last men.
single or married, young or old,
pure or impure, are just plain
Mr." Can we not devise some
plan so that women also might
enjoy an equally convenient and
universal address? Certainly this
madhouse confusion we now toll
crate should be brought to an end.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-08
Where Does Little FELLOW Come IN?

$25 a year, provided he sold the
conpany's products exclusively.
Note-The rental would not be
6 per cent on the investment, but
the store tax is reduced from $3.50
a year to SIS year. Where has
the revenue to the state gone?
If this law was made to further
the enterprise Of the small mer-
chant-Where does he come in?
All taxes, direct and indirect, are
not paid by the operating COM
panies, but are passed on to The
consumer.
One-tenth of cent a gallon
pays the store taX-Why not add
it to the price and pass it to the
consumer?
At lesat eleven big oil companies
operate in Indianapolis some Of
whom will never make a profit.
What do we do next?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-08
THESE WORDS ARE
PLENTY FOR ANY ONE
By Orrie ]. Simmons

By orrie J. Simmons.
A somewhat amusing incident
came to my attention, and may in~
terest you. My daughter, IA, at
tending Manual Training high
school, was given among her re-
CURED reading, "A Son. of the
Middle Border" by Hamlin Garland
edited for school use by E. H. KEN
per McComb, principal OF MANUAL.
One evening she stated she could not
do so and so because she must fins
ish "a Son of the Middle Border"
that evening-it was a part of her
assignment.
picked up the volume and found
467 pages of 400 words each, or
nearly one fifth Of million words.
Quite an evenings chores Pos
sibly the young lady had been put
ting it off for a few days or some
thing. But I just wonder if the
author could not have done better
in half the words. What do youA
think? On the other hand, thSr
book contained mighty fine his
tory source material, for, atmos-
phere, setting, etc. So I'm not COM
planning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-08

BY a Times Reader.
The chain store tax is a stiff
proposition on peanut stands and
filling stations and others doing a
special service and selling limited
number Of items; but, as far as
the gasoline stations are con-
cerned, it is not necessary to go
out of business for the stations
may be turned back to the own
ers and the company may sell or
rent it's equipment and the own
er continue to buy his gasoline on
his account and pay store tax on
one store, namely, $500 year.
Thus, business goes on as usual
and the chain continues unbrOken.
In one specific instance the sta
ton was abandoned by the oil
company, the equipment offered
for sale to the operator for $500
or he could keep it at a rent Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-08
HERE'S PRAISE FOR
TRUSTEE SERVICES
By Mrs. Grant Miller.

By Mrs. Grant Miller.
In reading your Message Center I
have noticed some people complain
ing about the trustee.
can not understand why the
woman with four sick babies did
not get help. My husband worked
two days a week for our basket.
When the CWA went into effect he
went to work and worked less than
a week and became i'll. We used up
his pay check and then 1 had to
seek help.
True enough, I had to wait about
four hours to see the visitor of our
district, but they were very cour-
teous to me. I could have gone else
where and come back, but I stayed
there where I could sit down. As
soon as I could see the visitor she
even made her plans to come to my
home in the afternoon, as I take
nv baby to the clinic in the morn
ing.
The questions are not so bad. The
workers only try to find out if there
are any immediate relatives who
can help. I could tell a great deal
about the kindness, but it would
take I'D too much time and space.
They gave me two extra quarts o.
milk, on the doctors orders, an
order on the Red Cross for his
bedding. as they were afraid : had
insufficient bedding. They also mail
nv grocery order to me. so I will
not have to be gone so long from
my babies. If this is not kindness,
what is?
am not teachers pet, because
our family does not, and never has,
voted the Democratic ticket. We
only tell the truth.
Ny furniture is not Of the best,
nor Is itsof the worst. 1t was nice
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some special favor" I wonder if he
believes that the decisions of the
United States supreme court, and
the Indiana supreme court are
"fimsy propaganda" AS to my de-
sire to further some special favor"
might say that, although I work
in the same building in which the
senator has his law Offices, I never
have met the gentleman. I have never
and so far as I know, will never
ask him for anything, except the
privilege of believing he is right.
I seek no favor by supporting him.
I merely am doing that which any
one with average intelligence and
foresight would do
The opposition to the senator has
but one straw at which to grasp,
and it is really very amusing the
way they cling to it. 1t seems las
though the only defect any one can
find, and the only reason advanced,
for fighting the senator lies in the
fact that his office pays pretty good
money. So far as I can ascertain,
Senator Van Mugs is not working
for nothing. Robinson is a menu
Der of one of the large law firms Of
this city, and having some idea of
the income Of lawyer Of his cali
Der, really imagine he could make
more than his salary as Senator by
practicing law, if he did not run Tor
reelection.
There is one thing I am sure of:
if the opposition can present no bet
ter fight than has been demons
strated by the answers to my letter,
Robinson is sure of success in No
vember. But back to my first point.
Let's hear from some one who can
prove that am wrong in my asser-
ton that these recovery" laws are
unconstitutional.
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tributing to the gross income tax,
in addition to their increased prop
erty and host Of other taxes levied
on them by this outfit that is now
in power.
McNutt, the magnificent dispenser
of the accumulation, may be sea
of glee for the beneficiary. Alas,
excruciation for the people who are
compelled to meet this high cost of
government.
President Roosevelt has some
three years of this term to serve
and four more years in the next, so
it is premature for me to worry
about a future calamity that you
have advocated for the people of
this country in your choice for a
President of the United States.