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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-27
Liberal Viewpoint
by DIR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

WITH the exception Of its failure to keep its
w promise to drive the money changers out
Of the temple-its failure even 70 give them a
sharp slap on the wrists-the most telling cr1tl-
cism which can be made against the New Deal is
the adoption of the promise Of scarcity
economy.
This has been fiat reputation Of President
RooseveIts early proclamation of devotion TO
an age of consumers capitalism which means, if
it means anything, the enthusiastic adoption OF
the principle surplus or abundance and de-
termination to exploit this situation to the ad-
vantage Of the population.
A reader of the New York World-Telegram
sees the point clearly enough when he writes:
Perhaps your economic writer could explain
the consistency of a policy that supports the
turning under of crops the destruction OF live
stock etc. while millions go hungry, or are
receiving relief orders on stores.
What I am getting at is this: If the gov
eminent bought these surplus foodstuf1s and
turned them over to the poor and hungry
people, it would cost our relief organizations
less to feed them, and would at the same time
absorb the surplus.
IT FAVOR the idea of helping the farmers to
L get more for their crops, and thus become
self supporting but at the same time see no
reason why perfectly good food should be de-
stroyed to accomplish that idea.
why could not the money paid the farm
ers for blowing under their crops be given to
the relief administration so that it could buy
those surpluses, and thus feed the poor without
hurting the farmer in any way?"
Here is a lot of horse-sense which MesSrs
Wallace and Hopkins we'll might ponder. But
we could go a step further and demand an
economy in which employers would be compelled
to pay sufficiently high wages to enable the
masses to buy their own food products without
a government subsidy
If there were a decent distribution of the So
cial income there would be few agricultural sur
puses and no reason for the government to buy
the food which the people could then buy for
themselves.
The most cogent rebuke to the scarcity econ
omy concept have read recently is contained
in a provocative article by Robert r. Doane in
the New outlook. While, by reversing the
usual connection of terms, it gives the reader
the initial impression of being a rebuke to the
idea of an economy of abundance, and fails
properly to assess the blame for the condi-
tions it uncovers it is q crushing indictment of
the whole economic philosophy of the New Deal,
which assumes that we should limit production
on the basis of past production figures. 1t is
such rebuke even though admit a few pos
sible statistical mistakes pointed out by critics.
TAKE the food situation mentioned by the
L correspondent quoted above. Mr.. Doane in
dictates that even on the basis of 1929 production
peaks there was a marked deficiency in the pro-
duction of eight out of twelve major items in
900 900 pounds of food to make up even part of
the shortage. Taking the government reports
as basis he presents the following table:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-27
YOUR MASK
BY KATHRYN MASON

BY hAIHRHN MASON
Why hide your feelings behind that
mask,
White with fear and silent mis-.
cry;
What makes you think that tears
are last
To relieve a mental agony?
Why think that you can bury
Your emotions SO deep to lie,
UneXpressed and uncarried
And expect that they will die?
Why think that it is better
Such emotions. they should die7
No, my dear, it is never
For all strong men must CRY.
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STANDARD DIl
Figures in thousands of pounds

Moreover when in 1923 we produced less than
half as many undergarments and mems and
boys suits as we could have used reasonably, we
had to import more than half billion pounds
of wool and cotton.
And our railroads and other transportation
facilities which now are passing into bankruptcy
through lack of traffic, would be taxed to the
utmost" to carry even half what the American
people could use if they had the money to
buy it,
The answer to the whole cock-eyed situation
is the past hogging of the social income by the
few who can't spend their income. Mr.. Roose-
velt has not even shadow-boxed with this
problem
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-27
By a Radio Listener.

By a Radio Listener.
I listened recently to the broad
cast of the proceedings of the mu-
nicipal traffic court. 1t is difficult
to understand why any radio sta
ton would broadcast such a pro-
gram, and at the conclusion, say
that it is hoped the audience en-
joyed the broadcast.
The purpose of the broadcast, &C
cording to the announcer, is to de-
velop respect for the law. Rather
than that, it has a tendency to les
sen the publics respect for justice.
Since the purpose is to cause re-
spect for the law through example,
it is impossible for the defendant to
have fair trial.
Because of the rapidity with
which cases are handled, the de-
PENDANT has no chance to defend
himself. He is not given the oppor-
tunity to speak for himself, other
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-27
SPEEDOMETERS AND
TRAFFIC CHARGES
By a Motorist.

By a Motorist.
While in court listening to some
cases of traffic violations, one IN
terested me very much.
A motorist had been brought in
for speeding. The motorist said his
speed was forty-three miles an
hour. The arreSting officer said 1t
was f7fty-two.
Now, here is something the aver-
age motorist doesn't know, and that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-27
TIMES EDITORIAL
SETTLES BET

BY c. P. A.
want to thank you for an editor
ial in The Times of Aug. 20 under
the heading of THE Real Issue"
I had a bet with Joe E. Ryden,
Medaryville, Ind, Stetson hat by
the way, that The Indianapolis
Times would be the first to inject
the Ku Klux Khan into the fall cam
paign, and I just now received the
check to buy the hat.
Keep it up, as we want to elect
Robinson, and we appreciate your
help.
Editors Note-Glad you won the
hat, no matter what the size.
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So They Say

Conduct your business successfully
or we'll be calling each other COM
rades' within year or tWo.-Albert
w. Finlay, vice president of the Ty-
pothetae Of America.
Seventy per cent of America would
vote TO keep Roosevelt in office for
life, if they could do SO without
wrecking the Constitution. Gilbert
Seldes, author.
Like most human institutions, uni
versitieS are the manifestations of a
robust faith.-Presidnet James Bry-
ant Conant of Harvard.
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Daily Thought

So then every one of us shall give
account of himself to God.-Romans
14.12.
TTEAVEN is above all yet; there
II sits a judge,
That no king can corrupt.
Shakespeare.
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The Message Center

(Ttmes readers are invited to cypress
their Utetos in these columns. Make your
letters short, go az can have chance.
Limit them to ESQ t0ordS or less.I
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-27

Justice is becoming too deep to fathom. A
Jersey City barber who stabbed a crooner was
ruled insane, while the crooner escaped with
no penalty
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-27

All those who worry about the terrible or
deal Of Admiral Byrd in his lonely Antarctic
hut should remember one thing: He never
was bothered by door-to-door statesmen.
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to him that we made a fair, reason
able, and to me satisfactory profit
on the transaction, he announced:
You are a chiseler-you do not
charge enough; you must charge
like regular coal dealer: in fact
you must join the code or we will
run you out of business with a fed
eral injunction"
1t was all very pulling to me. l
had always thought that you should
handle everyday public necessities
like ;oal at fair, but reasonable
prodt-or you might be called a
profiteer. And here I was sitting,
and what claimed to be an NRA
coal code authority agent, was tell
ing me that if 1 did not charge at
least a 100 per cent profit over and
above my actual cost of operation, I
am a ChiSeler and should be run out
of business. Oh, was my face red?
Particularly when I found out later
on, that this man was also a Secre-
tary of the Indiana Retail Coal
Merchants Association.
BY c. A. Howe, Executive Secretary, Divi-
siOnal Code Authority.
The complaint of H. w. Speyer
is that the cost of handling Indi-
ana coal is determined by the di-
visionaI code authority of the re-
tail fuel industry is too high.
The cost of S2.15 a ton was ar
rived at in the manner provided
for by law, after a public hearing
which lasted two days. This hear
ing was legally advertised and was
given wide publicity. All dealers,
truckers and the public had been
invited to attend.
The transcript of the evidence
in the indianapolis hearing covers
almost 400 long typewriter pages,
and contains a great deal of tes-
timOny concerning the coal deal
ers cost of doing business as well
as the cost of rail and truck
transportation.
A committee composed of rep
resentatives of the Truck Mine
Association and truckers called at
the office of the code authority on
Monday and expressed the desire
and intention of asking the code
authority to reopen the Indian
apolis hearing and allow them to
present further evidence to sup
port their contention that in view
of the truckers operation a lower
cost of handling Indiana truck
mine coal should be established.
When such hearing is had Mr..
Speyer and all others will have an
adequate opportunity to present,
in the regular manner, any evil
dence they may desire to present.
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There seems to be little romance left in
the last roundup. now that all the cows are
due to wind up as poor relief canned goods.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-27
NOT MORTAR BUT MEN

MONDAY. AUG. n. Is5t
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.AUG. 81, 1881
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
Mrs. Everitt to
Be Offered for
Auxiliary Head

Mrs. Libbie Everitt will be pre-
Sented as a candidate for depart
ment president by Harold C. Nc
Grew auxiliary at the state con-
vention June 10 to % in connec-
ton with the annual encampment
of the Spanish war veterans.
Mrs. Everitt, senior vice president
of the department, has been in
dorsed by many auXiliarieS in the
state.
In addition to delegates to the
convention past presidents and
members will attend. Mrs Emma
Sears is president of Auxiliary 3,
delegates of which are Mesdames
Marie Crone, Marie Williams, Laura
Oren, Pearl l. Krause, Libbie Ev-
eritt, Louella D. Porter, Rose Blount,
Sally Ashford and Eliza Moon, all
past presidents.
Other delegates and alternates
chosen are Mesdames Anna Hicks,
TriXie Eisenhut, Pearl Mangus
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
Manners and Morals
BY JANE JORDAN

that is all. What does boy look
for in a girl?
Answer-He mostly looks for a
vast appreciation Of himself. Most
girls who do not have boy friends
are not genuinely interested in
somebody else. They are pre-oc-
cupied with themselves. Shift your
attention from yourself to the boy
and perhaps you will have better
luck.
Dear Jane JOrdan-I am a boy
"a. 1 never have run around much
and am considered a very nice
boy. I don't know the taste Of in
toXicating drinks. 1 can very
seldom have a second date with a
girl. Perhaps I need more tact. 1
don't mean to be Scotch, but I
have a very meager wage and
don't feel obliged to spend all I
have on a girl. That is an old
Spanish custom SO when I meet
a girl it is always inside the ticket
BOOTH I say why pay their way
for they work, drink. smoke, vote
and everything else that a man
does, so let them go flfty-ffty.
I always have been against mar
rage, but now I am really sick to
fall in love with some one. Years
are being rapidly added to my life
and gray hairs are shining
through If I don't find some one
soon old age will find me sitting at
home just twiddling my thumbs.
Say what you think no matter
what it is for I am in distress
CHI.
Answer-When a girl goes fifty.
fifty with boy she does because
she wants to and not because SHE
has to. And when she settles dowr
with a man she has to have some
one who can support the home il
case she is incapacitated by the
arrival of children. Your difficult.
may lie in the fact that you take al
irresponsible attitude toward love
You want something that you art
not willing to pay for. Perhaps some
girls would like to answer you
letter and tell what they think you
trouble is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
Personals

Mrs. Walter c.. Stevens. 1O6 North
Oxford street, left yesterday for Hot
Springs, Ark, to attend the conven-
ton of the General Federation of
Women's Club as a delegate from
the Friday Afternoon Literary Club.
Miss Alice Wilde and Miss Agnes
Calvert spent the weekend at the
Pi Beta Phi sorority house at
Purdue university where they at
tended a school dance.
Miss Peggy Earring and Mrs
George G. Good will leave Wednes-
day for Annapolis. Nd. to be guests
of Midshipman George D. Good at
the annual June week activities Of
the United States Naval Academy.
Mrs. Good and Miss Earring will
visit in washington and other east
ern cities before returning.
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4 Woman S
Vie appoint
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

T PROFESSIONALLY Albert Jay
~ Mock is one of the few civil
lied Americans. Nonetheless, some
Of his conclusions briStle with
contradictions. They fail to con-
vince at the point where so many
Intellectual mems opinions seem to
be vulnerable - the point where
their thinking touches feminine
problems.
In his delightful journal of
These Days." Mr.. Mock gets off
this one:
1t is commonly remarked that
this is a WOman-run country, but
nobody seems to see that it is
bound to be 50 long as women
have their enormous preponder-
ance of purchasing power. They
now own nearly half our national
wealth and this with their pur-
chasing power gives them con-
troll of our whole institutional life.
They control the publishing
business, the church, drama,
music, forum and education-none
of these can turn a wheel with
out keeping an eye on the taste
and judgment of women. 1t is
serious matter and bodies no good.
Their acquisition of this large If
responsible power is too new
thing to be used except in ways
that are, for the most part, ignor-
ant, whimsical and petty"
NOV, we might permit that to
IN go unchalIenged if the pow
er Of Mr.. Nock'S sex were used, for
the most part, upon ways that are
wise, stable and magnificent. Such
is not the case, so it is necessary
to say something about it.
The gentleman, it is true, keep
a sharp eye upon feminine taste,
but their urgency in seeking our
opinions upon anything more vital
than buying and selling, is scarce
ly noticeable. Mr.. Mock and every
other honest man knows perfectly
we'll that women do not run this
country in any real sense of the
word.
They read more books, 60 to
more shows, listen more eagerly
to music than the majority of
men. Obviously then, these arts
should design to please them.
Women do two-thirdS of the
hard church work, but have as
yet very little to say about doc
trines or religious policies.
Altogether, it seems rather ira
gic to me that men of such intel
lectual attainments as Mr. Mock
can brush aside as casual the
problems and effort Of the fem
mime half of the population, as if
we were of no consequence to a
world in which We are today nu-
merically in the majority.
Each day I grow more certain
of one thing: Men never will be
completely intelligent until they
are intelligent about women.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
TARKINGTONS LEAVE
FOR SUMMER HOME

Mr. and Mrs. Booth Harrington,
who have been in indianapolis
since Christmas, left Saturday for
their summer home in Kennebunk-
port, Me. They will be joined next
week by Mrs. Tarkington's sister,
Miss Louise Kiefer.
Mr.. Harrington has loaned the
John Heron Art Institute a group
of paintings, which will be dis
played during the summer. Includ-
ed are two Spanish primitives, st.
Michael and Three Wise Men; "
portraits Of Anne Of Cleves and
Anne Boleyn by Johannes Corvus,
a Madonna and Child" by Vincen-
70 CatenO, and "Annunciation" by
Adrian ISenrant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
May Events
Will Close
With Dance
Butler Queen to Receive
Crown at Ceremony
on Campus

Closing the May day program OF
Butler university next Saturday
will be a dance in the Travertlne
room of the Lincoln During the
afternoon pageant and GROWING OF
the May queen. Miss StierWalt, IN
ceremonies in the campus formal
gardens. scenes from Midsummer
Nights Dream will be presented
bv members of Thespis Dramatic
Club
Special guests at the dance Will
be Deans and MeSdames j. w. Put
nam. w. l.. Richardson, Bruce L..
Kershner, Mr.. and Mrs. Thor G..
Wesenberg. Mr.. and Mrs. Donald
Gilley. Professor and Mrs. George L..
Leonard, Misses Florence I. Morri-
sn, Emma Colbert, Nellie M. East
burn. Martha Alexander and Fran
ces Beik.
Miss Grace Shelton is chairman
of the dance and will be assisted
by Misses Frances Rita Noll, Martha
Banta and Winifred Jean Louden.
Cast of the play scenes includes
Misses Virginia Terrell, Dorothea
Craft, Mary Ella Pock. Helen Ash
by; Walter Judd, Edward Longerich,
Louis Stauber, Carol Reynolds,
Harold Miller, Joseph Nesbit, Ste
phen Bailey, Sam Martini and r.
wing Berndt, all Thespis members,
and Frederick Greve and Robert
Emhardt, students of the Arthur
Jordan Conservatory Of Music Miss
C'Mari de Schipper will be Queen
Elizabeth, and her attendants will
be Misses Lucille Morrison. Dorothy
Thompson, Dorothy Aldag and
Mary Margaret Ruddell. John
Thompson will be court jester.
Dancers include Misses Catherine
Heard, Marian Gearen, Jean Boil
ing, Marilyn Knauss, Aliceruth
johnson, Alton White, Rosemary
Byrket, Martha Shepherd. Susan
Shirk, Georgia Bing, Marjorie
Booth, Mary Ellen Rand, Mary
Louise Colvin, June Bell, Eleanor
Pangborn, Jean Soehner, Charles
Heard, Helen Hicks, Alice Porteous,
Margaret BOOSTERS, Edna Fiddler,
Louise Rhodehammel, Barbara
zechiel and Maxine Peters.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
State Business
Women to Meet
at Bloomington

Bloomington, Martinsville, Spen-
Ger and Bedford branches Of the
Business and Professional Womens
Clubs will form a hostess group for
the annual state convention Friday
in Bloomington.
Registration will begin Friday aft
ernoon with the Bedford club IN
charge, followed by a reception IN
the Indiana university union build
ing and a Funniest at night. Satur-
day activities will include group
breakfasts with the MartlnSville
club in charge.
A business meeting will be held
at 9 followed by a past presidents
luncheon, tour of the university
campus and banquet at 7 at the
Masonic temple.
The Spencer club will be hostess
Sunday morning with Mrs. Mar
garet Weymouth Jackson, guest
speaker. Four tours will follow the
breakfast. Fish hatcherieS at Mar
tinsville, Abe Martin cabin in
Brown county, Mccormick Greek
Canyon state park, and Spring Mill
state park, near Bedford, will be
visited.
Reservations have been made by
ATeSdames Nell M. Thomas, Pearl A.
Cook, Hazel DiSsette, Camille B.
Felig, E. Jane Carter, Gladys
Vansant, Dorothy DesLauriers, Myra
Majors Wirenius, nellie D. Jones,
Adah o. Frost and Misses Louise R.
Ford, Ruth Armstrong, Gladys Will
liams, Alma Williams, Rae McKin-
mis-, Marie L. Stevens, Ruth Hoover,
Elizabeth Kinney, Frances Kelly,
Louise Mccarthy, Eleanor Adams,
Nell Alemong, Grace Norwood,
Sally Butler, Lucy E. Osborn, Thel-
ma Dawson, Fac Harris, Statia
O'Connen, Eva J. Lewis and Mar
iOvio Ford
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
Lady Finds Cardui Helpful

u have taken Cardui several
times for weak, rundown condi-
ton and it has helped me" writes
Mrs. Walter M Coulon of Forsyth,
Ga. Il was nervous and suffering
from a weak condition. There were
days when l had to lie down dur
ing the day. I sent for six bottles
of Cardui, as it had helped me be-
fore. Cardui gave NE strength. stopped
the nervousness and helped me in every
way" Cardui may be just what
YOU need. 1t can't do you any harm,
so why not try it? Thousands of
women testify Cardui benefited them.
If il does not benefit YOU, consult a
ian.-Advertisement.
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had cared for the patient during
her illness.
do rot mean to say she
stepped out. Far from it. Nor do
I think yet that she would. But
I took her out of our home town
two years ago that I might have
all her thoughts. During all the
two years she has written regular
ly to this man. and he goes fifty
fifty with replies. They write re-
garding science. etc. They have
so much in common.
To make a long story brief, my
wife isn't the same. She acts I'M
: happy and has a far away look in
her eyes. Sometimes she is on
the verge of tears. Recently this
man ran in to see us for few
moments. After he was gone my
wife was even more unhappy. but
says nothing only this: Isn't he
wonderful? I could spend the rest
of my life talking to him. Please
let me work for him. etc"
When I raise the devil she says
that I just don't understand how
she loves her work. I think she
loves this man and won't admit it,
as She is deeply religious He
doesn't even. believe in the Christ.
and I deSpiSe him. Yet l treated
him as we'll as I could. I would
rather die than see my wife led
away from me What would you
say or DO? A PUZZLED MAN.
AnSwer-If your wife is in love
with another man. there Is nothing
you can do or say to prevent it
Love IS not a thing you can hold
by graSping. 1t comes, not on de-
mand. but of its own accord, and
dies when force is applied.
He who believes that possession
IS nine points Of the law IN love IS
doomed to disappointment. There
must be frequent and continuous re-
newal of the lease in order to assure
its permanence. 1t Will not help
your case to put distance be
lween your wife and her doctor. and
no aid is to be expected from the
devil even after he has been raised
If you want TO keep your wife you
would do better to study the hung
erS which you leave unSatiSfied. The
only complaint against you which
YOU have quoted IS You do not
understand, and therein lies your
tragedy. Probably it hasn't occurred
TO you that there is anything UC
understand. You believed that the
same conditions which gave love
birth would keep it alive indefinite
". You were not alert to changing
needs. TO shifting circumstances
and somehow YOU lost step with
your wife.
II is not that I do not SYM
pathize with you. There Is nothing
more painful than unrequited love
particularly When it is withdrawn
after a long season Of satisfaction
only mean TO point out that you
are going at your problem in the
wrong way when you blame others
instead Of searching for your own
inadequacieS.
Dear Jane Jordan am a
young girl. nice looking. but have
no boy friends. Could you please
tell me why? Do I have to f1irt,
pet, etc? This isn't in my line at
all. Most boys speak to me and
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Are YOU unhappy in love? Put your
case before Jane Jordan who will tell you
what is wrong by her answers in this
column.
Dear Jane Jordan-Twelve years
ago I married the finest little
Christian girl in the world. a
nurse. I had good position and
for eight years life was a heaven
on earth Then she decided we