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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-16
I o0hoIy disapprove of what yoa say and a0iu |
defend to the death yor right to sag jt-VOltairc.
Suggestions for Mr.. MintOn

their help on the extra money
they get out of the minimum
plan. I know I never use the
minimum on gas, light and water,
and I have my bills to show I am
compelled to pay for what I don't
get. This, I think, is unconstitu-
tional, and should be remedied if
utilities want to help the small
home consumers.
I would suggest the legislature
pass a law to cut out the mini
mum and do business in a bust
ness way. When the meter man
calls at my house, and reads the
meter ne could make out a dupli-
cate copy of the meter reading
and turn in the original to his
company.
This would be only business, and
then the people could tell at all
times just how much gas, water
and light they had used, and
could compare their bills each
month and know where they
stand.
On the duplicate the company
should have meter-readirg in
structions for the public. This,
to my mind, will protect the small
consumer and he will not have to
pay for something he doesn't get
and it would be fair and just to
all concerned and would cut out
the minimum graft.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-16
TUESDAY. JAN. Is. 1894.
THAT $50 LAW

TNDIANA's $3.50 tax law is becoming an in
creasing embarrassment to local govern
ing bodies. While its intent-econony-is ex-
cellent and desirable it is based on fallacy.
The legislators apparently believed that
dollar and half represented a fixed value in
purchasing power.
Now that Mr. Roosevelt has presented his
plan for devaluing the dollar, the dollar and
half Of 1882 Cwhen the law was enacted
becomes less than Is cents in purchasing
power. Obviously, the local governments of
the state will be cramped in carrying out
their necessary commitments.
Wayne Coy Governor McNutts secretary
asked the Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton yesterday to find some means Of lending
the counties money for poor relief The
counties find themselves unable to cooperate
with the federal government because the 81. so
tax law makes it difficult to sell poor relief
bonds
It is to be hoped that the RFC will be able
to furnish this necessary relief.
As the various policies Of the national ad-
ministration unfold it becomes increasingly
obvious that Indiana must call a special ses-
sion Of the legislature if it is to keep in step
with the recovery program.
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a S persistent as book agent"
L n has has become a thread
bare smile. For a long time this
particular type Of salesman was
only pest to be avoided. 1t be-
came fashionable to malign him
and We fell to this pastime with
such zest that We almost have for
gotten his contributions TO prog
resS and education. Yet, I assure
you, they were many.
During those years when the
country west Of the Atlantic sea-
board was in process Of develop
ment. the book agent brought the
only culture to the sticks" that
ever reached there. It is true that
he sold drab looking sets" of
standard classics, and that his
knowledge Of literature often was
confined TO his own particular
wares, but in good many local
tiles they represented the ONLY
material fit to read. He himself
may have been a vulgarian. but
he carried the magic wand that
opens the door TO beauty and
truth-the winged shoes that can
transport 10 the ends Of the earth.
I think the country, right now,
could DO with more book agents.
PUBLISHERS, who unhappily
l. reside largely in the eastern
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-16
By a Regular Times Reader

just finished reading an item
regarding the Kentucky avenue
and West Washington power
houses. In fact, I have been
reading what Sherman Minton has
to say about cutting electric power
rates. Now, if rates are cut who
will benefit? The way I see it, it
only will benefit the large factory
consumers. AS far as the small
private consumer, it would not
save them one penny for this
reason:
The minimum rate of 80 cents
is what hurts the small consumer,
as for myself I know I never use
80 cents worth of electricity, yet
I must pay the minimum &c cents.
To my mind the minimum charges
are not legal I am perfectly
willing to pay for what electricity
I use but I don't want to pay for
what don't get.
Now if our Sherman Minton
wants to do something to benefit
the general public why doesn't he
put Dill before our legislature to
make all utilities cut out this
minimum clause. When this
minimum clause plan was adopted
it simply was class legislation, not
mass legislation. I venture to say
the light company, the gas COM
pany and water company can pay
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-16
A NEW FREEDOM

A GENTLEMAN we know set out to teach
L "A his small daughter something about the
stars the other night He pointed out this
one and that one, and then tried to show her
where the Big Dipper was.
She had trouble in seeing it-and present.
ly the gentleman discovered to his amaze
ment, that the youngster never in her life
had seen a dipper and didn't even know what
one was.
To member Of the older generation, this
looks like a very odd lack of knowledge. The
old familiar dipper, that always hung in the
kitchen where you could dip it in the water
bucket for a drink, or in the stoves hot water
reservoir for dssh water was as familiar a
part of household equipment as the living
room lamp or the bedroom washstand.
A child of our generation could as easily
have been ignorant Of the appearance Of
knife and fork as of a dipper.
But things are different now, and the gen.
tleman who made this little discovery felt
that the change was somehow symbolic.
In the old day the citizen got his water
supply by the simple process of digging a
well-or possibly, going to the town pump
hauling up a bucket and putting it on the
kitchen table.
A Well a bucket, piece Of rope and
dipper-that was all there was to it.
It's simpler, in that all he does is turn on
faucet and let the water run out of its own
accord It's more complex in that the faucet
won't work unless behind it there is an intri-
cate framework OF reservoirs, pumping sta
tions, aqueducts, filtering plants, bond issues,
tax bills and the like.
The citizen, in other words, has gained
simplicity at the cost of great completely
He needs to expend only an infnitesimal
amount of energy to get what he needs; but
he needs. at the same time, to be member
Of a society which is very closely integrated,
a society disciplined and cohesive. in which
cooperative effort for the common good is
q necessity which never is forgotten.
BY becoming member Of such society, he
forfeits a measure Of his individual freedom.
Yet it is futile for him to want to 60 back.
The dipper-and-ciste days are as irretriev-
able as the stage coach era.
And even if the citizen could exchange
what he now has for those old days OF free
DOM" it would be bad bargain.
We have to find our freedom today
through cooperation and not through tndi-
vidual achievement. 1t is there, all right, II
we go after it right; and it eventually will
prove more solid and lasting than the freedom
Of the old era of simplicity.
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OBJECTS TO PRESENT
CWA SYSTEM

BY J. NJ Miller
Having taken The Times for years,
I would like for you to print this
letter for me.
My husband is a eva worker
and a fine machinist, yet he is
working as a laborer. On the job
where he works there is a large
sign telling the men to go to Tom
linson hall and get an order for
meat, butter, eggs, beans and flour.
Go there and try to even get in,
much less get an order for these
things.
You stand in line all day and get
nothing. What are they trying to
do-make fools of these poor men,
or do you have to be a favorite son
of Brother Paul V. McNutt to get
a handout? And to show there is
something wrong, the newspapers
come out in big, black headlines
Thousands Endanger Their Lives
in TomlinsOn Hall Daily" If the
building is not safe, why ask the
working man to go there? Why not
give him painless death? No one
wants building to cave in on him,
and think of the widows and or
phans who would be left. Why
can't the boss on the job give these
men orders for that stuff and save
shoe leather, and, best of all, Tom
linson hall? Some one may want
to rent it and make a pretty speech
about salt pork, or perhaps Nutty
McNutt. Who knows?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-16
STYLE UNDER COMMUNISM

ONE Of the most revealing little stories to
~ come out of Soviet Russia recently was
that telling how Russian women are demand
Ing new deal in the matter OF clothing.
Under Communism, the state clothing
trust has striven to give the citizens clothing
that will be durable and comfortable, but it
has paid no attention whatever to style.
Pride in ones appearance seems to De a
hallmark OF the bourgeois attitude; the citizen
OF a Communist state one gathers, has no
business worrying about his or her looks
But now the people Of Russia, and espe-
cially the women, are getting tired Of clothes
that are like an endless series of drab uni
forms. They are demanding style, snap, de-
cent colors. trimneSs: and the clothing trust
is beginning to hearken,
A Moscow store the other day displayed
for Just about the first time since the revo-
lution-a formal dinner gown.
Human nature. evidently is about the same
under Communism as under capitalism.
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R,o,BePG
AL FEENEY ANSWERS
CRITIC IN LETTER

BY Al Feeney.
A letter published in your Mes
sage Center Jan. IL by an anony-
nous writer, contains this incorrect
statement:
al Feeney states that precinct
committeeman don't make good
policemen"
Neither the gentleman who wrote
the anonymous letter, nor any one
else, for the matter, can prove that
ever made such a remark. l did
make this statement, however:
"A good precinct committeeman
will not make a good state police
man, no more than a good state
policeman will make a good precinct
committeeman. The reason Is sim
Pile A precinct committeeman Is
the most important cog in po-
litical machine. His work is so i'm
portant that it would be impossible
for him to do properly the many
things a precinct committeeman is
obliged to do and at the same time
fulfill his oath as state police
man"
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MR.. JOHNSON NEVER
HEARD OF THIS
BY Frank Alexander

BY Frank Alexander
see in the Jan. II edition car
toon picturing Mr.. Morgan's plant
and over the cartoon it reads
thumbs down. It seems to me that
you are advocating a boycott of MS
products and the cartoon is a very
damaging instrument.
If you had finished the picture it
would have read quite different. I
suggest that you rewrite the car
toon, extend Uncle's left hand, with
thumbs up over a picture Of Mr..
Ford's plant, and, if Mr.. johnson
had anything to do with this car
toon being placed in your paper,
that you send him copy.
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The President

BY LAWRENCE E. SCOTT
On, through the storm clouds,
Smiling, you came.
Magic was wrought
By your more magic name.
To q crestfallen nation
At the end Of its rope
Your daring and leadership
Gave courage, gave hope.
From darkness TO brightness
You turned a whole nation,
To suffering peoples
Brought you Joy and elation.
You have lifted a land
From the clutches Of shame.
Zen your partisan foes
Are thrilled at your name.
With a will toward the right
And the courage TO do,
A nation thanks God,
Mr.. Roosevelt, for you'll
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MEETING A TEMPORARY NEED

MODIFICATION by NF2A authorities of the
auto code, to permit temporary use of
forty-hour week instead of the original thir-
ty-five-hour limit, looks like sensible way of
meeting a somewhat peculiar problem.
Having employed many workers already
under the thirty-fve-hour limit, the industry
temporarily needs more men, because Of in
creased schedules, Raising the limit to forty
hours makes it unnecessary 70 hire more men
just now. And that. in land striving to Gre
ate Jobs, looks a bit funny.
But it is a sensible move. Just the same
Calling for more men right now would draw
a vast influx Of job-seekers to the auto CEN
tiers. These Jobs would be only temporary:
presently many men would lose their new Jobs
and the dislocation of the labor supply would
be worse than it is now.
If these Jobs were to be permanent. Of
course, it would be different. But they aren't
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-16
ANOTHER PROTEST IS
RAISED AGAINST CWA

By Times Reader
7 would like to express my
thoughts regarding the CWA.
I filled out an application for
work in November, and still am
walking the streets. I have a ten
months-old baby and have a notice
to move. am a basket man. I
know Of case where there are
three men in one family working for
the CWA. They all live in the
same house. That is just one of
several cases I know Of.
I am a Democrat and both my
wife and I voted for Mr.. Roosevelt.
I think they should Investigate a
few Of these cases and give work to
the men who really need it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-16
THIS SOUNDS MORE
LIKE A REAL FRIEND

BY l.. Z. MchinSey,
I am not daring you, as some Of
the contributors do, but would ap-
preciate it greatly if you would in
sert the following in the Message
Center as soon as possible:
Constructive criticism is justified,
but criticism Of the nature that ap-
peared Jan. 8 in the Message Center
under the caption, "An Old Friend
Speaks" seems to me as quite out
Of order.
Here is a man who claims to be
an old friend Of Al Feeney's. His
friendship for Mr.. Feeney surely
had been Swimming along on pretty
thin ice for him to allow such
trifle to break a beautiful friend
ship. Are you sure, Old Friend, you
are not just another mistreated
deserving Democratic"
Here is an official trying to en-
force the law and results in bring
ing down a storm OF abuse and I'M
Just criticisms upon his head. A
law remains a law until it is re-
pealed, regardless Of how petty
law may appear and there's just
enough old fashionedness about Al
Feeney to insist on its enforcement,
even though it might spell political
ruin for him.
1t seems to me that considering
the way law has been administered
in the past it should be welcome
change to have man who has the
nerve to enforce it.
Old Friend, the more I think Of
it, the more I am convinced you,
at no time, ever was a friend Of Al
Feeney's. You were deceiving your
self.
Mr.. Feeney is an intelligent man.
He would have detected the blue
notes in your musical composition
long ago
Hope you print this soon.
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TIMES CRITICISED FOR
WAGES PAID DRIVERS

BY Reader
On Thursday, Jan. II. your edi-
torial entitled Shameless" took the
executives Of the indianapolis Power
and Light Company to task for their
heartIess salary cuts Of the low
salaried employees. I wish to COM
mend you highly for championing
the cause Of the @'underdog." But,
permit me to suggest that you sweep
the dirt from your own door before
criticising others. What I mean, is
that The Times is as guilty as the
light company in respect to wages
of the low salaried employees Why
doesn't The Times pay at least a
semblance Of q living wage to its
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Seventy of 100 students in western col
lege say they would marry 60-year-old
woman with 100000 But what would the
law say TO the woman?
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United States senators voted an extra tax
or liquor imports from debt-defaulting ma
tons, even if they had to cut of their noses
to spite their faces.
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The Message Center

(Ttmes readers are invfted to cypress
their Vielos in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare a chance.
Limit them to ESQ 10ordS or leSs.J
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advocate? At least, the men who
operate your motor routes are kept
on the job for the very reason Mr..
Fry states, surely not loyalty, for
how can any employer expect loyal
ty from employees who are being ex-
plotted.
This deplorable condition within
your own organization is becoming
public knowledge, and as you must
surely realize not to your good.
If you are as brave and fearless
as your editorials seem to indicate,
you will print this in your Message
Center If you do not there are
other sources that will.
Editors Note - Times motor
route men report at 2 p. M, drive
an average of fifty-five miles each,
finishing between 5 and 6 .. m.
For this part time work they re-
ceive fiat guarantee of SIS week
ly. Each driver is paid cents for
every paper more than 100 copies
that he carries and rs cents for
every new subscriber he obtains.
These commissions are in addition
to the SIS. The drivers actually
are part time statesmen on COM
mission and drawing account.
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1t looks now as if somebody is going to be
burned in the same flames reported to have
destroyed valuable records OF the poStoffice
department.
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Some japanese would make Henry Pu-Yi
king, rather than emperor, of Manchukuo.
Well, lemon under any other name would
taste just as sour.
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MANY will protest at this point that we were
Iva faced with a necessary war and were in
grave danger in 1917 whereas We live in pro-
found peace today. The fact is that We face an
Overwhelmingly greater menace today than we
did in the spring Of 1917
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PUBLISHERS, who unhappily
l. reside largely in the eastern
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-30
| SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
Yolanda ClubHas HaHowe'er, Party

The Yo1anda Club held its an- nual Halloween card party at the Moose Hall on Monday evening. The committee in charge of the affair consisted of Mrs. Anne Bian- cardi, chairman, assisted by Misses Grace Lovetere and Mary Miner vina. Prizes were awarded at each table. Refreshments. were served. Those present were: Mrs. Domenic Castellano, Mrs. George Croccic- chia, Mary DeMatteo, Lillian Ra- nando, Joan Rinaldi, Mary Villano. Lucie Rinaldi, Mrs. Margaret Spag- nuoIo, Peggy Fugliese, Elsie Rinal- di, Mrs. Armand Marc Anthony, Mary Fugliese, Grave Lovetere, Mary Martino, Mrs. James Martin, Mary Minervino, Mrs. Joseph Mar tino, Mrs. Ann Bincardi, Mary De- Paola, Eleanor D'Amiello, Laura Caserino, Emmeline Membrino Claire Sandore, Gilda Suzza, Nellie Salem, Mrs. Frederick Gemino, Jane Ranando, Lucy DeSanto, Car mela DeSanto, Jennie Rosa Mrs. A. Hornbecker, Jennie Mancini, Margaret Pazano, Margaret De- Bonis, Edith Calo, Mrs. Joseph Barsi, Mrs. Anthony Ciarlone, Mer- lyn DiNapoi, Lent Ciarlone, Clara Capadonno, Mrs. Roland Ruggiero. Mrs. Salvo Martino, Jane Ranan- do, Doris Capadonna, Estelle De- Bonis, Florence Biancardi, Victoria Tartaglia, Lena DeVito, Mrs. T.. Biancardi, Josephine Carlo, Laura Cammisa, Josephine DiPietro, Mrs. A. Masone, Mrs. Joseph Simone, Linda Boccaccino, Mrs. c. Nastri, Mrs. Frank Colangelo, Mrs. Leo Keefe, Mrs. John Hemingway and Mrs. M Dichele
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-30

.f ! z tl H : .1 sored by the group and the events of the past have proved to be most successful and entertaining. ' The general committee consists of the following members: Miss Vivian F. Malia, chairman, Miss Mary Iacovino, co-chairman assist ed by Margaret Carroll. Catherine Savers, Rose Restivo, Helen Ga liada, Helen Lynch, Margaret Fitz- gerald, Natalie Plangas, Kathleen Maher, Catherine Murphy and Marguerite E. Sullivan.
 The printing committee includes Misses Margaret Carroll, chairman. assisted by Helen Lynch and Mar garet Fitzgerald.
 Further arrangements for the affair will be made. at a meetins of the committee to be held in the near future.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-30
Kindergarfe1, Benefit
 Card Party Planned

Mrs B. Tracy and Mrs George Mcguire are in charge of the card party being planned for Friday evening at SS Peter and Pauis school hall. The affair is the first card party to be given for the bene- fit of the school kindergarten and a large attendance is anticipated. Parishioners are especially inter- ested in the work of the school kindergarten and the card party promises to be one of the largest of the season.
 All card games will be enjoyed and prizes will be awarded to the players making high scores.
 A Halloween party was given at the home of Miss Edith Carlstrom and those present were: The Misses Frances Dwyer, Anna May Hamel, Cert Dwyer, Martha Obernier, Lennia Gyllenhammer, Adeline Obernier, Nancy Pinasi, Mildred Noren, Edith Carlstrom, MT and Mrs James Kenney, MT and Mrs Thomas Murphy. MT Carlstrom, MT and Mrs H. Carlstrom, William Schneider, Andy Raeburn, Gerald Maxwell, George Carlstrom, Wall ter Kuska, Jim Bagley, Archie Raeburn, Ivan Carlson, John Jamel, William O'Connell.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-30
Bride To Be Is
 Honored At SholOes

Mrs Joseph Bruno and Mrs An thony Ianucci were hostesses at a shower gaiven at the Scovill Girls club in honor of their sister. Miss Teresa Cretella. Entertainment was enjoyed and a delicious luncheon was served. Those present were: Misses Mildred Howis, Betty Biancardi, Joan Holleran, Ray Barchard, Vera Yurkasaitis, Geir-
 giana Tergin, Cell Breton, Lucille
 Mack, Eva Popio, Rose Monita, Adeline Divigard, Catherine sum
 ma, Carmela Cretella, Angeline
 Mole, Anna Mole, Marie Brovick,
 Mary Mazzarelli, Jennie Mangini,
 Anita Cretella, Blanche Creetlla,
 Jennie Genovese, Mary Cretella. Mary Lacone, Lucy Summa, Jennie Summa, Carmella Cretella. Mary Santoro, Clara Genove, Mollie Col angelo, Mary and Nancy Bochic- cio, Mrs Carmella Canese, Mrs U. Cipriano, Mrs A. Davino. Mrs F. Cretella, Mrs Ralph Cretella, Mrs S. Sistiili, Mrs s. Pannone, Mrs A. Mole, Mrs J. Rosa, Mrs R. Ianotti, Mrs R. Nonemaker, Mrs D. San- tora, Mrs E. Monelli, Mrs H. Mag zio, Mrs P. Gizzi, Mrs c. Pereti. Mrs R. Mancini, Mrs R. Cretella, N. Di- Paulo, Mrs E. Desmond, Mrs J. Mastrdiano. Mrs L. Fucito. Mrs B. Parent, Mrs L. Hayes. Mrs ID. Barabault, Mrs J. Barbara, ana Mrs s. Borelli.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-30
Contract Bridge
ELTON CONTRACT CLUE

Top scorers in yesterday after noon's session of the Elton Con- tract Club were: North and South: Mrs J. B. Kelsey and Mrs R. C. Schroeder, 139 1-2; Mrs H. J, Stettbacker and Mrs Arthur Cow perthwait, 127 1-2: Mrs R. R. Davidson and Mrs Raymond Pidge 128g 2; Mrs J. H, Dillon and Mrs NJ. U. Doyle, 119 1-2: Mrs c. H, Granger and Mrs Irving sPlatt, 1T 1-2; and East and West: Mrs Clifford Pettijcan and Mrs George Moeller. 130 1-2: Mrs Joseph Stone and Mrs B.. Mcdonald. 124; Mrs Frank Drescher and Mrs Robert Strohacker substituting for Mrs B Hyde and Mrs Clayton Rose, 121 1-2; Mrs Thomas Morin and Mrs c. ,Audet, 116: and Mrs John Mon zani and Mrs John A. Wright, 115 1-2. Ms
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-30
Solution to Previous Contract Problem

At auction bridge sacrifice bid ding played san important part. Some players still think that sac rifice bidding has a place In con tract. I do not think so.
 It is all right if you can figure out a safe sacrifice, but you ask any money contract player and he will tell you that, when the oppo- nents are getting the tickets, you had better let them have their game and not try to sacrifice. They probably will win the game and all the thanks you get for your sacrifice bidding is to lose an extra large rubber.
 At first glance, to-day's hand looks as if East and West have a good sacrifice against six clubs. You would say that all they woul,i lose is two hearts. diamond, an: