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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-05

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-05

Creamery Package Manufacturing
Company declares special dividend
of Is cents a share on common
stock.
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INDIANAPOLIS WAGON WHEAT
CHICAGO CASH GRAIN

City grain elevators are paying n cents
for No. 2 soft red wheat. Other grades
on their merits.
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Bank CIearings
INDIANAPOLIS STATEMENT
TREASURY STATEMENT

3rings .935. 900 90
its Observation-Disclosures. 6.474, 900 90
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Collins and Altman Corporation
earns net profit for nine months
ended Nov. rs of SS47,159, against
net loss of S579,24O in like 1882 pc
riOd.
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Chicago Primary Receipts

Jan. =
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Federal Farm Loan Bonds
lBy BIYth & Co. Inc.D
Foreign Exchange

Home Loan As, July l. 1851. 86ia 871
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-05
SHEEP AND LAMBS

Receipts. 1000; market. steady.
40 lbs. DOWN Good & Choice s7.5o0 800
l90-l10 lbs.D Good and choice. 70067.75
80 lbs. DOWN Com and med. 4.50@ TOO
Ewes
Good and choice ........ 2.0OO 800
Common and medium ........ 1000 200
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Bright Spots
Rv limited Press

F. w. WoolWorth Company reports
December sales of $36, 1895 sos. up III
per cent from December last year.
Plymouth Cordage Company in
creased its quarterly dividend pay
ment from S1.1S to SIPS a share.
w. L. Grant Company reports De-
cember sales of $12,451 1872, up 81
per cent from December, 1882.
Pitney-BOweS Postage Meter Com
pany declares dividend of cents a
share, first payment since October,
1882.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-25
THE GRIST OF NEWS
THE week in review

THE week in review -.
Madame Valentine Fraya eminent French
astrologer, communes with the stars and an
nounces that the United States will emerge
from the depression in 1895, thereby placing
second to Charlie Dawes on predictions and
the Federal Government adopts plans to pave
the way for revival of the old neighborhood
grist mill.
Premier Flandin of France promises that
his country will omit nothing to assure the
organization of peace" and the Chamber of
Deputies adds 100000 francs to the army bud
get, just to make sure. Five Cleveland youths
engage in II holdups and find that the pay
only averages SIS week, and Jim Farley sends
election congratulations to a Massachusetts
politician who wasn't even nominated.
The Department of Agriculture continues
its efforts to counteract the drought, and Arab
tribesmen complain that heavy rains in the
Sahara Desert have ruined all their crops.
Meanwhile a cold wave hits Florida and para
lyzes the fish in Philppi Creek
The Soviet government prepares to execute
four men who attacked and killed two girls
@'N"A tAldG ~
them for murder, but for counter-revoutiona
activities, the girls having been members of
the Communist Young Pioneers outfit.
Fritz, the dog that hung around the campus
of Sewanee University for II years, had a
charge account and understood three Ian
guages, drops dead, and Pittsburgh dedicates a
S600O,000 postoffice only TO find that it lacks
a slot through which you can mail letters.
Two brothers condemned to death in Yugo-
slavia protest because the hangman is too busy
to execute them, complaining that they have
been fed the traditional hearty breakfast seven
mornings in a row and that it is getting on
their nerves An Ohio landlady has her star
boarder pinched after he sold her bed-slats and
chair to get money to buy booze, and then
set fire to her skirt in a spirit of playfulness.
A Massachusetts wooden mill assessed at
100000 is sold at auction to a man who bid
500 just to keep the bidding alive, and the
purchaser find he's stuck for $4,000 in taxes
and wants to hold another auction. Federal
horticultural experts find a way to grow pota-
toes in gaudy Easter egg colors, and a Wis
consn expert finishes a survey showing that
families on relief rolls have more babies than
those which are self-supporting.
A dizzy record? Just a glance at the weeks
happenings, as reflected in the newspapers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-25
GREATER THAN FICTION

THE modern novelist delights in the triangle
i story and in most cases his two favored
lovers are not married to each other But
their love is so great that they go away to-
gether regardless, leaving behind a deserted
wife or husband. or sometimes BOTH and
cutting very romantic figures.
Real life drama sometimes follows that pat
tern. sometimes doesn't.
There died the other day a university pro-
fessor in the Middle West who had had chief
part in a different kind of triangle. His wife
eloped with another man.
Instead of playing the outraged husband
the professor said that he hoped they would
be happy and offered his wife divorce if she
wished it. But she didn't; after three weeks
she came back to him, and the dashing lover
whom she left in the lurch was so chagrined
he committed suicide
Sometimes life takes twist that defies the
writer's traditions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-25
LACK OF THOUGHT

DOTH the kind of frmness which officers of
- the law ought to show in times of stress
and the utter irrationality which can pervade
mob were strikingly illustrated by the tragic
events at Shelbyville, Tenn, where National
GuardSmen foiled an attempted lynching.
The bloodshed which attended that clash
is, of course, an extremely regrettable thing
Yet it goes without saying that if officers of
the law everywhere were as determined about
protecting the prisoners in their charge as
these Tennessee officers were in this case,
lynching would speedily cease to be a disgrace
to American civilization.
But it would be hard to think of anything
much more senseleSs than the would-be lynch
ers' action in burning down their own Court
house. They will have to build new one, and
the money will come out of their own pockets
A more unintellgent way of venting their
anger could hardly be imagined.
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tiers of insurance and vote-catching
nostromS Notwithstanding.
The product Of industry is social
product, and is so decreed by the
natural law of economics. BY hid
ing the product under the term
money, certain groups in our syS-
tenn of production are enabled to
cover up their unfair seizure OF the
products of industry.
The workers who produce also are
the consumers of the goods. When
the money credits are diverted to
the wrong channels, where they can
not be modified for consumers
product consumption, as for in
stance, in speculative ventures that
are based on stock market tickers,
these credits are neither produc-
tive of new facilities or consumers
credits.
When profits taken out Of produc-
ton are not returned to the field
of new production, they shake the
foundation on which the whole
social structure is built.
Profits taken to be boarded, pre-
vent the consumption of the goods
they represent. Through our bottle
glass spectacles We see only dollar
profits as the basis of industry; by
bottling profits, we bottle the goods
so that no insurance can uncork the
goods that should flow to consumers
in ever increasing volume.
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TUESDAY DECEMBER IS. 1894
If DEBTS WERE PAID

CTTIZENS Of Acorn County, Mississippi, or
~ gained the Alcorn Electric Power Assn,
a cooperative organization. to acquire the
local distribution facilities Of the Mississippi
Power Co. 50 they could use the cheaper
power Of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
The sct-up provided that the plant should
be paid for out Of revenues. It was estimated
that this would take from eight to ten years
Although customers are saving 40 per cent on
bills, revenues during the first five months Of
operation have been so much larger than
expected it is now estimated that the system
Will be paid for in five or six years.
On his recent visit to this and other IVA
enterprises. President Roosevelt said:
BY using good business methods, we can
instruct a good many businesses in this
country"
The President could well have had in
mind the vast and perpetual mortgage about
the neck of business in this country.
Would it not be logical to ask, if the Acorn
County Electric Power Assn. can pay of its
entire debt in period so short as six years,
why it would not be possible for any we'll
managed private utility to do the same?
The IVA enterprises can be more than
mere power yardstick. They can, and may be,
yardstick Of good business management and
sound finance.
Why must railroads, utilities, and. for that
matter, private businesses, be forever refnanc-
ing their debts?
What happy, peaceful revolution there
would be if business ceased to RI I'd debt as
normal and perpetual, but locke, pom it as
justified only as means of start a needed
business, or to make an imperatively needed
expansion, and if payment on principal of
debt. as well interest, were made annually!
Debt-free business would be able to pay
higher wages and salaries and offer goods to
the public at lower prices. Thus it would pro-
mote consumption. Once it was free of debt,
it could apply a considerable portion of it's
revenues each year to accumulating reserve
funds so it could continue to pay its employees
wages and it's stockholders dividends during
years when business was off. Thus purchasing
power would be continued and poor business
would not develop into depression.
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So They Say

Our plan is to make all the people
capitalists and thus save the CAPT
talist system from Communism or
Fascism--Dr. Francis E. Townsend,
author of the Townsend old-age
pension plan.
The Middle West is the heart Of
the United States of the future
Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler.
There are more corrupt politicians
in this world than there are police
men-a lot more.-Austin J. Roche,
former police commissioner Of Buff
falo.
The American Legion is not in
politics. Partisan politics places US
in position where our detectives
are misunderstood Com
mander Edward H. Hayes.
I have never advocated the redis-
tributior of wealth. This is perfectly
impossible under a capitahstic sys-
tem.-Marriner S. Eccles, governor
of the Federal Reserve Board.
Tact and complacency have long
been woman's attributes, and I think
they prove a drawback to good read
ing.-Kay Boyle, author.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-25
BARGE ACTIVITY is
BRANDED "WHITEWASH"
By Disguised.

BY Disguised.
For many months the daily press
carried news of prison and jail
breaks in this state,
Something had to be done, so ap-
parently man was picked to take
the heat. This man was j. Edward
BARGE, Deputy Attorney General
His job, it seems to me, was to get
some one in jail to replace the
dozens who have escaped recently.
Therefore, he set out with his
blond stenographer for Chicago. He
couldn't find victim in Indiana,
so he went into a state where ne
had absolutely no authority or juris-
diction and put on Sherlock
Holmes act.
The next thing we know, this
cultured, educated gentleman was
posing as a gangster and had caused
a bad-bad mans to be captured
Now, through his noble efforts, the
reputation of Indiana is saved and
all is forgiven. Politics pure and
simple Is this one very foolish
gesture on the part Of state Off
cial to be a complete whiteWash Of
all prison and Jail breaks?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-25
REALITIES OF POLITICS

THE board of education in a large middle
= western industrial city not long ago APP
pointed committee to make survey of the
citizenship training being given in the ctys
public schools.
The committee went out, looked around,
and came back presently to report that the
citizenship training was going over big except
for the fact that the children were learning
TOO much about their city outside of school
hours
In class the youngsters heard much fine
talk about civic duty, honesty political theories
and such like. Then they would go home and
listen to their parents talk, or they would read
the daily papers, and in that way they got
the lowdown on the way the city really was
being run.
The result unfortunately. was to persuade
them that the citizenship training being given
in school was all very pretty. but that it
didn't mean very much in everyday life
The child who lives in boss controlled
ward where the fix" is a common, taken-for-
granted feature of community life, is apt to
get different slant on representative govern
ment than the text books will give him.
youngster who hears his father gleefully
tell a crony how he got traffic ticket fixed
isn't apt to imbibe that fine respect for the in
tegrity of the courts which the school teacher
tries to inculcate
The child who knows that his school
teacher is going unpaid. and at the same time
reads in the paper that the political gang
which runs the city is loading up the pay rolls
preparatory to election day. learns something
OF politics which no school book will tell him.
Home conversation in which corruption in
public Office, undue influence exerted by big
business combinations and the low caliber of
Of7ceholders generally are taken for granted.
makes an effective antidote to fine talk by the
teacher about the ideals of a democracy.
Now all this boilS down to a small but I'M
paIataoe little pill. which We might just as
well swallow without making any faces.
We can put all the citizenship courses we
please in our schools. but as long as our own
actions speak louder than the teachers voice
the courses won't mean much.
Children can't be kidded on things like
that If We bring them up in cities run by
ward bosses for the benefit Of social interests
they're going TO catch on.
II we want our children to respect the So
ciety We are operating, We must begin by re-
forming it. Until we do, our citizenship
courses viii only teach them cynicism.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-25
BELITTLES INSURANCE
AS ECONOMIC AID
BY a Times Reader.

By a Times Reader.
Senator Frederick Van Nuys,
speaking before the Professional
Mems Forum, stated that the proxi-
mate cause of economic depression
could be found in the abrupt ter
mination of industrial pay rolls. He
urged form of unemployment in
surance as a remedy. His premise is
wrong and his conclusion doubly
wrong.
If insurance is, or ever will be, a
remedy, the European countries,
having had insurance of this type
on a grand scale for more than 20
years. would not have had crisis
like our own. You can not laugh
that off.
Insurance for economic security Is
Just another of those wild dream
panaceas that ignore the real cause
of economic depression. All that
stuff is for home consumption for
shallow minded headline readers.
Calling Senator Van Mugs atten-
ton to the w%d profit" as the un-
derlying motive power Of industry
we must first realize that profits
are not dollars, but goods.
If profits were only dollars, We
could manufacture dollars and be
rich even if We had to live like
Tarzan. If goods do not flow in a
steady stream while all the faclli-
ties and man power are available
We have poverty regardless Of noun
tains of bank credit money, green
backs, coppers or dimes.
To turn out goods for service to
consumers is the only function in
dustry has: AL The makeshifts, plas-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-25
Infatuation
BY ALONZO RICE

ID ALUMNI h1CE
I sometimes wonder if you really
are
The all Of sweet perfection that
deem,
Or gazing in crystal bowl I
dream
And fashion it by some deceptive
start
Did fancy shape the shrine I seek
from far
And wrapped in rainboWs that
Elusive beam,
The fragile, shifting sphere that
I esteem,
And which possessions lightest
touch would mar?
do not seek to know, since wisdom
brings
SO hard penance. I would rather
be
Deceived and happy kneeling at
your throne!
What though my god be wood or
brass? Enere rings
The chime of truth IN these OLD
words fer me,
Joined to his lools, cease, let him
aloneI"
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Sales Tao for Indiana FaUOred

cording to- his ability to pay, in
stead of having to hand over part
of a meager salary regardless of
circumstances. A single man, with
no dependents, who is making $25
a week, can pay the Indiana tax
far easier than a married man
with a houseful of children
who is making $50 a week.
With the repeal of the income
tax law and enactment Of sales
tax statute, the tax situation in
Indiana would be greatly i'm
proved.
In another field, that of educa-
ton, there is a law which should
be undisturbed. That is the
teacher tenure law, protecting vet
eran teachers from the whims of
politically minded office holders.
A man or woman who chooses to
devote life to teaching certainly
should have security in employ
ment and that security is pro-
vided by the tenure law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-25
CHRISTMAS TREE
WASTE CITED
Rr Harry z CnnnelI.

BY Harry E. COnnell.
Since there apparently is no gov
erning law between the supply and
demand covering Christmas trees,
it looks again this year like the
Courthouse lawn and a lot Of vacant
lots and store fronts are going to be
cluttered up Christmas Day with
quantities of unsold trees.
During this time of the year ev-
cry one seems charitable except
those who sell Christmas trees;
every one who can afford one and
wants it will purchase it not later
than today. 1t seems like it would be
a good thought for some of these
tree vendors to call some charitable
headquarters not later than 8 to-
night and tell them they have a
number of unsold trees that could be
had for asking.
These institutions, I am sure,
would be glad to issue some sort of
a card to families on their lists and
one could be assured that some lad
from any Of these families would be
very glad to go nearly any place,
even at that hour, if he could have
tree for Christmas. This surely
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-25
OBJECTS TO PROPOSED
PENSION PLAN
.R0eeRQ-
BY Joe kat,

BY Joe Katz.
BY The Times I see some United
States Senators have received lot
of letters from old people, asking
them to pass the Townsend old-age
pension plan.
think these old people should be
ashamed for such grasping. They
say there is no fool like an old fool.
They should have saved their money
when they were young and now they
would not be begging.
I have saved hard all my life. Let
them do like me. am not asking
for charity. If you give them money,
it will make business good - the
whisky business.
You can not get them to do any,
thing around the store unless you
pay them two times what it is
worth. Now they want to put out
5000 a month. They should go home
and pray to God to forgive their
sins.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-25
By One Who Pays.

By One Who Pays.
The Indiana General Assem-
bly,, to be convened early in the
new year, should repeal the OBJ
noxious, unfair gross income tax
law and in its stead enact a sales
tax program.
The gross income tax law prob
ably is unconstitutional. Further
than that, it is a piece of legisla-
ton which is so unfair that one
often wonders why the public
ever stood for its enactment.
To exact a tax from a man
making $40 a week or more, with
out regard to how many depend
ents he has, is on its face most
unjust action. The Federal in
come tax law, based on an en-
tirely different theory, is just. It
provides exemptions for those
with dependents, and the basic
exemption is high enough to give
the man earning little pay some
semblance of a break. That can
not be said of the Indiana law.
A sales tax is fair, one pays &C
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would make lot of persons, espe-
cially children, happy, who other
wise will not be able to purchase a
tree. Surely these tree merchants
can't expect much business after 8
tonight and nothing looks more pitt
full than yard or lot full of Christ
mas trees on the day itself.
If the vendors of the trees fail in
this, it would be good thing if the
city would draft an ordinance for
next year confiscating all trees at 8
on Christmas eve and turn them
over the Salvation Army and
the various church organizations
who could arrange distribution on an
orderly basis, to the many families
who are registered on the various
rolls and who would be happy to
call for a tree.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-25
MOTTO FOR SOLDIERS

IN the early days of American history. nearly
every regular Army and Militia regiment
had its motto, which was proudly enlblazoned
on its regimental colors and which served as
the basis for innumerable toasts, public
speeches and what not.
The custom has fallen into disuse, in recent
years. Now. however, it is being revived again:
and it is somehow pleasing to note the 15Oth
infantry of the West Virginia National Guard
has adopted as its slogan the succinct motto,
We can take it."
Here indeed, is something for hard-boiled
infantry outfit to live up to- No fine Greek
or Latin phrases here as in the old days; just
a snappy and expressive Americanism, ideally
adapted to military usage.
This West Virginia regiment seems to have
set a standard, in the matter Of mottos, for
other military organizations TO live up to.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-25
MODERN CHRISTMAS STORY

CYNICAL people can make caustic jokes
- about the Christmas spirit. Sometimes
the jokes are pretty funny and We all get a
laugh out of them. But the Christmas spirit
does exist just the same, and it sometimes has
unexpected effects on supposedly hard-boiled
human beings
A Brooklyn store was invaded by holdup
man few nights before Christmas. The BAN
dit TIED the proprietor in a chair and turned
to the cash register. Then, as he prepared to
scoop up the loot he paused. Some echo of
the Christmas spirit, apparently, sounded
family in his ears.
Re broke into tears, sobbed out that he was
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-25

desperate and that he had a wife and two
children-and then went over, united the pro-
proprietor and said, Il don't think I'll take your
money" and walked out AT the door he
paused to wish the storekeeper Merry Christ
mas. Then he left.
In spite of all our jokes, there is something
in this Christmas spirit that can make itself
heard even above the desperate voice of hun
ger and want.