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said the same. Here are some of
them:
Benjamin Franklin when he
caught electricity by kite.
Thomas Edison when the first in
candescent lamp glowed
Samuel insult when the 100000
kilowatt generator turned.
Lord Rothmere when he saw the
first American ring" and copied it
in England.
Add: Westinghouse, Thompson,
Houston, Steinmetz. Langmuir and
many others and we are sure you
will find that great men, great citi-
zens and great Americans, made
this great stuff" Picayunish poll
ticians and government capital did
not have single thing to do with
it.
Oh, yes! Who are we? just a
poor electrical manufacturer who
has lost money for four years, who
makes maintenance tools to repair
energized transmission lines. Backed
to the wall by customers fear of the
Government. Fighting in the firm
faith that truth through eye and
ear will replace vacuum.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-14
POLITICS IN CRIME

INJECTOR HOOVER of the Justice De-
- partment's Division of Investigation told
the Federal Crime Conference that law en-
forcement officers should get their jobs on
merit, and not be forced to seek office from
some political ward heller"
In too many communities, the requisites
are an ability to vote for the right man, and
the pandering instinct necessary to hold
position which can be plucked away upon
TIE displeasure of political boss.
Time after time, officers see criminals
walk free because that criminal knows some
other equally criminal person who controls
enough votes to swing an election. No
greater forward step could be taken than
utter enforcement of politicssfrom the appre-
henson, the punishment and detention of
criminals"
The Wickersham Commission few years
ago reported that the average police chief in
large cities holds office two and a half years,
and that rs per cent of American policemen
ARE not mentally endowed" to perform their
duties
Last month, former Police Commissioner
Roche Of Buffalo said:
I've heard good deal of talk about the
causes of crime. First, it was the war: then
it was prohibition and lately it's poverty. It's
not these things Politics is the foundation of
all crime. There are too many corrupt poll
ticians"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-14
December Day
BY MARY r. WHITE

A study in gray. A December day.
Gray earth. gray sky, all gray.
White and bare are the sycamore
trees;
Bare and cold in the rain-laden
breeze.
Long. bare arms lifted toward the
SKY
Still is the little brook. asleep near
by.
All nature hushed, still, oh, so still,
Silence reigns DER woodland and
hill.
But for the hoarse caw-of one lone
crow,
Cattle stand detected, with heads
dropping low.
An empty cornheld-on the earth
just a fringe.
A dilapidated gate hanging by only
one hinge.
The heavy mist, the rain-flled air
A picture in gray for an artist to
dare.
The sun hasn't shone his lace at all,
Slowly sinks in the west a great.
fiery ball;
Sinking, slowly sinking, behind pur-
ple-hued clouds,
From the mist with opalescent color
ing endowed
The earth an eerie picture In the
waning light
The sun slowly sinking-now out Of
sight.
Gray, all gray. dull sonlber gray
And that is the end Of December
day.
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REFINANCE THE SCHOOLS

A QUARTER MILLION teachers get wages
= n below the NRA blanket code minimum
for unskilled. factory hands. Some receive
only s35 month.
One-fourth of American cities have closed
their night schools and part-time classes for
adults and youths.
Hundreds of needed school buildings have
been abandoned before completion and left to
deteriorate in ruins because of insufficient
funds. Tens of thousands of pupils are housed
in temporary and dangerous shacks.
With one million more pupils to teach, the
states are spending less on their elementary
and secondary schools than in 1926
These random facts proclaim serious de-
feet in the Republics prime industry. What
is it?
Faulty financing. answers DR.. John K. Nor
ton OF Columbia University. Writing in The
Nation, he finds the country trying to support
its schools with tax methods las obsolete as
the OK cart" The property tax, that finances
most of the educational budget was adopted in
the post-Jackson era when land was about the
only form of wealth in many communities.
Today land is ver-burdened while other
wealth escapes its proportionate tax for educa-
ton. A thorough revamping Of school finan-
cling is necessary.
Dr. Norton says that the hundreds of thou
sands of duplicating and competing tax units
should be consolidated into larger units. These
units should keep local control but the states
should finance their schools. Income, inher-
itance, business and similar taxes, he says,
shouldshelp to pay the oils.
Here is something for the state legislatures
to consider at the coming sessions. They may
cry for Federal aid, but that is only tempo
rary life line.
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SENATOR-ELECT MINTON
is MAKING PROGRESS
By w. d. Hamer.

BY W. d. Hamer.
1t is indeed news to see in your
paper of Wednesday Senator-elect
Sherman Minton has learned the
true cost Of electric current at the
switchboard. That is progress and
we hope he will carry on research
ing and discover more and per-
tinent facts that are commonly
known to electrical and hydro en-
gineers.
First he should know the cost a
kilowatt at consumers meters and
this should include the normal
transmission loss and the average
theft loss from by-passed and tam
pered meters. Next he should be
sure of the first cost OF a hydro and
steam generating plant.
But here's a tough one: To
learn the amount of inch rainfall
to the square mile the Lord will
send in one year. Engineers do not
know this, so to assure that you and
I have a continuous supply Of power
every minute, they add design Tor
steam generating auxiliary to hydro.
These are only few Of the Won
derful truths that the new Senator.
and you, and all citizens should
know.
Also noted your articles on Great
STUFF" and / imagined the great
men before President Roosevelt who
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NATURES WAYS IMPRESSIVE

DR. ALLAN R. DAFOE, the Ontario doctor
who brought the famous Dionne quin-
tuplets into the world. seems to have had an
excellent time on his vacation trip to New
York, but the marvels of the nations greatest
city do not seem to have impressed him over
much
Newspaper reporters discovered that while
he was duly shown all the great sights, he
found it ever so much more exciting to talk
about the five little girls who have been his
especial care for the last few months. The
miracles Of Manhattan, in fact, seem to have
left him more or less cold; he has a miracle
Of his own to talk about, infinitely more i'm
preSsive.
And this. after all. is quite natural Wealth
and invention may combine to rear some sur
prising wonders-but the miracles of Mother
Nature can feilieve when she sets her mind
to it, make these look small.
What is an Empire State building or a
skyscraper skyline compared with five babies
who all arrived at once?
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REAL SOCIALISM BEING
FOUNDED BY SOVIEyS

BY W. M. Knox.
Somewhat paraphrasing the Mes
sage Center slogan, I defend your
right to say what you did in the
editorial Bloody Violence" yet I
wholly disapprove of the implica-
lions contained therein when you
lump together all existing Dictator
ships as if they were all one and
the same.
Such is not at all matter of fact.
Russia, or properly now the Soviet
Union, has a basic difference in
practice and purpose as compared
with other relationships now exist
ing such as Germany and Italy.
In Russia, a revolution transferred
ruling power from the capitalists to
the workers. The capitalists en-
joyed democracy for themselves
previously. Now, the workers, main
ly through their labor unions, en-
JOY thousands of times more
democracy and ballotine privileges
than ever before.
The crushed capitalists, or for
mer capitalists, however, still try to
edge back in, and if they were not
ruthlessly crushed they would glee-
fully overthrow the workers die
tatorship and follow up with a
bloody violence of reprisals thou
sands of times more bloody than
the execution of Sc capitalists or
capitalist politicians, trying to plot
their way back in.
AS proof of this, let me cite the
example of the overthrow of the
Paris Commune and the present.
day executions going on in Spain,
Austria, etc.
When plotting counter-revolu-
tionaries cease to plot against the
workers fatherland, executions of
them will cease. They surely count
the risk involved in their nefarious
work and 1 wouldn't, Mr.. Editor,
cry at all about them. You might,
however, do greater amount of
crying about the executions going
on in the capitalist United States of
workers, strikers and poor people
who naturally dare to protest
against hunger and starvation.
Now, the purpose of the Soviet
Union is to build up real Socialism
and they are doing it. That is diff
ferent from the purpose of Ger
many, Italy and the rest, which is
to retain the existing institution of
capitalist monopoly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-14
ANOTHER COMPLAINT IS
FILED ON RELIEF WORK

BY a Discouraged Widow.
Why can some folk go to the
trustee, ask for work, be certified
and in ten days be working for the
government, when Others go day
after day. week after week, and
aren't even even shown any consId-
Grafton? think, as do many of
my friends. that there is too much
Partially shown in this relief work
Give the widow a chance.
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So They Say

The suggestion that the bureau@
Gratis Of Washington have saved us
from revolution belittles the com-
mon sense of the American people,
Colonel Henry Breckenridge. candi-
date for United States Senate from
New York.
1 understand all the extra money
they (the Democratic National Conn
mittee) have is going to buy up
Herbert Hoover's book. It would
make more votes for the Democrats
than mine.-Interior Secretary Har.
old Ickes.
1t was a nightmare we shall never
forget.-Lajos Molnor, striking Hun
garian miner. 3
We like to be comfortable.-R. B.
Abbot, host to International Nudist
Conference near Akron, O., when
forced by cold to wear clothing. {
1t has begun to look as though
labor is about to swallow the
church.-The Rev. John H. Thomp-
son Of Montgomery, N. Y.
Real security is in terms of OPT
portunities and not In terms Of
guarantees.-Federal Emergency Re-
lief Administrator Harry Hopkins.
Put the ordinary man up against
real, live squirming baby and he
never would get it dressed.-J. H,
Wade, Washington's champion baby
dresser.
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able to make satisfactory liv-
ing.
Another great question before
this state today is the problem of
taking care of the aged and in
firm. Surely the day Of the poor
house is past. The Fraternal
Order of Eagles are to be COM
mended for their diligent efforts
in trying to clean up this situation
and to provide hundreds with the
opportunity of spending their last
years in peace and without the
constant fear of starvation.
It appears to me that the de-
preston will bring great changes
in our social lives. Surely there
is no basis for believing that pros
perity will return within days or
months, but there is great reason
to believe that those of us who
survive these hard times will be
better in the long run. Let's hope
there is no sudden wave of pros
perity, but a general upward trend
that will give every man his right
to support his family and live as
he desires.
That will be a great day, and it
may not be so far in the offing.
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BY D. L. B.
Why all this hub-bub about re-

BY ID. L.. b.
Why all this hub-bub about re-
lief?
With the thousands who are on
relief rolls in this city and county,
it is my opinion that the govern
ment is doing an excellent job in
handling the situation. Of course,
no matter now many people you
have in a group, whether it be
three or three million, there always
are those who can not be salts
fed.
Truthfully, it is we'll that there
are critics in these groups. With
out them the wor1c might move
along with no one to call a halt.
But, all in all, from what 1 have
heard, the relief directors of this
state are breaking their backs to
take care of every one on fair
basis. To some of these recipients,
5000 month would not be salts
factory.
The people of this nation and
state surely must realize the time,
thought and money that has gone
into every project which relates to
caring for those who, due to no
fault OF their own, have been I'M
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-14
DARK FUTURE FACES
THE COMING GENERATION

BY Ira Fields.
DR.. Dennis. president Of Earlham
College. in a recent address, stressed
the need of return to the pioneer
life of our forefathers. President
Roosevelt also sanctions the same
thing.
I would like to add that we will
be compelled to return TO the
pioneer environment Of our fore
fathers, if we are ever to expert
ence peace and contentment.
Modernism has proved to be a
CHASTITY failure. The multitude of
divorce cases proves this. The ma
jority of American homes are har-
boring q tragedy within their walls.
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men or women are unable to defend
themselves.
In almost every instance their
families welfare depends on theirs
small salaries, regardless how many
hours the wife and mother must
work in order to make it. No person
can say a word in protest without
fear of losing a job.
If all the people are asked to co..
operate with all their means to end
the depression why should not the
state institutions start among the
first ones and really set an example?
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OBJECTS TO CRITICISM
ON LETTER WRITING

By Stan.
1t seems to me that some people
do not realize that the working class
Of people have sufficient education
to read and understand the English
language.
I read the article signed by
Reader" complaining that Jimmy
Cafouros used the English language
too freely and I do not think the
writer used such simple words him
self.
Being of the working class, I am
able to read and understand easily
the articles by Jimmy Cafouros.
Why should the working people
be put in a lower class than the
white collar class? We all have the
same chance.
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STATE DEPARTMENTS SHOULD
AID DEPRESSION FIGHT.

BY An Employe.
Many were glad to see in the
Message Center an article Of pro-
test on working hours and rules of
the Indiana University Hospital
dietary department and hope that
such articles reach the hearts of
the ones responsible because the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-14
Daily Thought

All things are lawful for me. but
all things are not expedient all
things are lawful for me. but all
things edify not.-I Corinthians
x, %.
WE should never create by law
Wv what can be accomplished by
morality. MontesQuieu.
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The Message Center

Times readers are united to cypress
their Dietos in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare a chance.
Limit them to $50 words or Less.J
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The Oklahoma prisoner who was permitted
to so hunting over the Thanksgiving holidays
returned all the more willing to stay in jail.
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/ whotty dasapprove of whGt you sag and a0itL
defend to the death your right to sag it-VoLtdlre
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-12-29
Shipstead to Propose
UMVA, Similar to IVA

washington, Dec. deterioration
If an upper Mississippi valley author
ity. modelled after the governments
iva experiment, viii be proposed to
congress by Senator Shipstead oil,
Minn.)
shipstead said Saturday he had
completed Q preliminary draft Of .
bill calling for intensive development
Of power resources Of the upper Mis-
sissippi, including flood control, I'M
proved navigation Of the river. re-
forestation, use Of marginal lands. and
federally supervised agriculture and
industrial development.
Although the bill clashes somewhat
with theories o. development Of the
territory advanced by the Mississippi
valley committee In its recent report
to Secretary Ickes. tho measure draws
upon the findings Of the committee.
The commute held that mo strict
economic justification" could be found
for federal expenditures already to-
falling 1l26, 0o0. 900 On the upper river
The UAdVA as proposed BY Ship
stead would have the administrative
powers Of the Tennessee valley au-
thority. shipstead would develop the
extension Of cheap electricity and
power to farmers Of the areas A
lhsoaA ,,sor1aun ~ nanitafion aleo n
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Mary Pickford Files
Final Divorce Action

Los Angeles, Dec. 29.-(R-Mary
Pickford pressed for final action Sat.
urday IN her divorce suit against
Douglas Fairbanks.
Announcement by her attorney.
Lloyd Wright. that he had been In
structed TO 60 ahead with the d.
vorce Immediately after the first Of
the year." repudiated Ill reports that
. reconciliation between the movie
colony's "first couple" would be
reached.
The way for Americas sweetheart"
70 obtain = quick divorce was cleared
Friday when her attorney filed IN
superior court m affidavit showing
that service on Fairbanks In the suit.
filed more than year ago. has been
completed BY mail.
Miss pickford made no comment On
her decision to press the suit, which
abe filed shortly before Christmas .
year ago.
Fairbanks. reported to b In New
York, was unavailable for comment.
Wright said b would next ask that
the case b ct Tor trial. thus max
Ing It possible. should the case 50 b
default, for Ma Pickford 70 obtain
= divorce within approximatelY %
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Metzinger Still in J.
Critical Condition

Chicago, Dec. 29.-(R-Deau Leon
Metzinger Of the North Dakota
School Of Agriculture at Fargo Fri
day night was removed to the Billings
hospital suffering from critical In
jurtes received Friday morning IN the
auto-train crash IN which his wife
and daughter were killed.
The women died under the wheels
Of the international Limited" crack
Grand Trunk train which Wednesday
killed seven relief workers 1t grade
crossing In suburban Harvey.
The women. Mrs. Marie Metzinger.
Is, and Miss Leona Metzinger. 10
year-old student 1T the University Of
North Dakota, were instantly killed
and Dean Metzinger, 81, was critically
injured when their automobile. re-
portedly driven by Mrs. Metsiuger.
rolled in front Of the Chicago-bound
train.
The accident occurred In Blue
Island, not far from the scene Of
Wednesdays tragedy. Dean Net
singer, head Of the modern languages
department ct the North Dakota
school. was unable to give IN account
Ct the accident and WAS still unaware
that hts X1{e and dnalghter 6nd hofp
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December 81. 1896. Japan win not Be
bound by the treaty which gives her
the =" In the famous 5.5.3 ratio.
The Oriental diplomat, who Wa
present u years ago when the treaty
limiting fighting navies was born.
thus sounded it, death knell. In Q
statement, he expressed hope q new
treaty could be agreed upon within
the next two years. Japan, he said
is willing to discard halt her navy Il
"a common maximum limit" for the
United States, Great Britain and the
Far Eastern empire Is established.
Not Anxious for Race
He said he was mot ct Ill anxious''
about the possibility Of . naval race.
The peoples concerned are al in
telligent," he said. "and their gov
ernerts are rational. No one wishes
to engage In damaging naval build.
ing competition"
A statement by the japanese for
eisn office spokesman explaining ia
pans action was made public by the
embassy here.
I'm view," 1t said, 'of the present
state Of extraordinary development
In warsl1ip, aircraft. and other weap-
ous Of war. the existing naval treaties
which recognize inequality Of arma-
ments among the powers can no
longer afford security Of national de-
tense to Japan.
For this reason, the new treaty
should rest not upon . ratio prin-
ciple. but on the formula Of an agreed
common upper limit for the arma-
ments to be retained by each power. -
I'm ORDER" 1t said, TO render Il
difficult for any power to attack an
other but easy to defend itself, the
Continued on Page SKI
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Lindbergh. Jr. . ransom note and
finally to the living room where the
father sat reading. unaware Of the
ugly crime.
The aviator told how Betty Gov.
the child'S Scotch nursemaid. cried
out the news Of the tragedy and how,
carrying . rifle, he rushed outdoors
and peered vainly into the blackuess
OF Sourland mountain night. After
the finding Of the childS body. three
months later, the Lindberghs left the
house and went to live with Mrs.
Lindbergh's mother, Mrs. Dwight w.
Morrow, In Englewood.
Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh are des-
tined to relive, as witnesses In Bruno
Richard Hauptmann's trial, the ordeal
Of their first sons kidnapping and
death, but John Hughes Curtis Of
Norfolk, Va, probably will be denied
q part in the drama.
Curtis, the shipbuilder who once
was convicted Of obstructing justice
for posing as Lindbergh "interme-
diary" offered to testify against
Hauptmann. Prosecutors, apparently
intent on other aspects OF their case
against the Lindbergh kidnap-slaying
suspect, were cool to his suggestion.
Though Curtis said he would swear
that he has talked to Hauptmann and
that the suspect showed him some Of
the Lndbergh ransom money, Attor-
ney General David T. Wilentz merely
vouchsafed that the matter was "un-
der advisement." From an official
source came a definite prediction that
Curtis offer would be "flatly re-
iected."
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$780, 900 Equipment
Planned by Airline

st. Paul. Dec. 2o.-tR-Expendt-
lures by the Northwest Airlines
Inc, Of @l00000 by May for new
equipment was announced Saturday
BY Croil Hunter, vice president and
general manager OF the concern.
Hunters announcement was sub.
seuuent to . disclosure that the
Northwest company has acquired from
the Hauford Tri-state Airltnes the
mail contract on the Chicago Penn
bina, N. p. line. ).
Acquisition Of the mail contract. ef-
fective ct midnight. Dec. 81. will give
Northwest Airlines . clear field "
mail, passenger and express service
between Chicago and Seattle VIA the
Twin Cities. ;.
Hunter said. IN confirming the mail
contract purchase and announcing
the expenditure for new equipment
that tho Hanford company Will dis-
continue passenger service on the
chicago. Pembina route. However, II
Will continue to operate the Twin
Cities Omaha-Kansas City air mail
and passenger service.
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Naval Strength Of
Powers at Present

Washington, Dec. 3e.-tR-
Japan's denunciation Of the
Washington treaty focuses atten-
ton on the comparative strength
Of tho sea powers navieg.
They now have:
United States: s73 warships Of
l,0o2.O25 tons.
Great Britain: 27s warships Of
1,l5S,65 tons.
Japan: 22o warships Of 1885,
56l tons.
Building or appropriated for:
United States: % Of $4,000
tons.
Great Britain: q Of .lzl.Ala.
tons.
Japan: IS Of 124,oo6 tons.
Additional tonnage which, UNI.
der the treaty, can b laid down
, before Dec. 81, 1886:
United States: 70 Of l36,S75
tons.
Great Britain: ~ Of l32,ees
tons.
japan: ! OF 1900 tons.
Strength in new, ''under-age"
vessels expected to Be In existence
when the treaty ends:
United States: lis ships Of
T3l,500 tons.
Great Britain: l25 ships Of 60,
$40 tons.
Japan: 80 ships Of So, 80 tons.