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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-12
MAYOR-ELECT KERN
RESTING IN VIRGINIA
Mccormick and FilliOn Substituting
in Superior Court.

Mayor Elect John w. Kern is in
Virginia resting from the strain OF
the political campaign. During his
absence superior court 2 is presided
over by c. K. Mccormick and E. P.
Fillion, judges pro tenn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-15
THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA

THE commerce departments new survey of
the national income shows that in 1882
we paid out s5,506 ,00O, 900 in interest-about
3 per cent less than we paid in 1929.
Salaries in this period fell about &c per
cent. wages about 60 per cent, dividends about
Sc per cent. rents and royalties Sc per cent.
Now we are making a brave effort to win
through increasing our income via the re-
covery program.
But, like Sinbad, we have an Old Man of
the Sea on our backs; a swollen, increasingly
heavier burden that we have been unable so
far to shake off. 1t was easy to pay five bill
lions in 1929; it is two or three times as hard,
in many cases impossible. to pay that now.
Fifteen hundred cities, towns and other
political subdivisions are reported in default
on debts of about $4,000, 600, 600. Many per-
sons have sour foreign bonds: railroad re-
ceiverships are double those of a year ago.
So on down the line.
Now the administration has moved to re-
duce the Old Man. The President thinks that
lower interest rates should be part of the new
deal for both debtors and creditors. 1t will
help to save the principal of the debt for the
creditor; life, home and happiness of the
debtor are involved.
A generally lower interest rate, if attained,
will mean a saner and less speculative life.
The Wilcox bill passed by the house last
June and pending before the senate subcom-
mittee, providing for adjustments of debt pay
mentS by bankrupt municipalities. expresses
an immediate need in this situation.
The Old Man has been on our backs too
long.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-15
BETTER

XXTHEN the senate passed the johnson bill,
w designed to prevent utility companies
from using federal courts to delay or block
rate decisions, it did more to advance the
cause Of utility regulation than any single
thing since state commissions were created.
Regulation never has really been tried in
this country. Early in the game utility COM
panies found they could render state COM
missions impotent in two ways-hrst. by the
holding company system of transferring utility
assets out of the jurisdiction of state bodies,
and second. by taking commission rate deci-
sions to the federal courts where it was not
necessary to review the record made before
the commission or to consider its findings at
all in granting an injunction.
Years Of impotent effort on the part of the
state commissions have led many persons to
believe that regulation never can succeed and
that public ownership of utilities is the only
method by which the people may protect their
interest in this essential service. Yet there
may be another alternative and congress seems
to be seeking it.
1t would be instructive and useful in work.
ing out wise policies for the future really to
try regulation before We abandon it. The step
toward this end proposed in the Johnson bill
is not a drastic or alarming one. 1t does no
violence to the principle of judicial review
for protection of private property. 1t leaves
state courts in full possession Of their power
TO review the findings of utility commissions.
It leaves the United States supreme court in
full possession of its power to review the fnd-
ings of state courts.
But it would make it impossible for a great
utility corporation, by claiming that its cit
izenship really lies in another state. to take
a rate case into a federal court where expense.
delays and the possibility of disregarding all
evidence on which the commission's decision
has been based, load the dice against regu-
lation.
If the administration supports the Johnson
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-15

THE house Of representatives IS IN the MIDST
4 Of sixteen hours OF general debate on the
tax bill. about which it can do nothing but
talk unless the ways and means
gives special sanction to amendments. BY ac-
cepting this gag by the Democratic machine.
the house again has muffed the opportunity
for a genuine revision of the income TAX sys-
TEN to make the s~o-called middle classes pay
their share.
Glasses whose net income ranges up to
$4,000 a year have, indeed, had their taxes
Iightened by the ways and means committee
bill. And this when the United States treasury
is facing its greatest deficit. when the need for
emergency expenditures is growing.
L. myself, belong to the middle class and
wish only to belong to it" Representative
Lewis Dem. Md told the house. IF I under
stand the class, 1 wish to say that it will not
thank its representatives in the government
for such favors in taxation if they are to be
secured by putting the government in peril for
its life. Instead they would repel us with dis
gust as unfaithful public servants. They know
that this is a world Of duties as we'll as of
rights. and that their first duty is to maintain
even with their lives the great government in
which we are partners"
The house leadership paid no heed to this
appeal. 1t took the treasury's suggestions for
easing up on income taxes on the middle
classes. The job Of genuine revision hence
becomes one for the senate.
Unless it is done, unless the American rates
are increased, made more like those OF Great
Britain. for instance. dangers lie ahead. Heavy
taxes on multimilionaires alone are not re-
turning enough revenue. Large increases
should be levied on all incomes from $4,000
on UP.
II the senate wants to do its utmost to pre-
vent currency imitation; if it actually wants to
preserve our type Of government. it viii so re-
wise the revenue bill as to Weld to the treas
ury the money it needs, and by means Of levies
upon incomes that now escape reasonable
taxation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-15
A REPORT

THE report m the civilian conservation
corps first nine months of labor will re-
assure those who took Assistant War Secre-
tary Woodring's militaristic Interpretation of
the forest army's functions as a fact. These
$4,000 young woodsmen, it seems, are busy
planting trees, not dragon teeth. They are
lighting insect and rodent pests, erosion and
forest fire, not a hypothetical foreign or CO.
nestle foe. Throughout the report of Director
Fechner you hear no distant roll of cannon
no whine of bombing plane.
The report reveals the CCC for what it is.
a splendid civilian project in the conserva-
ton of human and natural resources, happily
conceived and ably executed.
In view of CCC achievements it would seem
that Mr.. Woodring deserved his citation to the
presidential woodshed and the spanking he
got there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-15
o

CUPPOSE that you are a business man and
that you run a little garage Just around
the corner of Main street. You happen to
need money to build an addition to your
garage. or to install new equipment; so you
go to your bank and ask for a loan.
Your business is going well enough and
your reputation is good, and as far as your
own condition goes there's no reason why
you shouldn't get your money.
Now suppose that down in New York GER
tain clever gentlemen have banded together
to conduct a raid on the stock market. They
have formed a pool, hired a specialist to act
for them. and by the various devices avail
able have set to work to rig the market and
make a killing.
It's part of their game, let us say, to beat
down the price of certain stock. They have
plenty Of money and they know the ropes, so
they succeed. The stock slides off some is
or 20 points. The other stocks dip more or
less in sympathy.
Your banker, meditating on his outStand-
ing loans. which rest on collateral, which in
turn is affected by the days trading, decides
-sensibly enough-that he must tighten up.
So you don't get your loan. and the money
which you would have put into the channels
Of trade goes unspent, and the improvements
you had planned for your business don't get
made.
And that is how you have a direct interest
in what happens in the stock market, even
though you never bought a dimes worth of
securities in your life.
Which, in turn, is why the proposed fed
eral regulation of stock exchanges is not
merely a thing which affects brokers, inves-
tors and spectators.
A capitalistic society can not function
without some sort of securities market where
there can be a free flow of available capital.
But the forces set in motion by the operation
of such market are so complex and reach so
far that it is essential to society as a whole
that flow Of capital be truly free.
Men who pervert the exchange into a gam
bling hall, and manipulate stock levels arbi-
tarily for their own enrichment, are not
simply spearing suckers; they are affecting
the daily pushes of people who have no direct
connection with the stock market at all.
They are standing between industry and
hat free flow of capital essential to industry's
well-being.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-15
POLITICS IN JAPAN

DOLITICs in Japan is not what it is else
where. A strange aura of Journalism and
tradition hangs over it, and the man who dis
regards this must pay a heavy penalty-even
though, by western standards, he has done
nothing at all to deserve punishment.
The other day, for instance. Baron Kuma-
kichi Nakajima had to resign from the cabinet
because he had condoned a case of treason
which happened six centuries ago. .
The treason was that of the Shotgun
Takuji Ashikaga, who dethroned the Emperor
Godaigo in 1897 A. D, and who has been one
of Japan's national villains ever since. All
Baron Nakajima did was to compare the
shotgun to England's Oliver Cromwell.
But it ended his political career, He was
accused of condoning treachery to the throne.
And though he apologized to both houses of
parliament, and said that his ideas had
changed since he made the comparison, the
stain On his name was too great. He had to
give up his Office.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-15
A Woman's Viewpoint
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON -

low plane Of a mere wife and
mother. Hour by hour her dis
content grew, her unhappiness in
creased.
DUT her husband was one Of
ID the modern wise men. He
saw beyond the outward aspect
of things, and understood that
the heart is a strange, delicate
mechanism, subject to many
moods. So he told his wife she
must go away for a while. Al
though money was not too plenti-
full, ne sent her to Europe. He
urged her to return to the be-
loved scenes of other days and
to study again the art which had
once engrossed her.
Result? That which any sensi-
bic person might expect. The
woman was not able to recapture
the glamour of school days abroad.
Nothing was as it had once been.
And the time soon came when she
wanted only to run back home.
She realized, at last, it was there
her treasure lay.
Now all of them are happy
again. But only because the man
in the story possessed an under
standing heart and a very wise
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-15
EVEN SHERIFFS MAKE
MISTAKES, WRITER SAYS

By William Kregg.
Another public enemy just escaped
our jails. I wonder what they are
going to do to satisfy the public,
start another probe to see whether
they will lay it to politics or just
credit it to the intelligence of the
gangster? In all accounts I have
e in the newspapers of the free
dom gained by gangsters always
were followed by an explanation
and the explanation was no more
than an excuse to SANDER one of
the two political parties. 1 don't
say this is the case with this es-
cape. That's why I am writing this.
Because l don't understand it, for
1t seems a new angle is being used
ny bringing in a CWA man, and a
country boy at that.
l would like to read an item some
time sort Of a%pologizing for a sheriff
1or letting his man get away, either
because he trusted him too much
or because he liked a good game Of
cards so well he forgot he was a
Sheriff once in a while, with some
thing added about the sheriff work.
ing overtime to get-his-man. That
would sound more real, and I be-
lieve the public would understand
better, as We all know the sheriff
is human. too, and we are all sub
Iect to mistakes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-15

THE happiness Of women de-
l. ponds upon the understand
ing of men. Apropos of which,
I shall tell you a true story with
a happy ending. Fairy tales take
place about us every day, only
somehow we so seldom recognize
their quality.
The story goes like this: A
rarely gifted woman who had be-
gun to make a career for herself
fell in love and married. After
several years spent in study and
travel in America and Europe in
the pursuit of personal ambition,
she settled down with her nus
band in an eastern manufactur-
ing city. Two sons completed what
was for a long time a happy fam
ily circle.
Then the serpent entered, and
the serpent does not always ap-
pear in human form. He may be
as intangible as an idea, as alu-
sive as an obSession.
At any rate, the day came when
the wife grew weary of a life
which entirely suppressed her tall
ents. The years stretched before
her, interminable in their mon
otony. She imagined she had be-
come a nonentity-a being leveled
down from indtviduaNsrn to the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-15
Lizards
BY CHRISTIE RUDOLPH

BY CHRISTIE RUDOLPH
In the liquid sun where the lizards
bask
And their faces reveal a gargoyle
mask,
Their eyes are wild with delirium,
And their sensitive ways are strange
and dumb.
Their bodies are green with keen
intent,
Their stride is sure and excellent,
And sharp feet scratch on the warm
bright stone,
They shirk an interloper, more con-
tent alone.
They wriggle and squirm where the
black frogs play,
And vary their mood until close Of
day,
While their intricate bodies like
s~himmering forks,
Ripple in the wan moonlight as a
silver corpse
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-15
MORE THAN HALF NONSENSE

OSWALD SPENGLER. the German philso-
~ pher of the doom Of western civilization.
naturally has a very low opinion of the Amer
lean experiment in democracy. Democracy. he
feels. is merely the halfway house TO Com
munist ruin, and liberalism is the worlds I'M
doing All this is set forth in rather lurid
language in his new book, The Hour of De-
cision." Mr.. Knopf. the publisher. says:
L think this is a great book. 1t may be
compounded half of nonsense don't know
but il is written in so grand a manner that
reading it is an experience not easily for
gotten"
We think Mr.. Knopf underestimate the
spenglerian compound is nearer nine-tenths
nonsense.
Spengler may be pardoned his notorious
ignorance regarding the facts of American,
English or Russian conditions. But he ought
TO know something about Germany. Whether
ne does or not is hard TO say. because he rants
50 much and runs of at so many tangents that
no clear picture is left Of his impression of the
German scene. That is a pity. For Americans
have Just read Hitlers Semi-lterate rawlings in
vain TO get a clear idea Of Nazism. And now
Spengler. the intellectual prophet Of German
reaction. is not much more enlightening.
Spengler. however. is much more honest
than Hitler. He does not pretend that the
German reaction favors the masses. Indeed he
is scornful OF Hitler's demagogic appeal to the
people. As the mouthpiece Of world aristoc-
racy In general and Prussian junkerism in
particular. Spengler wants no sops thrown to
the working classes.
He sees history. present and future. as a
class var between and aristocrat,
but one which is being turned into a racial
revolution between white and colored. In brief:
The world-economic crisis of this year and
a good many next years is not. as the whole
world suppoSes. the temporary consequence Of
E war. revolution. imitation and payment or
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-15
OTHER ALLEGATIONS AGAINST
POOR FARM REVEALED

By Inmates of the Home.
There has been so much said
about the Marion County Home
that I do not know if you will pay
any attention to this letter, but we
think that there ought to be some
thing done to this place.
We have no doctor, no superin-
tendent, no assistant s~uperintend-
ent. The place is run by the cook
and an attendant and the inmates.
The attendant is in the drug room
and puts out the medicine dibel
deleted).
I have been here four years and
it is worse than it ever has been. 1
am not writing this myself, but
there r plenty of us old men with
me in this: and if we signed our
names to this letter, they would
make it hard for us the rest of our
lives.
So, you see, there could be more
said about this place. Now, MI.
Editor, we don't want too big a let
ter and take up your time, but
what we say is nothing but the
truth, and if they would make an
nvestigation-which they have
done, but they didn't go to the
right ones-and if some one would
only come out here as an inmate
for a week Or two, they sure would
find out how the conditions are.
We would appreciate it very much
if we will read something of this in
your paper, which we read every
day, and it might help us old men to
have it better in our last days.
This no longer is an old mans
home,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-15

ing, grabbing and more or less de-
pressing the ego of other citizens
just as responsible, just as honorable
and every whit as intelligent.
1t would give me a great jolt if
some of the Times Readers"
Truth Hunters" Consumers"
Patriotic Ballyhoos," ETC., etc.,
suddenly would realize that this
world is not a Utopia-never was
and, in all probability, never will be.
1t often appears wonderful to me
how the world does manage to pro-
gress. 1t is s~elf-evident that the
acts of constructive individuals per-
emptorily are battered down and
Cancelled by destructive individuals.
Yes, it's a wonder that the world
does progress. 1t does though; and
that is a sign of great vitality.
So if some of these we'll appellated
individuals either would get on our
side of the fence and quit throwing
brickbats at individuals who, in the
troes of a great strife. are are
straining every ligament to serve a
somewhat sensible but far more
foolish public it greatly would ale
viate and mitigate the conditions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-15
FORGET THE NAMES
AND GET TO WORK

BY ]. COnger.
People who never have read the
platform and principles Of any po-
litical party today are very busy
finging the names of these organ
izations about. They seem to i'm
agine they have solved the whole
bag of horrors with which they
think we are about to be deluged
when they cry: Socialist" An
archist," Communist" Fascist" or
what-not. In other words, one
would judge that these names, pure
and simple, are the cause of all
our troubles-economic, religious,
social and others.
This, of course, is the human be-
ing's way of side-stepping personal
and group responsibilities. 1t is
childish, it is inane, it is inadequate,
and is the direct cause of all the
terror and suffering the world has
known since the beginning of his
tory. Russia is under a dictator
ship-that is not Communism. But
regardless of names, Russian peo-
Pile are where they are, and what
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-15
FEB IS 1884
JAIL, SAYS THE SENATE

MEsSRs. MACcRACKEN and Brittn have
w been sentenced to spend ten days in the
District Of Columbia iail. This penalty they
pay for resistance to an interference with the
effort of the United States senate to discover
how the peoples money has been used by the
subsidized air mail lines.
Nobody viii take pleasure in the misfor-
tune of Messrs. MscCracken and Brittin. But
every citizen may very well take satisfaction
in this demonstration Of the present admin
istrations purpose to eliminate special privi-
lege from this important field Of government
activities.
MacCracken and Brittin represent certain
financial interests that have had special privi-
leges too long American commercial aviation
has come to be one such special privilege of
these interests. thanks to the Brown regime
in the postofhce department.
It wasn't strange. therefore, that Mac
Cracker n Brittin should get erroneous
ideas in other matters: the idea, for example.
that thew could withhold information desired
by the United States senate or destroy needed
evidence and not suffer for so doing. Special
privilege begets these ideas.
What is happening to these two men is not
important. What is happening to business,
industry and finance at the hands Of the gov
eminent is important.
The President has proclaimed his purpose
to put an end to special privilege. The senate
in its handling of the present incident, prop
erlv punctuates the Presidents declaration.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-15
INDIANA NATIONAL BANK
OFFICERS ARE LAUDED

By Tom Berling.
Congratulations are in order tor
the Indiana National bank for start
ing the building at this time. Per-
sonally I think it a fine expression
of civic pride and confidence in the
future of indianapolis, plus a goodly
amount of business acumen. 1t is
of particular Importance and in
terest and especially fitting that
they r not only exercising their
business ability but deserve COM
mendation for encouraging and
helping the entire building industry.
We men of the building trades en-
JOY working for straight-shooting
men who make up their minds to
do a thing and do it.
I also wish to compliment them
upon the fact that they made no
effort to reduce wages by using their
contemplated work as a bait.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-15
I aoholly djsapproge of what you sag and wiH
defend to the death your right to sag jt-VoEtaire,

they are, because of themselves.
They can't rise above their own
brand Of thinking-or not thinking.
The same rule applies to US. And
if we imagine we are going to set
tie u problems by calling names
and blaming the other fellow in
stead of considering principles we
are lost-with ourselves to blame.
The radicals of the world didn't put
us where we + today. If we find
ourselves jumping into the lap of
their policies it is because we
haven't provided a better place to
jump after having been kicked
about all over the place for 10.
these many years. Let's quit calling
names and get down to the business
of taking care of ourselves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-15
MORE COMMENTS ABOUT
THE LIGHT COMPANY

BY a Reader Of The Times.
This Indianapolis Power 81 Light
Company, I want to say, is Just
about as big 49, Qibel deleted)
as you will find anywhere in the
state Of Indiana.
If a customer happens to sWipe
a little juice, they never know when
to quit bowling about it. But, on
the other hand, they don't want
you to say anything about their
unreasonable price they are charg-
ing you. -- Cibel deleted) is
the right name for them! di5el
deleted).
The Times is the only paper that
will tell the truth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-15
NEW LINE
OF

BY G. C. L.
Anent Mr.. Buckler's attack on the
constitutionality of the recovery pro-
gram. After reading his two letters
I seriously am trying to figure out
this gentleman. Thank God men of
his ilk are in the minority and not
guiding our ship of state right now.
And thanks, too, for men who do
not bubble ove inane questions of
constitutionality when babies are
cold and hungry, children laying
aside the inherent right of childhood
to slave for filthy dollars, young men
committing suicide because they
can not get a start in life, homes
torn asunder and men forced to
crime BY idleness, bare tables and
sacrificed pride.
Ali of which may sound trite to
you prehaps Mr.. Buckler, but try
and eat the Constitution or burn it
for frewood. IN other words, be a
fool if you wish to be.