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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-16
Commencement Exercises to
Be Held at North M. E.
Church.

The Methodist Episcopal hos
pitfalls school of nursing, of which
Miss Fannie r. Forth is director,
will graduate the following sixty
nurses at its twenty-third annual
commencement exercises in the
North Methodist Episcopal church
Thursday night, June 7:
Vivian N. Amos, Martinsville;
Beulah c. Armand, Butlerville;
Mildred L. Barge and Marjorie
Flory, Bloomfield; Ruth Ann Bex,
Williams. Elouise F. Bolin, Willow
Branch; zella L. Bowen, Coates
vile; Mary Lucille Brocksmith,
Laura Frances Cochran and Lucille
Koenig Bicknell; Celia G.. Brown,
Rosedale; Mary Eleanor Brown,
Muncie; Kathryn G.. Bruce, Prince
ton; Jean Clark, Westfield; Ruth
Clifford, Mary E. Mccullough,
Greencastle; Autumn j. Clinton,
Montgomery; Rhodadell Cochran,
Shelbyville; Margaret B. Daley,
Greenfield; Helen Elliott, Green's
burg; Marguerite Etzler Salem; AL
vida L. FetroW, Onward; Thelma
E. Fisher, RuSsiaVille; Lois Loretta
Fruits, Lizton; Barbara A. Garland,
Gas City; Helen Charlotte Goldberg
and Anne Reynolds, Linton; Nina
B. Hamblen, Cloverdale; Kathleen
E. Hayworth, Jonesboro; Estelle M.
Hinton, Sellersburg; E. Louise Kee-
nan, Charlotte, N. c.; Gertrude E.
Kirchhoff, Freelandville; Ruth E.
LovelesS, HuntertoWn; Carlene
Mark. Swayzee; Helen L. Maynard,
Oaktown; Dorothy E. Merrill, Sui
Ivan; Geraldine Miller, Sedalia;
Doris Morton, Lebanon; Mary
katherine Myers, Anderson; Matte
Owsley, Kokomo; Nola M. Powell,
Buffalo; Grace Robertson, Attica;
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-16
go City Nurses Will Be
Graduated on June 7

Esther w. Stroup, Danville, ILL.,;
Ruth M. Summa and Elva Fay Wal
termire, Columbus: Melba A. Tee
guarden, Saratoga; Anna L. Tim
mons, Rockfeld; Ruth j. Vance,
Washington; Florence M. VanHorn,
Boswell; Edith Lucille Wall, Pitts
boro; leila Edith Weust, Rich
mond; Margaret S. White, Hall;
Marie l.. Yater, Flat Rock; June
Miller Ruth Raffensperger, Jane I.
Richards, Marion Schulz, Lagrange
Thompson, Helen L. Wurster and
Gertrude Manthey zorn, all of In
dianapolis,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-16

The Box Singing tower at Noun
tain lake, Florida, has been called
the Tai Mahal of America"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-16
TED CAMPBELL HEADS
FLETCHER MEMS CLUB
IrvingtOn Branch Manager HOnOred
at Annual Meeting.

Ted Campbell, manager of the
Irvington branch of the Fletcher
Trust Company. was elected presi-
dent of the Fletcher Mems club last
night at the clubs annual meeting
in the Fletcher Trust building.
Other officers named were Ken
meth Campbell, vice-president; Eu-
gene Howard, secretary; Al Robbins,
treasurer. Members of the board of
governors chosen were Walter S.
CreenOugh. Lee Walker and Frank
Pirtle. Rex P. Young, retiring res
ident, presided. Henry Moffett's or
cheStra played.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-16
Results Are Quick

lust one brushing with Kolynos in
the unique Kolynos way-a half-inch
of this amazing dental cream on a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-16
JUNIOR C. OF C. TO
ELECT 3 DIRECTORS
Members to Ballot at Election in
Athletic Club.

Three directors of the Indian
apolis Junior Chamber of Com
MERGE were to be named at a lunch
con today in the indianapolis Ath-
letic Club. Nominees are Carl G.
Winter, John T. Recap, Frank R.
Friddle. John L. Butler, Robert Lee
dig, Doyle Earring, Robert w. Lit
tell. j. Russell Townsend, Thomas
H. Mahaffey. Joseph P. Mcnamara
and Robert Orbison.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-16
QUIZ ASSAULT SUSPECT
Police Hold Negro, 10, After Attack
on UtiIity's Waterman,

Arrested yesterday and charged
with assault and battery, Albert
Young, Negro, 10, is being ques-
toned in connection with an at
tack on Riley Spaulding, night
Waterman at the indianapolis Pow
er and Light Company. Mr.. Spauld-
ing is in Methodist hospital suffer
ing from head injuries.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-16
SCOUTS HONOR DONOR

$50 Attend Dinner in Memory of
c. E. Utley.
More than $50 persons attended
dinner held last night by Boy
Scout Troop SO in memory of the
late c. E. Utley, donor of the Utley
Hut, 1881 Boulevard place, where
the dinner was held.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-16
PROBATION EXPERTS
TO ATTEND MEETING
Group to Represent state at Farley
Friday in Kansas City.

A large delegation of probation
experts will represent Indiana at
the annual meeting of the National
Probation Association opening Fri
day at Kansas City, Mo.
Those from Indiana who will at
tend are:
DR.. Francis D. McCabel, director
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-26
THE SAME WAR FORMULA

THAT bloody little war between Bolivia and
Paraguay continues to provide a frst-rate
laboratory model of war between ma jor powers
Thus we find President Luis Tejada Sorzano
of Bolivia announcing that Bolivia will send
its entire male population" to the Gran Chaco
to fight if necessary. The nation, he says,
has refused no honorable chance to end the
war; meanwhile, the war proceeds-"and we
must do our duty"
Now this is a perfect reflection of the ira
ditional attitude Of the head of war-making
state. We must fight to the last man, we must
make every sacrifice, We must make no peace
unless honor is satisfied those phrases are
made familiar by many generations of war
and its attendant proclamations.
Meanwhile-again as usual-the man who
utters them is not the one whose blood is to be
spilled, and no one thinks to ask the soldiers
themselves what their conception of the ma
tional honor may be.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-26
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

bomb, Atty Gen. Webb asked the State SUI
preme Court to grant Mooney a new trial. He
was prompted in this request by Moneys trial
Judge. Franklin Griffin, pioneer in the moves
to free the labor leaders.
Now, with Oxman's perjury supplemented by
confessions Of all other major states witnesses
this same attorney general opposes Federal in
tervention. Mooney, he says, has not been de-
prived of due process Of law.
Is California satisfied with due process Of
law that allows the state to hold two citizens in
prison for 10 years or the word Of deliberate or
self-confessed perjurers?
Mr. Webb holds that the only avenues of re-
lief for Mooney and Billings are through new
state laws or executive clemency. California
has had 18 years to provide legal redress and
has not done so. Five governors have refused
so far to pardon them Now California officially
seeks to block the only means Of redress open
to them the United States Supreme Court.
CALIFORNIA; own courts, Legislature and
governors have Jailed to right great legal
wrong Why should she now oppose efforts to
obtain belated justice under the United States
Constitution?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-26
A FINANCIAL RECORD

NTHEN the Public Works Administration
W started lending money to state and local
governments, many cynics said the loans were
merely disguised gifts They freely predicted
that the Federal Government would be left
holding a bag full of worthless state and local
bonds
Today the PWA holds S272 100000 in state,
county and city securities, of which less than
$4,000 is in default 1t is doubtful whether any
bank or insurance company in the country
can show higher investment average. Yet
many probably most, of these loans were not
at the time obtainable through private chan
nelS.
Private investors apparently also think we'll
of the securities in he PWA portfolios At
least, they have purchased, at a premium, more
than S5000O000 worth.
This record speaks we'll for the care with
which PWA officials have handled Federal
funds and for the financial integrity of our
state and local governments.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-26
MORE YARDSTICKS

THE Tennessee Valley Authority has re-
ported to the Presidents emergency coun-
Gil the immediate achievements of the project.
Ten thousand men have been given en-
ployment. There have been 200 miles of rural
transmission lines built. Production OF fer
tilizer is beginning. The value of terracing to
prevent soil erosion mas been demonstrated.
Also there is list of purely local benefits.
Perhaps modeSty prevents the IVA direc-
tcls from listing the national benefits their
project has brought about. The Federal Power
Commission estimates that S38,0O0,000 to Sac
100000 known rate reductions have been mace
throughout the nation since the IVA was
established. Hundreds of communities have
cheap electric home and farm authority cleo
trical appliances.
A consulting engineer. writing the PTesi-
dent. recently told him: Your IVA project is
being felt in every community in every state in
the nation"
The President has two fine reports before
him pointing to river valleys where equally
valuable yardstick projects can be undertaken
There should be no let-up. nor any COM
promise
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-26
ATTRACTIVE FARMS

DAVID E. LLIENTHAL power director of
- IVA, believes that the big city filters"
which drew men and wealth from nations
farms to the cities for so many years, has
about run its course; and he suggests that
one of the best ways of killing it for good is
to go ahead with broad-gauge program for
eectrifcation of farms.
Even today, he points out, fewer than 10
per cent of American farms have electricity.
tremendous field awaits development, and
he is probably quite right in asserting that
an identification program could be of the
highest social value
The long period in which huge numbers of
people focked to the cities from the farms did
the nation very little good. 1t deprived the
rural regions of brains and energy they need
ed and made crowded cities more crowded
than ever.
1t can be checked permanently only by
making rural life easier and pleasanter; and
an electridcation program should do much to
accomplish that result.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-26
LOWER BEER TAXES

TREASURY officials who want less bootleg
ging and more revenue should consider the
proposal of Rep. Mead of New York to reduce
beer taxes
Mr. Mead says that many brewers are in
financial difficulties largely because of taxes. At
the toll gates between the grain in the field
and the stein on the table are collected Federal
and state gallonage taxes, Federal and state
and local license fees, and Federal processing
taxes.
An industry which pays to the Federal
Government in gallonage taxes alone about
s2OO00OO00 a year surely deserves fair treat
ment. Perhaps, as Mr.. Mead contends, a tax
of 81 barrel would yield as much revenue
as the present tax of SIS barrel, which is more
than three times the preprohibition tax and
almost twice the gallonage tax on light wines.
1t is reasonable to believe that the return
of something like the old nickel schooner
would promote the drinking of beer and di-
minish the drinking of hard liquors, an end
desired for reasons of temperance and revenue
for revenue because much of the hard liquor
now being consumed is untaxed bootleg.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-26
BREWING TROUBLE

FEDERAL authorities are moving with COM
4 mendable vigor to prevent return of brew
cry domination of the retail beverage business
One of the worst of the reproduction
evils was the system by which breweries
financed saloons. tied them up with exclusive
contracts and then brought pressure to force
sales. Retailers who tried to remain indie
pendent were driven out of business. Saloon
keepers became, in effect, managers of chain
stores with sales quotas. This system led to
such abuses as sales to minors and known
drunkards and violation of closing hours
These abuses brought on national prohibition.
To guard against return of this high pres
sure system, brewers, shortly after repeal,
signed a code of fair competition. 1t out
lawed all subsidies and guaranteed the indie
pendence of beverage retailers.
The Government charges that some brew
ers, unable to resist the temptation to take
unfair competitive advantages. again have
started furnishing bars and other equipment
to retailers as virtual brides for exclusive con-
tracts
In the interest Of fairness and of temper
ance, and for the good Of the brewing in
dustry, such practices can not be tolerated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-26

CENATOR GEORGE w. NORRIS is I'M
~ limbering his guns for an attack on the
spoils system in the Federal Government. He
complains that fewer than 10 per cent of the
employees in the executive branches are under
civil service today; and since the percentage
was above so when Mr.. Roosevelt was in
augurated. Mr.. Norris quite naturally thinks
that the decline ought to be a matter of deep
concern TO the Administration.
The more things our Federal Government
finds TO do-and there is every indication that
it is going to be progressively more active in
years TO come-the more important it is that
its servants be chosen purely for merit and
not for political reasons
Senator Norris is calling for an exceedingly
vital reform. All who admire good govern
ment will hope that he pushes it with typical
Norris energy and success.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-26

NEXT month the Senate Munitions Com
~ mittee will resume its hearings.
During this recess period, while Christen-
dom celebrates peace on EARTH" it is appro-
pirate to review the committees six months of
revelations. The record shows that:
British and American firms divided the
world markets for submarines and war ex-
pTosives. shared profits. exchanged secret in
ventions and processes.
American patents helped German U-boats
prey more effectively on our merchant marine
during the World War; an American process
for manufacturing powder vas sold to Japan
at a time when American-Japanese relations
were strained over the Manchurian incident;
American bullets were fired from both Bolivian
and Paraguayan guns while American diplo-
macy worked for peace in the Chaco.
American makers of war materials like
their friendly competitors abroad, apparently
see nothing wrong in placing new tools OF
death in the hands of potential enemies; they
not only sold their own private inventions
abroad, but wheedled the Army out Of its
secrets; they enlisted the active aid of the
navy III ptNNlAA45 b44CAA NpANo NSAN0N' NAA~-~
efforts to sell war supplies to Peru and Colom-
bia were aided by United States Navy officers
who prepared plans for the two countries to
fight each other; they equipped instructions
in friendly countries; they used bribery; they
promoted war scares.
Munitions spokesman lamented as "insidi-
Gus" the State Departments 'fomenting of
peace" among prospective customers in Latin
America: they thought it their right to wreck
disarmament conferences and arms-control
treaties and other diplomatic efforts that
threatened profits.
These things the committee has disclosed,
confirming what Henry Ford said ne learned
on his futile peace ship venture in 19l5-that
war is a proft-making business, and that
there are men in the world who stir up wars
for profit"
In January the committee will reconvene
and attempt to learn:
To what extent is international banking
linked with the munitions business?
How much have shipbuilders and the man
ufacturers of steel and chemicals contributed
to -mongering?
Should the Government take over the mu-
nitions business, or is it possible to curb the
dividends to munitions shareholders in the in
terests of peace?
How far should the Government go in con-
trolling all industries to take the profits out
of war, and how far should it go in cooper
ating with other powers to make wars less
probable and end international anarchy in in
dustries that fatten off of wars?
The committee will have to complete its
diagnosis before it places surgeons knife IN
the hands of Congress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-26
So They Say

Government is almost of neces-
sity bureaucratic, legaliStic and for
NAL. Therefore it can not begin
to do many of the public services
which need to be done one-half as
well as can intelligent, cooperative
free effort by citizens themselves
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi-
dent, Columbia University.
Evidence indicates conclusively
the unbridled manufacture, sale ard
distribution of war materials by pri-
vate interests encourages heavy
arming and definitely jeopardizes
the cause of peace.-Senator w
Warren Barbour, New Jersey.
The United States is the only
country in the world in which it has
been assumed that four years of
post secondary non vocational
training-in a word, a college edu-
cation-should be the rule instead
of the rare exception for its young
men and women.-Dr. Frederick P.
Keppel, president, Carnegie Cor
poration.
I realize that I make mistakes
but I never at any time said that
baseball writer's were trying to man
age my ball club. They have a
right to their own opinions Bill
Terry, manager, New York Giants.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-26
Miners Aid Is Urged

enough to insure profits at mines
where hand loading is the custom,
yet the mechanical mines go right
on buying machines and cutting
labor. Investigators sent into the
mining field usually report too
many mines and too many
miners" The real fact is that
there are too many labor-saving
machines
I took up the question of I'M
employment of old age miners
with an officer of the state and
asked if it we're possible for the
state to use 100 tons a day at
the code price.
This tonnage would give eight
men five days work each week,
compared to one day for the
loading machine. Well, I received
his sympathy and have been liv-
ing on that ever since. The state
and national governments use
thousands of tons of coal in In
diana, and as see it, buying coal
from the mechanical mines" is
contributing to the increase of
unemployment.
1t seems to me few dollars
spent to employ men would be
better than thousands spent for
relief.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-26

up certainly read him a lecture and
he lett the scene Immediately. A
rather tall young man, slender, in a
white uniform with Polar Ice let
tering, bounded across and said "Are
you hurt?" and Immediately took
out his blue bandanna handkerchief
and wiped off her coat and hat
and packages.
So different from the other man
mot man but cad) who was afraid
to soil his gloves by helping her up.
Now, we are poor, but 1 would like
to remember this man by some
thing more than the commonplace
thank you," which I gave him.
My mother was so dazed by the
sudden fall that she failed to thank
him. She was not injured badly
but lame and bruised and had a
cut on the knee.
This man is fine type, thought
full and kind. In the hurry and
Scurry we are fast losing all thought
of chivalry but he did not forget to
be kind. Merry Christmas and
prosperity to all.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-26

BY E. H.
I have been reading with inter-
est the contributions to your Mes
sage Center, and would like TO
contribute a few facts as to the
causes and cure of the present de-
preston as I see it from this neck
of the woods, i. e., the coal min
ing district.
The unemployment existing here
is, I believe, the largest of any one
industry in the state, and the
cause, labor-saving machinery. The
coal operators are using a load
ing machine in the mines which
with three men can load 500 tons
a day.
This machine has replaced at
least 40 men, who, under the
present scale of wages, would earn
$6,87 each day by the hand
loading method. The three men
operating this machine are paid
$6.75 each. If my figures are cor
rect, we have $27480 received in
wages by hand loading methods
and $2025 by machine, making a
difference of $25455, which is net
profit or spent for more machines
to replace more men.
The code price, or wholesale
price of coal, was made large
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-26
CONCERNING VETERANS
WHO LOST PENSIONS

BY a Veteran.
In your paper of Dec. 20, I note
you say that the 1884, 438 men who
were dropped from the pension rolls
on June 80, 1888, and were classed
as non service connected claims,
were men who enlisted after the
Armistice was signed.
This statement is incorrect, as
every one of these World War vet
Grams who were receiving non-serv-
ice connected compensations had
at least 80 days wartime service,
and most of them saw actual serv-
ice at the front and really have
service connected disability, but
have waited so long that it is hard
to prove.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-26
WORK is SUGGESTED
FOR RELIEF LABORER
BY a Waterman.

BY a Waterman.
I would like to answer the "hot
air" written in Saturdays Times by
a relief worker.
I am a Waterman at this same
packing plant and I cover practical
ly the entire plant in my rounds. l
find that the ones who do the most
squaWking are the ones who are not
willing to do an honest days work
for any one anywhere. The only
relief they are looking for is relief
from work.
happen to be personally &C
quainted with the bosses he is
speaking of, and they are not the
type Of men who nag at a person
when he is trying to do his or her
part.
I have stood in the rest room Of
the plant several times and have
seen these same bosses come in
looking for the men who have
slipped away from their work and
hid for an hour or so. Yet if the
bosses say a word to them about go
ing back to work, they're rats and
everything but gentlemen. They
expect to be petted and begged to
do little work now and then. They
know the bosses can't fire them and
so they take advantage of this and
make life as miserable as they can
for them.
heard a certain man make the
remark that he would go on a bas-
ket if they didn't lay him off. If ne
is the one who wrote the piece for
Message Center, and it sounds like
some of his raving, he had better
try doing a little work now and then
and maybe the bosses who nag
him won't have to look for him to
nag-he'l be on the job-maybe!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-26

OUR school system will be one of the first
- institutions TO feel the effect of our de-
Ginning birth rate. according to DR.. Ellen c.
Potter of the New Jersey Department OF In
stitutions and Agencies.
DR.. Potter told the Pennsylvania Emer-
gency Child Health Committee the other day
that in 1910 there viii be I,OOO, 900 fewer chill
dren in American schools than there are now.
AS early as next fall the decline will be felt,
she predicted. in fewer hrst-grade registra-
tons.
This viii bring our schools a brand-new'
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-26
TRAVEL BY HORSE TO
IDEAL VACATION

By Marjorie Hathaway, Helmsburg.
In your editorial recently entitled
This Topsy- Turvy World" mention
is made Of an American world trav-
eler who kills himself because the
automobile is displacing the horse
from the worlds highways.
This seems strange to me, having
Just returned from a 500-mile trip
through southern Indiana and Ken
lucky on my horse, Miss Gratitude.
On Nov. 20 this year Dick Ryan,
25, cavalryman, was sojourning in
Lexington, after a 400-mile horse
back ride from Michigan, en- route TO
San Angelo. Tex. Ryan told
friends he left Detroit two weeks
ago and that he had been travel
ing leisurely, stopping en- route
South and keeping a complete record
of mileage"
1t is gratifying to know that in
these times there are those who love
horses to the extent that they take
the initiative to blaze a route, even
on the highways, for those who