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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-28

NN4ANA ~ SAN ~ SANNA AN
Next a Nicole group suit
with a slim Chinese coat but
toned nearly to the knees,
belted and with it a plain
skirt. This suit was bottle
green and it had a matching
blouse and a soft little felt
hat in the same shade and
squashed down over the
right eye. The accessories
offset the suit coloring. They
were dark brown.
What a lovely thing is
this, qCe thought, as Mile
Rubimsteim 1Ohipped out a
frock in the most luscious
salmon shade. 1t 1CGs a
pelvet evening dress made
4Uith a brown velvet "dust
ruftle" and a broaUn velvet
sash. 1t aUas cut IN a deep
front Y and to the Waist
in back.
Just back from Holly
wood, Mile. Rubinstsin says
of the clothes there:
"They are too dramatic
for general wear-ulways
one button too many or one
frill too many. - Despite
her Paris clothes, Mile.
Rubinstein says she will be-
gin to make American pur-
chases for her wardrobe.
Emmons Smith just loves
cats. Says they keep him
from being lonely around the
house. Tells us that as soon
as one cat "gives OUT" he
gets another. One gave
out" about two weeks ago
and now he has another
tiny white kitten which has
a penchant for the coal bin.
We didn't know Emmons
had this fondness for tiny
animals-thought his affec-
tions were limited to 1.-THE
horse" raced daily at
nearby ovals.
AUTUMN 10 e ather not
4Uithstanding-there are
teUo elderly gentlemen aUho
still cling to shorts oUhile
playing tennis-Hustom
Thompson and DR.. Leo S.
ROWe.
X X X
Attractive Harry Carr,
NRA deputy administrator,
will be joined in Washing
ton shortly by Mrs. Carr.
They have taken an apart
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-28
Muskrat Fur

Smart treatment has made
ordinary furs beautiful. Musk
rat is one pelt that is being
seen much for smart wear. A
most useful coat is a belted
jacket of fine muskrat with a
peplum and a rolling collar.
The wide belt has a silver
buckle.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-28
Gray Popular

Gray makes a strong bid for
favor. A charming suit is of
dark gray diagonal wooden and
has detachable cape of light
gray American broadtail and
broadtail flaps on the pockets.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-28
Matching Hat

A perfect match for the vel
vet afternoon dress is a shall
low, forward tilted hat of black
velvet with a spray of creamy
gardenias falling over the hair
at the side back.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-28
Sleeves Important

Sleeve treatments loom I'M
portant in the mode again. A
charming dinner dress of green
crepe shot with gold thread in a
plaid design has sleeves SlaShe5
from shoulder to elbow, where
they are drawn into kolinsky
for cuffs.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-28
Modified Modern Decoration
Is More LivobIe for
Most of Us
By WILMA LAVILLE

Interiors in the contemporary too startling
for the average Artists Europeans Americans who
have travelled great DEAL and all people who be
in the forefront of movements have espoused the
modern with enthusiasm But numerically speaking most
of conservatives And like to approach the
slowly, though intend to get there eventually.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-28

IN BUYING a full dress suit
this fall, have your suit well
fitted before you buy the vest.
The vest should be correctly pro-
portioned to your height and the
cut of your suit if it is to look
we'll,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-24
DECLARES GOODS FORM
ONLY REAL WEALTH
By a Times Reader.

By Times Reader.
When the primary objective Of
production is profit, the quality CT
the goods and services must neces-
sarily be of low standard. When
profit goes to producers, it be-
comes a charge and burden on the
actual producers.
Wealth is not represented by
money, or gold. Real wealth is
measured in service that goods
bring to consumers. We could have
a mountain of gold, as we have in
the vaults OF the Federal Reserve,
and yet be poor if goods were not
available to meet our needs.
The gold in these vaults has no
value to the 81 million persons on
relief rolls. AS far as they are con-
cerned, that gold might just as well
be at the bottom Of the Pacific
Ocean. No other country has such
a staggering poverty as ours in the
midst of natural and potential
wealth.
If we could live on dollar profits
instead of material profits, we could
restore prosperity by stock market
bull movement.
The effort Of the Government has
been directed toward money pros
perity.
This money fetish has hung like a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-24
CHRISTMAS STAR

DLAzING in the Northwestern sky after
- sunset and the Southeastern sky before
sunrise. there is a new and temporary star eX-
ceeding in brilliance all but about a dozen
stars of the heavens.
Christmas Star of 1884" this gigantic out
burst might be called. Nova Herculis 1884"
it is to the astronomers.
Wise men once followed a star to the be-
ginning of Christmas. Perhaps it was just such
an astronomical event as We now can watch.
Wise men of today. called astronomers, fol-
low this new star with telescope, specroscope
radiometer. Photographic plate and electric
and human eye. We know that it is 10 por-
tent: We feel no fear or eXaltation.
But out of the studies may come more
knowledge of the stars and therefore a few
more secrets of the sun. the earths power
house which is itself a star, unusual only be-
cause 1t is close to us.
Being enacted in the sky is this great ex-
pertinent which all may witness. 1t declares
the glory of the heavens. In its better under
standing there unfolds again the glory Of
mans increasing knowledge Of nature.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-24

payment on the principal-a house. in other
words. that would cost not more than $1,000
to build. occupying $500 lot.
Even with these notifications, such a goal
looks very distant indeed. Yet with all the
recent talk about slum cearance-and some
Of it has been very fine talk-we are going to
have to approach some such figure as this if
our slum clearance is to amount to anything.
The one outstanding fact about sIum is
that people live in it because they can't af-
ford to live anywhere else. The slum is occu-
pied by low-wage group and in that group
SIS month is just about tops, as far as pay
ing rent is concerned.
Several model slum clearance jobs have al
ready been begun. But in most cases the rents
will not be down in the brackets which ordi-
nary slum jewellers can touch.
We can rebuild our slums until doomsday.
but il we don't replace them with houses which
cost no more in rent than the old ones cost,
we shall simply be 'asing our tails around in
a circle, with new siums arising automatically
to replace the ones thai are destroyed
Unless all signs fail. we are about TO pour
huge additional sums into public works. The
bulk Of these will be more or less unproduc-
tive, in the sense that new housing is produc-
tive; that is, as Mr.. Granite says, "a road
bridge, a DAM pile of concrete in a desert
pays no taxes, buys no furniture, solves no
personal human problems, houses no happy
children, kindles no hearth fires, does not
warm the hearts of men,"
Why not pour some of these projected pub
lie works billions into low-cost housing? If
the money is to be spent anyway, why not put
it where it would do the most good?
We would then be solving a very great So
cial problem, and at the same time we would
be investing in a project from which we had
a good chance of getting at least part of our
money back.
The New Deal is often spoken of as war
on poverty. The slum is poverty's most hide
Gus front-and it's most vulnerable. A really
energetic attack there would yield dividends
beyond imagining.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-24
A NEW DEFINITION

NNE of the tragic things about the dreadful
~ kidnapping and murder of 10-year-od
Grace Budd in New York, is the fact that her
slayer, Albert Fish, actually fell into the hands
of the police several times after the crime
had been committeeman was discharged each
time.
Fish suffered from a warped emotional
makeup which drove him to this atrocious
crime. This defect was evident to the authori-
ties when he was arrested; yet because he was
liable to distinguish right from wrong" he
was not legally insane and they had to turn
him loose-although his confession in the Budd
case clearly stamps him as a monster who
should not be at liberty for a single day.
The lesson of this would seem to be that
our legal definition of insanity is badly out of
date. Horrible crimes of this kind are COM
mitted by men who know what is wrong as
well as any one does, but who are driven by
an emotional urge they can not or will not
master.
Obviously we need a new and more SEN
sible legal definition of mental unbalance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-24
REFORM is NEEDED

THE indictment of two lawyers who de-
Tended the UrSchel kidnapers on the
charge that they participated in the division
of the Urschel ransom money is hailed as a
first step in the Federal Governments new
campaign against INSCRIPTIONS criminal at
torneys; and it is to be hoped that the cam
paign is prosecuted with vigor and intelligence.
Every man accused of crime has. of course.
the right to hire counsel But what are we to
say to lawyers who lend their advice, month
after month, to men they know to be crooked,
and accept fees which they know come from
illegal enterprises?
Where is the dividing line between the serv-
ices lawyer may legally render client, and
the kind of work which in effect makes the
lawyer member of the gang?
In too many cases that line is altogether
lost sight of. The governments campaign
should be salutary reform.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-24

BY T. n. T.
Now that the election is over
and the President and his party
have had a second Endorsement
would it not be wise to consider
whether the approval is for things
done or is it rather a hope of the
millions of underfed, poorly
housed, and scantily clothed who
still have faith that the forgotten
man of a former promise might
yet be served?
I am fully convinced that the
registered hope of the destitute
formed a major part of the ap-
proval.
There is no denying that the
Administration has done a great
deal for the good of all among
which are the clearing up and
stabilizing of the banking situation
so that the poor have reasonable
security for their funds. The tear
ing of the veil of fraud from the
gold standard was forward step
but the senseless borrowing of
money for the payment of public
and made work is a reflection on
forward thinking and should be
stopped. Why should the United
States borrow money when the
Constitution says Congress shall
have the power to coin and regu-
late the value of same?
Not long since we were asked
by our President, Are you better
off now than a year ago?" The
answer is yes and no.
Yes, we have increased to a no.
ticeable extent the number of mil
lionaires in this country.
No, for the hungry mother or
child for, though, they we're hun
cry on both dates the present
pangs would be with us while
those of a year ago would have be-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-24
MONDAY. DECEMBER "a. 1884.
STUDY THE TAN SNARL
"A sCRIPPs-HOWARD NEwsPAPERJ

Nov that President Roosevelt has directed
Secretary Morgenthau to get to work on
the problem Of overlapping taxes. something
may be accomplished. But it is hard not to be
skeptical This latest move is called a long
range study" and contemplates general con-
ference Of all taxing agencies next summer. 1t
is a long time until next summer
Last April, Secretary Morgenthau said he
intended TO do something about conflicting
taxes Nothing came of that good intention.
Earlier. he said the Treasury Department
would study income and inheritance schedules
next summer" now last summer) with the
view Of presenting a rounded tax program to
Congress next winter" this winter. Yet. with
Congress reconvening. the Treasury apparently
has no tax plan.
Last spring. the Interstate Commission on
Conflicting Taxation made an exhaustive report
containing three alternative plans for eliminat-
ing conflicts. The report probably has started
gathering dust along with others, in the Treas
ury files.
There is little new about this problem. Year
by year, the tax chaos has become worse. Gaso-
line, tobacco and beverages are taxed in dupli-
cate and triplicate. Some states pile income
taxes on top of Federal levies. Eight states
have trick laws that enable their citizens to
pay less Federal income taxes than are paid by
citizens Of the other 40 states. Sales, nuisance
and occupational taxes-Federal state and city
have piled up to plague business and pyramid
the cost of tax collections. Federal, state and
local tax gatherers get in each others way as
they prey on the same taxpayers and commod-
tiles
Periodically there is agitation for reform of
this intolerable lack of system, and it generally
is met by promises of another study. Studies
are necessary, for it is a complex problem.
But they are hardly worth while unless trans
lated into action
We hope Mr.. Morgenthaus latest fresh start
results in an actual overhauling of taxes, in the
building of a co-ordinated system, with no
Implications, a minimum of levies on trade and
a maximum application of the income tax
principle of ability to pay.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-24
A FAIR PROPOSITION

president ROOSEVELTS offer to lend
l. Federal funds to build municipal power
plants in cities that can not otherwise escape
overcharges for electricity is a practical ap-
plcation of his yardStick rule. 1t is a chal-
lenge that private power companies can not
meet by propaganda.
Cities like New York, which pay annually
millions of dollars for electricity to light their
streets and public buildings, now have chance
to overhaul that item in their budgets Under
can manufacture more cheaply than it can
buy electricity, may borrow Federal funds to
build its own plant
Intelligent private companies will see that
customers. For once city has its own power
plant. it can easily enter into open COMPETE
ton for all of the business of the privately
owned utility.
Perhaps no other part Of the New Deal has
been as well planned, nor has as definite OBJ
Jectives as the program for cheaper electricity.
1t is a problem on which Mr. Roosevelt has
worked many years He knows that, with few
exceptions, electric rates thrcughou. the coun-
try are too high. He intends % reduce rates
The people are with him.
If the power industry wants to survive as a
private enterprise. it will have to squeeze the
water out of its stocks and get down to mer-
chandise basis. That is a fair proposition
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-24
GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN

TT being a day for wishing, as well as giving,
Il all OF us will pause on this Christmas to
dream of what we should like life to be.
Youngsters will dream of a world in which
the mountains are made of frosted cake and
the trees of candy laden with raisins, nuts
and oranges, where all children are happy
and we'll where every day is Christmas and
every father is Santa Claus.
The rest of us will dream of that promise
the herald angels made on the first starlit
Christmas night in Bethlehem. And We will
wonder.
Must peace on earth remain forever piouS
hope of pacihsts? Must good will toward men
remain only midwinter dream?
Only II years ago. after the earth had been
bathed in human carnage, We said, never
again Yet today the nations are preparing
to enter another race for naval and military
supremacy Abroad are rumors of wars, at
home strikes and lockouts, mob terrors, the
myriad petty strifes of life that make a jest
of peace.
Nearly 1000 years have passed since the
first Christmas, yet mans inhumanity to man
still makes countless thousands mourn. De-
mocracy is struggling for survival in our own
and other lands. Social justice, security, decent
living are fought and thwarted by the hard
ened old forces of greed.
These things are the challenge of Christ
mas to men and women Of good will and
stout hearts. We can not dream better
world into being We can struggle for one.
AS we do, We can stop moment and above
the din of battle hear the angels sing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-24
Double Wages NO2O

come at most an unpleasant mem
DRY.
Great credit should be given to
the powers that temporarily set
aside child labor, that is a bless
ing but cursed be he who set $13
and $14 a week as a minimum
wage for working men and women.
1t absolutely at best is only one
half enough to buy the plain COM
forts of life.
And as for public charity, why
should we feed deserving but I'M
fortunate persons with spoon as
though they were children?
Remember, Mr.. President and
congressman, that you made an
earnest appeal for their votes not
long since. Did you mean it or were
you passing the buck?
I regret exceedingly that our
deserving poor have not the char
acter to throw your public charity
mot with love- in your faces and
0OAAAoAAO CAAC 446AAG W Cd111 dLlO
joy the wealth created by hand
and brain. I am entirely con-
WINGED that a greater earning pow
er must be granted to low wage
earners or we will have to do
again as we did recently - bring
into use the flaming sword and
deadly bullet.
This is not a threat but to me
sound philosophy. If you ask me,
let me say that the present parade
is on for glorification of the pa
raiders rather than for the throng
along the way.
Let's forget the necessity of
braintrusters and supermen and do
things easily and simply and
plainly. Double the wages of the
poor man though it may ruf1e the
feelings of the cotton syndicate
and steel trust.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-24

Department insisted on a quotation,
so the industrial soldier" doubled
the price formerly quoted, and ex-
tended the shipping promise several
months. The War Department was
not to be outdone, the order was
sent in at the doubled, redoubled,
then doubled again price, but it
did insist that delivery be in accord
ance with the original promise. This
order represented what had been
before the war normal years
business, and few times since the
World War has the single order fig
ure been approached by that con-
Germ. 1t was for hundreds of thou
sands of dollars.
That same company paid to its
employees bonuses up to $500 to Office
clerks (records of bonuses to officers
not available), then ruthlessly
thinned out the clerks after the war
Buildings and machinery were added
to avoid payment of excess profit
taxes to the liberal Government
that had lifted it out of stagnation
it had been in for twenty-five years
Practically every war veteran
knows of similar circumstances, and
many others know more Of such.
Then what chance has the Economy
League, American Liberty League or
any other group to convince the
World War veterans that the ad-
justed pay certificates should not be
paid, and paid now when our Gov
eminent is seeking means for re-
distribution of wealth? Is not the
veterans Government bond as good
as the bonds held by bankers who
collect interest on the bonds yet
issue new currency up to their full
value to be loaned, or used as the
banker sees fit? The situation SIM
ply exemplifies once again the abso-
lutte power of our wealthy class to
control the functions of our Govern
ment for their benefit mostly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-24
FEW WORKERS AID
IN LAW MAKING
BY II. S.

BY H. S.
In a few weeks the Legislature of
Indiana will meet again to consider
the weAare Of the people Do the
people of Indiana know to whom
they entrusted the making of the
laws? 1t seems that 81 lawyers
will be among them; also q busi-
ness men and % farmers. Then
there are four bankers and few
medical men and editors and one
housewife. Also four workers.
How can the laboring man ex-
pect any consideration from an as
sembly III which he is so poorly rep
resented? Does he believe that the
lawyers and business men and
farmers will go out of their way to
consider his interest? Is it not
about time that the great mass Of
producers and consumers organize
and see to it that laws are made for
their benefit?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-24
So They Say

1t is just as important for Con-
gresS to prevent evil legislation as to
enact good legislation - United
States Senator Carter Glass.
am not opposed to work. think
it is fine for other people.
couldn't get along at all unless
some one worked.-T. S. Stribling.
Pulitzer prize novelist.
We signed contract. We prom
Used to pay. It's the only honest
thing to do.-Risto Ryti, governor Of
the Bank of Finland, on payment Of
United States war debt.
A fellow coming in from the coun-
try has to be careful these days. He's
like jackrabbit when the dogs get
after him.-Vice-P President John N.
Garner.
Unquestionably the liquor traffic
IS Public Enemy No. l and must,
therefore, be destroyed.-Mrs. Ella
A. Boole, President Of the World
w. g. T. U.
For German people nowadays it IS
very difficult to make plans, and
also for an artist who must travel
all the time and work so hard
Lily Pons, famous singer.
Society can not endure on the
basis of buying power concentrate
in the hands of the few.-Unite6
States Senator Robert NJ. La Fol-
lette.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-24
A GOOD S25 HOUSE

THE late Vice President Thomas R. Marshall
= once lifted his Office temporarily from OBJ
security by announcing that what the country
needed most was a good five-cent cigar.
Now Writer Mark Granite comes forward in
The Nation to remark that what the country
needed most was a good scent cigar.
That isn't quite as wild demand as it
sounds What Mr.. Granite means is a new,
modern, weIl-built house of i've or six rooms
which could be purchased for SIS a month.
covering interest charges. taxes. upkeep. and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-24
POWER
BY EUGENIE RTCHART

BY EUGENE RICHART
Go built house, however small,
OF stone-and build a garden wall.
Experiment with strange rare
bloom;
Hang bright mad pictures in your
room.
Here you will find, when most alone,
An essence singularly your own.
Some cynic you have loved may
wait
Impatiently outside your gate.
But never be misled by this,
Or by his worldly sophistries.
Your mission is to grow a flower
Which will be dead within the
hour
Or to dream dreams no cynic can
Attribute to the realm Of man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-24
WEALTHY CLASSES CONTROL
FINANCES FOR THEIR SAKE

BY Patient.
CONGRATULATIONS! Your editorial,
"War Profits and Bonus" in your
issue of Dec. 10, strikes painfully at
the opposition to payment of the
World War adjusted service certifi-
Gates, and to this writer reveals
either a softening of the heart
toward the veterans, or an unre-
vealed motive.
This writer, veteran Of the
World War, entered the employ Of
one of the industrial soldiers" not
too long after the ending Of the
World War, and one Of his first as
signments was to bring old costs on
manufactured articles .up-to-date.
This duty involved delving into files
covering the World War period.
Some of the figures encountered
we're so complex as to be unbeliev-
able.
The sales manager was consulted,
and he verified all of them. but ex-
planned that costs were usually
doubled, and sometimes redoubled
in estimating prices during the war
period, then yes, We added 100 per
cent profit to the cost to be safe"
One instance revealed an estimate
showing that the costs had been
doubled, then redoubled, 100 per
cent profit added and when the good
old War Department had been too
slow to act the order was refused.
The sales manager explained that
some cream business had been
booked in the meantime. The War