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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24
NO TIME TO DRIFT

THE signs of the times are so confusing
Il these days that it would take the seventh
son of a seventh son to do very much proph-
esying about anything farther off than the
dav after tomorrow. This is especially true
in the field of municipal politics.
About all that is clear is that there is some
thing in the wind. City government as we
have known it, seems to be changing, and
there is plenty of reason to feel that some
sort of change is needed very badly. But we
can not tell what the change is going to be
like. or how far it will affect the way in which
we rule our cities.
Consider a few of the straws that go slid
ing down the winds of change
A large city in this area is about to get all
its streets repaired with the help of the CWA.
The city treasury is empty and the streets
have pretty we'll gone to pieces; now Uncle
Sans men and Uncle Sans money are to put
them right again.
Congress is about to be asked to extend
vast sums of money to local school boards so
that teachers may be paid and children edu-
Gated School funds have run out in city
after city. Somebody has to help, and no one
can do it but Washington.
New Yorks new mayor struggles valiantly
to get the metropolitan house in order and
relies on federal funds and state legislation
to do it, His city has tumbled into the pit
which it dug for itself and unless both Wash
ington and Albany extend help it won't get
out.
Now these are Just a few samples. You
could I'LL a column with similar ones without
difficulty. And the whole thing indicates that
a strange and unexpected change is coming
upon the face of the waters
Is independent local government as we al
ways have had it ceasing to exist? Are our
cities becoming dependencies of the central
government? Are we eventually to find the
city hall a mere branch office of a national
administration?
Foreign observers remarked years ago that
municipal government was the weak link in
the chain of American democracy. The strains
Of recent years have snapped that link. Can
It ever be repaired?
The chances are that 1t can if We get wise
politics of the traditional kind is too expen-
sive luxury to be maintained any longer.
Such cities as Cincinnati and Milwaukee
have found out how to ride the storm with
their independence undiminisked. The rest
of us can do the same. if We try hard enough.
But if We keep on drifting. putting up
eomplacently with machine politics. special
privileges and Incompetence in Office. the
present trend Will carry us on inexorably.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24
NO MORE PULL

TT is good to see that the administration is
n Kidding Washington of those slick gentle
men who have combined practice at law with
the holding of high party Office.
Such attorneys have been a regular feature
of life at the capital for years A man VINO
is a national committeeman Of the party in
power hangs out his shingle in Washington,
and permits the public to believe that because
of his political influence he is a good man to
hire to fix things to arrange things, to inter-
vene in hearings before government boards.
This racket has been worked for long
time, and it has not reflected any great
amount of credit on the men involved. Most
of the time, of course, the self-appointed f1xer
does not really have the influence he pre-
tends to have, and the cases he handles turn
out about as they would if an ordinary lawyer
handles them.
But the racket has an unpleasant odor, and
President Roosevelt does we'll to hit it sharply
on the head.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24
LET CONGRESS GO EASY

LIBERALIZATION Of the dollar and an
IL nouncement Of the governments huge
spending program for the coming year To-
eused attention anew on the securities market
Uncle sam Will have to sell an enormous bale
Of bonds in the near future; at the same time,
private industry will have to go to the public
for great deal Of money If industrial expan-
sion is going 10 proceed at the pace We expect
AL Of which brings us up against the Sc
eurities act which the last session of congress
passed. and compels US to study the question:
Is that act going to be an obstacle in tn way
Of steady issuing of securities which must be
. part Of any enduring industrial revival7
Essentially. the securities act Is simple. II
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24

TINE hardest lesson in life is
i to learn how to forget. We
remember far too well, We women.
And undoubtedly for our peace
we usually charge our memories
with sorrowful trifles. We wipe
from our minds the glory, the
sweetness, the thrills we have
known and brood endlessly upon
some shabby little grief.
On nv desk I have a letter
from a woman who has suffered
what we may well call the uni
yersal Observation-Disclosures
of a husband in whom utter trust
had been reposed.
This husband rues his behavior.
He has begged and been accorded
forgiveness. He insists he loves
no other, and that his diSloyalty
was thoughtless and carried no
sincere feeling of affection. His
wife believes him. She is conf
dent of his love.
Now that, it would seem, should
mend the matrimonial rift. But
if you think so. you don't know
women. With admirable candor
this one confeSses to the major
feminine falling, nagging. No
matter how firm her resolutions
she finds it next to impossible TO
refrain from reminding her hus-
band Of his wickedness. Bride
her tongue as she may, she can't
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24
A Woman's Viewpoint
Bv MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

keep it still. Realizing that sucn
a course is fatal, and will result
in complete catastrophe. she
wants to know what she can do
about it.
T WOULD suggest a course In
L Gandhi philosophy-a VOW OF
silence. Far better not talk at all
than to say those things which
are so sure to shatter happiness.
Naturally this woman is not hap
py now. but she still has a chance
at future contentment if she can
but be mute.
Sometimes believe that women
are much more concerned about
the physical aspects Of life than
men, whom we speak Of as coarse.
unrefned creatures and slaves Of
passion. We think we prize spirit
ual attributes above bodily ones,
but do we? Our behavior doesn't
prove it, because the most casual
physical disloyalty throws us into
paroxysms of grief and even in
cites US into giving up our homes
and wrecking the lives of our
children. We attach a tremen-
dous importance to the sex side
of marriage-which is all very
well, perhaps, but it does not es-
tablish our claim to superior
spiritual atta:nmeutA
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24
I aOhoZIy disapprove of 10hat you say and will
defend to the death your right to sag it-VoItajre

I license fees, accessories tax, tire tax,
property tax, oil tax, gasoline tax
and various other hocus-pocus taxes
hooked on this ponderous chain of
costs by the municipalities, state
and federal governments.
The public should be encouraged
to buy and run automobiles, rather
than be confronted with list of I'M
necessary taxes. People who never
had car, or those thousands that
have them, licenseleSs, in their ga
RACES at this very time, are not
spending money for gasoline, oil,
tires, repairs, insurance, and the
trades benefited by the automotive
world suffer Perhaps the auto
mobile has contributed more to the
advancement of that Utopian dream
than is realized.
Let up on the motorist, you law
makers, or the big bad wolf will be
at your doors some day. Lett us
hope that the next primary will
bring out candidates who are en-
phatically for lower automobile
taxes in Indiana. They will have
mine, and enough other votes to
electt them to the legislature to act
in behalf Of the motorist--for a
change.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24
PROTECT YOUR CHILD

TO sane mother allows her child to play
~ in a street full of traffic. Nor does she
give him box of matches to amuse nlm
The dangers of such things are perfectly o.
vious to her. Yet through ignorance, many
mother in Indiana is subjecting her child to
as grave rsk-diphtheria.
Chicago became acutely aware OF the
needlessness of diphtheria deaths couple OF
wears ago. The city put on vigorous cam
naign which resulted in thousands OF children
being inmunized either by their family pny-
sicians or by the public health authorities
AS a result only seven children IN tnaC
great CITY died from this disease last year.
Six years ago New York state inaugurated
the same sort of educational campaign with
the result that the death rate was cut from
1917 for every 100000 population to one per
100000 last year!
Our state with about the same population
as the city of Chicago, had 172 deaths last
year and for ten years has averaged 100 chill
dren dead from diphtheria.
Not one of those children needed to die.
Immunization is simple and practically pain
less. AS soon put a hooded cobra in your
child's crib as expose him to diphtheria.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24
"a CIVILIZED RECORD"

ID ECENT records disclose that the customs
~ bureaus censorship over imported books
is emerging from its historic cave into the
light of reason.
Judge Woolseys brilliant decision on
Ulysses" records the National Council on
Freedom from Censorship, and the release by
the customs officials of Peter Neagoes Storm
and the paintings of D. H. Lawrence indicate
that the lag between official and general
morals is diminishing. If George Moore's "A
Story Teller's Holiday is released, the Gus
toms bureau will present thoroughly civilized
record
The customs bureaus escape from the
sanctiied stupidities of the past is due, first,
to the Cutting amendment to the 1880 tariff
act, providing for court appeals from customs
rulings, and, next, to the prevailing spirit of
tolerance.
The postofice department. however, still
rules our minds and holds censorship rights
over second-claSs mail.
The National Council on Freedom from
Censorship is preparing bill asking congress
to apply the Cutting amendment principle of
court appeal to postal rulings. This measure
should advance the land of the free another
step toward adulthood.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24

By A Times Patron
In looking over The Times, I
couldn't help noticing the article
on the second section by West
brook Pegler, whose head looks
as narrow as his mind. May I
presume that if you would pub
lish as vicious an article as Mr..
Pegler sent in, that you might
publish an answer to the gentle
man, if he calls himself that?
Only a plain fool, with no idea
of the prices of farm products,
would sign his name to such an
article, much less send his pic
ture along with it. Of course, after
seeing the picture, there abso-
lutely is no chance of mistaking
Mr.. Pegler for one of his so-called
honest hay-shakers. In fact, you
would not take him for anything
honest at all, and after one look
at the man, the article is even
better than you would think.
Mr.. Pegler'S outbreak, as can
be seen, feaQ11y. Is que 10 Ills lS-
norance. He is so surprised that
the common hay-shaker would
dare express himself, or ask any
aid whatever, that he lets his pen
run away with what judgment he
ever had, if any If I were Mr..
PegIer, I would read a little, and
enlighten myself as to the true
state of affairs, before I ex-
pressed myself so emphatically on
any subject.
Mr.. Pegler is just another big
noise, with very small vocabu-
larry, consisting of a few crude
remarks such as hay-shaker, and
squawker. He, like so many
others given to literary talent,
don't mind what they write be-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24
WEDNESDAY. JAN. "a. 1884.
SAVE THE CWA

IT is unthinkable that the civil works adj
ministration should drop from its pay rolls
100000 federal workers by May /. as the adj
ministration proposes. Most of the business
pickup has come from the circulation Of CwA
wages.
Long-range public works, renewed farm
activity and improved industrial conditions
may bring unemployment to several millions
by summer. No one knows But We do know
that today there are two men for every CWA
job and If the entire 100000 family heads
we're absorbed by summer there would still
remain about that many out of work
The United States is committed to the task
Of preventing starvation. and its new deal
method is Jobs. not doles." To demobilize
this army Of 100000 CwA workers between
Feb Is and May 1, and throw their families
back upon charity will cause widespread suf-
fering and invite social chaos.
The $3.50 100000 being asked to wind up the
CwA should be increased by congress as an
emergency investment which flows directly
back into business.
In the meantime. there are ugly reports
as 10 CWA's local administration. From Cali
fornia and Pennsylvania come complaints Of
graft. and from other states reports of po-
litical favoritism Administrator Harry Hop
kns did well to turn these complaints imme-
datey over to the encouragement and de-
mand quick prosecution of the guilty.
The Roosevelt administration should waste
no time in cleaning out the spoilsmen from
this public service. To graft or to play par
tisan politics with the taxpayers money is bad
enough in any case. To do these things at
the expense of the unemployed and of bust
ness recoveries is contemplate beyond words.
The people of America want the CWA to
continue until the last jobless worker is taken
back into industry. But this lfe-saver will
be hampered and discredited to the extent
that it is misused by crooks and cheap politics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24
Gypsy Carnival
BY HAROLD FRENCH

Birds in the wind and the moon in
the east,
And this is the night for the gyp-
sizes feast.
Sprites in the clover and wraithes
in the wood,
And a gypsy ring where an oak
once stood.
Spiritual night and a mad violin
Will usher a gypsy wedding in.
This is the cloth for their feast to
tonight,
And this the ray for their gypsy
rite:
A wash of moss in a misty marsh
And the cardinal flame of a gypsy
torch.
This is the bridal train of the bride,
Wild roses worn with gypsy pride.
And this the mantle her lover viii
wear
A grassy wreath in his gypsy hair.
And they will dance while aspens
CULVER,
Then float away on q gypsy rtyeA
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24

in addition to registering their au-
tomobiles with the state.
Then later legislature, following
the example of other states, COM
menced the practice of taxing gas
oline, also to build more and bet
ter roads," and subsequently has
increased the tax until it now
amounts to nearly so per cent Of
the price of gasoline itself, in addi-
ton to the federal tax. Now prob
ably a gasoline tax comes nearer
being an equal tax on automobiles
than any other medium of taxing
them, but why must good thing
be overdone? It is true that many
roads are being built and others are
being widened, but why not limit
the gasoline tax money to this orig
inal purpose, and perhaps it will be
found that it could be reduced to
2 cents gallon again, instead OF
the present 4 cents.
A second plan would be to leave
it at its present Accent rate and use
it properly and cut the licensing
of passenger machines to a flat rate
of 81, which would be more in line
with the real meaning of license?
Any lawyer will tell you that
license is for the purpose of reg
ulation," and that tax is for the
purpose of raising revenue. 1t has
been so held by the majority of
court decisions for a good many
years, that any license fee which is
so exorbitant that it produces
substantial revenue beyond that
needed to regulate the particular
classes of licensees, is invalid.
1t was alleged in a recent coure
case that the cost of producing the
plates, ETC., was only 6 cents, and
that 50 would be ample for licensing
automobiles.
I feel sure that it takes no more
effort on the part of the state to
regulate" & Chevrolet, taxed at SO,
than it does to regulate a model
"a" Ford at IS. There actually may
be a difference, but I believe most
readers will agree that it does not
amount to 81 difference as to the
wear on the roads.
The automobile and its allied in
dustries are the most important in
the United States today. These in
dustries depend directly upon the
ability OF the public TO pay the
original costs, taxes, maintenance
costs, fees, notarizations, drivers
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24
So They Say

The turn to initiation is like
surgical operation on the human
heart. The surgeon has leeway
of only one mistake and, if he
makes it, the only other help needed
will be the Observation-Disclosures M.
Baruch.
I don't want to be accused Of being
a Observation-Disclosures Kalinin,
president of the U. S. S. r.
We ought not only to shorten the
hours Of toll and labor, but we
ought to limit the right of wealth to
entail itself from one generation to
another-Senator George Norris.
Always get out of plane looking
fresh and fit. Never look as though
you needed powder on your nose
Amy Mollison.
If we could put the producers of
durable goods back to work, and
keep them productivity employed,
the depression would be over
Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, Cleveland
economist.
I know how to behave, father; I
was king long before you we're
Crown Prince Michael of Rumania.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24
Farmers Views Aired

cause they know that their ar
ticles are seldom read, but once
in q while some poor guy, like
myself, is dumb enough to read
them.
I don't suppose this ever will
be seen in print, because my head
and mind are not narrow enough.
I also am pretty well posted on
some Of the matters on which
Mr.. Pegler crates, Now, Mr.. Edi-
tor, will you be SO kind as to tell
our friend Pegler that the price
the farmer receives for his prod
ucts has very little to do with
what the consumer has to pay for
his food.
When Pegler pays. a innocent
piece for one quart of milk, which
has been cut to a 36 test, the
same milk that came from the
hay-shakers' jersey COW tested As
per cent and brought the flushed
fellow a nice cents a gallon,
Another thing I would like to
tell Mr.. Pegler is the fact that
it takes twenty-five gallons of
Scent milk to BUY the pair of
overalls that he accuses the farm
er of wearing out while he is sit
ting down.
The real fact is this, the hay
shaker, as Pegler calls him, has to
take off the overalls when he sits
down in order that he may have
them to wear to the big city when
he goes to collect the enormous
sum of money he gets for 500 gal
Ions of milk at cents, minus
the hauling bill.
I'd like to hear from Mr.. Peg
Ter again, as it stimulates my
brain to read such drivel
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24
GIVE WORK TO
THOSE IN NEED

BY Earl Haupt
The man who got his basket, coal
and rent and now through the CWA
has received a job at so cents an
hour has it all over the small buSi-
ness man whose business has gone
to pieces on account of certain cir
cumstances under which he had to
keep up. The small business man
was deprived of any chance of help,
even if he asked for it.
He now is faced with the problem
of year or more delinquent taxes,
payments on his home in default,
and less work all the time. While
some families Of the former class
have several members working for
CWA, especially young men who
have no dependents and who never
paid any taxes and boast that they
never will, they should give way to
men with dependents who have
homes iii the community and are
trying to get back on their feet. We
never have asked for charity and
are not now. All we want is a
chance to get some of this CWA
employment to hold us until things
get going again which I know will
not be long if our Presidents plans
go through.
think there are many men who
have registered at CWA headquar-
tiers who, if investigated, would
show their need for this work and
compensation much more than some
who, although they registered much
sooner, are not near as deserving
II have taken The Times ever since
I came to indianapolis and always
read everything on the editorial
page and I sure think it is fine,
square newspaper.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24

are like the sleeping dog, moving
only when prodded. Their good ma
ture is amazing and with their quiet
acquiesence in all things making
their lives harder is even pathetic.
Some growl, but always dig deeper
to get that extra dollar which some
lawmaking body levies against them,
but do nothing else about it. I am
trying to do something about it.
Originally, the legislature set up
a schedule of license fees for Ii
censing and regulating autono-
biles." The money was to be for
the motorists benefit; to repair
roads, to build new and better ones,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24
INDIANA AUTOMOBILE
TAXES TOO HIGH

By Arthur W. Hendricks.
The automobile owner is subject
to so many taxes that have de-
cided to do my best to start cru
SADIE against such mulcting and class
legislation.
First. we must find fault with the
people themselves; as mass, they
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24

A man in Tacoma, Wash, threaded a
needle with seventy-fve strands, ano one in
Reno New. put ninety-one strands Of thread
through a needles eye. But they couldn't put
one strand through, if their wives asked them
to do il.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24
The Message Center

(Times readers are inUtted to cypress
their viel0s in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can have chance.
Limit them to ESQ oords or less.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24

There's Just about one ounce of matter to
every quadrillion cubic miles of space, says
an astronomer. Some heads do seem so big,
on the morning after.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24

BY going through the regular stages Of pro-
notion it would take marine 40 years to
become general Now who would think
General Smedley Butler was that old?
A New Yorker is trying to learn why we
drive on the right side of the road. Simply be-
cause it's dangerous to drive on the wrong side
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24

Chicago woman joined a flea circus
when her husband brought home bear. She
might have stayed. if he had brought home
q dog.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24

nudist official says there are more nudists
today than ever before. In fact, we're all
nudists under our clothes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24

Some automobile owners call those addi-
tions to the tenders skirts, and some call
them pants-according to the sex of the car
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24

The birth control investigation held by
professional committee shouldn't bother the
congressman. since they have been born al
ready.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24

The little country of Andorra is arming its
100 bodied men, so Europe won't have
to call on America for help in the next war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24

Niagara Falls flowed red the other day
probably due to the NRA dumping all the
red ink we've had left over from the depres-
sion
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-24

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