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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-15
NATIONAL PENSION PROGRAM
NEED FOR AGED

By G. M. Scott.
The old-age pension movement
surely would be a grand thing for
the aged and to put more money
into circulation, but to start some
grand stand stunt like the Town
send 5000 month for people go
years old is, I think, joke or some
kind of political scheme.
Now as to get right to the start
ing place on pensions, why give 60
year-olds 5000 month. I can't see
the point. Some one else would
have to spend the 5000 for them or
part of it. An old person does not
require as much as a young person.
I am not opposed to old-age pen
sions, for our Eagles Lodge has adj
vocated pensions for years. be-
lieve in $50 a month for married
people and $40 month for single
people and setting the age limit at
so years. A pension on this basis
would do the most good for a great
er number of people and take these
people out of industry and put
younger people in their place. II
these pension clubs would work on a
pension of this sort they might get
it through Congress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-15
BUILDING PRICES

MANY lumbermen are selling at less than
IVA the prices fixed by the NRA code. They
say they have to cut prices to get orders. They
say price-hxing in this industry is impossible
Others say that if the industry goes back to
price competition, it will cut wages and event.
ually bankrupt itself. All Americans have
stake in this quarrel, for the lumber industry
lives of the forests, which belong to this gen.
Grafton and the generations to come.
One thing seems apparent: Prices are too
high, and should be reduced, whether by COM
petition or by agreement. If prices are reduced
some lumbermen may not be able to make
profit. But present prices seem to be higher
than the people can afford to pay This is the
test, because the industry must get more GUS
toners If it is to prosper.
Federal Housing Administrator Moffett says
America has shortage of five million homes.
Yet the people are not building The Com
merce department reports that construction
contracts in the first week of December we're
less than half as large as in the same week
last year-despite FILA efforts to start build
ing boom, and despite better business generally.
In typical letter received by NRA, a
would like to- be-home-owner" said:
Il am only one of many in this section of
the country planning to build, but will not
do so with lumber prices so badly out of line
with other prices e. will start my new home
just as soon as this hijacking of prices of
building materials has been corrected and not
until then. I feel sure that I am expressing
the feeling of thousands of Others"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-15

pressure began to develop. It's effect can be.
traced in Yugoslavian oppression Of Croats, in
pro and anti-Nazi riots and murders in Aus
tris, in that dreadful death-strike Of Hun
garian coal miners
BY now it has brought about a situation
which is in the highest degree menacing to
world peace. This is our heritage from the
Versailles treaty. There was too much haste
to establish political freedom, and too little
thought to the economics involved.
Bad as it was, the old Austro-H Hungarian
empire did have sound commercial base. By
forgetting that little point. the peacemakers
stored up vast amount of trouble for the
world
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-15
POLITICAL FREEDOM GAINED

THOSE onlinous rumblings and cracklings
u in the foundations of the central Euro
pean household are at least giving us a new
idea about the old Austro- Hungarian empire.
During the war Austria-Hungary provided
one point upon which allied and neutral ma
tons always seemed able to agree. Whatever
the terms of peace might include-whether
Poland should be freed. Alsace-Lorraine re-
turned, Belgium re-eStabliShed or the German
colonies be given back-it at least was obvious
that the Hapsburg empire must be broken up.
The empire was hodge-podge of peoples.
It grouped Croats and Serbs, Czechs and
Maeyars, Germans Rumanians and Italians,
in one grand bundle. loosely tied together by
allegiance to a common crown. Most of these
nationalities were restless and unhappy. The
restlesSness of the Serbs, indeed, had actually
started the World War. Whatever else hap
pened the empire must be dissolved.
Well. the war finally ended, and the en-
pire did indeed fall apart. But the glorious
new day Of freedom dawned with black clouds
banked where the sunrise should have been.
and the clouds have been getting darker ever
since.
Political freedom was gained; but the peo-
pie who gained 1t began to learn the sad lesson
that political freedom does little good unless
It is accompanied by some sort of economic
freedom as well.
The old empire did at least serve the pur-
nose Of commerce, however much violence it
may have done to the ideal Of freedom With
In It's borders there was fair measure of eco
nouaic security. The interchange Of goods and
money could proceed unhampered.
When half . dozen nations took the place
Of one. this economic freedom vanished. Upon
the inhabitants Of the new countries desdly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-15
LIFE AT SEVENTY
begins at 70-for some.

T IFE begins at 70-for some.
~ There is Frederick j. Waugh, 73-year-
old American artist, whose 'Tropic Seas" has
won the Carnegie Institute popular prize. And
Charles S. Ashley, who at rs has been re-
elected mayor of New Bedford, Conn, for the
2sth time And Mr.. Justice Brandeis, who
celebrated his 18th birthday last month, per-
haps the most brilliantly effective living lib
eral.
History can add thousands to the list. At
"a Kant wrote three of his deepest philo-
sophical works; at 70 Lamarck completed his
great geological history of invertebrates; at
80 Goethe completed Faust" Tintoretto at
IA painted his vast canvas Paradise" and
Titan at SO painted his historic Battle of
Lepanto." At 70 Oliver Wendell Holmes
wrote "Over the Teacups," and at SO Tenny-
son penned Crossing the Bar" Cato at 80
began studying Greek. Commodore Wander
blt between 70 and 83 added one hundred
millions to his fortune.
These were among the winners in lifes
battle
But too many old folk arrive at 10 to find
only humiliation and despair. Of the 100000
Americans past 10 about 100000 are on Fed
eral relief, some 10000 are living in degrad-
ing almshouses, and some 100000 are getting
state pensions that average about S19 a
MONTH These figures do not include de-
pendents living on local relief or with their
families.
If life is to be worth while for these of our
elders, the next Congress must enact an old
age pension law giving them self-respecting
securitv
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-15

By Reader.
People speak of old-age pensions
and unemployment relief and child
labor-of protection and relief of
one kind or another. Let us boil
this down and look at it.
Child labor-what is the gist of
it? Apparently this: To send out
into the world an under-aged lad
or lass to cope with it-unpre-
pared, untutored, unfit.
Old-age pension--what is this?
Possibly it centerS here: To ex-
pect an aged man or woman who
has striven valiantly to carry on
uncontrolled, unprotected, unsafe,
unsheltered.
Unemployment relief? To aid an
able and capable person who is far
out in the stream of life losing
foothold and slipping.
It seems that we all undergo
various stages in our lives and
each one is different from the
others.
A man in the prime oflife, prop
erly trained, and with a vision Of
security in his old age has courage
and fitness for the tasks and adj
versitieS Of life.
It is net the custom nowadays,
but I like to picture this Utopia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-15
GAMBLING Laws ARE
ATTACKED BY READER

BY d. Yaner.
The following article from the
New York Times gives an example
of what happens in states legalizing
betting on horse ana dog races
Certainly such legislation does not
fulfill any economic requirement. 1t
is simply productive of no good
whatever and only tends to increase
the development Of parasites Of
which we already have too many in
Indiana.
The politicians, Of course, will put
forth every effort to secure pas
sage of this legislation, for reasons
too well known.
Have you the courage to crusade
against the boys in the Statehouse,
who seem determined?
The New York Times said:
Growing resentment of conditions
in certain Texas cities, which are
blamed on the breakdown Of prohi-
bition enforcement, seems to make
doubly certain that the regular ses-
sion of the Texas Legislature, which
convenes in January, will submit
state prohibition repeal to the peo-
pie. A noticeable increase Of gam
bling places and the spread of
gambling craze througout the state
are chief among the conditions
complained Of. The legalizing of
pari-mutuel betting at race tracks
more than a year ago has resulted
in the establishment of a number
Of mushroom race courses, and ille-
gal poolroom betting has become
widespread. But accompanying this
has been an increase Of all other
forms of gambling. An organized
movement to repeal the Pari- Mutuel
Law has been launched, but the
other forms Of gambling already are
prohibited by state and local laws,
and violation of these laws is blamed
on the lax attitude toward prohi-
bition.
This condition has been per-
mitted to exist by almost general
consent. Nothing could be done
about it in the way of legislation.
because liquor Is made illegal by the
State Constitution, and an amend
ment could be submitted only at
the regular session Of the Lesisla-
ture. It has been found, however.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-15
Capital Capers
BY GEORGE ABEL

TNG1J1sTIC crime was committed but con-
IL doned at the early sessions OF the Attorney
Generals Conference on Crime.
Chairman Clarence Martin Of West Virginia,
distinguished crime expert, was presiding. lie
rose grandly, after few taps OF the gaVel' 10
introduce the first speaker.
Gentlemen" he announced in clear tones,
'the first speaker this morning needs no lntro-
duction from me. . :. He is known Tor the mag
nificent work in combating crime from END TO
end of the United States.
With a flourish of the hand, Chairman Mar
tin indicated the speaker, already rising TO MS
feet as a rllff1e of hand clapping started
Gentlemen" doomed Chairman Martin, I
have the honor to present Mr.. j. Edgar Hoover,
head of the Department of Commerce"
Amid loud applause and laughter, Mr.. j.
Edgar Hoover, famed director Of the Justice De-
partment's Division Of Investigation, stepped
forward.
NOTE-Observers believe that Chairman
Martin may have had in mind Hoovers brother.
Dickerson N. Hoover, assistant director OF the
Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspec-
tion which is under the Commerce Department.
The name of Dickerson Hoover has been much
headlined recently in connection with the MORO
Castle inquiry.
THE swank of the tremendous dinner given
i by the Pennsylvania Democratic Club Of
Washington in honor of Senator-elect Joe Guilty
of Pennsylvania surpaSses belief.
A thousand guests, jamning the corridors Of
the Mayf1ower Hotel, were amazed to behold a
liveried major-domo standing in the center OF
the lobby.
AS guests in evening dress fled by, this per-
sonage lifted his arm and gesturing magnif1-
Gently, shouted:
This way for Sen. Guffy's big Victory din
nerI'
TITS Serene HighneSs, Prince Damras DAM
L rong Devakul, is rapidly learning English.
ira few months, this tiny prince, who is Slams
Minister in washington-a1d the shortest en-
voy in the diplomatic corps-has the longest vo-
cabulary imaginable.
Entertaining at reception in celebration OF
Siamese Constitution Day. His Serene Highness
addressed guests in faultless English
Standing against maroon tapestry and
fianked by bowls of pink roses and yellow chrys-
anthemums, he greeted each new arrival with
a food Of eloQuence.
The late Siamese envoy used to shake hands
as rapidly as Calvin Coolidge while he num-
bled:
How do? How do? Nice day? Yes?'
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-15
THE MEANEST MEN

CONGRESS could hardly believe reports last
~ winter of graft and theft Of funds be-
longing to war veterans and war widows.
1t taxes the credulity of decent citizens to
believe, as the Patman subcommittee has
found. that there exist in this country, outside
Of Jail:
Lawyers who extracted exorbitant fees from
the pensions of MANNED veterans and widows
of veterans.
Bankers who violated their fduciary trust
by taking good Government bonds out of and
putting their own worthless securities into the
portfolios of shell-Shocked and incompetent
veterans
Congress probably will try to prevent SIM
liar occurrences in the future.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-15
MIR. CAFOUROS is NOT
so BAD, HE SAYS

By F. E. M.
I agree with "a Reader" that Mr..
Cafouros sometimes contributes
some mighty fine topics, especially
where he describes parking on Me-
ridian-st, both right and left angles
and in the middle of the street. But
I can not agree with him that his
words are meaningless"
"a Reader" on second thought,
must admit that The Times is not
a working mans paper, though it
pulls for him as NJ others do. "a
Reader" I fear, is spoiled by the di-
rect style of the editorial writer's, a
trait which we all praise.
But take Haywood Broun. In the
first paragraph in the Dec. 8 Times,
his article starts with a dash Of
private history, followed by Won
derfully descriptive phrase, flying
squadrons of precocious infants"
He tells that a child got three
words of Latin because he said he
hated arguments. Broun begins his
argument against the child's thesis
mildly-"It seems to me"-but in
the next sentence he is dogmatic in
his assertion that the world is run
by people who argue. Then he
makes it easy for you to take it by
picturesque phrases to the effect
that some men and women will not
only argue at the drop of hat but
also are prepared to furnish the
headgear and the propulsion.
Twice in the first paragraph OF
Mr.. Cafouros' article in Dec. 6 is
sue, he admits he may be wrong.
He is thinking of the absence of the
ringing of firebells today compared
with his more youthful years. The
true reason, fire prevention" slips
from him without boast of great
discovery. Then he describes find
ing fire. dis description of the fire
and the efficiency Of the fire lads
is as good as a motion picture.
He watched part Of them haul
the hose to the vicinity Of the blaze.
while another part hitched the hose
on fireplug a block away. He saw
initiative, drill and courage. The
fire lads efficiency surprised him.
They knew which window to break
which door to unhinge, which I am
pretty sure would be puzzle either
to "A Reader" or myself.
Then the firemen stuck their
heads into a window through which
smoke was pouring. Whether TO see
how much they could inhale or how
long they could stand without TAX
ing a breath, Mr.. Cafouros doesn't
explain Then, to show the excru-
ciating danger Of a fireman's life,
he compares it to that Of a steeple-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-15
RELIEF LINES WILL GROW
UNDER PRESENT SETUP

BY H. L. Seeger.
To Henry A. Wallace, Secretary
of Agriculture:
The Bourbon Americans who
force reduction of production
through private control of money
receipts" on scarcity basis are
the historical descendants of feudal
nobility. Private money factories"
are raided by government agents
when they are not located on Main
st. Congress has abdicated its con-
stitutional function and permitted
private corporations to create
money and credits, a function sole
ly within the power of Congress,
which can not lawfully be farmed
out. This perversion of sovereignty
has forced the creation Of public
and private debt, that has enslaved
the real producers of wealth.
That program has produced a
tyranny more horrible than piracy.
Your crop reduction program plays
right into the hands of those who
make it necessary for the producers
of wealth to deny themselves the
privilege of using the goods they
create. The crop of our farms
would be found lamentably short
of meeting our national conSump-
ton needs, if the $4,000 blue FLOODED
Bourbons did not prohibit the red
blooded American wealth producers
from consuming our products by
short change" in money credits.
Mr.. Wallace, the drought this year
is nothing as compared to the con-
sumers' credits drought" The lib
erty to produce things without the
liberty to consume adequately has
made the slavery days of Nero
parellel our own slavery to private
money creators, who are vested
with the power to use the sover-
eign seal of the country on their
own paper tickets. We are in bond
age through public and private
bonds that are chains on the pro-
ducers Of real wealth, hirdering
adequate production and consump-
ton. Freedom is but mockery in
this democracy if we must submit
to this atrocity of forced poverty
for the real producers.
If you fellows, as our representa-
tives, can not turn the production
of money and credits back to the
Congress, we will be forced to
create production credits, good only
to those who are actually producers.
so we can turn the tables to put
starvation at the top, on the para
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-15

that permitting the open violation of
one state law has created lax atti-
tude with respect to others. And
this has been particularly true Of
the laws prohibiting gambling. En-
forcement of these laws is in the
hands of local officers and there
has been a growing disposition
among them to ignore violations.
Conditions have become so unde-
sirable in this respect that public
expressions of indignation and re-
sentiment are becoming frequent"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-15
HEALTH INSURANCE THAT PAYS

TT is interesting to learn that the Admins
tration's Committee on Economic Security
is perfecting a health insurance plan which
would enable the American public to pay its
doctors and hospitals bills in advance and
get the best of medical care.
With the cooperation of the presidents of
the American Medical Association and the
American College of Surgeons. the commit
tee hopes to devise scheme whereby both the
ordinary citizen and the medical profession
generally viii fare better than they do now.
In hard times. many citizens go without
medical care which they need very greatly.
On the other hand, doctors do an enormous
amount of work for which they get paid
nothing at all.
A program which would assure the patients
of service and the doctors OF fees ought to
be exceedingly helpful
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-15

sites instead of on the wealth pro-
Fducers.
Putting the pJlmotor on the
private banking balloon won't solve
the distribution problem; that rests
upon credits of money in the hands
of consumers.
Administrator Harry Hopkins will
get an increasing relief line until
you fellows get down to funda-
mentals.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-15
So They Say

1t used to be that the needy who
focked to California were timer
ants, but now it seems to be whole
families. - Vierling Kersey, Cali
fornia superintendent OF public in
Struction.
The younger generation believes
in Hitler for two reasons-his
strong nationaism and the fact
that he is socially radical
Dorothy Thompson Mrs. Sinclair
Lewis.
Soon we shall begin to look up
on low wages as indecent, and
upon prices which are higher than
they need to be as treason to our
social order-Edward A. F1lene,
Boston merchant.
The Croatians have no love for
the Italians, nor do we desire to
return to our old masters, Austria
and Germany-August Koshltich,
leader of the outlawed Croat
Peasant Party.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-15

Some contract bridge expert has devised
new variation called Towie. while many of US
are still trying to figure out how to play
auction
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-15
COntentnent
BY MORRIS KING

BY MORRIS KING
When evenings darkness settles
down
Der every field and every town,
A sense of peace is felt around
Each hard hut and each soft home:
OF work welldone-a will TO share
A sumptuous feast or meager fare
IT'S a time when God Is H. the air.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-15

jack playing checkers (perhaps 200
feet above ground. A picture for a
poet.
I present this comparison to
show that Mr.. Cafouros is not so
bad.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-15
Daily Thought

How great are His signs! and how
mighty are His wondersl His king
dom is an everlasting kingdom, and
His dominion is from generation TO
generation.-Daniel w, 3.
A SOLEMN and religious regard
n to spiritual and eternal things
is an indispensable element Of al
true greatness.-Daniel Webster.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-15
The Message Center

Times readers are invited to cypress
their Oietos in these columns. Make yoHr
letters short, so all can haze chance.
Limit them to $50 toords or less.J
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-15

Wei bet New York found more to navel
at in DR.. Dafoe than he did in New York.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-15

A Kansas farmer recsntly killed snake
which. he said, had two heads and signs of
four legs. Kansas stiu sticks to prohibition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-15

| / sOhosy disapprove of 10hdt yow soy and win
defend to the death your right to sag it-YoItGire
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-15
IDLE PRISONERS

DECEMBER IS. 1894.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-15
The Indianapolis Times

Give Light and the
People WHl Find
Their Otcn W0T
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29
NOTICE OF FIRST MEETING OF
CREDITORS IN PROCEEDINGS
UNDER SECTION IS

In the District Court of the United
States, for the Southern District
of California, in the Matter OF
William Sullivan Harris, Debtor,
in Proceedings for Composition
or Extension.
To the creditors of William Sullivan
Harris, of El Centro, in the coun-
ty of Imperial, and district afore-
said.
Notice is hreby given that on the
21st day of July, A. D. 1894, the Pc
tition of the said William Sullivan
Harris praying that he be afforded
an opportunity to effect compost
ton or an extension of time to pay
his debts under Section rs of the
Bankruptcy Act, was approved by
this court as properly filed under
said section; and that the first
meeting of his creditors will be held
at Court House in Ell Centre, on
the 18th day of October, A. D. 1884.
at $50 o'clock in the forenoon, at
which time the said creditors may
attend, prove their claims, examine
the debtor and transact such other
business as may properly come be-
fore said meeting.
SCOTT B. FOULDS,
Cancellation Commissioner.
September 90, 1894. 29tl
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29
NOTICE OF HEARING PETITION
TO ESTABLISH BIRTH
No. In Probate.

In the Superior Court of the State
of California, in and for the
County of Imperial, III the Mat
ter of Establishing the Birth OF
LUPE SINGH and MARY
SINGH, Minors.
Notice is hereby gwen that Mala
Singh has filed with the Clerk OF
this Court a petition, praying that
the date of the birth of Lupe Singh
and Mary Singh be established and
that the 18th day of october, 1894.
at 2 o'clock P. M. of said day at
the Courtroom of the Court at Ell
Centro, in the County of Imperial
has been set for hearing said petit
ton, when and where any person
interested may appear and show
cause why the said petition should
not be granted.
Dated this 26th day of Septem-
ber, 1894.
(SeaD EDWARD H. LAW,
Clerk.
BY C. w. HENDRIKS.
Deputy.
SMITH & PERKINS,
Attorneys for Petitioner. 27tlO