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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-18
By Louis Moore, BLOOMINGTON.


AS a resident of southern Indi-
ana feel should have the priv
lege of expressing my opinion in
regard to the state and Federal
governments buying land in this
part of the state for park and
game preserve.
The southern part of Indiana
has been settled and farmed for
more than 100 years and they
are just finding out that the peo-
pie can not make living there.
How did they ever keep it secret
for so many years about so many
poor people starving to death? 1t
is just pure bunk. The politicians
and the rich just want place
nearby where they can hunt and
have a big time at the expense of
the taxpayers.
I have read statistics to the eff
feet that southern Indiana sup
plies the state with more school
teachers than any other part of
the state. I wonder how this hap
pens. Starvation usually dulls the
mind. Speaking of dull minds, I
wonder where the Democratic pol
iticianS who originated this idea
were raised? Southern Indiana is
normally Democratic. Without it's
vote Indiana would be as strong a
Republican state as Maine or
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-18
Land Purchase Is Scored

Michigan. Now they are going to
move these people to every section
of the state and nation. Well,
after that is done Democratic
politicians had just as well move
to some other state, too, as a
Democratic victory in Indiana viii
be about as common as Repub-
lican victory is now in Georgia. =
There is not a more contented
people anywhere than in southern
Indiana. We are not asking any
one to shed crocodile tears for us
and scatter us to the four winds
as the English did the AcadianS.
To those of us who have been
reared in southern Indiana it is
home. We have our churches,
schools, our community life and
our memories that no other sec
ton can replace. Also, what would
become of the cemeteries where
we all have relatives and friends
buried? Would it be pleasant to
have to watch the state destroy
these or let them fall into COM
pIete ruin?
No, we don't want anything like
that. Why undo now what our
forefathers dedicated their lives
to-settling southern Indiana? Let
them go to some unsettled section
of some state for their play
grounds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-18
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THINKS MARRIED WOMEN
SHOULD GIVE UP JOBS

BY e. H.
am young man with two years
of college work forced out of college
for lack Of funds. 1 can't find job.
What I can't understand is why
respectable firms keep their married
women on jobs men ought to have.
All married women whose husbands
are working and making $25 a week
or more should be asked to give up
their jobs. There should be rule
that after a girl marries she must
leave her job within a year; that
would help to give the couple
start. A girl nowadays gets married
and stays on and nine out of ten
jobs could be filed by men and
cost them no more.
The big fellow i'll this concern
prides himself in the length Of
service of each employe, not con-
sidering what he can do if he let's
some of these women go that don't
need to work.
I want to make living and can't
find a job.
If the government wants to do
something really American why
don't they put the women back in
the homes?
There is no turnover in jobs any
more. This thing of married women
working is much more serious than
firms think. They are not being
fair by allowing such conditions to
exist.
The most honorable firm in the
city of Indianapolis has three
fourths married women on its force.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-18
WORTHWHILE READING

THE ramihcations Of the gas situation in
Il indianapolis are many.
The cts has been talking for long time
about acquisition Of the Citizens Gas Co, but
the negotiations are still far from conclusion.
In the meantime general scandal has
cropped out in which the public finds that
there might be an opportunity for much
cheaper gas II some OF the barriers were
dropped and the red tape slashed.
While indianapolis Is waiting for the oppor-
tunity 10 purchase cheaper gas through some
means or other. it Tin pay every interested
person 70 read what is being published about
the Citizens Gas Co.
The Times is offering this service to its
readers in a series Of stories written by Vincent
LYONS, financial editor. You viii ind that Mr.
Lyons has cut the decorations OF the hgifes
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-18
So They Say

If the colonies and generals had
tact, courage, loyalty and brains
enough, they would keep the soldiers
from disloyalty-Rep. Maury Nav
erick of Texas.
What do nudists do at party?
We just sat around and played
guessing games-The Rev. F. 7.
Kruger, Denver pastor caught in
nydist raid.
While communism might become
dangerous in the Navy, it certainly
is not now and there seems no
likelihood of it SO Developing
Secretary Of Navy Claude A. Swan
son.
The National Recovery Act does
contain the power, if assented to
by publishers, to destroy the Cone
stitutional freedom Of the press
Elisha Hanson, counsel American
Newspaper Publishers Association.
I am wearing exactly the same
kind of clothes I wore in 1906. I
don't think mems fashions will ever
change much.-The Earl Of Derby.
What we must do is to find
middle ground and this calls for a
reconditioning Of our democracy as
it exists today-Dr. Harold w.
Dodds, president Of Princeton Uni
versity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-18
SEEKS LEGION'S ANSWER
TO SEVERAL QUESTIONS

By Jess M. Baker.
1 would like, through your paper,
to ask the American Legion, few
questions.
First, does the fact that the Pat
man bill to pay the so-called bonus
does not call for issuing interest
bearing bonds to pay this debt have
anything to do with the legion
bringing out another bill calling for
such a bond issue?
Second, is it merely a coincidence
that the legion did not voice its OPP
position to the Patman bill until
after it had elected a banker as
its commander?
Third, does the legion honestly
think it is to the best interests OF
the veteran to split or this ques-
ton of how to pay when such a split
means it's defeat?
Fourth, why does the legion al
ways refuse to cooperate with
other veterans organizations on
matters vital to the veterans well
fare unless the legion gets all the
glory?
Fifth, don't you think if your or
ganization would Gull out the swarm
CT honorary members and cater
more to the actual ex-service man
who knows what it is all about when
you mention service, your organiza-
ton would prosper more than it
does now?
Sixth, what reasons do you give
for calling the American Legion
a representative ex-service mans
organization" with the sad record
you have on the work the legion has
done on legislation TOR the veteran?
I would honestly like to have an
answer to the above, as while the
legion has never been so very pop
ular here in Amo, Ind, it seems to
be losing what little popularity it
did have.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-18
SEES BANKER, LABORER
ON BASIS OF EQUALITY

BY B. B. NJ.
According to religious records, any
sect, any race, all originate in the
same place, descend into matter and,
in the end, return to the point Of
origin for rest.
Considering these points, can one
person be so vastly different from
another? We come via the route
of the flesh and return by the route
of corruption.
In view of these truths, I want to
be informed why an individual so
unfortunate as to be born of poor
parentage, no outstanding talents or
high intellectual attachments, must
follow a humble vocation in life and
be considered inferior to an Office
executive and through no fault Of
his. He is impressed early in life,
that mental position quite as a
matter of course commands a
small salary. Why?
If the individual is conscientious
worker and giving his best to his
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-18
STOP IT!

THE auto death toll in Marion County con-
tinues TO climb.
There is only one reason for this tragic
situation. That can be told in a few words:
The driving public Of Indianapolis is the worst
Of its type
Indianapolis motorists apparently are IN
Der the impression that this is "a main-street
town" and that any driving errors or traffic
violations committed of Westinghouse are
larks. not serious outbreaks.
The indianapolis Times suggests that the
motorists Of this city have some regard for
life and property.
Until they do. Indianapolis viii be bur
dened BY black mark not pleasant TO con-
template.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-18
IT'S TIME TO LAY ASIDE
CREEDS, ASSERTS READER.
By Constant Reader

By Constant Reader.
Thanks for the Message Center. 1t
is very helpful and inspiring. I am
81 years old, worked most of my life
for corporations. When my hair be-
gan to get gray my place was filed
by a younger man who could stand
more punishment, such as speed and
long hours.
I remember when the manufac-
turers organized all over the coun-
try but would not let their en-
ployes organize. Then the real ex-
ploitation of labor began. I could
see what it would eventually lead TO
and wondered if I would live to see
the day when God would raise up a
man big enough to lead the common
people in a fight for their rights.
I believe today we have lot Of
them but it took this depression to
wake them to sense of their duty.
Three of the outstanding ones to-
day are Or. Townsend, Huey Long
and Father Coughlin. I am glad to
see such men as these come to the
defense of an outraged and down.
trodden people.
I am a Protestant, but Protestant,
Catholic or Jew, we are all children
of the one God and striving to reach
the same port. 1t is high time We
should lay aside our creeds and fight
shoulder to shoulder for our human
rights.
DR.. Townsend has plan that
would relieve the depression almost
over night. Our present Admins
tration can give us relief if they so
desire. I wonder if they will avail
themselves of the opportunity or
still take dictations from the big
profteers until the common people
are compelled to use drastic meas
lures to obtain justice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-18
SUSPECTS GRANT WOOD
ONLY SOUGHT ARGUMENT

BY Richard DeIavan.
In itself relevant or not, we have
thoroughly enjoyed the extensive
newspaper palaver over the art and
artists of Indiana in The Indianap-
oils Times, this merry month Of
March. And we liked the exhibition
now at John Heron very much.
I would like to suggest my suspi-
cion that Grant Wood meant only
to tickle the argumentative rib of
the majority of Hoosier craftsmen,
in his opening cantata, though it
did apply only too well to certain
Of our lot.
The forthcoming objections Of
Elmer Tafinger and E. E. Spenner
were interesting, too, and helped stir
the waters, whether or not they
were altogether reasonable.
And lastly, Wilbur D. Peat, man
lauded by acknowledged American
and European authorities as a con-
noisseur of the first water, and
whom Indiana does not appreciate
half enough, cited a fact that
shrewd artists of our generation
have always considered: They must
judge by the works or the theory
of the appointed jurymen, whom
they generally know, whether or not
the exhibition is to be of the sort
sympathetic with such and such an
artists particular work.
Thanks to The Times for this
study.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-18

work, can he do more? Isn't he
fulfilling his destiny? Does the ex-
ecutive do more? Each, according
to his worldly equipment, is doing
his best.
When the banker and the factory
worker, or other humble worker at
tends church, the church members
strive to make both welcome and
admit they are on an equal basis
in the sight of God. If we accept
this admission, why isn't the worker
as important in the sight of men?
Is our judgment more decisive than
Gods? Could we be higher
authority?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-18
SUGGESTS COUGHLIN HELP
OPPRESSED IN MEXICO

BY william E. Evans.
Father Coughlin is described as a
militant priest. Why, then, does he
not don his shining armor and go
down into Mexico and do battle for
his oppressed there? Possibly he
prefers to remain militant in Mich
igan.
Mexicans are pretty rough on
priests who talk out of turn just
now. Moses of old vent down into
Egypt and saved his brethren in
bondage there. without the aid of a
megaphone, shining armor or a
Borah.
The father might also establish a
League of the Little Cactus while
there for their pesos sake.
The United States can spare him
for time as we seem to have a
surplus of nation saviors just now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-18

and can not find any such article
in the paper. I have continuously
fought against any and all cleo tax
for the very reason that this is the
poor mans spread for bread, and I
am very grateful for the Indiana
Senate for killing this bill-it shows
that they are more considerate of
the poor man than the House.
Also, some of our aged are be-
coming alarmed because we have
done nothing for old-age pension.
I wish to inform all concerned that
at this time we can not act on this
matter; we must wait until our ma
tional government acts on the pen
sion, and it will be taken up at the
special session.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-18

At least two dozen couples working
for one firm and making big money
as this concern pays good decent
wages. 1 have tried to get job at
this firm, but no openings-if they
would ask some of these married
women who don't need to work, to
at least give up their jobs, they
would do a lot Of good for this old
depression and that seems to be
their goal.
Something should be done.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-18

and facts and they are, easily read and under
stood.
With the gas situation one which will con-
tinue TO occupy news space for many months
to come, The Times recommends this series to
the man or woman who really is DESTROYS of
seeing behind the scenes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-18

Huey Long wants to increase the work-re-
lief appropriation one billion dollars to pay
expenses of college students. That ought to
keep them from writing home for money-for
q week, anyway.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-18
MONDAY. MARCH Is. 1885.
THE THREAT OF WAR

WAR is nearer. That is the clear mean
w ing Of Germanys overthrow Of the YER
sailles Treaty and her order conscripting half
a million soldiers. For many months Great
Britain, France. Italy. Russia, and other
powers have been preparing for war. Today,
az a result Of Germany's action, they are pre-
pairing more frantically.
Germany is not alone 70 blame. The provo
cations OF IS years outlined by Herr Hitlers
proclamation are not imaginary. II is true
that the Versailles Treaty unjustly condemned
Germany 10 an inferior status. It is true that
Germany was disarmed with the solemn
pledge that this was done to make possible
disarmament by the victors. It is true
that this pledge has not been kept. 1t is true
that ornaments have been increased instead.
Therefore It is true that Germany, from the
standpoint Of her self-respect. her independ-
ence. and her safety, as nation, has right
to break through hypocrisy and avow openly
the rearmament TO which she hitherto has
been driven secretly.
But it is the worlds misfortune that this
largely inevitable development should have
occurred with Hitler and his frebrands in die
tatoriaI power over Germany. For, whatever
the theoretic justification for Germany's asser-
ton Of military independence, that justifica-
ton can not make it safe for a militaristic
dictator of Hitler's type to hold the stakes Of
European peace or war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-18
The Message Center

(Times readers are tnvited to cypress
their UfetoS in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can have chance.
Limit them to ESQ 4cordS or less. Your
letter must be signed. but names toiH
be 1oithheld at request OF the letter
1Criter)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-18
Daily Thought

Again the devil taketh Him up
into an exceeding high mountain,
and sheweth Him all the kingdoms
of the world, and the glory Of them.
st. Matthew 4:3.
THE devil tempts us not. 1t Is
Il we tempt him, reckoning his
skill with opportunity.-GeorGe Eliot
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-18
| WONDER?
BY DAISY MOORE BYNUM

BY DAISY MOORE BYNUM
I hear a fresh wind waking
Then silence seems to fall
AS still and close as sleeping,
No move, no stir at all.
A stiffness that is brooding
Like mothers when they sing,
I wonder, will this silence
Awake to joyful Spring.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-18
STATE REPRESENTATIVE
DENIES OLEO TAX CONNECTION

BY Rep John C. Kirch.
I have been accused by some that
introduced a bill for a scent tax
on oleomargarine and that this
article appeared in The Indianap-
ellis Times. / have eheekea sack
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-18


ID EGARDLESS Of the heavy responsibility of
the Paris and London governments in the
past for the unfair conditions which pro-
duced Hitlerism. the world now has no choice
but to rely upon imperialist Britain and mill
tarist France to save the peace from the
worse madness of Pan-German fsscism. The
fact that Britain to some degree is taking this
anti-Hitler position is attested by the Bald
win declaration that Britain's defense frontier
is henceforth the Rhine. and that she has
worked for British French-Italy entente &C
cordingly in western Europe.
But there is a weak point in the peace
bsrricade against Hitlers military plans. That
is Britain's hostility to Russia. Hitler knows
that he can not move westward against Brit
ish-French-Italian line without suicide. There
fore ne looks to the eaSt-as did the kaiser be-
fore him. Specifically he looks toward Russia,
and already has half-won Poland to his side.
Having split Poland from France, he needs
now only two more factors to give MIN
gambling chance. One is British neutrality
which is. or at least has BEEN possibility in
case he attacks Russia. The other factor is
dependence upon Japan to move against Rus
STA from the east as he moves from the west
And on that score the Germans, rightly or
wrongly, seem assured.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-18

THUS the recent Franco-RusSian under
standing-perhaps alliance is not too strong
a words the most important single peace
force in the world today. It has restrained
Hitler so far. If Great Britain buries her
hatred Of Russia because Of a greater fear of
Killers menace. and stands with France and
Russia for world peace, the combination may
be able to hold Hitler back. But if Britain is
satisfied TO stand with France merely for the
protection Of western Europe. in the mistaken
belief that she can permit an eastern Euro
pean war without injury to herself, then the
prospect for war is indeed great.
one exceedingly unfortunate aspect of this
world danger is that the United States gov
eminent. unwittingly and indirectly, may have
encouraged the related war forces in Germany
and Japan by sn apparent GOODNESS toward
Russia following the brief friendliness of
recognition. 1t is the duty Of Washington to
refrain from meddling in the war brew.
But Ii or judgment it is equally the duty
Of the Urited States government, rejecting
the clear viii of the American people, to pre-
vent any misunderstanding abroad that We
would Welcome a war by others against Russia.
Americans want no war.
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The Indianapolis Times
"a sCRIPPs-HoWARp NEWsPAPER,

Phone Riley xxi
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-08-30
new YORK
State Labor Convention Ex-
pels Communist

Albany, N, Y. NS)-Labor's de
termination to have nothing to do with
communists or communists was en-
phasized by William Green in speak
ing before the 72nd annual conven-
ton Of the New York State Federation
of Labor, and by the action Of the con-
vention in expelling communist
delegate.
Mr.. Green declared that American
labor would never accept dictatorship
of either the fascist or communist
type, and he again pledged thesup-
port of the American Federation of
Labor to the economic boycott of the
Hitler dictatorship in Germany.
The day following President Green's
speech, the convention ousted com
munist delegate on the ground that
labor considers it inimical to its inter
ests to permit communists in its ranks.
The expelled delegate was Angelic
Savarion, representing New York
city bricklayers' local union. On mo-
ton of the committee on credentials,
headed by Joseph P. Ryan, president
of the international Longshoremen's
Union, Savarino was unseated and de-
MED place in the hall. Ryan declared
that the American labor movement has
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-08-30
! no use for communists, and said no
communists would be permitted to sit
in the convention.
Westinghouse Workers
Win SO Wage Increase

Pittsburgh, Pa. (AFLNs)-W With
the evident purpose of attempting to
quiet the unrest among its employees
because of low wages, the Westing
house Electric and Manufacturing
Company announced that a wage rate
review which would result in S
per cent increase Of the average hour
" rate was being made
"The basic work week for hourly
paid employees the company's state
ment added, twill be 40 hours with
the provision that schedules Of actual
hours will be subject to modification
at individual plants to fit local circum-
stances"
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Of social security. It will require par
ticipation of the various states to en-
act unemployment insurance, old age
pension and other social legislation
Miss Perkins stressed the impor-
tance to labor of the Wagner labor
disputes act, terming it measure
which provides labor with an equal
ity of advantage" in the struggle
for organization and in dealings with
employers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-08-30
Two Women Nominated as
Presidential Candidate,

Back In 1872 a Mrs. Victoria Clafiin
Woodruff Cater MARTINI was nominat-
ed for the presidency at yineland, N
j., by convention styling itself the
Equal Rights party But she spent
election day that year in the Ludlow
street Jail in New York city, where
she had been confined after being
charged with circulating obscene liter
ature. The same party nominated
Mrs Belya A. Lockwood for President
Of the United States In 1884 and again
In 1883.
The Equal Rights party. observes n
writer In the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
was suffrage organization, and both
Mrs Woodhull's and Mrs Lockwood's
campaigns amounted chiefly to a suf-
frage propaganda, since neither Of
them could have held the office had
they been elected The amendment to
the Constitution giving nationwide
suffrage to women was not adopted
until 1920.
Mrs Lockwood was lawyer and re
former, born in 1880 at Royalton, n. Y
She was educated at Genesee college,
Lima, n. Y, and taught school for
eleven years Then she studied law
and was admitted to the bar In the
District Of Columbia in 1873 Six years
later she was admitted to practice be
fore the Supreme court, under law
which she had been instrumental in
getting passed.
She was born Belva Ann Bennett,
vas married in 1918 to Urlah H. Nc
Nall. who died five years later, aud in
1868 to Dr. Ezekiel Lockwood She
died in 1917.
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movement Of New York city, the State
Federation, or the American Fedora
tion."
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins
told the convention that the New Deal
marked the beginning Of an epoch in
social development. She appealed to
states throughout the nation to create
old age pension and unemployment
insurance systems and added:
eve have just begun the problem