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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14
STATISTICS?

GOVERNMENT spending and taxes in this coun-
try are bad enough certainly, and there are
GROUNDS apIenty for just complaint But it is be-
yono our understanding why organization such
as the United States Chamber of Commerce should.
under the pretense of research, use propaganda
brush to paint the picture blacker than it is
Since, as Ben Marsh says "ingratitude is sharp
er IMAM Repunhcan's TOOTH" we are not surprised
when business men complain of government spend
ing to build roads, which are Just So manv thou
sands of miles of sales floor for the automobile
industry, nor when they complain of the cost of
sewer systems, without which the bathtub man
ufacturers would be operating on not even a pea
nut-stand volume
But we can hardly let pass unnoticed such
comparison as this:
"All Of the wages of all the salaries of all of the
people of the country, who are not on some govern
men pay roll, would defray the present costs of gov
eminent in the United, States for less than 10
months" - n = y
Especially when we notice that no supporting
figures for this statement given and that as an
afterthought in the same report the Chamber of
Commerce says 1T is to be recognized that portion
OF the current expenditures is met by receipts from
income-producng enterprises, realization of assets
and other sources than taxes and borrowings"
Which should mean, if it means anything that
in its calculation of the tax burden the Chamber of
Commerce did not take into consideration the income
government receives from business operations such as
the postal service municipal power plants and water
systems.
Would it not be just fair to say that the gross
operating expenses of the business Organizations
which contribute to the Chamber of Commerce are
gross drain society? And then add as an after
thought that of these businesses do have
some income, do employ quite few people and do
perform other worthwhile services?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14
is 1T SUNSHINE?

A LL-AMERICA football selections this year show
4 pronounced veering to the South and the
West. The discussions of the various pickers agree
that it isn't so much matter of coaching any more
but matter of material AS Bernie herman of
Minnesota stated recently you must have the cards.
and cards, in football the players.
Some observers contend that the sunshine of the
South tends to produce bigger and better football
players.
We do not agree with this Outstanding Stan
ford players who have taken their team to the Rose
Bowl twice came from the East and prepared at
Kiski. prep school in Pennsylvania.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14
THE PRICE OF PEACE

THE Ango-French plan to stop the Italian
Ethiopian war by means Of a compromise
whereby all hands would cede something for the
sake of peace has given rise to tempest of pro-
test
Ethiopia has rejected it while factions in Brit
ain and France, and all the smaller powers of the
League of Nations assail it. If italy is permitted
to get away with any of the territory she has in
vaded they charge, it will mean putting premium
on aggression.
Unquestonably there is much to be said for this
argument. 1t would, indeed, be wholesome lesson
to marauding nations the world were the League
to go to with Italy, if need be, and force her
to disgorge.
But in fairness to Britain and France, there
is another side to the picture 1t is easy for the
of us to become indignant. If the League finds it
necessary to force to subdue Mussoini it is not
who would be the Leagues instrument and do
its fighting, but France and Britain.
And they want no war. We can remind them of
ideals abandoned, but they have perfectly good
How about us sharing with them the risks OF
peace? If general conflict results how many
ships how many men and how much money will we
contribute?
Britain and France would have to bear the brunt
We not going to help them. Nor the small
nations. Britain and France, therefore, are NOR
tally afraid So delicatey balanced is the peace of
Europe and Asia that were Britain to unlmber her
guns in the Mediterranean war might sweep the
world.
The last big war cost than 100000 cas-
uaties That is than three times the entire
population of Ethiopia. In money it has cost the
United States alone between so and so billion dol
lars-10 times the worth of the whole African king
dom. And we are still paying all of us, and will
continue to pay, not merely in money but in social
unrest and human misery for century to come.
Joseph Caillaux, former French premier,
tried for because in the middle of the great
war he advocated a negotiated peace. He held that
if the war continued to its logical conclusion, it
would not only ruin Europe but the world. And he
was right The did go and mankind was set
back at least five decades.
All peace, save dictated peace is by COM
promise. Nobody gets all he wants. The longer the
war, the bigger the price all must pay, way or
another.
Ethiopia has utmost sympathy. She comes
pretty nearly having the sympathy of the whole
world. In fact the world has gone to unprecedented
lengths to save her Nevertheless the fact remains
that she and Italy now at war and unless this
war can be stopped, and soon, Europe, Asia and We
ourselves, may be drawn in. Should that happen
the price of peace might be civilization itself.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14
IOWAN ADDS VOICE TO
TOWNSEND PLEA

By John C. Nevine Cedar Rapids, Iowa
I am located in Iowa for while
but still read The Times as it seems
to me I get more real news out Of
The Times than any other paper.
Conditions in Iowa are about the
same as in Indiana. I suppose it is
the same in every state. 1t looks as
If the New Deal is flop; billions of
dollars spent in the last three years
and no permanent relief in sight.
There are thousands of people who
have kept off relief by living up
their life savings who are being COM
PEELED to join the relief ranks now
The relief rolls increased 534 in
Iowa alone in October, bringing the
total up to 35,003.
There are two plans the govern
ment has not tried that would bring
relief quickly: Soak the Rich and the
Townsend Plan. There are very few
people who wish to see any one
soaked SO why not try the Town
send Plan.
The enforced circulation of money
will restore employment and conse-
quently the buying power. That is
all our country needs. 1t is simple
but logical solution advocated by the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14
Questions and Answers

Inclose a Scent stamp for reply
when addressing any question of fact
or information to The Indianap polls
Times Washington Information Bureau.
Legal and medical advice can not be
given, nor can extended research be
undertaken. Be sure all mail is adj
dressed to The Indiana polls Times Wash
ington Bureau. Frederick NJ. Kerby,
Director. 1913 Thirteenth-st. n. w..
Washington. D. c.
Q-What was the value Of farm
property in the United States in
1910, 1920 and 1890?
A-1e10, s40,e91, 449 900; 1920, ST.
923 ,652, 900; 1880, S57 .245, 544,0 900.
Q-What is the total national
wealth of the United States?
A-The estimate for 1882 was
s247,3O0, 100000.
Q-What is the record size for a
hens egg?
A-What is believed to be the
largest hens egg came into the pos
session Of the Poultry Department
of the Oregon Agricultural College.
It weighed II ounces and measured
BIZ by IL inches in circumference,
five times the circumference of an
ordinary egg. It was about AZ
inches long, or twice as long as the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14
THE TRAPPING FEET

A RE We about to hear the tramping feet of thou
n sands OF children along the paths that lead to
industry'S door?" asks the National Child Labor
Committee in its annual report
The question, at this season for childhood
JOY is in order
The report dscloseS that in September in New
York City 1923 permits for fu-time work were
granted to children IA and Is years DID, compared
with only 800 in 1884. From North Carolina comes
a report that by the end of August children under
l6 were drifting into the textile mills in spite of
efforts Of the state labor department to persuade
employers to hire only adults. The Indiana Indus
trial Board reports "a noticeable increase" in chill
drens age certificates and in industrial injuries to
minors. This past summer the California Assembly
passed resolution urging diligence in enforcn the
school code in view of the fact that child labor in
this state exists at an appalling rate
What picture in a land where nearly u MIL
lion adults walk the streets in idenesss
America resents the curse of child labor and
knows it must be treated nationally. During the
brief two years Of industrial ethics under th codes
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14

average hens egg. 1t was laid by a
singlecomb Rhode Island Red
owned by S. T. White of Corvallis,
Ore.
Q-How much was expended on
public school education in the
United States in 1888, 1884, and
1885?
A-The National Education Asso-
citation estimates the total eXpend-
itures for public school education
in 1888 as $3.50 $50 600; in 1884 as
81 ,799 BOG, 600; and the probable
amount for 1885 as S1,o42, 581, 900.
Q-Where and when was Pretty
Boy" Floyd. who was associated with
the Dillinger gang, killed? Was he
married?
Ale was shot and killed on a
farm about Z miles north of East
Liverpool, O., Oct. %, 1894. He was
married twice. His first wife di-
vorced him and his second wife left
him, taking their small son with
her.
Q-Where was the movie, THE
Call of the Wild" produced.
AIN Hollywood, except for To-
cation scenes made near Mount
Baker, Wash.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14
A TRIPLE SUGGESTION

COcIALITE friends of Mrs Ellen French Wander
~ bilt Fitzsmons probably sending her orchids
for her public declaration that she will defy the
United States government by planting potatoes in
the beautiful front lawn Of her Newport mansion.
Mrs Fitzsimons is both Newport society leader
and member of the Republican National Com
mittee.
We suggest she go one step further in her farm
ing operations. She could raise COW. From its
stomach she could make some genuine tripe
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14
The HOOsier Forum
pcholy disapprove of avhat you say-and will
defend to the death yor right to sag it-Voltaire.

capable of giving any real informa-
ton about the plan Vi any facts
connected with it. 1t is not exactly
prudent for one of this kind to de-
nounce a plan which has been de-
clared sound and workable by such
prominent economist as Roger
BabSon. There are reasons for the
feeling that it would be too good to
be true, but never could there be a
sincere objection to it if it will dc
what is claimed. Instead of de-
nouncing something good just be-
cause it seems too good, why not
investigate the facts and help
humanity toward a goal we al
must admit is to be desired?
Too many have the idea that the
5000 a month is strictly a pension
to old folk. This is not the case
This 5000 is for them to use in a
distribution plan that will create
employment, larger sales, and a
continuous turnover in financial
channels. 1t is the tax idea con-
nected with it that looms as q
scarecroW to the uninformed. This
plan will, of course, require a z
per cent transaction tax to start it
working, and then as it progresses
the volume of increased business
will make it possible to reduce this
tax, as we'll as other taxes. This
will be brought about by the aboli-
ton of county and state institutions
for the care of the aged.
The morale of millions of Ameri-
cans will be raised to a degree I'M
known, because of the security that
will be theirs in old age. The social
security measure passed last session
of Congress is nothing more than
an insult to the American people. It
may be a gesture in the right direc-
ton, but that is all it is. Just a
gesture.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14
OTHER OPINION
Button, Button
Hammond Timesl

You may remember the old
game, Button, Button, Who's Got
the Button? The person who got
the button was the goat.
A modern craze of button, but
ton" has been going on of late years
in the special and class tax move
ment.
One of the first and biggest but
tons" was sewed on to motorists
when the gas tax went like a case
of measles from coast to coast. The
insurance industry has come in for
it's turn with various special taxes
The electric companies have them
There are special food and other
taxes and many laws and proposals
on up to the share the wealth
plan, which is just another class taz
idea.
The chain stores are in for it nov
in many states with special class
taxes on them, levied or proposed.
The trouble is that there are
plenty of buttons" to go around
Politicians pockets are just full Of
them and they would rip them Of
their clothes, if necessary.
| Maybe you haven't been passed a
button" yet with a class tax or
your business, but you may get one
any day.
Think it over the next time a taa
is proposed that will hit only the
other fellow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14
"SAIL BOATS"
BY MAUD COURTNEY WADDELI

Floating virgins in white
Youthfully slim, oh-so prim,
Whose partner is the ardent wind
Lightly you glide and smooth
Both graceful you bend and sway
I see young lovely maidens
In swift joy tripping away
To dance in their happiness
On the gallant arms of love,
While rowing clouds above
Roll on to disappear
Though you sail by sans fear.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14
On Resolution Writers

Editorial. New York Daily Newsl
In any meeting, Right or Left, the
men with the most positive ideas
and the loudest mouths write the
resolutions which are finally adopted
as the sense of the whole gather
ing. So the resolutions are almost
always more burningly one-sided
and biased than are most of the
men who voted to adopt them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14
SIGN OF THE TIMES

ELABORATING press dispatch from Adrian,
- Mich, Rep. Earl C. Kitchener. who when Con-
sress is in session sits in the House chamber at the
Republican leaders table directing most of the crti-
cism of New Deal spending, promised meeting of
Townsendites Thursday night Ito work for passage
of the Townsend plan at the next session of Con-
gress"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14

McGroarty Social Security Bill. The
government is not asked to ad-
vance any huge sums to guarantee
the old-age annuities under the Nc
Groarty bill. Neither does it give
something for nothing. The transac-
ton tax earns all the necessary
funds on the pay as you go plan.
AS for the ones who are afraid of
the 2 per cent tax, if things go on
while longer like they have been,
hey and their children and grand
children will be paying more than
that There is one sure thing, the
Townsend Plan will not make things
any worse.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14
CAN ENGLAND KEEP CONTROL
IF BOYCOTT FAILS?

By John Kennedy
Dear old John Bull, who set about
some 20 years ago to make the world
he now dominates safe for democ-
racy, suddenly has been awakened
to the fact that he also has made
that world an ideal place for die
tators and their radical nationalism
So he now gathers to those sacred
halls of peace at Geneva his choS-
en- delegates from those favorite
weak puppet nations, many of whom
owe their mythical sovereignty to
the unholy Versailles Treaty which
also gave John Bull direct control
and economic domination over the
larger part of the valuable virgin
territory of the world.
And today he calls upon these
puppet princes of peace, some SO in
all, to vote economic sanctions
against Mussolini and his nation
simply because Italy was forced to
use the brutal methods of war to
gain enough virgin territory that
they might not starve to death for
the want of natural resources, which
John Bull continues to hog for the
benefit of those profit-mad capital
lists who run his social setup.
But if John Bulls boycott fails,
and armed conflict follows, will
those puppets stay within the fold?
How long would it take Hitler to
unfurl his Swastika flag on that bat
tie field that h. might regain a
lost empire?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14
DAILY THOUGHTS

Thu ungodly are not SO; but are
like he chaff which the wind driv-
eth s,Way.-Psalms j, 4.
THE happiness of the wicked
: passes away like a torrent
Lacine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14
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SAYS SECURITY BILL DOESN'T
GO FAR ENOUGH

By eileen w. Sharkey
1t is very apparent that the Town
send Old-Age Revolving Pension
Plan will be much more of a prob
lem at the coming session of Con-
gress than it was at the last. Every
congressman knows that he is 60
ing to have to give it real considera-
ton and that thousands of his con-
stituents will demand an unevasive
answer as to his stand on this ques-
ton.
There yet are those who look upon
this Townsend Pension Plan as too
fantastic for serious thought. These
same individuals would no5 be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14
Squaring
The Circle
With
McCREADY HUSTON
McCREADY HUSTON

AIEXT to being Indlana's most
successful popular writer Of
the new generation one would pre-
fer to be her father, which is what
George Weymouth is The author
is Margaret Weymouth Jackson,
who lives on a farm over at Spen-
Ger and writes short stories and
serials for the magazines of large
circulation.
George was editor of Farm Life"
and it was in his magazine that
Margie Jackson got her start. He is
now associate editor of the "Indi-
ana Farmers Guide" published in
Huntington, but he does his work in
indianapolis.
George Weymouth may win the
ribbon for Indiana authorship ia
therdom because his son Fred's
wife, Martha, is beginning to ap-
pear in the magazines.
Margie has the secret of success.
She steadfastly refused for num-
Der of years to go to New York at
the request of her agent and make
personal appearances before her
editors. She had notion that the
mental picture they had of her, in
reading and buying her stories, was
a much more valuable trade asset
than an accross-the-desk acquaint-
ance. She was more than 100 per
cent right. Except Harrington,
Margie probably has marketed more
fiction than any current Hoosier
writer.
George. her father, is one of the
brightest minds in Indiana agricul-
ture. He goes back to the days of
Opie Reed, in Chicago, and has all
the charm and wisdom of men of
that time. I suspect that much of
Margie's good sense in the writing
business stems from George. While
many of her contemporaries famed
for while and then flickered out
she goes along like Old Man River.
She writes a good story about peo-
pie she knows, stays close to the
soil and is not interested in the
bright lights.
The traffic policemen may have
their faults but they also have
much provocation. The other eve
ming at Illinois and Market, a de-
crepit machine, a regular junker,
was first in line at the intersection.
The light was green and the engine
of the antique was chugging away
laboriously while traffic was piling
up behind. 1t was in the midst of
the home-going traffic rush.
The policeman was blowing his
whistle but the man at the helm
of the wreck just sat there. He was
blind or deaf or just unconcerned.
Finally, the policeman walked over
to him and shouted:
do I have to write you letter."
The weary old machine got un-
der way.
From the Port O. Poets Press at
Greencastle comes slim volume of
verse written by Fan Boyd Heiney
and called THE Dreamer and Other
Rhymes" One thing that distin-
cuisines the book is the foreword in
which the author states that his
reason for writing is that he likes
to see his name in print.
Such frankness is refreshing.
We've read most of the verses in
MIR. Heineys book and liked some
of them. But what we'd like to
know is where he got his name. Is
Fan something he thought up or
11.. = .a.ao ,,,ith a natiVitV9
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14

Times readers are united to cypress
their Uie,CS in these columns, religious
controversies excluded. Make Uour letters
short. so all can have q chance. Limit
them to $50 10ords or less. Your letter
must be siQned, but names 10iU be
t0ithheld on reQueSt.)
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ASSERTS LAND POLICY
NEEDS REVISION
any worse

BY E. B. Swinney, Los Angeles
Land gambling is most alluring
game during prosperous periods be-
cause it holds out hope of quick
and large returns. This was partic-
ularly noticeable during the war;
when land values advanced by leaps
and bounds. The tremendous de-
mand for food supplies and other
labor products reflected in CORE
spending demand for land the use
of which was necessary to the pro-
duction of these things.
The country became land crazy.
The boom grew like a SNOWFALL,
affecting all kinds of land, until val
ues became inflated beyond the abil-
ity of labor and capital to carry on.
Then followed the crash, causing
losses of billions in real estate and
mortgage investments. Business be-
came paralyzed, factories shut down
and millions were thrown out of en-
ployment.
This condition has continued for
more than five years while land
values gradually have been reced-
ing to a level where labor and CAPT.
tai can once more resume operations
en- a profitable basis. The wheels Of
industry again are beginning to
turn, and we now have started on a
ride for another fall, as rents and
land prices have started on the up
grade.
Our present land policy is our
grea test economic affliction. It
needs revising along the lines sug-
gested by Henry George, for we shall
never enjoy real or permanent pros
perity until we have eliminated
gambling and racketeering in the
tl1ral rnSn11rnoc
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

DARENTS can think up more ways to worry about
their children! Yesterday happened to be in
the company of two, who were upset by different
apprehensions.
Elizabeth, the 17-year-od daughter of Mrs JONES'
wasn't making good grades in school and seemed
to have her mind too much on dates and dancing
Her mother was conjuring up about dozen dis
asters per minute which were certain to overtake
the girl because of her disregard for the serious
side of life
Mrs Browns fears took opposite tack. Her
Frances was too studious; always sitting around
with her in book; taking interest what
ever in boys; she didn't even care about clothes.
AS you may have guessed, Mrs. Brown harbored
social ambitions for her Frances while Mrs. Jones
gazed longingly toward a distinguished scholastic
career for Elizabeth That's the way it usually goes.
careful survey of mothers convinces that most
of like that Never content to accept our
children they are, We must always be making
them over according to some unnatural pattern cut
according to fancy.
Indeed one of the hardest things in life is to
take long look at somebody you love-as you love
your child. Yet if mothers did that oftener, per-
haps we might understand that it is not possible to
change a st-by-the-fre into aggressive social
leader The effort may even have disastrous conse-
querces.
The Martha type never be a Mary, and why
on earth should she, since the world must have
both kinds of women?
Frivolous Elizabeth Jones, young, happy, careless
of serious matters will probably grow into fine
woman, marry well and bring up decent children,
while Frances Brown, who loves the studious occu-
pations and exists most of the time in a dream
world, need be none the less happy in life of the
intellect.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14

There are three criteria of stomach that is up
to its job; mind free from fog an abdomen free
from discomfort. and sleep free from dreams.-Dr.
T. Wingate Todd. Cleveland