davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-05
COUNTY FAIR GREAT
AID TO COMMUNITY
Br Al Club Enthusiast

By 4-H Club Enthusiast
Revival of the Marion County
Fair at New Bethel this last week
probably will encourage many young
members of All clubs, since it
offers them an opportunity to win
prizes which the state fair ioes not.
Sponsors Of the fair probably re-
member the old adage that its
better to be "a big duck in a little
puddle" Many of these youngsters
who showed live stock and home
economics exhibits in the fair last
week. probably will not have nerve
enough to enter them in the state
fair, where competition is so much
stronger.
While the state fair is a really
fine thing for all of Indiana, there
is a place in community life for
this smaller event. The youngsters
growing up now will experience
some of the thrills which their par
ents knew, when attendance at the
county fairs meant an annual week
of thrills and fun.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-05
Ro w n Richards

BE- w. H. Richards
In an editorial Aug. l N The
Times you say that though Con-
gress passed the $4,800,0O0, 900 bill
for public works in January, seven
months have passed and scarcely
$4,000 men have been put 20 work.
Yea give as reason that those
in whose hands the management
of the expenditure has been
placed seem to be working at
cross-purposes and plans are be-
ing delayed because of lack of CO.
operation between them.
AS a mere surface explanation,
this may be true, but the real
cause of the delay goes deeper
than that.
The whole scheme is a gigantic
play for votes in the 1886 election
and, as the amount, though stu
pendous, would not be nearly
enough to give employment to the
promised 100000 for a year and
half, it must not be started too
soon or it would fizzle out before
the election.
Hence, as the American voter is
used to swallowing promises hook,
line and sinker, he can be held in
check and kept in line on the
simple promise of what is going to
be done when the plans are COM
pleted.
1t is true that the expenditure
of that sum will give an upshoot
to business in general and the
plan is that it may create an ar
tif1cial prosperity, which the peo-
pie can be fooled into believing
is the real thing, and that it must
be at its crest in September and
October, of next year, so that the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-05
aOhouy disapprove of 1Ohat you sag and will
defend to the death your right to say tAVoItaire.

cal caption. The taxation that has
aided big business is paid for by the
property owner who can not falsify
his taxable property and the con-.
sumner.
Why the Melons, with approx
mately seven billion dollars Of tax
ables should contest a three-million
tax is not quite clear to the ordi-
nary observer. Who are the para
sites?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-05
HERE'S A TAX SYSTEM
HE CAN'T FIGURE

BY Carter Glass Democrat
Here is something for your New
Dealers to think about. If a person
buys for cash a $500 f. o. b. Detroit
automobile. he not only pays plus
of freight charges, he pays:
Three per cent, or SIS Federal tax
for the privilege of buying it.
An equal or greater amount (per-
sonal property taxi, varying with
the community in which he lives, for
the privilege of owning it.
Five dollars or more for the privi-
lege of running it a year Qicense
tag.
Fifty cents for the privilege of
driving it Operators licenSe).
Four to 9 cents a gallon for the
privilege of buying gasoline as long
as he has the car-1-cent Federal
and varying state taxes.
One cent a quart for the privi-
lege of buying lubricating oil.
Three per cent if he ever buys new
tires.
And, in many states, 2ta to per
cent more for the privilege of buy
ing the car in the first place Estate
sales taXes.)
Henry Ford, General Motors and
Chrysler spend millions of dollars
trying to find new ways to white
pennies off the sales prices of their
cars.
Every time they succeed, the New
Dealers or state governments figure
a wav to slap dollars either onto the
purchase price or onto the operating
costs.
Each successful economy o. the
manufacturers means more sales,
more men working. more people en-
Toying up-to-date motor tranSporta-
ton.
Increased taxation of the motorist
reverses that process.
Of course the manufacturers are
engaged in the hellish pursuit of
profits and the New Dealers and
their counterparts in state govern
ments are very laudably trying to
share somebody elSe's wealth with
the jobless.
I suppose I should say, Pie on
the filthy rich who are trying to get
richer, and hurah for the nobly-
intentioned woLld-be wealth-shar-
ers!"
But somehow can't seem to put
my heart into it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-05
Scores Propaganda Lies

political windjammers can point
with pride" to this period of I'M
precedentedl prosperity that we
are enjoying by the good work of
Mr.. Roosevelt. He can view with
alarm" that if the Republicans are
elected this prosperity will come
to an end right after the election.
That the money has been nearly
all spent and the prosperity will
be all over then no matter who is
elected will be a truth carefully
suppressed.
1t is time for the workers to
wake up and realize that neither
Republicans nor Democrats have
any intention of doing anything
for them and that they will get
nothing they have not the will
and the united power to take.
Not by force, but by casting
their ballot for party pledged to
social ownership of the instru-
ments by which all must live and
the operation of industry for use
and not for private profit.
The Socialist party has been
pointing the way to peace. pros
perity and happiness for all for
many years. but many have only
heard the slanderous lies of the
capitalist parties who are inter-
eSted in holding labor down to
bare living wage while they pocket
all the benefit of our mechanical
development, which properly used
would enable us to produce and
use the equivalent of $4,000 a year
per family.
The voter should investigate So
cialism before condemning it on
the advice of its enemies who have
an interest in deceiving.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-05
OLD-AGE PENSION
SYSTEM is UNDER FIRE
By a Times Reader

BY Times Reader
have been a reader of The Times
for Is years. I saw in the Message
Center yesterday where man 70
years old couldn't get an old-age
pension. 1 think it is almost a sin
the way they are treating the old
folk.
My mother is 81, is paralyzed and
has been on the fiat of her back for
three years. She applied for old
age pension and was approved last
January, but she hasn't received q
penny yet If we write to the coun-
ty commissioners, they just ignore
the letters and if we go to see them,
they say there is no money.
I think someone should investi-
gate and see where all the money is
going. If it is a law in Indiana for
old-age pensions, I think the old
folk should have it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-05
WHEN THE RAIN STOPS?

TINE great African peace-or-war showdown
l. is in sight.
The wet season in Ethiopia ends next
month. Mussolinfs legions will then begin
their march on Adds Ababa or they won't.
The next 80 or 40 days. therefore, may be
among the most fateful since 1914.
Twice in the last 30 days the Council of the
League has met at Geneva. And twice it has
contrived to save its face. But both times 1t
also left Il Duce free to go ahead with his in
tensive preparations for battle.
The League has now given itself one more
chance If arbitration has not settled the
Italo-Ethiopian dispute meanwhile and if the
scheduled three-power conference of Italy,
Britain and France gets nowhere, the League
will again stepin. The date is Sept. 4.
The League" said Britain's spokesman,
Anthony Eden. not only will then be asked to
examine the whole situation but will be ex-
pected to make decision on it."
That may be mere talk or it may be a
warning. Which. depends mostly on Britain.
1t is plain that Mussolini can not be stopped
bv pious wishes He can only be halted by
superior force-or, at least, by being convinced
that superior force will be used # necessary.
That puts it up to Britain.
France. the other major power involved. will
hardly break with Italy. She counts too
heavily on italian support in the increasingly
anxious days ahead along the Rhine.
Britain, therefore. holds the key. If she in
sits. she can probably get mandate from the
League TO curb Italy. And, if she feels that
deeply about it-and if she will quietly. but
sternly. whisper it into II Duce's ear during
the tri-partite conversations just ahead-there
may be no war.
Britains course, for centuries. has been
strictly realist. 1t is now 1t viii continue to
be dictated by empire interest
Britains flag floats over 20 million white
and $50 million colored subjects. War in
Ethiopia would stir up unrest throughout her
colored realm.
Britain owns. or controls. every inch of soil
in direct line from Cairo to Capetown. Mid
way like knife at its heart, stands Ethiopia.
Suez, the Red Sea and Bah e Mandeb are the
vital, narrow water corridors through which
direct empire traffic pours between England.
India. the Far East and Australasia. Ethiopia
tanks that route also.
In the hands OF a strong. aggressive. ex-
panding power. some day when Britain stands
with its back TO the wall. Ethiopia might for
ever turn the scales against the empire.
II there is any such fear in the back Of
her mind, she VIII find way to block Il Duce's
advance. Otherwise she may be expected to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-05
MONDAY. AUG S. 1885
TAXES, TIME AND INTEREST

NTHETHER the proposed inheritance taxes
" Dc designed to obtain revenue, or re-
distribute wealth. or both. special attention
should be given 20 the provisions for collect
ing them
Inheritance taxes viii have to be admin
istered in conjunction with the estate taxes.
Existing laws tax estates up to a maximum of
so per cent before they are distributed. and
the proposed inheritance schedule would tax
inhertances after the distribution, up to rs
per cent.
Thus the government will have a greater
financial interest IN the very large estates than
Will the heirs. It therefore becomes a mat
ter Of prime concern to the government to
preserve the wealth it is taxing. at least long
enough to collect the taxes.
The problem IS simple when an estate
consists principally Of cash and easily mar
ketable securities. But such are exceptions
The tax collector usually has to try to get his
money out Of assets such as real estate, for
which there may be no market, and securi-
ties Of the sort that can not be o4ickly unload
ed without great loss. In periods of shrinking
values such as that of the last five years, sat
isfactory liquidation Of estates to meet estate
and inheritance taxes becomes impossible.
Partial recognition of these practical OBJ
stacles is seen in the existing estate tax law
which permits the commissioner of internal
revenue to grant tax payment extensions up to
eight years, and in the pending inheritance tax
provision which permits extensions up to 10
years. But in some instances, even eight or 10
years may not be long enough to prevent
forced sales which wipe out these sources of
revenue.
Under the estate tax law, the government
collects per cent interest on unpaid taxes
through an extension period. Under the pend
ing measure, the government will collect per
cent on unpaid inheritance taxes for the first
three years Of an extension, and per cent
thereafter.
It seems unjust and unnecessary for gov
eminent, which can borrow money for less
than 3 per cent, to exact twice as much interest
from a taxpayer who is trying to get his
affairs in shape to pay in full the governments
maximum assessment Heavy interest charges
might well force a taxpayer to unload at
-than-value prices. and thereby cause
the government to get less in the long run.
From the angle of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
also. forced sales are self-defeating. For in
cases of large estates and inheritances when
assets are thrown overheard to raise cash to
pay taxes. only very wealthy persons will be
found on the other side of the bargain coun-
ter. Hence the wealth is not shared, but
merely transferred to others who are we'll
TODD.
All these considerations are vital, from the
angles of both revenue and reform. But it is
perhaps too much to hope that Congress, eager
to complete political taxation coup. will give
them much study.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-05
Night, Day
BY NJ. C. w.

BY NJ. C. w.
Far from the window Of my room
Shine silent stars and siivery moon
With fleeing clouds, then darkest
gloom,
Like I'll omen of my own doom,
AS crickets sing plaintive tune.
Remindful of a lonely TOMB
When death must come. Please, not
too soon!
The day dawns clear with golden
light.
Gone are the wears Of lonely night.
Renewed are hopes with stronger
might.
I know what comes will all be right,
My heart beats high, my eyes are
bright,
/ fail to see a coming blight.
My soul scars on its outward flight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-05
PRIVATE DISCUSSIONS

THE ways of diplomats are, at times, not
l. so mysterious as they are ridiculous.
Were a citizen of any country to hurl
threats at a citizen of another country. and
prepare to wage war Italy does today
against Ethiopia, and an open discussion of its
arguments, as against those of the African
country. the League of Nations will get to-
gether and conduct closed, private discussions
with the principals, of which the rest of the
world will know only what is considered good
for it to know.
That isn't so mystifying, in the light Of
what already is known about the situation.
But it does look ridiculous when you reflect
the probability that the League Of Nations
is concerned not so much over the outcome
Of the alo-Ethiopian affairs as it is over
its own future.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-05

Like all of the things which re-
build the old-fashioned spirit of
neighborlinesS and friendly compe-
tition, the fair deserved the support
which county residents gave it.
The New Bethel Civic Welfare
Association, which sponsored the
fair, really has accomplished some
thing. Through the years of the de-
preston, it held up the county fair
tradition in carnivals. All members
of the community, All clubs, and
OF y organizations should offer it a
vote of thanks for reviving the good
old county fair days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-05
So They Say

The great debt which civilization
owes to Italy, it owes to the Italy
of Dante, Mazzini, and Calico, not
to the Italy OF Mussolini.-Rabbi
David Sherman, Cleveland.
I am not a nudist, never have
been a nudist, never have been in
a nudist camp, and don't want to
be.-Lawrence Cramer, new Virgin
Islands governor.
We are farther out Of the depres-
sion right now than most people
realize. In my opinion, We will be
in good shape by next summer
Postmaster General James A. Farley.
we have to find jobs for 1900, 900
people and we are not creating them
by frightening hours and cutting
wages.-Edward F. McGrady, Assist
ant Secretary Of Labor.
Every barrel of -four consumed
in New York City pays toll to rack
eteers, which goes right into the
price of every loaf Of bread
Thomas E. Dewey, named special
prosecutor Of city's racketeers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-05
The Message Center

(Ttmes readers are invited to cypress
their riet1s in these columns. Make your
letters short. so all can have chance.
Limit them to $50 words or less. Your
letter must be signed. but names t0iH
be tCithheld at request OF the letter
tCYiteyJ
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-05

do pretty much what she did in 1o31-wfen
japan, a member Of the League, swallowed
huge slice Of China, also member. Then,
her opposition never went beyond the aca-
oenlic.
SO. as the world wonders what will happen
when the rain ceases in Ethiopia, Britain
largely holds the answer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-05
Daily Thought

Though thou exalt thyself as the
eagle, and though thou set thy nest
among the stars, thence will I bring
thee down, saith the Lord.-Oba-
diah, iv.
n
bride defeats its own end. by
L bringing the man who seeks es-
TEEN and reverence into contempt.
-Bolingbroke.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-05

Department. of Commerce reports that the
typical American family lives in wooden
house renting for s341 year. Now to locate
the LOG per cent American.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-05

Those Matanuska Valley settlers don't
seem to be measuring up as true colonists.
IN fact, you might call them semicolonists.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-05

There's one person who doesn't suffer from
lack of permanent work-the hairdresser.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-05

Postmaster General Farley says the depres-
sion will be over by next summer. And i'm
mediately we'll have the presidential cam
paign
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-05

According to a Milwaukee physician, doc
tors are born gamblers. What about their
patients?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-05

Germany is telling us. in other words, IF
anybody won't let US raise our flag, we'll raise
the deuce"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-05

new high record has been made in world
production Of oil, more than ever being needed
to pour on troubled waters
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-05

We can't understand why they're going to
run the giant Pan-American Clipper to the
Orient and not to Soviet Russia. where they
could use it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-05

Soviet government is going to make it
harder to obtain a divorce. From now on. the
departing man or woman probably will be re-
ouired to wave goodby.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-05

Member ~ Uulfed Press
Scripps Howard Newspaper
Alliance. Newspaper Enter
prise Association. Newspa r,er
Information Service and Au-
d. Bureau ~ CALCULATIONS.
owned and published dailS
Except sunday by The In
Annapolis Times Publishing
Co.. els 90 vs.. MarvIand-sf.
indianapolis Ind Price in
Marion County. 3 cents a
copy delivered by carrier. Il
cents n week Mail subscrip-
tion rates IA Indiana. - a
year. OUTSIDE ~ Indiana. 65
cents month
os4to
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-02
NOTED EYE SPECIALISTS HAVE
RESTORED SIGHT TO PIONEER

When the yacht Seyellen II ar
rived in Sitka no one was particu-
larry concerned about it, states a
Sitka dispatch in the Juneau EN-
pire. Too many yachts arrive these
days 10 cause any excitement, but
it was a lucky event for J. &. Ken
ny, a resident of the Pioneers
Home since May 7. Kenny is a well
known roadhOuse keeper and pros
pectOr from the Anchorage district.
For the past year he has been to-
tally blind due to cataraets on both
eyes.
On board the yacht was DR.. John
K. Weeks, internationally known
eye specialist of New York, and
DR.. Davis of Portland, who ranks
as one of the foremost eye men of
the Pacific Coast. DR.. Weeks and
DR.. Davis visited the Pioneers
Home and informed DR.. Nicholson,
the attending physician, that they
would be glad to look at any meu
with eye trouble.
After looking at the pioneers
with eye Affections and advising
them what to do they decided that
it would be possible in the case of
Kenny to operate and restore his
sight. Without formality or pre-
tense they performed the operation.
Although DR.. Weeks is rs years
of age he has a clear eye and a
steady hand, and there is no ques-
ton that in two weeks Kenny will
be able to see.
Kenny is the happiest man in
Alaska. He knows that in a few
weeks he will be able to see the
Pioneers Home where he has been
feeling his way around for the past
two months. He will also be able
to recognize his former friends and
acquaintance, and he will be able
to see the fellow pioneers whom he
has previously known only by their
voices.
DR.. Weeks and DR.. Davis offered
their services without pay. They
will, however, heap a rich reward
in the undying gratitude of Kenny
and his many friends in Alaska.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-02
HOSPITAL NOTES

Dan Mccullough, 10-year-old son
of John Mccullough, fractured his
right leg about half way to the
knee while playing Thursday eve
ming. The fracture was reduced at
Bishop Rowe General hospital,
where he will be a patient for a
day or two before being removed to
his home.
Mrs. Peter Johnson gave birth to
a boy weighing five pounds, eleven
ounces, Tuesday morning, July 80.
William Maslan, a member of
the Alaska crew, was admitted to
he hospital for medical treatment
on July 81.
Mrs. NJ. G. Shain was a medical
patient at the hospital the latter
part of the week.
Harold Stahl, a member of the
road crew, received treatment at
the hospital from July % to July
26 for an injured leg.
Andrew Mork was admitted to
the hospital ON July 20 for medical
treatment.
Frank Swanke, native of Chile
and resident of Wrangell for sever
al years, was admitted to the hos
pital as a medical patient on July
%.
A girl weighing six pounds, three
ounces was born on July 81 to
Mrs. Fortunate Gotardo, who left
the hospital yesterday for her
home where she will be cared for
by relatives.
Mrs. Joseph Demmert of Kla-
wock has been a medical patient at
the hospital since July 10.
Other patients at the hospital
are Mrs. o. Gunderson, Ellen Jack
son, George Cowan and r. L. Bart
lett.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-02

Milk 10 Cents a Quart. Night
Delivery. More Dairy, Phone "a
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-02
PALMER COL0NIsT KILLS BEAR
FOUND IN NEW CABIN YARD

PALMER. Alaska, July 27-Rus-
sci Pakonens and his wife, former
Iron Mountain, Michigan, residents
and now colonists here, returned to
their home last night from a visit
to neighbors and found a bear
proving in front of their brand
new cabin. Mrs. Pakonens tainted
and her husband carried her inside
the cabin.
The bear, meanwhile, meandered
around to the back of the house.
Pakonens rushed to a neighbor's
house. returned with a rifle, and
shot the bear.
The chief diversion of the colon
lists now is salmon fishing, in which
most of them participate nightly
after a day of cabin building. More
than 90 cases of salmon have been
put up to date by the housewives.
Fred Her niece is rather good
looking"
Ted: Don't say knees is" say
knees are"
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-02

S. C. belong, printer-operator
for the past year and half in the
Sentinel office, left on the North
western this morning for Juneau
where he will join the mechanical
force of the Alaska Daily Press.
Mrs. belong and six-year-old Da-
vid will leave on a later boat. Mr..
belongs successor will be James
Nelson of Seattle, who will arrive
on the Alaska Monday.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-02

Mrs. Emma Mckinney, veteran
newspaper editor and publisher in
Oregon, and associate editor with
her son of the Hillsboro, Oregon,
Argus, was a Sentinel caller Mon
day while the Alaska was in port.
She was returning south from the
southeast Alaska tour which she
had greatly enjoyed. During her
time in port at Wrangell she was
the guest of Mrs. E. j. Davis, who
Is here for the summer from Hills
boro.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-02

DR.. w. M. Whitehead will leave
Wrangell on August IL. His sue
cessor will be DR.. j. H. Clements,
who was strongly recommended for
the place by DR.. J. Tate Mason, of
Seattle, head of the Virginia Mason
hospital and president elect of the
American NJ e d zeal association.
DR.. Clements will arrive in Wran-
CELL on the Alaska next Monday.