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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-23
FINISH THE JOB

Nov that the bitter death sentence" issue
L has been compromised. there seems no
reason why Congress should not wind up the
utility holding company legislation in short
order. The overwhelming House vote for the
compromise Is indicative of the strong senti-
ment for completing the job this session.
No responsible critic OF the Administration
policy for curling utility holding company
abuses has. at any time. denied that there is
a real need for more adequate control over
this monopoly. 1t has been conclusively
proved that the holding companies have used
their intricate corporate structures to evade
control, and have taken inordinate profits out
Of operating companies. despite the sternest
efforts of state regulatory commissions to pro-
tect consumers and investors.
The principal objective of Federal legisla-
ton is to make state regulation effective.
That is the only tenable alternative TO COM
plete public ownership of the utility monopoly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-23
GERMANY BACKING UP

THE old-fashioned, medieval German type,
which has done so much to discourage
foreigners from becoming far,iliar with the
German language, seems to oe another thing
which is coming back under Hitler.
After the war; Germany made system
attic effort to replace that old-fashioned
hard-to-read Gothic style of lettering with
ordinary Roman letters, such as are used in
other countries The campaign made great
deal of Roadway. and it looked as if the way
would at least be made easier for outsiders
who wanted to get a reading acquaintance
with German.
But now it develops that the old-fashioneo
type is more German" Therefore, no good
NaA can stand for its replacement by a
more modern, legible type face. Hence the
old Gothic letters are coming back.
When blind nationalism cuts loose, little
things like logic and convenience are very
quickly tossed out the window.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-23
FORCING THE FARM ISSUE

THE question of processing taxes and the
AAA farm program is fast approaching a
showdown. AS 600 suits by professors pile up
against the special taxes, collection has al
ready dropped to half what it was at the peak.
Soon the collections will fall far below the
benefits promised to be paid to farmers for
crop reduction.
Then there are only two alternatives; cut
ting out the benefits or paying them from the
Treasury
Up to now processing taxes and benefits
have practically balanced. That is, consumers,
and to some extent professors, have paid the
farmers benefits. But adding a half-billion
dollars to the already overburdened national
budget is something else again.
The situation must remain in confusion IN
til the United States Supreme Court decides
next winter on constitutionality of the AAA.
Then, as Secretary Wallace has so often
pointed out. America must choose"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-23
I qOhouy disapprove of aOhat you sag and will
defend to the death your right to sag it-VOt0ire.

man people are like the American
people They would rather suffer
death than make such changes in
their mode of operating industry, as
will provide universal plenty, in
steady of poverty for the masses and
luxury for the few.
The Nazis have no solution for
Germanys economic decline. They
are merely stalling, clustering, and
pronouncing voodoo words over the
corpse of capitalism. All the New
Deal hypOdermics were injected into
the German industrial organization
before the German debt moratorium
was provided by Hoover. But the
patient is not recovering, the walk
ing skeleton should be given de-
cent burial We are only a short
space behind the Germans and will
copy them while trying to dress up
the corpse.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-23
HE SEES DARK DAYS
AHEAD FOR US
By Village Contributor

By Village Contributor
Nothing that Congress has done
during the present session can pre-
vent this country from drifting into
economic collapse.
The Congressman are totally OBJ
liviouS to the underlying causes OF
our failure to operate our indus
tries; to produce an abundance OF
goods TOR the satisfaction of our
needs. Neither do they care SO long
as they get their salaries.
If Congress has no power under
the Constitution to regulate wages
and hours accounting to the
Schechter Supreme Court case,
whether it be done on interstate
commerce as related to transporta-
ton or in the sale of goods across
state lines, then we must submit to
the paternalism of business which is
largely infernalism. We might as
we'll abolish Congress if the Con-
stitution prevents it from acting
in regulating the source and means
of our living.
The Schechter case throws doubt
on the power Of Congress to license
industries engaged IN the produc-
ton of goods for interstate sale re-
gardless of the evasion so widely
practiced by manufacturers by set
ting up dummy sales corporations,
through which they sell their prod
uctS for national consumption. 1t
looks as if Congress is the dummy
for our American corporations in
stead of the representative of the
voters.
This has all the earmarks of an
oligarchy, instead of a democracy.
The oligarchy Of business tells
Congress to supply national credit
to bolster the tottering private
financial structure and Congress
sets up the RFC.
Congress prevents the operation
of our industries by permitting the
medium Of exchange to be manu-
featured by selected group who
dominate not only in the matter
Of creating credit money, but also
in the control Of the major indus
| tries.
There can be no healthy indus
trial activity until Congress creates
real money as a medium of ex-
change, instead of permitting banks
to charge toll for creating credit
currency
While banks have the privilege
under the banking laws to manufac-
ture credit money, they are the
sovereign rulers of all industry, ano
that means dictatorship; we do not
need to wait for it. We have had
it since 1864. Taxation on profits
to operate the government and foI
keeping wealth distributed through
graduated taxation, plus a Federal
public-owned banking system, op-
Grated as our postal system, is the
only salvation for capitalism. But
Congress does not know it or care
about it. So toward the abyss we go
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-23
SAFER THAN SAFES

GONE things, even though bordering on the
~ tragic, become boresome when they happen
too often. And this is the case in the safe
cracking business in Indianapolis.
Residents of this city are treated to a great
hubbub about law enforcement. only to turn
their backs and find that one man nearly is
killed and more safes have been pried open
by the same crowd that was to be the target
Of the enforcement campaign.
of good nature.
We suggest the police departments crack
safe cracking squad set going.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-23
HISTORY REPEATS SELF

lust about the least effective way of meet
- ing any great crisis in life is to throw up
the hands in horror and declare that the whole
business is shocking TO the moral senSibilities.
So far. however. that seems TO be about all
that the statesmen Of the earth have been able
TO do in the face of the pending war between
Italy and Ethiopia.
To De sure. the whole proposition is shock
ing. There is something about this bold as
sertion that might makes right. this unblush-
ing preparation for the seizure by the srong
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-23
No Wd0es-N0 Business

chisement would not effect them
one way or the other.
The people I am interested in
are not those who buy two pairs
of tight shoes at the suggestion
Of a quack doctor. They are those
who can not even purchase one
pair. They had the misfortune to
trust those in whom they had full
confidence and as a fitting re-
ward, they are now barefoot.
Being barefoot brings frost bite
and stone bruises, but it also cor
reefs certain curvatureS of the
spine. 1 hope through this they
accumulate sufficient backbone to
stand up and demand their just
desserts.
You are a little late in suggest
ing manufacturing to me. I have
had this in mind for some time,
but my idea varies from yours by
several million men. Instead Of
one or two men, why not put the
unemployed millions back into the
shops where they belong instead
Of at some unnecessary task? If
there are no profits in manufac-
turing, as you state, why does pri-
vate industry kick at the sugges-
ton Of government competition?
You know they do and plenty.
The main trouble started way
back when industry started slash
ing wages and finally stopped pay
ment entirely. They killed the
goose that was laying the golden
eggs. President Roosevelt subSti-
tuted a Blue Eagle for the goose.
Then the Supreme Court killed
the eagle.
No wages means no business.
No business means no profits.
Every one wants the profits, so
they are going to do what? Moth
ing so far And if that's all the
unemployed can expect, they must
manufacture for themselves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-23

BY w. C. Gulick
Here is more information for
Garter Glass Democrat"
Previous to the bank holiday
which was declared after Presi-
dent Roosevelt's Inauguration,
banks over the United States were
closing by the thousands. These
banks were operated by the
Shrewd and energetic. They we're
those who we're able to acquire
some of this worlds goods. Their
assets were contributed by de-
positors who sweat blood to &C
cumulate their life's savings. A
majority of the people now on re-
lief are these same depositors, who
you advocate to disfranchise.
I never thought it possible that
any one would have the colossal
nerve to add insult to injury by
even suggesting this. You win
the crown. I crown you king OF
gloom" a decided contrast to
national figure who last week met
an untinely death.
1t is your privilege to trust your
future to whom you please, but l
reiterate it was only good horse
sense for these depositorS to vote
into office a man who now re-
quires insurance on bank deposits.
This is only one of the many
things which have been done that
benefits the public in general.
Even if it were true, as you say,
that the nation is being run by
dumb bells, I'd still say, give us
more numbskulls, if this is
sample of their handiwork.
Ninety-nine per cent of the
Federal employees are hired
through the Civil Service, which
is non-political. They are not al
lowed to engage in political &C
tivitieS of any kind. Change Of
political parties or even diSfran-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-23
A WARNING

A MEXICAN citizens of all colors and classes
l. and descent, as well as Federal and state
and local authorities. should study what hap
pened in Jersey City-and take warning.
Negroes and Italians turned that citys
streets into battlefield to settle their differ
ences over the Ethiopian war, without
even waiting for the war itself to start. Base
ball bats, knives. bottles, bricks and other
weapons were used. Many were injured. in
GLIDING five sent to the hospital. before the
police restored peace.
In itself, riot is Just an incident in the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-23
TOWNSEND GROUP THANKS
TIMES FOR ASSISTANCE

By the Rev. Arthur NJ. Bowman
Northeastern Townsend Club No.
10, in regular meeting assembled,
desires to express to you their deep
appreciation and gratitude for the
recent publicity you have been so
kind to give to the Townsend move
ment.
Give the people light and they
will find their way. Give them the
truth and they will solve this great
economic problem which now con-
fronts them, as others have been
solved in the past.
We of Club No. 10 are most happy
to be able on this occasion to thank
you and wish you every success in
giving the people light and truth.
Such is invaluable to this great and
glorious nation of ours.
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speak to them personally in due
time, Herbert Hoover'S demand"
can best be interpreted as just an
other expression Of crouch because
the American people decided in 1882
that they were done with Herbert
Hoover and Herbert Hoover's strong
preference for only the big fellow.
For, Herbert Hoover's philosophy
reads like this: IF the big fish and
the whales are fed by the Federal
government, the minnows are bound
to get bite of green grass sooner
or later"
And yet, Herbert Hoover is en-
titled to some kind of reply. 1
have appointed myself as COM
mittee of one to reply to Herbert
Hoover for the President:
MY Dear Mr.. Hoover:
81 see by the papers that you
have made a demand on President
Roosevelt. Inasmuch as you, and
the mysterious grass rooters behind
you, have up to now not told the
masses why the great depression
came from the last three Republic
an Administrat lions, I am respect
fully replying on behalf of thou
sands who sincerely believe that the
people are entitled to protection
from the plunderers, from the plu-
tocrats, and from the plug-uglies
who are hiding behind the skirts Of
the Constitution.
Mr.. Hoover, no less figure than
Theodore Roosevelt ST.. came ous ~
public statement (Which you nlay
easily find for YOURSELF in which
he declared that the nine men who
constitute the Supreme Court should
not have the right to overthrow GER
tain kinds of legislation that are
absolutely essential to the welfare
of the people. You will find that
article in the Century Magazine Of
october or November, 1913 This
article shows definitely that you
and your party (such as it is now
is opposed to saving the lives OF
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-23
SEES U. S. AS JUST
BEHIND GERMANS
By Another Reader

BY Another Reader
Your columnist, DR.. Harry Elmer
Barnes, reviewed & book on the Ger
man Nazi political economic set-up.
The author brought out that the
political set-up under Hitler is moth
ing more or less than the stalking
horse of the same group that has
always dominated and controlled the
economic life of the German people.
The terror tactics are but shadow
boxing, to keep the people from dis
covering the real cause of their eco
nonic distress.
The rulers of Germany are the
financial and industrial lords, striv-
ing to maintain an outworn eco
nomic system with force, in opposi-
ton to the natural forces that have
made the system obsolete. The Ger
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-23
TO WILL
BY THOMAS E. HALsEY

How can a world so fraught with
care give up friend like you,
Whose sympathies were everywhere
Whose logic rang so true?
How shall We ever reconcile our
selves to such a fate?
When you have lived TO make US
smile
Our fears to mitigate?
How can we soothe a mourning
heart, or grievous tears erase
BY futile hope a counterpart may
some day fill your place?
Your worth, we never shall define
You justly won your fame.
Your niche shall be an honored,
shrine,
No other soul shall claim,
So long as We are blest TO see
A single line you penned
Wen cling to your philosophy
And hold to you-our friend.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-23

millions who have been made un-
fortunate by the depression.
Il believe with many millions OF
voters and with Theodore Roosevelt
Sr. that the Constitution should not
be permitted to crush human lives
On that score the voters, I believe
are willing to meet you on the mat
Mr.. Hoover, for a fight to the fin
icIo -
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The Message Center

Times readers are fnvfted to express
their rietcs in these columns. Make your
letters short. so all can have q chance.
Limit then, to ESQ words or less. Your
letter must be signed. but names 10iU
be 10ithheld at request OF the letter
tCriter)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-23
CHALLENGES HOOvER'S
DEMAND ON PRESIDENT
BY Martin z. Kuehn

BY Martin z. Kuehn
So Herbert Hoover has made a
demand" on President Roosevelt.
He wants to know exactly what
amendments President Roosevelt in
tends to propose. Herbert Hoover
says: Tell me what you have in
mind"
Since the President is responsible
only to the masses of the American
people, and, since the President will
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-23
So They Say

1t is shameful and shocking, the
extent to which men appointed to
high Offices put their kin on the
pay roll-Rep. J. r. Mitchell, Ten
neSSee.
What? You have a front al
ready? But if you are actually now
making war, why have you come
here to negotiate?-Premier Laval
of France to Baron Aloisi, Italy, at
three-power discussion in Paris.
My father and his father weE
farmers, Americans. I know Of no
prouder title. They loved their coun-
try and obeyed its laws.-Federal
Judge NJ. E. Otis. answering threats
of violence from farmers Infatuated
by foreclosure sales.
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Daily Thought

My sons, be not now negligent,
for the Lord hath che zen you 20
stand before Him, to serve Him, and
that We should minister unto Hin
and burn incense. - IL Chronicles
29:11.
INTELLIGENCE Is the rust of the
In soul, that corrodes through all
her best reSolves.-Feltham.F
, 1935-01-13
Membership Drive

HUNTSVILLE, Ont. - There's
been a big increase in the mem
berShip Of the Huntsville Ski club.
The boys have sent honorary
memberships to the Dionne quin-
tupletS. together with club pins.
The club has visions of a nifty
ski team some time in the far
distant future.
, 1935-01-13
HIDALCO'S OIL I.
ALLOWABLE UP

MISSION. Jan. IL. Operators
in the Samfordyce field Of Hidal-
go county were elated q: news re-
ceived from Austin Friday advising
that permission had been granted
by the oil and gas division Of the
Texas Railroad Commission for
sale Of 1850 barrels Of crude per
day wherever operators desired to
sell it.
The commissions order. effect
i've January !. allowed all opera
tors in the field to move $50 bar
rels daily for outside sale and l.
249 barrels daily for use IN the
field.
A meeting Of the Samlc.dyco
Operators association Wednesday
resulted in appointment OF a COM
mittee TO confer with the commits
sion in Austin on the matter. the
committee. composed Of Ben II.
King Of Mission. president : the
association: w. A. Moncrief OF Fort
Worth and w. w. Blocker OF
Houston. held the conference In
Austin Thursday and obtained per-
mission TO sell the fields entire
daily allowable of 1000 barrels
wherever the operators desired.
Development Of the field win
continue under the new arrange
ment. whereby fears had been ex-
pressed that it might be hindered
under the January ! order.
, 1935-01-13
3l,36l FARM
LOANS MADE

SAN ANTONIO, Jan. l2.-LP)-A.
c. Williams Of Houston, general
agent for the Farm Credit Admin
istration, revealed in an address
to the Texas Agricultural Workers
association that his institution
closed 81 1861 loans aggregating sea-
55l 200 in Texas during. 1884.
OF these, 1880 were land bank
loans amounting TO $56,848.300, and
N.03l were land bank commissioner
loans totaling $37, 702. 900. AS Of
Dec. 81. last. there were outstand-
ing In Texas. 1892 federal land
bank and Land bank commissioner
loans totaling $2e2 $50. 845.
"A preliminary survey indicates
that borrowers have used about IS
cents Of every dollar loaned in Tex
as by the bank and the commits
sioner during the past year TO re-
finance existing indebtedness and
pay delinquent taxes" williams
said.
Thousands OF foreclosures have
been averted anc the farmers have
had their loans refinanced at an
interest rate which will save them
several million dollars annually"
w. L. Stangel. head Of the de-
partment of animal husbandry at
Texas chronological Institute. Lub-
book. presided over a discussion OF
a livestock program 70. Texas.
Speakers included G.. w. Barnes.
Texas A. & M. College; c. N.
Shepsrdson, A. e. NJ, Fred Hale.
Texas experiment station: j. M.
Jones, division Of range animal
husbandry; and d. w. Williams.
head OF department OF animal
husbandry. A. g. M.
, 1935-01-13
Church State Feud
Puts 5 In Hospital

MEXICO, ID F., Jan. u. R-An
outcropping Of Mexico's bitter feud
between church and state. a dis
turbance in suburban Tacubaya. put
four persons in hospitals Saturday.
One man. shot three times. was
not expected to live. A policeman
and three firemen we're among the
other casualties.
Fighting between the townspeo-
pie and police and firemen broke
out Friday night after the arrest OF
a Catholic priest. accused Of hold
ing religious services without a per-
NIT.
Worshippers precipitsted the fight
when they attempted to go to the
aid Of their pastor.
More than 100 men and women
we're rounded up in the church Sat-
urday for questioning about the
parts they played In the disturbance.
, 1935-01-13

EfOhtsty btSt FOIiCy
CHICAGO Because someone
decided that honesty was the
best policy-after debating the
idea for two years-Hazel +.
Waid, a hotel stenographer, had
her $1,000 diamond rnig back
Saturday.
Two years ago the ring was
stolen. Friday q young woman
hurried into the hotel. handed a
bell-boy a tiny box with instruc-
tons to give it to Mrs. Waid, and
hurried out again. In the box
was the ring.
, 1935-01-13
Another Period Of
Actimty Expected
For Hidalgo Field

in hard. sandy shsle. It will 60 to
$500 feet.
In western Hidalgo county, Cato
Oil Corporations No. l Brock and
Showers. in tract 8. block 26. por-
cion rs, Ancient Jurisdiction Of
Reynosa, about nine miles west Of
Mission. is drilling in shale at 3.400
feet. The test had q good gas show
In sand at 1.450-62 feet.
Also in western Hidalgo. about
three miles east Of the Samfordyce
field. King Woods Oil company's
No. l Osca Daskam, in lot 23-A.
block 40. porcion As. Ancient Juris-
diction Of Reynosa, Is standing at .
800 feet while laying a water line
to the Rio Grande. 1t has had no
show.
One new wildcat spudded in We'd
nesdav and another spudded Thurs
day night.
About two miles east Of the Sam
fordyce field, Harrison-Medlin-
Daskam's No. ! Garcia Land & Cat
tie company. in the east 20 acres OF
the southwest 40 acres Of porcion
AZ. Ancient Jurisdiction OF ReynoSa.
north Of the Old Military highway,
set and cemented 200 feet Of surface
casing Friday morning.
King Woods Oil company's No. /
w. M. Doughty. in share 30. San SAL
vador del Tie grant about Is miles
north Of Edinburg in northern Hi
dalgo. spudded in for a 6.000-foot
test Thursday night The test Is on
a 1773-acre drilling block out Of a
7~.O00-acre lease.
Activity had slackened consider
ably in Starr county.
Henshaw Bros Weston-Simon's
No. | NJ ". Garcia. in block 9, sur
vey 908. central Starr. was standing
at 1909 feet. the contract depth.
while negotiations we're under way
to carry the hole deener.
r. Fl. Vices No. l <. B. Carruth.
i'm share l-B. porcicn 81. Ancient
Jurisdiction Of Camargo. about
three miles east of the Jeffries-
Lambeth Barbacoas) pool. was
standing at 1908 feet while awaiting
arrival of additional drill stem.
Merren. Johnson g. Jeffries were
ready to spud in during the week
end on their No. 3 Starr County
Cattle company. $40 feet from the
routh erd 320 feet from the east
lines Of block 81. .Ieffrjes-Lsmheth
subdivision OF porcion 80. Ancient
Jurisdiction Of Camargo.
Armstrong e. Fmanucl's No |
starr County Cattle companv. in
block 81. .TeffrieS-Jambeth SIIhdi-
vision. nnrcion 40. Ancient Jurisdic-
''on NJ Camargo. was drilling at l.
7nn feet.
In the northwest corne- NJ Starr
Crawford ct ais No. l Hicks and
phelps. in FL Pedernal grant. was
drilling at 1850 feet.
In southern Starr. Tarver md
Kennedy's NJ. Z Kelsav-Bass. Sec
ton IL. DorcioneS 75-76-77. Ancient
Jurisdiction Of Camargo. Is TO re-
sure during the coming week al TO
feet after completion OF a fishing
Job.
In eastern Starr. c. L. Smith ct
ais No. ! J. NJ. L~ongfellow. In Sec
ton 28l. was drilling at 5.l20 feet.
The test is contracted to $500 feet.