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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-03

at that rate, causing a million cases of ILL.,
ness and $4,000 deaths in IL months, and YOU
knew that you had one chance in IS of catch
ing it, wouldn't you demand that your health
department take the most drastic kind of
measures to get it under control?
Why, then, be SO complacent about auto
accidents?
Luckily, the traffic problem isn't altogether
insoluble. Although the death list for the coun-
try as a whole increased by Is per cent last
year., there were a few states which actually
reduced their fatality lists.
1t is worth noticing that most of these
states have strict financial responsibility laws
such laws as forbid persons who have been
involved in serious accidents to drive until
they pay any judgments against them and
prove their ability to compensate for any flu
ture damages they may cause.
They are also, in the main, states which
have adequate highway patrol forces n strict
drivers license laws.
BY attacking vigorously along such lines, we
may hope to reduce our traffic death list.
There can be no excuse for failure to take such
action.
The present situation is absolutely intoler-
able. A drastic and far-reaching program of
preventive action is long overdue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-03

I country because we find people of
that age in every community. Let
us consider this plan as a relief for
unemployment" When we requ ire
all who partake of this annuity to
refrain from all remunerative or
productive occupation, we are pro-
viding positions for younger persons
in all places that are given up
Those who definitely understand
the Townsend plan believe it will re-
store prosperity to every part of the
country Immediately it is put into
operation through forced circulation
Of money. The need of a reliable
agency which may at all times be
depended upon to circulate money
has been recognized for years. 1t
was this need that prompted DR.. F.
E. Townsend of Long Beach, Cal, to
suggest the combination of two
familiar governmental activities,
namely, the transaction sales tax
and the pension system. The trans
action sales tax, which will not ex-
coed 2 per cent, will be collected
with your purchase price and paid
by you without your realizing that
you are paying a tax. Those v e
60 can hire help to do that which
they themselves can not or do not
wish to do.
Crime is now costing us $8,OOO,-
100000 a year. No habitual GRIM
1nal will be entitled to the Townsend
pension, thus inducing the younger
generation to live a clean life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-03
Prohibition Will Return

counties without anybody in the
penitentiary, 38 counties without
any poor houses, rs counties with
out any i~nebriates. Can any wet
state match this? Prohibition is
coming back and coming back to
stay, but it will not come back in
a non-partisan way nor in a COM
promising way, not in a party
which is made up Of vets and dryS,
but through a party which is 100
per cent prohibition and has no
vets in it.
What we need today on the
liquor question is an Administra-
ton which will Dare to be a
Daniel, dare to stand alone, dare
to have a purpose firm, dare to
make it known"
I feel sure God will soon raise up
a Lincoln who will soon deliver us
from a rum rebellion and so we
say with Abraham Lincoln when
he said in his great Cooper 1nsti-
tuition speech in New York City
on Feb. q, 1860:
Neither let us be slandered
from our duty by false accusation
against us nor be frightened from
it by a menace of destruction to
the Government, nor of dungeons
to ourselves. Let us have faith
that right makes might and in the
faith let us to the end dare to do
our duty as we understand it,"
Prohibition is coming back and
coming back to stay. The vets
have no remedy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-03
ICKES, SPIES

IF the President does not clean out the spy
Il system and hidden rule in the Interior De-
partment. Congress is expected to take a hand.
That should not be necessary, for two reasons.
One is that Congress has other things to do.
The second reason is that certain Republicans
s would try to give the investigation a partisan
turn.
1t is difficult to accept the official denials
of White House apprehension over this sltua-
ton. The White House should be as we'll in
formed as unofficial Washington. The latter
.v has long grown accustomed to reports from
reputable sources of overlapping, mail-tam-
pering. and other forms of espionage affecting
the Interior Department.
No one questions the motives OF Secretary
Ickes. To him the Nation is indebted for pub
lie service of a very high order. Nor for that
matter are the motives of Louis R. CLAWS, di-
rector of investigation of the department,
Questioned; his honorable record years ago in
the Ballinger expose is remembered.
Ebert K. Burlew, chief administrative
assistant and holdover from the old depart
ment. was accused by the late Senator Walsh
of trying to embarrass him in the conduct OF
the Sinclair investigation. Burlew is now a
dictator second only to Ickes-and at times,
apparently, second to none.
= The origin of the spy system. which has
grown into alleged domination and worse, ap-
pears TO have been the laudable one of pre-
venting graft in huge Government expendi-
lures. But. as spy systems have a way OF do
Ing, it seems to have become a Frankenstein. II
one-tenth Of the reports are true, it is now
out Of control.
This is dangerous business. It can not be
disposed of by easy official denials. Failure Of
the Administration to act will be an added in
vitation to INSCRIPTIONS opponents to smear
the New Deal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-03
THURSDAY. JANUARY , 1888.


THE Democratic party leaders in Congress,
upon whom President Roosevelt depends
to hold the lines. are not the real leaders Of
the legislative wing OF the New Deal.
Yet theirs is the difficult mechanical job Of
directing Administration measures down a
clear right of way. Their strength, skill and
capacity for leadership are important.
Joe Byrns of Tennessee is the new House
Speaker. Precedent and convenient control
over Congressional campaign funds in the last
election helped to promote him from majority
leadership to the post which is second in i'm
portance only to the presidency. AS party
leader under the late Speaker Rainey, Mr..
Byrns did not display great talents. An afable
compromiser. who finds it hard to say mo" to
friendly colleagues. he is fortunate in being
teamed this session with a man of sterner
stuff.
William B. Bankhead of Alabama was
chosen majority leader because of his ability
as a parliamentarian and a legislator. The
respect which his colleagues feel for him over
came their prejudice against giving both the
speakership and the leadership to southern
men.
Neither Byrns nor Bankhead is progressive,
But as good party men they go along with the
President. The real legislative battles for i'm
portant New Deal reforms. II this session as
in the last, probably will be led in the House
by such men as David j. Lewis of Maryland
and Sam Rayburn Of Texas.
The situation is similar in the Senate.
Leader Joe Robinson of Arkansas and Finance
Chairman Pat HARRISON of Mississippi are the
party wheel horses. They demonstrated in the
last two sessions their ability to do the me-
. chanical Job on a basis of party regularity.
They are men of a conservative mold.
Senators of the type of Wagner of New
York and Costigan of Colorado are the real
New Deal leaders on the Democratic side, as
on the other side of the aisle are such progress
sive non-Democrats as La Toilette Of Wiscon-
sin and Norris of Nebraska.
Regular party leaders of the two houses
have the power to punish and to reward, and
therefore to discipline. But the real leadership
in this session, as in past sessions, will come
from men who have the power to plan for a
better day and the power to influence others to
follow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-03
AUTO DEATHS

+, THE figures on automobile accidentS. for
i 1884. Just released, make horrifying read
: Ing. To learn that our automobiles killed
-, nearly as many Americans as German guns
killed during the World War is to realize that
our motor traffic situation has become one of
our most pressing major problems.
And yet. terrible as the figures are. we don't
really get Mortified by them; We don't really
realize that the problem is great.
The situation doesn't come home to us,
somehow: it is some one else who gets killed,
some one else who gets injured, some one else
who passes through a needless tragedy. We
ourselves-well, we're the lucky ones. It won't
happen TO US.
SO we accept these traffic figures with the
most amazing complacence-and calmly go
along rolling up a death and injury list which
future generations will probably find the hard
est single feature Of our civilization to under
stand.
Suppose we start adding up the figures, to
see what result We get.
slightly more than a million people were
killed or injured in auto accidents in 1884.
There are approximately 2~5,oco,OOo autos in
use in the United States. Figure 1t out for
yourself. The chances are about one in IS that
YOU viii be killed or injured in an auto acct
dent this year.
II some epidemic were sweeping the country
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-03
1T is ALIVE

A COMMITTEE of five members of the
American Bar Assn. declares the Child
Labor Amendment outlawed because 10 years
have elapsed since it was submitted by Con-
gress TO the states.
Proponents of this humane measure need
not be unduly alarmed. The argument is a
familiar one. 1t is nothing but an opinion, and
counsel quite as eminent as those of the COM
mittee and more numerous say there is moth
ing in it.
The United States Constitution itself sets
no time limit for the ratification of its amend
ments. No limit is set in the Child Labor
Amendment.
A similar question arose in 1921 In a proR-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-03
OLD DOCTRINES MUST
RE THROWN IN DISCARD

BY L.. A. Jackson
The Star of Dec. Is quoted from
a commencement address delivered
at Manchester College in 1925 by
Thomas r. Marshall. The quota
tion contains the following:
Nov that I am OUT of politics |
am old enough to tell the truth. l
believe in science, but 1 have no
natience with those fellows who go
I'm and down telling you all about
things of which they know moth
ing. I do not care if what I be-
lieve is so or not. I believe in Santa
Claus and I don't thank anybody
TO take him away from me"
Anv n who reads between the
lines can see, I think, that the
speaker said the things which he
thought the majority OF his audi
ence would like to hear, that SCI
ence had really taken Santa Claus"
from him, so far as an intellectual
belief was concerned, and that he
preferred to follow his feelings rath-
er than his intellect.
There are many people who "have
no patience with those fellows who
90 up and down telling you all
about things of which they know
nothing" But who r those fell
lows? The ones who do most OF
this are those who continue to tell
people it is their duty to believe all
those theological doctrines which
had their origin in the Dark Ages
Scientists do not take the position
that it is your duty to believe any
of their findings. They give you
the evidence, knowing that If 1t is
sufficient 70 convince you, you VIII
believe it, whether you want to or
not. Scientists and others who
know anything about psychology,
know that all real belief is based
on evidence only.
There are those who say that our
colleges are making infdels OF our
young people. # an inf1del is one
who is honest enough to admit that
he can not believe some OF the old
theological doctrines, then it is true
that the colleges are making in
fdels and viii continue to do so.
! The only waylko avoid this would
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tory is but to set great store in
the credulity of those who read.
The Inquisition is now ancient
history" and all broad-minded
ProtestantS have come to have a
real respect for the spiritual in
fluence of the present Catholic
Church. So long as the church
any church-gives to the race that
hope, that faith, that spiritual en-
couragement inherent in the teach
ings of the Man of Sorrows" it
lifts man up; but when, instead OF
letting the power of religion itself
draw man into the fold, the church,
through a consuming bigotry, at
tempts to impose its tyrannical will
upon him, it ceases then to act for
his good.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-03

be to destroy our libraries, our
printing presses, and abolish all
schools. Even then it would require
several generations to bring about
a condition similar to that existing
when those doctrines were brought
forth. If people could still believe
those doctrines, OF if there were any
evidence that those who claim to
believe them live any better lives
than those who do not, there would
be some excuse for continuing to
teach them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-03
WRITER ANSWERS CRITIC
ON "INQUISITION" FACTS
BY L. E. Blacketor.

BY L. E. Blacketor.
From Mr.. Kennedy's reply to my
article touching on the Inquisition,
the casual reader might easily gain
the impression that I misrepre-
sented facts. And SO, not with any
intention of prolonging the discus
sion, but with a desire only to clear
myself Of any such possible charge,
I make this rejoinder.
In reference to the Inquisition in
Spain, Mr.. Kennedy states that ut
was instigated and put into force
by individuals against the doctrine
and official orders of the Catholic
Church" And further, that THE
Pope not only denounced the act,
but also communicated all in
volved."
Well, let's see about that. The
Encyclopedia Americana, at the be-
ginning of several columns bearing
on the matter, reads as follows: In
quisition. A tribunal or system OF
tribunals instigated by the Ro-
man Catholic Church, for the dis
covery, examination and conviction
of heretics and their punishment by
the secular arm"
The New international Encyclo-
pedia says: "Inquisition. A tribunal
in the Roman Catholic Church for
the discovery, repression, and pun
ishment of heresy, unbelief, and
other offenses against the church"
The entire enlightened world
knows that the Catholic Church was
the power behind the InGuiSition not
only in Spain but throughout the
whole vast domain of the Holy Ro-
man Empire; and for one to at
tempt a plausible confutation Of the
documented facts Of recorded his
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-03
TOWNSEND PENSION PLAN
SEEN AS BOON
By Mrs. C. ], KIaiber

BY Mrs. c. ]. Klaiber.
The Townsend old-age pension
plan calls for the distribution of 5000
a month to every citizen who is so
years Of age or older, provided he
or she spends it within the confines
of the United States of America for
goods or services within 30 days
from the time it is received. This
would force between 81 SOC, 000, 900
and $4,000, 100000 into the trade
channels every month. The time
limit causes a rapidity to that circu-
lation. We all know that this VOL
ume of money would be very bene-
fetal to every business. We know
that it is not so much the amount
in circulation, but the velocity Of
that circulation which insures pros
perity. Then, too, this would be uni
form spending-not seasenal-and,
therefore. it would maintain a con-
slant turnover. 1t also would be
beneficial in every portion of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-03
RENEWAL
BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK
Her life has been a crimson flower
Unfurling petals, hour by hour.
When first she loved she was a bud,
Tight-curled against the mad, sweet
food.
Beneath her lovers hand she learned
The Joy Of ecstasy, and turned
Rich petals to the morning sun.
They faded slowly, one by one.
New petals she brought forth for
him,
OF understanding, Joy undimmed.
Her life has been a crimson flower,
Unfurling petals. hour by hour.
Still petals fade and fall apart.
Still he has never reached the heart.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-03
Daily Thought

He taketh tie wise in their own
craftiness: anG the counsel of the
forward is carried headlong.-Job
5:13.
livery man, however wise, needs
Il the advice of some s~agacious
friend in the affairs Of life.-Plau-
tus.
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The Message Center

Times readers are inUited to cypress
their Uietos in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can have a chance.
| Limit them to $50 40ords or less.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-03

A New York doctor has invented an instru-
ment that detects the sound of peoples nerves.
That wouldn't be needed in the case Of many
people whose nerve we know.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-03

Mrs. Elizabeth billing again lists Mrs.
Roosevelt among 1900 Reds" and the country
still doesn't know who Mrs. billing is.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-03

To prove he believes in states rights. Harry
Hopkins has dropped nearly 100000 from
federal relief rolls.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-03

I predict that the banks Of the
country will adopt installment lend
ing as one Of their regular functions
in the future.-James A. Moffett,
Federal Housing Administrator.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-03

I may go back to Arizona and
starve.-Lewis Douglas, former di-
rector of the Federal budget.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-03

for one, have no political aspira-
tions.-Gen. Hugh S. johnson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-03

I believe that if a man in pub
lie office permits himself to be
partisan to any M group he loses
his usefulness as a public servant.
Donald R. Richberg, chairman,
National Emergency Council.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-03
So They Say

The problem confronting the
schools and the public generally in
the Improvement Of motion pictures
is the problem of improving the
tastes and standards of the public
DR.. John S. Roberts, New York's
associate superintendent of schools.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-03

Damn those oxford professors!
I'll send some of our swine to burn
down their Oxford!-Dr. Ernst
CPutzy) Hanfstaengl of Germany.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-03

INSTRUMENTATION and the New Deal.
Evening star., 1935-11-02
guish them from the poisonous

tinguish them from the poisonous
ones?
The death cup so often found q
close neighbor to the edible mush-
rooms should be carefully examined
so you will recognize some of its
family characteristics whenever you
see it.
The deadly amanita belongs to
single genus Of agarics. and Is white
spored. Some of them grow to be
five inches across. They. too. wear
collar on their stem, a short distance
below the cap. The stem sits in q
bulb or cup at the surface Of the
ground. The cap varies in color from
a soft old ivory shade to grayish
brown and the gills and spores are
white, q point to remember. The
destroying angel, cousin often found
in her company, is known as the
Spring amanita. and there is still
another cousin, the fly amanita. The
latter has snowy golden cap, often
Evening star., 1935-11-02

THIS surname signifies "the son Of
= Legg," a name Of old English
origin which Is traceable to Oswald
de Laga de Easthall, who at the time
OF the Norman Conquest was living at
High Leigh, In County Chesterfield,
England. FIJI Legg is found in the
Hundred Rolls, record which ante
dates the use of surnames.
Gabriel Leggett, a native of Scot
land, was in the New York Province
IN 1876. He was the paterftee of a
large estate, and from old documents
we find that he made use Of the
coat of arms here shown. These
ermorial devices have been kept by
the family and are borne today by
descendants Of Gabriel. The motto,
Jesus hominum salvator, is translated
Jesus the Savior of Mankind" Some
branches Of the family use as q crest
o cherub's head, and the motto, Cara
patria carior libertas. signifying, Dear
my country. dearer liberty"
(Copyrisht. 1935J
Evening star., 1935-11-02
Natures Children
Field Mushroom and Death Cup

the outside. Mushrooms have no
green parts.
In their youth, mushrooms are, as
I have mentioned, mere buttons. They
lose no time growing-in fact you can
sit beside them in the very early
morning and actually see them push
their way up into the world. That
Is why you must be on hand to de-
head them before they age. You can
watch the button become a cap, the
cap graduate into little umbrella
with ribs or gills. and finally tear
itself away from the stem, leaving
q slight ring or tattered collar that
soon shrinks up.
In youth the gills resemble leaves
and are creamy white, gradually turn
ing darker. In old age they break
up into triangular scales which turn
very dark. When they are ripe they
fall like dust, and this dust is the
equivalent to seeds Of a plant, for
they take the food about them and
begin to grow.
The use OF mushrooms as food dates
back some 2.o0o years. There Is one
deadly species among them. but in
every village and suburb there are to
be found several edible varieties.
There are so many of them that are
good to eat-why not learn to dis
Evening star., 1935-11-02
BY LILLIAN cox ATHEY.

AAAAAhAN Son n
~ ESIDES the fact that mush.
x rooms make such delicious
nourishins food. they are un-
usual fungi and have in
triguing life stories. In July, August
and September the combination OF
heat and moisture seems to be just to
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