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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-15
TRACKLESS TROLLEYS
GIVEN APPROVAL
BY o. ]. Simmons.

BY o. ]. Simmons
I do not live on Central-av or
know the problems and traffic on
that line, yet on their face the
voiced objections to trackless trolley
service sound foolish. Present serv-
ice is satisfactory. Yet it is stated
that during rush hours 100 or more
passengers are carried. Loading and
unloading time for such an exorbi-
tant number of riders would surely
make for slow running time. Three
times as many traCkless cars would
be needed. Evidently an error
During rush hours twice as many,
and during light hours, no more
senger capacity and more cars are
considered an objection. 1t is, in
stead, a dual advantage.
A car carrying half the passen-
gers stops at fewer streets to load
and unload, so makes better time.
Twice as many cars means only
half as long to wait on the next
car. They add to traffic hazards and
crowd much Of the other vehicular
traffic from the narrow thorough
fare. Any one who has seen the
improvement on Clifton-St since
trackleSS have superseded track
cars, will vote enthusiastically for
the newer, smaller, faster, safer,
more trafflcWorthy trackleSS cars.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-15
RESENTS ATTACK ON
JEWISH FAITH

By a Jewish-American.
Your newspaper on Friday pub
lished a story to the effect that an
anonymous pamphlet had been is
sued in defense of Criminal Judge
Frank P. Baker and further stating
that "the issue also contained a
scurrilous attack upon the Jewish
people"
have been reader of The Times
for more than 10 years and I we'll
remember the courageous battle your
newspaper put up against religious
intolerance when the Ku-Klux Khan
was in its hey-day. 1 feel certain
that your paper is acting in all sin
cerity and 1 am sure you made that
reference about the anti-Semitism
without intending to work up my
co-religionists.
I wonder if Judge Baker and his
aids in the court realize that several
thousand Jewish residents of Marion
County cast their votes for him in
the last election. Or is Judge Baker
turning to the Hitler myth in an at
tempt to justify some of the things
charged to him.
Thinking Jewish citizens will re-
sent the attack made on their reli-
gion in the pamphlet. They also
will remember it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-15
WE AGREE TO TRADE

A T last We are showing a little common
= sense in our business relations with the
Soviet Union.
The State Department announced. in effect,
that it is now goirg to deal with Russia Just as
with any other country-to try to expand our
trade
Under the new Russian American agree
ment. Russia promises to buy more American
goods in the next u months-3O million dol
lars worth, or more than double her current
purchases. Is the informal estimate-and the
United States agrees to grant Russia the same
tariff concessions it has made to other coun-
tries. or may make during the next year. Our
tariff concessions to Cuba are excepted
The agreement properly does not mention
Soviet American claims. II is a straight bust
ness deal and rests on its own bottom.
We are beginning to face facts. after more
than IS years of shadow boxing with Mos
COW.
First. ne refused TO talk business. presum-
ably lest We imply approval of Russia form of
government
Second. after recognizing that the Rus
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-15
TELL. JUST HALF

WITHOUT being very hopeful of results
w we should like to urge all congressman
to respond heartily to the Rules Committees
invitation to tell all they know about lobbying
In connection with the utility holding COM
pany legislation.
If congressman told all their wouldn't be
much left unknown. They we're the ones who
were buffeted, on one side by the propaganda.
Establishments and political pressure of the
power interests and on the other by similar
implements in persuasion used by the Admin
istration. 1t was but natural that the fringe
of the power industry which thought itself
threatened with extinction should fight for
It's life, and also natural that the Administra-
ton should fight fire with fire. After all, the
only thing the lobby investigators need to
concern themselves with. in the interests of
the public or Congress as a whole, is the extern:
to which either side resorted to corrupt prac-
tees
Yet We doubt that congressman will tell
much. Most of them. being candidates for
reelection. have future favors to ask of their
utility friends, or the Administration, or both.
For example We can not expect much enlight-
eminent on one trick said to have been widely
employed by the utility interests.
This was the device of picking out two or
three men who happened to have been most
responsible for a particular CongreSsman's
election. and employing those friends" to
bring the congressman into line. The con-
gresham who yielded certainly Will not con-
fess. And even the congressman who resisted
will be loath 10 tell on his friends" whose
support he will need again. They would never
forgive him If he betrayed the method by
which they picked up a little spare cash.
Sut if even half of the congressman will
tell even half of what they know. the public
Will learn a lot about pressure legislation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-15
Phone Riley 1851
MONDAY. JULY IS 1885.
YOU HAVE TO SELL

THE problem Of free speech. as far as the
= ordinary citizen is concerned. is often
not so much the problem Of being allowed
TO say what you please as the problem Of lnd-
ing good place N which to say it.
Big cities handle the situation by setting
aside public forums. and by organizing a
multiplicity Of clubs. lodges. and societies in
which the individual gets his chance every now
and then to air his views
Small towns, equally inventive but hav-
ing less TO work with, have additionally fall
len back on the local postofhce.
All Of which is by way of prelude to the
announcement that the village Of Lincoln,
Ind, has saved its postoffce-on the ground
that. while it may not do much business in
the way Of stamps and letters, it does pro-
vide the citizens with handy place to arise
and speak their minds about the state Of the
nation.
Lincolns postofhce was about to be closed.
The village has fewer than 100 inhabitants,
and postal business was not flourishing. Wash
ington had decided that Lincoln could get
along with ordinary R. F. D. service
But the people of Lincoln rose in wrath to
p4otCoJ. May oS tLley u4QIl get OF S6IQ nuCE
mail-but what would the village debating
society do if its meeting place were closed?
How could this or any other American small
town get along if the cracker barrel philoso-
pliers we're put out Of business?
To the credit Of the authorities at Wash
ington. these pleas we're heard. AS result,
Lincoln keeps its postof1ce. And the whole
thing has distinctive flavor Of rural America
which not fail to stir the emotions of
any one who has ever lived in a small town.
It would hardly be going too far to say
last century has had to stand or fall in the
long run, on the success or failure of its appeal
to these village forums Of postoffce and gen.
eral store.
It Is there, on drowsy afternoons and long
evenings that local sentiment solidifes; there
that issues are canvassed and mems minds
made up; there. in fact. that the public opin-
ion of the nation is put into shape.
1t is altogether about as homely an institu-
ton as this country possesses. 1t is also one
of the most powerful. 1t settles the fate OF
Presidents and Senators, of tariffs and foreign
policies. of swings to the right and swings to
the left.
No matter who you are or what you are
trying to do. sooner or later you have to sell
your idea to the crowd in the village post
Office. If you fail you are doomed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-15

slams were entitled to govern themselves as
they pleased, we, in effect refused to sell
goods to Russia because of some unsettled
war claims, mostly predating the Soviet era.
Our claims against Russia, and Russia's claims
against us, may have been 100 per cent valid.
But if all world commerce depended on set
ting claims. what is left of the trade stream
would become a mere trickle
While We haggled, Britain. France, Ger
many, Italy and other countries, to whom
Russia owes $40 for every one she owes us,
were walking of with her trade. With them.
business was business.
From between 100 and ia millions year,
our exports to the Soviet Union dwindled to
an average of less than u millions-that dur
ing the greatest depression in our history
when every shipload Of sales abroad meant
Jobs cor our unemployed.
AS for our promised imports from Russia,
we can buy many goods from her that are
either not produced in this country or pro-
duced in insufficient quantity, such as man
ganess ore. asbestos, chromite, pulpwood,
spruce lumber. caviar, furs, fax. bristles, etc.
Increased imports of Soviet products into
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-15
Forests IN Danger, Plnchot Says

Most of the fights for conser-
vation have been made to save
natural resources belonging to the
people which the Interior Depart
ment was throwing away. The
national forests must not go the
same road
Secretary of the Interior Ickes
is sincere and honest, but he can
not live forever. Secretary Gar
field was honest, but Secretary
Ballinger, his successor, tried to
give away the peoples water pow
ers and the coal lands IN Alaska.
The resulting scandal cost Taft
his reelection. And everybody
remembers Tea Pot Dome, when
Secretary Fall handed the Nays
oil lands over to the deSpoilers.
Fall tired hard to get his hands
on the national forests.
IckeS is my friend. Wallace is
my friend. But the national
forests could not be better handled
in the Interior Department than
in the Department of Agriculture,
where they have been safe for 30
years. What is the use of rocking
the boat?
The forest service is completely
free from politics where it IS.
Ickes himself is straight, but the
whole history of the Interior De-
partment is rocking with politics.
The tradition of the Interior De-
partment is to put private inter-
eStS first. The tradition of the
Agricultural Department is to put
public interests first.
Wood is a crop. Forestry is tree
farming. 1t belongs in the De-
partment of Agriculture with all
other farming and production
from the soil.
Undoubtedly if Secretary Ickes
got the national forests he would
do his level best. But he has more
work now than any ether Cabi-
net officer in Washington. The
national forests are bigger than
all the Atlantic states from Maine
to Virginia, inclusive. Why put
this additional load on a man who
has too much to do already? Let
the national forests stay where
they are
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-15

of those of 1926 while dividends
were so per cent higher. Any in
telligent investigation will show that
this situation has scarcely changed
since December.
The sales tax is an income tax up
side down. Instead of falling heavi-
est on those who have, it falls
heaviest on those who have not.
Instead Of taxing the rich in pro-
portion to their wealth it taxes the
poor In proportion to their poverty.
The sales tax is inequitable and
unjust. 1t forces the worker with a.
small income to help support work.
ers with even less. It forces the
unemployed on relief work to pay
toward the little charity they re-
celye. The sales tax is really the
upSide-down income tax. To the
small-Salaried man it means an in
creased cost of living of SO to IS a.
month. The greater the income. the
less spent on consumers goods. The
Chamber of Commerce published
these facts in Business Week in
1882 They may also be verified in
the book americas Capacity to
Consume 1t succeeds very well
in making the rich richer and the
poor poorer. 1t may please Mr..
Knapp very we'll
Any politician who advocates such
q course can not be said to repre-
sent a constituency. but vested in
tereSts.
We may point out at this time
that numerous labor unions and
groups are on record at this time
against the sales tax, and that thou
sands have signed petitions against
1t. On Nov. 6, 1882, the people of
Indiana voted for a constitutional
amendment for an income tax. Tho
amendment carried by 701,O45 to
209,G76. That is the mandate of the
people. If this amendment is NOT
in force it is just slight oversight
OF the Governor and may be rene
died the next time you vote. Our
humble opinion is that the consum-
ers' sales tax is political suicide.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-15
SOnnetS of a
SOjOurner
BY BERTRAM DAY

BY BERTRAM DAY
Old England is well known in deeds
and songs,
Its sea washed shores are pic
turesque and warm:
1t is gem set in the oceans
prongs
Rejecting Natures regal uniforml
It's poetry is one rich legacy
Of virile dramas from a Shake
speare's pen,
Or stirring epics fun Of brilliancy,
Or love- dreams from the minds Of
gifted men.
Its galleries, museums, churches old
Lure visitors to each rare edifice,
They prove a magnet powerful as
gold.
Famed London is the worlds me-
tropolis!
A Pantheon of genius and renown,
Westminster Abbey, takes from all
the Crown.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-15
HE'S FOR POLICE,
NOT THE MOTORISTS

By East Slider
I drive downtown six days each
week. In eight years, I have never
been "pawled out" by a traffic off,
GER. indianapolis has the most un-
reasonable bunch of drivers in any
city of its size. Quick to disobey
rules, and quicker to crab when they
are corrected. Does North Slider al
ways give signals and drive proper
ly? And does North Slider realize
that the copper" is out in all kinds
of weather regardless of how he
feels, and that he is found fault
with for a few minor mistakes and
never praised for keeping things on
the move? When I used to go to
Sunday school I was taught some
thing about casting the first stone.
If we can't say nice things, at least
be quiet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-15
BY Clifford Pinchot.

BY Clifford Pinchot.
appeal to you because the ma
tionai forests are again in serious
danger.
Another attempt is under way
to get the national forests and the
forest work of the government
transferred from the Agriculture
Department, where the forests are
safe and the work we'll done, back
to the Department of the Interior,
from which they were taken be-
cause o. wretched management.
The present attempt is made
under cover of an effort IS. B.
1868 to change the name of the
Interior Department to the De-
partment of Conservation and
Public Works. The transfer of the
national forests and the forest
service is not mentioned in the
bill but is planned for later.
Conservation is too broad a sub
ject to be confined to any one de-
partment. Nearly all of them deal
with it on one form or another.
A Department of Conservation
would be almost as illogical as a
Department of Typewriting or a
Department of WaStebaskets,
which everybody has to use.
The conservation policy itself,
and about every important con-
servation movement for the last
80 years. originated in the Depart
ment Of Agriculture. It has shown
practical horse sense in dealing
with natural resources intelligent
ly, uprightly, and without fraud or
loss.
In contrast, the record of the
Interior Department is far and
away the worst in Washington.
Every natural resource, without
exception. that has been held for
disposal by the Interior Depart
ment-public lands, Indian lands,
coal, oil, water power. and tim
ber-has been wasted and squan-
dered at one time or another. 1t
is one long story of fraud in public
lands, theft in Indian lands, and
throwing the peoples property
away.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-15
BRANDS COURTHOUSE
EPISODE SHAMEFUL"

By 7. C. G.
Nothing so shameful has hap
pened in years as the disgusting per-
Torrance Of Courthouse officials in
connection with The Times stories.
I have noticed in your newspaper
mounting attacks against the Dem
ocratic party for allowing this to
go on.
If the editor will allow me 1 would
like to register a defense of In
diana Democracy in connection
with the Courthouse situation. The
regular Democratic organization
here has no connection with the
renegade group often termed by the
newspapers as the Baker Grossart
faction. Judge Baker is not reg
ular" Democrat in the true sense
Of the word and it is not right for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-15
OPPOSES SALES TAX
FOR INDIANA

By Forrest S. Rogers.
The sort of toryism that can be
expected from the Republican Party
is reflected in the advocacy of a
consumers sales tax by James M.
Knapp, Republican floor leader Of
the Indiana House of Representa-
tiveS.
AS a good propaganda he merely
fails to give the real facts of the
tax situation. He did not mention
that more than IS per cent of all
consumers goods and services are
bought by persons with incomes Of
$4,000 or less, and that those Of in
comes of $4,000 or more have 70
per cent of the savings.
He did not mention that pay rolls
in December. 1884, were so per cent
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-15
READER OF DART"
DISGUISED BY EPISODE

By Charles Cox
1 was among the people who re-
ceived copies of the Dart" and l
want to be among the first to tell
the editor of The Times that the
citizens of indianapolis deeply re-
sent this unwarranted and filthy
attack upon his character by appar-
emily corrupt politicians.
To me that sort of stuff is a
throw back to the dirty mud-sling-
ing days of the Ku-Klux Khan.
voted Democratic in the last cleo
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-15
The Message Center

Times readers are mvtted to eTpress
their Vietos in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can have a chance.
Limit them to ESQ t0Ords or less. Your
letter must be signed. but names toili
be toithheId at request Of the letter
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-15

ton because I felt that party offered
the most enlightened leadership, but
I can we'll tell the world that the
Democrats have had my last vote.
I have been through almost all of
the 48 states and I can say from OBJ
servation that the Scripps- Howard
organization employs only square,
shooters. 1t is useless for the Demo-
cratic organization to avoid the
blame in this thing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-15
Daily Thought

But shun profane and vain oab-
blings: for they will increase unto
more ungodliness. II Timothy,
2:16.
XXTHEN there is much pretensicn,
w much has been borrowed; ma
ture never pretends.-LaVater.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-15

the United States" commented Ambassador
Bullitt, will provide the Soviet Union with
greater purchasing power for American prod
ucts" And he rightly concluded that here is
at least foundation upon which can be built
a very profitable business between the two
countries
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-15

the regular organiza ton to take
the heat for his misbehavior.
The publication of The Dart re-
minded me of the Ku-Klux Khan
days and it was just as shameful.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-15

Eight million germs found living on a sin
gle SIS bill. But where did the fellow whose
salary it was ever acquire so many relatives?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-15

Henry Ford has been suggested as Repub-
lican candidate for President. Political ma
chimes may some day be available FOB Wash
ington.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-15

Missouri doctor treats $4,000 people with
out pay. But he's not the only physician who
has that trouble.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-15

Now that Kate Smith is back on the air,
It is possible the moon is going into eclipse
to escape being lugged over the mountain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-15

BY this time people have begun to realize
that hot weather isn't so hot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-15
So They Say

You must have happiness in mar
ried life. The mother should be
lik' a beloved queen.-Mrs. joseph
Aloysius Lyons. wife of Australian
premier.
Modern music is going crazy.
There is too much jazz, and Jazz
means ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Hunt
ington Woodman, prominent Brook
Ign organist.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-12-23
HEALTH
Appehtes and
FeaStS
By LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D.

BY LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D.
This subject has been suggested
as appropriate for the season. 1t
is one about which it is easy to
be dogmatic, but it is not very
easy to be wise.
The tendency for parents and
guardians is to restrain child
from eating the delicacies which
are likely to make the table groan
at just this season. and yet, except
in extreme instances, probably
very little harm is done.
The answer also depends upon
the child-its weight, whether it
is overweight or underweight; its
selective tendencies, its ability to
use self-determination in control
ling its food intake.
Important Thing
The important thing is to see
that the rich foods-mince pies
and plum pudding-do not dis
place the necessary and whole
some, although not quite so at
tractive, foods. That, in fact, is
true about any diet. whether it is
a reducing diet or an increasing
diet. diabetic diet, ~ what not.
! Be sure that the essential food
elements are used, which means a
variety of foods-milk, eggs, fruits,
bread, and butter, those vegetables
which contain pigment and rough
age.
Another feature which is relic
of other days might deserve some
comment. I refer to the fact that
the real dessert of the Christmas
dinner is likely to be castor oil.
We can overdose young gourmands
! in the holiday season very readily
Instead of depending upon
cathartic the next day, wouldn't it
be better to restrain the intake on
Christmas day itself?
! For old and young, it is i'm
portant during the holidays to get
the proper quota of sunshine and
exercise. In fact, to get a little
more than the regular quota. The
children will do this themselves,
and that is why it is safer to let
them indulge themselves than it is
for an older person.
Everything considered, am
really far more worried about the
parents, uncles. aunts, and grand
parents than I am about the chill
dren at the holiday tables.
Questions from Readers
J. D.: sis drinking the juice
from one lemon in the. morning
good for One?"
Answer: Yes, it has about the
same effect as orange juice but is
not so fattening.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-12-23
BY JEAN GREEN

sprouts, peas, green beans, broc-
olli or red beetS, add splashes of
color on the filled dinner plate.
A salad made from lettuce or
endive or sectioned citrus fruit
with piquant French dressing is
appropriate for such a feast.
Plum pudding with hard sauce
for dessert and demi tasse is the
custom.
Christmas dinner to be COM
plete should have abundant nuts
and Christmas candies.
If you are still undecided
about certain items on your
menu, these recipes may help
you. Stuffing made with pecans
is delicious. If you want to
experiment with a new recipe
that you are not quite sure your
family will approve, you can, If
your turkey is large, use two
kinds of stuffing. Sweet potato
is inexpensive and tasty.
Sweet Potato Stuffing
y cup melted butter
l cup stale bread crumbs
2 cups finely chopped impaired
apples
2 cups mashed sweet potatoes
l teaspoon pepper
l teaspoon sage
Mix all the ingredients together.
If too dry this may be moistened
with milk. Enough stuffing for q
6-pound turkey.