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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-25
LOCAL SELF-DEPENDENCE

WITH increasing demand for communities to
W shoulder their own responsibilities and get off
the Federal dole, it is interesting to note how
have attacked and partially solved the problem The
recent conference of mayors in Washington given
a strong push in this direction.
In Indiana some cities and counties in the north
tier reduced their relief problem by making it
custom to require those employed in the industries
and made work to be residents of Indiana and the
county where they worked. This eliminated those
who for years had lived across the Michigan border
driving across the line every day work in Indiana
factories.
The peak of families relief in st. Joseph
County about $780, The residence requirement.
government projects and increased activity in the
factories have brought the number of families on di-
rect relief down to about 700.
The plan is not suitable to any except border
counties, but its there is indication that
local civic leaders, manufacturers and others can lead
the way back to community self-dependence.
With the return to the farms of many factory
workers attracted to the cities by high wages during
the boom the populations of of the industrial
cities OF Indiana have been reduced Unless there is
return flow with the resumption of large operations
the 1910 census is expected to show shrinkage in
some OF the smaller Indiana cities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-25
OTHER OPINION
aubrey Williams, Director of NY

(Aubrey Williams, Director of NYA
WITH the growing antagonism
~ of the taxpayers to the relief
population and to the demands of
workers we have got to make clear
that the services of men will never
be used up in farming until every
child has enough food to make him
as tall and as muscular as the chill
dren of the rich. That the services
Of industrial workers should always
be in demand until we reach the
place where the poor can be as
warm in winter as wool and fuel
will make them. That the services
of economists and accountants, of
clerks, statesmen, delivery boys. of
railroads, trucks and highways, of
telephones and the mail will never
be over employed until the neces-
sarieS reach every door. That the
building trades or the housing fac
tories which may in part displace
them, will never reach over capacity
until every man has a room of his
own. That writer's, painters and mu-
sicians are not too prolific until
they make available to all who want
it the expression of what life can
mean.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-25

late traffic rule they tell them about the fines that
so-and-so got for doing the same thing last week"
The commission also conducts a commercial
vehicle drivers school four times each year. Bust
ness firms insist that every driver attend all ses-
sions. They hire no drivers vino can not dis
play card certificate showing attendance at the
school. Our school, in operation eight years. is
the largest such school in the country Dr. Corbett
says. "One firm has reported 25 per cent decrease
in accidents since its drivers started attending"
T IKE other cities Milwaukee has safety cadets to
~ guard small school children crossing streets 1t
also has a 15-nile-an-hour speed limit in the vcin-
ity of schools and police and courts enforce it,
Drivers are warned that they are approaching
safety for pedestrians some 30 feet before they
reach them, by painted extension lines. large
number of by-passes have been installed to hold
traffic in definite channels and Corbett reports that
this has only made pedestrians safer but has ex
pedited the flow of traffic.
DR. Corbett gives credit to MiIwaukees police de-
partment and courts for much of the Safety Com
missions success. Every policeman has instructions
to act traffic officer at all times, whether he is
on traffic detail or not.
Incidentally, the police department has also
maintained its full quota of men throughout the
repression Or. Corbett says. Milwaukee did not
cut down on its street lighting either
The commission keeps steady stream of safety
material pouring into the hands of all city school
teachers and sends other material to civic organiza-
tions and Womens clubs.
Under it, traffic committee, made up of one city
public works official, police Official one street
company official, business man, the automo-
bile editor of daily newspaper, and the traffic n
gneer of the commission, serves. Any changes in
handling traffic, down to the installation of
light, studied by the committee, and only
once in seven years has decision made by it been
overruled by the City Council.
mo such achievement could result from
years effort alone" says DR.. Corbett. For many
years Milwaukee has progressed steadily toward its
goal At times these years of tireless effort may
have appeared frutless, but the Milwaukee Safety
Commission kept plugging away confident that
suits bound to come. And they did"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-25
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY MRS, WALTER FERGUSON

THROUGH its national president, Roberta Camp
bell Lawson, the General Federation of Womens
Clubs announces a new campaign: Safety on the
Highways
Never was crusade more timely However, it's
going to require something much more forceful than
talk to make it succeed. For two very unpleasant
things must be done before roads will be even rea-
sonably Safe-carS must be geared to lower speed
by the manufacturers, and we've got to take good
look into the overland freight business
Entirely too many accidents these days involve
can fail to notice the number of ponderous vehicles
whose drivers are seldom polite as the little
signs they carry would have us believe
Travel between busy cities is almost impossible
for passenger because the reghting business is
so active And in any argument about right of way
between a small car and truck, you can always
pick the winner. It's the small that is edged off
the highway in pinch and that goes into the ditch
trying to avoid the juggernauts
Ii you drive a light and are not killed out
right, you'll likely be scared to death by the pro-
cesson OF conveyances, big railroad trains which
zoom night and day over the roads. If YOU want
to go fast they want to go slow and when you'd
like to ambe along and view the scenery there's
always one OF them determined to pass you or die
trying.
We can be sure about this: In any campaign for
safety on the highways, politeness will never turn
the trick It's going to take some stepping on of
toes-big toes-to DO that job, and the hows will
be deafening.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-25
FOR SMALL BORROWERS

WH1LE it is we'll known that the Federal gov
w eminent has used billions of its credit to
help railroads. banks farmers and home owners to
renance their debts very little publicity has been
given to the meritorious Federal efforts free wage
earnerS from the clutches of loan sharks.
In the last year. the Farm Credit Administration
has chartered more than thousand new Federal
Credit Unions, small-scale cooperative banking
CARNATIONS through which Salaried and wage workers
pool their savings and borrow for emergency needs.
Instead Of paying or 10 per cent more
month for money borrowed from loan sharks indi-
vidual members of these credit unions may borrow
from their ov pools at charge Of not than
per cent month Those who thrifty enough
to they borrow collect back the interest
they pay in dividends on the credit union shares
their savings purchase.
The loan shark business should be starved out of
existence fast workers learn about and take
advantage OF the credit union plan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-25
A SUCCESS STORY

THIS is success story, the story of how a city
made good in reducing the number of its auto
mobile deaths.
For the second successive year. Milwaukee holds
the record as safest city among those of 100000 pop
ulation and more in the United States In 1884 it
won the National Safety Councils grand award in
its national traffic safety contest In the first nine
months of 1885, the Safety Council reports Milwau-
kee was still the safest of the big cities
Behind that achievement lies Is years of hard
continuous work
B. L. Corbett, executive secretary of Mlwaukee's
Safety Commission, tells how it was done.
In the first place, Milwaukee has no spasmodic
safety weeks. 1t organized its safety commission
about 1920 and since then there has no letup
the effort to eliminate dangerous traffic cond tons
and 70 impress drivers the need for driving care
fully
These are some of the things it has done A
weekly radio broadcast has been arranged from traf-
c court 1t takes place in the morning when house
wives are at home. AS result of the broadcasts
women have become competent back-seat drivers"
says DR.. Corbett. IF they their husbands vio-
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Questions and Answers

in which more than a million votes
were cast; almost half of them were
for the wild rose.
Q-What religion did the French
chemist Louis Pasteur profess?
A-Roman Catholic.
Q-Are daddy longlegs harmless?
Ayes.
Q-What is the value of United
States l cent piece dated 1881?
A-They are catalogued at l to
cents.
Q-Who were the dancers in the
motion picture, Many Happy Re-
turns" featuring Burns and Allen?
A-The team of Veloz and Yo-
landa. and John Taylor and Clark
Rutledge, tap dancers.
Q-Give the populations of France
and Italy.
A-France, 41.034,923; Italy, A.
621 900, both exclusive of possessions.
Q-DoeS the presumption OF Inno-
cence until he is convicted apply to
persons accused of crime in England
as we'll as in the United States?
Ayes. In both countries the
presumption of innocence abides
throughout the trial.
Q-What is the highest peak in
the Catskill Mountains?
Aside Mountain, in Ulster
County altitude 4,204 feet.
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unknown liquors. Then follows
plea for the use of identified
brands with guarantees of
reputable Makers Were it not for
the known courage and in
dependence of The Times one might
fancy the writer turning his eyes
on the advertising pages when that
was penned and published.
There is peril, according to The
Times, in drinking unknown
liquors. To be sure there is. Are
there perilS in drinking known
liquors? To be sure there are.
Alcohol, no matter how well it is
branded and how well its source is
guaranteed, is a poison. For that
reason The Times is forced to say,
Temperance in the use of identified
brands, with the guaranty of a
reputable maker and seller behind
them, is the only way to safety
But is it? What about total
abstinence? Suppose one determines
that he will patronize neither identi-
fed nor unidentified brands, will he
not be on the way to safety? 1t is
interesting that all the drunkards
who have ever staggered along the
way; that every man or woman
dead or blinded by wood alcohol;
that every one who has injured
himself by drink, has come from
the group of drinkers. The Times
might we'll revise its statement, and
mention that there is one way to
safety-that of total abstinence.
THE difficulty about moderate
drinking is that he who drinks to
excess does 50 not from judgment
and reason but from appetite, and
The Times can not reason with the
appetite of a drinker. The drinker
himself can not do so.
yes, as The Times says, the
expectation of temperance was the
condition of repeal Those who hold
it and were moved by it were in
the grip Of a deluSion.
Temperance can not result from
a legalized liquor traffic"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-25
1T DESERVES ATTENTION

A PROPOSAL for change in the sessions of the
Indiana General Assembly, which at least de-
serves thought is that which would have it meet for
IS days for the reception of bills and then recess
for 80 Gays to consider them
After the recess the Legislature would spend
the remaining 25 days passing or discarding the
bills. In the 30-day recess the committees could
study the bills without the distractions of the ses
sion and the press and public could form better
opinion than is possible.
Many suggestions are being made for improving
government One which would enable calm study
of bills should be given attention
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-25

Inclose a Scent stamp for reply
when addressing any question of
fact or information to The Indianapolis
Times Washington Information Bureau.
Legal and medical advice can not be
given. nor can extended research be
undertaken. Be sure all mail is adj
dressed to The Indianapolis Times Wash
ington Bureau. Frederick NJ. Kerby,
Director. 1913 Thirteenth-st. n. W..
Washington, d. c.
Q-When was Central Park pur-
chased by the city of New York?
Ain 1856.
Q-Is the tomato a fruit or veg
etable?
Automatically it is fruit, but in
the garden and market it ranks as
a vegetable only.
Q-Give the number of battle
ships in the United States Navy.
A-Fifteen.
Q-Are the salaries of Senators
and Representatives subject to in
come tax?
Ayes.
Q-Does the District of Columbia
have the status of a state?
A-No; it is a Federal District.
Q-Has the United States ever
adopted a national flower?
A-No; but a nationwide contest
for the selection of a national flower
was conductfd by Nature Magazine
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-25
SAYS LEGAL LIQUOR TRAFFIC
CAN'T BRING TEMPERANCE

BY Oliver w. Stewart, President. FLYING
Squadron Foundation.
In radio broadcast address I had
occasion to comment on a recent
editorial in The Indianapolis Times,
as follows:
Recently three persons were
killed and one blinded in Indian
apolis by wood alcohol. The Indian
apolls Times, esteemed by many for
what they believe is it's desire to be
fair and just in the treatment of
public questions, had its word to say
last Friday about the deaths Just
mentioned:
The lamentable incident has re-
minded many of the condition
during prohibition, when wood al
cohol killed many.
Repeal was to end this along
with the other evils and dangers
of prohibition. That it has re-
Cured SO soon after repeal does
not mean that repeal was a mis-
take but that people do not COM
prehend the peril of drinking I'M
known liquors.
Temperance in the use of iden-
titled brands, with the guaranty
of a reputable maker and seller
behind them, is the only way to
safety.
1t should not be forgotten that
the expectation of temperance
was the condition of repeal
Let it be noted that according to
The Times repeal was to end evils
and dangers attributed to prohibit
ton. But it has not ended them.
Possibly deaths from drinking wood
alcohol during prohibition were no
more due to that policy than they
now are due to repeal. How few per-
sons of any mental discretion or in
tellectual power by which to ascer-
tain and weigh facts believe that the
drinker of wood alcohol has any
governmental policy in mind or is
directly or indirectly influenced by
any such policy when he poisons
himself with such liquids.
But what do deaths and blind
ness from drink and what do
drinking and drunkenness and their
general increase since repeal
mean? The editor of The Times
thinks he knows the answer. AS he
sees it the trouble is people do not
comprehend the peril OF drinking
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-25
SEES VETERANS GETTING
JUST RAW DEAL
Ry Harry R2unpaard

By Harry Baungaard
The veterans are getting another
surprise from our democracy-d de-
stroying government. They have
raised the wages and shortened the
hours on the PWA and all other
three-letter organizations, but the
veterans plug along as usual and
wait, wait and wait for everything
that is coming to them.
I really think we are worth a
raise in pay, like all other organi-
cations, and we could stand a raise
in subsistence, because we haven't
seen ham, bacon or pork since
Hoover was President. And if it
keeps up we shall be the first to re-
ceive potatoes wrapped in cello
plane.
1t seems eventually the veterans
will have to call upon General
Smedley D. Butler and General
Glassford to restore America to the
American people, and not to COM
munism, fakeism, dictatorism and
all other goofy isms.
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2 y
TAKES ISSUE WITH III. B.
ON SALUTES TO FLAG
BY Edward Hartman

BY Edward Hartman
In your issue of Nov 18, H. B.
thinks flag saluting is going too far.
Inasmuch as it is not necessary nor
expected that one should salute the
flag on all occasions, I can't see how
he gets that way
When our flag becomes Colors,
salute should be rendered when one
is within six PAGES, or about IS feet,
of them. All flags are not Colors.
Colors are flags that are used in
parades. on the poles of forts,
camps, ships, etc, and, Of course, at
the head of any military formation.
Surely the average person does
not come in contact with Colors so
often as to be over-W worked saluting
them. AS for religious convictions
being the reason for their lack Of
respect, they surely remove their
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-25
Plundered by Professionals

lSenator Bennett Champ Clark D. Mo-
To large extent our professional
military men have been allowed to
dictate not only our military policy
but our national and foreign policies
as we'll. We have been very free to
criticise the militarism Of other
countries dominated by military or
naval cliques. We ought now to
recognize that We have submitted
more docilely to being plundered by
ship builders and other purveyors
of munitions than have other peo-
pies.
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hats when praying. Saluting Colors
has the same significance to our
country, its ideals, etc. In other
words, render unto Caesar those
things that are Caesars"
AS for politicians and grafters be-
ing the ones that are most en-
thusiastic saluters, I think he is
mistaken. This type of American
usually does not know the proper
way to salute Colors. Merely re-
moving the hat is not saluting.
My idea is that we are very lax
about teaching the proper time and
way to salute Colors to our school
children, so that they will be proud
to have the privilege of saluting
them properly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-25
LAMENT OF A ROSE
BY E. S. r.

Look not on the dying phase
OF beauty, in this chaliced vase.
After life's sweet contamination
Cruel seems disintergration.
Death should be a swift descent
Ere perfume and bloom are spent
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-25
CONSISTENCY, OH, YES, IT'S
REALLY A JEWEL

BY F. o. C.
Honestly, did you ever hear the
pot call the kettle black?
London, Nov. 6.-British bank
ers have fatty rejected an appeal
by Austria for at least a years ex-
tension of an G6o,ooo loan. =. The
Austrian delegates were CURLY in
formed they could have month to
think matters over, but not one mo-
ment more unless they wished Aus
tria to be branded as a defaulting
state"
Consistency, truly thou art a
Jewel!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-25

Times readers are tnuited to empress
their Uie10s in these columns. religious
controversies eTCluded. Make D0ur letters
short. so all can hare chance. LIMIT
them to ESQ tCordS or less. Your letter
must be si0ned. but names 40ilt be
10ithheld on re0ueSt.j
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-25
DAILY THOUGHTS

If I justify myself, mine own
mouth shall condemn me; if I say,
I am perfect, it shall also prove ME
perverse.-Job 920.
WIND puffs up empty bladders;
w ODipiOn. fools Socrates
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-25

Before this Administration came into power with
its philosophy of the economy OF scarcity America
helped feed the world. After two years and half
OF New Deal policies, the world is helping feed
America.-Eenry P. Fletcher. Republican national
chairman
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-25

You may just as well talk about good kidnapers
and bad kidnapers.-Senator Borah, illustrating diff
ference between good" and bad trusts
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-25

The trouble with Gen. Johnson is that since he
bucked out Of NRA, he has been suffering from
mental saddle sores.-Harold L. Ickes. PWA admin
istrator
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-25
Squaring
The Circle
With
NIcCREADY HUSTON
With
McCREADY HUSTON

A LETTER from Bill Fletcher,
n local figure and tax man, now
exiled to an assignment in New
York. I am always in awe OF expert
accountants. I always feel in their
presence that they are looking
straight into my wallet and wonder
ing why it contains nothing but a
drivers license and a police card.
I am unable to keep the most trivial
Of accounts and so a man who can
walk into a strange Office and audit
the books and make out the tax
returns seems to me to be very &C
complished.
Schools of business report heavy
enrollments this year. The boys and
girls evidently feel there is going
to be heavy demand for figure
people when figures are in use again
and so they wish to be prepared.
1t must be a good training. At
least, you'd never put your finger
into your vest pocket and wonder
where that IS cents is that you
were sure you had.
IF anything could be said in praise
of a public utility man in the
Middle West since the insult bust
ness one could most safely say it
of Tom English, an adopted Hoosier,
who gets around Marion, Muncie,
South Bend and other places where
he manages properties. Tom is a
man of great information in his
field, an engineer who came here
from Albany, N. Y, some years ago.
What interests me about Tom aside
from his professional skill is his
never-ending kindness to his friends.
He goes about doing good in quiet.
unobstrusive manner.
Since the depression began he has
helped many an Indiana man out
of hole. He is a good churchman,
too; and When the Episcopal Church
of which he is a communicate was
suffering from lack of paying men,
bers he did much more than his
share to keep it going.
incidentally, his Indiana g. Michi-
gan Electric Co. is one of the best
managed in the state and has main
tanned the dividend on the preferred
while at the same time reducing
rates.
THE first test of the new Indiana
lie detector was success. Per-
haps now the makers will rush out
a pocket model in time for the next
political campaign.
Speaking of the political cam
paign. the treasurer of the Repub-
licans says theirs will be a pay-as-
you-go affair No big debts for cam
paign expenses. You don't need the
lie detector on that one.
How does it feel to have predicted
the result of the Indiana Purdue
game? And to have supported Pres
ident Bryan in his appeal against
drinking there? 1t certainly gives
one a comfortable feeling.
= u
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The HOOsier Forum

l wholly disapprove of a0hat yoW say-and aOiU
defend to the death your right to sag it.-Votaire
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-25

THE game reminded me that
Il United States Senator Minton
was Indiana's captain % years ago.
1t was during the period when Oil
plant was the star at Purdue. Cap
tanning a football team is not a
bad preparation for the Senate as
many of the moves are similar. The
Senate rules, of course, do not per-
nit bodily contact.
= =
Most of November's weather sug-
gests that the official song of the
city should be the Hymn to the
Sum-" by Rimsky- Korsakoff.
A wash-day column may not be
much. But think of the kind of
week-ends people think they have
to spend. 1t makes it wash-up day.