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bitterly that 1t already had caused loss of $780,
900 in trade with Italy.

bitterly that 1t already had caused loss of $780,
900 in trade with Italy.
That means 100000 day in trade sacrificed for
American peace. And if we can estimate that ex-
porters average 10 per cent net profit, it means
100000 a day thrown away just to keep us from
getting involved in possible European African war
But before we feel too downcast about this it
might be good idea to think about other entries in
a war-trade ledger. At the start of the World War
didn't do anything foolish as to sacrifice trade
with Europe. No, indeed! We let our fnanciers
lend the peoples money to Europe to buy And
when that game played out, started pumping out
the taxpayers billions in credit to Europe And we
told our exporters to go to it. And they did They
sold billions in goods to Europe Our Navy backed
them up And then our drafted youth
And today We enter on our books such items as
this -.
Daily cost Of pensions, adjusted compensation and
disqualification of World War veterans: About ST.
25O000
few years ago. President Coolidge estimated
that the World War had already cost America fifty
billion dollars, and would eventually cost one hun
dred billions. cat the time he said it, Mr. Coolidge
was presuming that Europe would eventually repay
the war debts.
We are not mentioning here any considerations
except dollars.
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WOULD HAVE U. S. TEST
AUTO DRIVERS

By w. G. C.
In his column a few weeks ago
Mr.. Haywood Broun pointed to the
lack of uniform requirements,
among the different states, in the
matter Of licensing drivers of auto
mobiles. He suggests something in
the nature of Federal license and
police measures, but, quite reason
agly, believes such things would
likely be held unconstitutional.
Mr.. Broun is in a position to do
much toward changing the bad
present situation and deserves COM
mendation for his one article on
the subject even if none other fol-
lows. Being regular reader Of
his column, however, I am not en-
tirely convinced that his complaint
was motivated solely by concern for
the safety of human life and limb.
But let's not judge hastily.
If Mr.. Broun is really more in
terested in rendering genuinely
humane service to mankind than
he is in picking flaws in our govern
mental system; in bewailing the
present limitations of Federal au-
thority, and in plugging for extern
sion Of bureaucratic power by
changing the Constitution, he may
be glad to know of workable Solu-
ton to- this problem.
A system similar to that adopted
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lis created with representative
branches in every state An appli-
cant successfully meeting the tests
given by the examiners, is issued,
not a license, but a certificate of
qualifications document without
legal standing except as may be
provided by states which decide to
give it recognition.
Under the present situation, as
Mr.. Broun has indicated, a state
with strict laws governing its own
licensing of drivers may have it's
highways over-run by incompetents
from neighboring states whose laws,
in this respect, are VIGOROUSLY lax
But with this system in operation,
the careful state could very properly
demand that the driver of a car
from another state be able to show,
in addition to his own states license,
Federal certificate of qualification
to drive.
Once the Federal examining board
plan became a fact, a single state,
giving it legal acceptance, would
quickly demonstrate its wisdom, and
cause neighboring states, if for no
other reason than self-defense, to
adopt similar regulations.
So rapidly would a system Of this
sort meet with general approval that
within a year or two practically
every car operator, really entitled to
such privilege, would possess a Fed
eral certificate of qualification-pro-
vided, of course, the expense con-
nected with obtaining one be kept
very low. Enforcement laws, penal
ties, etc., would, naturally, become
matters for each state to settle in
it's own Way.
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PROPOSES NEW PLAN FOR
OLD-AGE PENSIONS

By C. H. Metzger
A universal revolving old-age pen
sion to be financed by a l per cent
transaction tax:
All single persons IS years of age
or over shall receive $75 per month.
All married persons shall receive
500 per month. In the event of
the death of the husband the
widow shall receive $50 per month
and in the event of the death of
the wife the pension shall auto
matically become $75 per month.
All persons drawing salaries or
wages amounting to $75 per month
shall not be eligible for this pension.
All persons drawing less than $75
per month shall be paid the differ
ence.
All unnaturalized foreigners shall
not be eligible for this pension.
This would eliminate all govern
ment or county or any other class
of insurance drawn for over the said
amount.
This is to be nonpolitical and a
person must be resident of the
state for five years and the county
for one year.
In order to raise the funds neces-
sary to finance this pension there
should be levied a l per cent
transaction tax; said tax to become
effective one year from the date
on which it shall become law.
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bJ frOI. irving EiSher
quite agree with Mr.. H. L. See
gers criticism of the banking sys-
tenn, as expressed in his statement
in your Sept. " issue, but
I do not believe that, because
there are grave faults, nationali-
cation of banking is the only way
out. should modify his state
ment by adding that, if bank
ing is to remain in private hands,
the banks will have to give up
their monetary function.
Money is function of the gov
eminent. The Constitution makes
it mandatory for Congress to
coin money and regulate the
value Thereof" There is no objec-
ton to private banking in so far as
it consists of the maintenance of
the flow of money, the transfer
of funds from the saver and in
weston to those who seek capital.
On the contrary, it would be
most unfortunate to have every
request for loan passed upon
by a political appointee who is
likely to judge the credit-worthi-
ness of the applicant with a view
to political considerations, while
the government would be backing
him by virtually guaranteeing
every loan.
The private banker who is TAX
ing a risk with every loan he
grants will inquire into the char
acter and ability of the borrower,
rather than into his political
alignment. Government banking
if it would not lead directly to
Socialism, would at any rate foster
an unsound bureaucracy which in
the end would probably change
our economic life as radically as
would Socialism or Communism.
The bad part of our present
banking system is that in the proc
esS of banking or calling loans,
the banks are creating or destroy
ing money. This is due to the
fact that a bank needs to have
only a 10 per cent cash reserve
behind its deposits. In other
words, bank having only $4,000
Of cash can make loans aggregat-
ing 100000.
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Money Is Governmental Function

These 100000 total loans Cor
deposits) are then called check
book money or credit. They have
been created by the bank in the
process of making loans. Reverse
ly, when the bank calls the $780,
900 loans, it destroys the 100000
check-book money it had previ-
ously created. When all banks
thus either create or destroy
money, they increase or decrease
the volume of our monetary circu-
lation, causing rising or falling
prices and values, making infa-
tions and defations.
Check-book money has become
our most important means of
payment. 1t is real money and
should therefore be subject to the
same constitutional regulations of
its value by Congress as are coin
and paper money. Once Congress
realizes that check-book money is
real money, it must legislate that
banks must no longer be able to
create and destroy it.
Such legislation should provide
that banks must maintain a 100
per cent cash reserve, instead of
the present 10 per cent, behind
the check money they put
into circulation. The total circu-
lating medium will then be equal
to the total cash.
According to the plan outlined
in my book, 100 Per Cent
Money" the cash, consisting of
government notes, will be issued
solely by currency commission,
which will function under man
date by Congress to maintain a
constant value of the dollar by
keeping just the proper amount CT
cash in circulation.
This seems to me the best way
out of the present dilemma. Not
only would it obviate the nation
alization of banking; it would pro-
tect business, the farmer and the
banking system itself from the
disastrous bank failures we hav
had in the past, and incidentally
remove one of the most funda-
mental causes of boc'mS and de-
pressions.
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Inclose a Scent stamp for reply
when addressing any question Of
fact or informa ton to The indiana
ton Bureau. Legal and medical
advice can not be given. nor can
extended research be undertaken. Be
sure all mail is addressed to The
Indiana polls Times Washington
Bureau, Frederick M. Kerby. Direc-
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ington. D. C. THE EDITOR
Q-Are naturalized American
citizens subject to deportation for
a crime committed after naturali-
cation?
A-No.
Q-Has a Negro ever been nom
mated for the Office of President
or Vice President Of the United
States?
A-No Negro has ever been
nominated for the Office of Presi-
dent, but James w. Ford, Negro,
was the nominee for Vice Presi-
dent on the Communist ticket in
1912.
Q-Give the populations of Nj
agara Falls. N. Y, and Niagara
Falls. Canada.
A-The 1880 census gives the
population of Niagara Falls, N. z,
as 1880: and in 1881. Niagara
Falls. Canada, lad 1906.
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Questions and Answers

Q-What is the inscription on
the stone over the grave of Mark
Twains wife?
A-The stone is inscribed with
her name, record of birth and
death, and the German words:
Got sci dir gnadig, o meme
wonne!" God be merciful to you,
o my bliss)
Q-What is the name and ad-
dress Of the chairman Of the Re-
publican National Committee?
A-Henry P. Fletcher, $50 Park
av, New York City, or Barr Bldg,
Washington, D. G.
Q-Give the total length Of the
U. S. tidal shore line on the At
lantic and Pacific oceans and the
Gulf of Mexico.
A-Atlantic coast, including is
lands, 11,679 statute miles; Gulf
coast, including islands, 6418
statute miles; Pacific coast, in
Guiding islands, 3765 statute miles.
Q-What is a gondolier?
"A boatman who operates a
gondola.
Q-Who wrote the book from
which the motion picture, She, "
was taken?
Att is screen dramatization
of a book with the same title, by
Sir H. Rider Haggagrd.
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A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

I 1F'E often goes stale on us-even when we are
young. 1t must be very stale indeed to the maids
and matrons who spend so much time in public
bar rooms
Gay, sophisticated, volatile, as they are, the gilt
ter of lights reflected in chromium seems to draw
them moths drawn to fame It's all so casual,
you know absolutely harmless. They just drop
in to laugh and chatter and drink-and then to
drink some more 1t doesn't hurt anything they
say.
But sometimes their eyes tell different story
They have dull, stricken even an empty look They
are the eyes of those who can find no meaning to
life
good many of these young women return to
homes which luxurious, spacious, beautiful They
feel dull there too, and rush to the phone to get
up a bridge gane-anything to keep their spirits
soaring Fooled by this swift pace they travel they
imagine themselves to be having marvellous time.
1t takes plenty of drinks to keep up the delusion
and lots and lots of bridge and endless comings and
goings.
Now and them they have to take sleeping tablets
when they go to bed. Night has a way of invading
us with serious thoughts.
All this preliminary is description of the exist
ence of one young wife, as she told it to me- Now
as she puts it, she's been "yanked back to her
senses"
And what do you suppose yanked her? baby.
She had an unpanned-for baby; in fact nuisance
of baby to begin wlth-and it changed the world
for her.
Life has taken on new color and zest. Home has
a real meaning. She is actually in love with her
husband all over again. Her soul has been en-
rched by the experience Of motherhood and her
body revivifled
Funny how a baby can do that, isn't it? 1t can
stay our youth and rejuvenate us when are slip
ping into middle age. and quicken our interest in
every phase of living.
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Song
BY JOSEPHINE DUNE MOTL

BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY
Shuttle, shuttle all day long,
Always singing some strange song,
Darkey in our alley way,
Why-oh, tell me-are you gay?
Face like one big hunk of coal,
Eyes forever on the roll,
Push your dinky old junk cart;
Sharing ash cans is your art.
All the world has passed you by;
Seems as though 'twould make
you cry.
It might be the world is wrong.
Anyway, you have q song.
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by at least two of the professions
appears to be the logical remedy,
and is one that would in no way
interfere with or supplant an in
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dividual states right to examine
and license its resident drivers.
Here is a brief outline of the
plan: A Federal examining board
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Under the New Deal the expenditures have been
divided into regular" and emergency" expenditures
The theory is that the next generation should pay
for the emergencies of this Observation-Disclosures
Hoover.
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LOSING TRADE, BUT NOT DOLLARS

1--WE days after President Roosevelt's proclama-
ton warning against trade with belligerents.
the New York Development Conference complained
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The United States can not continue to spend
billion dollars year upon its Army, Navy. and air
forces without contributing to- a war psychology
Dr. Walter Van Kirk Federated Council of Churches
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WE understand death for the
w first time when he puts his
hand upon one whom we love-
Madame de Stael.
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We seem forced to admit that the settlement of
international controversies through peaceful
is q long way of.-Senator Borab
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Daily Thought

For in death there is no re-
membrance of thee: in the grave
who shall give thee thanks?-
Psalms vi, 5.
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, 1935-02-08
Beauty Needs
More Than
Cosmetics.
By Alicia Hart
NEA Service staff Writer

II can't spend money on expensive
preparations. but / do want TO have
nice skin and hair" writes a girl IN
a Middle Western city. What should
l do TO keep my complexion lovely
through the years?'
The best answer IL seems to me,
Il the old rule that ! talk about
constantly - Keep Healthy In adj
dition. make the most Of beauty aids
which cost a negligible amount.
Fresh water eight glaSSfuls a day.,
a reasonable amount Of exercise.
eight hours sleep each night and
plenty Of fresh air r the best beau
ty treatments id the world. They
cost nothing, yet they practically
guarantee rosy cheeks. shining eyes.
glossy hair and a supple figure.
To take a daily bath involves so
little expense each month that IL
would be silly TO try TO set il down
on PAPER. However. cleanliness IS
one OF the first requisites Of lowell
ness and the woman who bathes
daily. using a bath brush on back.
shoulders and arms. is certain TO
have q fresh charm that Is close kin
TO beauty.
Smiling eyes and 4 nice DISPOSE
tion have an infinitely more import
ant bearing on beauty than any
amount OF preparations that are 10
be rubbed on the surface. If YOU Get
enough sleep. take exercise and eat
the right food, there's no reason un-
der the sun why YOU should 90
around with a sour expression. Learn
to think pleasant thoughts about the
people YOU know. the situations you
are forced TO face. Remember that
mere prettmess can he painted on
the surface. but true beauty comes
from within. Stop worrying about
lack Of money 70 SPEND ON creams
and lotions and do the best YOU can
with material that costs little but
which Is much more effective.
, 1935-02-08

comes along your mother and father
viii like him.
DEAR VIRGINIA LEE: I would
like to know the age law for marry
ing in Illinois and Indiana. III you
request that the license not be pub
liShed. how long al II be kept Sc
cret? M. M. M
Without parents consent both
young people have to be 21 in Indi-
ana, the boy Fl and the girl 10 in
Illinois. The license. I think can be
kept out OF the papers II requested.
but OF course II has 10 be recorded
In the office OF the clerk OF the IL
cense bureau.
, 1935-02-08

starch. l tablespoon butter. 2 table
spoons lemon Juice.
Add grated lemon rind TO tomato
Juice and heat. Mix and Sift corn
starch and sugar and add to tomato
Juice, stirring vigorously to prevent
Jumping. Cook until mixture Is thu x,
and clear, stirring constantly. Re-
move from fire and add lemon Juice
and butter. Cool before filling cake.
One egg white. To cup granulat-
ed sugar, 3 tablespoons cold water,
IL teaspoon vanilla. Ia teaspoon
cream Of tartar baking powder.
Put egg white. sugar and water
In top OF double boiler. Place over
boiling water and beat with a ro-
tsry beaten for seven minutes or un-
III thick and fluffy. Remove from
heat and add vanilla. Continue TO
beat until cool. Add baking powder
and beat until thick enough 10
spread on cake without running.
, 1935-02-08
Peanut A Legune

The peanut is a first cousin Il
peas and beans. being leguminous
It has q peculiar habit Of blooming
above the ground. then burying the
seed pods in the ground. The pea
nut Il very nutritious. offering fat
protein. and such minerals as phos-
phorus and iron together with Vita.
min 3.
, 1935-02-08

Mrs. Edward b. Smith. the for
mer Louise Dewey Of Chicago. was
recently decorated by Rene WELLER,
French consul general in Chicago. for
having taken such an interest In
the Alliance Franchise. For the last
three years Mrs. Smith has been vice
president Of the Juniors Of the ALI
ance.
, 1935-02-08

der. nutmeg and salt together into q
mixing bowl. Mix the beaten egg,
melted Snowdrift and milk and add
70 the dry ingredients. stirring to q
smooth soft dough. Turn out OF a
Toured board and roll to about Ia
inch in thickness. Cut with o dough-
nut cutter and drop the doughnuts
gently into deep hot Snowdrift. Fry
to q delicate brown (S75 degreeS)
Drain on absorbent paper and dredge
with sugar. II desired.
This makes about 40 doughnuts,
, 1935-02-08
Boy Friend
Is Jealous,
Pals Write
by Virginia Lee

~Dear Virginia Lee: We are two
school girls and have another girl
friend who has a boy friend. Every
time Jul girl friend looks at a boy.
or has two or three dances with
other BOYS. this boy friend Of hers
gets jealous and says she cannot
dance with him any more.
They are not engaged. 70 we think
he is foolish TO be SO jealous. Please
advise us what TO tell her. because
she doesn't have a good time when
he Ia nagging nc her. He ditched her
once to 90 with us two. You never
nee him with boys. Re is always with
N bunch OF girls. and Is getting the
name Of being a sissy.
Two DISCUSSED SCHOOL
CHUMS."
Your friends problem Is not seri-
Gus. girls. as you are all % young.
But she might Just as well learn at
<5nce not 10 60 with young men who
are 20 selfish that they spoil her
good times by jealousy. II she dances
with other boys he can dance with
other girls, I suppose, unless they
have an agreement that they shall
dance only with each other all even
ing. In which case she should do
as she promises.
Make " a rule. girls. 10 be fair In
your dealings with everyone-your
boy as well as girl friends-and to
let the boys 20 who would make YOU
unhappy through always wanting
their own way. OF course / know
that its easier said than done.
HEART BROKEN'S mother and
father don't like her boy friends, and
when she wrote the current "One and
Only" had broken a date and left
town without a word. She wants to
know how to make her mother like
this particular friend and how 10
find out what made him act as he
80. lie IA away from home. 80 she
Easn't a chance To sec and talk with
him. She has written him. but hesi-
tates 20 mail the letter.
Did you send the letter. Heart
Broken? And If YOU did. what was
the result? I don't see what possible
excuse N fellow could have for treat
ing a girl as he did YOU II he really
cared about her. so am forced to the
conclusion that he doesn't care. And
maybe your boy friends have been
rather trashy, and when a real one
, 1935-02-08

FEBRUARY 3. IS35-Prairie dogs,
-timid. sociable and gregarious-
occupied towns scattered irregu-
larly over the prairies OF western
.xaS. Many such %habitationS still
remain. Prairie dogs dig deep bur-
rows IN the ground. the entrances
to which are surmounted BY mounds
OF earth thrown up in the eXcava-
ton. They are tan and tawn colorcd
and about a foot long. Of very stout.
squat and paunchy form, with short
tail, low ears and long strong fose
claws; and came by their name be-
cause OF the locality in which they
live and because OF their cry, which
Is much like the barking Of q young
dog. Since they subsiSt entirely on
Vegetable food. old timers used TO
say that II they had been given a
name indicative Of their relationship
10 their cousins. the squirrels, they
would have long since been extinct.
Often they are compelled TO give up
parts Of their burrowed homes to
rattleSnRkes and owls. when the part
the usurper occupies is cut off from
any connection with others. Their
towns often comprise a hundred
acres or moTe. and many times an
unwary horSemanis mount has been
crippled when its hoofs went into
M OF the subterranean passage
ways. Men who. for the sport OF the
thing. have observed TIE antics OF
prairie dogs. say that certain OF
them appear TO be entrusted with
the responsibility Of tranquility and
good order in their villages. When
anything unusual happens to break
the stiffness Of the prairie. the little
fellows whisk into their holes where
they remain while some peer out for
brief moments to cautiously observe
the object Of their scaSe, OCCASION
ally darting TO another hole and
back again as IL to keep their fellow
villagers informed and c0mforted.
, 1935-02-08
Seven Miles Of Thread

Seven miles OF wool thread was
used in the knitting Of an exquisite
white lace shawl which was recently
presented 10 the Duke and Duchess
Of Kent as a wedding present. 1t was
made by one Of Shetland'S most ex-
~perienced knitters, Mrs. Thomas
Sutherland. who is SO years old, and
lives in the Shetland Islands.
Wedding presents continue 10 ar
rive for the royal couple.