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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-20
NEW YOUTH PROBLEM

TIVE falling birth rate is apt to do good
- many things to America before it gets
through. One Of its unexpected by-products
may be the emergence of vast race of
spoiled children.
This quaint development is suggested by
Professor William F. Ogburn of the University
Of Chicago in an article in the current issue
of the magazine Better Times.
Professor Ogburn figures it on a straight
supply and demand basis. The supply of chill
dren will decrease-or, at any rate, will not
increase at the old-time rate. The demand,
in the sense of the love of parents for their
children, will remain just as high as it ever
was. and will perhaps even increase.
The result will be that the child will be
appreciated more.
AS Professor Ogburn remarks:
1T seems probable that the child will re-
ceive more attention. With some groups that
will be good for the child, no doubt. In many
cases this out-of-th ordinary attention may
make the child too self-centered"
You can carry it still farther. Every par
ent knows that one Of the most powerful tools
in the molding of a child's character is the
acts. Where children are priced more highly,
comparatively it is logical to expect that the
scales will be unbalanced, the doses of blame
will be diminished, and the amounts Of praise
increased.
But Professor Ogburn isn't through yet. He
points out that when the proportion of chill
dren in the population is smaller, the average
child will naturally associate with his elders
more than is now the case.
This will increase his precocity, but he will
not get those subtle. toughening influences
which come from constant association with
youngsters of his own age.
Tomorrow's child. then, seems destined TO
approach manhood and womanhccd under
something of e handicap. And this rather
gloomy forecast is Just one more reminder
that modern times seem constantly conspiring
to place new responsibilities on the shoulders
of parents.
There was time when the parents hard
est problem was to find some way to feed,
clothe and educate a constantly growing
brood. Shrinkage in the family's size Is ap-
parently going to replace that problem with a
new ons. equally difficult.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-20
COUGHLIN CARRIES BANNER
FOR PEOPLE OF NATION

BY T. d. Danaher.
I believe the old saying, Like
Bigots Like" and ] see it is the
truth, plainly manifested in this
controversy existing today between
the Irish priest and the general.
The existence Of "Old Glory" is
due to the energy and sacrifice of
the Coughlins and their like since
the idea was first conceived, while
the efforts of the progenitors Of the
general were aimed in a distinctly
opposite direction.
The general let the cat out of
the bag. Somehow these Roman
cassockS have been a thorn in the
sides of the general and his Orange
ancestors since the time that the
arch sensualist, his Brittanic maj
esty Henry VIII of England, first Or
dained that Catholic churches cease
to act as such, and all who were
worthy Wearers Of Roman casSocks
be banished or asSaSSinated.
But it seems that Father Cough
lin has the wrong Bible. I wonder
if the general would be pleased to
lend a copy of that impromptu ver-
sion which the sanity Henry
authorized to be issued when he
became the self-appointed eccleSias-
tical head of his people in England.
Some scribe in The Times mixes
the general in with some important
Irish Americans, but failed to in
clude Al Smith. Gen. johnson Irish
indeed! Why, yes, he is as Irish as
Woodrow Wilson, Gibbs McAdoo or
Benedict Arnold, and these IriShmen
with the general included would
paint the Atlantic red every month
in the year with the blood of Amer
leans at the bidding of their
masters when It meant the preser-
walton of the British Empire known
now (thanks to De Valera) as the
British Commonwealth of Vetians.
Oh, ]. P. O'Mahony how we miss
you.
An unfortunate condition exists
in this country. We have 20 per
cent of our people capitalizing tie
ignorance of the 80 per cent, and
Charles E. Coughlin is busy educat-
ing us out of that slough while the
Chocolate soldier" and his bosses
are trying to dig us in.
Father Coughlin, all real Ameri-
cans are with you, and despite the
venom of the Londonderry Orange
men you will still remain Father
Coughlin the sanity shepherd of
souls, and Charles E. Coughlin, the
warden of American rights.
P. 81 wonder if the Roman
cassock influenced the generals"
vote in 1923?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-20
Capital Capers
by GEORGE ABEL.

OFNATOR PAT HARRISON of Mississippi is
- becoming as much the wrestling authority of
the United States Senate, as Senator Warren
Barbour, ex-pugilist of New jersey is its box
ing champion.
Pat never misses wrestling bout if he can
get them. He even prefers watching struggle
on the mat to hearing combats of oratory on
the Senate floor.
The new Irish wrestling sensation, Dan O'Ma-
honey pronounced Mahany by the IriSh) has
greatly intrigued Pats interest. OMahoney has
won Is consecutive matches in this country.
When he wrestled in washington, veteran
Senator Harrison was in his customary ringside
seat.
HE looks like he's got something" was Pats
comment after viewing the tussle.
incidentally, Pat showed good craftsmanship
himself during the course OF the match. some
one sat down in the Senator's seat during his
absence but Pat didn't disturb MN on MS re-
turn.
He merely slipped into vacant seat, saying
to the man in the next chair:
This seat isn't taken, is it? Somebody's got
mine"
NOTE: Minister Michael MacWhite of the
Irish Free State was one of those who welcomed
Wrestler ON1ahoney in the name of the "auld
country" when he came to the Capital.
Hes a grand scrapper," commented Envoy
Michael.
A AMBASSADOR CASTILLO NAJERA of Mex
n leo is planning to add little more color to
Washington.
"I am going to send to Mexico soon for some
Nardos-sweet-sn smelling tropical flowers which
we have there" he explained, "and put them
in the conservatory of the embassy"
The conservatory will then resemble minia-
ture garden of Eden, observes feel, with Arlbas-
sador Castillo'S wre-haired fox terrier lying in
the shade of a cactus, II canaries thrilling mu-
sicallv. and tropical nardos exhaling sweet per-
fume.
A DOLF BERLE, one of President Roosevelt's
N original brain trusters," has been making
political speeches in the Midwest.
In st. Louis one Of Adolf's listeners, en-
chanted with the flow of oratory which caused
another original brain truster' Charles Taussig
of New York; to refer to him as "Old Silver
Tongue" offered him passage on private train
to Louisville
Mr.. Berle accepted and presented the ticket
at the station.
What show are you with?" inquired the sta
ton master, after examining it.
MY own" quickly replied Berle.
Train 49," said the other, and stamped the
ticket
Berle boarded train Is and spent more or
less pleasant trip en- route to Louisville. He
was amazed at the speed of the train and men
tally thanked his friend for his courtesy.
Upon arrival, he learned the cause OF the
speed He had been the sole passenger on what
is known as a spinach train"-in this case,
three freight cars laden only with that vegetable
Spinach trains make extra fast time-so the
spinach will remain fresh.
"Ah." signs Adolf when friends jest about his
ST. Louis to Louisville train, Il say it's spinach
train and I say hooray for 1t!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-20
NAPOLEON AND HITLER

THOSE who read in this newspaper
u Napoleon's letters to his wife, Marie
Louise, might have 5een struck with the SIM
ilarity of this mad mans career more than
100 years ago and that Of another in the
making in Europe today Adolf Hitlers.
Both the Corsican corporal and the Ger
manic house painter we're commoners. Both
rode to power as bogus revolutionaries, only
to betrav the workers and set out to pursue
glory" To- themselves and their country, to
kill. mairl. burn and destroy in patriotism's
name. Both took the sword in defiance of the
civilized world Napoleon persisted in early mid
die age beloved Of few. Hitlers finale is yet
TO he written.
Some day at fiitlers tomb may stand
wiser man and say of him. as Ingerson said
of Napoleon:
7 thought Of the orphans and widows he
had made-of the tears that had been shed
for his glory, and of the only woman who
ever loved him, pushed from his heart by the
cold hand of ambition. And I said would
rather have been a French peasant and worn
wooden shoes. I would rather have lived in
hut with vine growing over the door, and
the grapes growing purple in the kisses of the
autumn sun. I would rather have been that
poor peasant with my loving wife by my side.
knitting as the day died out OF the sky
with my children upon my knees and their
arms about me- would rather have been that
man and gone down to the tonguelesS silence
Of the dreamless dust. than to have been that
imperial impersonation Of force and murder,
known as Napoleon the great"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-20
WHITES AND INDIANS

THE noble red man has been hoeing a
pretty tough row ever since the white
brethren discovered that Americas broad land
was fertile. scenic and studded with fine min
eral deposits; but nothing that has happened
TO him is much odder than the way he is used
as an object lesson every time he gets little
extra money.
II is the Oklahoma Indian who has figured
In this kind OF story the most, because it is
the Oklahoma Indian who has the most money,
what with the Usage oil fields and all. And
neat little sample Of this sort of thing popped
up Just the other day in Tulsa.
IN Tulsa there died one Duffy Morrison,
42-year-old Greek Indian, who was q mute
helpless cripple all his life long and who never
knew what money was or what it was good
for-but who died possessed OF a fortune of
100000. due 70 the fact that his 160-acre
tribal allotment was rich in oil.
Duffy Morrisons case was typical of the
weird and illogical things that started hap
pening when oil was discovered under Indian
land.
Indian after Indian came into great riches.
. In most cases the lucky red men had not the
faintest idea how to use their new wealth. For
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-20
I'm a Dreamer
BY AUSTIN JAMES

They say that I'm a dreamer man
Who'd rather sit all day and
dream,
Than work and toll like other folks
And emulate the slaver's scheme.
They say I'm just an easy man
Who'd rather sit around and
write,
Than strive in manual industry
To show the temper of my might.
And yes, there's some who will aver
That care not for gold or
wealth,
That I'm completely satisfied
To live with nothing but my
health.
Well, sir, it's true this dreamer
stuff,
or course like to sit and dream.
But they know not what from it all
May come some sweet or tender
theme.
That I can sit and write about,
And which some saddened soul
may see
And find an avenue for thought
Of heavy burdens-set them free.
All no, they can't-they've never
known,
Perhaps, the comfort of a verse,
The gentle touch a poet gives
To thought-in which they might
irnrnerse
Their troubled hearts. I'm SATISFIED
To hask beneath the radiant
beams ~
OF those who've found some hap
pineSs
BY reading writings OF my dreams.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-20
THE LITTLE FOXES

THE newly organized Wine Institute,
formed to encourage cheaper and better
domestic vintages does well to center its cam
paign against excessive state and local taxes
and fees. These, rather than Federal taxes
and tariffs, are the little foxes that eat the
vines.
It was in the spirit Of repeal to encourage
the drinking of the lighter beverages. Fqouting
this, the states and localities are loading abb
surd burdens onto the winners backs.
The Federal tax is 10 cents gallon on dry
wine, 20 cents on sweet wine. Ohio adds an adj
ditionaI 81 tax on sweet vines. Pennsylvania
adds a 59-cent tax on dry and an 84-cent tax
on sweet wines. Often counties, cities and
other subdivisions pyramid taxes on those of
nation and state. Wiser California, restrict
ting her levy to cents has filed her Golfers
with more than S2500OO revenue since repeal.
License fees, as well as taxes, tower to ruin
Gus heights in many states. Massachusetts,
charge wholesale distributors $4,000 annual
license. New Jersey has $1,000 fee for selling
wine not consumed on the premises A single
shipment of wine may be laden with as many
as IL license fees, not to mention several diff
ferent taxes.
The results are: Higher prices, poorer quail
ity, more Illicit manufacture. more basement
winners, more fly-by-night operators.
And it doesn't pay. While taxes were COL
lected on 100000 gallons of wine in the year
following repeal, an estimated 100000 gall
Ions of basement-made wine went tax free.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-20
DEFENDS PUBLICATION OF
ARTICLES ON HUEY LONG

BY Frank B. French.
I would like to answer the dis
gusted Reader" who so severely
criticised Huey Long in your paper
March 9. The Disguised Reader"
surely has that rare and nearly ex-
tinct disease Of being overpaid and
overfed.
The Disguised Reader" man or
woman, needs to be criticised for not
having the courage to sign his or
her name to such slurring article
written and published before the
public.
What Huey Long states he intends
to do for this country is headline
material and the reason the papers
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-20

an eX-saloon keeper and purchases
the acre next to Mr.. Brown. He
puts up a road house (but does not
live in it HIMSELF. Then the
drunks start rolling in. They drive
up in automobiles making all the
noise they can, all night long. Mr..
Browns children hear nothing but
cursing and swearing, filth and
slime from the DRINKS and buns.
Mr.. Browns investment drops IN
value from $4,000 to about $1,000, on
account of the roadhouse next door.
All home investments within
1000 feet of this roadhouse are cut
in half. Just in the last year I have
read of many shooting cases, people
getting killed, robberies, holdups,
and what not in these roadhouses.
Why people do not form armies
and burn down these places, I don't
know.
For every dollar in taxes the state
of Indiana collects from roadhouseS,
the taxpayers must raise $40 to
correct the evils arising from these
hell taverns. Gov. McNutt surely
loves children and the Hoosier home
when he approved the clause in the
Indiana liquor bill abolishing the
hell tavernS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-20

by SOCldhSbs
The idea that every man and
woman more than so years old
should receive 5000 a month is,
in itself, fair and just. We con-
graduate DR.. Townsend for hav-
ing aroused the multi Ides into
bringing pressure upon old party
politicians forcing them to give
consideration to the plight of our
aged Of the so-called advanced
nations only the United States
has permitted our aged to either
shift for themselves or be shunted
into poor houses after our indus
trial system of human exploita-
ton has finished with them.
However, would you trust old
line politicians, who have no real
sympathy with legislation of this
nature, but seek only SPOTS for
themselves and their henchnen to
administer such laws, supposing
that they should be forced into
framing them by the mass pres
sure behind the Townsend plan?
Look into the history and the
platforms of the three political
parties and you will find that only
the Socialist party has consist
emily fought for an old-age pen
sion. However, the Socialist party
does not propose security for only
one sector of our population, but
for all; those able to work and
those unable for reasons other
than unwillingnesS.
The Townsend plan proposes
pensions for those more than CO.
What about those between 40 and
so who, under our present waste
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Socialist Plan Upheld

full system of individual capt.
talism, can not be exploited for
profit? What about the source of
revenue for the Townsend plan?
Canny politicians will give the
Townsend plan lip service and will
seize upon the consumer sales tax
as an easy source of additional
money for spoils politics, but if
the plan is to be put into effect
in our present economic system it
will be only through imitation and
the aged will receive their 5000 a
month in printing press money.
The old party politicians can
give you an unbearable burden Of
sales and turnover taxes, imitation,
and a meaningless roll of 5000 a
month, but only through social
ownership of the natural re-
sources and the essential mOnopo-
lies can you attain real security
and the satisfaction of 5000 a
month in tangible form. We pro-
duce wealth only by our daily use
of man-power, machines and our
natural resources. Under the pres
ent system we have seen millions
of our fellow men denied access
to these two basic needs for a
life of abundance.
Townsend planners: Look be-
yond the symbol Of money, beyond
the single humanitarian idea of
DR.. Townsend to the broad ideas
of security and the good life for
all our people in this the richest
country in natural resources, man
power and brainpower on the face
of the earth. Such is the COM
monwealth plan Of the Socialist
party.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-20
So They Say

We will never modest, nor ever
have thought nor will think of mo-
testing the Italian colonies Of Err
trea and Somaliland. - Emperor
Halle SeIassie of AbySsinia.
Private shipbuIlders will soon
come to grief if they continue to
feel that there's something immoral
and unpatriotic about the govern
ment building its own ships.-Sen-
ator Homer T. Bone.
Academic freedom should be the
freedom of the learners to learn and
not the freedom of the professor to
profess or to NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. w.
Studebaker, United States Commits
sioner of Education.
It is not sufficient to be known as
good citizens" we must be good
for something. Our greatest prob
lem is the number of intelligent
people who are morally unemployed.
Bishop Ernest M. Stires.
The fact of my putting nail pol
ish on my toes is no different to
me as a dancer than to choir girl
who puts polish on her finger nails.
Ruth st. Denis, famous dancer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-20
GAS COMPANY ACQUISITION
ACTIVITIES BRING FIRE

BY Alvin Lewis.
Just as The Times is courageously
publishing facts that have ever been
held back from the public in regard
to the amazing financial methods Of
the Citizens Gas Co., bill is signed
by the Governor which commits the
city to issue so-called revenue bonds
for the taking over of the gas prop
erty.
The city will then become as the
"Old Man Of the Sea-" condemned
for SO years to shoulder heavy bag
of tricks such as the Indianapolis
Gas lease. Why all the rush to pull
Mr.. Eaton's chestnuts out of the
fire? Our honorable mayor, under
pressure from Cleveland, expects to
have the prettily engraved revenue
bonds off the press atsonce.
Is there some consideration offered
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-20
Daily Thought

Do violence to no man; neither
accuse any falsely; and be content
with your wages.-St. Luke, 3:i4.
MO man, for any considerable Pc
IN Rod, can wear one face to HIM
self and another to the multitude,
without finally getting bewildersd as
to which may be trIie.-Hawthorne.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-20
ROADHOUSES BRANDED AS
HELL TAvERNS" BY READER
BY Rural Taxpayer.

By Rural Taxpayer.
Here is an open letter to all rural
taverns, barbecue stands, beer joints,
dance halls, and gambling places
that line the roads outside the city.
First, this territory is for homes and
children. Years ago, Woodworking
Christian people set up their homes
along these roads and have invested
every cent of money they could earn
in improving them. They have in
vested a thousand dollars to every
dollar the rural liquor joints have.
Now let me describe one of these
booze taverns.
First, Mr.. Brown bought an acre
of ground and built a house for his
family. His investment was about
$4,000. He has four children ranging
in age from esto II years. A typical
American home until along comes
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publish every word OF his speeches,
ana about SO per cent of the Amer
lean public reads it and is not dis
gusted, is proof that the Disguised
Reader" is one Of the other 2 per
cent.
n n
To F. H.: Since a new wagon
already had been purchased for
Charles, we sent him the 10 cents
you forwarded to us.
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The Message Center

(Times readers are invited TO cypress
their Uiet0s in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can haze chance.
Limit them to $50 410rds or less. Your
letter must be signed, but names 1CiH
be qoithheld at request Of the letter
4Criter.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-20
SUGGESTS MORE 'ARTING,'
LESS 'THROAT-CUTTING'

BY Bird Baldwin.
To John Thompson, re your arti-
cles Of late-You really can't expect
exhibits of art if there amt enough
art available contemporarily-or
sumpin.
If the artists would spend their
time "arting" instead of throat-cut-
ting, the show gang might be able
to put over few exhibits.
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for all this speed, or is it possible to
make out Of the poor gas company
a Democratic stronghold for those
who vote right.
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The cost Of ham and eggs has risen so
high. wen soon have to order the combination
without either one or the other.
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1t finally leaks out that the Hauptmann
jury really has decided on verdict OF mercy.
All of them have voted against going on the
stage. which is a mercy verdict for audiences.
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Remember. Eugene Grace said he denlores
- much as any one else-not war profits.
, 1935-03-01
Schedule Arranged
For Cameron Meet

SAN BENITO, March L. The
schedule for athletic events for the
Cameron County InterscholaStic
League meet % be held here Thurs
cay. Friday ana Saturday. March
Il. % and % was made out at a
meeting OF coaches this week. G. E.
Vail OF La Fe-ia Is director Of ath-
lctics for the meet.
All tennis will begin az 3 O'Clock
Thursday Afternoon. All prelimin-
airy playground ball games for girls
Will be played Thursday afternoon
and all girls ~volleyball games
Thursday night In the high school
gymnasium.
Boys playground ball p~reliminaries
viii be played Friday with add
Jional matches in tennis.
Preliminary events in field and
track will be held beginning az 9
o'clock Saturday morning. Finals
n Class B" and junior track and.
field events viii take place Satur-
Gay afternoon. Finals in class "A"
track and field will be Saturday
night. Class 3" track and field
may possibly De changed TO Satur-
day night.
Finals will De played Saturday IN
playground ball and tennis