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Evening star., 1935-10-26

good lookin' to be running around by
yourself"
THANK you, too much" Sugar tried
to be facetious. "I shall file your pro-
poSal and take it up along with my
many others. But meanwhile, don't
worry about me. am fine and hope
you are the same"
II she didn't tease Johnny she was
sure she would break down and cry.
Seeing him again was such a comfort.
And knowing their quarrel was all
settled made her want to weep with
relief.
Long after Sugar was asleep that
night Scoop lay thinking of her. Sew
eral times he put on the light and
tried to read. But it was no use. He
smoked innumerable cigarettes and
fumed at his insomnia.
1t was breaking daylight and he
got up to sit at the window. Suddenly,
as If a book had been opened before
him, he knew. He was in love with
Sugar Friddle!
The revelation was like a dash of
cold water in his face. After all the
women he had known, the most beau
tiful and the most talented women in
the world. it was the little red-headed
orphan who had struck the first NOR
tai blow to his heart.
And why shouldn't he be in love
with her? He faced the problem
squarely. He was still not quite 80
He was earning good salary. She
needed him. But could she love him?
He remembered the first night he
had seen her and wondered If Sugar
could ever put it out of her mind. She
had apparently forgiven him. But
had it frightened her so that she
would be afraid of his love?
Who was Sugar Friddle?
Suddenly Scoop came to a de-
cision. He must try to find out
Not because it mattered to him. But
because he believed that would be the
| most priceless gift he could lay at the
| feet of the girl he loved. The solution
/ of the enigma of her birth.
/ 1t was his business to solve mys-
teries. If he did find out, and the
knowledge might hurt her, she neeo
never know.
There must be some cluel
Then he thought of Mother Friddle
! Did she know? There was only one
way to find out. Go to see her.
One method had seldom failed him
and perhaps it would work again
/ When he went out on a story he all
ways tried to give the impression he
knew practically all the details-that
he was just trying TO confirm them.
1t usually made people want to give
him the true story, lest his version
/ should have been garbled one. Per-
/ haps If he made the old lady think
! he was near the solution of the iden-
tity of Sugar Friddle she might acci-
dentally give him some much desired
/ information.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, a
Evening star., 1935-10-26
Cherry Color for Floors.

In a Colonial house it may be
found effective to stain floors dull
cherry color. Varnish or wax over
the, color to preserve 1t. This color
makes an appropriate background for
bright hooked rugs and light maple
furnishings. A proper tone Of blue
green used as a floor border and re-
called in the other furnishings will
contrast pleasingly with the dull
cherry color.
Evening star., 1935-10-26
RACK FOR UMBRELLAS
Holder Can Be Provided Inside
Hall Closet Door.

Before the rainy season sets In.
build a simple umbrella rack on the
inside of the hall closet door.
A metal drip pan may be provided
below the rack in case some one brings
in an umbrella before it has been al
lowed to dry.
This simple device need not be un-
attractive. and it can be painted 70
match the interior of the closet.
Evening star., 1935-10-26

spotlessly groomed Mr.. O'Reilly pre-
sented himself at the Lorien Orphan
age and asked for the superintendent.
(To Be Continued.)
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OVERLAPPING TAXES

D ESOLUTIONs passed by the Second Inter-
N state Assembly in Washington should
cheer burdened and bewildered taxpayers with
the assurance that at last something may be
done about the duplicating taxes levied by
cities, counties, states and nation.
Delegates to this important get-together Of
states followed recommendations of their In
terstate Commission on Conflicting Taxation
In behalf Of fair play all around, they urged
the drawing of certain lines beyond which the
states must not encroach on Federal tax
sources and vice versa.
They urged the Federal government to stop
levying taxes on gasoline and electricity,
sources the states consider their own. Between
cities. counties, states and Federal government,
the willing automobile is being worked to
death. In the 10 years since Oregon levied
the first gasoline tax, motorists have beea car
rying an increasingly heavy burden. Every
state now levies its tribute; so do many cities
and counties. Often a motorists pays four
different gasoline taxes, including the Federal
1-cent levy. Gasoline taxes now average So
cents a gallon, a sales tax Of nearly 40 per
cent. Such rates, Of course, invite bootlegging
and other evasions.
The states, in turn, we're urged to withdraw
from taxes on beer and tobacco. Congress al
ready has heavy beer tax. The states should
tax beer only for regulatory purposes" Thir-
teen states recently have entered the tradi-
tionally Federal field of tobacco taxation. AS
with gasoline, excessive and double taxes on
beer and tobacco encourage evasiors and re-
duce revenues.
Sales taxes also are growing to burdensone
proportions, with 26 states now collecting them
for emergency purposes. We can not agree
with the assembly's suggestion that the Fed
eral government levy a general emergency
sales tax and allocate revenue to the states.
Worthy of study by Congress, however, is its
recommendation that state income taxes be
credited against Federal collections on a grad
uated basis and the Federal income tax base
broadened to make up the difference.
The assembly proposes a permanent, Off
cal Tax Revision Council, composed of seven
representatives each from Federal, state and
city governments. to plan reallocating of rev.
enues and functions among themselves. In
justice to the taxpayers, efficiency and inter-
governmental comfy. such a step should be
undertaken at once.
AS President Roosevelt says, this question
of overlapping taxes is "of prime Importance"
to our country.
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PRICES KEEP GOING UP

WHATEVER may be happening to the re-
w covery program as a whole, the cost of
living seems to be making an extremely sue
ceSSful comeback.
Agriculture Secretary Wallace himself pre-
diets that meat prices will be up 80 per cent
by 1886 Beef and pork will be up % per cent
by July l. Porterhouse steak and bacon are
apt TO be classed as company dishes" before
the year is over.
All Of which lends some point to the COM
plant of the Peoples Lobby that the con-
sumer is getting a pretty poor sort of pro-
lection in the campaign to put the farmer in
better shape.
There may be exaggeration in the lobbys
assertion that The recent purge" in AAA
means that exploiting and profteering in
tereStS have got control of that agency" but
it is pretty obvious that the consumer is
carrying more than his share of the load.
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STILL WAITING ACTION

IF the people of this country ever really APP
L preciate how terrible the auto traffic situa-
ton is, you will see a sudden flare of laws,
regulations and supervision more drastic than
anything now dreamed Of.
Take a current example A 6-year-old
Cleveland boy. excited and tickled because he
is at last big enough to go to school, makes
it a point to hurry to the schoolhouse to be
there in plenty of time.
one day he gets there ahead of time; the
traffic officer detailed to the school interSec-
ton hasn't arrived. The boy crosses. any,
way-and a motor car kills him.
Now this sort of thing is almost too COM
mon to be worth mentioning. Yet when you
stop to think about it you realize, all of a
sudden, that it is the tragic product of a
situation which is absolutely intoler-ble.
Why We continue to put up with it-why
We don't get up on our hind legs and put
this traffic juggernaut under control regard
less OF the cost or the dificulty-is the great
est mystery of the age.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

one time associated with the Barrow gang
remains UNPUBLISHED today-the gangster
Raymond Hamilton, now being hunted by
posses all over the southwest
Now a roundup Of this kind does not get
tenth Of the bile attention that the actual
Staying or inn isonment of a notorious Grim
inal gets; but in the long run it is every bit
as important in the drive to stamp out law
lessness.
No outlaw plays lone hand. in modern
America The man who tried it wouldn't last
a month.
There must be friends who can furnish
hiding places in time of trouble who can adj
vance funds in the low spells between rob-
berries, who can carry communications and
help in forming plans and do all the other
little services which enable a criminal to
carry on his career.
To knock off the leading criminal and leave
this network Of friends and helpers untouched
is to invite repetition of the trouble.
Getting the leader himself is the first job,
of course. But after that has been done, the
persons who made his career possible need
attention. Blows like the one against the
Barrow clan in Texas are the best kind of
crime prevention work.
Nothing will put crirnp in activities of
the Dillingers and the F1oyds like a general
public realization that to give any kind of
help to such men is exceedingly unhealthful.
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CRIME GETS BLOW

THE shooting to death OF such outlaws as
John Dillinger and Pretty Boy FLOYD is
easily the most spectacular part OF the De-
partment Of Justices drive on crime Equal
" important. but far less exciting, is the
quiet and methodical way in which the &C
men" are cracking down on persons who give
aid and comfort TO, gangSters.
Twenty persons stood before a Federal
judge in Dallas. Tex the other day to re-
ceive sentences for having harbored or as
sisted tough Clyde Barrow. recently deceased,
and his cigar-puffng paramour. Bonnie Park
er, also recently deceased.
Among them were the mothers OF the two
outlaws. assorted sisters, brothers, friends and
a scattering of what might euphemistically
be calico business associates.
At one time or another these persons had
helped the outlaws hide from the police, or
had given them help in getting from some
hot spot 10 a spot not so hot, or had done this
or that TO make their careers OF crime more
lucrative.
Judge William H. Atwell lost no time in
handing out sentences which in some cases
run as high as two years in prison. The two
mothers drew 30-day terms in jail And as a
result. only one person Of all those Sho at
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-07
YOUTH SMILES ON TO WAR

ET is interesting TO speculate how long the
institution OF war could be maintained if
It we're impossible 10 persuade a.. young IN
tried soldiers that the affair was gay and
rome adventure.
0ung fellow who is starting of for
IN, 'front.' invariably goes with a song and
smile. How he comes back may be something
else azain: but at least he starts out with the
conviction that the SKY is blue. that he is
stout fellow. and that unimaginable excite
ment and glamorous doings are ahead Of him.
All this was called TO mind recently by pub
Hcation Of a newspaper photograph showing
a contingent Of Italian troops embarking for
Africa. wnere SisEor NIussolini seems on the
verge Of starting something.
II was a traditional photograph Of its kind;
grinning. hilarious young men waving their
arms. fondling their guns and laughing; heads
protruding from car windows. eager faces ex-
pressing all the gay anticipation Of youth be-
ginning high adventure.
And to look at il is to feel deep regret
that experience is. after all, the only teacher
to which youth viii listen
Young men have been going off 10 war
through endless centuries, and each time they
have started out in Just this way-with smiles
and laughter and expectant cheers TO bump
into reality quite unlike their brave expecta-
tons.
Probably Caesars legions pulled out Of
Rome with the same air =. only TO find out.
when they got into the thick OF things in Gaul.
that there was precious little romance in hav-
ing Gallo spears stuck into their stomachs.
and that soldering carries with it an uncom-
mon amount Of brldEe-building. ditch-dgging.
and similar back-breaking and unromantic
JOBS.
Every army since then has had 10 learn
the same sort Of lesson The Crusaders started
out with futtering banners. and discovered
that typhus was one Of those features Of war
that they hadn't thought about
The ebullient young colonists who enrolled
n l77s couldn't look ahead TO Valley Forge;
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By George Gould Hine.

By George Gould Hine.
The middle class has been kicked
around considerably in this coun-
try. Something or other that
shows symptoms of being a half
wit has done the kicking. 1t has
been referred to, politely, by those
who hold themselves in, as the
delicate business psychology. In
this attempt at an analysis we
can call it the D. B. P. for short.
Its behavior is peculiar-like that
of an epileptic subject to fits.
For instance, when it reaches
the limit of kysterical enthusiasm,
it will fall dat on it's back and
stare at the stars. Then it will
stagger up, frothing at the mouth,
and thrash around, knocking over
banks, businesses and properties.
This has the effect of picking the
middle class up by the pants-legS
and shaking them up and down.
When the contents of the pockets
have rolled out, the D. B. P. will
then boot the ex-middle, now
lower class over to the press. The
press will then plaster them with
labels of bungler, moocher, wilmer,
four fusher, pauper and tax-eater
and howl that they be disfran-
chised, sterilized and finger
printed.
In this country they are to be
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THrRspAY. MARcH z. lsss.
A GOOD WORK RELIEF BILL


A BETTER wUyk relief bill is back before
n the Senate. II that body can persuade
Huey Long to stop talking precinct politics
long enough to get action on the bin, millions
Of IDLE people on the dole may soon be han
ding the tools Of labor.
By apportioning the our-billion-dollar
fund among eight separate classes Of work
projects. the appropriations committee has met
the blank check" objections 70 the original
measure. This change and others also have
helped remove questions Of consttutionaliW
arising from the Supreme Courts ruling in the
oil case
The biz earmarks 88O million for direct re-
lief and authorizes the President TO draw any
additional sums needed for this purpose from
the four billion works fund This feature,
coupled with the provision authorizing the
President to shift 20 per cent Of the funds from
one type Of project to another, provides ample
nexbiity.
Fortunate also is the lack Of any provi-
sion compelling the President TO spend all Of
specific sum for a specific purpose When and
If private industry absorbs the unemployed, the
President VIII be able to carry out his taper
fng-of program and save some Of this out
lay for the taxpayers.
The allotment OF SO million FOR the Civil
ian Conservation Corps will be generally ap-
proved. No other type OF relief has proved
quite as satisfactory as the CCC. 1t has kept
on its rolls more than 100000 young men Of
relief families. many Of whom otherwise would
have become street-corner loafers or homeless
wanderers. The CCC has paid extra dividends
socially as well as in the conservation Of for
ests and soil.
A good part Of the 800 million allotted for
highways. streets and elimination Of grade
crossings should be used for the latter. In re-
cent years the urge for immediate unemploy-
ment relief has resulted in much waSteful and
indiscrimnate highway construction. Many
roads have been built. leading nowhere in par
ticular and accommodating an insignificant
volume Of traffic. Since roads are costly to
maintain. more care should be taken in orig
mating projects.
But grade crossing elimination IN this
country has run far behind the needs Of both
highway and rail traffic. BY helping to elm
mate crossings the government may encOur-
age railroads to tap their reserves to build
more modern equipment and thereby provide
new Jobs for some Of the four million unem-
ploved normally attached to heavy industries.
The 45O-milliOn-dollar allotment for low
cost housing and 500 million for rural rehabil-
itation can help revive the distressed building
construction industry and measurably raise the
living standards Of thousands Of needy urban
and rural families.
These and other features of the bill COM
prise President Roosevelt's plan 10 conserve
our human and natural resources. and take
the government out Of this business Of relief
Now the plan IS oowll in black and white. Let
it Pass.
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A FEW COMMENTS ON
THE AUTO OF TOMORROW
BY Jimmy Cafouras.

BY Jimmy Cafouras.
There has been a great torrent of
predictions and forecasts of trends.
One more or less will hardly matter.
Consequently let us consider the
motor car.
That it is changing shape is only
too manifest. In fact it is evolving
so fast that it would be quite a
difficult task to foretell what man
ner Of creation will grace the third
or fourth automobile show hence.
Originally the automobile was lit
orally a horselesS carriage as any
visitor at the Worlds Fair could see.
They just subtracted the horse and
added primitive two-cylinder
motor. AS the automobile increased
in speed and utility the horseleSs
carriage idea was thrown into dis
card and we had huge boxes. Motor
trucks until very recently were
boxes on wheels. The old, touring
cars were boxes with strapped-on
lids. Hardy any one will deny the
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Middle Glass Is Boosted

turned out in cOntented pastures
of $50 a month, full time, take it
or leave it, thus building wall
around the upper classes over
which they may not climb or peep.
The press hoWls that peeping
should be verboten as seeing in
come tax returns would make
them disconnected.
We are now beginning to learn
that the rate of the middle class
and necessities of life have not
been in the control of a remark
able intelligence, but have been
kicked around by something whose
fits get longer, whose RACES get
more violent and whose destruc-
ton gets more complete, as time
passes. And it would seem that
the time has come for this thing,
whatever it is, to cease cacking so
triumphantly that it has brought
greater happiness and well-oeing
than have ever been enjoyed, any
time, anywhere" and pay for the
damage it has done.
1t should be made to pay by
higher income and inheritance
taxes strictly in the higher brac-
kets. And surrender its decisions
of grandeur. And quit kicking
the middle class around with its
small businesses and property
values.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-07
CHURCH FIELD FOR
TEACHING rs UNEMPLOYED

By L. B.
A number of years ago woodrow
Wilson made the following state
ment which well illustrates the sub
conscious moral attitude of the av-
erage man and woman today:
There is no more priggiSh bust
ness than the development of char
acter." Whether we are willing to
admit the fact or not, this era in
which we live is essentially not one
of goodness or beauty, but is rather
an age of truth, wherein intellect
uality takes precedence over all
other attributes of human con-
seriousness.
The leaders of the church,
though sincerely imbued with the
saving grace of spirituality, have
shown little ingenuity in re-evaluat-
ing their resources for the purpose
of more adequately adapting them
to the increasingly impatient and
ever questioning minds of men.
They have, on the contrary, either
evaded the glaring inconsistencies or
resorted to pie socialS and violent
eXhOrtation. The more battling be-
come the ravages Of sin, the more
violently do they lift their voices in
protest against it. Yet the common
man remains, even yet, only partial
~ convinced that his immediate and
uncompromising surrender to the
Holy Spirit will provide tomorrow's
supply of bread for an already half
starved family. Here lies gap in
honest thinking only partially
bridged by the church.
Ministers, as a class, are poor
pedagogues. They stif1e us with
formality, monotonous routines and
incessant and UNMARRIED repetition.
They ignore the questions which we
can not answer and goad our souls
to further iniquity by eternal en-
phasiS upon the well-known ravages
of sin. These accusations are true
enough in themselves, but lose their
significance and vital challege when
couched in phrases of UNMARRIED
monOtony. What men need most of
all today is an entirely new and
daringly original approach to relig-
ion, a laboratory instead Of lecture
method of soul-saving. In this con-
nection, the writer once asked a sue
cessful teacher how she obtained
such remarkable results. Her reply
was:
81 believe it is because I have so
many different ways Of getting at
the same result" On this charge the
modern church today stands con-
victed.
The writer, if given subsequent
opportunity, will at some later date
attempt to point out a few vital fac
tors in character building" which
have been overlooked by the church.
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THE ALIBI BILL
THE alibi bill pending in the state Legisla-

THE alibi bill pending in the state Legisla-
Il ture is House Bill 424.
It provides simply this: That defendant
charged with crime who intends to rely upon
an alibi, must provide the essential facts of his
abb 10 days before the start of his trial.
Passage of the bill means that the prosecu-
tors all over Indiana will have an even chance
to investigate the all-too-o often perjured
"alibis" presented III criminal cases.
Drop a postcard to your state Senator or
Representative. Tell him you want H. B. 424
passed.
Passage means step toward stamping out
perjury and, in doing that, stamping out crime
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box-like structure of sedans of by
gone days.

box-like structure of sedans of by
gone days.
Now new note whistles in the
ears of every one. Streamlining and
more streamlining. Streamlining is
in the process of revolutionizing the
whole appearance and makeup of
the motor car and every other
means of transport.
To understand streamlining we
must do a bit of research work. So
let us bear together.
Objects that travel through space
in any direction are spherical when
nature has anything to say in the
matter.
Objects that travel along a GER
tain path and in a certain plane are
spun-out spheres or mashed spheres.
They are something like cigars.
In passing through the air a
motor car meets the resistance OF
the air. If it has a rounded taper
ing front that by slow, gentle de-
grees reaches to the middle it is
slicing the air with the least posi-
BILE resistance.
From the middle to the back the
size should gradually diminish to a
point. In that manner We have the
air flowing easily from the object
in question. Were it blunt in the
rear it would create retarding
vacuum which tends to hold back
the object.
So what do we see? Motor cars
of the future larger in front than
in back. Rounded fronts and pointed
backs, body, lights, tenders and
everything.
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the young Germans who gaily chalked Mach
Paris" on their railway cars as they left Ber-
lin had no way Of foreseeing the horrors Of
Verdun and Ypres.
And 50 it goes. The history Of war is one
long, tragic story Of terrible disillusionment
Of youth. and it is there for any one to read;
but no one heeds it.
Each young generation must learn for it
self. It simply viii not believe what it reads.
So We have these italian boys singing and
laughing as they head for Africa-and to look
at their picture is to understand why it is
still possible for war to exist.