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The Washington times., 1935-02-25
HOLD DANCE TONIGHT

Employees and officials of the
chief Of finance and finance Of
ficer'S office, United States
Army, will hold dance. to-
night at Indian Spring Coun-
try Club, starting at $50 O'Clock.
Major General and Mrs. F.. W..
Coleman are to receive the
guests.
The Washington times., 1935-02-25
a UN|TSFOUND.
OBSOLETE BY
DC. HEADS
Supplemental Estimate Goes
To Budget Bureau; Real
Economy Foreseen

Replacement of the obsolete
heating units in 16 public schools
is provided for in a supplemental
estimate of 100000 submitted to
the Budget Bureau by the District
Commissioners, it was learned to-
day.
The original estimates for the
1886 District fiscal budget re-
quested $4,000 for the installa,
tion of new heating plants in four
schools. This sum, however, was
cut in half and will be sufficient
for the installation of furnaces in
two buildings.
Major Daniel j. Donovan, Dis
trict Auditor, stated ii the sup
Elemental request that the old
heating units in the schools are a
constant source Of trouble and
that their replacement would ef-
feet a real economy"
Threatened Strike
Several months ago the parenUS
of children attending the Blair
School threatened to stage a
parent strike" unless the hot air
heating unit in the building was
replaced.
The District Commissioners
ordered that the unit be repaired
and promised to include the
school in the 1886 budget.
There are "a schools which do
not have steam heating plants,
all but one being equipped with
old hot air furnaces. One of
these is served by stoves.
The four schools listed in the
Commissioners budget estimates
as being in need of replacement
are the Blair and Hayes schools,
containing heating plants dated
1895; the Hubbard School, with
a furnace manufactured in 1898
and the Langston with a furnace
of 1900.
Schools on the List
The Commissioners listed the
schools recommended for furnace
replacement in the order of
immediate need. The list con-
tained all of the schools not
equipped with modern plants.
The schools listed are:
Van Ness, built 1909, furnace
1909; Amidon School, built 1882,
furnace 1895; Pierce School, built
1894, furnace 1900; Webb School,
built 1900. furnace; Van Buren,
Annex, built 1881, heated by six
stoves; Gage School, built 1900,
furnace 1902; Blow School, built
1906, furnace 1904; Fairbrother
School, built 1910, furnace 1908;
Truesdell School, built 1908, fur
mace 1906; GiddingS School, built
1887, furnace 1900; Bunker Hill
School, built 1911, furnace 1908;
Berret School, built 1889, one
furnace manufactured in 1908
and two others in 1887; Reservoir
School, built 1887, furnace un-
known date; Rossel School, built
1887, furnace 1895; Garfield
School, built 1910, furnace 1904;
B. B. French School, built 1904,
furnace 1900; old Adams School,
built 1888, furnace 1916; Blake
School, built 1887, furnace 1916;
Stanton School, built 1908, fur
mace 1900; Reno School, built
1903 furnace 1000
The Washington times., 1935-02-25
GOOD WRITER, TOO

Dizzy Dean, who has taken up
magazine writing, will probably
admit that o. Henry was a pretty
good writer, too.
The Washington times., 1935-02-25
ODD RECORD

Did you know that the Cincin-
natl Reds, though finishing last in
1884, led the National League in
getting hit by pitched balls?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-14
ONE COUNTY STEPS OUT

nHIO'S largest urban county in which Cleveland
~ is situated has decided to see what it can do
to improve on the outmoded system of county gov
eminent laid down for it than a century ago
in the constitutional convention at Chillicothe then
the state capital.
For more than 20 years progressive leaders in
Cuyahoga County have been fighting for authority to
do something about the expensive overlapping n
achronstic system which yearly costs the taxpayers
needless hundreds of thousands of dollars.
For almost as many years they have been
thwarted by the rural legislators who seemed to look
upon any projected change the devils invention.
The cid commissioners prosecutor set
up was good enough for their grandfathers and it
was good enough for them.
Two years ago the advocates OF change adopted
new tactics They sponsored constitutional amend
ment which would permit any county which so de-
sired to change it's form of government. The amend
ment carried in the state Legislature.
The next hurde-and it was big one--was the
combined strength of the two old line party ma
chimes, which resolved to fight to the last ditch
anything that threatened their control over the
county patronage and contracts.
THE idea struck the people, however in the spot
where they most vulnerable--n the pocket
book In the November elections of 1884 they chose
a committee of IA Gncluding Harold H Burton, this
year elected reform mayor of Cleveland to draft
a proposed charter to be submitted at this years
election.
On Nov the charter, as drafted, carried by
166181 to 148,3o8.
1t becomes effective in January, 1887 There are
still a few hurdles though.
The chief one is legal question raised by Coun-
ty Prosecutor Frank T. Culltan, who stands to lose
his job if the charter is employed. 1t is his opinion
that, to be valid, the charter had to win ajority
of the total vote in the county, a majority of the
total vote of every municipality in the county, and
a majority of the total vote outside the munich
paties.
There is some legal opinion supporting this view,
but the consensus is the vote was clear mandate
of the people which will have to be obeyed.
The charter provides for election of council of
nine members who will choose county manager.
The county manager will appoint the officials whose
jobs are now elective.
1t has been estimated that more than 100000
yearly will be saved in administrative costs alone
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-14
INDIANA'S MOTOR ACCIDENTS

WHAT can be said of the shocking motor wreck
W in Mishawaka which took the lives of four
promising young people and manned several others?
1t involved the happiness and fortunes of half
dozen families. Men and women do not die to them
selves; their deaths have meanings that last for
generations
The Mishawaka tragedy was just one of many re-
ported the same day in Indiana It emphasized
because four were killed and three cars were reduced
to junk.
Is it not time that the state undertook in earnest
a driving campaign? In some states where
press and people have gone about it seriously acct
dents have been reduced.
In Eastern city the automobile insurance
rates were forced high by the accident ratio that
owning car became unnecessarily costly. Dealers
were complaining. The whole city became convinced
informal agreement that accidents could be pre-
vented if drivers would take their time and make
safe driving their personal objective.
1t is absurd to accept the present high accident
drivers can reduce it themselves once they realize
the widespread woe that follows crash.
Perhaps drivers have become calloused to news
of highway deaths Approaching what they really
mean, people would take their responsibility at the
wheel with the seriousness it demands. That Is
what happened in the city where the people them
selves acted in their own behalf
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-14
THE PURDUE CONFERENCE

A event of Importance both to science and to
4 n education in Indiana is the first annual con-
ference on aeronautics at Purdue University today
and tomorrow.
The presence OF Amelia Earhart as a lecturer
gives the conference distinction. In addition num-
Der of of achievement in flying giving the
engineering students the benefit of their experience
Great industries provide research fellowships at
Purdue enabling the scientists there to increase hui
knowledge. WHILE at the time solving prob
lens of manufacturing Aviation looks to the uni
versity. with its unusual laboratory and field equip
ment, to help its advance.
Already the home of important aviation projects.
Indiana lock forward TO more, which should in
crease employment and add to the states prestige.
Fortunately Purdue has seen. ahead.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-14
OF CHEESE WE SING

TN the midst of party strife, America today will
u pause to salute great l25o-pound Wisconsin
cheddar, being presented with appropriate pomp to
President Roosevelt as monument to National
Cheese Week.
Let pages2try launch its floats of buxom beauties
Let preSs-agentry invoke the shade of Lucllus
Let the Republican wags pun their worst. The big
cheese stands like rocks and rills and tempted hills
symbol Of nation one and undivided.
Cheese knows no party. Back in 1902 a gigantic
curd of the same size presented by the Repub-
hcan ladies of Cheshire, Mass, to the Republican
President of that day, Thomas jefferson. The Rev
John Leland had conceived the idea. so from his
pulpit one Sunday he invited each of his flock to
send in one days milking to Capt. John Browns
cider nil, there to be made into the New Worlds
biggest cheese. He blessed it with prayer and the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-14

live 20 years. Canaries that have
not been paired, live longer than
those that are allowed to breed, and
females have shorter lives than
males. The time they will sing de-
ponds on the individual bird.
GLOW long has John L. Lewis
been president of the United Mine
Workers Of Am erica?
A-Since 1920.
Q-How many Indians are in
North Carolina, and to what tribe
do they belong?
A-There are 1854, mostly Chero-
KEGS.
Q-Do porpoises and sharks in
habit the same waters?
Ayes.
Q-What is the capital Of Bo-
livia?
A-Sucre is the capital, but the
actual seat Of government Is La Paz.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-14
DID DEPRESSION TEACH
US ANYTHING?

By NJ. II. R., Anderson
From all available sources it be-
comes apparent that the depression
is on the wane, that business and
the prosperity it fosters is in as
tendency. And while on this transi-
tional threshold I wish to ask a
simple question: Have we learned
anything? Has adversely taught us
anything?
1t is nothing that we learned to
appreciate the tougher cuts Of
meat; it is nothing that we dis
covered the economy of the smaller
cars; it is nothing that we went to
one movie a week instead of three;
it is nothing that we coarsened our
taste on the viler liquors; it is
nothing that we found four rooms
gratifying instead of seven; it is
nothing because we again learned
the art Of caring for our household
without the aid of servants; etc.
If these things be nothing, then
what is something?
1t is something if we learned that
We are but tiny leaves in the whirl-
ing, swirling wind; it is something if
we discovered in ourselves kindlier
feeling for our fellow beings; it is
something if we learned that it is
not necessary to duplicate a pleas
ure many times in order to satiate
our craving for it; it is great
sorlething if we learned that it is
not quantity or quality that makes
US content. but the manner in which
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-14
COMES TO DEFENSE
OF MONUMENT
BY Tom BerIing

BY Tom Berling
A more or less eminent historian,
enjoying the hospitality of Indian
apolis, SO far forgot his manners as
to csll our Soldiers and Sailors
Monument one of the biggest and
ugliest of its kind.
Such a statement arouses a feel
ing of mild resentment in the old
time resident. It is a pleasure to
live a long time in one place and
remember, as you pass along, that
grandpa's wagon shop was here,
uncle met you here at the station
with a horse and buggy and here
mother held you high so you could
see the elephants.
The monument is not only the
center of activity in Indianapolis
but is a thing of rare beauty. 1t is
first and last work of art dedicated
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-14

to the average men and women who
suffered and fought and won war.
1t differs from the usual monu-
mentS in recognizing that the wom-
en- who stay at home in the time of
war deserve credit for their courage
and fortitude. 1t portrays as an ex-
ample Of Womanhood not a winged,
angelic victory, but a patient, brave,
normal woman whose face is filled
with pathos at the parting.
On the East Side is a group of
rare art, for those who have crea-
tive minds and a tendency to make
history instead of recording it. A
fallen soldier lies on the edge and
his arm and hand hang limp and
inactive downward. That hand is
a work of art. 1t is complete in
every detail. 1t is a large, manly,
competent hand. And if you will
study this hand you can get the
idea of the sculptor in making every
detail stand out SO plainly.
From the cradle to the grave how
important are hands - chubby,
grasping small ones, mischief max
ing caressing hands, friendly hands
extended in greeting, hands drawn
into clenched menacing fists and
hands grasping tools and skilfully
shaping the worlds work. All these
things had this mans hands ex-
perienced. And finally called to
destroy instead of create, he lies
still and cold with the powerless
hand-a hand that will remind you
of so many useful, kindly, competent
hands you have seen folded peace
fully.
1t would seem to me that a man
can smoke cigarets or a pipe, chew
tobacco, bend his elbow and lift
a stein and still keep both feet on
the ground. But when he makes
habit of crooking his fingers around
a tea cup and delivering orations to
women's clubs, he is just too busy
to be competent critic of art or
anything else.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-14
OTHER OPINION
fort Wayne News-Sentinell

WITH the "spud-control" law
w operating 10 increase retail
potato costs, declines in potato-con-
sumption will very likely result,
leaving a new surrI-'e problem to be
solved.
The AA.A itself points out that
when potato production greatly ex-
ceeds consumption, potatoes not
only waste in the fields and in stor-
age on the farm but also waste after
they move into the hands of jobbers,
wholesalers and retailers. The
waste in the hands Of these market
ing agencies makes necessary a
wider margin of profit, which is
eventually paid by the consumer"
One of the ablest arguments
against the "spud-control" law has
been presented by Senator King,
Democrat, of Utah, who expects at
the next session of Congress to find
measures offered to bring carrots,
cabbageS, lecture, tomatoes and
other vegetables under similarly re-
strictive provisions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-14

Since other citizens besides Ohioans may be lis
tening Mr.. Hoover can lay few more statistics end
on end to show how much better off was the nation
as whole before the New Deal robbed the people of
their heritage Here few business indices
comparing November 1882 with November 1885:
Index of stock market prices then asa, now co.
bond prices, then 692 9o4; production, then 65
now 90; employment then 81, now SO; factory pay
rolls then A. rs; department stores sales then
63, IS; steel production then So, now 49, auto
mobile production then IS, now 111.3.
In 1882, Americas farmers had a cash income
of 3.5 billion dollars. This year, their income will
be about 6S billions.
And how Jared the nations financial institutions
when Mr.. Hoover's sound policies prevailed? In
1890, 1852 banks closed In 1881, 1894 more and in
1882, another 1856 And on March 4, 1888 the day
Mr.. Hoover and Mr.. Roosevelt rode together down
Pennsylvania-av, and Mr. Roosevelt rode back alone
all the rest of the banks had folded.
We could furnish more material. But Mr.. Hoover
will not want to speak too long. The great unseen
audience might begin to wither and yawn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-14

ladies sent it its way by sleigh 500 miles to the
Federal city. At the White House festivty reigned
Jefferson called all members Of Congress to eat Of the
cheese and wash it down with good old American
porter. Party quarrels were forgotten.
I'VE al Federalists-we are all Republicans"
wrote the editor of Washington paper on that occa-
sion.
So today we sing Of cheese We have only one
consuming sentiment: We all Repubcans-we
all Democrats. And to anybody inclined to
squawk, we say, Cheese i'll"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-14
SAYS NEW DEAL OPPONENTS
LACK COMMON SENSE

By Perry Rule, Bringhurst
At the close of the Hoover re-
gime every spot of our beloved
America was overrun with oppres-
sion, the result of the breakdown
of the old deal. Freedom from it
was sought in vain by old deal
methods. With it, prosperity could
not be found around any corner;
and business men and citizens gen.
eraly were without hope. We read
in sacred rite that they that are
without hope are of all most miser-
able.
Prosperity had departed so long
that she was regarded as a
stranger. When she came back
dressed in the New Deal those who
lacked common sense could not rec
ognize her and apparently continued
to remain blind to her presence.
Common sense teaches us that
chaotic conditions call for unusual
methods, heroically applied. This
was done in a common sense
manner, resulting in the return of
prosperity. A few, afflicted with in
tellectual laziness, do not appreci-
ate or do not understand, indicate
that they prefer the misery preva-
lent ensuing with the collapse of
the old DEAL
Paul wrote his brethren at
Corinth who could not understand,
saying, Does not common sense
teach you something's"
Common sense teaches us that we
are on our way out and that the
cost of it is much less than the
loss would have been had we re-
NAMED in the slough of perpetual
loss, dependency and depression.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-14
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

YOUNG man would like to know whether it is
wiser to marry business girl or home-body.
Everything depends on the individual, of course,
and both these types have plenty to be said in their
favor
If the home girl knows anything about house
work she may be the better bet although regret to
confess that many these days is ignorant as
a Hottentot on the subject. On the dance floor she
may be great success and yet do flop act in the
kitchen She may know all the tricks for dressing
herself and never be able to dress roast or chicken
that is fit to eat for home environment unfortunate
ly does not always make the good housekeeper.
On the other hand, the girl who has worked at a
trade all her life, and with no actual training as
home-maker, can become expert. Sometimes the
discipline she gets the Office the habits she learns
there of promptness, attention to detail and the
budgeting of income, may make her valuable as
set in any home.
There's this to be said about Housekeeping toe
Any woman with an ounce CT Brains can learn it.
All she needs is average intelligence, Willingness
to improve herself and the desire to make good
Some of the best home-rakers I've known got their
first education in business Office
1t is a regrettable fact these days that so many
of the girls who do stay at home never do much
around the house; this, however, must not be taken
as any real argument against them for with mini
mum of common sense they too can learn
I should say the one place where the business
girl has the edge her competitor is in the matter
of understanding husbands problems. Only when
you have felt in some measure the WEAKNESS, the
doubt the occasional hopelessness of the wage earn
er 90 you have any comprehension of the kind of
help must get at home if he is to succeed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-14

CONGRATULATIONS again to women making
- their way onward and upward in aviation. Jean
Battens solo flight the South Atlantic is valu-
able in encouraging women to do and dare
In the last five years many women have had to
do and dare when their husbands or fathers for
tunes went awry. And in many notable cases they
emerged with credit
Whatever value to science Miss Batten's flight
has, the success Of the young New Zealander will
give women confidence And confidence is one
need of the times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-14
BANKS BLAMED FOR
POOR RELIEF
By H. L. S.

By H. L. S.
At the Indiana State Conference
on Social Work, Charles B. Mar
shall sounded the warning of Sc
rious relief problems that confront
counties in which the limit of
bonded Indebtedness" has been
reached, and property valuation is
inadequate to meet through taxation
the burden of poor relief.
This problem ultimately will be-
come the problem Of all of the
counties; not only in Indiana, but
of all of the states. Relief has be-
come the largest single industry in
America.
Yet all of it is so unnecessary
foolish and downright silly. The
whole problem of relief is the re-
suit of an unprecedented colossal
stupidity in the conduct of our So
cial industrial program.
Industry today is prevented from
reaching the high point in produc-
tive capacity because of an archaic
financial structure, which is still in
the candlelight era.
To free industry from the chains
Of this fossilized financial structure,
new system must be established,
which will make the creation of
money a sovereign function" to
prevent it from being created by a
private corporation such as the Fed
eral Reserve Bank is, and to stop
the sale of money as a commodity
by abolishing all interest as usury.
Our financial institutions lend
credit to the tune of 10 to l for the
volume of money in existence. They
are only required to back this cred
it with a 10 per cent volume of real
money, forcing tribute thereby On
all industry through the toll they
charge for money that does not exist.
Here is short selling in the nth de-
gree. The bank panic of 1888 was
due to this rubber money system.
You can not sell blue sky in our
money medium indefinitely.
Relief is but the result of this fos-
SLICED blue sky money" system.
Shall we change it or sink with the
ship? The next Congress will be
elected on that issue, if the present
incumbents fail to heed the hand
writing on the wall. We are going
to have 100 per cent money or bust.
We will stop our banks from caus-
ing not only their own trouble, but
ours.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-14
WITHER OR NOT

THE speech Herbert Hoover will deliver in New
York Saturday night before the Ohio State
Society," according to runor, will be a whitening in
dictment of the New Deal But we are sure it is an
IDLE rumor and that he won't go in for whitening
Tor when he was President, Mr. Hoover stoutly con-
demned obstructive" criticism, maintaining the
"outs" should hold their tongues unless they had
something constructive" to offer
Confident that if Mr.. Hoover even mentions the
New Deal it will be in constructive way we offer
few suggestions and invite him to help himself.
His listeners will include other Ohio state societies
meeting in other cities that same night of Nov IT,
Wherefore, Mr.. Hoover should strum the home sweet
home refrain; carrying their thoughts back to Ohos
good old days. Back, say, to Nov. 16, 1882
From the files of Ohio newspapers he can find
all the material he needs. True, the newspapers that
week giving most of their space to the late re-
turns of the Roosevelt landslide. But there was some
characteristic of the Hoover era including the
following:
Hunger marchers were passing through Ohio en-
route to Washington to demand relief
Cincinnati was feeding 100 900 out of its 100000
population.
The Ohio Municipal League, meeting in Columbus
heard reports that in some cities and towns half the
population destitute
Ohio teachers salaries had been slashed 20 to 40
per cent, many teachers were unpaid, school terms
had been shortened because of mounting tax de-
lnquences.
Toledo and Dayton had just voted special taxes
for poor relief, and Columbus faced STAG 900 short
age in operating income, top of 100000 deficit
for the preceding year
The Ohio Farm Bureau attacked the per cent
interest rates charged farmers by Mr.. Hoovers RFC
The A. F. of L. executive committee, meeting in
Cincinnati, reported one-half of the United States
population slowly starving to death.
FAMOUS for his statistics, Mr.. Hoover submit
the following Columbus market quotations: