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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-05
DEPENDABLE MOTORISTS

CIT on a front porch beside rural highway
- and watch the automobiles go tipping by,
and YOU will get the idea that the American
motorist asks for che thing and only one.
when he buys 4 car-speed.
Yet speed, as a matter Of actual fact. seems
to be the least valued quality an auto can
possess. according to recent survey of auto
mobile owners.
This surrey was conducted by the research
staff Of one group of manufacturers. 1t sent
missionaries to more than 100000 motorists,
asking them to list the general characteristics
which they priced most highly in a new car.
Their replies are rather surprising.
IT, thing the motcilst wants most in his
car. according TO this survey is the homely old
quality of dependabiiity. He likes to feel that
the old bus Will keep on running, month in
and month out. and that he won't always be
taking it to the service station for annoying
and expensive repair jobs.
In second place came economy, which is, Of
course allied TO dependability; and next to
these two qualities the motorists wanted safety
which also has something to do with depend
ability
Next. in the order named. the motorists
voted for comfort appearance, ease Of control
low first cost. smoothness. pick-up-and, last
Of all speed.
The results Of this QUESTIONABLE are more
than little instructive. They suggest, for in
stance. that the automobile industry is wise in
edging away from the yearly change-of- model
stunt: for the cars appearance, after all,
ranked only fifth on the list, and the demand
for dependability suggests that many driver
likes TO hang on 10 a sturdy car regardless OF
minor changes in body stylings.
And they indicate, furthermore, that the
great mass of auto drivers is not speed-crazy.
Looking at the whizzing cars on through
highway might make one feel that every one
IN America is intent on shaving seconds from
his travelling time: but apparently the speed
bucs are only a small minority Of the motor
ing public.
In fact. the QUESTIONABLE indicates that
most motorists are pretty sensible when they
come 10 buy cars. Now If there were only some
way Of putting some sense into that small
minority that like speed speed and then more
speed. we might reach a millennium in which
all motorists were as dependable as their auto
hilaS
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-05
ZEPPELINS Fly ON

A CABLE from Amsterdam announces that
a Zeppelins may replace steamships as the
principal means OF communication between
Holland and the Dutch East Indies.
The chief steamship line, it seems, has
beer. been running at a substantial loss
Diriglbles the steamship directors feel, could
cover the distance between Amsterdam and
Java in FAR less time and could convert this
loss into profit.
Plans are said to be under way for buying
a feet of them from the Zeppelin people to
be placed in regular service under Dutch con-
troll
All this has strange sound to an Ameri-
can public disillusioned by the loss of the
Akron and the Macon. But the Dutch are re-
ported to feel that the Germans know just
enough more than We do about building giant
airships to make them safe and reliable.
Are we. after all, being a little hasty in
giving up these huge sky liners?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-05
FACING TROUBLE IN CHINA

FOREIGN intervention to restore order in
IL North China has been suggested. Various
Chinese factions have been fighting in and
about Peiping, and japanese military authori-
ties are reported TO be preparing to consult
other foreign military commands on united
International action. as provided in the Boxer
protocols.
The United States has the Fifteenth regi-
ment Of regular infantry garrisoned at Tent
sin-has had 1t there since the Boxer uprising
OF l900-and this would be one Of the foreign
units TO go into action if the japanese plan
were carried out.
Tentsin is a long way from home, and it
is hard for the average American TO get very
excited about what happens there. But it is
100 10 that American sentiment favors keep
ing the Fifteenth regiment strictly in its own
barracks. II the powers want to draw cards
in the current Chinese mess. let them do it
without Uncle Sans help.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-05

got into financial difficulties, the gang would
pounce.
IN the last days Of May the gang was be-
ginning 70 work on France. The word has
gone out that the franc was in danger. If the
franc hit the toboggan. other currencies would
be dragged along Even world currency de-
probation war was a distinct possibility.
Into this situation. on May 80, stepped he
United States. Treasury Secretary Morgentha4
went TO the aid Of the franc. The wreckers
took flight and the franc was saved.
But not permanently. The franc is not yet
out Of the woods. And as long as il is II dan
ger. the currencies Of the other principal
countries can not be absolutely safe. No cur
rency can be secure unless and until there is
International sterilization. The vultures viii
continue 70 circle and pounce until they know
the game is up. And the game will not be up
until the principal currencies are known to
have support such as the dollar gave TO the
franc.
This sterilization can be brought about
whenever the governments concerned can agree
Oh a time The difficulties involved are not so
great as some experts would have the laymen
believe.
World recovery admittedly hinges largely on
a resumption OF international commerce. In
ternauonal commerce can not get permanent
ly on its feet until its yardstick which is ex-
change. ceases to stretch and shrink.
The British pound sterling, the franc. Ira
and other allied monies we're pegged or stab
ilized during the World War because the vari-
Gus governments-and business-regarded it as
necessary. The same forces can now peg or
stabilize currencies in the same way. The OBJ
stacles are no greater. if as great.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-05
PRoBLEMIN BOOKKEEPING

THE sreat public works program, financed
Il 70 the tune Of $500 100000. Is slowly be
ginnuy 20 pick up speed. Within the next
week OF SO Administration officials viii begin
70 transfer fully 100000 workers from the ex-
is.ins FERA program 10 the new works setup.
In this action there is discouraging hint
that the accomplishments OF the new ven
ture may be less spectacular than the country
had been led 20 hope. The announced aim
O. the new program Is 10 take $4,000 men
OF The relief rolls and put them 10 work
But Il 10000 % these men are 70 be put
through that welcome transfer by the simple
Bookkeeping process of transferring their
work projects from local relief control 70 the
control q the new state Works Progress Al
illustrators. Just where Is the gain?
The country wants 70 see something done
that viii create brand new Jobs for people
who have no jobs now. Shifting men and
Jobs from one Federal compartment 10 an
other is not enough.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-05
AN UNINSPIRING CAREER

A CABLEGRAM from Berlin reveals the fact
4 that DR.. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi min
lister for propaganda and public enlightenment.
is displeased with the attitude displayed by
students in the official German Press School.
Visiting the school recently he publicly re-
proved the students for laziness, declaring that
the general level of education and abilities
among you is far from satisfactory" and adding
that he would not allow the German press ito
decline to a low cultural level"
One sympathizes with Herr Goebbel's disap-
pointment Yet it is hard to see why future
newspaper men should bother to do much
studying in a nation like Germany Where
freedom Of the press is dead, and the job of
newspaper man consists in taking government
handouts and assiduously 'yessing" the ma
lional administration-why should any student
of journalism work hard to prepare himself for
his career?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-05
LET'S GIVE CUBA A CHANCE

CUBA has our sympathy. For centuries she
- was bossed around and exploited by Spain.
Then the United States drew up alongside and
took over the job.
Since the Spanish-American War we have
not only become sort 81 controlling stock
holder Iu her business. but we as a nation have
nodded in her domestic affairs-with private
american capital always adding 10 the trou-
be ~ It's explorations Of the strife-torn island.
For two wears. however. President Roosevelt
has been irving to effect a change. He has re-
vampcd oar relations with the Pearl of the
Antilles. economically and politically. He has
lowered tariffs improved trade. helped the
Islands industries and abolished the Platt
amendment. basis OF American armed inter-
venuon.
BUT an Cuba's woes do lot come from the
outside. Her citizens are born with the revolu-
tionary tradition. Her society is shot through
bv fac.ionaI strife. both abroad and under the
surface.
Whoever happens TO be in power becomes
the tareet for bombs and attempts at aSsassi-
nation The present chief executive. Carlos
NTendieta. is no exception He told the for
eicn editor Of this newspaper that under no
circumstances would he be a candidate at the
coming election. All he desires. he said, IS to
see constitutional government restored and a
duly elected constitutional regime installed.
Then he VIII step down
BAD as conditions are in Cuba, there are
sirus Of Improvement. II any event It is
hardly living up 10 our good neighbor' doc
trine 10 interfere And that is true whether the
interference comes from the American gov
eminent or from group of American citizens
who insist on landing al Havana and making
common cause with the outs
Let's ler Cubans fight their own battles IN
their own way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-05
STATES1IEN'S WARS

ONCE in blue moon, some one takes the
~ unprecedented step of trying to find out
what the ordinary man in the street thinks
about his country's foreign policy.
When this is done the results are apt to
be surprising.
Some 40 organizations recently undertook
great poll of British citizens to see what
sentiment might be in regard to the League of
Nations, disarmament, and similar issues
All IN all, they collected more than II .OOO-
600 votes, slightly less than 40 per cent of the
entire British electorate. If the II 100000 peo
pie who voted represent fair cross-section of
British opinion-and there is good reason to
suppose that they do-here is what the average
Briton wants done:
He is overwhelmingly in favor of British
adherence to the League of Nations
He is almost equally Overwhelmingly in
favor of arms reduction.
He favors international agreement to abol-
ish military and naval aircraft and ITO pro-
hlblt the manufacture and sale of weapons for
private profit.
he tavors the use Of economic sanctions.
such as the boycott, against aggressor nations
which make war in violation of such agree
ments as the Kellogg treaty. BY lesser ma
jority, he even favors the use of military
measures against such nations.
Add all this together and you discover that
the war-weary Briton not only wants peace
but is willing to take some risks and do some
unorthodox things in order to get it. That isn't
surprising. He lived through four and one-half
years of war that almost wrecked his nation:
he isn't keen to get another dose of the same
Statesmen are fond of saying that wars
come as a result of irresistible popular clarnor:
that the various treaties, agreements and
leagues to preserve peace are all right in theory
buG do not command the popular support
which they must have in order to succeed; and
that statesman who proposed outright dis
armament, or tried to put real teeth in such
thing as the Kellogg treaty, would immedi-
ately be disowned by his own voters
This British poll would seem to give the
lie to those claims. 1t shows that the people
of at least one great nation-a nation which
lives under the shadow of war, has enemies
at its very frontiers and can look back on a
long and proud tradition of military success
are ready, even eager, to go to almost any
length to keep another war from overwhelm-
ing the world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-05
FRIDAY JULY 1895
LET THERE BE LIGHT"

Two days aso we heartily Endorsed the
projected House inquiry into the lo55-es
which operated pro and con in the utility
hoidiar COMPANY fight
NoT ~ are glad 10 add warm approval
o. the proposed senate investigation OF the
salge subject
i'm This matter Of pressure legislation. ne are
in favor OF bigger ard better Investigations,
shedding more and brighter light.
we even find ourselves agreeing with an
idea advanced bv Senator Huey Ions The
Eueazh suggests another investigation 10 find
out why the members % the House were not
permitted 20 cast a record vote on the death
sentence clause Why not? After all. that
was about the shad.est performance IN the
whole show.
10 IS known that Rep. sam Rayburn. who
had charge % the holding company bin in the
H0use. asked the Rules Committee for a rule
permitting d ron can vote on the so-called
"death sentence" issue. II is reported that
President Roosevelt made a similar request TO
Rep John OConnor. Tammany chairman Of
the Rules Committee. It Is rumored further
that % Couuor never told his committee col
leagues about the Presidents request. but in
ferrcd instead that teller vote would satisfy
the Administration
We do not know whether this rlmor is true.
But we think Congress should find out All We
know Is that the rule which the committee
brought ont permitted a teller vote but for
babe a record vote. thereby exposing the House
20 e charge of c0wardice; and that Of the II
members OF the Rules Committee VINO voted
on the issue. nine stood with the power in
terezts and two with the Administration.
By an means let Congress investigate the
whole SUNNY works. Let Congress declare its
independents. both collectively and individu-
auy-iudcpeudence from financial influences.
from str1ug-arm political pressure by the Ad-
ministroti0u. and from bOssism within Con-
gress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-05
GOLD MOVEMENT BRINGS
NOTE OF OPTIMISM
By the Unknown Citizen

BY the Unknown Citizen.
The cry today is for leaders out
of the Middle West. To some this
is the outburst of provincialism. 1t
is more than likely the plea Of the
nation wanting to survive. For,
when first the leaders lost their
heads the rank and file of the
people were still busy at their daily
round.
This leadership was in the East
and on their shoulders rests the
laurels of prosperity and the re-
proach Of collapse. This is the law
of fate which knows no charity.
For, when gold was supreme. the
people entrusted it to the East in
large amounts. Unmitigated ava
rice gripped the minds of some
financial interests Of the East as
early as 1926. Seeing that they
could not obtain gold rapidly
enough, according to established
financial custom they turned to
the acquisition Of political power.
Since winning the political power
these interests have gathered in
immense quantities of gold. Now
they are digging subterranean
vaults in the Businesses Of the. land
between the mountains (already
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-05
MONEY JUGGLING

THE Balkan gang" Is q coterie Of interna-
II national gamblers who snoop and spy on
the world monetary situation. When they be-
come convinced that the currency Of some par
ticular country is in a weakened condition.
they sell 30 short in a big way.
The gang Is not organized IN the proper
sense Of the word. It's members operate Just as
vultres DO. Il gets its name from the fact
that Il first appeared in the Balkans. Every
nov and then when one OF the little natisns
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-05
DEMANDS PROBE INTO
CRAWFORD COUNTY RELIEF
BY Minded

BY Fair Minded
In view Of your paper showing the
manner in which the Criminal Court
of Marion County is conducted and
the manner in which your paper
conducts an investigation, got the
idea of writing letter to the Mes
sage Center after reading letter
by w. @. Gulick, June 27.
Mr.. Gulick has the right idea II
it can be applied, for 1 know OF
several instances where justice is
sorely needed in the handling of re-
lief. 1 will give some of those cases
here and I might add that I am
ready to produce affidavits if called
upon to do so in order to back up
my statements.
/. In this county Crawford there
Is an airport project at Marengo.
Last fall the wages were cut from
40 cents to 80 cents an hour while
all otner counties around are paying
from 40 cents to as high as rs cents
an hour.
2. A person on relief (work relief
or direct relief is threatened with
being dropped if he refuses to take
other work if offered. Yet the pre-
vailing wages in this community are
so cents and so cents a day with
the farmer employing children from
II to 20 in preference to married
men.
3. If I am right, the state passed
a law that laborers shouldn't be
paid less than 40 cents an hour. Yet
our foreman was working relief men
all winter and spring for 20 cents.
And almost all the county work is
rs cents and 80 cents an hour.
4. State officials and our county
commissioners agree that the poor
should receive all the work possible.
Yet if a person has a little pull, he
can get work in the county jobs re-
gardleSS of how much he owns.
5. The rule is that any one own
ing cars, trucks, etc, shall not re-
ceive relief unless they turn the IL
cense plates over to the trustee. Yet
I know Of several instances where
men are on work relief and own
autos whereby they make more
hauling men to work than they do
on the work
s. A person on work relief is sup
posed to use his wages for providing
for his family, yet they place him on
a project five to 80 miles from home
and automatically force him to pay
25 cents to so cents a day to get to
work when there is plenty Of work
projects which could be laid out
within walking distance.
7. All jobs let to contractors are
supposed to contain an article to the
effect that the unemployed shall be
given work first. Yet all the men
en- the airport project have been
told that we stay where We are and
let others take the contract labor
jobs at probably better pay.
8. We are told that if We get a
fishing or a hunting license that we
will be dropped, which makes the
poor family pay a high price for
meat and fish or do without.
9. The relief officials stated last
spring that all persons on relief
must plant and cultivate a garden
and issued garden seed to all such
persons. Yet several have not
planted a single seed 10 date and
are still receiving relief.
TO- Men with special training or
trades are supposed to be employed
at their own trades, if possible. Yet
here we are given to understand
that trades are out of the picture.
IL. Last but not least. If and
when the rslief officials find out I
wrote this, ! will be dropped from
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-05

brought about by removals and
other causes, we have lost trace of
many Of our former 322d F. A.
comrades and we are writing to ask
if you will help us in trying to 10
cate these missing" buddies by
publishing this in your paper.
We request all former 322d F. A.
men to send in their present ad-
dresses to the permanent secretary
Il. B. Fritsch, P. o. Box 324, Ham
ilton, o., who will gladly send them
all details concerning this years re-
union.
The majority of 322d F. A. men
are living somewhere in Indiana
and no doubt a great many Of them
are readers of your paper, and a
news item no doubt would help us to
contact these men.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-05
So They Say

There is a happy medium for a
woman, somewhere between fiat"
and fat" I think most screen stars
have found that medium.-Delores
! Del Rio.
1t would be difficult to discover,
by geography, age or income, a
definite group anywhere in the
country who could be depended upon
to be dumb about styles.-Julian Co.
burn, magazine fashion editor.
Thanks to the New Deal, the an
cient adage of the scriptures, that
the borrower is servant to the lend
er, has been reversed.-H. H. Harri-
son, Little Rock (Ark0 attorney.
If you want your COWS to be hap
Ply and contented, be nice to them
don't push them around. See Greta
Carlo in their eyes.-Dr. H. Pres
ton Hoskins, American Veterinary
Association.
There is enough work waiting to
be done to put millions at work on
constructive enterprise at normal
American wages and to keep this
country near the industrial peak for
many years to come-Ogden Mills.
1t is absurd to call the Presi-
dents tax program a share-the-
wealth program. 1t is, in fact,
nothing more than a share-the-
burden-of- government program
Senator Borah Of Idaho.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-05
TAPESTRIES
BY DAISY MOORE BYNUM

BY DAISY MOORE BYNUM
From her life Of gloom and gladness
From the known and mysteries,
Sunny spots. and dull gray moments
She was weaving tapestries.
All the singing, ringing laughter
Went into bright golden CLEANS,
Sounding gladness, rich and scarlet
She wove into shining beams.
And from out the signs and heart
aches,
Dark blue shadows on her soul,
She wove strength into the fabric
To preserve the beauteous whole.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-05

and that would be constitutional,
but it can not confiscate or de-
stroy those already formed, pro-
vided that they were formed as
provided by laws then in force.
Therefore, you should be praising
those congressman who are begin
ming to take their oath to uphold
the Constitution seriously, instead
of accusing them Of lining up with
the power trust.
1t is high time that somebody at
Washington begins to take the
Constitution seriously instead of
passing the buck to the President
or to the Supreme Court. I have
talked with hundreds of people
who are highly incensed over our
representatives ceasing to think
for themselves and passing I'M
constitutional bills or bills Of very
doubtful constitutionality just be-
cause the President asks them to
do so, and you could easily find
this out, and pat our representa-
tiveS, who are just beginning to
think and act for themselves, on
the back instead of accusing them
as you did in Tuesdays Times.
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BY Albert L. Terstegge.

BY Albert L. Terstegge.
I am Mortified, amazed and
shocked at your main editorial in
Tuesdays Times. That you should
accuse the congressman who voted
against the so-called death SEN
tence" provision of the utility bill,
as having been bought by the
"bloated power barOnS" is almost
unbelievable.
am only small business man
with no interest in utilities Of any
nature whatever, but do not need
a lawyer to tell me that any legis-
lation, whether by a State Legisla-
ture or by Congress, that is retro
active, is thereby unconstitutional.
The holding companies were
formed legally under the laws then
in force and while subject to reg
ulation, if engaged in interstate
commerce, they can not, under
the Constitution, be done away
with Just because somebody takes
a notion to do so.
Congress can pass a law saying
that from now on there shall be
no new holding companies formed
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