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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-23
LUDLOW AND BUSINESS

MO timer resolution has been offered to the
current session of Congress than that
introduced by Rep. Louis Ludlow of Indian
apoliS for national referendum before the
United States could declare war on any ma
ton
Mr.. LudlowS plan for keeping the United
States out Of war is ideal 1t is simple. to the
point, sensible. 1t provides merely that the
United States can not declare a war of agrees
sion on any nation without the consent of the
American voter
And that simply goes to show how perfect
mans idea may be on one thing and how
imperfect on another.
For Mr. Ludlow today wrote into the Con-
gressonal Record this thought: 1--WE have too
many beardIesS young officials telling expert
enced business men what to do and how to do
it."
Has Louis Ludlow succumbed to the plants
OF the now courageous business man-the same
business man who two years ago was pleading
plaintively for direction by the government?
Two years ago, Mr.. Ludlow, the business
nen of Indianapolis were in the throes of de-
light. A leader had arisen out of the wilder
ness to guide them out of their dilemma.
In two years, Mr.. Ludlow, business has i'm
proved. 1t has improved 50 much in fact that
those once trembling, leaderless business men
are back on their feet, humping their chests
ana Shrieking for the right to run their own
business the way they want to run it.
Where were these sages of America, these
master economists in the black days of 1880
and 1881 Mr.. Ludlow?
Front-runners can expect little sympathy
when they bog down in the pinch.
You almost sounded like a front-runner
today, Mr.. Ludlow.
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The Capitalists Battle

defunct economic system. When
the government lent the peo-
pies money to defunct railroads,
banks lent the peoples credit
when it guaranteed loans to bank
erS, our so-called democracy en-
tered into the first phase of being
a Fascist government. Mr.. Roose-
welt has never attempted to es-
tabIish socialism or communism,
but to prolong capitalism. The
codes were not estat ished to aid
the workingman, but to enable the
small merchants to do their share
of exploiting. The result was that
the larger capitalist eXpoited the
smaller capitalist faster than the
small capitalist could exploit the
workingman.
The main struggle today should
be between capitalism and social
ism, but due to ne muddled
thinking and writing il has evolved
into more Of a struggle between
the large and small capitalist. The
5ympathieS of the working class
are with the small merchant, who
will eventually stab his sympa-
thizerS in the back. AS an eX-
ample, note the hostile attitude of
the small business man to labor
unions during strike troubles.
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lowed to publish, for it is for SOL
dierS only.
I think there are enough clubs
and lodges so every one can belong
to something. know that one can
not belong to them all unless one
is one of those bankers who went
under and took all of the peoples
money with him. Then he might
be able to join two for one year.
wish very much for your paper
to get in touch with this would-be
regular soldier and inform him that
the war is over and if he watches
the papers that he will be able to
become one Of those regular SOL
diers in the next war we are talk
ing about having, for we are just
waiting for some one TO tell us when
to start.
Germany has been ready for sew
eral months; also France and Eng
land, for spring is here and if they
don't start something pretty soon
they won't have anything to do but
fish and frog hunt, and that gets
mighty tiresome and we don't want
them to get mad at us just over
few thousand men, for we have
some who want to be regular SOL
diers, but not I.
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BY Pari0r Pink
After five years or more Of de-
preston one would imagine that at
least a few of the fundamental
causes would be discernible 70 the
average contributor to the Mes
sage Center. Unfortunately, most
of the contributors have suggested
or favored remedies which are
based upon the effects and do not
probe into the causes of the de-
preston.
One writer will call Father
Coughlin and Long radicals, an
other calls President Roosevelt a
Socialist (being a Socialist I siren
uously object to thiS), while still
another accuses johnson and his
communism of using the codes to
exploit the people.
With such a lack of intelligence,
advancement looks impossible.
Father Coughlin, Long, johnson
and Roosevelt are stanch defend
ers of capitalism, and are only in
tereSted in limiting its powers Of
exploitation.
Both Mr.. Hoover and Mr.. Roose-
welt have used the power and
credit Of the government in at
tempts to pump life back into a
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DRAFTED SOLDIER DID HIS
SHARE OF WAR DUTY

BY C. R. F.
Yes, I was a regular soldier and
I would like to answer Another
Regular Soldier" whose letter APP
peared in the Message Center
April 10.
Listen, soldier, you say you were
regular. You were not regular
soldier. If you had been you would
h Je taken what they gave you and
/ -en man enough to admit you were
doing your part instead of gripping
about your lot.
I am not Dragging about my being
overseas, but 1 was overseas more
than two years, so I think 1 can
speak your language, too.
I was with a combat division and
we had more casualties than our di-
vision was strong, so you must know
that we got our quota of National
Guard and National Army replace
ments to fill up the gaps that were
made. I found that the replace
ments measured up to standard and
made just as good soldiers as the
regulars Maybe they didn't know
SO much, but that was to be eX-
pected, because a soldier can not be
made in two or three months or
even years for that matter.
Now, then, why call them drafted
drafted cry babies? From what you
say, you came near being drafted
cry baby. I'll bet you were the only
one in your camp that did anything,
walked all the posts, did all the
K. P's, besides being truck driver
and shooter extraordinary.
We had regulars overseas just
like you, but why take advantage
of the drafted "tenderfeet?" If you
had been over there, your feet
would have been plenty tender too,
so you didn't miss thing but a
lot of things that people can do
without.
I expect you were one of the So
called glory grabbers and was sore
that Uncle saw fit to keep you in
the states and are Raging the
draft because they can draw 25
cents a day more than you. Yes,
you would have seen Paris and all
other sights free Of charge. But on
the other hand, you may have been
kept in the S. 0. S. anyway, so
there wouldn't have been much diff
ference except sleeping in barn,
that is if you got to sleep at all and
half starved in the bargain.
I am not gripping because I was
in the war. am proud Of the
fact, but am all bunged up from
being in it. I did not win any
medals because I did just as Uncle
wanted me to and Uncle doesn't ask
any one TO do anything over and
above the line of duty.
We had several drafted divisions
that gave a good account Of them
selves in the war, so don't think
they were all cry babies.
You probably saw a few who
wanted to desert. I have seen a
few regulars the same way but as a
whole their courage was commend
able. There were only six regular
divisions in France. All the rest
we're either National Guard or Ma
tional Army divisions and as far as
the draft getting taken care Of first,
there is no Partially shown in that
case.
If you have tried to get a pension
and failed, thank your lucky stars
and your good health.
Remember, a good soldier does as
he is told and likes it and does his
job to the best of his ability and
asks no questions. Besides. you only
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FIGHT FOR DEFENSE
OF NATION, NOT MONEY

BY Peggy Miller
I would like to answer Mrs. L.
Reed who wrote in the Message
Center April 10.
We probably did pull the wool
over eyes of the American young
sters during the World War. We
made them think they were going
on a party Of some kind. But you
can't do that to the kids these days,
Mrs. Reed. They are wise. They
have seen some Of the miserable.
crippled, gassed and shell shocked
men who survived the war. They
can't get enthused over war as they
once did.
Fight to defend our country? Yes,
but to defend our millionaires from
losing a few thousand because the
seas aren't safe-no.
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play BALL."

THE indianapolis baseball team is home to-
day. ready to open its 1885 season in
Perry Stadium.
That is good news fer indianapolis, where
baseball is always welcome.
Baseball is more than just game 1t has
rightfully earned its title of the national
sport" for it is SYMBOL symbol of Ameri-
can energy. of American resourcefulneSs, Of
American fair play.
indianapolis welcomes its Indians, wishes
them all the luck that the season of 1885 may
bring.
May it bring a champion.
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HE WOULD PUT AN
END TO ARGUMENT

BY Sam Walker
Whatever prompted you to start
and likewise continue this trash
between the Regular Soldier" and
the Drafted Baby? Can it be that
you are trying to promote dissension
among US?
happen to be a drafted baby and
I wish to assure you that would
not have enlisted yet even if the
war would have lasted this long, as
1 felt it was no concern of mine
that rich people were being drowned
at sea, for if my memory serves me
right, we entered the war because
Of the sinking Of the Lusitania and
other outrages at sea.
Well, I had a six months old baby
and frail wife and a widowed
mother at home when I was drafted
and I raised plenty of hell when I
saw married men with no children
(whose wives were working being
exempted.
was at Camp Taylor one month,
then sent to ambulance company
No. 6 at Fort OglethOrpe, Ga, an
old regular army outfit, and I can
tell you a few things about those
dandy regulars,
They were a nice lot Of boys, real
brave and 90 per cent, I would VEN
ture to say, had no dependents and
believe me they had plenty Of money
to spend and I got some Of it play
ing poker and shooting craps.
And, boy, they all had the prettiest
tailor made serge uniforms that
made them feel better than we poor
drafted babies and made them look
life officers. I wonder what those
regulars would have done if all of Us
drafted babies would have turned
conscientious directors or refused TO
serve.
Now listen, Mr.. Editor, and every
one else who cares to dip in their
oars, I don't give a boot what you
were, a regular or a drafted baby.
If you served under the same good
old flag of the U. S. A. that I served
under, then you and are buddies.
Let us all forget this sort Of trash
which we have beeA heaping on
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campaign pledges; the Democrats will insist
that they have redeemed their pledges.
And here's the record:
PLATFORM PLEDGES REDEEMED
Repeal of 18th amendment Submitted to
states by Congress two weeks before Inaugural
ton of Roosevelt.
Legalzation Of beer prior to repeal
Federal aid to states for relief, and expan-
sion of public works.
Reciprocal tariff agreements (modest be-
ginning made).
Refnancing Of farm mortgages.
Control of crop SURPRISES (to extent accom-
plished under AAA).
Raising Of prices Of agricultural products
above cost Of production Go extent accom-
plshed by AAA and currency devaluation).
Conservation and development Of nations
water power.
Publicity on securities.
Federal regulation Of stock exchanges.
Release Of funds in closed banks, and more
rigid supervision of national banks.
Ending of securities aflliates and frmer
speculative purposes.
Independence for Philippines.
Reforms in administration of justice
Reductions in hours of labor Gas accom-
plished under NRA).
international conference to be initiated on
foreign trade, exchange problems, and silver.
PLATFORM PLEDGES COVERED BY
PENDING IFGIST NATION
Unemployment and old age pensions under
state laws Oout the social security act federal
ICES the state systems to be set up).
Regulation Of holding companies and of
rates of interstate utility companies.
Responsibility of the government for hu-
man welfare especially the protection of chill
dren
PLATFORM REDEMPTION A MATTER
OF DISPUTE
Sound currency.
Removal of government from field of pri-
and natural resources.
Justice to veterans injured by war service.
platform PLEDGES SO FAR
NEGLECTED.
ImpIementing of the Kellogg anti-war
treaty.
Statehood for Porto Rico.
Reform of political campaign procedure.
Agreements to reduce ornaments and CO.
operation with Latin America to maintain
Monroe Doctrine.
PLATFORM PLEDGES VIOLATED
Reduction of government expenditures by
at least % per cent through retrenchments,
consultations, economy and efficiency.
Balancing of budget by taxation on basis
of ability to pay (but current revenues are
meeting the ordinary" expenditures.
Lifting burden of military and naval ap-
preparations in time of peace fast approach
ing billion dollars annually" military and
naval appropriations now not far from that
1gure).
Strengthening of the antitrust laws to
prevent monopoly, and their revision for the
benefit of the small business man and of
labor.
Tariff for revenue only Ono major step
taken to reduce the tariff schedules of the
Hawley-Smoot act.
Adherence to World Court defeated by
Democratic as we'll as Republican votes)
Shorter work-week in government service.
THE RESULT
The batting average Of the Democratic
party thus far is: STA.
It's nice average in any league.
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MORE ABOUT THAT
REGULAR SOLDIER
By James W. Cooper.

BY James W. Cooper.
I am a day by day reader of your
paper and think it is the only news
paper published in this mo mean
city" But at times there is some
reading in your paper that is laugh
able. Especially the item about
some one being soldier in The
World War. I wish to state that
I was an enlisted man for the time
Of war. I enlisted April II, 1917.
I don't think that I ever became
a soldier the two years I was In
service and if it takes what I have
heard it takes to become one, Inever
will be one. But what I have heard
that it takes you would not be al
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The Message Center

(Times readers are fnvtted to cypress
their Viel0S in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can have a chance.
Limit them to ESQ 10Ords or less. Your
letter must be signed, but names 10iI
be toithheld at request Of the letter
tcriter.)
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knowledge
BY MARGARET SCOTT oLINICK

BY MARGARET SCOTT OLINICK
The willows are drunk with the rap
ture of spring.
Kneeling they drop their long hair
in the pool;
Their flnger-tips curving in slow
motioning.
Languid they dance with their green
bodies cool.
They nod knowingly as they watch
April's birth.
No one would guess that they fret
at their bars.
Impatient they stand, their feet
bound to earth.
Weeping, they reach out green
hands to the starsl
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THE RECORD

CONGRESS is in what seems very much ike
~ a spring-fever jam. Competent editors,
locking at the situation, assert that many of
Congress political maneuvers are being di-
rected toward the 1886 elections.
The Republicans are going to maintain that
the Democrats have hagrantly violated all
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wanted to start an argument and
didn't know how because what you
said wasn't what it was all about
anyway. The drafted soldier did as
much as any one to win the war,
and don't forget it.
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each other and remember we all did
our part, even to those who stayed
at home. Permit me to sound taps
over this useless argument.
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welfare of its children are INSOFAR
able-President Roosevelt.
We are practically the only dem
ocratic country left. H Thomas,
English statesman.
think the career of a star or a
featured player almost precludes
matrimonial happiness. The de-
mands of marriage are too encom-
passing.-Jean Harlow.
Any one who goes in for kidnap-
ing deserves all he gets. never APP
proved of it.-Arthur Dutch
Schultz Flegenheimer, alleged one
time Bronx beer baron"
If war government takes all in
come, it will not have to worry about
paying for the war. 1t will not be
there to pay for it. Either it's con-
querors or the commune will have
that problem.-Bernard Baruch.
Keep your feet on the ground and
stick by the government-Gen.
John j. Pershing, in speech to war
veterans.
Never was the screens misuse by
reactionary, quasi-Fascist propa-
ganda so widespread and menacing
as today.-Dr F. D. Tyson Of the
University If Pittsburgh.
On, I am feeling much better, but
not in football trim.-Admiral
/ Richard E. Byrd.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-23
JUDGE HIM BY HIS ENEMIES

IF a leader is judged by the enemies he
l. makes. President Roosevelt's reputation is
riding nigh today. The latest to attack him
are Senator Huey Long. candidate of the
Ions narty for President, and Chairman
Fletcher OF the Republican National Com
mittee, who is looking for reactionary candi-
date. Since Long criticizes the President as
an alleged conservative, and Fletcher tries to
make him out Socialist, their attacks fairly
well cancel each other.
TTUEY hurled himself into the Senate
Il l. chamber yesterday and in epithet that
was matched only by his new spring clothes,
proceeded to break his own record for per-
sonaI abuse. Here are samples:
Roosevelt desires that there shall be re-
inflicted upon the state the rottenest most
corruptive form of political debauchery ever
known. and I don't mean maybe. -.
Lord High Chamberlain Ickes the
chinch bug of Chicago.
Secretary Wallace. the lord destroyer, the
ignoramus OF Iowa"
There could be no better. tip-of on the
intellectual caliber Of the gentleman from
Louisiana. 1t happens that the names of
Ickes and Wallace are in themselves proof
that the President does not operate on the
partisan and corrupt plane so familiar in
louisiana There never have been Cabinet
officers in Washington further above corrup-
ton than these two. As for partisanShip.
they are not even Democrats. Perhaps that is
what Huey has against them. Perhaps he
objects TO Progressives in the Cabinet, espe-
cialIy Republican ProgreSsives.
But even if Ickes were a chinch bug
whatever that means poIitically-and Wal
ace were an ignoramus. that would nq
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Daily Thought

Then said He unto them, nation
shall rise against nation. and king
dom against kingdom.--St. Luke.
21:.0.
ID ASH, fruitless war, from wan
IN ton glory waged, is only splen-
did murder.-ThomSon.
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So They Say

The welfare Of a nation and the
welfare Of its children are INSOFAR
able.-President Roosevelt.
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We are practically the only DEM
ocratic country left. H. Thomas,
English statesman.
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Oh, I am feeling much better, but
not in football trim.-Adniral
Richard E. Byrd.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-06-26
Two Brevard Men
End Sentences
Shipman Already Home ;
McNeely Expected ~

BREVARD, June 26.-Thos. H.
Shipman, former president OF the
Brevard Banking. company, re-
turned to his home in Breyard yes
terday after completing his sep
tence of two years imposed in the
Pennsylvania superior court Tor
criminal conspiracy in c8aeetlon
with the failure of Ethe banking
institution. -
c. R.. McNeeiy. former county
accountant of Transylvania. con-
victed in the same case and, sem
fenced to serve a minimum of two
years, is expected to return today
to Brevard. He completed his SEN
tence while stationed at a State
prison camp at Halifax. Mr.. Ship
man was stationed at the State
prison barracks at Craggy, near
Asheville.
Both Shipman and McNeely re.
fused to accept paroles rendered
them by Gov. j. C. B. Ehringhaus
last March. Joseph Pickelsimer,
former chairman of the Transyl-
vania county: board of commits
sioners, and Ralph Fisher, former
county attorney, who also were
convicted and given the same sem
fences in the criminal conspiracy
case, accepted the paroles offered
by the governor and were given
their liberty last March.
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PROPOSES TAX ON :!
TITLE MARRIAGES

Continued from page one)
ed" Cannon said, "that the Unit
ed States government would take
charge of its citizens just as the
Canadian government has taken
charge of the Dionne babies; 4 Bat
l found this would not be within
the federal power, 1t was fouad
that the only way to prevent, or
make such marriages difficult, was
by means of the taxing power of
congress"
Then Cannon went into a dis
cussion of foreign noblemen IN
general.
"All some of those foreign
countries have to do" he said, Ito
get chunk of the large fortunes
of some of our heiresses is to
dress up Russian section hand,
polish his accent, send him over
here to the American shores and
some heiress will fall for him and
marry him. 80 .....,...,.
"These marriages have created
public scandal (the spelling IS
Cannon's) because many of these
noblemen have taken large parts
of the fortunes which they hare
obtained by marriage out of the
country.
"This bill is especially timely
because, since we cannot get back
the money which we gave to these
foreign governments during the
war, we should by. all means pre-
vent any more Of our money,
either public or private, from be-
ing taken away from US by them. y
The bill was referred to the
house ways and means committee
whose members seemed skeptical
about whether it would ever be-
come the law of the land.
Cannon has a reputation for
colorful and all-inclusive legisla-
ton.
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PLAN TO TRIPLE IVA
WORK In THE COUNTY

Continued from page one) ,"
has been ordered in advance so
there will be no delay after the
farm is selected. A large number
of farms are expected to be sub
mitted.
The chairman of each local COM.
mittee is as follows: N. A. Melton,
Clear Creek township; R. B. Ward,
Green River township; L. L. Bur
gin. Mills River township; c. II.
Ballard, Edneyville township; jim
ME Cantrell, Grab Creek town
shij Yes Corn, Blue Ridge town.
ship; w. F. Merrell, Edneyville,
Point Lookout community; Mr..
Jasperson, Hoopers Creek, town
ship; Creed Banks, Mills River,
Etowah community. The commit
tee for Hendersonville has not
been chosen.