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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02

can't cook or keep house right.
I'll venture to say that if all mar
ried women were fired from work
today, in three months you would
see an advance in all industries. The
man on the street would get a job
and he would spend his wages on
things he needs to replenish his
supplies and again eat something
besides beans, beans, beans.
Money would go back into the
manufacturers pocket and he in
turn would have to hire more men
to take care of the new business.
Maybe the selfish wife would also
have that baby, who knows?
What is the matter with the So
called business man? Can't he see
that he is hurting his own business
by hiring these married women?
Look over your Office and factory
and see if the women you hired need
that money as much as the poor
man on the street. I know what
am talking about because I work
with and around big building full
of them and in most cases the hus-
band makes a big salary and the
wife makes one just as large. 1
also meet the young persons and
their tale of woe is pitiful.
Take stock of your Office and fac
tory and help the unemployed by
getting rid of the married women
who do not need the money. If
they want to work, why get mar
ried? I know; so do you.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02
VOICES OPPOSITION
TO SALES TAX

BY H. S.
The Times of Tuesday advocated
certain measures for adoption by
the Legislature. I regretted to see
that no recommendation regarding
the tax problem was included. I
hope that The Times will oppose
the proposed sales tax as a vicious
measure that will hit all persons
of small income and relieve those
of larger incomes.
The great majority Of persons
earn less than $1,000 year and are
therefore exempted from the gross
income tax. Under a 2 per cent
sales tax they would be taxed $40.
A man with $500 income now pays
SIS, but would pay six times that
much under the 2 per cent sales
tax.
No doubt, persons with an income
of less than $1,000 spend practically
all for goods on which the sales tax
would apply. The man with 10000
income now pays 500 gross income
tax; he probably would spend $4,000
on which the sales tax would apply
and save $50. If the income is
10000, the tax now is $3.50 and as
this man probably would not spend
more than $4,000 on which a sales
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02
Incomes Should Be Public

By George Gould Hine.
A local editorial applauds the
efforts of the United States
Chamber of Commerce to prevent
the publication of income tax re-
turns. There always has seemed
something furtive about the con-
tention that the rich should not
be identified, lest they become the
prey of the criminal and the sales
man, as if the identity of the rich
was not a matter of common
knowledge in every community. 1t
seems furtive because it is con-
trary to the natural instinct of
every honorable man to be proud
of success in life. And because
the preposterous nature of this
argument shows that there are
other hidden reasons of real i'm
portance to the people.
Any government which consents
to concealment makes certain con-
LESSONS. 1t confesses that it is
not any too proud of the way the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02
SATURDAY, FTRRUARY 2 lpgs.
THE EMPEROR ARRIVES

Z VERY man a king is far of in Louisiana,
- but Huey Long at least is more despotic
than any modern king would dare to be.
Yesterday he ordered one of his bodyguard
thugs TO blackjack an Associated Press news
photographer for the crime of taking picture
OF his majesty.
A few hours earlier a policeman in his
Kingdom was punished for stopping a speed
ing ioyride car carrying the emperors son
and driven by one of his guardsmen.
- IS not difficult to understand why Huey
the First, 70 maintain his rule, must declare
martial law and use the National Guard as a
personal army 10 terrorize opponents.
It's a grand life-while it lasts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02
NAVAL ENCOURAGEMENT

VXTHEN the Washington naval treaty was
w drawn up in 1921, it was generally
agreed that the action had averted an almost
certain war in the Pacific. When Japan de-
nounced the treaty recently. a good many
people got an uneasy feeling that perhaps this
once-averted war would again become an
almost certain thing.
This fear was only natural. The treaty
was drawn up to end a naval race which, in
the years Immediately after the armistice,
had become both expensive and dangerous
especially dangerous, in view of the object
lesson which 1914 had provided as to the
probable fruits Of unrestrained competition in
naval ornaments. If the treaty dies, the way
is open for a new race to begin.
Nevertheless, the outlook today is by no
means as perilouS as one might suppose. For
the one saving factor in the situation is
simple bit of geography. The three great
naval powers-England, Japan and the United
states-are separated from one another by
thousands of miles of salt water.
This, fortunately. means that any one OF
these nations can build a feet which will
provide complete national security for itself
without menacing the national security of
either of the other two.
That was not the case in the famous naval
race between England and Germany.
Those two countries were close together.
If Germany were TO have feet strong enough
to keep German sea lanes to the outer seas
open, it had to be a feet strong enough TO
dispute with England control of waters vital
to Englands safety.
The same thing was true the other way
around: an English feet strong enough TO
make England secure was automatically fleet
strong enough to cut Germany of from traffic
with the rest Of the world
Neither nation. therefore, could attain
naval security without at the same time rails
Ing a direct menace to the security Of fhe
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02
NICHOLSON BILL
FINDS FAVOR
BY Newell Hartley.

BY Newell Hartley.
The Message Center is very inter
eSting. I am a reader and just can't
help trying to answer the letter of
Iris Hamilton, the woman who was
so highly amused and indignant
when she read about Mrs. Nichol-
sons bill to do away with the
breach of promise law in Indiana.
I don't see why she should be so
highly amused" about it, unless
she was thinking about what saps
some women can make of men with
the alimony Jail. I think she takes
some pretty deep digs at Mrs. Mich
olson, although she probably doesn't
even know her.
If a couple is poor and either one
is Tilted, there is nothing done about
it, but if the man happens to have
some money, then the woman can
get right down to her digging.
The writer of the letter says the
boys can't try playing Don Juan, or
step out, without paying the conse-
quences. Lots of girls flrt as much
as they please ard no consequences
are paid. I don't think, if a woman
was really heartbroken, she would
have it aired in court.
Of course, those were her views.
These are mine. I don't think any
one will ever sue me for anything,
but I am for Mrs. Nicholson's bill
anyway.
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other. Feverish naval building followed by
war was the only logical result.
The present situation is vastly different.
The United States feet may be strong enough
to keep our own sea lanes open and protect
our coasts and still be too weak to invade
English or Japanese waters FOR such large
scale maneuvers as would be necessary to force
either country to it's knees; and the same thing
is true of both the English and the japanese
fleets.
This fact should not be overlooked. 1t
makes all the difference in the world between
the situation today and that which obtained
Just before 1914.
England and Germany could not build for
security without directly threatening each
other; England America and Japan can do so.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02

national income is being distrib-
uted and is helpless to do any,
thing about it. Or it confesses
that it is satisfied and does not
intend to do anything about it.
In either case it confesses to a
belief that the people are not to
be trusted with the information.
Which means that they are not
to be trusted with the ballot box.
And the concealment is therefore
nothing but an evasion and denial
of the first principles of Democ-
racy.
AS time has proved, concealment
has helped as a sort of anaesthetic
to keep the people insensible while
they are being inoculated with
pauperisn.
1t will be interesting to note the
effect on the Administration of
the frantic appeal of the United
States Chamber of Commerce,
which, in effect, is: Quick, Wat
Son-the needle!"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02
URGES firing" OF
WORKING WIVES

BY M. Trilby.
A young couple gets married Sat-
urday night and goes back to work
Monday morning. The bride says
she will keep on working for a month
or two and then quit her job. Don't
fool yourself; she never quits. But
why explain to her friends that she
will give up her job? Well she
knows and so does every one else
that she does not intend to do any,
thing else but cheat on the unem-
ployed. You may talk about chise-
lers, but she is the worst type of
enemy we have in the world today.
In the first place they are cheat
ing the younger generation out of
job, making beggars and robbers
out of honest men who must do
something to clothe and feed their
families. They take bread and
warmth from the homes of these
families and break the spirit of the
man who wants to find work.
They cheat nature by not having
children. I wonder how they will
answer to God for that alone. They
cheat the doctor of a confinement
case, then through this neglect they
deprive the manufacturers of their
profit of sales on articles such as
baby clothes, shoes, hose, furniture,
groceries, milk, coal, household
goods of all descriptions, the butch
err, the baker and the candlestick
maker.
All they need is refrigerator
(and what goes in it,, a bedroom,
and, oh yes, car, so that they can
60 to Aunt Mary's in the country
for a square meal for nothing, and
then wiley doesn't cook so well.
Most men would like to have that
baby. but WHEY is too selfish for
that. If the wife would stay home
and keep the house as she should
and learn to cook, she would have
plenty to do, and not make the ex-
cuses, 81 just get so lonesome and
I can't find enough work to do at
home, so I thought I had better
get a job" you're fooling nobody
but yourself, sister. We have heard
that too often and know that you
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02
POOR WILL LOSE IN
GAME PRESERVE PROGRAM
BY Walker Hull

By Walker Hull.
I see in The Indianapolis Times
Jan. %, where they are going to
take thousands of acres Of land for
park and game preserves. Now all
the benefit there is to this is to
drive poor people from their homes
and force them to work on some
rich mans fine land for practically
nothing and be landlords slave.
There are too many poor people in
the good farming communities. It
also will create haven for sports
men. The poor man never has the
money to spend to go to a state
park and have a little recreation.
He is back in the city doing his
duty for his master.
Leave the poor people on this
land and allow them to make an
independent living.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02
Broken Dreams
BY POLLY LOIS NORTON

This is the dust-heap of now broken
dreams;
Pin-ravaged bubbles CT radiant
sheen,
Ideas of steel, once as Damascus
keen.
Once-perfect rainbows, shattered
like glass
Prayed feathers from floating wings
as they pass.
Here tattered tags of great ambi-
tions lie,
Rusty old springs from hopes
eternal beds,
Shields, emblems gone, that did
trouble defy,
Looking today like old washboiler
lids,
SucceSs-tins, mock-silver, now with
the years
Blackened and battered and half
full of tears.
This is the dust-heap of age-broken
dreams,
Dreams that were fair-but how long
now that seemsl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02

law in any drunken drivers heart.
1t isn't even a bad break; he's had
the best of luck. But the girls, dis
figured for life. lose indefinitely.
They can never regain their loss
and he is free to drive and get
drunk again.
Hit-and-run and drunken driving
will not stop until strict penalties
are imposed! Until the penalty is
made high enough to make a man
realize before he gets drunk t,
he can not take a chance on driving
if he gets drunk, until the penalty
is strong enough to make byword
among those, who habitually get
drunk, of Il must not drive while
intoxicated" Until then, we will
have more hit-and-run drivers,
more deaths and the next victim
might be you.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02
SEVERE SENTENCES WILL STOP
DRUNKEN MOTORISTS

BY Eloway.
A car careens from side to side,
narrowly misses tram, then hicks
a parked car; speeds crafty on.
Two girls cross the street. The
traffic signal says stop.
Drunken eyes can only dimly make
out the path ahead. With undimin-
ishing speed the car catches the
now fleeing girls, hurls them to the
pavement. The driver, vaguely con-
scious of 1t all, speeds on. If he
gets away he is free; if he is
caught-one judge the other day, in
a case like 1 have described, said,
"One dollar and a suspended SEN
tence of thirty days" The girls are
critically hurt in hospital They
might have been killed!
One dollar and suspended SEN
tence doesn't put the fear Of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02
Capital Capers
-RY GEORGE ARELI

DERHAPS the best way of describing the huge
birthday ball in honor of President Roose-
welt at the Shoreham Hotel is to point out that
press photographer collapsed from the heat
and excitement.
When press photographer collapses that's
news. And the Presidents birthday ball was
news. 1t had all the elements of news-color
timelineSS, celebrities size and national interest
Promptly at 10 o'clock, the crowds started to
arrive. Nearly all official Washington came in
sables, in ermineS, in mnk-in hundred other
varieties OF fur-in silk hats, in gold-laced uni
FORMS in the traditional white ties in black ties
IN ordinary sack suits-in everything
Policemen stood at the main entrance and
the hotel corridors were lined with marines and
sailors, who held back the mob when White
House notableS and others whirled up in their
hmouSineS.
MRS. ROOSEVELT arrived early, radiant and
1V1 smiling as usual. She wore an electric blue
evening dress (the same shade that New York
last year chrlStened by the name of Eleanor
blue"), an ermine coat with white fox collar and
silver necklace. She carried a blue ostrich fam
Admiral Cary T. GraySon, honorary chair
man OF the ball, strobe proudly beside her, a
White carnation in the lapel of his coat
In due order, came Anna Dali Boettiger
daughter of the President and Mrs Roosevelt
dressed in white with a flame colored chiffon
scarf about her shoulders. She was escorted by
Ray Baker, chairman of the executive commit
tee OF the ball, possibly better known as ex-
director of the mint.
Mrs John R. (Ma) Williams, chairman of
the reception committee, was also of the group.
as were the Elliott RooseveltS-young Mrs.
roosevelt becomingly dressed in ermine bertha
All the White House staff seemed to be in the
party. The gold-laced aids marched before, the
social secretaries followed. Mr.. Muir the man
VINO took Luke Hoover's place as chief usher at
the White House, merrily twirled to the strains
of the Blue Danube"
CTATE SECRETARY AND MRS. CORDELL
- HULL led the procession of Cabinet mem
bers, the benign Secretary smiling and inclining
his silver head on all Sides Mrs. Hull in dahlia
red
Attorney General and Mrs Cummings fol-
loweo-Mrs Cummings in black satin, somewhat
amazed by the crush in the large ballroom
Senator Joe Robinson, majority leader of the
Senate, attended with Mrs. Robinson, apparently
much less depressed than the previous day by
his defeat on the World Court issue.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, majestic in bronze
lame and wearing orchids, vas surrounded by
group of friends. She remained most of the
evening, but left the party just few minutes
after Mrs. Roosevelt departed. incidentally,
Francis Sayre, son-in-law of the late President
Wilson, whom he greatly resembles, also was
presently
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02

tax applies. his saving would
amount to $780,
A sales tax hits the poor and re-
lieves the rich who are now paying
their share of gross income tax. If
taxes must be increased, raise the
income tax, but do not place addi-
tional burdens on the poor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02
Daily Thought

Verify, verify, I say unto you.
That We shall weep and lament, but
the world shall rejoice: and We shall
be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall
be turned into joy.-St. John, 1920.
CORROW is the mere rust of the
- soul. Activity viii cleanse and
brighten it.--JohnSon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02
FOR SAFETY AT SEA

IMPAIRMENT of Commerce officials are
- quoted in current washington dispatches
as saying that it would be a good thing if
Congress should order an investigation into
recent steamship disasters and with this
comment the ordinary citizen probably will
be IN complete agreement.
1t is utterly impossible for the innocent
bystander even to hazard guess as to what
may be wrong-if, indeed, there be any one
cause for our recent tragedies at sea; but
there is a general belief that something is
out of line somewhere, and that it needs
looking into.
Generations of experience have proved that
American designers, builders and seamen are
as good as any on earth. We should not be
having accidents at the rate We have been
having them. A congressional investigation
might be an excellent remedy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02
The Message Center

Times readers are tnUtted to cypress
their UieUs in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can haze a chance.
Limit them to $50 40ords or IeSs.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02

Gen. Douglas Macarthur, who squashed
the bonus army, has given w. w. Walters
head of that army job. Well that puts one
Of the trouble makers out Of the way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02

The munitions racket, one whose
victim is all civilization, has gov
ernments as its partners, un-
consciously on the part of govern
ments perhaps.-Senator Gerald P.
Nye.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02

My only supposition is that Holly
wood resents a lady.-Ann Harding,
famous actress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02

German university students are striking
against a professor who wouldn't help collect
charity funds on the streets. Now he has to
go out for himself
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02

Once infected, you can not get the
political germ out of your system,
but I'm going easy and do not in
tend to hold office again-Jimmy
Walker, former mayor of New York.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02

(. Make an end of war. How? Ed
ucate, educate, educate.-Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait, famous feminist.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02

The du Points. it seems, tested their new
foolproof explosive with everything except an
insane patient with revolver.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02

Hitler's great victory in the Saar
plebiscite marks the opening of a
new phase of Nazism-that of an
old-fashioned military dictatorship.
DIR. Paul Hutchinson, Chicago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02

There is more legislation put
across in the name of national de-
Tense than any other one misrep-
resentation.-U. S. Senator Burton
K. Wheeler.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02
So They Say

Go back to Russia? Never! If
I went back there, some commissar
would throw me into prison and let
me sing my beautiful songs to the
rats.-Feodor Chaliapin, famous
Russian baSso.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-02

If a man worked hard at it, he
couldn't work up a bigger list of
enemies than 1 have made.-Sec-
rotary Of Interior Harold L. Ickes.
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, 1935-01-27

A. w. Neck a. Son. l.. IT. Adamson.
wv. "A. veIt0n. =. w. Mckenzie and
III. G. Groom. all OF Brownsville: and
Nv. P. Blythe and ". II. Buck OF Har-
lingen.
The addition 70 the motor test
house practically doubles the size
and facilities OF this building. The
present motor test house was built
70 test the Pratt a. Whitney motors
used Oh the Ford planes.
New eQui1ment lis necessary 90
test the Wright Whirlwind motors
used ON the Douglas planes, and the
addition WA made for this equip
ment. The test house here has at-
tracted considerable interest I'm en-
Gineering circles. and the Pan Am
erican engineers have received com
m~unicari0nS from other sections
relative t0 its obstruction. etc.
The work on this building As being
done on force account except the
plasterlng, concrete. and masonry
which are being done ny r.. r..
Adamson under contract.
III preparation for building the
new office structure the frame build
Ing housing the restaurant located
formerly NC the south end Or the
administration building has been
moved across the roadway.
, 1935-01-27
Industries Plan
To Locate in Brownsville
When Channel Is Completed

Work OF the Brownsville Naviga-
ton District. the chamber OF COM
merce, and the Port Industrial
Committee Of the latter ~organiza-
ton toward advertising the port
and bringing industries here is
rapidly taking shape. d general dis
cuSsion Of The situation Saturday
revealed.
Announcement was made Satur-
day that developments may be ex-
pected shortly on several different
phases of the port project. I.
We expect 10 be able to an
nounce n the near future the
names Of several industries which
will locate at the Brownsville port, {"
the committee stated.
Announcement also was made
that the port literature Is now III
shape to be placed IN the hands Of
the printers. along with the litera-
ture on the city Of Brownsville.
Copy for the various booklets and
maps has been prepared by the
chamber OF commerce and the Ma
vigation district, with aid Of the
port committee.
Literature to be published in
cludes the following.
An illustrated folder on Browns
vile designed to appeal largely to
prospective tourists or persons wish
ing to build winter homes here.
A reprint OF the Points Of Inter-
est" folder, designed largely for per
sons already here. and desiring de-
tailed information on the city and
surrounding territory.
A Port Of Brownsville booklet, de-