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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04
PUBLIC SERVANTS

EHERE are men in the employ of the state
of Indiana who do loyal and invaluable
work for the people of this state but who labor
for years without ever being given public
attention.
Such a man is Herbert P Kenney of New
Albany assistant public counselor before the
State Public Service Commission.
Mr.. Kenney has toilet increasingly in in
terests of this states citizens. Ever since the
McNutt administration started its battle for
lower utility rates, ldr. Kenney has been in
the thick of the baltic.
Shoulder to shoulder with Sherman Min
ton he fought for lower rates. They won them
Shoulder to shoulder with Fred weicking, Mr.
Kenney is continuing the struggle. They are
winning
Mr.. Kenney deserves the thanks of every
Indiana citizen.
Indiana needs more public servants like
him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04
WHAT A JOB!

XXTHAT proud American mother has not
w dreamed that the son of her bosom one
day might become the nations first citizen?
Yet what a goal to set for him in the name
Of lovel
Picture single day in the life of Presi-
dent.
From the United States Chamber of Com
merce building stones throw away emanate
endless speeches by business leaders, admitting
progress under his New Deal but scolding him
for putting the government into business"
On Capitol Hill the Senate f1ddles and fill
busters while a five-point program essential to
the country's welfare languishes, and in the
House a Congressman tries to smother his
banking bill under mountain of words.
NRA has only six weeks to live Yet an
hours wrangling between his own leaders and
a dozen Senators brings nothing but the an
nouncement that I'VE agreed to disagree"
Illinois and Missouri protest being shut off
from federal relief. An auto strike is spread
ing out of Toledo. In Boston the Presidents
own cousin Teddy proclaims IAN increasing
drift from Roosevelt"
These are things a President can handle
if he has to. But when in a war-clouded
world, two of his own generals start sounding
off in a manner to destroy the friendship of
our neighbor Canada
Well, who wouldn't rather be right than
President?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04
SOMETHING SHOULD BE
DONE, SHE ASSERTS
BY a Wife.

BY Wife.
Ny husband, perhaps tired Of the
small routine of the home, now
spends his nights at taverns where
there are conveniently placed any
number Of gay and gaudy women,
known in the trade as hostesses.
My husband spends his evenings
and money with these hostesses,
and thus frees himself Of the cares
Of the home. I blame the hostesses,
not my husband.
The hostesses, who have no
domestic responsibility and not too
many scruples, prey upon men who
perhaps delude themselves into re-
garding themselves misunderstood
and beleagured.
think the Chief Of Police should
ban all hostesses from taverns. !
think they are one Of the most
vicious creatures Of prey our modern
society knows. Something should
be done about it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04
THE VOICES OF BUSINESS

TINE United States Chamber Of Commerce
l. claims to speak for American business.
But, does it?
On the same day the chamber passed reso-
buttons bitterly criticising the NRA, the Presi-
dents social security program and other New
Deal reforms another group of business lead
ers called at the White House to reassure the
President personally OF their support of his
program.
This latter group, known as the business
advisory and planning council of the COM
merce department, numbered more than
score and included such financial and indus
trial tycoons as Winthrop w. Aldrich, Gerard
Swope Lincoln Fiene, James H Rand and
Henry I. Hartman retiring president Of the
fault-finding Chamber If Commerce. The
council specifically Endorsed two-year
tension of NRA and approved in general
terms the Administrations unemployment
and old-age insurance bill,
Apparently, even big business is divided.
But more important than either or both
of the two groups which advanced opposing
policies in Washington for the benefit of
Americas front pages are the rank-and-f1le
American business men who stayed at home,
tending their factories and stores. What do
they think of the New Deal? Do they want
to go back to a system of cut-throat compe-
ttion which rewards the sweatshop oper-
ator? Do they want to chance another period
of economic Stagnation in which employees
are turned into the streets. bereft of ptrchas-
ing power or hope? Do they prefer society
in which the aged are paupers and non-con-
sumers of industrys goods?
We believe that the American business
men who stayed at home are sufficiently en-
lghtened and selfish to prefer order to chaos,
and honest enough 20 give the New Deal some
credit for changing their deficits into profits
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04
SCIENTISTS HAVE MUCH
TO LEARN THESE DAYS
BY Hiram Lackey.

BY Hiram Lackey.
Why does a learned psychologist
who is noted for his social intelli-
gence," class the attitude of ''re-
formers" with that of gossips? Does
the work of Socrates and Jesus be-
long in the same category with Cos
sip?
This reveals how easy it is to mis-
understand the strangely paradox
cal teachings of Jesus who gives us
rest by persuading us to bear addi-
tional burdens, which, in turn, en-
able us to forget our own, and who
came not to bring peace but
sword. When tested, His teachings
work.
The ideal Of these learned psy-
biologists is to create a harmonious
society, peace, security, leisure
civilization. Splendid! But, these
scientists are unwilling to allow the
pioneers of truth to subdue the
animalism in themselves, or to dis
courage it in others. They will nurse
this thorn of discord in their flesh.
The problem which Jesus called
the devil is referred to by our bio
logists as "animaliSm."
Before Jesus cast the devils out
of the men in the synagogue, what
attitude did these evil spirits take?
Their sentiments we're crowded into
these familiar words: Let us
alone" How often we hear these
words! They are as old as sin.
We have much to learn from
psychologists. Their efforts to lure
us to goodness by making it attrac-
tive is worthy of all imitation. Our
pioneers in the social sciences may
be doing for our human institutions
that which early inventors have
done for our machine age. However,
in helping man = sublimate his ami
NAL nature, no greater power has
been found than the disturbing
sword of The Prince Of Peace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04

JUDGE FRANK P. BAKER has ordered
Criminal Court attaches not to assist The
Times in examining the records Of his court.
His action Immediately followed publication
Of story showing that one Lee Barker had
been at large for nearly three years after the
Supreme Court had upheld his sentence of
from one to two years. 1t was the duty Of
Judge Bakers court to send this man to
states prison: We find no law that gives
Judge Baker discretion in such matter.
Barker lived openly in Indianapolis since
January, 1881 What is even more extraor-
binary is that last fall Barker was sent to
County Jail on a contempt attachment issued
by Judge Bakers court. held for 26 days and
then released on his own recognizance.
Remember that Barker had been tried
convicted and sentenced in Criminal Court;
he had taken an appeal to the highest court
in the state and that court had upheld the
conviction. Under ordinary circumstances he
would then have gone to prison. That is
the law.
The Times is not in the least interested
in Frank P. Baker, the individual.
The Times is. however, vitality interested in
the conduct of the Criminal Court 1t is the
duty of this newspaper to scrutinize the
official acts Of public servants and let the
facts speak for themselves no matter who is
damaged.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04

lily, but the cost of maintaining the site in
excellent condition is a heavy one and the
cookie sale is staged annually to help defray
the COSTS
Every contribution to Camp Dellwood is
undoubtedly an investment for good citizen
ship and in no sense whatsoever a waste. Girl
at Camp Delwood in the summer to enjoy the
benefits of outdoor life
Camp Delwood builds healthy bodies de-
velops teamwork self-reliance, poiSe and
rational attitude toward life.
You are helping young America when you
help the Girl Scouts
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04
SATURDAY. NAY 4. 1895.
OUR PHILIPPINE RESPONSIBILITY

CHORTSIGHTED Americans trade policies
- are partly responsible for the economic
conditions which precipitated the scattered Fill
Pine revolt.
Selfish congressional lobbies forced into the
Tydings independence Act unequal trade pro-
visions. They would restrict by quotas and
disguised tariffs, Philippine exports to the
American market upon which the islands pro-
duction Of raw materials had been developed
and still depends. Then, nine days after the
Philippine Legislature had ratified this faulty
treaty, Congress violated its specific provisions
BY levving heavy tax on coconUt oil.
It is no accident that the present outbreak
centers in the copra producing region, where
four million Filipinos are being pauperized be-
cause that. oil tax has bankrupted their only
industry.
The coconut oil tax was enacted ito protect
American farmers" But it did not bring
higher prices for American farm-produced
domestic fats and oils Ironically, though, it
did bring higher prices for inedible tallow,
which is produced principally from the refuse
of butcher shops and kitchens.
This high tariff protection for the Amer
lean garbage pan Is Idpluly uCoO4Os iiA5 Ni4N "a
the best overseas markets for American farm
and factory products. Robbed of their pur-
chasing power the Philippines can not long re-
main our best customer in the Orient.
There are two things we can do to rescue
the Filipinos from economic paralysis and help
their peaceful transition from a subject peo-
pie to citizens of a commonwealth and thence
to free republic.
First, Congress should repeal the coconut
oil tax. That would help to restore an INDUS
try which supports one-fourth OF the Islands
population, and, incidentally, to restore our
own honor in the Far East, where we need
customers and friends.
Second. President Roosevelt should carry
out as soon as possible the promise he made
when he signed the independence act-his
promise to eliminate Objectionable trade re-
trictions by fair negotiations with Philippine
representatives
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04
PUBLIC PAYS PRICE FOR
USELESS COMPETITION
BY a Times Reader.

BY a Times Reader.
Randolph Hearst and Mr.. Wal
green are pretenders as "conserva-
tors" of. American ideals. They are
the defenders of a most diabolical
subversive system, that has produced
extreme wealth for few and eX-
IRENE poverty for more than 20
million in our country. That system
needs more than Mr.. Hearst and
Walgreen to defend it. 1t has robbed
these millions of American citizens
of every vestige of liberty and per
mitted a tyranny in its denial Of the
very means Of life that is more
brutal than any power exercised by
car and despot.
We have torn the Constitution to
shredS as far as the economic liberty
of those on relief is concerned
Labels Of an emotional character
mean nothing.
I ask Mr. Walgreen and Hearst
how can competition be regulated?
Why not have more competition fol
the post offices, put one on every
corner. Competition puts a charge
of So additional on every dollars
worth of goods produced to pay for
useless overhead and duplication. II
that sort of thing is so good, why
not double the competitive units?
Every unit tries to cut cost OF
operation, but meets divided patron
age as the greatest obstacle. Dry
cleaners are as thick as hops. Ga;
stations are many times more than
necessary to serve the needs Of the
motorists. And still they build more
Mr. Walgreen would not object tC
owning all the drug stores privately
which would be just as sensible a:
his owning all the highways. but he
would not add new useless highways
to his chain.
Why should the public pay fol
useless competition?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04
SUGGESTS PROBE OF
GAS COMPANY DEAL

BY A. p. S.
The Indianapolis Times is doing
citizens of the city a great service
in pointing out inadvisability of the
purchase of the Citizens Gas Co. at
this time.
While I believe that in most cases
a city should own its utilities, it
looks very much like some one is
trying to sell the city gold brick.
A thorough investigation should
be made into the company's assets
and an accurate statement concern
ing the conpany's ownership should
be made public. Furthermore, Off
Gals of the Utility District should
investigate the possibility of bring
ing natural gas to indianapolis be-
fore the sale of bonds for the pur-
chase price begins.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04
Stop Those CbiseIers!

BY One Who Didn't Serve.
Let me echo the opinion eX-
pressed in your Message Center
the other day by the gentleman
who questioned the sincerity OF
the American Legion in pressing
for the bonus.
I was not old enough to have
served in the World War, but if I
had served, am sure I would not
have come home to a job dunning
the government every day of my
life for something I didn't need.
Speaking for the younger gen.
Grafton or at least small part Of
it, I see it in an odd light I think
the government Of the United
States owes everything in the
world to the men who became dis
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04
GRASS BURNING BRANDED
AS TYPE OF EROSION
By ]. L.

By J. L.
Riding through the countryside
the other day, I saw many and
many a field Of grass burned black.
I saw some second-growth woods
standing in the black that was left
after soma one burned of the grass.
Persons who do not understand
agriculture burn grass of large
areas in the spring in the belief
that it makes the live grass greener,
sooner. Perhaps its does. The
growing grass is. actually. seen in
all its greenneSs sooner because the
view Of it is not obScured by the
mating Of dead grass.
Nevertheless. it is a serious crime
against nature to burn, of dead
grass. Dead grass fertilizes the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04
A Matter of Record
An Editorial.

JUDGE BAKERS silly personal attacks on
the editor Of The Times are of no con-
sequence.
When man feels he is losing his punch
he frequently hits low.
The Judge knows that The Times would
continue to look into his official conduct and
that Of other public Office holders regardless
of what individual were editot. That is the
policy of the ripps-Howard newspapers,
which are independent Of any political COM
mitments.
No. this is not duel Of personalities. Nor
is it part Of any deep-laid political scheme.
It is merely an inquiry to ascertain whether
the Marion County Criminal Court is being
conducted in the public interest. Judge Baker
should welcome such an investigation.
Then why, Judge, have you instructed your
attaches not to assist in the routine matter
OF finding records?
Surely it can not be because the Barker
case was disclosed through the examination of
public documents?
If the FACTS in the Barker matter were
false or malicious you, as a judge, know that
the law gives you ample opportunity for
redress.
Then why, Judge Baker, do you deny your
self to Times reporters?
Certainly you can not be afraid of any
questions The Times might want to ask you?
Remember, Judge, that We live under a
government Of laws and not of men.
Do not forget that you are a public
SERVANT and as such accountable to the
people of Indiana.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04
THE GIRL SCOUTS

TODAY is Girl Scout Cookie Day and at
numerous downtown and neighborhood
booths. the cookies are on sale Girls from
Scout troops in every section of the city are
soliciting their friends and neighbors to buy
the cookies.
It may seem of no great consequence to
adults. but the profits from the sale of these
Scout cookies go to help maintain Camp Dell
wood. the Girl Scout reservation located west
OF Indianapolis.
The camp was contributed by the Dell lam
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04

ground and provides food for the
live grass. As years wear on, and
as the dead grass is perennial.y
burned, the earth becomes poorer
and is able to support fewer and
fewer blades of grass.
The State Conservation Depart
ment is trying hard 20 educate the
farmer in the dangers of this prac-
tice, and I hope the day will come
when people learn to conserve the
assets Of their land. Burning grass
is form of erosion, and erosion is
a crime against nature and an un-
born generation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04
u. S. SHOULDN'T BUY
RAILROADS NOW
By a Times Reader.

BY Times Reader.
What is there So serious about
the prospect Of government owner
ship of railroads? The government
owns the Army and Navy, the post
Office and all their equipment, the
national parks, the forest Of Federal
buildings in Washington, Panama
Canal, barges, q railroad in Alaska
and what-not.
If private ownership were such a
huge success. why are the roads in
such a mess? The story of railroad
finances compares favorably with
stories Of sea pirates. Regulation b.
government came only as a pro-
tective measure to prevent the
sordid policies of management by
private ownership. Thai private
ownership is not so hot, is amply
demonstrated by the failure of pri-
vate management TO meet COM
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04
POLICE DEPARTMENT LAUDED
FOR TRAFFIC CAMPAIGN.
By W. A. B.

BY W. A. B.
I am writing you to express my
amazement at the actions of the
indianapolis Police Department in
continuing its drive on traffic viola
tors.
I've lived here for many a year,
man and boy, and this is the first
time I ever recall the police depart
ment starting something that they
didn't give up in day or two.
I'm only afraid of one thing. This
is it. If you print this letter I'm
afraid they'll promptly forget all
about Wild drivers and start on
something else.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04

abled in the war and to the fam
lilies Of the men who lost their
lives in the war.
Nothing should be too expensive
or too good for those disabled
veterans and those families who
lost their husbands and fathers.
I know several veterans of the
great war, and at least one Of
them has admitted that he served
in Camp Lexington. He never left
the camp and he never was i'll and
he wasn't treated at all out of
calling with his standards of liv-
ing.
He's back at his job and he's
fairly well off. And yet he at
tempts to convince me that the
government owes him the bonus.
AppleSaucei
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04
FINGERS
BY POLLY LOIS NORTON

BY POLLY LOIS NORTON
When the body has gone back to
mouth-dry business.
And lies content in the loan gloom
where it fingers,
One thing shall touch its quick, il
loneliness,
The gentle pat Of rains soft sill
Yer fingers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04
The Message Center

(Times readers are tnUited to cypress
their VielOs in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can have q chance.
Limit them to ESQ toords or less. Your
letter must be signed, but names 1oiI
be toithheld at request OF the letter
tUrttef.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04

Cincinnati cop is trying to find out who
threw a piece of cake that hit him and put
him in the hospital Obviously a case of
"cher-che Ia bride"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04

A man fed properly will always be
at peace because his stomach is at
peaCe.-GeOrge G. Williams, Ohio
prison food supervisor.
There is nothing in the Constitu-
ton that says an American citizen
has the right to starve to death. The
highest function of government is to
care of its citizens.-Mayor La
Guardia of New York.
I'd vote for myself if I ran. I al
ways have voted for myself. But I'd
support any decent man on any
ticket. don't give damn for party
labels or platform.-Huey Long.
Jolly place, this Hollywood. If
you lunch with a lady, you're en-
gagged. If you take her TO dinner,
you're virtually married-and I'm
afraid to think of breakfast.-David
Niven, British screen find, " report
ed engaged to Merle Oberon.
Always you will find down at the
DOCLCllL lAAdJ DCOp4C d4 BOOQ anu
kind and that there is a kindly
feeling toward each other.-Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
It is time to provide a smashing
answer for those cynical men who
say that democracy can not be
honest and efficient. - President
Roosevelt.
I shouldn't think women would
want TO resemble men, for the more
We look at men, the less we want
to look like them.-Ledy Astor.
People no more than individuals
can live BEAUTIFULLY with closed
doors and windows. II prosperity
IS to come back there must be freer
circulation Of merchandise. II IS
high time some fresh air is ad-
mitted into the economic system Of
the world.-King Leopold Of Bel
GUM.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04

Al Jolson and his wife intend to adopt
baby. And any day now we may expect re
vival of Sonny Boy"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04

goods abroad. Since we bought abroad much
less than we sold, the customers overseas
couldn't pay us. So-we lent them the money,
flooding the domestic market with all manner
of foreign bond issues.
The amount of sales and loans kept on go
ing up, year after year. AS long as the loans
went up just shade faster than the sales
everything was lovely.
But the whole business-like the dime let
ter chain-was due to crash the moment this
progression was checked. The check finally
came, the crash followed-and ever since we
have been rubbing our heads and wondering
what happened to us.
SO we get back again to this dime letter
business. It's dizzy way to make money, to
be sure; but there is precedent for it. Indi-
viduals are simply trying, in small way, what
the nation as whole tried in big way few
years ago. The result, in each case, is a fore
gone conclusion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04

Maybe the reason the Germans are SC
belligerent is that war would leave them
with hardly any marks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04
Daily Thought

Dearly beloved. avenge not your
selves, but rather give place unto
wrath; for it is written. Vengeance
is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Romans, XII, 10.
DY taking revenge, a man IS but
ID even with his enemy; but in
passing over it. he is superior
Bacon.
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So They Say

A man fed properly will always be
at peace because his stomach is at
peace.-GeOrge G. Williams, Ohio
prison food supervisor.
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I'd vote for myself if I ran. I al
ways have voted for myself. But I'd
support any decent man on any
ticket. don't give a damn for party
labels or platfOrm.-Huey Long.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-04

Always you will find down at the
bottom that people are good and
kind and that there is a kindly
feeling toward each other.-Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.